Top 5 Hail Mary Plays: 1975 NFC Divisional Playoff Dallas QB Roger Staubach threw a 50-yard, game-winning touchdown to WR Drew Pearson to defeat the Vikings. Staubach's post-game comments about the play are thought to have popularized "Hail Mary" as a football term. By clicking “Accept...
But the rest was history, and a fourth failed Hail Mary attempt. Anybody who knows anything about Hail Mary passes knows that the team had better have a very long passing capability and a wide receiver whose hands are football magnets. Keeping with the metaphor, over the past three decades...
And because it is impossible to define that term without first explaining the Hail Mary pass, I’ll start with that. I know I have a lot of readers outside the US who do not understand the convoluted rules of American football, so I'll try to explain the basics. When there are no ...
Maybe Murray's vision is so rare that you have to look beyond quarterbacks -- or football -- to explain it. You need to call Muggsy Bogues. Bogues played in the NBA at 5-foot-3, the shortest player in league history. He is long retired, but he watched Murray the first ...
A Hail Mary pass is a term that originates from football, describing a last-ditch, desperate move where a player throws the ball, hoping against odds for a game-changing touchdown. But guess what? It’s not just for sports! This expression has evolved into an idiom used in everyday lang...
There is no question Linden Lab CEO andAston Villa fanRod Humble knows his soccer. But Rod Humble seems to be taking a classic end-game page from the American football playbook - theHail Mary pass- as he moves to market Second Life through a 3rd party -- Valve'sSteamgame portal/social...
In the U.S., long-term strategies have varied by state in organizational structure, scope of delivery and administrative practices. In the past two decades an additional change has emerged with over half the states adopting some form of managed LTSS. This shift has deepened the divide in ...
The monikerHail Marywas chosen not because it was commissioned by the Vatican but probably because, in American idiom, a “Hail Mary” pass in football is a last-ditch, desperation play to win a game that’s likely already lost. (The term was coined by Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach,...
"It would be analogous to a hail Mary pass in a football game," Stuart Rothenberg of The Rothenberg Political Report told ABC News. "It increasingly looks virtually impossible." With three weeks to go before Congress takes its monthlong break, White House budget director Peter Orszag was on ...
Hail Mary (c. 1300) is the angelic salutation (Latin ave Maria) in Luke i.58, used as a devotional recitation. As a desperation play in U.S. football, attested by 1940. "Hail, Columbia," the popular patriotic song, also was a euphemism for "hell" in American English slang from c....