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00:03Are you serious?
00:06Mary of all time, couched to Kevin Johnson.
00:10Come on, the Browns won a game.
00:13Can't we elevate this above number 10?
00:15Give them a little boost.
00:16Did we see what we saw?
00:18The Cleveland Browns!
00:20I've seen everything!
00:22It's a Hail Mary for a franchise's first victory.
00:25Kind of, sort of, first victory.
00:28See, even Cleveland's allowed to smile once a decade.
00:34In 1995, the Cleveland Browns were nearly declared dead after the team was moved to Baltimore.
00:40But by the grace of God, the team was resurrected in 1999, only to remain lifeless heading into week 8
00:48of the season.
00:50Winless.
00:51The Browns are not a very good team.
00:53And they're facing a Saints team that in that era was not a very good team.
00:56This was an ugly game.
00:59Trailing with only seconds remaining, rookie quarterback Tim Couch was down to his final prayer.
01:08Couch with two seconds to go.
01:12Heaves went down the near sideline to the right.
01:16Looking for Kevin Johnson.
01:17Ball is tipped.
01:18Johnson got it!
01:19He's got it!
01:20He's got it!
01:21Touchdown, Browns!
01:23The Browns have won their first game!
01:25This is one of those great Hail Marys that should be an interception.
01:28Sammy Knight and Tyrone Drakeford, two pretty good defenders, both have a beat on this ball.
01:33They wind up cobbling it.
01:38Wines up in Kevin Johnson's hands.
01:40In the corner of the end zone.
01:42Kevin Johnson made the catch out of the flexion!
01:49And the Cleveland Browns are off the schneid.
01:55They are now a winning football team on the most spectacular play in a long, long time anywhere.
02:01I'm okay with this being at number 10 and on the list, period.
02:06Yeah, I got no qualms with it.
02:07It's the first win in rebooted franchise history.
02:11And to have it happen in the most unexpected manner.
02:15For a Cleveland Brown, what a win to get in the win column.
02:17I don't think you can look back on it and be like, well, this was the dawn of a new
02:20era.
02:21It's like, no, it was the only good moment in 20 years.
02:24It comes as time expires, and it comes as a resolute moment of belief for a fan base that needed
02:31a moment like this.
02:32They needed it.
02:33Legends are built on plays like that.
02:35People think the reboot of the Browns in Cleveland has been an abject failure.
02:40But they had one fun play.
02:42The Hail Mary couch to Johnson.
02:44The number 9 Hail Mary of all time.
02:47Favre to Greg Lewis.
02:49That's her.
02:502009.
02:51Favre's playing for the Vikings now.
02:53I like saying that out loud because it hurts Packers fans' feelings.
02:56What a play by Brett Favre.
02:59Vikings.
03:00Not a fan.
03:01And then Brett Favre throwing it.
03:05Brett Favre hitting Greg Lewis.
03:09Purple uniforms.
03:10Oh, my God, right.
03:11Favre.
03:12What a weird little tack-on at the end there.
03:17Doesn't surprise me that Brett Favre is involved in stuff like this.
03:21Because that's the way his whole career went.
03:23Fakes the handoff.
03:24Rolling right pressure by McDaniel.
03:25Shuffles it forward.
03:26Touchdown.
03:28He put it into the end zone.
03:30Backhand.
03:30Just the way they drew it up, huh, fellas?
03:32I'll tell you what.
03:33Brett Favre is the creating quarterback.
03:36He just creates plays.
03:38An aging Favre found himself in another dire situation against the 49ers.
03:45Come on, Brett!
03:46He responded by giving Vikings fans a taste of what Packers fans had savored for so many years.
03:53Eight seconds left.
03:55Eight seconds left.
03:55He gets away from the pressure.
03:56Fires to the end zone.
03:58It's hot!
03:59It's Greg Lewis!
04:01Touchdown!
04:02Oh, my goodness!
04:03That kind of was the moment that Favre arrived in Minnesota, where we all started finally embracing him as a
04:08Viking.
04:09His first true great Vikings moment.
04:14Ten days from being 40 years old.
04:16Does this ever get old for you?
04:18It got old from the start.
04:20I'd much rather it be a little bit easier than that, but it was a lot of fun.
04:23It was just a laser throw.
04:25Amazing that he could do that at age 40.
04:27He still had that cannon on the arm at age 40, which is unbelievable.
04:31And he got...
