the play was sent in by chuck Noll 66 circle option. It was called. It was designed to be *** pass intended for *** rookie. No not franco Harris but rookie wide receiver Barry Pearson appearing in his first NFL game as we know the pass never made it to Pearson. And now for an in the moment account of the sequence and history that followed. We dug into the W. T. ***. E. Archives and uncovered some rarely seen postgame interviews from that day. From those who saw it all unfold right in front of their eyes like Bradshaw franco Fuca and Noel to those who didn't see it at all. Like the chief art Rooney. All I know is we had deer down fourth down and uh we were thinking just get *** first down but they had us all shut off. We'll also supposed to be in there blocking remember to play right but terry start to scramble *** little bit. So I went out thinking maybe I could get it open, he could throw it to me, rash all started scrambling. We immediately broke into our scramble play whereas we go 10 yards up and try to get in the line of the quarterback. And I looked down the field and I saw friendship, anybody around where I shall go the opposite way and I just stood there for *** moment and irons left me lying back on the weak side linebacker. So I ran, I thought that I should look back my way and he looked like he was gonna throw to me. So I took the angle to try to give him *** decent angle to throw the ball to me had to hop around *** little bit and drill the ball and then the ball was in there and I picked up the speed and I was really coming pretty hard. And uh, I died for the ball and at the same time I died for the ball. Uh Tatum banged into me, I think it was Jack Tatum going for it and it bounced, bounced up and as I said before the right place at the right time, I saw frank will make *** great catch. You know, other than that, I really don't know, I really didn't see what happened on that. Except I saw franco pick it up and then I lost him out of sight. I didn't even know whether he had gone all the way, but I could tell from the crowd that's the last I saw was franco going down the sideline. I'm and I'm hoping for some flags didn't see any. And I said, holy macro fantastic! You outrun that guy into the end zone ever looked like you had *** shot at you? I thought at one point he did, but I kind of stuck my arm out trying to hold him off. Believe me at that point, you know, I don't think anything could have stopped me from going. It's just *** just *** big play ball, hit you at all Frenchy. No comment to the right place at the right time. *** little bit of luck, you know *** little bit lucky catching the ball if anyone deserved to savor this improbable moment. It was the chief Steelers owner, Art Rooney who had seen his team suffer through their 1st 40 years of existence. As it turned out though Rooney never saw the play as it was happening. He was on his way to the locker room to console his players and congratulate them on *** successful season. *** story he relayed to W. T. ***. S. Ed Conway after the game right before. The last play of that is when Bradshaw was fourth down. I thought I would go to the dressing room just to talk to some of the ball players and tell them they had *** great year and it was unfortunate that it had to end this way. And so as I walked out of out of the press box in fact you're lucky you were there to to see it because you were the last one I saw when I left the press box I just had gotten out of the press box when George the policeman that has charge of the press box come running out screaming, we won, we won. And I said oh you're kidding. He said well listen to the crowd and I listened and I wasn't sure that we had *** touchdown. I thought maybe we got close enough for *** field goal. And Prince was bob Prince! Yes, he was at the elevator and he held the elevator for me and I said to him, I said, what happened? He said, all I know is that we won. I didn't see it either.