Classic Clips

There are events that stick out from a sport's past that may have taken place years before you were born, but it can feel like you were there just from the ripples it created throughout that sport's universe. In 1972 "The Immaculate Reception" was one of these events. Talk about winning a game as time runs out, this is one of the most exciting and controversial finishes in NFL history, and it was a playoff game! Bring this up to old time Steelers/Raiders fans and you'll still get a debate about whether this play was legal as back then an NFL rule existed that read : 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.