Sometimes it’s best to just let sleeping dogs lie, but not if you’re fallen NFL replacement referee, Lance Easley. The infamous play has come to be affectionately known as the “Fail Mary,” but Easley insists that there is nothing failed about what happened on the field that day.
“I guess I don’t try to bring it up, but it comes up,” Easley told the Green Bay Press-Gazette. “They say that Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception, that play came up 10 times a day. So people do talk to me about it.”
Easley has moved on from refereeing to write a book about the unfortunate events of that day and is now a motivational speaker. He added his desire to eventually make a trip to Green Bay to share his side with the fans.
“I’d love to come to Green Bay someday to speak with people and let them know, just share my heart with them,” Easley says. “I’d just tell them that, ‘Hey, this is what happened, this is what I saw from my perspective.”
This only happened in 2012, so something tells me it’s just a little too soon.
[h/t Sports Illustrated]