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• HAIL MARY FOOTBALL PACKERS GIANTS FULL

Sometimes, Staubach wonders how history would be different if he hadn’t looked off the safety, or thrown the perfect pass, or if he had told the reporter he said Our Father or Glory Be.

HAIL MARY FOOTBALL PACKERS GIANTS FULL

He meant the prayer, as in, “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.”

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 Mary” before he launched. Rodgers, a football historian and Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, is right, of course. I used to watch highlights like that on old VHS tapes.” The striking thing was that Rodgers and the Packers had pulled that play off again.Īfter the crowd dispersed, Rodgers leaned back in his locker, and I asked him if he knew how the football term “Hail Mary” came to be. The most outrageous thing wasn’t that the play worked as Green Bay had intended, even if the odds involved there fall somewhere between winning the lottery and dating a swimsuit model. Rodgers last made the impossible look easy the previous weekend, with a 42-yard Hail Mary he snuck beyond a pack of Giants defenders to wideout Randall Cobb in the final seconds of the first half. The topic du jour is the Hail Mary, and how the Packers have completed three of them under Rodgers in a span of 402 days-a rate (60%) that is higher than overall completion percentage for some NFL quarterbacks. Instead, the questions revolve around a play that ranks among the most thrilling in sports and the most unlikely in football: A last-gasp, desperation heave thrown into a crowded end zone where the chance of conversion is so improbable the successful version is named after a prayer. It’s not the Dallas Cowboys, who host Green Bay in a divisional playoff game this Sunday, their rookie quarterback sensation Dak Prescott, or even the Packers’ seven-game win streak. Most settle around the locker of Aaron Rodgers, the Packers’ cerebral quarterback, and while the questions vary slightly, one topic dominates all others. A crowd of reporters marches into the Packers locker room on Wednesday, armed with notepads, microphones and recorders.