04:32That's why you get Brett Favre on your football team.
04:35I mean, look at that throw.
04:36Oh, my goodness.
04:38Throwing a perfect, perfect pass for the win.
04:42Putting the ball in a place where no one else was going to catch it if anybody did at all.
04:47That catch, getting that first foot down and then dragging second one in the back of the end zone.
04:51Greg Lewis gets out there and comes up with the play of the game.
04:55He got hammered as he let go of the ball.
04:57And he actually threw that ball pretty deep in the end zone.
04:59He's been doing that, taking hits all day.
05:02He lays on the ground and, like, just pure joy, watches to see the catch and the call.
05:09And then his linemen scoop him up like a toddler in a ball pit to go have a juice box
05:15and hang with the babysitter.
05:17It's beautiful.
05:19I mean, it's a crazy, crazy great throw.
05:22It's pinpoint accurate.
05:24But how is it a Hail Mary?
05:25He throws it on a rope.
05:27No more rocket balls, please.
05:29I was chained up.
05:30No, I know. I know.
05:31It's impossible to get the Hail Mary out because it's in the air for 1.8 seconds or something like
05:36that.
05:36Hail Mary, full of grace.
05:37Lord is with thee.
05:37Blessed art thou among women.
05:38Blessed is the fruit of...
05:39Oh, and he gets it.
05:42Favre was just like, Hail Mary.
05:45Just get the end zone.
05:46Let's get in right here.
05:47It's not your prototypical Hail Mary, but it definitely belongs on the list.
05:51Okay, maybe sometimes you just got to say a quick little tiny prayer.
05:54Hail Mary, full of grace.
05:55Lord is with thee.
05:55Holy Mary, Mother of God.
05:56Great person is now at the hour of our death.
05:57Amen.
05:58Woo!
06:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:02That was Greg Lewis's last touchdown in the league.
06:05Great Hail Mary of all time.
06:07Barkowski to White Shoes Johnson.
06:10The Atlanta Falcons by 47-yard Hail Mary.
06:14Touchdown pass from Barkowski to White Shoes Johnson.
06:17White Shoes?
06:18You ever hear of White Shoes?
06:19I heard of White Shoes.
06:20Billy White Shoes Johnson, a touchdown!
06:23I'm in favor of anybody whose name is White Shoes.
06:26I'm rooting for that person every single time.
06:31I remember that play.
06:32It was 1983 against the 49ers.
06:36Last second play.
06:37Two seconds left.
06:38Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.
06:39Are we talking Hail Mary or are we talking reception and lateral?
06:43We never beat the 49ers, so we need a Hail Mary to beat the 49ers.
06:46We need a prayer.
06:47Steve Barkowski rears back, throws the pass.
06:51He is going long down the near sideline.
06:54He lands in a sea of hands and gets tipped forward to Billy White Shoes Johnson.
06:58Johnson, it's on the 10-5.
07:00He is down.
07:02He is.
07:03Give it to him.
07:05He's in.
07:06He's down.
07:07Touchdown Atlanta.
07:09Billy Johnson.
07:13It was the only way the Falcons had any kind of a chance to pull this game out.
07:20When you just first look at it, you go, I'm not sure he got in the end zone.
07:23Let's take another look.
07:24Maybe the play of the year so far in the National Football League.
07:28I'm going to be honest, I think he was down.
07:31Knee down!
07:32Everything that happened, you can't watch that and go, nah, it's close.
07:36You got to give it to him.
07:37I mean, it looked like he might have been down, but that was before the replay era and having
07:41to call the league office.
07:42It didn't happen to be a replay in 83, so I don't think he got there, but it was such
07:46a good play.
07:49What really pushes this over there?
07:51This might have to be higher.
07:53The next year, the Niners went 15-1 and won the Super Bowl and just crushed everybody.
07:59Two years earlier, they had won the Super Bowl.
08:02They had a quarterback named Joe Montana, and Joe Montana never loses in crunch time.
08:10He lost.
08:13The edge and why it has to be on this list are the refs.
08:16Because that first ref, you see he walks up and just doesn't do anything, which causes
08:23our announcer to start yelling, give it to him, give it to him.
08:26Give it to him!
08:28And decides not to make a call.
08:30And then another ref comes up behind him as though to be like, Jeff, you going to make
08:33this call or what?
08:34He'll tell me I'm going to do my job, Robert.
08:36I'm looking it over.
