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<blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 668386" data-attributes="member: 7261"><p>I'm sticking with this: </p><p></p><p>A <strong>Hail Mary pass</strong> is a very long <span style="color: #000000"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_pass" target="_blank">forward pass</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football" target="_blank">American football</a></span>, made in desperation with only a small chance of success. In the Hail Mary pass all receivers run straight toward the endzone and the quarterback will make a long pass that is often "up for grabs."</p><p></p><p>The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, being used publicly in that decade by two former members of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football" target="_blank">Notre Dame</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(football)" target="_blank">Four Horsemen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Layden" target="_blank">Elmer Layden</a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crowley" target="_blank">Jim Crowley</a>. Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a "Hail Mary" gradually came to denote a long, low-probability pass 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 href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle" target="_blank">divine intervention</a> for the play to succeed. For more than forty years, use of the term was largely confined to Notre Dame and other Catholic universities.</p><p></p><p>BTW......found it odd that even James Jones was to the end zone faster then Janis on that play. I am just glad Janis had the speed to catch up to the ball in the endzone.....had he caught it at the 10 yard line, he may not score.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pokerbrat2000, post: 668386, member: 7261"] I'm sticking with this: A [B]Hail Mary pass[/B] is a very long [COLOR=#000000][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_pass']forward pass[/URL] in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football']American football[/URL][/COLOR], made in desperation with only a small chance of success. In the Hail Mary pass all receivers run straight toward the endzone and the quarterback will make a long pass that is often "up for grabs." The expression goes back at least to the 1930s, being used publicly in that decade by two former members of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_Fighting_Irish_football']Notre Dame[/URL]'s [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(football)']Four Horsemen[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Layden']Elmer Layden[/URL]and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crowley']Jim Crowley[/URL]. Originally meaning any sort of desperation play, a "Hail Mary" gradually came to denote a long, low-probability pass 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 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle']divine intervention[/URL] for the play to succeed. For more than forty years, use of the term was largely confined to Notre Dame and other Catholic universities. BTW......found it odd that even James Jones was to the end zone faster then Janis on that play. I am just glad Janis had the speed to catch up to the ball in the endzone.....had he caught it at the 10 yard line, he may not score. [/QUOTE]
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