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Due to the difficulty of a completion with this pass, it makes reference to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> "<a href="/wiki/Hail_Mary" title="Hail Mary">Hail Mary</a>" prayer for strength and help.<a href="#cite_note-Ashwill-1">[1]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg/220px-Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg/330px-Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg/440px-Staubach_cowboys_qb.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1278" data-file-height="1600"></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Roger_Staubach" title="Roger Staubach">Roger Staubach</a>, the thrower of the game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Drew_Pearson_(American_football)" title="Drew Pearson (American football)">Drew Pearson</a> during an <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> playoff game between the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> on December 28, 1975</figcaption></figure> The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, when it was used publicly by <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Layden" title="Elmer Layden">Elmer Layden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Crowley" title="Jim Crowley">Jim Crowley</a>, two former members of the <a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football" title="Notre Dame Fighting Irish football">Notre Dame Fighting Irish</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Four Horsemen (football)">Four Horsemen</a>. Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a Hail Mary pass gradually came to denote a long, low-probability pass, typically of the "<a href="/wiki/Alley-oop_(American_football)" title="Alley-oop (American football)">alley-oop</a>" 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.<a href="#cite_note-Ashwill-1">[1]</a> The term became widespread after an <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> playoff game between the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Cowboys" title="Dallas Cowboys">Dallas Cowboys</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Vikings" title="Minnesota Vikings">Minnesota Vikings</a> on December 28, 1975 (see <a href="/wiki/Cowboys%E2%80%93Vikings_rivalry" title="Cowboys–Vikings rivalry">Cowboys–Vikings rivalry</a>), when Cowboys quarterback <a href="/wiki/Roger_Staubach" title="Roger Staubach">Roger Staubach</a> said about his game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Drew_Pearson_(American_football)" title="Drew Pearson (American football)">Drew Pearson</a>, "I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary."<a href="#cite_note-profootballhof1-2">[2]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Origins">1 Origins</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Examples">2 Examples</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Metaphorical_usage_in_other_fields">3 Metaphorical usage in other fields</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also">4 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#References">5 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#External_links">6 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Hail_Mary_pass&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG/200px-University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="321" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1586" data-file-height="2544"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 200px;height: 321px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG/200px-University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG" data-width="200" data-height="321" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG/300px-University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG/400px-University_of_Notre_Dame%27s_Hesburgh_Library.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a>-inspired name of the play derives from its early use at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame" title="University of Notre Dame">University of Notre Dame</a> and its frequent fusion of religious and football imagery (such as in <a href="/wiki/Hesburgh_Library" title="Hesburgh Library">Touchdown Jesus</a>, pictured above)</figcaption></figure> Crowley often told the story of a game between <a href="/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football" title="Notre Dame Fighting Irish football">Notre Dame</a> and <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football" title="Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football">Georgia Tech</a> on October 28, 1922, in which the Fighting Irish players said <a href="/wiki/Hail_Mary" title="Hail Mary">Hail Mary</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/Noble_Kizer" title="Noble Kizer">Noble Kizer</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a>), 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 <a href="/wiki/Harry_Stuhldreher" title="Harry Stuhldreher">Harry Stuhldreher</a>, another of the Horsemen, threw a quick pass over the middle to <a href="/wiki/Paul_Castner" title="Paul Castner">Paul Castner</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-Ashwill-1">[1]</a> On November 2, 1935, with 32 seconds left in the so-called "<a href="/wiki/Game_of_the_Century_(college_football)" title="Game of the Century (college football)">Game of the Century</a>" between <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_Buckeyes_football" title="Ohio State Buckeyes football">Ohio State</a> and Notre Dame, Irish halfback <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare_(American_football)" title="William Shakespeare (American football)">Bill Shakespeare</a> found receiver <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Millner" title="Wayne Millner">Wayne Millner</a> for a 19-yard, game-winning touchdown. Notre Dame head coach <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Layden" title="Elmer Layden">Elmer Layden</a>, who had played in the 1922 Georgia Tech game, afterwards called it a "Hail Mary" play.