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Image: The confluence of the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio Rivers at Point State Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_State_Park) in Pittsburgh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh) toward Three Rivers Stadium on the northern shore of the Ohio River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_River) , circa 1977.   The Immaculate Reception is one of the most famous plays in the history of American football (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football) . It occurred in the AFC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_Conference) divisional playoff game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_playoffs,_1972%E2%80%9373#AFC:_Pittsburgh_Steelers_13,_Oakland_Raiders_7) of the National Football League (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League) (NFL), between the Pittsburgh Steelers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Pittsburgh_Steelers_season) and the Oakland Raiders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Oakland_Raiders_season) at Three Rivers Stadium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rivers_Stadium) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania) , on December 23, 1972. With the Steelers trailing in the last 30 seconds of the game, Pittsburgh quarterback (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback) Terry Bradshaw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Bradshaw) threw a pass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_pass) attempt to John Fuqua (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fuqua) . The ball either bounced off the helmet of Raiders safety Jack Tatum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tatum) or off the hands of Fuqua, and, as it fell, Steelers fullback (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullback_(gridiron_football)) Franco Harris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Harris) scooped it up and ran for a game-winning touchdown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchdown) .    The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports,by Kevin Cook (https://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Cook/e/B0034O4XOI/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)     The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence. Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, the Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury, and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook’s rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with legendary players—Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken “Snake” Stabler—to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows the coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Night Football redefined sports’ place in American life. Celebrating the game while lamenting the physical toll it took on football’s greatest generation, Cook diagrams the NFL’s transformation from second-tier sport into national obsession. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Headbangers-Football-Reckless-Created-ebook/dp/B007Q6XMHE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kevin+cook+headbangers&qid=1612045686&s=digital-text&sr=1-1   ..  .. ..