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00:03I can't catch a football like the shape doesn't work for me so I don't know how
00:08these players do this makes an unbelievable catch the ball is so hard
00:15to go at that speed and for them to be able to catch it with one hand while
00:19they can barely not see the ball I mean I don't think people really give it
00:22enough credit I have no idea what a gadget
00:29and a miraculous catch they say wait a minute make sure it's a catch I don't
00:36know what a catch is you have to hold on to the ball after hitting the ground did
00:41you catch it the catch is you bring it down you hit the ground right you control
00:49it yes if it pops out it's not a catch are you serious while the definition of a
00:57catch is a hot topic of debate this show focuses on defining the greatest catch
01:02in NFL history
01:05greatest catch ever that's a lot of catches are we talking catch in terms of the
01:10physical ability of it degree of difficulty will certainly be considered
01:20historical significance will be a determining factor as well Travis Landry's catch has to be like
01:26third right do you have a one-handed catch in Oakland have you watched that one John Jefferson the one
01:39-handed
01:39catch just spearing it before one-handed catches we're commonplace it's not just
01:48being one-handed there has to be an element of physical flair to it
01:52he catches the ball goes all the way down the tunnel the greatest catch I've ever seen
02:01that was a catch right he just signed a three-year deal with the Bears I know it's not a
02:06catch
02:06so it's not on this list it's the moment of when you make that catch that really defines that catch
02:14the catch has to happen in a crucial game
02:18it has to have a good name it has to have a play that you can immediately remember
02:29when the game is on the line when the season is on the line when the championship is on the
02:33line
02:37I mean those are the catches that I remember the most
02:43number 10 great debut of all time the immaculate reception
02:48number 10 that shocks me
03:03that is the defining play in NFL history
03:07it's the immaculate reception it's it's divine how does it not go higher just based on the name
03:13that's ridiculous that's absolutely ridiculous I just cannot believe that that is so far down
03:19I would have put that number one
03:30when you look at the whole thing the way he rolled out
03:39he's got the cannon for an arm and they fire it in there and the ball comes out and you
03:43got Franco
03:44coming out of nowhere
03:47I think that's the first great example that's the legacy example of knowing there's a live football
03:55and you can still make a play
04:05the Raiders fans are going nuts because they'll tell you he never caught the ball it hit the ground first
04:11the immaculate reception lands at number 10 because to this day it remains clouded in controversy
04:18we never see the bottom tip of the ball we never see the bottom half of the ball and whether
04:25or not it touches the turf
04:27Franco doesn't give a straight answer
04:29did the ball hit the ground before you plucked it out of the air
04:35I can't say I saw it from an angle from across the field the tip of the ball touched the
04:44ground
04:44did he catch it was it a catch did it hit anybody did it hit the defender we don't know
04:49adding to the confusion was an obscure rule at the time involving Steelers running back Frenchie Fuqua
04:56the rules stated that if a pass was deflected by an offensive player only that player was eligible to catch
05:03the deflected ball
05:04unless the ball is touched by a defensive player at any point then any offensive player is eligible to make
05:11the reception
05:13did it touch him or didn't touch him
05:16and only he does
05:19maybe
05:20maybe not
05:21that
05:22I think has been proven to be wrong
05:25films clearly show that the ball
05:27was off of Tatum's body
05:29not off of Frenchie's
05:32yep
05:34if you're still a fan
05:36you believe in it
05:40if you're a sinner like them damn Raiders
05:44you'll never accept it
05:45I thought we got taken
05:47we should have had that
05:49football game but we didn't get it
05:51Fuqua knows he did it
05:53and it should have been our game
05:54we don't call it
05:56the immaculate reception
05:59the immaculate deception
06:01as we call it here in OSHA
06:02what happened on that play
06:05was truly immaculate
06:08who is this?
06:15you look at the body of work that Randy Moss put together in New England
06:20it's just like going through and picking a favorite Beatles album
06:23the one he had in 2007 going over the middle against the Colts
06:27where he reached back across his body and brought it in
06:29that for me was probably the best catch of his career in New England
06:33he had a catch against the Miami Dolphins in 2007
06:37one handed with three guys around him
06:38you guys find that and pop that in there
06:41if you had Randy Moss in 2007 on your fantasy team
06:45you won before the first game was played
06:49while Moss was on fire at 07
06:53you have to fast forward three seasons for the catch that makes our list
07:00they're gonna get to the line quickly, don't they? Brady?
