After Lions’ defensive end Devin Taylor extended the game with a 15-yard facemask penalty against Aaron Rodgers at the Packers’ 24-yard line, Rodgers’ and tight end Richard Rodgers connected on a 61-yard Hail Mary, which remains the longest Hail Mary in NFL history. Hail Mary thus became ingrained in the American sports lexicon, but the term was used decades earlier. What is the longest Hail Mary pass in NFL history? In 1975, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach popularized the term Hail Mary to describe his miracle, winning touchdown pass to fellow Pro Football Hall of Famer Drew Pearson in a playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings. It’s the “Hail Mary” pass, a term coined 39 years ago Sunday, when Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach heaved a 50-yard, desperation pass for Drew Pearson with 24 seconds left in an NFL divisional playoff game at Minnesota. It’s the most exciting play in football, and it rarely works. Staubach, then the Cowboys’ quarterback, did connect with Pearson for a game-winning score in the 1975 playoffs, and he did tell a reporter afterward that he had closed his eyes and said a Hail. Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a Hail Mary pass gradually came to denote a long, low-probability pass, typically of the “alley-oop” variety, attempted at the end of a half when a team is too far from the end zone to execute a more conventional play, implying that it would take a miracle for the play … Who coined the phrase Hail Mary in football?Ģ8, 1975.
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