How the Immaculate Reception was Captured | NFL Films Presents

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Komentáře • 84

  • @andre1987eph
    @andre1987eph Před rokem +56

    As a a still photographer and fan of NFL since ‘68, I got goosebumps watching this. Their talent was something to marvel at. This is nothing short of masterful art.

  • @connorestes9814
    @connorestes9814 Před rokem +29

    beautiful vid. as so often, the real MVP is clearly NFL Films.

  • @ronaldpoole3273
    @ronaldpoole3273 Před rokem +3

    When I think of perfection, I think of NFL Films

  • @BobDog72
    @BobDog72 Před 8 měsíci

    We fans of the Pittsburgh Steeler are so passionate about the game the players coaches and owners we take it to heart. The Rooney family said we own the Steelers but the Steelers belong to the fans.

  • @spencerbacon
    @spencerbacon Před 9 měsíci +1

    Man I miss the look of film. Those shots in Pittsburgh for the 50th anniversary looks awesome.

  • @Kirbybros1
    @Kirbybros1 Před rokem +8

    One of the most crazy Game winners of all time!!

  • @virginianative847
    @virginianative847 Před 8 měsíci +1

    RIP Franco, I started as Steelers fan with my first fav player kordell, but I didn’t really take the game serious until Big Bens rookie year. But being Steelers fan is like getting PHD in football you have to learn the history watch all the NFL films stuff on the steel curtain. It’s awesome!

  • @victorianidetch
    @victorianidetch Před 9 měsíci +1

    Franco Harris and Ernie Ernst, may their memories always bring a blessing.

  • @zarcoivanambriz9505
    @zarcoivanambriz9505 Před rokem +24

    I was blessed to meet the legend out of all places in Colorado at the rusty bucket. RIP

  • @roccodemaro4305
    @roccodemaro4305 Před rokem +5

    The shots from that camera on the Immaculate Reception’s 50th anniversary looked great! Wonderful piece of equipment, and a job well done from Hank!

    • @scotey
      @scotey Před 7 měsíci

      Yeah, the old cameras have way more character, I think. I imagine NFL Films could no longer justify the cost and workflow of film, but those old Arriflexes delivered such a wonderful storytelling look. The Arris Amiras are clean but lack soul.

  • @davefarrar7435
    @davefarrar7435 Před 9 měsíci +1

    I watched live on TV and was in Three Rivers for the 20th Anniversary and this randomly showed up on my CZcams page. THANK YOU for a great little film!

  • @teresatanasi5143
    @teresatanasi5143 Před rokem +3

    Franco Harris was a really nice guy.Down to earth and always had time for his fans. This was the Steelers of that era. They were decent as hell to their fans and always good for the community.

  • @zackhicks5320
    @zackhicks5320 Před rokem +4

    He got some great shots in that last game too

  • @iplayoldschoolrunescape
    @iplayoldschoolrunescape Před rokem +39

    Did we just gloss over the fact that the guy filming (hank) just said hes 73, he can still drive, walk and looks like in great physical health. I hope to be that mobile at his age. Man doesnt even look his age.

    • @CamDavelle
      @CamDavelle Před rokem +4

      That’s what happens when u do what u love for a living

    • @heyheyhey33351
      @heyheyhey33351 Před rokem +2

      Being able to walk and drive at 73 is not too out-of-the-ordinary 😂 But he does look good for his age.

    • @iplayoldschoolrunescape
      @iplayoldschoolrunescape Před rokem +1

      @@heyheyhey33351 ive seen people at 60 can barely walk, on a wheelchair, look like theyre about to die the next day

    • @formermpc10
      @formermpc10 Před 8 měsíci +1

      He rolled through the stop sign though.

    • @untexan
      @untexan Před 5 měsíci

      Not so much with the telephoto lens, it’s too big, but these guys haul their own gear and run up and down the field all game long. They have to be in top shape.

  • @bigsnap5
    @bigsnap5 Před rokem +15

    I love NFL Films.

  • @jamauldarden1211
    @jamauldarden1211 Před rokem +11

    I'm glad to see the background heroes get their praises. Thank you Mr. Hank and rih Mr. Ernie and legendary Franco💐🙏🏿

  • @jongouger2359
    @jongouger2359 Před rokem +9

    Absolutely beautiful video

  • @xXkatchillaXx
    @xXkatchillaXx Před rokem +22

    6:15 The actual film recording looks spectacular, better than the modern digital recording.