07:03and that was over the Red Revis
07:04in his piece
07:05he reels it in with one hand
07:07right over Revis
07:08beat him this time
07:10any time you have Randy Moss in a top 10
07:14can you go wrong?
07:15I don't even have to say what a catch
07:17Moss knew he had him too
07:18he put that hand up early
07:19didn't he?
07:20look at that snack
07:21his body is stretched out to the point where he covered 8 feet
07:25and it's on Revis
07:26it's devastating to Rex Ryan
07:28and it's just kind of that patriots
07:30like hey buddy
07:31you know
07:31yeah
07:32now you remember this was when everyone was talking about Revis
07:35like he was you know
07:36beyond Dion
07:36the greatest player of all time
07:38and then Moss makes that play
07:39they don't hear so much about Revis for the rest of this season
07:43it's more
07:44wait a second
07:44let's not disrespect Randy Moss
07:49watch the time
07:50looks
07:50shoots it toward the end zone
07:53insane
07:54caught
07:54touchdown Randy Moss
07:56he doesn't even jump
07:57he just extends his hand like
07:59I got this
08:02and Revis is like falling at his feet like
08:04no no no
08:05and he's like
08:05I'm the man
08:06there's a saying that some of these kids say
08:08that's he got Moss
08:09it means you're going up against a cornerback
08:11you jump up
08:12and you snatch it out of the air
08:13you make a poster out of the kid like you're dunking a ball
08:16you got Mossed means he put on the show
08:19he had a highlight play
08:21yeah he got Mossed
08:22or maybe had a highlight day
08:23sorry Revis
08:25you got Mossed
08:27the number 8 rating set of all time
08:29Marty Booker underhands it
08:31look at that
08:33who's Marty Booker
08:35Marty Booker
08:36Marty Booker
08:37Marty Booker
08:38for the bears
08:39are we talking the 85 bears?
08:42no no no no
08:43oh Marty is so strange
08:45you know he was in 1985
08:46hanging out with Doc
08:48you know Marty
08:51yeah no nothing rings a bell
08:52they can't keep me down for long
08:58Marty Booker was an all pro receiver
09:00who played 6 seasons for the bears
09:02you know Marty Booker was a 100% plus guy
09:06back in 2000 season
09:08but few remember him
09:09or the catch he made against the lions in 2008
09:13there's one out of the shotgun
09:16here comes the pass rush
09:18here comes the pass rush
09:19and that one is caught
09:20with a flag
09:22no
09:24no
09:25no
09:25he didn't catch it
09:27I mean how impressive is it
09:29if it's against the 2008 lions
09:32he did it
09:33that was ruled incomplete
09:34that one
09:34wait
09:35Booker's catch was so amazing
09:37even the officials
09:39had to take a second look
09:41we got balls stuck right there
09:44whoo
09:44that's the catch
09:45you stop the presses
09:47but what the Lester Hayes is going on
09:50with that's the mobility
09:51the one handed palm of that ball
09:53that is a catch
09:55Fisher never sees the ball
09:56a sign and everything
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10:40and while you're running full speed
10:41then having to stop
10:42and somebody interfering with you
10:44problem is
10:44that it didn't come in a big game
10:47with huge significance
10:48so it gets kinda
10:49moved down
10:50or forgotten
10:51lost a little bit in history
10:52I'm glad this show is bringing that back
10:54because that catch deserves to be in there
10:57and to say you know what
10:57this effort needs to be rewarded
10:59Marty Booker
11:00should stop acting in films
11:02and do more of these things
11:04nice work Marty Booker
11:07that was sassy one hand
11:10ha
11:10next
11:11on Divine Reception
11:13number 7
11:17Antonio Freeman's Monday Night Miracles
11:20he did
11:21what
11:21Freeman makes the catch of his life
11:23I mean just a
11:23surreal catch
11:26he did what
11:27Freeman trying to adjust to it
11:28and it's incomplete
11:29wait a second
11:30wait a minute
11:31Freeman takes it up
11:32he bounced into his hands
11:33he takes it to the end
11:34touchdown
11:35touchdown
11:35Packers win
11:37I have to see that again
11:38nobody knew what happened
11:39everybody in the stadium
11:41was just baffled
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11:56Through Dishman's hands, and it hits Antonio Freeman on the back.
