RON McHUGH FROM JACKSONVILLE, FL: The Immaculate Reception, like many historic moments ... calling from the baseball dugout. He tells me he's got Fred Swearingen, the referee – the guy in charge of ...

One of the most iconic plays in NFL history, ‘The Immaculate Reception” is remembered ... The game’s referee Fred Swearingen asked to use a telephone and was taken to the baseball dugout ...

Game-winning catch defies all attempts to figure out what actually happened in 1972 playoff game. We are, if nothing else, exact. Our doctor’s appointment is at 2:15, not 2:14. The speed limit ...

December 23 is the 50th anniversary of The Immaculate Reception and the NFL ... Jim Boston called me directly and said, ‘(Referee Fred) Swearingen wants to talk to (Art) McNally.’ ...

However, the great photographer Russ Reed of the Oakland Tribune took a picture of referee Fred Swearingen ... and we have no “Immaculate Reception.’ “ … Swearingen had a problem.

And the debate goes on about the Immaculate Reception ... t still be answering questions about what went on when referee Fred Swearingen phoned him from the field before signaling touchdown ...

As hundreds of fans poured out of the stands, referee Fred Swearingen conferred with his crew and then used the phone in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ dugout to call the press box.

Fifty years after the “Immaculate Reception” and just hours before his death, Franco Harris said it “blows my mind” how he pulled off arguably the most memorable play in NFL history.

In the days before he died this week at 72, Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris did interviews about his central role in the “Immaculate Reception,” which occurred 50 ...

Where it would land and the chaos that ensued would lead to the “Immaculate Reception” later being ... And then I get up and ask, “What happened?” Fred Biletnikoff, Raiders receiver ...

“Dec. 23 will henceforth be celebrated in Pittsburgh as the Feast of the Immaculate Reception,” legendary local sportscaster Myron Cope proclaimed. He got the idea from a caller whose boyfriend had ...