08:37These are not the guys' names.
08:38Robert seems to have enough and just throws his own hands up behind who we're calling
08:43Jeff, who still has not decided how he feels about this play.
08:47He's right on the goal line, and I was always taught, once you break the play, and it's six
08:50points, so I got up and danced and didn't wait.
08:55The Billy White Shoes-Johnson one is the one on the list that has the least to do with the
09:00quarterback.
09:00It was a Hail Mary that wasn't a very far throw, and that came up basically changed.
09:06Ten yards short of the end zone, bounced off a bunch of people.
09:10Count the people there.
09:12Three red shirts, how many white lines?
09:14And the red shirts are going to come away with the ball.
09:17White Hughes-Johnson.
09:18That's definitely one of the iconic Hail Marys.
09:21I definitely think that should be higher.
09:22This one should be number one, because most Hail Marys end with the catch.
09:26But this one, he caught the ball, and then had to juke like 47 guys to get in the end
09:31zone.
09:32He made some great moves, a great effort here.
09:35Johnson was in the right place at the right time.
09:36It's amazing!
09:37Yeah, it needed to be eight or nine.
09:40I probably would have put far the last...
09:43The irony of the weak throw is that Steve Bruckowski was first overall pick for his nerve strength.
09:51Jeez.
09:52Last play of the game against the 49ers, which is a little bit more of a skilled play in general.
09:59Maybe, maybe.
10:01It still was freakish, the fact that they threw a Hail Mary 10 yards short of the end zone and
10:05got a touchdown.
10:07But at number seven, Hail Mary of all time, the Motown Miracle.
10:12Way too low at seven.
10:14That one at seven?
10:15The Packers have won!
10:17This is like the year after this happened.
10:21This came out the year after this happened.
10:22They didn't want to do recency bias.
10:25An unbelievable finish!
10:27Number seven?
10:28I don't know.
10:29It was still a mid-season divisional game.
10:31What a complete season changer it is.
10:34I think seven's probably fair.
10:38Was that his first?
10:40Yeah.
10:42The legend of Hale Rogers was born on a Thursday night in Detroit in 2015.
10:49The Rogers play is the definition of the Hail Mary.
10:52Get down there and I'm just going to throw it as high and everybody get in a mosh pit and
10:57let's see who catches it.
10:58A rainbow of a prayer for Green Bay.
11:02Cut!
11:02Cut for a touchdown!
11:04The throw itself on that Hail Mary is probably one of the best throws you're ever going to see on
11:09a football field.
11:09How many yards was that pass?
11:11That was ridiculous.
11:12Oh my gosh.
11:13That's from the 35.
11:15That's close to 70 yards.
11:17What?
11:1970 yards distance wise.
11:21But it looked like he threw it about 70 yards in the air too.
11:24I think that's what's more amazing to me than anything.
11:26A lot of guys can throw it that far, but they can't throw it that high.
11:29If that throws it in Dallas, it would have hit the scoreboard.
11:32How high and how far did he throw that football?
11:34Incredible.
11:36It's not even humanly possible to throw that far.
11:41While that ball was up in the air, what was going through your mind?
11:46Catch it.
11:47You got to catch it.
11:48That was an incredible throw, but that was an incredible catch.
11:52That guy was surrounded by like 20 people and he caught it.
11:55We're going to put his body right in front of everyone.
11:58Richard Rodgers of all people caught it.
12:00Who is Richard Rodgers?
12:01Rodgers to Rodgers.
12:03Two guys from Cal.
12:05Connect.
12:06Aaron Rodgers put Richard Rodgers on the map and not because they're brothers.
12:11They're not brothers.
12:12They're...
12:14I think that's obvious.
12:15Aaron Rodgers to Richard Rodgers wouldn't have happened if Richard Rodgers to Aaron Rodgers hadn't have happened.
12:20That throwback on the play before where there was a face mask penalty and kept the game alive.
12:26To Rodgers to Rodgers.
12:28How about that?
12:28Rodgers gets it.
12:29The other way, he's thrown down.
12:30We got a flag.
12:31The game's not over.
12:32How stupid.
12:32I know Ryan's fans would probably call it the phantom face mask call.
12:35It was like third and ten or fourth and ten and they were like on their 20.
12:38But because of the penalty and the end of regulation, it gave him a free play.
12:44I think Rodgers is...
12:47His high IQ, he leaned into it and got a finger in the face mask.
