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PHOENIX -- Morris Berman, whose photograph of a bloodied Y.A. Tittle kneeling in the end zone ranks among the most famous images in sports history, has died. He was 92.
Berman died Sunday in suburban Sun City of congestive heart failure, said Randi Braford, his stepdaughter.
While working for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1964, he took the photo of the New York Giants' quarterback in the end zone after he was sacked by John Baker of the Pittsburgh Steelers. It turned out to be the last game of Tittle's career.
"His photo editor wouldn't run the picture in the newspaper because it didn't have any action in it," said Greg Garneau, executive director of the National Press Photographers Association.
The photograph was subsequently published and became a sports icon, Garneau said.
It won the National Headliner award for best sport photograph in 1964 and now hangs in the National Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
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Have you ever seen that picture? Btw, my family knew your great executive George Young pretty well. He was quite a smart guy.
YA Tittle was a childhood hero of my father's. His Church would sponsor one trip to Yankee stadium a year to watch the Giants from up in the bleachers.
I was born in '76, so the Steelers were at Three Rivers for much of my life. Did they play at Forbes field prior to that?
Great photo!