Vote for the best play in NFL History

NFL.com 64 play bracket. Round 1 voting starts tomorrow and goes through Friday.

Round 1: March 18-22
Round 2: March 22-26
Sweet 16: March 27-29
Elite 8: March 30- April 2
Semifinals: April 3-5
Championship: April 6-8

Steelers plays include:

-James Harrison's SB 43 pick 6 - the best in history in my opinion, when gravity of the situation is included in weighing.
-Santonio Holmes' TD in the same game - still far less important than James' play.
-Lynn Swann's tipped catch at midfield in SB 10 - not even the best catch made in that game, by that receiver.
-Troy's Superman goal line sack on Kerry Collins - lower stakes, F'ing amazing play.
-Troy's diving INT against San Diego - People forget that the runback was almost as amazing as the catch, and he would have scored if not for Larry Foote cutting him off. If that hadn't happened and Troy'd gone all the way, imagine how this play would be viewed today and in the future.
-Antwaan Randle El's reverse pass TD to Hines Ward in Super Bowl 40.
-The Immaculate Reception.

A lot of great other plays on that list, too. I have my share of favorites on there. I hope they show clips of each play and offer proper context.

Let's show our support for our Steelers! Voting is now open:

http://www.nfl.com/bracketologyround2

 

Did they not mention the immaculate reception? Also I agree that Swann's sideline catch was better than the midfield one. I was just telling someone that not too long ago. I will never understand how he got his body to do that. It's gonna be really tough to pick the best play in history because that will mean we will have to vote against certain Steelers plays. I really think the top 3 or 4 could actually be Steelers plays in all honesty. Also my favorite play of Troy would either be his pick that he scooped off the turf from Phillip Rivers or his pick of Flacco in the AFC Championship game in 08. He just looked so cool when he spun around to catch it and then took it to the house. Man I'm getting excited just typing this!

 

Oh yeah... that one too. I guess I was just scanning for Steeler names.

I also missed ARE to Ward TD in SB 40. Updated the list.

 

LOL. I really think the list should be "greatest plays in NFL history BESIDES the Immaculate Reception"!

 

It's a no-brainier for me. The Immaculate Reception.

 

Well, I'm pretty sure we'll get to vote for all of the ones we want. You'll only have to make a choice if two Steeler plays go against each other.

 

Which they will ensure happens. They know the score as well. Same as with the teams going head to head last year.

 

The Immculate Receptetion has to win, everyone is playing for second.

 

Well, I contend the greatest play I ever saw was the 64-yard TD pass from Bradshaw to Swann in SB X. To me, for a play to be "great" it has to actually be the result of design, not luck. I'd say that the Immaculate Reception is the greasest "moment" in NFL history, but not the greatest play. But that's me. I'm sure I'll get some criticism for that. But about the TD pass to Swann. One has to consider three things:

1. The point of the game. The Steelers were protecting a 15-10 lead. The Cowboys had done nothing offensively in the previous 2 1/2 quarters. The Steelers basically need to protect the ball, run the clock, and keep the Cowboys pinned in their half of the field. It was 3rd and 4. A first down here would have put Dallas in a serious bind. But Bradshaw instead went for the jugular. It's called having ball$ the size of grapefruits.

2. Dallas called a blitz. Bradshaw had to side step one tackler to buy himself just enough time to get the ball to Swann.

3. Under heavy pressure, Bradshaw threw a perfect pass, 50 yards down the field.

4. Mark Washington's coverage was not bad, but Swann got inside position.

5. Bradshaw got leveled by Larry Cole as soon as he got the throw off. He suffered a concussion on the play.

I argue that no greater pass has ever been thrown. Deep ball, under duress, that absolutely, positively had to be completed. And it wasn't as if Bradshaw's opponent that day was a bucnh of scrubs.

 

This just in... voting is open. I knew there would be things for me to complain about, but...

Harrison's game winning 100 yard SB winning INT TD is the 16th seed in its bracket... What the hell? That's three spots behind Ben Watson tackling Champ Bailey on the 1 yard line after an interception... the play before the Broncos scored anyway. Good hustle, Ben. Sure, maybe it didn't win the Super Bowl, or a game, or prevent a score, or get you a score, or take any skill other than running in a straight line, and was completely reliant on the ball carrier and his blocker each coming to a premature stop out of laziness, but it's better than Harrison's play, which prevented a score, made a score, won a game, won a Super Bowl, was way more difficult in ways I can't even begin to describe, and was going against a team trying as hard as it could. I appreciate a good hustle, but lord, lots of guys have run as fast as they could for an entire play. In fact, it happens every play.

The Jaguars' run-of-the-mill hail mary from two years ago is ranked 5 spots higher than the Saints' multi-lateral-out-of-hail-mary-range miracle from years before. The seeding is a joke. :-(

Oh well. Happy voting!