12:53That I thought was legitimate.
12:55He got just enough to draw the flag.
12:58Oh!
12:59Did he miss the face mask?
13:01The aptly named Miracle in Motown was definitely that.
13:06I mean, I think Aaron Rodgers' reaction says it all.
13:16Shocked.
13:16Ecstatic.
13:18Total disbelief.
13:20This is the first time.
13:21And then he did one in every other game, every game since.
13:29Jeff Janis.
13:30Twice.
13:31Aha.
13:32That's the touchdown one or the one in the back up in his own end zone?
13:37Jeff Janis.
13:38A 60-yard catch on the fourth and 20 and a 41-yard catch for a touchdown.
13:42Not one Hail Mary.
13:44Two.
13:45A second Hail Mary.
13:47Most teams get one in a lifetime.
13:50The end of the game, no time on the clock.
13:52Two Hail Marys to get you into overtime.
13:55To me, that's the greatest Hail Mary.
13:58You have to put it number one.
14:00This is garbage.
14:05The situation on our list says desperation more than what the Packers faced in the final minutes against the Cardinals.
14:13There's the fourth and 20 that Rodgers threw out of his own end zone.
14:18Here's the snap.
14:20Rodgers under pressure immediately.
14:21Scrambles to his left.
14:23Looking.
14:23He rainbows.
14:24Left side for Janis.
14:27Yes!
14:28Yes!
14:29At the 35-yard line of Arizona!
14:32Aaron Rodgers scrambling.
14:34Getting downfield.
14:35Hitting Jeff Janis in this ridiculous fourth and forever play.
14:39That was magical.
14:41If Aaron Rodgers could pull this one off, he wouldn't be a magician.
14:45He'd be a miracle worker.
14:47Magic mixed with miracle a few plays later.
14:50Rolling left winds up.
14:52Rainbows it high and deep.
14:56It is caught for a touchdown!
14:58Yes!
14:58Yes!
14:58A miracle catch of Janis out of quality!
15:02In the end zone!
15:04Can you believe it?
15:06Unbelievable!
15:07Believe it!
15:08It was Janis both times?
15:10Holy cow!
15:12That's unbelievable!
15:13I see the heroes!
15:14We're the heroes!
15:15Let's go!
15:18The throw deserves, almost in my opinion, as much if not more credit than the catch in this scenario.
15:25As time expires, off his back foot, throws a 60-yard perfect spiral that Jeff Janis leaps up and catches
15:34over Patrick Peterson, one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL.
15:39That's insane.
15:40He's not stepping into that pass.
15:42He is literally going backwards and still manages to throw it, like, 70 yards.
15:50I cannot believe that he got that into the end zone.
15:54I can't do that.
15:55I can't do all this stuff, but this one I know for sure I can't do.
15:59There aren't a handful of quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League.
16:05Strong enough arm to get it into the end zone.
16:11An Aaron Rodgers miracle to Jeff Janis.
16:16Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary to Jeff Janis to tie the game against the Cardinals should be the number one Hail
16:22Mary of all time.
16:23Because it came three or four plays after a Hail Mary from Aaron Rodgers to Jeff Janis.
16:30It's one of the most amazing feats you're going to see on a football field, but I understand why it's
16:34not higher.
16:35Because of the fact that it only, you know, drew them into overtime.
16:39It didn't win the game for them.
16:41Man, he's probably the only Hail Mary on this list that didn't win the game.
16:45Lose spots because the rest of his team blew it.
16:48Vince on the shovel, Bass scores!
16:50And the Cardinals win it in overtime!
16:53I think we have to remember that Hail Mary for what it was, which is, in my opinion, the greatest
16:57pass in NFL history.
16:59They didn't win the game.
17:02So, kind of doesn't really mean anything, does it, Aaron Rodgers?
17:06It was just a really mean tease.
17:08It was an admirable, you know, performance.
17:10The number five Hail Mary of all time, Rodgers to Randall Cobb.
17:16Welcome back to NFL Top Ten Hail Marys starring Aaron Rodgers.
17:20And more Aaron Rodgers.
17:23Who's that better than Aaron Rodgers?
17:25Aaron Rodgers.
17:26I mean, he's on this list three times, for God's sake.
17:30Hail Mary!
17:32And it's your net gun!
17:34It's Aaron Rodgers making magic.
17:35I mean, how many times can he save the Packers?
17:37It's fun.