12:00Antonio has the presence of mind to stay with the football as he's laying on the ground.
12:07It never hits the ground.
12:09That's a moment of pure focus and following through.
12:13In overtime, Monday Night Football, this is what it's all about.
12:16It just kind of goes into the lore of the greatest plays in Packers history.
12:22Al Michaels was, at first, baffled by the play.
12:29...lays it up for a three-minute and it's incomplete.
12:33Did he catch it to 15? What are they going to do? Did he caught it?
12:39Touchdown! He did what?
12:41He did what?
12:42He did what?
12:44You can hear the emotional exclamation.
12:47You couldn't film that scene in a movie.
12:50And make it look that good.
12:51And it is another manic Monday.
12:55He didn't think it was a catch at first.
12:56I don't think most of us thought it was a catch at first.
12:59I mean, that was impossible.
13:01Look at that.
13:03Even looking on the replay, I'm still not sure how he did it.
13:08He's on his stomach.
13:09The play's over.
13:10It's bouncing around on his back and he gets it.
13:12Wow!
13:14Bring the ball up in the air.
13:16It's on the grass.
13:20That's unbelievable.
13:22Word?
13:22How do you practice that?
13:24Who goes out of the field and says, I'm going to tumble down, have a ball plop off my shoulder,
13:29and spin around and make sure that I maintain enough focus to complete the catch on that play?
13:34The defender thinks it's over, and Antonio Freeman's on his way to the end zone.
13:42It happened on Monday Night Football.
13:44It happened with Brett Favre.
13:46So when you take all that into it, that's a top ten catch.
13:49I don't know how this isn't number one.
13:50This is amazing.
13:51I don't know that that was really that impressive from Antonio Freeman's perspective.
13:56It was just such a weird play.
13:57Antonio Freeman, I think you should come up here and protest.
14:00I don't think it's number one, but it definitely deserves to be higher.
14:03I think you should be at least top three, baby!
14:05When players talk about how they thank God or Jesus at the end, you know, I usually roll
14:09my eyes.
14:10But if you're ever going to give credit to the Lord above, this is the play.
14:39That would be one of the greatest catches in NFL history.
14:44I don't think anyone could even believe that he caught it.
14:47It was a miracle.
14:48Well, first goes for it.
14:50It's still not on the ground.
14:52It's still not on the ground.
14:53Whoa, look at that.
14:55Unbelievable!
14:56It touched his body five times.
14:59Five.
15:00Head, and then knee, and then ankle.
15:04I think it hit his clavicle.
15:05I think it bounced off of his liver, maybe.
15:08Once you catch a pass that bounces off internal organs, it is one of the great catches ever.
15:13Ha!
15:18He caught it!
15:19It fell into the door!
15:20Holy catfish!
15:22Now, Jermaine Curse made that great catch.
15:25I know what I thought, and I know what a lot of other people thought.
15:29How many different plays are the Patriots going to have like this?
15:34Mario Manningham, David Tyree, now Curse!
15:39This was where Tyree had the helmet catch.
15:42This was the scene of the crime for New England.
15:44What have we done to become in the same end zone, in the same stadium?
15:49You instantly think to yourself, okay, there really was a deal with the devil that Bill Belichick and Tom Brady
15:54signed, and it's come up.
15:56One of those horrible horror movies that we've seen a million times before.
15:59It's happening again and again and again.
16:03It felt destined.
16:04It felt scripted.
16:06I was like, oh my gosh.
16:07The Seahawks are going to win this game, and that is going to be remembered as the best Super Bowl
16:12catch in the history of Super Bowls.
16:15Hands down.
16:16Holy moly.
16:18What?
16:20Curse's catch would have been higher on our list, except for one thing.
16:25Maybe the football gods were going to even things out.
16:29I think Jermaine Curse's number one on that list is Seattle gets one more yard.
16:33I think that Jermaine Curse would have been the greatest catch of all time, except Malcolm Butler happened a couple
16:38plays later.
16:50That beautiful catch, that spectacular catch, nobody remembers it because of what happened after, and it's so, so sad.
16:59Harrell owes him an apology.
17:01Every year she'd send him an I'm sorry fruit basket, some chocolate-covered strawberry, something, because nobody remembers it now.
17:08Oh no!
