| Date of birth: | October 26, 1947 |
| Place of birth: | Rocky Mount, NC |
| Date of death: | April 7, 2006 (aged 58) |
| Place of death: | Greensboro, NC |
| Career information | |
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| Position(s): | Center Guard |
| College: | Wake Forest |
| NFL Draft: | 1971 / Round: 5 / Pick: 106 |
| Organizations | |
| As player: | |
| 1971–1977 1978–1981 |
Pittsburgh Steelers New York Giants |
| Playing stats at NFL.com | |
James Thomas Clack (October 26, 1947–April 7, 2006) was an American football guard in the National Football League. He played for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1981. He died of heart failure in 2006, after a four-year battle with cancer.
Clack graduated from Wake Forest University. He began his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he was part of two Super Bowl championship teams in 1974 and 1975.
In April 1978, the Steelers traded Clack (along with wide receiver Ernie Pough to the New York Giants in exchange for offensive lineman John Hicks.[1] Clack spent four seasons with the Giants.
It was his snap that Joe Pisarcik fumbled away to Herman Edwards at the end of the November 19, 1978 game between the Giants and Edwards' Philadelphia Eagles at Giants Stadium, costing the team a certain victory in a play since known as "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" to Eagles' fans and "The Fumble" to Giants' fans (Clack had snapped it earlier than Pisarcik, still trying to get his team on board a controversial play call, expected due to the imminent expiration of the play clock).
Clack was inducted into the Wake Forest's hall of fame in 1981, and into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.
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