17:38Every single time, it's fun.
17:42We're right before the half.
17:44Fourth and two.
17:47Time for one more play and pick up something along the sidelines and maybe get a field goal try.
17:53I was thinking to myself, there's no way.
17:55Come on, really?
17:56Like, this is going to be another Hail Mary as time expires.
17:59So, it only makes sense, though, that Aaron Rodgers would sling it up in the air.
18:05Winds up.
18:06Rainbows.
18:07Into the end zone.
18:08It is time!
18:10What?
18:11How do you have the arm?
18:12How do you have the arm?
18:14How do you have the arm to throw it past all of those guys?
18:17That's not, that's not human.
18:19And then jubilation from all Green Bay Packer fans.
18:23He's never touched another player.
18:26No other player had a shot at it.
18:32I can't even imagine what it's like to have that type of body control to be surrounded by a bunch
18:37of people going up to the same thing, catch the ball, and still place your feet both in bounds.
18:42Cobb is able to get in behind everybody.
18:45He definitely got a little push-off there to create a little space for him in the end zone.
18:49Now you're blaming the refs, that's cool.
18:52It happens, it's fine.
18:53It wouldn't be their first time.
18:54Did Cobb push off?
18:55No.
18:56I remember the defensive player running into Cobb, and Cobb simply just trying to make sure a collision would happen.
19:03How much of a nutshell did you give the guy?
19:06Just a little bit.
19:07Not too much.
19:09Huh.
19:11Against Arizona should be number one.
19:14There's no way it should lose to a pass that, you know, right before halftime, you tack on some points.
19:22And the Packers head off at halftime with a 14-6 lead.
19:26That was such a huge play.
19:27The game was very much up in the air.
19:29And then they complete that Hail Mary, and the Packers ended up crushing the Giants.
19:33A convincing 38-13 victory over the New York Giants.
19:38It was an odd Hail Mary, but it was vintage Rodgers.
19:44Rodgers to Cobb is at number five because it settles the debate over who is the king.
19:49Who's the master of the Hail Mary right now?
19:51There's only one, man.
19:52A-Rod.
19:54Aaron's the best.
19:55They're going to have to rename the Hail Mary.
19:57Social media exploded on this one.
19:59I think that Twitter almost broke calling Aaron Rodgers the greatest Hail Mary passer of all time.
20:05It's funny to say he does this better than anybody when what it is is just launching a ball into
20:09a crowd of people,
20:10which is like what a t-shirt cannon does.
20:13But Rodgers is getting credit for it in this moment.
20:16We'll give you that.
20:16There's a little bit of luck there.
20:18But to do it over and over and over?
20:19That's three in the last, you know, calendar year or so.
20:26In the end zone.
20:28It is caught.
20:32It's just, like, absurd.
20:34Winds up.
20:35Rainbows it high and deep into the end zone.
20:38It's high point and it's caught.
20:40It is caught for a touchdown.
20:42Yeah, he's one of the best.
20:45Wow.
20:46Rodgers does this better than anybody.
20:49In zone.
20:50Caught.
20:51Touchdown.
20:53It's pretty impressive.
20:55I take it back.
20:56Aaron Rodgers is very good at that.
20:58Hail Mary, full of grace, Aaron Rodgers, cheese and beer, tater tots.
21:04It's in the Bible.
21:05Look it up.
21:06Ha ha.
21:07Number four.
21:09Hail Mary of all time.
21:19Manning taught him the way.
21:20I've never felt.
21:20He went up with a.
21:22On the final play of the half.
21:24It's not, like, the most physically amazing Hail Mary I've ever seen.
21:2837 yards to Hakeem Nicks.
21:31To do that, in that place, in that kind of atmosphere.
21:35Atmosphere.
21:38Remarkable touchdown here in Lambeau.
21:41I'm hurting right now, thinking about it.
21:45That was a Packers team that was 15 and 1 that year, that had won the Super Bowl the year
21:49before at home, and then pretty much shown to be, like, unstoppable to that point.
21:54Let's see what they got.
21:56Aaron Rodgers involved in another Hail Mary.
21:59Only this time, the underdog Giants had the ball, a three-point lead, and a chance to seize the game
22:06going into halftime.
22:08Coughlin is a terrible gambler, so they were going for the juggler.
22:15A 55-yard drive from here, and now instead, they're going for it all.
22:21The pass is caught for the touchdown!
