Steelers legend Franco Harris was talking about his famous “Immaculate Reception” in an interview with Chris Russo on SiriusXM Tuesday hours before his death.
, just days before he was set to have his jersey retired by the Steelers. No cause of death was given.
Asked what Terry Bradshaw was saying in the huddle on the downs leading up to the fateful play, Harris said, “All of them are pass plays, and even that fourth down play my assignment is to stay in and block with the linemen, so things didn’t go too well on those first three plays. Then it gets down to fourth down, a long way to go, 22 seconds.“And I go into the huddle and I tell myself, ‘Franco, this will probably be the last play of the season, it was a good season, just play it to the end.
Harris “has no idea” whether the ball hit the turf or not, even after watching the replay for 50 years and acknowledged that he was fortunate that he never stumbled and was ruled down by contact. He told himself to score a touchdown, not to go down or out of bounds even in field goal range, because “things could go wrong” on a kick.
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