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Rest in Peace Franco. You will be missed.
Huh he died?
Robert yes he died
R.I.P., Franco. Giantsnations sends their condolences to Steelernation.
Rest in peace #32, thank you for many childhood memories. You will not be forgotten.
One of my childhood heroes is gone. R.I.P. Franco.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢.
I saw the play live on TV fifty years ago.
Franco was something special, RIP 🙏 🕊 🏈🏈🏈
rest in peace franco
How did I not put the 2 together🤦♂️, just thought cool upload, forgetting Franco just passed...
I have the dvd of this show, a professor in the show proves that the defender hit the ball first, and it looks like Harris grabbed it before hitting the ground. Not a fan of either team, but it sure was fun to watch. RIP Franco Harris.
There’s a reverse angle that doesn’t get shown very often for some reason that shows Franco catching the ball before it hits the ground.
Offensive player touched the ball before Harris. The play should've been over
@@Yoni123 czcams.com/video/ZMsgfbGjq9M/video.html Refs got it right all along, more proof.
@@Yoni123 Tatum was an offensive player, sure. But he was on the Raiders when the ball bounced off his shoulder pad.
RIP Franco Harris
Prayers from Patriots Nation.
It's sad he dies 2 days short of the 50th anniversary.
He planned it that way.
R.I.P Franco Harris I bet Mike Webster is waiting for you at the gates in the after life
Definately blocking for him up there.#32 , #52 👍🇺🇸🍻
The Immaculate Reception is an absolutely brilliant name. You can't get better than that. It's impossible.
But it was a Deflection - Not a Reception - so the name has been wrong for 50 years - it should be The Immaculate Deflection.
@@moviesgalore9947 The ball hit Tatum. He was too busy trying to hospitalize an opponent that he allowed the ball to bounce off his shoulder and back to Harris. It's not scientifically possible for the ball to have bounced off Fuqua that far; his momentum was going sideways, not backward. The ball was on a line between Tatum and Harris, and that's the only way it could have gone that far...short of divine intervention, of course.
Except immaculate means 'pure,' not miraculous. It was anything but pure.
Not a steeler fan, but sad to hear. He was a class guy. Well spoken. Legend.
I am 58 and A proud Stiller's Fan from a time that Pittsburgh was all the stillmills.
Yes I talk Pittsburghese. And to a young boy then and watch in a decade of the dominance in Pittsburgh of both the Pirates and Stiller's, plus Pity winning a national championship.
It was a time of sheer gloriousness.
Rest in Peace Franco Harris ❤🙏
RIP uncle Franco
RIP Franco. You will never be forgotten here in Pittsburgh. Steelers will win tonight for Franco.
Rest in peace, legend ❤️
Very sad. Top three most loved athletes 1 clemente 2 Harris 3 mario. Can't believe it
Mario as in, LEMIEUX???
Funny thing is that play seems more remembered than The Steelers losing to the soon to be underfeated Dolphins in the AFC championship game. I believe that if the Raiders had won, they would have beat Miami and won the Superbowl. But we will never know, and make no mistake, the ball didn't hit the ground or the other player, that was a TD.
If Oakland HAD beaten Pittsburgh, where would the game have been played? Seems silly now to think that Miami had to play on the road being undefeated. They did manhadle the Raiders in the '73 AFC championship. Would have been a fun matchup, and with Oakland winning the "Sea Of Hands" divisional game in '74, would have made it an AFC "Trifecta".
@@oldredbarnman good question. I know Miami beat The Raiders in the regular season that year and if I'm not mistaken it was at Oakland too. But what do I know; I was only a year old at the time! Just basing my opinion on the old talking heads and NFL films footage. It's like if Jordan didn't take that break from the NBA, could The Bulls had won 8 straight championships. We will never know.
No one was beating Miami in 72
I love how over the top vintage NFL Journalism was.
I truly believe that no other NFL team,no other city, no other fan base could have pulled this off. Only in Pittsburgh!
🕊️ Rest in Heaven 🕊️
May Franco rest in peace.
