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Hail Mary pass

January 31, 2023

A Hail Mary pass is a very long forward pass in American football, typically made in desperation, with an exceptionally small chance of achieving a completion. Due to the difficulty of a completion with this pass, it makes reference to the Catholic "Hail Mary" prayer for strength and help.[1]

Roger Staubach, the thrower of the game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson during an NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings on December 28, 1975

The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, when it was used publicly by Elmer Layden and Jim Crowley, two former members of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish's Four Horsemen. 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 to succeed. For more than 40 years, use of the term was largely confined to Notre Dame and other Catholic universities.[1]

The term became widespread after an NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings on December 28, 1975 (see Cowboys–Vikings rivalry), when Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach said about his game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson, "I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary."[2]

Origins

 
The Catholic-inspired name of the play derives from its early use at Notre Dame and its frequent fusion of religious and football imagery (such as in Touchdown Jesus, pictured above)

Crowley often told the story of a game between Notre Dame and Georgia Tech on October 28, 1922, in which the Fighting Irish players said Hail Mary prayers together before scoring each of the touchdowns, before winning the game 13–3. According to Crowley, it was one of the team's linemen, Noble Kizer (a Presbyterian), who suggested praying before the first touchdown, which occurred on a fourth and goal play at the Georgia Tech 6-yard line during the second quarter. Quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, another of the Horsemen, threw a quick pass over the middle to Paul Castner for the score. The ritual was repeated before a third and goal play, again at Georgia Tech's 6-yard line, in the fourth quarter. This time Stuhldreher ran for a touchdown, which sealed the win for Notre Dame. After the game, Kizer exclaimed to Crowley, "Say, that Hail Mary is the best play we've got." Crowley related this story many times in public speeches beginning in the 1930s.[1]

On November 2, 1935, with 32 seconds left in the so-called "Game of the Century" between Ohio State and Notre Dame, Irish halfback Bill Shakespeare found receiver Wayne Millner for a 19-yard, game-winning touchdown. Notre Dame head coach Elmer Layden, who had played in the 1922 Georgia Tech game, afterwards called it a "Hail Mary" play.[1]

An early appearance of the term was in an Associated Press story about the upcoming 1941 Orange Bowl between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Georgetown Hoyas. The piece appeared in several newspapers including the December 31, 1940, Daytona Beach Morning Journal under the headline, "Orange Bowl: [Georgetown] Hoyas Put Faith in 'Hail Mary' Pass". As the article explained, "A 'hail Mary' pass, in the talk of the Washington eleven, is one that is thrown with a prayer because the odds against completion are big." During an NBC broadcast in 1963, Staubach, then a Navy quarterback, described a pass play during his team's victory over Michigan that year as a "Hail Mary play". He scrambled to escape a pass rush, nearly getting sacked 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage before completing a desperation pass for a one-yard gain.[1]

Examples

See also: List of Hail Marys in American football

Arguably the most memorable and replayed Hail Mary pass came on November 23, 1984, in a game now known as "Hail Flutie".[3] Boston College was trailing Miami (FL) 45–41 with six seconds left, when their quarterback Doug Flutie threw a 63-yard touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan, succeeding primarily because Miami's secondary stood on the goal line to keep the receivers in front of them without covering a post route behind them.

Miami's defense was based on the assumption that the five-foot-nine-inch Flutie could not throw the ball as far as the end zone: instead, Flutie hit Phelan in stride against a flatfooted defense a yard deep in the end zone as time expired.[4] To commemorate the play, a statue of Flutie in his Hail Mary passing pose was unveiled outside Alumni Stadium at Boston College on November 7, 2008.[5]

Other noteworthy examples include:

  • December 19, 1980: Known as "The Miracle Bowl", Brigham Young University (BYU) quarterback Jim McMahon threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to tight end Clay Brown to defeat Southern Methodist University in the 1980 Holiday Bowl 46–45, which completed Brigham Young's comeback from a 45–25 deficit with four minutes remaining.[6]
  • September 24, 1994: Known as the "Miracle at Michigan", Colorado quarterback Kordell Stewart threw a 64-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Michael Westbrook to beat Michigan 27–26. Stewart's pass had traveled 73 yards in the air from the Colorado 26 to the opposite 1-yard line, was tipped by Blake Anderson, then caught by Westbrook four yards deep in the end zone.[7]
  • October 31, 1999: The Cleveland Browns' first win after returning as an expansion team came on a Hail Mary against the New Orleans Saints, when Browns quarterback Tim Couch avoided the Saints pass rush and launched a 56-yard pass that was tipped up in the air and caught by receiver Kevin Johnson near the pylon for a 21–16 Browns victory.
  • November 9, 2002: Known as the "Bluegrass Miracle", Louisiana State University quarterback Marcus Randall threw a 74-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devery Henderson in the game to defeat Kentucky 33–30.[8]
  • December 8, 2002: Three years after his first Hail Mary, Tim Couch won another game with a game-ender against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Couch launched a 50-yard Hail Mary that was caught by Quincy Morgan, and the ensuing extra point gave the Browns a 21–20 win. Although he remains a hotly debated player - due to being picked #1 overall in the 1999 NFL Draft and his injury-plagued career - Tim Couch remains the only NFL player to win two games on game-ending Hail Marys.
  • October 22, 2011: Known as "Rocket", Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Keith Nichol to beat Wisconsin 37–31.[9]
  • November 16, 2013: Known as the "Prayer at Jordan–Hare", Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall threw a 73-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ricardo Louis on fourth-and-18 with 36 seconds left to beat Georgia 43–38.[10] Louis caught the ball after one Georgia defender tipped it away from another.
  • November 10, 2013: With the Baltimore Ravens leading 17–10 on the last play of their game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton launched a 51-yard Hail Mary to the end zone, where a Ravens player tipped the ball in the air directly to A. J. Green for a touchdown. Despite this game-tying score, the Ravens won the game in overtime, 20–17.
  • September 5, 2015: Known as the "Miracle at Memorial", BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum threw a desperate 42-yard pass to wide receiver Mitch Mathews as time expired to defeat Nebraska 33–28 at Memorial Stadium, and break a streak of 29 consecutive home opener victories for the Cornhuskers. Mangum, a freshman just two months removed from a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the backup to senior Taysom Hill, who had left the game earlier with a season-ending Lisfranc injury, and was playing in his first organized football game in nearly four years.[11]
  • December 3, 2015: Known as the "Miracle in Motown", a 15-yard defensive facemask penalty on the Detroit Lions as time expired gave the Green Bay Packers, who had been trailing the entire game, an additional untimed down. Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a 61-yard touchdown pass which left his hand at Green Bay's 35-yard line and was caught four yards into the end zone by tight end Richard Rodgers II to give the Packers a 27–23 win.[12] The total distance of 69 yards is the longest Hail Mary pass in NFL history.
  • January 16, 2016: In the postseason after the Miracle in Motown, Aaron Rodgers completed a second Hail Mary pass: faced with a 4th and 20 on his own 4-yard line and a 20–13 deficit against the Arizona Cardinals in the final minute of the game, Rodgers threw a 60-yard completion to Jeff Janis. On the final play of regulation, he completed a 41-yard touchdown pass to Janis, making Green Bay the first postseason team ever to score a game-tying touchdown on the final play of the 4th quarter. Despite this, Arizona won the game in overtime largely through the efforts of Larry Fitzgerald, who went all the way to the Green Bay 4-yard line on a short pass he caught while wide open before scoring two plays afterwards.[13]
  • September 10, 2016: After Oklahoma State football quarterback Mason Rudolph threw the ball up into the air as time expired, it was ruled intentional grounding: under college football rules, the game should have ended and Oklahoma State should have defeated Central Michigan 27–24. However, both on-field officials (from Central Michigan's home of the Mid-American Conference) and replay officials (from Oklahoma State's home of the Big 12 Conference) missed the call and gave Central Michigan an untimed down. CMU quarterback Cooper Rush threw a 49-yard Hail Mary to receiver Jesse Kroll, who then lateraled to Malik Fountain, who ran it into the end zone to win the game 30–27.[14]
  • October 1, 2016: After a 47-yard touchdown pass with ten seconds remaining on the clock, a Georgia player took off his helmet during the celebration, resulting in a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The kickoff was returned to the Georgia 43-yard line: on the final play, Tennessee QB Joshua Dobbs threw a game-winning touchdown, caught by Juwon Jennings, as time expired to win 34–31.[15]
  • January 8, 2017: In a wildcard playoff game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants, Aaron Rodgers completed a 42-yard pass to Randall Cobb over a crowd of players from both teams on the last play before halftime. This gave Green Bay a 14–6 halftime lead, and they went on to win 38–13.[16]
  • September 16, 2017: In a key Southeastern Conference matchup between the Florida Gators and the Tennessee Volunteers, Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks completed a 63-yard pass to Tyrie Cleveland as time expired to give UF a 26–20 win.[17][18]
  • November 15, 2020: In a week 10 game against the Buffalo Bills, Kyler Murray completed a 43-yard touchdown pass to receiver DeAndre Hopkins in the final seconds of the game. Hopkins caught the ball over three Bills defenders for a touchdown to win the game 32–30.[19]
  • September 17, 2022: During a College GameDay between Appalachian State and Troy, Appalachian State quarterback, Chase Brice, threw a 63 yard pass as time expired to Christan Horn who caught the pass for a touchdown, allowing Appalachian State to win, 32–28.[20][21]