  • @ThePlatinumEagle
    @ThePlatinumEagle Před rokem +3

    This camera gives the Alexas a run for their money. Spectacular footage

    • @bonbibonkerz
      @bonbibonkerz Před rokem +2

      its crazy that NFL Films have been using ARRI cameras from way back until now, Arriflexes to the AMIRA and the images are stunning. imagine if they use the Alexas and shoot at 4k

  • @formermpc10
    @formermpc10 Před 8 měsíci +2

    No mention of the fact that this isn't the stadium where the Immaculate Reception took place!
    The Immaculate Reception happened in Three Rivers Stadium, which was imploded in 2001 with millions of dollars in outstanding debt still owed.

  • @maureenmckenna5220
    @maureenmckenna5220 Před rokem +1

    John Madden, the best. The camera work, superb.

  • @teresatanasi5143
    @teresatanasi5143 Před rokem +1

    My father was there. Miss him so much.

  • @watchmykicksllc
    @watchmykicksllc Před rokem +3

    Dude id love to see more clips from these cameras (preferably the Steelers) and or just for of these kind of vids! Ps come back to pittsburgh with that camera in 2024/2025 season we are going to the bowl! I’m calling it

  • @lowerclassbrats77
    @lowerclassbrats77 Před rokem +5

    I miss John Madden's nonsense, it represented a more innocent time. I'm so happy I could live through a time he commentated on games and made them fun.

  • @NY-Vice
    @NY-Vice Před rokem +11

    This is awesome, I always enjoy learning about NFL history. Thank you NFL films I hope you make similar videos in the future.

  • @dancolonna6590
    @dancolonna6590 Před rokem +2

    Need more stuff like this

  • @normancarter5419
    @normancarter5419 Před rokem +2

    Remember, without the SABOL Family, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN AS GOOD, OR EVEN HAPPENED.

  • @HunterOak1998
    @HunterOak1998 Před rokem +3

    they should film more games like this, awesome to see

  • @scott1564
    @scott1564 Před 5 měsíci

    Cool story. I shoot (digital) video now but used to shoot film stills, including sports, back in the day. Legacy equipment is something special. I held on to my Hasselblad gear as long as I could until it was nothing much more than taking up space in the closet.

  • @VGHistory1
    @VGHistory1 Před rokem +3

    Immaculate Deception, thank you.

  • @PrettygirlMisha
    @PrettygirlMisha Před 11 měsíci

    Im crying 😢

  • @johnmongani5223
    @johnmongani5223 Před 25 dny

    this video should be titled "how NFL films blew filming the Immaculate Reception". There's no view of the ball, Franco and the turf so there's no way to know if it was a legal catch. Franco refused to say if he caught it clean which pretty much says it touched the ground or that he trapped the ball and it was a no catch. Thus the Raiders won the game 7-6 on Ken Stablers Immaculate 30 yard TD run through the Steelers porous "Rusty Curtain" defense. lol.

  • @mn8886
    @mn8886 Před rokem +2

    This guy doesn’t seem 73 tbh, dude seems like he’s 50

  • @joemarucci3917
    @joemarucci3917 Před rokem +3

    The controversy over this play was not about a trap.
    It was about who touched the pass from Bradshaw. Back in the 70s a Offensive player could not catch a ball off another offensive player. The ball needed to be touched by a Defensive player 1st before Franco could catch it.
    Absolutely nothing about a trap, and all about a potential illegal touch.
    They ruled in Pittsburgh s favor.
    Game over, history was made.

    • @KillStealPro
      @KillStealPro Před rokem +3

      Actually, there is some controversy regarding whether or not it was a trap. It’s covered in most shorts and documentaries about the play. However, what you’re talking about is generally considered the bigger question about the play.

    • @ColumbiaB
      @ColumbiaB Před rokem +3

      To be clear, that doesn't mean that the first player (beyond the line of scrimmage) to touch the pass had to be a defender, if an offensive player who made the reception was not the first to touch the pass.
      The old NFL rule (in effect till 1978), provided that if an offensive player touched a pass beyond the line of scrimmage, then he was the only player eligible to receive the pass - EXCEPT that if a defender touched it before a second offensive player touched the ball, then ALL offensive players became eligible to receive the pass, and remained eligible throughout that play. And it didn't matter what the sequence was: a defender could touch the ball, then one offensive player could touch it, and a second offensive player could then make a legal reception; OR, it could go, first offensive touch, then defender touch, and then legal reception by second offensive player. (And if a defender and one offensive player touched the ball •simultaneously•, a legal reception could likewise be made by a second offensive player.)
      So you often see people arguing about whether Tatum touched the ball first, and then Fuqua, before Harris caught it, or whether Fuqua touched it first, and then Tatum. But if both of them touched the ball, the order in which they contacted it is irrelevant. The only question relevant to the old so-called "double-touch" rule is, did Tatum touch the ball at •all•? If Tatum did touch it, then that absolutely settles it: Harris was eligible to make a legal reception of the pass.
      Only if Fuqua ALONE touched the ball, and Tatum never contacted it at all, was Harris's reception illegal under the old rule.