The ball hit off Tatum's shoulder pad because he was running up field right in front of the ball.That gave it momentum to bounce back that far. Fuqua was running across the field and the ball wouldn't have bounced back back that far. It's just the simple laws of physics.
Tonight we celebrate the50th anniversary of immaculate reception and tomorrow we celebrate the 2023 anniversary of the immaculate conception or at least somewhere around there who knows the exact date. Here we go Steelers .if u are born and raised and will die in Pittsburgh like me Franco Harris will always be remembered and celebrated just like Christmas will be . Amen
RIP Franco,
Watched it happen.
Will never forget it !
R.I.P Franco Harris
If Tatum had been more concerned with actually being a good ballplayer instead of just hitting guys the Raiders would have won this game.
And the guy at 6:50 screws up the explanation. The Immaculate Conception was not the conception of Jesus, but of Mary, who was, according to Catholic theology, conceived without sin.
This was the AFC championship game. The NFC championship was played right after this game and it was also a classic between SF 49ers and Dallas. Dallas was down by 12 with less than 2 minutes to go, scored a TD and recovered the on side kick and scored a TD again. And no one remembers that great game.
No, this was an AFC divisional playoff, a semifinal game. The AFC championship game was the •next• week - Miami beat Pittsburgh for their 16th win of the season, on their way to a Super Bowl victory over Washington, and their perfect 17-0 championship season record.
Dallas's win over San Francisco later that day was likewise in a divisional playoff, an NFC semifinal. The NFC championship, too, was not until the following week.
5:11 the quote make it official
How many cameras were at that game? I know it was 50 years ago but surely there was more than 2.
One inaccuracy . Two Uniontown newspapers credited Myron Cope with the “… Feast of the Immaculate Reception” words on December 26, 1972. Presumably, they heard him saying it over the radio.
Jack Tatum's ELBOW bounced off Frenchy Fuqua's chest, the ball bounced off Jack Tatums shoulder pads.
It is absolutely the most incredible finish to a football game! No doubt about it!
Franco Harris was the catalyst for the Steelers. Before 1972, they were total losers….
After he joined them, they started winning…. A LOT!
The old Steelers were great in so many areas. OL was dominant. DL was dominant. Great backfield and great receivers on O. Stacked LB corps & DB corps on D. Probably the most HOF players in any lineup in NFL history. Not taking anything away from Franco or Rocky as the primary RB's, but that was a great roster, they were well coached and they were one of the first teams to get super active with weight training and conditioning workouts. They were also really bad for a long time and had a lot of high draft picks which was very helpful to Coach Noll and the Steelers in their build-up to their Super Bowl era.
RIP
Why is there talk that if it Frenchie Fuqua had contact with the ball, it wouldn't have been a legal play? It was in all ways, the "Immaculate Reception". It was legal and stop questioning and 2nd guessing the blessing. I played once at Penn State for an opposing team. OMG, do people go f'ing football crazy. He was a great player and apparently, a real nice guy.
If you knew anything you would know that the rule at the time was if an offensive player touched the ball another offensive couldn’t catch it. The play would be dead so that’s why there is talk. Since you admittedly know nothing you should quit while you’re behind
@@TL2354 So no tip drill, aye? I do know - played for the Cardinals in '81.
@@TL2354 What a crazy response: "If you knew anything ...". What? Never heard of a double reverse? And jeez, if you knew anything, you'd be able to quote the exact rule in the book and title, section, clause, and addendum. But that's Pittsburgh: fight first and figure out the reason later.
Well, properly framed, the issue is that under the old NFL rule, if Fuqua touched Bradshaw's pass before Harris caught it, AND Tatum did not touch the ball at •all•, then Harris's reception would not have been legal. If you do want the exact rule citation and text - and in a case like this, that's not unreasonable - then here it is. Rule 7, Section 5, Article 2, Item 1, Official Rules for Professional Football, The National Football League, 1971, at pp. 44-45, in pertinent part, stated that once an offensive player touches a pass, he is the only offensive player eligible to catch the pass. “However, if a [defensive] player touches [the] pass first, or simultaneously with or subsequent to its having been touched by only one [offensive] player, then all [offensive] players become and remain eligible” to catch the pass.