<a href="#cite_note-Ashwill-1">[1]</a> An early appearance of the term was in an <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> story about the upcoming 1941 <a href="/wiki/Orange_Bowl" title="Orange Bowl">Orange Bowl</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Bulldogs_football" title="Mississippi State Bulldogs football">Mississippi State Bulldogs</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_Hoyas_football" title="Georgetown Hoyas football">Georgetown Hoyas</a>. The piece appeared in several newspapers including the December 31, 1940, <a href="/wiki/Daytona_Beach_Morning_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Daytona Beach Morning Journal">Daytona Beach Morning Journal</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> broadcast in 1963, Staubach, then a <a href="/wiki/Navy_Midshipmen_football" title="Navy Midshipmen football">Navy</a> quarterback, described a pass play during his team's victory over <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines_football" title="Michigan Wolverines football">Michigan</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-Ashwill-1">[1]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Hail_Mary_pass&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Examples" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Hail_Mary_passes" title="List of Hail Mary passes">List of Hail Mary passes</a></div> Arguably the most memorable and replayed Hail Mary <a href="/wiki/Walk-off_touchdown" title="Walk-off touchdown">walk-off touchdown</a> pass came on November 23, 1984, in a game now known as "<a href="/wiki/Hail_Flutie" title="Hail Flutie">Hail Flutie</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Memorable_Hail_Mary_passes-3">[3]</a> <a href="/wiki/Boston_College_Eagles" title="Boston College Eagles">Boston College</a> was trailing <a href="/wiki/Miami_Hurricanes" title="Miami Hurricanes">Miami (FL)</a> 45–41 with six seconds left, when their quarterback <a href="/wiki/Doug_Flutie" title="Doug Flutie">Doug Flutie</a> threw a 63-yard touchdown pass to <a href="/wiki/Gerard_Phelan" title="Gerard Phelan">Gerard Phelan</a>, succeeding primarily because Miami's secondary stood on the <a href="/wiki/Goal_line_(American_football)" class="mw-redirect" title="Goal line (American football)">goal line</a> to keep the receivers in front of them without covering a <a href="/wiki/Post_(route)" class="mw-redirect" title="Post (route)">post route</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Yard" title="Yard">yard</a> deep in the end zone as time expired.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Other noteworthy examples include: <ul><li>December 19, 1980: Known as "The Miracle Bowl", <a href="/wiki/BYU_Cougars_football" title="BYU Cougars football">Brigham Young University</a> (BYU) quarterback <a href="/wiki/Jim_McMahon" title="Jim McMahon">Jim McMahon</a> threw a 41-yard touchdown pass to tight end <a href="/wiki/Clay_Brown_(American_football)" title="Clay Brown (American football)">Clay Brown</a> to defeat <a href="/wiki/SMU_Mustangs_football" title="SMU Mustangs football">Southern Methodist University</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1980_Holiday_Bowl" title="1980 Holiday Bowl">1980 Holiday Bowl</a> 46–45, which completed Brigham Young's comeback from a 45–25 deficit with four minutes remaining.<a href="#cite_note-Miracle_Bowl_1980-6">[6]</a></li> <li>November 20, 1983: In a Week 12 matchup featuring the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_49ers" title="San Francisco 49ers">San Fransisco 49ers</a> vs the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Falcons" title="Atlanta Falcons">Atlanta Falcons</a>, Falcon's quarterback <a href="/wiki/Steve_Bartkowski" title="Steve Bartkowski">Steve Bartowski</a> threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to <a href="/wiki/Billy_%22White_Shoes%22_Johnson" title='Billy "White Shoes" Johnson'>Billy "White Shoes" Johnson</a> with no time left on the clock to win, 24-28. Johnson caught the ball at the six yard line, ran to his right and was tackled into the endzone by three 49er defenders.</li> <li>September 24, 1994: Known as the "<a href="/wiki/Miracle_at_Michigan" title="Miracle at Michigan">Miracle at Michigan</a>", <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Buffaloes_football" title="Colorado Buffaloes football">Colorado</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Kordell_Stewart" title="Kordell Stewart">Kordell Stewart</a> threw a 64-yard <a href="/wiki/Walk-off_touchdown" title="Walk-off touchdown">walk-off touchdown</a> pass to wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Michael_Westbrook" title="Michael Westbrook">Michael Westbrook</a> to beat <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Wolverines_football" title="Michigan Wolverines football">Michigan</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-Kordell_Stewart_Hail_Mary-7">[7]</a></li> <li>October 31, 1999: The <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a>' first win after returning as an expansion team came on a Hail Mary <a href="/wiki/Walk-off_touchdown" title="Walk-off touchdown">walk-off touchdown</a> against the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans Saints</a>, when Browns quarterback <a href="/wiki/Tim_Couch" title="Tim Couch">Tim Couch</a> avoided the Saints pass rush and launched a 56-yard pass that was tipped up in the air and caught by receiver <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Johnson_(wide_receiver)" title="Kevin Johnson (wide receiver)">Kevin Johnson</a> near the pylon for a 21–16 Browns victory.