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Immaculate Reception: Events, Background & Aftermath

The Immaculate Reception is one of the most famous plays in the history of American football. It was a touchdown which occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game of the National Football League (NFL), between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1972.

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Immaculate Reception topic overview

The analysis highlights Events, Background and Aftermath as prominent areas in the source structure around Immaculate Reception.

Related topics
174
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
180
Extracted relationships
37
Concept neighborhoods
60
Bridge connections
180

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Aftermath · 75 topics
Overview · 31 topics
Background · 23 topics
Events of the play · 17 topics
Referee call · 16 topics
Game synopsis · 12 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Announcers
Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis
Attendance
50,327
Date
December 23, 1972
Network
NBC
Oakland Raiders (10–3–1)
Oakland Raiders (10–3–1) Pittsburgh Steelers (11–3) 7 13 Head coach: John Madden Head coach: Chuck Noll
Referee
Fred Swearingen

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Background

Game synopsis

Events of the play

Referee call

Aftermath

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Immaculate Reception connects Entity context

The extracted context around Immaculate Reception shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Immaculate Reception → AFL Championship, Baltimore Colts, Chuck Noll, December, Green Bay Packers, In, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, Super Bowl II, Super Bowls, That, The, The Oakland Raiders, The Pittsburgh Steelers, The Steelers Another extracted example is Immaculate Reception → Cincinnati Bengals, Football Life, Harris, Heinz Field, Heinz History Center, NFL Network's, On December, Pittsburgh International Airport, Steelers, The, The Steelers, This, Three Rivers Stadium. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Immaculate Reception

Top relations

related to history · 17
Immaculate Reception → AFL Championship, Baltimore Colts, Chuck Noll, December, Green Bay Packers, In, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, Super Bowl II, Super Bowls, That, The, The Oakland Raiders, The Pittsburgh Steelers, The Steelers
related to Legacy · 13
Immaculate Reception → Cincinnati Bengals, Football Life, Harris, Heinz Field, Heinz History Center, NFL Network's, On December, Pittsburgh International Airport, Steelers, The, The Steelers, This, Three Rivers Stadium
Announcers · 1
Immaculate Reception → Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis
Attendance · 1
Immaculate Reception → 50,327
Date · 1
Immaculate Reception → December 23, 1972
Network · 1
Immaculate Reception → NBC
Oakland Raiders (10–3–1) · 1
Immaculate Reception → Oakland Raiders (10–3–1) Pittsburgh Steelers (11–3) 7 13 Head coach: John Madden Head coach: Chuck Noll
Referee · 1
Immaculate Reception → Fred Swearingen
Stadium · 1
Immaculate Reception → Three Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

steelers game play ball raiders nfl reception pittsburgh immaculate harris pass fuqua tatum football touchdown oakland back hit first two

Immaculate Reception relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 37 structured relationships around Immaculate Reception. Examples in this analysis include Immaculate Reception → Announcers → Curt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis and Immaculate Reception → Attendance → 50,327. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Immaculate ReceptionAnnouncersCurt Gowdy and Al DeRogatis1.00infobox
Immaculate ReceptionAttendance50,3271.00infobox
Immaculate ReceptionDateDecember 23, 19721.00infobox
Immaculate ReceptionNetworkNBC1.00infobox
Immaculate ReceptionOakland Raiders (10–3–1)Oakland Raiders (10–3–1) Pittsburgh Steelers (11–3) 7 13 Head coach: John Madden Head coach: Chuck Noll1.00infobox
Immaculate ReceptionRefereeFred Swearingen1.00infobox
Immaculate ReceptionStadiumThree Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania1.00infobox
Immaculate Receptionrelated to historyThe Oakland Raiders0.60section
Immaculate Receptionrelated to historyIn0.60section
Immaculate Receptionrelated to historyAFL Championship0.60section
Immaculate Receptionrelated to historySuper Bowl II0.60section
Immaculate Receptionrelated to historyGreen Bay Packers0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Immaculate Reception bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Reception, History and Would. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Immaculate Reception
    • Reception
    • History
    • Would
    • Play
    • Raiders
    • Two
    • Football
    • Years
    • Game
    • Steelers
    • Playoff
    • Nfl
  • immaculate reception
    • Reception
    • History
    • Would
    • Play
    • Raiders
    • Two
    • Football
    • Steelers
    • Years
    • Game
    • Playoff
    • Three
  • american football
    • Harris
    • Fuqua
    • Immaculate
    • Bradshaw
    • Field
    • Nfl
    • Tatum
    • Game
    • Swearingen
    • Line
    • Reception
    • Play
  • divisional playoff game
    • Pittsburgh
    • Game
    • Playoff
    • Steelers
    • Bowl
    • Year
    • Two
    • Super
    • Oakland
    • Pennsylvania
    • Nfl
    • Tatum
  • national football league
    • Harris
    • Fuqua
    • Immaculate
    • Bradshaw
    • Field
    • Nfl
    • Tatum
    • Game
    • Swearingen
    • Line
    • Reception
    • Play
  • pittsburgh steelers
    • Oakland
    • Raiders
    • Pennsylvania
    • Three
    • John
    • Play
    • Steelers
    • Bradshaw
    • Harris
    • Reception
    • Super
    • Playoff
  • oakland raiders
    • Pittsburgh
    • Line
    • Back
    • Steelers
    • John
    • Play
    • Would
    • Three
    • Reception
    • Touchdown
    • Fuqua
    • Ball
  • pittsburgh
    • Oakland
    • Pennsylvania
    • Three
    • Steelers
    • Playoff
    • Touchdown
    • First
    • Two
    • John
    • Year
    • Line
    • Playoffs

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Immaculate Reception, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Immaculate Reception with Aftermath. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Immaculate ReceptionAftermath · splits 105 ⟂ 76
Immaculate ReceptionOverview · splits 149 ⟂ 32
Immaculate ReceptionBackground · splits 157 ⟂ 24
Immaculate ReceptionEvents of the play · splits 163 ⟂ 18
Immaculate ReceptionReferee call · splits 164 ⟂ 17
Immaculate ReceptionGame synopsis · splits 168 ⟂ 13

Map overview Semantic statistics

Immaculate Reception

Nodes181
Edges180
Triples37
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01105
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Immaculate Reception to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Events, Background & Aftermath, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Immaculate Reception · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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