So, yes, under that rule, the offensive tip play as we now know it - a pass that a group of offensive and defensive players jump up to vie for, and one offensive player bats away from the group to a teammate standing nearby - would have been illegal. That rule was abolished in 1978, so if you played for St. Louis in 1981, it would not have been in effect when you were active. (I'm not sure why you bring up a double reverse; that involves laterals, not forward passes, so the rule provision quoted above wouldn't have pertained to such a play.)
@@ColumbiaB Thanks. There are "Hail Mary's" tipped by one offensive player and then caught by another. I was weak safety for the '81 Cardinals. I really never heard much about the controversy because it wasn't intended that Fuqua would hit or bat the ball back to Harris. The response was rude. Yours was enlightening. After further review, the immaculate reception remains immaculate.
Rest in Peace Franco. This fan of football will definitely miss you.
Look at those glorious sideburns
I remember sipping coke classic and spilled the 2
RIP FRANCO | #FrancosArmy | Namaste🙏🕉🌸
You have to keep in mind that at the time the game was played near Christmas so that is why they guy thought of calling it the IMMACULATE RECEPTION. If it happened in January it would not have beened given that name.
So the term "Immaculate Reception" didn't really kicked off until several years later,.... And fast forward in 2012 The Fail Mary took off just hours after it happened
Social media was a little less prevalent in 1972.
Perhaps tangential to the main topic but technically, the immaculate conception has to do with how Mary herself was not conceived in sin, so she was free of original sin, being conceived immaculately. Thus, being free of original sin, so was Jesus, conceived in her. So as I understand, the immaculate conception really isn’t about the annunciation, but predates it by several years. I suppose this misunderstanding has persisted for centuries, and a pessimist/realist may say that my comment is just spitting into the wind.
So be it.
Regardless, it’s an iconic name to a classic football play. Ironic that with all of the imperfection inherent in the play the descriptor “immaculate” has stuck.
He trapped it
It's important to remember that the guys who were actually on the field do not necessarily remember what *actually* happened. What they remember is what they perceived, what they remembered, but that's not necessarily what *actually happened*. So, if Frenchy thinks the ball hit him, that isn't actually conclusive evidence of anything, at all.
This is the same Pa. region that gave Fetterman his victory.
R.I.P. Franco Harris.😢
A loose allusion to the play being a miracle. Just like the Immaculate Conception.
You can see on the replay that the ball definitely did not hit him.
1:37 it was off the cowboys
My personal opinion the best play of all time
FYI, Immaculate Conception does not refer to the conception of Jesus, it was the Blessed Mother being created without the stain of Original Sin on her soul.
Correct. I noticed that too. False doctrine though.
Me too,was looking for this comment before I added a duplicate one. That is a common misconception.
@@chadsorensen4379 No, it's not. You don't get to decide what is and is not false doctrine.
The Immaculate Deception... NFL vs Al Davis.
The Rule dont apply for interceptions which is Weird
Tatum's fault, should've 'played the ball'
I don't think he knew how.
Baseball has "The Shot Heard Around the World"... Football has "Immaculate Reception"... Hockey has "Miracle on the Ice"... Any others?
Basketball......................Havlicek stole the ball.
Basketball has "Oh God, it's the Warriors and LeBron AGAIN?!"
rip franco great player. imo this is most overated play in nfl history. if the steelers went on to win a super bowl i might agree.they lost to an undefeated miami team next wknd lucky plays happen all the time if a super bowl doesnt come from the play its for nothing
The Immaculate Conception is about the conception of Mary, not Christ.
No way that ball hit frenchy....it hit the Raider for sure....French felt that hit ....not the ball....watch it closely.
Correct! A while ago, I read a long article about the immaculate reception with a bunch of frame-by-frame videos. I was actually surprised, but the irrefutable conclusion was that Frenchy Fuqua NEVER TOUCHED THE BALL! The rebound was 100% off Tatum and even on the way back to Franco, it never contacted Fuqua.
