ESPN says Tyree's "leaping hands-clasped-in-prayer, football-atop-helmet snare of a Manning third-down heave" made Tyree "a Super Bowl legend."

"I never said that I was the best receiver or, you know, the greatest receiver," the now-retired Tyree, 31, recalled one morning last August in his New Jersey home. He works primarily with the International Children's Support Foundation these days.

"I felt like I was the guy [who], when given the opportunity, was going to make the play."

See NOM's exclusive interview with him this afternoon. 3 p.m.