The original Hail Mary got its name from Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, who in 1975 threw a 50-yard pass to Drew Pearson to send the Minnesota Vikings home in the NFC Divisional Playoff game. After the game, Staubach told reporters "when I closed my eyes, I said a Hail Mary."
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Since then, the Hail Mary has come in many shapes and sizes. Aaron Rodgers has mastered the art of the last-second heave. Doug Flutie gave us an all-time college football memory. And in high school football, well, anything can happen if a quarterback puts the ball in the air for the end zone.
Brentwood Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, became a prime example of that when it completed a volleyball-style, tip-drill Hail Mary at the end of the first half against Montgomery Bell Academy in 2016.
Brentwood Academy's "Tip Drill" Hail Mary
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Brentwood found itself down 17-10 with five seconds left in the second quarter and needed more than 55 yards for a touchdown.
The school's quarterback, Jeremiah Oatsvall, said his prayer and threw the pigskin as far as he could. The ball soared about 60 yards in the air and was originally short of the end zone when it was first deflected into the air.
One heads-up Brentwood player then swatted the ball to his teammate Lawrence Segree, who walked in across the goal line for the score.
You can't draw it up any better than that.
Brentwood head coach Cody White told The Tennessean that his players, many of which play basketball, asked if they could tip it before the play. He told them to catch it but tip it if needed.
The play landed on ESPN's SportsCenter and earned the No. 1 play on the Top 10.
"It feels great. It's crazy. I didn't really think it would make it to ESPN," Segree told The Tennessean.
Despite the miraculous touchdown, the Brentwood Eagles wound up losing the game, 31-24.
Still, Roger Staubach would probably approve of Brentwood's incredible Hail Mary.