@@TruthSage1 - I think the call on the field was correct, and Tatum clearly hit the ball. But I'm not persuaded by an absolute declaration that Fuqua did not touch the ball at all. He had his hands extended out to attempt a reception, and I have not seen anything in the replays that would allow me to say I'm certain that he never contacted the ball in the slightest on that play. Is it •possible• that he did not touch it at all? Yeah; the videos simply aren't clear enough to be sure that he did touch the ball. But by the same token, they're not clear enough to allow me to be positive he did not touch it.
To be clear, if Tatum contacted the ball - and I don't see how any honest person can watch the videos and not say that they make it clear that he almost certainly did - then whether Fuqua also touched the ball is irrelevant. Under the NFL rule in effect at the time, if Tatum touched the ball before Harris caught it, then it does not matter whether Fuqua also touched the ball - before Tatum, or after him; that makes no difference - or did not touch the ball; in that case, Harris's reception was legal.
@@ColumbiaB Like you, I have not seen any video that showed that Fuqua actually touched the ball. Several years ago, I read a long article with some videos mixed in that appeared convincing to me that Fuqua never touched the ball. As you say, since Tatum clearly did touch the ball, it doesn't matter; to John Madden's chagrin, it was a legal catch.
Agreed
I don’t get why if it touched Frenchy the play wasn’t legal. Was there a rule that said the ball can’t be advanced by a player if it first touched another player? If so, seems like a dumb rule.
Yes there was. The rule was that only the player who first touched the ball on offense could catch it. It probably part of the old rules when the pass was first adopted but changed later.
At the time the rule was two consecutive offensive players could not touch the ball. You couldn't have...say...one offensive receiver tip the ball and another offensive player catch it without a defensive player touching it in between. Saw the play live as it happened back when I was 13 or 14 yrs old.
@@robertglancy4474 so laterals were illegal?
@@stoneylonesome5826 Well, obviously laterals in the backfield QB pitching to a RB were legal. If a receiver caught the ball down field and was running and about to be tackled and pitched it backwards to a teammate to keep the play going I think was a legal play. But the rule was dumb and confusing which is why it was changed. Another rule change involving the Raiders...lol
@@stoneylonesome5826 - No, a lateral had nothing to do with the old rule in question, which pertained only to the completion of a forward pass. A lateral is made only by a player who has possession of the ball, so a player who •receives• a lateral is, by definition, not receiving a forward pass.
The old rule was a little difficult to explain precisely and clearly, and it was easy to mis-state it (which all probably helped persuade the NFL rules committee to dump it, eventually). It provided that when a forward pass passed the line of scrimmage, and was touched by an offensive player, then no •other• offensive player could legally make a reception of that pass . . . EXCEPT that, if a defensive player touched that passed ball any time before a second offensive player touched it, then ALL offensive players became eligible to receive that pass, and •remained• eligible to receive it, throughout the play.
That means that although the old rule is often summarized, "Two offensive players could not touch the pass consecutively," that's not quite right. Two offensive players •could• touch the pass consecutively, with the second making a legal reception, IF a defender had touched the ball before they did.
In this case, that means that if (defender) Tatum contacted Bradshaw's pass, and the rebounding ball then touched (offensive player) Fuqua, before reaching (offensive player) Harris, who caught it, then Harris's catch was a legal reception (even though his teammate Fuqua was the last player to touch the ball before Harris caught it).
It was also a legal reception if Fuqua touched the ball first, •then• Tatum hit the ball, and after that, Harris caught it.
Of course, it was a legal reception if Tatum contacted the passed ball, and it •never• touched Fuqua before Harris's catch. The reception was illegal •only• if Fuqua alone touched the ball before Harris's catch, and Tatum did not contact the ball at all.
So, under the old rule, the one crucial question in this play is whether Tatum touched the passed ball. If he did, then Harris's catch was a legal reception. If he •didn't•, then it wasn't a legal reception. If Tatum touched the ball at all, then whether Fuqua touched it, let alone •when• he touched it (before or after Tatum), is irrelevant.
