In the New York Giants playbook, the play goes by the name 76 Union Y Sail. After Eli Manning called it in the final two minutes of Super Bowl XLII last February, the New York tabloids came up with other titles for it: “The Great Escape,” “The Hail Manning,” “The Catch in the Hat.” Some have called it the greatest play in Super Bowl history.

Eli liked the pass play he’d chosen, he says, because 76 Union Y Sail “has a lot of different answers. No matter what coverage, you have a shot.”

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Ricky Williams says he was briefly tempted to smoke marijuana during the Miami Dolphins’ bye weekend, an act that could have ended his roller-coaster NFL career. Williams has been in the league’s substance-abuse program since 2002 and has tested positive for marijuana.

Williams told The Miami Herald for Tuesday’s editions that when players were given Friday off, “automatically your mind, which is so constrained since training camp began … says, `I’m free, what can I do?’”

“So there was definitely an urge,” he said. “But I just thought about what I have to lose, and it was easy. The urge didn’t last very long.”

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