David Tyree's Catch

Between the scramble and the catch, that was definitely one of the greatest plays in superbowl history.
 
I agree on giving it to the giants DL, but I'd still have gone with tyree over eli if you wanted to pick an offensive player.
 
if there was one football play which resembled GIs climbing the cliffs of Normandy, this was it... just impossible but it was done under tremendous fire.
 
a defensive play which was also great, but not as great, was the Pierce tacklve vs. the Packers where he shed the block of an OL and saved the score. Anyone remember that?
 
Eli avoiding that sack reminded me of VY down on the 10 against Michigan in the 2005 Rose Bowl. He was caught. He was down...but yet got out and made the big play. Unbelievable!
 
It was one of those plays that whatever party or bar you were watching the game at had the room explode with a loud "WHOA" by fans of both teams. Amazing. The whole sequence.
 
And the winning TD catch was almost identical to the game-winning VY-to-Limus toss in the tOSU game at Columbus.

In all, the final drive was as exciting as the Horn's final drive to win the Championship. Right up there with it.
 
that's a flat out awesome catch if you do that in the first quarter against the dolphins ...to do that on the final drive in the super bowl makes that one of the best catches in the history of the NFL ....that play should be shown with the lynn swann catch against the cowboys and with dwight clark catch, etc.
 
Eerily similar to the Clark catch in that, like the Cowboys seemingly having Montana for a big loss on the play, the Patriots had Manning in their grasp for a big sack.

The fact that it happened in the Super Bowl on the final drive makes it historically unparalleled IMO.
 
I never thought Eli Manning would amount to squat in the NFL, but now he's cemented his status -- at least in terms of a single-game Super Bowl effort -- up there with John Elway and Joe Montana. Unbelievable.
 
If I was a Patriots fan, I'd be screaming that Manning was in the grasp and the play should have been blown dead. But I'm not a Patriots fan...
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3Milks, I was thinking the same thing as it happened. If that's a play midway through the 3rd quarter in the regular season, it probably would have been blown dead.

And I agree that it is definitley in the top 0.01% of plays in NFL history.
 
One thing about this play, as great as it was, that might rank it below some others is that it wasn't exactly do-or-die at that moment. Even if NE gets the sack, it would have set up about 4th and 8 (or an incompletion would be 4th-and-5). The Giants still had time to get downfield for the score. Some other plays, such as the Rams' tackle on the 1 vs. the Titans, literally had the outcome of the game in the balance.
 
That was an amazing play. I was pumped for Eli. The poor dude has been in his brother's shaddow all his life it was good to see him get a moment in the sun.
 
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