</li> <li>November 9, 2002: Known as the "<a href="/wiki/Bluegrass_Miracle" title="Bluegrass Miracle">Bluegrass Miracle</a>", <a href="/wiki/LSU_Tigers_football" title="LSU Tigers football">Louisiana State University</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Randall" title="Marcus Randall">Marcus Randall</a> threw a 74-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Devery_Henderson" title="Devery Henderson">Devery Henderson</a> in the game to defeat <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Wildcats_football" title="Kentucky Wildcats football">Kentucky</a> 33–30.<a href="#cite_note-Marcus_Randall_Hail_Mary-8">[8]</a></li> <li>December 8, 2002: Three years after his first Hail Mary, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Couch" title="Tim Couch">Tim Couch</a> won another game with a game-ender against the <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville_Jaguars" title="Jacksonville Jaguars">Jacksonville Jaguars</a>. Couch launched a 50-yard Hail Mary that was caught by <a href="/wiki/Quincy_Morgan" title="Quincy Morgan">Quincy Morgan</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/1999_NFL_draft" title="1999 NFL draft">1999 NFL draft</a> and his injury-plagued career - Tim Couch remains the only NFL player to win two games on game-ending Hail Marys.</li> <li>October 22, 2011: Known as "Rocket", <a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_Spartans_football" title="Michigan State Spartans football">Michigan State</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Cousins" title="Kirk Cousins">Kirk Cousins</a> threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver <a href="/wiki/Keith_Nichol" title="Keith Nichol">Keith Nichol</a> to beat <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Badgers_football" title="Wisconsin Badgers football">Wisconsin</a> 37–31.<a href="#cite_note-Kirk_Cousins_Hail_Mary-9">[9]</a></li> <li>November 16, 2013: Known as the "<a href="/wiki/Prayer_at_Jordan-Hare" title="Prayer at Jordan-Hare">Prayer at Jordan-Hare</a>", <a href="/wiki/Auburn_Tigers_football" title="Auburn Tigers football">Auburn</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Nick_Marshall" title="Nick Marshall">Nick Marshall</a> threw a 73-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Ricardo Louis on fourth-and-18 with 36 seconds left to beat <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Bulldogs_football" title="Georgia Bulldogs football">Georgia</a> 43–38.<a href="#cite_note-Nick_Marshall_Hail_Mary-10">[10]</a> Louis caught the ball after one Georgia defender tipped it away from another.</li> <li>November 10, 2013: With the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Ravens" title="Baltimore Ravens">Baltimore Ravens</a> leading 17–10 on the last play of their game against the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Bengals" title="Cincinnati Bengals">Cincinnati Bengals</a>, Bengals quarterback <a href="/wiki/Andy_Dalton" title="Andy Dalton">Andy Dalton</a> launched a 51-yard Hail Mary to the end zone, where a Ravens player tipped the ball in the air directly to <a href="/wiki/A._J._Green" title="A. J. Green">A. J. Green</a> for a touchdown. Despite this game-tying score, the Ravens won the game in overtime, 20–17.</li> <li>September 5, 2015: Known as the "Miracle at Memorial", <a href="/wiki/2015_BYU_Cougars_football_team" title="2015 BYU Cougars football team">BYU</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Tanner_Mangum" title="Tanner Mangum">Tanner Mangum</a> threw a desperate 42-yard pass to wide receiver Mitch Mathews as time expired to defeat <a href="/wiki/2015_Nebraska_Cornhuskers_football_team" title="2015 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team">Nebraska</a> 33–28 at <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Lincoln)" title="Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)">Memorial Stadium</a>, and break a streak of 29 consecutive home opener victories for the <a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Cornhuskers_football" title="Nebraska Cornhuskers football">Cornhuskers</a>. Mangum, a freshman just two months removed from a <a href="/wiki/Mormon_missionary" title="Mormon missionary">mission</a> for <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, was the backup to senior <a href="/wiki/Taysom_Hill" title="Taysom Hill">Taysom Hill</a>, who had left the game earlier with a season-ending <a href="/wiki/Lisfranc_injury" title="Lisfranc injury">Lisfranc injury</a>, and was playing in his first organized football game in nearly four years.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></li> <li>December 3, 2015: Known as the "<a href="/wiki/Miracle_in_Motown" title="Miracle in Motown">Miracle in Motown</a>", a 15-yard defensive facemask penalty on the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Lions" title="Detroit Lions">Detroit Lions</a> as time expired gave the <a href="/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers" title="Green Bay Packers">Green Bay Packers</a>, who had been trailing the entire game, an additional untimed down. Green Bay quarterback <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Rodgers" title="Aaron Rodgers">Aaron Rodgers</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Rodgers II">Richard Rodgers II</a> to give the Packers a 27–23 win.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> The total distance of 69 yards is the longest Hail Mary pass in NFL history.