If you guys know me, you know I couldn't give a shit about football (as it's played today) if I tried, but back in the70's?
I was all about the Steelers...
I was all about the Steelers...
Franco Harris died yesterday two days short of the 50th anniversary of the 'Immaculate Reception'. This is a link to the best video I could find of the actual broadcast - just click on this picture and it'll take you to YouTube:
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Juss' so ya know...
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I remember that catch that beat my Raiders.
ReplyDeleteI was actually watching that game as it happened. I was 9 years old and loved the NFL back then -- living in S. Florida, a big Dolphins fan. Unfortunately the NFL has fallen to wokeness . . . I would hav enever believed that one day the NFL would active support homosexuality; now if call if the National Faggot Lovers League
ReplyDeleteThat was something!
ReplyDeleteFranco Harris was a good football player. Sad to here he passed. But I am sure I will here that more as time moves on.
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot of controversy whether this bounced off the receiver in black and yellow and so was an incomplete reception, or bounced off the defender in white, and so was legitimate for Harris to catch if he could grab it before it hit the ground. Looking at that tape, it bounced back really, really fast at 180 degrees, and I think that settles it as a live ball. I don't think it could have bounced so hard or in that exact direction if it had bounced off the receiver, who was running cross-field. Only a head-on bounce off the defender who was running up-field could have sent it to Harris, 8 yards behind the action. (According to Wikipedia, experiments run many years later confirmed this; if it had been the receiver, the ball could have bounced back only 10 to 15 feet before hitting the ground, and a ground bounce so far from Harris would have shown clearly on the tape.)
ReplyDeleteThe one other question is whether it hit the ground just before Harris caught it. None of the angles I've seen taped can completely rule that out, but none of them show a bounce, Harris reaching all the way to the dirt, or Harris reacting like he knew it was a dead ball but decided to fake it like it was live.