As children we pretended to run the 2-minute drill all the time. I'm sure you can remember pretending to be (insert your favorite childhood QB) and maneuvering your team down the field and into the end zone as time expired.

Last minute game winning come from behind drives. It's what defines the careers of almost all of our great quarterbacks. Taking the team on your back, marching them down the field against both the defense and the clock and sticking it in the end zone. It's what NFL legends are made of.

Some of these clutch game winning moments are so memorable that they make permanent impressions in our minds; some are even given names. You can remember where you were when they happened, who was with you, the reaction of your friends and family. Many times you can recite the entire drive play by play, sometimes even remembering down and distance and time on the clock.

Tom Brady has had so many if you list them it takes away from the accomplishments because it seems to routine. Peyton Manning does it almost every week now, so much so that it's almost anticlimactic. Brett Favre's have come only he can do it, with his eyes closed throwing it as hard as he can.

But for almost every other mortal QB, even the great ones, there is one that stands out.

• John Elway had ‘The Drive.'
• Joe Montana orchestrated a march down the field that culminated with ‘The Catch.'
• Dan Marino's moment was the ‘fake spike.'
• Eli Manning engineered a fourth quarter comeback ‘drive for the ages' that concluded perhaps the greatest postseason run in NFL history as the underdog Giants upset the previously undefeated New England Patriots, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII.
• Ben Roethlisberger's 'defining moment' is hard to describe. What can you say about a game in which the longest play in Super Bowl history -- a 100-yard interception return for a touchdown by Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison -- was almost rendered a mere footnote?

And the receivers, the receivers that are associated with these legendary drives are ingrained in our heads as well. If your are old enough, I'm sure you can match each and every name below with the QB above. Go ahead, try it - I'll mix them up.....

• Dwight Clark
• David Tyree
• Santonio Holmes
• Mark Jackson
• Mark Ingram

Yesterday, Vince Young's 99- yard game winning drive and the performance on the march down the field Kenny Britt was one of those memorable performances. I wouldn't be surprised if it acquired a catchy name. Converting three fourth down conversions in a row was absolutely unbelievable.

If you didn't get a chance to see the drive, YouTube is plastered with it. I didn't post it here because the only one I saw that has the entire drive as one single feed was of poor quality.

Here is history repeated play by play as the Titans took over with 2:37 to play on their own 1 yard line..... It will certainly go down as one of the most classic finishes in NFL history.

1. Tennessee Titans get the ball on their own 1 yard-line with 2:37 remaining
2. 1-10-TEN 1(2:37) 10-V.Young pass short right to 18-K.Britt to TEN 7 for 6 yards (29-D.Rodgers-Cromartie).
3. 2-4-TEN 7(2:05) 10-V.Young pass incomplete short right to 80-B.Scaife.
4. Two-Minute Warning
5. 3-4-TEN 7(2:00) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass incomplete short right to 18-K.Britt (29-D.Rodgers-Cromartie).
6. 4-4-TEN 7(1:56) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short left to 18-K.Britt to TEN 17 for 10 yards (25-B.McFadden).
7. 1-10-TEN 17(1:36) (No Huddle, Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short middle to 80-B.Scaife to TEN 36 for 19 yards (25-B.McFadden, 24-A.Wilson).
8. 1-10-TEN 36(1:13) (No Huddle, Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short left to 87-L.Hawkins pushed ob at TEN 38 for 2 yards (25-B.McFadden).
9. 2-8-TEN 38(1:09) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short left to 89-J.Cook ran ob at 50 for 12 yards.
10. 1-10-(1:03) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass incomplete deep left to 85-N.Washington.
11. 2-10-(:57) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young scrambles right end pushed ob at ARZ 44 for 6 yards (27-M.Adams).
12. 3-4-ARI 44(:48) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass incomplete short right to 80-B.Scaife [90-D.Dockett].
13. 4-4-ARI 44(:43) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short left to 87-L.Hawkins pushed ob at ARZ 31 for 13 yards (27-M.Adams).
14. 1-10-ARI 31(:37) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short left to 80-B.Scaife ran ob at ARZ 26 for 5 yards.
15. 2-5-ARI 26(:33) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass incomplete deep left to 85-N.Washington.
16. 3-5-ARI 26(:28) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short middle to 89-J.Cook pushed ob at ARZ 9 for 17 yards (20-R.Brown).
17. Timeout #1 by ARZ at 00:21.
18. 1-9-ARI 9(:21) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass incomplete short middle to 80-B.Scaife.
19. 2-9-ARI 9(:17) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young sacked at ARZ 10 for -1 yards (sack split by 93-C.Campbell and 53-C.Haggans).
20. Timeout #2 by TEN at 00:11.
21. 3-10-ARI 10(:11) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass incomplete short middle to 85-N.Washington.
22. Timeout #3 by TEN at 00:06.
23. Timeout #2 by ARZ at 00:06.
24. 4-10-ARI 10(:06) (Shotgun) 10-V.Young pass short middle to 18-K.Britt for 10 yards, TOUCHDOWN. - David Fry

David is an independent sports photographer currently covering MLB and the NFL. David will be reporting on observations as he sees them in stadiums throughout the year.

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