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hail_Larry" class="mw-redirect" title="Hail Larry">January 16, 2016</a>: In the postseason after the <a href="/wiki/Miracle_in_Motown" title="Miracle in Motown">Miracle in Motown</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals" title="Arizona Cardinals">Arizona Cardinals</a> in the final minute of the game, Rodgers threw a 60-yard completion to <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Janis" title="Jeff Janis">Jeff Janis</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Larry_Fitzgerald" title="Larry Fitzgerald">Larry Fitzgerald</a>, who went all the way to the Green Bay 5-yard line on a short pass he caught while wide open before scoring two plays afterwards.<a href="#cite_note-Around_the_NFL-13">[13]</a></li> <li>September 10, 2016: After <a href="/wiki/2016_Oklahoma_State_Cowboys_football_team" title="2016 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team">Oklahoma State football</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Mason_Rudolph_(American_football)" title="Mason Rudolph (American football)">Mason Rudolph</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/2016_Central_Michigan_Chippewas_football_team" title="2016 Central Michigan Chippewas football team">Central Michigan</a> 27–24. However, both on-field officials (from Central Michigan's home of the <a href="/wiki/Mid-American_Conference" title="Mid-American Conference">Mid-American Conference</a>) and replay officials (from Oklahoma State's home of the <a href="/wiki/Big_12_Conference" title="Big 12 Conference">Big 12 Conference</a>) missed the call and gave Central Michigan an <a href="/wiki/Untimed_play" title="Untimed play">untimed down</a>. CMU quarterback <a href="/wiki/Cooper_Rush" title="Cooper Rush">Cooper Rush</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></li> <li>October 1, 2016: After a 47-yard touchdown pass with ten seconds remaining on the clock, a <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Bulldogs_football" title="Georgia Bulldogs football">Georgia</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Volunteers_football" title="Tennessee Volunteers football">Tennessee</a> QB <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Dobbs" title="Joshua Dobbs">Joshua Dobbs</a> threw a game-winning touchdown, caught by <a href="/wiki/Jauan_Jennings" title="Jauan Jennings">Jauan Jennings</a>, as time expired to win 34–31.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></li> <li>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 <a href="/wiki/Randall_Cobb_(American_football)" title="Randall Cobb (American football)">Randall Cobb</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></li> <li>September 16, 2017: In a key <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Conference" title="Southeastern Conference">Southeastern Conference</a> <a href="/wiki/Florida%E2%80%93Tennessee_football_rivalry" title="Florida–Tennessee football rivalry">matchup</a> between the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Gators_football" title="Florida Gators football">Florida Gators</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Volunteers_football" title="Tennessee Volunteers football">Tennessee Volunteers</a>, Florida quarterback <a href="/wiki/Feleipe_Franks" title="Feleipe Franks">Feleipe Franks</a> completed a 63-yard pass to <a href="/wiki/Tyrie_Cleveland" title="Tyrie Cleveland">Tyrie Cleveland</a> as time expired to give UF a 26–20 win.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li> <li>November 15, 2020: In a week 10 game against the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyler_Murray" title="Kyler Murray">Kyler Murray</a> completed <a href="/wiki/Hail_Murray" title="Hail Murray">a 43-yard touchdown pass</a> to receiver <a href="/wiki/DeAndre_Hopkins" title="DeAndre Hopkins">DeAndre Hopkins</a> in the final seconds of the game. Hopkins caught the ball over three Bills defenders for a touchdown to win the game 32–30.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></li> <li>September 17, 2022: During a <a href="/wiki/College_GameDay_(football_TV_program)" title="College GameDay (football TV program)">College GameDay</a> between <a href="/wiki/2022_Appalachian_State_Mountaineers_football_team" title="2022 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team">Appalachian State</a> and <a href="/wiki/2022_Troy_Trojans_football_team" title="2022 Troy Trojans football team">Troy</a>, Appalachian State quarterback, <a href="/wiki/Chase_Brice" title="Chase Brice">Chase Brice</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></li> <li>September 17, 2023: In the dwindling seconds of a Week 2 matchup between the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Commanders" title="Washington Commanders">Washington Commanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denver_Broncos" title="Denver Broncos">Denver Broncos</a>, Broncos quarterback <a href="/wiki/Russell_Wilson" title="Russell Wilson">Russell Wilson</a> completed a 50-yard touchdown pass to receiver Brandon Johnson to bring the game within a conversion, 35-33. Despite the incredible catch, which came off of multiple Commanders players deflecting the ball, the Broncos failed to complete the subsequent two-point conversion.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></li> <li>October 14, 2024: In a Week 6 Monday night game between the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bills" title="Buffalo Bills">Buffalo Bills</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Jets" title="New York Jets">New York Jets</a>, Aaron Rodgers threw a 52-yard deep pass to Allen Lazard into the end zone, crowded around the Bills defense on the last play before halftime. It was initially ruled as an incomplete pass, however, with the assistance of replay assist, the ruling was changed to a touchdown. The score after the PAT was 20-17 going into halftime. Despite this, Buffalo won the game 23-20.