    • @formermpc10
      @formermpc10 Před 8 měsíci

      Wrong.
      If it was clear that Harris had trapped the ball and the refs weren't too chicken to call it, the pass would have been an incomplete pass and the Raiders would have won.
      So Harris' reception (trap or not) is huge.

    • @joemarucci3917
      @joemarucci3917 Před 8 měsíci

      @@ColumbiaB you answered your own question and destroyed your whole point..this game was in 74-75??
      Trust me I know bc I was following football back then n just like you said..b4 1978.. only the 1 offensive player could catch the ball that HE TIPPED...The only way another offensive player could touch the ball was AFTER a Defensive player touched it.
      Please prove that BOTH touched it simultaneously!! There's never been proof of the simulation..
      Again my point is that CONTROVERSIAL PART OF THIS WAS NOT TRAPPING THE BALL, THAT WAS CLEAR AS DAY.. IT'S THE SO CALLED SIMULATION.

  • @BrendanGeormer
    @BrendanGeormer Před rokem +4

    That guy is 73?!

    • @ilLMAOh
      @ilLMAOh Před rokem +1

      Bro looks like he's 43, like how in the hell.

  • @GhOstKLuTcH1463
    @GhOstKLuTcH1463 Před 9 měsíci +1

    shoutout pops.

  • @LIE11Bldg7
    @LIE11Bldg7 Před rokem

    GREAT !!!!
    JUST WENT THROUGH A BOX OF TISSUE
    THANKS A LOT 😢😁😁

  • @francisfarias104
    @francisfarias104 Před rokem +1

    Because the NFL Films don't have subtitles in Portuguese and Spanish? People who speak other languages ​​deserved access to this content.

  • @ThankGodImBlack370
    @ThankGodImBlack370 Před 29 dny

    Was that a compact disk in that camera?

  • @randyhanson4973
    @randyhanson4973 Před rokem +6

    After repeatedly viewing the play over and over again from the endzone camera (it takes about 10-15 minutes of continuous viewing in order to train your eye) I can clearly see beyond any reasonable doubt exactly what happened. As the ball approached, Tatum was reaching his hands out going for the interception while at the same moment Fuqua was reaching his arms out going for the reception. I don’t believe either player saw each other as they were both playing the ball. Just a split second second before they collided you can clearly see that the ball deflected off Fuqua’s reached out left and then ricocheted off of Tatum’s helmet into the hands of Franco. Instead of a TD it should have been an illegal touching penalty on the Steelers. The team that benefited the most from this play were Miami Dolphins who didn’t have to face the Raiders in the AFC championship game where their perfect season very likely could have ended.

    • @giantsr1eva
      @giantsr1eva Před rokem +3

      @Randy Hanson
      If the ball touched Tatum which is true, then it is a legal catch by Franco Harris. You could have multiple players touching the ball if it hit a defender.

    • @randyhanson4973
      @randyhanson4973 Před rokem

      @@giantsr1eva I was under the impression that the rule in 72 was that once the ball hit an offensive player first then only a defender could intercept the ball. In 73 or 74 the rule was modified to the interpretation that you just explained. It was only a couple years later that they done away with the rule altogether

    • @ColumbiaB
      @ColumbiaB Před rokem +1

      @@randyhanson4973 - No, the rule was never modified, until it was eliminated in 1978. And giantsr1eva states that old "double-touch" rule correctly. If a defender touched a pass before more than one offensive player had touched it, then •all• offensive players became eligible to receive it, and remained eligible throughout that play. Which is to say, all these sequences led to a •legal• reception under the old rule:
      • Defender touch, to offensive player catch;
      • Defender touch, to first offensive player touch, to second offensive player catch; and
      • First offensive player touch, to defender touch, to second offensive player catch.
      What you described - the pass first hits Fuqua's hand, then bounces off Tatum's helmet, and finally is caught by Harris - would absolutely have been a legal reception under the old rule.
      And, to be clear, if (for argument's sake), the ball first hit Tatum, then touched Fuqua as it bounced back toward Harris, then Harris's reception •still• was legal under the old rule.
      Only if Fuqua ALONE touched the ball, and Tatum never contacted it at all, was Harris's reception illegal under the pre-1978 rule.

