Fortieth Year Anniversary Of Immaculate Reception

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[medic92]

Raiders got screwed on that call.

 

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"It was immaculate,'' Fuqua said. "I wore a T-shirt to the celebration yesterday that says, 'Immaculate Reception -- I'll never tell.''

Steelers celebrate 'Immaculate Reception' with another monument

 

[Jeff]

Immaculate Deception just as bad as the Snow Job

 

[mud]

Immaculate Deception just as bad as the Snow Job

It's been forty years!!

 

[Roadrunner73]

After all the times I have seen it, I can't tell if it was a legal catch or not. For the younger among us, back then it was an illegal catch if one offensive player touched the pass before another offensive player caught it. Unless a defender touched it in between the touches. Yeah, confusing.

 

[medic92]

After all the times I have seen it, I can't tell if it was a legal catch or not. For the younger among us, back then it was an illegal catch if one offensive player touched the pass before another offensive player caught it. Unless a defender touched it in between the touches. Yeah, confusing.

The fact that Franco Harris won't say a word about it 40 years later tells you all you need to know. He knows it was an illegal catch. I have no dog in the fight other than the fact that the Steelers have at least two Super Bowls that were won as the result of bad officiating.

 

[mud]

I was either out in the Gulf of Tonkin on an aircraft carrier or in a sleazy bar in Olongapo when the catch was made.