Cowboys vs. Steelers highlights, score: Big Ben channels Marino on fake spike TD
We hadn't seen it in a while, and it didn't ultimately matter
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Will Brinson
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The man who invented the fake spike play was a Pittsburgh college star, and the man who brought it back was a Pittsburgh pro star.
The best play in football that never gets used because there are too many complications put the Steelers ahead of the Cowboys 30-29 (temporarily) late in the fourth quarter on a beautiful fake from Ben Roethlisberger.
🚨 FAKE SPIKE ALERT! 🚨
— NFL (@NFL) November 14, 2016
And Big Ben finds @AntonioBrown in the end zone.
WOW. #DALvsPIThttps://t.co/4GgDIDgvvS
Roethlisberger sold it perfectly, making sure to go full fake with it before lobbing the ball into the end zone.
It was more of a sell than Marino had in 1994, when, while quarterbacking the Jets, he faked a spike -- it's known as The Clock Play -- and threw a touchdown to Mark Ingram after screaming "Clock! Clock! Clock!" before the play.
The kick was never needed.
Unfortunately for the Steelers, things didn't work out quite so well. Dallas was able to march down the field and score an Ezekiel Elliott rushing touchdown that gave them the 35-30 win.
It was a heck of a game though, and it featured Big Ben pulling off one of the rarest things you'll ever see.
