Celebrating 40 Years Since The Immaculate Reception

Manning to Tyree is the greatest play in football history

 

And if Harrison lets him fall to the ground on his own, it's incomplete.

Bradshaw to Swann in X was the most important play. Without it, the Cowboys are the dominant team in the Super Bowl era.

 

Both of those plays were spectacular.

 

The touchdown or the more spectacular one? They didn't even score after the latter.

Roethlisberger to Holmes deserves some love. Spectacular catch for a game-winning touchdown. If we're not restricting ourselves to completed passes, however, James Harrison's interception return in that same game should be in the discussion for greatest play in Super Bowl history. The Cardinals have all the momentum and they are about to take a lead going into halftime and Harrison turns everything around with that play.

 

Shocking that a member of the Raiders would try to sell that story. Really, a complete shock.

 

I'm talking about the TD pass where Bradshaw was knocked out of the game. Not the juggling catch or the sideline grab.

 

Not 100 percent sure they lose that game if that play doesn't happen, though probably so if it falls incomplete and Bradshaw is still knocked out. There is definitely a good argument to be made that it was more important to the Steelers' run in the '70s than the Immaculate Reception.

 

I would argue Starr sneak in Ice Bowl as most important. Perhaps the most important play that didn't happen was Earl Morral missing Jimmy Orr - wide open and instead throwing interception in Super Bowl III

 

How did the refs watch a replay? They didn't have monitors on the sideline back then.

 

Three Bricks Shy of a Load said it was a phone call from the box to the field.

 

In today's NFL, there would be five wide receivers on the field in that situation.

 

What else wre they going to do, reverse it? They would have been about 15 years to early to be able to do that.