Metaphorical usage in other fields

The term "Hail Mary" is sometimes used to refer to any last-ditch effort with little chance of success.

In military uses, General Norman Schwarzkopf described his strategy during the Persian Gulf War to bypass the bulk of Iraqi forces in Kuwait by attacking in a wide left sweep through their rear as a "Hail Mary" plan. This usage, however, did not refer to the plan's chances of success but to the movement of Coalition forces to the left side of the front lines prior to the attack, which reflected the formation for a Hail Mary pass in which all the offensive team's wide receivers line up on one side of the line of scrimmage.[22][23]

Various legal actions attempting to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in particular the Texas v. Pennsylvania Supreme Court lawsuit, were described as "Hail Marys".[24][25]

There are similar usages in other fields, such as a "Hail Mary shot" in photography where a photographer holds the view finder of an SLR camera away from the eyes (so unable to compose the picture), usually high above the head, and takes a shot. This is often used in crowded situations.[26]

In computer security, a "Hail Mary attack" will throw every exploit it has against a system to see whether any of them work.[27]

When the Pennsylvania Republican Party sold its headquarters in Harrisburg to the Catholic Church, this was described by The New York Times as "a real-life Hail Mary".[28]

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Pope Francis attempts to stop the conflict by consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was called the "Pope's Hail Mary pass".[29]

At the end of the 2022 Xfinity 500 at Martinsville, Ross Chastain's wall-ride move to get the positions he needed to clinch a spot in the Championship 4 was given the name "Hail Melon", combining the name of the football pass play with Chastain's association with watermelons.


See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Ashwill, Gary (October 29, 2010). "Hail Mary". Agate Type. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  2. ^ "Chat Transcript With Roger Staubach". profootballhof.com. Pro Football Hall of Fame. December 8, 2000. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  3. ^ Brown, Scott (September 23, 2008). "The 10 Best College Football Hail Mary passes of the past 30 years". Scott Brown's Sportsbytes. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
  4. ^ "Flutie's Miracle in Miami". November 17, 2006. Retrieved March 12, 2010 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "The Heights 10 November 2008 — Boston College". bc.edu.
  6. ^ "It Was a Super Holiday Bowl". Los Angeles Times. January 13, 1986. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
  7. ^ Schwartz, Larry (November 19, 2003). "Kordell's Hail Mary a "Miracle in Michigan"". ESPN. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Kleinpeter, Jim (November 9, 2012). "Remembering LSU's Bluegrass Miracle on the 10th anniversary". The Times-Picayune. New Orleans. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  9. ^ Staples, Andy (October 23, 2011). "Miracle 'Rocket' boosts Spartans to improbable victory over Badgers". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  10. ^ Prather, Carl (November 16, 2013). "The Prayer at Jordan-Hare! Auburn wins 43–38!". WAFF. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
  11. ^ "'Houk's Hug' adds to BYU's legend of 'Miracle at Memorial'". KSL.
  12. ^ Floyd, Brian (December 4, 2015). "This is how the Lions handed the Packers a game-winning Hail Mary". SB Nation. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  13. ^ Orr, Connor (January 16, 2016). "Cardinals survive Packers' Hail Mary in wild OT win". National Football League. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  14. ^ "Central Michigan stuns No. 17 Oklahoma State on controversial Hail Mary". USA Today. September 10, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
  15. ^ "Tennessee vs. Georgia – Game Recap". ESPN. October 1, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  16. ^ "Aaron Rodgers throws Hail Mary to Randall Cobb vs. Giants". Business Insider. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  17. ^ "Florida beat Tennessee with the most ridiculous Hail Mary touchdown pass". For The Win. September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  18. ^ "Florida vs. Tennessee: Gators win on incredible last-second Hail Mary". Sporting News. September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  19. ^ "Deshaun Watson on DeAndre Hopkins Hail Mary catch: "That's just Hop"".
  20. ^ Donnelly, Patrick (September 17, 2022). "WATCH: App State stuns Troy with Hail Mary on final play". NCAA. Retrieved September 23, 2022.
  21. ^ Evans, Jace (September 17, 2022). "Appalachian State defeats Troy on wild tipped-ball Hail Mary as time expires". USA Today. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
  22. ^ Schwarzkopf's Strategy
  23. ^ Operation Desert Sabre
  24. ^ The Trump legal team's latest voter fraud Hail Mary, Washington Post, November 9, 2020.
  25. ^ Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Join Widely Scorned Texas Election Lawsuit, npr.org, December 9, 2020.
  26. ^ "Hail Mary – and Other Divine Photo Tricks". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
  27. ^ "Metasploit for the Aspiring Hacker, Part 4". Armitage. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  28. ^ Epstein, Reid J. (September 26, 2022). "Mastriano's Sputtering Campaign: No TV Ads, Tiny Crowds, Little Money". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  29. ^ Mickens, Robert (March 19, 2022). "The pope's "Hail Mary" pass". La Croix. Retrieved January 17, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