17:10Maybe the greatest catch ever was the casualty of that play call, because if the Seahawks win that Super Bowl,
17:16that's all we're talking about.
17:18Jermaine Curse probably gets $5 million in endorsements.
17:21He becomes the Lin Swan, the David Tyree, and this isn't number six on your list, it's number one.
17:28That's it.
17:30It's going to come.
17:31A catch in rare.
17:42And now, the number five greatest catch of all time, Lin Swan in Super Bowl 10.
17:49I modeled my football career after when I was playing had to be as Lin Swan, because he was just
17:54so graceful in the air.
17:56Your football career started when you were seven.
17:58It ended at eight.
18:02Football is poetry.
18:06It's graceful.
18:07And when I see that catch, I think of art.
18:15That's the iconic catch of Lin Swan's career, and maybe the most famous single reception in NFL history.
18:24Actually, Super Bowl 10 MVP Lin Swan had two memorable grabs in that game.
18:31The greater catch is in the first half, up the right sideline.
18:35Super Bowl, Lin Swan, caught by Swan.
18:39He's made two incredible catches without a halftime yet.
18:42Those are magnificent plays.
18:44Those catches stand the test of time.
18:46Both catches have nicknames.
18:47The levitating leap.
18:49Lin Swan's levitating leap was one of the great catches in football history.
18:55And the kangaroo catch.
18:56Lin Swan's kangaroo catch put Pittsburgh in close.
19:00If you have nicknames for two catches, both in the same game, and you're the Super Bowl MVP, yeah, you
19:07belong in the top five.
19:10They're both such different catches.
19:12One's concentration.
19:13Look at a jump now by Lin Swan.
19:17Catch on the other side.
19:20One's body control.
19:21There's a jump.
19:22Oh, he gets a bow down.
19:23A beautiful reception.
19:24I think if you were to, you know, bronze what a catch would look like, that would be a Lin
19:31Swan catch.
19:36Swan had a reputation for on-field finesse with skills he learned in his youth.
19:43People know he took ballet when he was in high school.
19:46His mom made him do that.
19:47And it paid off for him.
19:52You slow it down and you look at the grace and the concentration.
19:58If you play some nice little music, it's like art.
20:02It doesn't feel as great as it does on the NFL films with the music playing.
20:17So you're saying this is an inside job because NFL films has the footage that gets a higher ranking.
20:27Lin Swan's catch.
20:28I get it, but can anybody tell me the score at the time?
20:32Did it lead directly to a Super Bowl championship?
20:36I think not.
20:37Swan's two legendary receptions only led to seven points.
20:42But his third best play of the day sealed the Steelers' second Super Bowl win.
20:47I got three or four catches and, uh, hey, you know, I just love you.
20:50I had a great time.
20:51You know what's so funny?
20:51A lot of times these athletes that are so good, they're also, like, so dingy.
20:54You know, he's like, I don't know, it's the game ball.
20:58What is that you're holding right there?
20:59Uh, this is, uh, game ball.
21:01Uh, the, um, well, the Super Bowl is all mine.
21:04It just caught three or four passes.
21:06It was like, dude, he just, like, dominated the Super Bowl.
21:09Number four greatest catch of all five, Odell Beckham Jr., one-hander.
21:15If this is not number one, I don't know what catch is better than this.
21:19You have to be kidding me.
21:21That is impossible.
21:22This should be the catch.
21:24That may be the greatest catch I've ever seen in my life.
21:27It's in the conversation.
21:30Way, way too high.
21:32If you look at the degree of difficulty and how impressive the catch was, it's number one.
21:37It's not even close.
21:38Well, there is your play of the year, maybe of the, I don't know, decade, whatever.
21:43I'm a significance guy.
21:45I like catches that matter.
21:48It wasn't, uh, a crucial catch in a tough situation.
21:51It was just a wow factor.
21:52Look at that catch.
21:54It's insane.
21:55Insane.
21:56I'm still getting over that one.
21:58It should be up to three.
21:59I'd move it one more spot.
22:01You're pretty close.
22:02You almost got there.
22:07Odell Beckham Jr. turned an average Sunday night game between the Cowboys and Giants
22:12into the most talked about events of the 2014 season.
22:17It happened and everybody was like, well, that's not going to be a catch.
22:19How do you make that catch?
22:21Oh, my goodness.
22:24That's impossible.
22:25I mean, what he did is impossible.
