After a 1975 playoff battle between the Dallas Cowboys and the Minnesota Vikings, quarterback Roger Staubach said that he closed his eyes and said a "Hail Mary" when he threw a 50-yard touchdown ...

It was on this day in 1975 that Staubach popularized the “Hail Mary” play with a 50-yard game-winning touchdown pass to Pearson to get the Cowboys a playoff win against the Minnesota Vikings.

The first "Hail Mary" pass in the NFL was thrown by Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach on Dec. 28, 1975.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach looks for a receiver during the NFC playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings in Bloomington, Minn. on Dec. 28, 1975. The "Hail Mary" pass: That last ...

Both teams could use a Hail Mary, or a big-time memory, such as Tony Dorsett’s 99-yard touchdown run at the Metrodome in 1983 on Monday Night Football (back when EVERYTHING was bigger on MNF).

Former Dallas Cowboys players Drew Pearson (left) and Roger Staubach fist bump beside a display of the NFT commemorating their famous Hail Mary play from 1975 at Heritage Auctions on Wednesday ...

Forty-two years and one Minnesota Miracle later, Roger Staubach is hopeful Vikings fans are finally over the Hail Mary pass that stole a playoff win from Minnesota in 1975. Staubach not only ...

Around these parts, no last-gasp, long-bomb "Hail Mary" touchdown pass may ever top Roger Staubach's 50-yarder to Drew Pearson on Dec. 28, 1975 that gave the Cowboys an improbable 17-14 Divisional ...