Immaculate Reception Myth-Busting: What REALLY Happened

Here's the TRUTH about the Immaculate Reception. We look at the words of people who were there and separate the fact from fiction, including the recent controversy (that wasn't a controversy at the time) of whether the ball hit the ground, along with the original controversies of who touched the ball, was the 1972 double-touch rule violated, was there a clip, did the refs signal touchdown, what happened on the phone call and more.

There's some tongue-in-cheek razzing of the Raiders in this video. Just having a little fun. :)

I threw this together because recently, the original argument of "who did the ball touch" has shifted to "did the ball touch the ground?" This was never part of the original controversy because the people involved -- players and officials -- saw Franco make a clean, shin-level catch. But in more recent times, fan obsession with a lack of conclusive video (a common situation in the '70s era) has caused certain people to question something that wasn't disputed at the time. It's also a way for Raiders fans to deflect from the clear evidence that the ball hit Tatum, making it a legal play. As a result, I get daily "it hit the ground" comments from self-deceiving Raiders fans on our YouTube channel. All the evidence shows it's a bogus claim, one that even Al Davis never made.