 

OK, along with the fact that I am pissed off about having to waste 15 or 30 seconds of my life, every time I wanna see a new play, and the commercial starts over and over again...
Where do I click, to "SUBMIT" my vote?!?
If I just close that window, does it save my votes?!?
Haven`t closed it yet, because I would hate to have wasted all that time voting for Steeler plays, and trying to decide o the other ones, which play was better, or which team I hated more, on some fairly equal ones...
I usually tend to go for defense over offense, but there were some pretty amazing offensive plays, by players I like, on teams I hate, paired against fairly commonplace plays by defense, with both teams, having equal "hatred value"...
I would almost have to have a discussion on half of the non-Steeler related plays, with members of this board, as I watched them..., Because, I now forget what most of them were,
but...
Emmit Smith is awesome, even if I hate the Cryboys. Walter peyton is great, and I forget which defensive play was paired against his run.
To me, there were a few ties...
And, I hate to say it, But Cromartie Smith rnning the missed fieldgoal 109 yards out of the endzone for a TD, was almost as amazing as Harrison`s pick 6, even if it wasn`t in the SUperBowl..
Just for the uniqueness of the play...
and they weren`t even matched against each other , in those "brackets".. (Which I also found confusing)...
Not sure why sometimes there seemed to be plays in different brackets competing against each other, before the first 2 plays had been decided...???
Anyhow.. A LOT of good plays there, but I hated having to see the commercial(s), every time I wanted to see highlights of plays that I didn`t remember...
And if I close that window, do the votes I cast so far, count?!?
Man, Randall Cunningham looked like Ben, getting that pass off to #83(go figure...) for a td...
But, That play was "seeded" against Larry Allen(Yes, I always will hate the Cryboys), catching a db 30 yards downfield after an int...
You gotta appreciate 340 lbs of lineman cathing up to a db, like that!!!...
IMHO, there were a lot of "ties", in those plays, head to head.
I agree with a lot of the previous posters, that there should be more "context", as in...
Were they playoff games? Were they Superbowls?
Were they 3d or 4th down plays???
Were they teams that should never have had the chance to be in that spot in the first place? etc...
And I am disappointed that I did not see Ben`s "tackle" against Indy, after the Bus fumbled, even in the bracket!!!
I admit, I got tired of watching the damn commercial, every single time I went back to the bracket, so I stopped about halfway thru.
Also, I don`t know if my votes will even count, `cause I never saw a "submit" button. So that window is still open.
I gotta work early, so I ain`t getting back to that right now, but I will check to see if anyone can tell me if I ned to do something other than close that window for my votes to count...
Also, Why did it look like some of the winners out of the head to head matchups had already been decided, iff the 1st rd of voting isn`t over till the 22nd?
LIke it should be...
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How did that 3rd play get in the mix? If you understand what I am trying to ask!!!!
OMG... I Have tried three times, to illustrate, that it should be the winner of 2 plays vs. the winner of the other 2 plays, going head to head, but it keeps eliminating my "spaces" to illustrate the "bracket " concept! I give up!!!

 

I actually don't know how to submit votes... That's a good question... Can anyone help?

 

So if I click on one and then its competitor, did I cast a vote for both? Can I vote a million times by going back? It doesn't look like it counts just by checking a box, and there's no explanation anywhere. It seems like the kind of thing you'd have to submit once you were done.

 

Harrison's play is down to the Music City Miracle! Damn, bad first round match-up.

 

I'm still learning how to count.

 

Anyone figutred out how to make the picks? I made all the checks, but didn't see a submit button!

 

Nope, can't find the 'submit' button, either.

 

I didn't see it in the choices but the Jerome Bettis running over Urlacher in a must win situation during a heavy snow storm just to try and make a wild card spot in a do or die game which led to a S/B victory will always go down as one of the Greatest plays I've ever seen.

 

Ironically, I just posted a link to this video in the "New Rules" thread.

 

I was just giving this a bump because I just saw a segment on NFL Total Access about it. This is the most utterly stupid list I have ever seen in my life. Troy's flying tackle is up against Desean Jackson's punt return. Steve Young's "scramble" is up against the Marshawn Lynch playoff run. HOW can ANY of these even TOUCH the Immaculate Reception? HOW can NFL "fans" be this stupid? If people honestly believe these plays are even worthy to be mentioned among Harrison's Super Bowl return or Ben's throw or Holmes's Catch or the Music City Miracle or John Elway's Super Bowl helicopter spin move for a first down I honestly am amazed that they can even dress themselves in the morning. What is wrong with America??? Sheeeeeesh....

 

Wow. You sir, have performed some LOFTY rants lately! I tip my hat to you.

 

LOL. But how can you NOT rant when you see this nonsense?

 

I think they need to look at the system and that something was terribly wrong with it in that last round at least. Look at the number of votes received in the match-up of Steve young and the Tyree catch! 12 million to 8 million? What? More than all the other votes cast throughout the contest combined? Me thinks they've been hacked by some people wanting to throw a wrench in it!