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More Important Play in Steeler History

Immaculate Reception or Holmes SB43

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For History it has to be the Immaculate Reception.....

Your poll says "You may not vote on this poll"......

So my vote doesn't count anyhow................................
 
SteveA said:
For History it has to be the Immaculate Reception.....

Your poll says "You may not vote on this poll"......

So my vote doesn't count anyhow................................
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Need 100 posts to be able to vote! Soon my son.
 
Steelerfan81 said:
Immaculate Reception or Holmes catch
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Different teams, different times.

Both were very important. You might was well ask us which parent we like better. Both plays are at the top of Steeler history.
 
Coach said:
Different teams, different times.

Both were very important. You might was well ask us which parent we like better. Both plays are at the top of Steeler history.
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Shut up coach. Then don't ******* vote. There's a reason for the poll.

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Omar10213245 said:
immaculate reception since it was essentially the "beginning" of the team's golden age, an age that raised the franchise out of the doldrums and into the upper-crust.
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^^^This^^^
#2. Holmes catch since it won the Super Bowl. Perfect throw, perfect catch. Clutch play of all clutch plays.
#3. Deebo 100 yard pick six. May have won the SB without it, but....
#4. Ben to Randel El to Ward to win SB XL.
#5. Roger Staubach to Jackie Smith in SB XIII. (Hey, you didn't say it had to be a Steelers play.)
 
Ron Burgundy said:
^^^This^^^
#2. Holmes catch since it won the Super Bowl. Perfect throw, perfect catch. Clutch play of all clutch plays.
#3. Deebo 100 yard pick six. May have won the SB without it, but....
#4. Ben to Randel El to Ward to win SB XL.
#5. Roger Staubach to Jackie Smith in SB XIII. (Hey, you didn't say it had to be a Steelers play.)
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#6 Ben's shoestring tackle in the '06 Div Playoff Game against the Colts after Bettis fumbled at the 2.
 
I voted Ben to Holmes just for the reason it won a SB...with the talent we had in the 70's the SB's would have came either way.
 
scrapdog said:
#6 Ben's shoestring tackle in the '06 Div Playoff Game against the Colts after Bettis fumbled at the 2.
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True dat. I say Immaculate Reception #1 and a 9 way tie for second for the rest of the top ten.
 
Without question Holmes catch......It won a friggin Superbowl. The Franco catch didn't start squat. The hire of Knoll a d the phenomenal drafting started the 70s. The Franco catch simply preceded things. They were going to be legendary regardless. Without Holmes we are still looking for Six
 
Sevenisheaven said:
Without question Holmes catch......It won a friggin Superbowl. The Franco catch didn't start squat. The hire of Knoll a d the phenomenal drafting started the 70s. The Franco catch simply preceded things. They were going to be legendary regardless. Without Holmes we are still looking for Six
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If you don't know how to spell Noll, I have little faith that you would know the significance of the Immaculate Reception.
 
I understand that you can't underplay the importance of Franco's catch and run.

However in the greater scheme of things that lead to a playoff win, nothing more. If you want to truly analyze the play and it's repercussions, you have to recognize that the entire thing was a mistake. The play was intended for another receiver, was broken up and Franco merely caught the deflected ball by accident.

Holmes catch, on the other hand was the result of one of the most impressive 2 minute offensive drives in SB history. Roethlisberger carved up an Arizona defense that had been pressuring him hugely throughout the 2nd half and particularly in the 4th quarter. The entire drive was vintage Roethlisberger. The final play, the TD pass which resulted in the full circle for Pittsburgh going from a complete loser-ville team like the Browns to the league leading title holder was a thing of absolute beauty. The pass was perfect, the catch was acrobatic and the moment was truly poetic.

Franco's catch was amazing. It was amazingly lucky. Of course any Steeler fan is thrilled about it and happy that years of futility ended with a win, particularly over the Raiders. But let's not forget that it was in fact - a fluke. That's why it's called the "Immaculate Reception".

Was it any less of a fluke when Vanderjagt, one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history missed a gimme FG after Ben's tackle?

The Immaculate Reception has a very special place in Steeler Lore. It "may" have been the first indication of things to come for Pittsburgh. But as mentioned, I suspect the draft class had less do to with that catch and more do with good scouting and excellent fortune.
 
The immaculate reception is more important to the fans and the legacy... its bs that the play led to the super bowls though... all it did was make a good story... the talent those teams had with the coaching was going to win regardless...

The Holmes catch directly led to a super bowl win...

If the immaculate reception is blown dead the steelers have a little less facetime on espn flashbacks... if the holmes catch doesnt happen, we are not the sole leaders in super bowl wins
 
Ron Burgundy said:
^^^This^^^
#2. Holmes catch since it won the Super Bowl. Perfect throw, perfect catch. Clutch play of all clutch plays.
#3. Deebo 100 yard pick six. May have won the SB without it, but....
#4. Ben to Randel El to Ward to win SB XL.
#5. Roger Staubach to Jackie Smith in SB XIII. (Hey, you didn't say it had to be a Steelers play.)
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I would add Bradshaw to Stallworth against the Rams in the SB.
And Bradshaw to Swann vs Dallas in the SB where he flies out of bounds and some how defies gravity to come back in and make the catch.
 
I'm surprised that the voting is as lopsided as it is. The Immaculate Recepetion was probably the greatest play in the history of the NFL, but the most important in Steelers history? The nostalgia is strong here.

That play did not lead to a SB victory, and those successive teams would have rolled through the 1970s regardless.

The Super Bowl 43 TD pretty much directly produced a league title.
 
The Ben to Holmes won a super bowl. I was born in 1978, so I wasn't alive for the immaculate reception, but you honestly think with all those HOF players in the 70's, they don't become dominant if that play doesn't happen?
 
Hey Wig, 45+yd FGs are not gimmies. Just ask Norwood...

The Holmes play was the second best play in that Superbowl. James Harrison's INT return at the end of half was a 14pt swing, not a 7pt play. Heck there was 30sec they nearly came back from. Had Woodley not made that sack!
 
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