</li> <li>October 27, 2024: Known as the "<a href="/wiki/Madhouse_in_Maryland" title="Madhouse in Maryland">Madhouse in Maryland</a>", <a href="/wiki/Washington_Commanders" title="Washington Commanders">Washington</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Jayden_Daniels" title="Jayden Daniels">Jayden Daniels</a> threw a deep middle pass for 52 yards to receiver <a href="/wiki/Noah_Brown_(American_football)" title="Noah Brown (American football)">Noah Brown</a> for a walk-off Commanders touchdown to beat <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago</a> 18-15. According to NextGen Stats, Daniels scrambled for 12.79 seconds to make the play possible, the longest since the statistic was begun in 2016. His pass of 64 yards in the air is the second-longest successful NFL Hail Mary behind Aaron Rodgers's 69-yarder in the 2015 "Miracle in Motown."</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Metaphorical_usage_in_other_fields">Metaphorical usage in other fields</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Hail_Mary_pass&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Metaphorical usage in other fields" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> The term "Hail Mary" is sometimes used to refer to any last-ditch effort with little chance of success. In military uses, General <a href="/wiki/Norman_Schwarzkopf" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman Schwarzkopf">Norman Schwarzkopf</a> described his strategy during the <a href="/wiki/Persian_Gulf_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian Gulf War">Persian Gulf War</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Various legal actions <a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">attempting to overturn</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s defeat in the <a href="/wiki/2020_U.S._presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 U.S. presidential election">2020 U.S. presidential election</a>, in particular the <a href="/wiki/Texas_v._Pennsylvania" title="Texas v. Pennsylvania">Texas v. Pennsylvania</a> Supreme Court lawsuit, were described as "Hail Marys".<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> There are similar usages in other fields, such as a "Hail Mary shot" in photography where a photographer holds the view finder of an <a href="/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera" title="Single-lens reflex camera">SLR</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Computer_security" title="Computer security">computer security</a>, a "Hail Mary attack" will throw every <a href="/wiki/Exploit_(computer_security)" title="Exploit (computer security)">exploit</a> it has against a system to see whether any of them work.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> When the <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Republican_Party" title="Pennsylvania Republican Party">Pennsylvania Republican Party</a> sold its headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">Harrisburg</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, this was described by <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> as "a real-life Hail Mary".<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> After the <a href="/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a> in February 2022, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a>' attempts to stop the conflict by consecrating Russia and Ukraine to the <a href="/wiki/Immaculate_Heart_of_Mary" title="Immaculate Heart of Mary">Immaculate Heart of Mary</a> was called the "Pope's Hail Mary pass".<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> At the end of the <a href="/wiki/NASCAR_Cup_Series" title="NASCAR Cup Series">NASCAR Cup Series</a>' <a href="/wiki/2022_Xfinity_500" title="2022 Xfinity 500">2022 Xfinity 500</a> at <a href="/wiki/Martinsville_Speedway" title="Martinsville Speedway">Martinsville Speedway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ross_Chastain" title="Ross Chastain">Ross Chastain</a>'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.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Hail_Mary_pass&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lateral_pass" title="Lateral pass">Lateral pass</a>, another football strategy that is similar in that it is generally only used in desperation by the losing team on the very last play</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambit" title="Gambit">Gambit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Hail_Mary_passes_in_American_football" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Hail Mary passes in American football">List of Hail Mary passes in American football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sports_idioms" title="List of sports idioms">List of sports idioms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975%E2%80%9376_NFL_playoffs" title="1975–76 NFL playoffs">1975–76 NFL playoffs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Rodgers" title="Aaron Rodgers">Aaron Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cowboys%E2%80%93Vikings_rivalry" title="Cowboys–Vikings rivalry">Cowboys–Vikings rivalry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buzzer_beater" title="Buzzer beater">Buzzer beater</a>, similar application in basketball</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kicks_after_the_siren_in_Australian_rules_football" class="mw-redirect" title="Kicks after the siren in Australian rules football">Kicks after the siren in Australian rules football</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Hail_Mary_pass&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only 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