What's in a name? A great catch.

Denver has “The Drive,” San Francisco has “The Catch,” and Boston College fans have the “Hail Flutie.” So, naturally, the city known as the “Big Apple” has to have a catchy nickname for one of the greatest catches in Super Bowl history: Eli Manning’s 32-yard completion to David Tyree on the last-minute drive that set up the winning touchdown in the Giants’ Super Bowl victory against the Patriots.

It took a week, but readers of Newsday came up with this: Destiny’s Catch.

Now, one could argue that it shouldn’t have taken a week to name a catch; that if the name didn’t come to mind right away, then perhaps there really wasn’t a suitable name out there.
One could argue that.

Not me, though. I just spent a week on Long Island, and I’m not about to rattle the cage of New York Giants fans.

Here are the 10 finalists:

The Perfection Connection.

Hail Manning.

The Miracle.

The Great Escape.

Destiny's Catch.

The Hail Mara.

The Hat Trick.

The Perfection Rejection.

The Dream Catch.

Eli Shuffle.

Actually, the play, in which Manning spun away from three defensive linemen, and threw a bullet to Tyree, who used his helmet to make the catch, deserves two names, and I would go with “The Great Escape,” for Manning’s shuffle, and “The Hat Trick” for Tyree’s heads up play.

Alas, only one would do, and Giant fans voted for “Destiny’s Catch.”

It sure was a perfect connection, a dream catch to Giants fans and those rooting against perfection.

I wonder if 20 years from now we’ll need just two words to remember that play.

Destiny’s catch.

Catchy.

I guess.