“You can’t dispute that Pittsburgh receiver Santonio Holmes, given the stakes and the degree of difficulty, just gave us the greatest catch in the history of professional football — a 6-yard, leaping, tightrope grab in the back corner of the end zone with 35 seconds left to give the Steelers a 27-23 victory Sunday night against Arizona in Super Bowl XLIII….I’m going to slowly, methodically, prove my point.”
The author says there are only 4 other catches in football history that are even close:
“I’m guessing there are only four catches that can compare to this one — two of them by Steelers: The Immaculate Reception by Franco Harris in the 1972 AFC playoffs, and the Swann Dive by Lynn Swann in Super Bowl X in 1976. The other two candidates for greatest catch are The Catch by Dwight Clark in the 1981 NFC title game, and that bizarre helmet grab by the Giants’ David Tyree in the Super Bowl last year.”