22:26Unbelievable!
22:27Wow, that's a heck of a play there.
22:30It's a good call.
22:34I look at that pass, and I go, God, Eli Manning, he laid that right in there.
22:40The last second heaved by Eli Manning.
22:44Eli Manning, not necessarily known for his, I don't know, not known as the strongest quarterback in the history of
22:50football.
22:51They throw the Hail Mary, the likelihood is to leave that, not real high, but they come away with the
22:55touchdown.
22:56I probably was, if I'm trying to remember correctly, frustrated with Eli for the first half of that game, and
23:01then he does that, and I'm like, see, that's my boy.
23:07That moment when Hakeem Nicks came down with that touchdown, I mean, the life was just sucked out of that
23:12place.
23:12It was over.
23:14The Giants come used to an easy victory, but Eli lands ahead of Aaron because of the far-reacher significance
23:21of the play.
23:24The Eli Manning Hail Mary ahead of the Packers Hail Mary, I mean, because I took them to the Super
23:29Bowl.
23:29And the Giants have won Super Bowl XLVI!
23:32I think that's a great reason for being ahead of the Rodgers.
23:36The Packers didn't make it, and the Giants didn't.
23:39What a run for this Packers franchise coming to an end here.
23:42To a 15-1 team at home.
23:45A 15-1 team that had Leagues MP, Super Bowl champions.
23:49They sat all down already, but they're at home tonight.
23:51Yeah, I really don't want to agree, but I get the argument.
23:56Number three, Hail Mary of all time.
23:58The Fail Mary.
23:59No, no, no, no, we're not doing the Fail Mary.
24:03Seahawks win in the most bizarre finish you'll ever see.
24:08The fake news of Hail Marys.
24:11I don't like the way this game finished.
24:12I have a bad taste in my mouth.
24:14Again, Aaron Rodgers in another Hail Mary situation.
24:18Aaron Rodgers is trying to figure out what's going on.
24:20It's awful.
24:21That's all I'm going to say about it.
24:26Hey, the Fail Mary.
24:28Yeah, I'm from Wisconsin.
24:29This interview is over.
24:33It's not over.
24:36This interview is one of my favorite NFL things.
24:42The 2012 season began with the NFL using replacement refs because of the referee lockout.
24:49The frustrations finally came to a head on the final play of Week 3.
24:55The game's final play is a waltz and lock to the end zone, which it is fought for by 10
25:01with Jennings.
25:03Simultaneous.
25:03Who has it?
25:04Who do they give it to?
25:05Touchdown!
25:07Touchdown!
25:08Touchdown!
25:09Field!
25:10You've got the perfect, like, calamity of events that leads to just debate and argument.
25:17One guy goes up, touchdown!
25:19The other said no time!
25:21Touchdown?
25:23Question mark?
25:23I can't believe they had two officials right there, and they ruled in favor of Seattle.
25:29They're looking at each other like, we're screwed.
25:31This is a no-win situation.
25:33You see him turn, and he's looking at the other ref.
25:35All right, I'm going to wait for him to start putting his arms up, and then I'm going to do
25:38whatever he does.
25:40And he's like, okay, okay, okay, okay.
25:42Ah, man!
25:43Like, yeah, it's great.
25:48Honestly, when that happens, I'm like, whatever.
25:51It's clearly going to be reviewed, it was clearly the wrong call, the NFL's going to get this right.
25:55Call on the field stands.
25:59Touchdown!
26:00Fielding back!
26:00The worst part about the fail, Mary, is that the refs reviewed it.
26:03It's like, what are you doing in the review booth?
26:06Just eating snacks?
26:07It came down to what I understood from the officials.
26:10It was a simultaneous catch.
26:11That's how they called it.
26:12And, you know, that's a tie goes to the runner.
26:15Good call.
26:16Don't ask me a question about the officials, all right?
26:18So we'll just cut to the chase right there.
26:20The fail, Mary, might be the single worst call in the history of football.
26:25This is wrong.
26:26I don't feel good about this.
26:27If it's not as good.
26:27It was clearly caught by the Packers.
26:29I don't know, man.
26:30Is it a catch?
26:32Is it not a catch?
26:33It's hard to say.
26:34If it's simultaneous, that means both new players are possessing the ball.
26:38I would love to replay that and view that, because that call in that moment.
26:44As you watch one more look at this replay.
26:49Clearly, Jennings has the ball.