And thus, getting back to your original question (just to make sure this point is clear), it is NOT correct to say that "if the ball touched Fuqua the reception wasn’t legal." Under the old rule, if the ball touched Fuqua, then Harris's reception was not legal ONLY if the ball did not also touch Tatum.
I've seen better receptions this year like that Jaguars interception of Dak Prescott against the Cowboys.
Did the Jags interception give them their first playoff win in franchise history after being league doormats for forty years? No? Then it wasn't better.
The immaculate conception is incorrectly explained in this video. Come on NFL Films. Do your research.
"The Immaculate Conception is the belief that Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception."
A loose allusion to the play being a miracle. Just like the Immaculate Conception.
No "Theory" about Kennedy! Nice try!
Call it the One in a Billion Dumb Luck play of all time and that's all it was.
Not the time 😭😭
The reason this play is so famous is because there is not one shot that tells you if he caught the ball or not. And it used to be illegal for two offensive players to touch the ball on a pass.
Do your homework, there is PROOF for it, including computer based animations, also the rule says "touching", but this requires HANDS, not body and most of all, it CLEARLY bounced of the helmet of the defensive player ...
No, the old rule (in effect until 1978) said that an offensive player could not make a legal reception if another offense player had touched the ball, EXCEPT that if a defensive player also touched the ball (either before •or• after the first offensive player touched it), then the catch by the second offensive player would be a legal reception.
Accordingly, if Tatum touched the ball on this play, then it does not matter when Fuqua also touched it (or if he touched it at all); Harris was eligible to make a legal reception.
Not if a defensive player touches the ball. The ball bounced off Tatum; at that point, it was irrelevant how many Steelers touched the ball before Harris, because Tatum's deflection negates that rule.
Today he would have been called for targeting, and that would have been the end, Todays NFL is no comparison....
That rule were the two offensive players cannot touch the ball is stupid. That is what is wrong with the NFL. Too many rules. How can you logically tell me that a backwards pass (like in the Music City Miracle* or Cal/Stanford) is okay but a ball unintendedly bouncing backwards is illegal???
*note, I realize the Music City Miracle is controversial in it's own way (and probably a bad example) but let's assume for argument purposes that was a completely legal play. How is that okay but the other is not?
I don't think the old so-called "double-touch" rule for forward passes was a good rule, but arguing that point by relating it to rules on laterals is not persuasive. The double-touch rule had nothing to do with what direction a forward pass traveled - backward, forward, laterally, or straight up or down - after it had been touched. That rule said only that if one offensive player touched a forward pass, it could not then be caught by a •different• offensive player . . . EXCEPT that if a defensive player also touched the ball before that catch, then the reception was legal.
It's not clear why that rule had been written in the first place. It may be that the NFL's rules committee had been trying to prevent gimmicky plays. The rule was abolished in 1978, perhaps because the committee felt it didn't do much good, and perhaps because they had come to the conclusion that it was difficult to enforce accurately.
But in any event, a lateral pass - a throw that doesn't go forward (whether underhand or overhand; the form of the throw is irrelevant to its classification as a forward pass or a lateral pass) - has always been legal in football, from any place on the field. It has absolutely nothing to do with a rule on the reception of a deflected forward pass.
Miracle play or scripted play?
Call it the ball that bounced in the collision...the rest IS BLASPHEMY.
Lol, okay but you're such a Christian you're on a secular video that endorses a violent game.
Clearly does not know the definition of immaculate. And the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of Mary by her mother. In Roman Catholic tradition it is without original sin.
Immaculate Deception.
You're too dense to understand it's been proven as a clean reception?
Any comparison to Zapruder is tasteless.
The ball hit the ground. They never show the actual ball
Only if the ball suddenly lengthened by seven or eight inches. Even Phil VIllipiano, the Raiders linebacker who was closest to the play, told Madden on the sidelines that it was a clean catch by Franco, not a trap.
And it was a Deflection - Not a Reception - so the name has been Wrong for 50 years - it should be: The Immaculate Deflection.
at that timeof football rules, down in Alabama we called them double negatives. the plays over Franco!
Boo @ Gore
Of course the ball hit both of them … it’s not a magic football..
RIP