22:26Nobody should be able to do that.
22:28He does it basically with his thumb and his forefinger.
22:30It was a visual that we had never seen before.
22:33That is absolutely impossible, what he just did.
22:38I didn't believe it.
22:39I had to go back.
22:40Once more.
22:42At least.
22:43Look at that.
22:43I had to rewind and rewind, and then I had to do, like, frame by frame and see exactly
22:48what happened.
22:50Foot clearly inbounds.
22:52Goes up with his inside hand.
22:55Never puts the other hand on the ball.
22:58Stays inbounds.
22:59Ridiculous.
23:01No question it was a phenomenal catch, but there's no way he makes that catch with three
23:06fingers with no gloves.
23:07If I dipped my hand in super glue, I could catch anything you throw at me.
23:12That thing just stuck.
23:14It just stuck.
23:15It doesn't stick like that, believe me.
23:18I don't think that's the greatest catch.
23:20If he does that bad-handed, now I'm blown away.
23:23After being fouled, I mean, he was clearly fouled on the play, and that's clean.
23:28You could have small hands.
23:30You could have the biggest hands in the world.
23:31You could put a glove on.
23:32If you can't catch, you can't catch.
23:34I guess I got to think of my mind for the long fingers.
23:39His body is in a position that it's more than being a one-handed catch.
23:44He stretched out from every limb of his...
23:47He can't get any longer.
23:49Look at his eyes even going back to that catch.
23:51Not even to mention that he got fouled onto play.
23:54He's purely using proprioception at this point.
23:58What?
23:59Proprioception is just, you know where your body is at all times.
24:02Behind your back to pull it in and catch it, and then when you hit the ground to not fumble
24:06it, it's unbelievable.
24:09It's ridiculous.
24:10That one is right there with anything I've ever seen, so that was pretty impressive.
24:14I don't think you could put it in the same arena as the legendary catches made on the
24:19biggest stages.
24:21That catch, I don't care what, it could have been in a preseason game, it could have been
24:24in his backyard, the way that he went out there with his mitt, it looked like he had a glue
24:29trap to his hand.
24:30There's no way, physically, that some human being should be able to do that.
24:33That's a video game catch.
24:36Coming up, the greatest toe tap with Santoni Holmes' sweet hole.
24:44The greatest catch in NFL history.
24:59It's one of the great plays in sports history.
25:03Unbelievable.
25:04Incredible.
25:06I've got a problem with this.
25:07Come on.
25:08That play should be in the top two.
25:12Santoni Holmes is absolutely positively the number one catch of all time.
25:16Could the Steelers do it?
25:17Could Ben Roethlisberger do it?
25:19Then they did it.
25:20Anything Steelers is better.
25:22Know that.
25:22It's a religion.
25:23Black and gold, son.
25:25I really don't understand what the debate even would be.
25:29There's the catch, and then there's the helmet catch.
25:33On the Super Bowl.
25:34And the greatest catch in that most important game happened with 34 seconds to go.
25:41I think it should be number one.
25:43For import, for difficulty, that was insane.
25:46It was like he was saving a baby.
25:48The way that he reached out and pulled it in and actually caught the ball.
25:54And he's like levitating maybe a half an inch to an inch off the ground as he makes the catch
26:03and just taps him in and falls out of bounds.
26:05They must have sensors in their feet to know.
26:08I mean, it's like an invisible fence for a dog.
26:10How would you know that your toe is just inside?
26:14Whoever did your pedicure that day, kudos to her.
26:18It seemed like there were 30 defenders around him.
26:21It seemed like he was surrounded by the entirety of the active roster.
26:26You watch it in slow motion, it looks difficult.
26:29Imagine doing that with all the speed, all the defense, all the elements, the noise, everything.
26:33He made it happen, and for that, I think it's the best play we've ever seen in a Super Bowl.
26:38When he rises back up, he's a legend for all of time.
26:45Let's go.
26:46We've got plenty of time to work for.
26:48Time to be great.
26:49Holmes also...
26:52In back drive, he helped engineer.
26:55Who dared?
26:56I'm daring to be great right now.
26:57From that moment on, it was a San Antonio home show.
27:02San Antonio said, give me the ball.
27:05Throws it on the run, the pass is caught.
27:07Holmes gets to the 27.
27:08So that drive really spanned over 100 yards when you think of what they dealt with.
