In football, there are sometimes big plays. Then there are really big plays.
Sometimes, there are historically big plays.
Call it a Hail Mary, a Motown Miracle...the 61-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers to Richard Rodgers that led to a 27-23 win Thursday night will not just forever go down in Packers lore. It may also be the first ever walk-off touchdown in regulation play in the 96-year history of the team.
It's been long needed for the Packers.
"You have to make plays in this league. You have to make big plays. That's the problem: They haven't been making those plays. It's why they've lost four of the last six (games)," said 620WTMJ Packers voice Wayne Larrivee on "Monday Morning Quarterbacks."
"Last night, they made a big play. We've been asking for a big play to be made. They finally did it. It was a great thing to see, in very dramatic fashion, on an untimed play."
Larrivee did not think the opportunity would even come for such a miracle.
"I thought the game was over when on 3rd and 12, Matthew Stafford threw a laser to somebody named T.J. 'Freaking' Jones who, on the season, coming into that game, caught all of one pass for 11 yards. He hit him for 29 yards," said Larrivee.
"At that point in time, the Packers were just about done."
They were literally done at the 0:00 mark of the game when Rodgers was tackled on the last portion of a series of laterals in an attempt to replicate the play made famous by Rodgers' alma mater, the Cal-Stanford "Band Is Out On The Field" walk-off touchdown.
Then, a face mask penalty put the Packers in close enough range to deliver a Hail Mary...which Rodgers delivered in miraculous and grand style.
"You sat there and said, 'There's no way,' but the untimed play, the fortuitous face mask penalty gave the Packers one more shot, and they got it done."