  • @jeremycrandall2899
    @jeremycrandall2899 Před rokem +1

    It was not a trap. There’s video from the original nbc telecast that shows that it was clearly a catch.

    • @davidwormell6609
      @davidwormell6609 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Agreed. From a Raider fan.

    • @jeremycrandall2899
      @jeremycrandall2899 Před 10 měsíci

      @@davidwormell6609 yeah, I think that even John Madden finally agreed it was a catch after seeing the NBC footage for the first time like 30 years later.

  • @robertbranco1126
    @robertbranco1126 Před měsícem

    Only question why no film of turf and ball on that play you never see it always cut off ..

  • @brendanbugala8774
    @brendanbugala8774 Před rokem

    Rest in peace Franco Harris 🙏

  • @Emiliano-Oseguera
    @Emiliano-Oseguera Před rokem

    Wow

  • @williampalchak7574
    @williampalchak7574 Před 6 měsíci

    A catch.

  • @James-pe1ky
    @James-pe1ky Před 14 dny

    If number 20 had not celebrated after the deflection by Tatum, he would have been able to tackle or push Franco out of bounds forcing a long FG attempt in bad weather conditions and the Raiders would have won. But he celebrated with time still on the clock, a split second that changed the course of Steeler history. Didn’t Yogi Berra say “it ain’t over till it’s over”, why celebrate? The play wasn’t dead, the officials hadn’t even signaled the play was over. Also it looks like Franco got both hands under the ball on the catch, the top of his hands may have been on the turf but the ball never touched the ground. If the ball did hit the ground, at that momentum, he would not have been able to catch, yet alone stabilize the ball all in one stride, no way. The speed at which he was moving and the ball converging at him infers he caught it with hands above ground.

  • @scottyleitch3214
    @scottyleitch3214 Před 5 měsíci

    both were recorded on film - can someone explain the very obvious difference in quality? the modern footage against the raiders looks great, a little too great! was it cleaned? digitally enhanced in post? am I alone in thinking....where is the grit?

    • @arjunfischer4972
      @arjunfischer4972 Před 4 měsíci +1

      I was the director on this short (not the cinematographer so take this with a grain of salt) but imo two big differences: film stocks are better now, and the stadium lights provide much much more light (it's hard to shoot low light on old cameras because of the aperture so the bright LEDs at new stadiums lead to a super different look.)

    • @scottyleitch3214
      @scottyleitch3214 Před 4 měsíci

      thank you! for responding@@arjunfischer4972

  • @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide
    @TeddyBelcher4kultrawide Před rokem +1

    The Army is there in a special wing of the Hall of Fame 24 hours a day so you can sleep at night

  • @meganmeynier5641
    @meganmeynier5641 Před 6 měsíci

    Raiders

  • @rjmstunts3716
    @rjmstunts3716 Před rokem +10

    Eagles gonna win the super bowl

    • @connorestes9814
      @connorestes9814 Před rokem +1

      nah y’all getting shmoked by mahomes 🤣🤣🤣

    • @rjmstunts3716
      @rjmstunts3716 Před rokem +1

      @@connorestes9814 nah it jalen hurts this time no patrick balony

    • @gregoriopalofuego9808
      @gregoriopalofuego9808 Před 8 měsíci

      RJ~
      You heard it from me first. Remember my prediction- and reflect after the Super Bowl, that I was right- - -
      *Miami Dolphins*
      🥂

  • @brianbelden2449
    @brianbelden2449 Před rokem +1

    When is the NFL going to capture its problem with GAME RIGGING?

    • @KingEdwardMMVIII
      @KingEdwardMMVIII Před rokem +1

      NFL isn't game rigging. It's incompetent officiating. The league needs to make them full time.

  • @dontaskrad
    @dontaskrad Před rokem +2

    1st

  • @seethat7704
    @seethat7704 Před rokem +1

    It's more like how it wasn't captured.

  • @hecheflix6331
    @hecheflix6331 Před rokem +1

    Hate to be that guy…but he kinda botched that shot 🤣🤣

  • @romanmuller3016
    @romanmuller3016 Před rokem +3

    eh

  • @user-rn6lb6qj7y
    @user-rn6lb6qj7y Před rokem +3

    It was just a fluke of a "catch". They didn't even get to, led alone win it that year. So it didn't matter. 😂

    • @logana6801
      @logana6801 Před rokem

      lmaooo found the salty raiders fan with zero brain cells