27:12This team trails by three.
27:14He's going to step up in the pocket and fire the pass complete to San Antonio home.
27:19What a great catch in traffic.
27:21Pops, fires a pass, it's caught.
27:24Running down the sideline, 30, 25.
27:26San Antonio to the 10.
27:27San Antonio tackles at the 5-yard line with 51 seconds to go.
27:33I have to think there's a decent chance the guy's close to gas.
27:35He basically brought the ball down the field by himself.
27:38We need this play, man.
27:40Let's win the championship for us right here, man.
27:42I remember a calm came over me, and I knew what was about to happen.
27:57This play should absolutely be hired because not only did it win the Super Bowl, but it has greatness on
28:03both ends of it.
28:04The snap, he's back, he puffs, he scrabbles around.
28:08You talk about everything that had to happen on that play.
28:12The catch was phenomenal, but guess what?
28:15The throw was phenomenal, too.
28:17Just a brilliant football play encapsulated where you've got this one great quarterback making this incredible throw and putting a
28:23teardrop over the top of the defense.
28:26Roethlisberger put it into place where his wideout could get it, but nobody else could.
28:30It's a brilliant throw.
28:31No, it's an even more brilliant catch, but I'd say at least number two.
28:36That's when I know whoever's picking is not a Steeler fan.
28:39What's in front of him?
28:41Seriously?
28:42Like, for real?
28:43There's absolutely no way.
28:52The catch, number two, listen, you're talking to a biased observer here.
29:01Of course I'd put it at number one.
29:09As a 49er fan, we're good.
29:11I'll take that at number two.
29:12I will absolutely take that at number two.
29:14Hell no.
29:15It's got to be number one.
29:17It's got to be number one.
29:18Just to be called the catch, like that right there says it all.
29:22It's the catch.
29:23So if it's the catch, doesn't it have to be the catch then?
29:28Look on this list.
29:29That's the catch.
29:34Don Landry is six yards away from his sixth Super Bowl.
29:39And of course, for the upstart 49ers, they're six yards away from Pontiac.
29:44The catch lands at number two because it remains one of the most iconic plays in NFL history.
29:51Third and three.
29:54Montana.
29:55Brilliant.
30:06It wasn't that.
30:12I mean, we've seen that catch all the time.
30:15To see the catch from the back of the end zone, to see just how high Dwight Clark actually did
30:20jump, he jumped up pretty darn high.
30:22Dwight Clark is 6'4".
30:24He stands about 10 feet tall in this crowd's estimation.
30:28I remember seeing the ball coming and thinking, wow, that's pretty high.
30:33He reached up and he caught it.
30:35I mean, was it that impressive?
30:37It really truly was a fingertip catch.
30:40It wasn't like, obviously, it didn't hit him in the numbers.
30:42He went up there and pulled it in.
30:43It's not a, like, one-handed falling out of bounds.
30:47Full body, fully extended.
30:49Grabs the ball.
30:50Back of the end zone.
30:51Time running out.
30:52So much pressure.
30:53Yeah, of course.
30:54It's an amazing catch.
30:55Would that even be a catch today?
30:57Because he caught it and spiked it.
30:58In the end zone, it's not dead as soon as he gets possession.
31:01Did he possess it long enough?
31:03Like, would they have reviewed that today and said, no, that's not a catch?
31:09What?
31:09Some people say he was trying to throw the ball away.
31:11You don't get what you want.
31:12You're just throwing, simply throw the ball away.
31:14You're not there the way you are.
31:15I was actually on the 10-yard line at the other end of the field.
31:18I mean, I still think old Joe was throwing the ball out of bounds, but throwing it away anyway.
31:23I would have thrown it away a lot earlier than that if I was throwing it away.
31:27I certainly didn't want to get knocked down if I'm going to throw the ball away.
31:30Was Joe throwing it away?
31:32I think Joe was putting it in the one spot he knew could either result in something good
31:38or would extend the season one more play.
31:44It's an iconic image.
31:45When you think about it, you can picture it in your mind, right?
31:48You can see him going up and how high he jumped and the ball coming in and it's almost in
31:52his hands
31:53and you know what the play is.
31:55I mean, that it was labeled the catch afterwards tells you everything you need to know.
31:59It was that good.
32:00It was just kind of an introduction to the country.
32:02This is Joe Montana.
32:03This guy's going to be around for a while.
