VINE: This ‘Hail-Mary’ pass ends in miracle 51-yard touchdown

This is the very definition of hit and hope and it somehow worked. Maybe it's a Christmas miracle come early.

This is the American football equivalent of a long ball into the box in the 90th minute and hoping that a 'John O Shea' like figure might be able to turn it home to grab any sort of result from the jaws of defeat. And you know sometimes miracles do happen. That's the only way to describe this mother of all Hail-Mary passes that saw UCF Knights beat East Carolina Pirates on Thursday night with the final play of the night. With the time up and the Knights down 30-26, Justin Holman decide to invoke whatever gods are up there and launch a monster pass into the endzone.

Despite two Pirates players around the goal line, the pass managed to elude both, and it landed in the grateful arms of Breshad Perriman for the game-winning 51-yard touchdown.

Here's another close-up angle