26:51Jennings is going the ball.
26:53He brings it to his chest.
26:54All Tate has on it is one arm.
26:57And then the official comes in and rules touchdown.
26:59That's Packers.
27:00Sorry.
27:00That was a bad call.
27:02Golden Tate should have gotten the equivalent of a football Oscar that night for his acting job.
27:07M.D. Jennings intercepts the pass.
27:10And Tate's walking out here as the player of the game.
27:13Unbelievable.
27:17Top 10 Hail Marys?
27:19And we're going to throw a Fail Mary at 3?
27:21This is the most bizarre sequence you'll ever see at the end of the game.
27:26To me, I'm cool with it being on the list, but I would have put this one at like 10.
27:29It is really interesting to see the Fail Mary number 3.
27:34I mean, this is a tainted play.
27:35What makes that play so significant is it decided the outcome of a game.
27:40It ended the lockout.
27:41The Fail Mary lands at 3 because less than a week later, the regular refs were miraculously back on the
27:49field.
27:49No one is going to talk about how that lockout ended without talking about the Fail Mary.
27:52Good to be good.
27:54Good to see you.
27:55Doing everything that you've done to help make this happen.
27:58Could have used you last week.
27:59Yes.
28:00When plays get their own moves, they certainly deserve to be higher on the list.
28:04Because you say Fail Mary, you instantly know Monday Night Football, Packers, Seahawks, and no way did he catch that
28:10ball.
28:10The number 2 Hail Mary of all time, Kramer to Ahmad Rashad.
28:17That was pretty miraculous.
28:18Absolutely one of the great, dramatic finishes of any football game.
28:24I have passion and love for the Cleveland Browns.
28:27Unbelievable.
28:28The Browns left for 59 minutes and 59 seconds and lose the game.
28:33Don't bring that up, man, please.
28:36Soft spot.
28:36I remember that.
28:37Ahmad Rashad.
28:39Who would have thought?
28:40Rashad!
28:41Rashad!
28:43The NBL ABC guy, I think.
28:46This was Ahmad Rashad's greatest catch until Felicia Rashad.
28:51He's right.
28:52That's the most nonchalant, like, incredible play I've ever seen anybody make.
28:5823-22 in favor of Cleveland.
29:02Five seconds left.
29:03First down, Cleveland 46.
29:07Three wide receivers right, Kramer back to pass.
29:10He's going deep, down the right side.
29:12And it is 5-4, and it's a goal down.
29:16I didn't even think he's going to catch.
29:2028-23.
29:21That's what happens when you have awareness.
29:25I'll take that.
29:26Yeah.
29:26I'll have it.
29:28Yeah, yeah.
29:29I'll have it.
29:30He did this thing.
29:31Yep.
29:32He didn't catch it.
29:33He snatched.
29:33He just snatched it out of the...
29:34Yeah, he looked at the menu and I said, you know, I think I'll have the touchdown today.
29:42Come on, somebody.
29:44The ball was supposed to go out of bounds, and he's just like, oh, by the way, boom.
29:47Read that ball, the bounce, the reflection.
29:50Get it behind your back, one hand, and still have enough body control to get in the end zone.
29:55That was pretty awesome.
29:56I could watch that all day.
30:02...is an amazing play as well.
30:04The Vikings run a hook and lateral play.
30:06Tommy Kramer drops back, throws over the middle to Joe Sensor, a very good tight end.
30:11Sensor pitches the ball to Ted Brown, a very good running back.
30:14Brown takes the lateral, gets the ball to midfield.
30:17You could do it up on top ten list of best plays before the Hail Mary, and that might be
30:22the number one play.
30:23He gets the ball to like the 45-46.
30:25It was definitely the coolest Hail Mary catch.
30:28It bounced off the heels of the Browns, and Rashad Klemeth for a touchdown as time expired.
30:34I don't know if it's number two.
30:35Yeah, I don't know.
30:36Quite honestly.
30:37Because I think the playoff one...
30:39It didn't, I don't think, because there's a few playoff ones on this list.
30:44I don't know if it belongs number two.
30:51...doesn't need to matter a little bit more.
30:54Rashad's catch may not have been in the playoffs, but it did have playoff implications.
30:59Not only does it lead to a victory, it leads to a playoff spot.
31:03There was a lot on the line that day.
31:04The Vikings are in the playoffs!
31:07That pushed them in the playoffs.