 
Look up Hail Mary pass in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
  • "In 1975, Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach popularized which football phrase?". Trivia Today.
  • Welter, Ben (June 20, 2016). "Dec. 29, 1975: Drew Pearson's 'Hail Mary' catch". Minneapolis Star Tribune. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
  • . Viking Update. July 20, 2001. Archived from the original on February 16, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
  • . The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
  • Call, Andy. . The Canton Repository. Archived from the original on March 22, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
  • . Fantasy Football Bookmarks. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
  • Blair, Sam (December 29, 1975). . The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
  • Blair, Sam (December 28, 1995). . The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2007.
  • Luska, Frank (December 29, 2000). . The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on September 3, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2007.

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A Hail Mary pass is a very long forward pass in American football typically made in desperation with an exceptionally small chance of achieving a completion Due to the difficulty of a completion with this pass it makes reference to the Catholic Hail Mary prayer for strength and help 1 Roger Staubach the thrower of the game winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson during an NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings on December 28 1975 The expression goes back at least to the 1930s when it was used publicly by Elmer Layden and Jim Crowley two former members of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish s Four Horsemen 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 to succeed For more than 40 years use of the term was largely confined to Notre Dame and other Catholic universities 1 The term became widespread after an NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings on December 28 1975 see Cowboys Vikings rivalry when Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach said about his game winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary 2 Contents 1 Origins 2 Examples 3 Metaphorical usage in other fields 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksOrigins Edit The Catholic inspired name of the play derives from its early use at Notre Dame and its frequent fusion of religious and football imagery such as in Touchdown Jesus pictured above Crowley often told the story of a game between Notre Dame and Georgia Tech on October 28 1922 in which the Fighting Irish players said Hail Mary prayers together before scoring each of the touchdowns before winning the game 13 3 According to Crowley it was one of the team s linemen Noble Kizer a Presbyterian who suggested praying before the first touchdown which occurred on a fourth and goal play at the Georgia Tech 6 yard line during the second quarter Quarterback Harry Stuhldreher another of the Horsemen threw a quick pass over the middle to Paul Castner for the score The ritual was repeated before a third and goal play again at Georgia Tech s 6 yard line in the fourth quarter This time Stuhldreher ran for a touchdown which sealed the win for Notre Dame After the game Kizer exclaimed to Crowley Say that Hail Mary is the best play we ve got Crowley related this story many times in public speeches beginning in the 1930s 1 On November 2 1935 with 32 seconds left in the so called Game of the Century between Ohio State and Notre Dame Irish halfback Bill Shakespeare found receiver Wayne Millner for a 19 yard game winning touchdown Notre Dame head coach Elmer Layden who had played in the 1922 Georgia Tech game afterwards called it a Hail Mary play 1 An early appearance of the term was in an Associated Press story about the upcoming 1941 Orange Bowl between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Georgetown Hoyas The piece appeared in several newspapers including the December 31 1940 Daytona Beach Morning Journal under the headline Orange Bowl Georgetown Hoyas Put Faith in Hail Mary Pass As the article explained A hail Mary pass in the talk of the Washington eleven is one that is thrown with a prayer because the odds against completion are big During an NBC broadcast in 1963 Staubach then a Navy quarterback described a pass play during his team s victory over Michigan that year as a Hail Mary play He scrambled to escape a pass rush nearly getting sacked 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage before completing a desperation pass for a one yard gain 1 Examples EditSee also List of Hail Marys in American football Arguably the most memorable and replayed Hail Mary pass came on November 23 1984 in a game now known as Hail Flutie 3 Boston College was trailing Miami FL 45 41 with six seconds left when their quarterback Doug Flutie threw a 63 yard touchdown pass to Gerard