32:05This is Dwight Clark.
32:06This is the hookup.
32:06What a play by Dwight Clark.
32:09Without that catch, I don't believe that it would have been a dynasty for the Niners.
32:13So that's why when I think of one of the best, I think Dwight Clark in the catch.
32:18Up next, number one catch.
32:21And now, the number one greatest catch of all time, David Tyree's helmet catch.
32:28The number one catch of all time has to be David Tyree.
32:32And it is caught.
32:33It's the helmet catch.
32:35Oh my God.
32:36Are you going to, is this going to be a Tyree thing?
32:38Because I'm going to leave.
32:39Tyree's number one.
32:40That was more luck than skill.
32:42How in the world did he do that?
32:44The ball stuck to his helmet and he caught it with two guys around him.
32:48Tyree had harassed it all over him.
32:50The ball was on his helmet.
32:53Greatest happenstance of all time.
32:54Like, greatest happy accident of all time.
32:57All it did was extend the drive.
33:00Inside the 25 and a timeout taken.
33:04There's a lot of crap that had to happen after that.
33:06Plaxico got the winning touchdown.
33:09Manning locks it for us.
33:11A long touchdown.
33:12That was a regular catch.
33:14The Tyree catch has got to be number one.
33:18Because we've now been through a hundred years of the NFL.
33:21And there's never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever been a catch where a guy sandwiched it to his helmet.
33:27Never happened.
33:28Probably will never happen again.
33:30There never will be again.
33:33I could live to 114 and see the NFL's 200th season.
33:38And I will still never see a catch like that.
33:44I remember watching that play unfold on the field and you thought a million times the play was over.
33:49You know, there were four or five points in time.
33:51You're like, okay, it's over here.
33:52It's over here.
33:53And then it just, it was the longest play ever.
33:55That's a great catch by David Tyree.
33:58There's the snap.
34:00There's the in the grasp.
34:01There's the great escape.
34:03Eli Manning stays on his feet.
34:06There's the balloon throw.
34:08Airs it out down the field.
34:11There's the catch.
34:12It is caught by Tyree.
34:14Look, the most remarkable thing about the Tyree catch wasn't pinning it to his helmet.
34:19It was keeping it pinned when he hit the ground.
34:21Pressing it against his helmet as he goes to the ground.
34:24That's interesting.
34:25And not dropping.
34:26He hits the ground.
34:27And that ball has, by every right, should have gone squirting up.
34:31David Tyree went up and somehow was able to make the catch.
34:37It's Shakespearean.
34:38All right, it's a very tough stuff.
34:40Only guys kind of stuff.
34:44David Tyree got lucky.
34:46I am still flabbergasted.
34:49There's a little bit of luck to it.
34:52Look, he held the ball against his helmet, okay?
34:55He made that work.
34:57I think just as far as a catch goes, I think Jermaine Kearse's catch is better than David Tyree.
35:01It was tougher.
35:02It happened deeper on the field.
35:03One-tip ball that falls on the ground to somebody who's lying on his back.
35:08It's just that they didn't win the Super Bowl after that.
35:10It's a fluky play, a great play.
35:13But it shouldn't be held up there with the skill that Santoni Holmes displayed.
35:18It belongs in the top three.
35:20It's not as good as Dwight Clark.
35:22If you pin a ball to your helmet and it comes within three centimeters of hitting the ground,
35:29that's the greatest catch of all time.
35:30Oh, and it decides the Super Bowl?
35:31Yeah, it's the greatest catch.
35:32Against an undefeated team.
35:35David Tyree is one of those guys who you're like, who?
35:38David Tyree just made the biggest catch of his life.
35:42That's the only thing that we could ever possibly remember him for.
35:46He doesn't have a lifetime of stats.
35:48Very much a no-name receiver.
35:49Who else would expect David Tyree to come out here?
35:52When David Tyree makes that catch, I turn to my dude, David Tyree will never play in another
35:58football game again.
36:00David Tyree did play in another game, but he would never make another catch in his NFL career.
36:07I think it endears people to call him that number one because it wasn't Randy Moss.
36:13It wasn't Jerry Rice.
36:14It was a guy who was nervous to make the team every year.
36:18David Tyree can walk to the rest of his life knowing that on that one day, at that one moment
36:24in time, he did something that is immortal.
36:27That right there is the ultimate mic drop.
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