31:08That's, um...
31:09I don't think it's, that's, deserves to be number two for the significance of that play like that.
31:15There's really no more dramatic way for a team to make the playoffs than to have an end on a
31:20Hail Mary like that.
31:21The teams go to the playoffs!
31:24It was a good one.
31:25It was a good one.
31:26That was pretty.
31:26It wasn't the Hail Mary who.
31:28What?
31:30The Hail Mary.
31:31The Hail Mary of all time.
31:34The original.
31:37Roger Staubach to Drew Pearson against my...
31:39What are we talking, 75?
31:41Yeah.
31:42Staubach hit Pearson on a 50-yard touchdown!
31:47Yeah, that's six years before my inception.
31:49But, uh, I've heard tale from my father and from my uncles.
31:55That fit the moment.
31:56You needed a miracle, you pray for that miracle.
31:59And Roger Staubach got it with help from Drew Pearson.
32:02Now Staubach has to perform some kind of magic.
32:06Roger Staubach, he can say as many prayers as he wants, but I guess he prayed his way into the
32:11number one spot,
32:12so somebody's listening up there.
32:16I think the first thing that makes it memorable is that it was a playoff game,
32:20and it looked like the Cowboys were going to lose.
32:22It's all on display, right here.
32:24Well, the Cowboys made a miracle.
32:26You almost had this sense that if there was anybody that was going to pull it off,
32:30it'd be Roger Staubach.
32:35He is going to...
32:36Woo!
32:37Woo, Pearson!
32:39He got it!
32:40Touchdown!
32:42That gave me chills kind of watching that.
32:44That gave me chills.
32:46Staubach to Pearson lands at number one because of its significance,
32:50and for what happened after the game.
32:53And after the game, they just said to me,
32:55Roger, what were you thinking about when you threw the ball?
32:58And I just said, well, I closed my eyes and said Hail Mary.
33:01I'm a Catholic kid from Cincinnati.
33:03Boy, boy, I want to play that one.
33:04It has been a Hail Mary since.
33:08But, but...
33:11Drew Pearson pushed off.
33:17Drew Pearson had caught a pass until the fourth quarter,
33:20and then comes back and catches a 50-yard touchdown pass.
33:25The greatest Hail Mary of all time you have is the original so-called Hail Mary.
33:30Drew Pearson blatantly pushes off.
33:33Why did that play stand?
33:36Because there was no one's to do.
33:37It's okay to have a number one, although the push-off is tough to ignore.
33:40I mean, Drew Pearson got away with one.
33:42We all know Drew Pearson pushed off, but, you know, who cares?
33:46Unless you're a Vikings fan.
33:48He's very well covered at this point.
33:51Looks like almost an intercept.
33:52You see him coming back right there to make the catch.
33:55Nate Wright falls down.
33:57And Pearson just kind of backs him to the end zone right there.
34:03In one magic moment,
34:05Drew Pearson transformed defeat into victory.
34:09Because you can see that it's in...
34:11Where's the other angle that shows
34:13Drew Pearson's left hand?
34:16It shows him pushing off.
34:17I just about described it as a Hail Mary.
34:22The original has to be number one on the list.
34:25Hail Mary's in the marching band.
34:28I feel like just because it was the original doesn't mean it should be number one.
34:33It really had just a phenomenal contribution to sports jargon.
34:38We didn't call it a Hail Mary before then.
34:40We called it a desperation play.
34:42All the ones that come after are really good as well,
34:45but that fun leaves you feeling like,
34:46what did I just see?
34:48Did that...
34:48How do I feel about that?
34:50It's a playoff game.
34:51It's America's team.
34:52It's Roger Staubach, for God's sake.
34:54He was also in the divisional round
34:56against the Purple People Eater defense.
34:59Against the secondary that had the all-time leading interceptor
35:04in NFL history.
35:07This was also a divisional round game.
35:09Not a wild card game.
35:11Not a regular season game.
35:12This was the highest stake game
35:15to have a Hail Mary
35:19actually succeed.
35:29Blessed Virgin got her on the map.
35:34There's always a time in our life
35:35where we need a Hail Mary.
35:37Hail Mary, full of grace.
35:39The Lord is with thee.
35:40Blessed are thou amongst women.
35:41Blessed through thine, Jesus.
35:42Holy Mary, Mother of God,
35:43pray for us sinners,
35:44now and at the hour of our death.
35:45Amen.
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