Phelan succeeding primarily because Miami s secondary stood on the goal line to keep the receivers in front of them without covering a post route behind them Miami s defense was based on the assumption that the five foot nine inch Flutie could not throw the ball as far as the end zone instead Flutie hit Phelan in stride against a flatfooted defense a yard deep in the end zone as time expired 4 To commemorate the play a statue of Flutie in his Hail Mary passing pose was unveiled outside Alumni Stadium at Boston College on November 7 2008 5 Other noteworthy examples include December 19 1980 Known as The Miracle Bowl Brigham Young University BYU quarterback Jim McMahon threw a 41 yard touchdown pass to tight end Clay Brown to defeat Southern Methodist University in the 1980 Holiday Bowl 46 45 which completed Brigham Young s comeback from a 45 25 deficit with four minutes remaining 6 September 24 1994 Known as the Miracle at Michigan Colorado quarterback Kordell Stewart threw a 64 yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Michael Westbrook to beat Michigan 27 26 Stewart s pass had traveled 73 yards in the air from the Colorado 26 to the opposite 1 yard line was tipped by Blake Anderson then caught by Westbrook four yards deep in the end zone 7 October 31 1999 The Cleveland Browns first win after returning as an expansion team came on a Hail Mary against the New Orleans Saints when Browns quarterback Tim Couch avoided the Saints pass rush and launched a 56 yard pass that was tipped up in the air and caught by receiver Kevin Johnson near the pylon for a 21 16 Browns victory November 9 2002 Known as the Bluegrass Miracle Louisiana State University quarterback Marcus Randall threw a 74 yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Devery Henderson in the game to defeat Kentucky 33 30 8 December 8 2002 Three years after his first Hail Mary Tim Couch won another game with a game ender against the Jacksonville Jaguars Couch launched a 50 yard Hail Mary that was caught by Quincy Morgan and the ensuing extra point gave the Browns a 21 20 win Although he remains a hotly debated player due to being picked 1 overall in the 1999 NFL Draft and his injury plagued career Tim Couch remains the only NFL player to win two games on game ending Hail Marys October 22 2011 Known as Rocket Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins threw a 44 yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Keith Nichol to beat Wisconsin 37 31 9 November 16 2013 Known as the Prayer at Jordan Hare Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall threw a 73 yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ricardo Louis on fourth and 18 with 36 seconds left to beat Georgia 43 38 10 Louis caught the ball after one Georgia defender tipped it away from another November 10 2013 With the Baltimore Ravens leading 17 10 on the last play of their game against the Cincinnati Bengals Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton launched a 51 yard Hail Mary to the end zone where a Ravens player tipped the ball in the air directly to A J Green for a touchdown Despite this game tying score the Ravens won the game in overtime 20 17 September 5 2015 Known as the Miracle at Memorial BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum threw a desperate 42 yard pass to wide receiver Mitch Mathews as time expired to defeat Nebraska 33 28 at Memorial Stadium and break a streak of 29 consecutive home opener victories for the Cornhuskers Mangum a freshman just two months removed from a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was the backup to senior Taysom Hill who had left the game earlier with a season ending Lisfranc injury and was playing in his first organized football game in nearly four years 11 December 3 2015 Known as the Miracle in Motown a 15 yard defensive facemask penalty on the Detroit Lions as time expired gave the Green Bay Packers who had been trailing the entire game an additional untimed down Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a 61 yard touchdown pass which left his hand at Green Bay s 35 yard line and was caught four yards into the end zone by tight end Richard Rodgers II to give the Packers a 27 23 win 12 The total distance of 69 yards is the longest Hail Mary pass in NFL history January 16 2016 In the postseason after the Miracle in Motown Aaron Rodgers completed a second Hail Mary pass faced with a 4th and 20 on his own 4 yard line and a 20 13 deficit against the Arizona Cardinals in the final minute of the game Rodgers threw a 60 yard completion to Jeff Janis On the final play of regulation he completed a 41 yard touchdown pass to Janis making Green Bay the first postseason team ever to score a game tying touchdown on the final play of the 4th quarter Despite this Arizona won the game in overtime largely through the efforts of Larry Fitzgerald who went all the way to the Green Bay 4 yard line on a short pass he caught while wide open before scoring two plays afterwards 13 September 10 2016 After Oklahoma State football quarterback