The successfully completed Hail Mary is one of the rarest and most thrilling ways to end a football game (or any sports game for that matter). This ultimate game-winning pass is so rare that since ...

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

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 ...

It was Staubach who threw the (in)famous Hail Mary 50-yard touchdown pass to Drew Pearson in the waning seconds on Dec. 28, 1975, enabling the Dallas Cowboys to defeat the Vikings 17-14 in an NFC ...

That was Pearson’s game-winning, 50-yard touchdown catch from Roger Staubach with 24 seconds left in an NFC divisional playoff game at Minnesota’s Metropolitan Stadium on Dec. 28, 1975.