Mason Rudolph threw the ball up into the air as time expired it was ruled intentional grounding under college football rules the game should have ended and Oklahoma State should have defeated Central Michigan 27 24 However both on field officials from Central Michigan s home of the Mid American Conference and replay officials from Oklahoma State s home of the Big 12 Conference missed the call and gave Central Michigan an untimed down CMU quarterback Cooper Rush threw a 49 yard Hail Mary to receiver Jesse Kroll who then lateraled to Malik Fountain who ran it into the end zone to win the game 30 27 14 October 1 2016 After a 47 yard touchdown pass with ten seconds remaining on the clock a Georgia player took off his helmet during the celebration resulting in a 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty The kickoff was returned to the Georgia 43 yard line on the final play Tennessee QB Joshua Dobbs threw a game winning touchdown caught by Juwon Jennings as time expired to win 34 31 15 January 8 2017 In a wildcard playoff game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants Aaron Rodgers completed a 42 yard pass to Randall Cobb over a crowd of players from both teams on the last play before halftime This gave Green Bay a 14 6 halftime lead and they went on to win 38 13 16 September 16 2017 In a key Southeastern Conference matchup between the Florida Gators and the Tennessee Volunteers Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks completed a 63 yard pass to Tyrie Cleveland as time expired to give UF a 26 20 win 17 18 November 15 2020 In a week 10 game against the Buffalo Bills Kyler Murray completed a 43 yard touchdown pass to receiver DeAndre Hopkins in the final seconds of the game Hopkins caught the ball over three Bills defenders for a touchdown to win the game 32 30 19 September 17 2022 During a College GameDay between Appalachian State and Troy Appalachian State quarterback Chase Brice threw a 63 yard pass as time expired to Christan Horn who caught the pass for a touchdown allowing Appalachian State to win 32 28 20 21 Metaphorical usage in other fields EditThe term Hail Mary is sometimes used to refer to any last ditch effort with little chance of success In military uses General Norman Schwarzkopf described his strategy during the Persian Gulf War to bypass the bulk of Iraqi forces in Kuwait by attacking in a wide left sweep through their rear as a Hail Mary plan This usage however did not refer to the plan s chances of success but to the movement of Coalition forces to the left side of the front lines prior to the attack which reflected the formation for a Hail Mary pass in which all the offensive team s wide receivers line up on one side of the line of scrimmage 22 23 Various legal actions attempting to overturn Donald Trump s defeat in the 2020 U S presidential election in particular the Texas v Pennsylvania Supreme Court lawsuit were described as Hail Marys 24 25 There are similar usages in other fields such as a Hail Mary shot in photography where a photographer holds the view finder of an SLR camera away from the eyes so unable to compose the picture usually high above the head and takes a shot This is often used in crowded situations 26 In computer security a Hail Mary attack will throw every exploit it has against a system to see whether any of them work 27 When the Pennsylvania Republican Party sold its headquarters in Harrisburg to the Catholic Church this was described by The New York Times as a real life Hail Mary 28 After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 Pope Francis attempts to stop the conflict by consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was called the Pope s Hail Mary pass 29 At the end of the 2022 Xfinity 500 at Martinsville Ross Chastain s wall ride move to get the positions he needed to clinch a spot in the Championship 4 was given the name Hail Melon combining the name of the football pass play with Chastain s association with watermelons See also EditLateral pass another football strategy that is similar in that it is generally only used in desperation by the losing team on the very last play Gambit List of Hail Mary passes in American football List of sports idioms NFL playoffs 1975 76 Aaron Rodgers Cowboys Vikings rivalry Buzzer beater similar application in basketballReferences Edit a b c d e Ashwill Gary October 29 2010 Hail Mary Agate Type Retrieved April 7 2012 Chat Transcript With Roger Staubach profootballhof com Pro Football Hall of Fame December 8 2000 Retrieved December 4 2019 Brown Scott September 23 2008 The 10 Best College Football Hail Mary passes of the past 30 years Scott Brown s Sportsbytes Retrieved November 27 2013 Flutie s Miracle in Miami November 17 2006 Retrieved March 12 2010 via YouTube The Heights 10 November 2008 Boston College bc edu It Was a Super Holiday Bowl Los Angeles Times January 13 1986 Retrieved November 27 2013 Schwartz Larry November 19 2003 Kordell s Hail Mary a Miracle in Michigan ESPN Retrieved 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