My son and I were there rooting for Nebraska. We were seated on the south side of the field, 100 yards from the action. Our guess was that the ball had been caught, then fumbled into the end zone and recovered by Nebraska for the touchdown. Only when we returned to the motel did we see what had really transpired. After the game we ran onto the field and mixed with the Husker players. My son who was 16 at the time happened across Matt Davidson and shook his hand. At that time, we didn't know Matt had caught the ball.
We were there for a football tournament. Im from Iowa and a huge husker fan. Our coach got the whole team tickets to the game. It was crazy down there. I had a classy Missouri fan who was in his 40s threaten to punch me because I was jumping and screaming with joy.
A blast from the past!💪🏼💥 I remember this game as it was yesterday. I was living in Omaha, Nebraska during this time. Now Scott Frost is the Cornhuskers head coach...let’s get back to greatness!🏈🔥 Boom!
I was 10 years old when I watched this game live! I will always be a true husker fan for life because of best fans and legacy that college football will ever have. GBR!
I ran the camera that was shooting Larry Smith that day! I felt so bad for him! They were 1 play away form their biggest win to that point! I'm going to miss working with Brent Musburger!
There are some interesting facts about this game. If the ball had hit the ground, the game wasn't actually over. This was 3rd down. There were 1, possible even 2 seconds left on the clock as the ball hit the ground. Now, home cooking may have gotten the game over with (clock operator lets it run) so it's hard to say there. Also, this was the season where Michigan was #1 going into the bowl games in both the AP and Coaches polls, and after a resounding victory over Tennessee and Peyton Manning 42-17, and Michigan's lackluster win over Washington by a single score, the coaches voted for Nebraska at number one. Many Michigan fans and a few in the media lamented "A number one team should never be passed over by a team underneath them, even if the win is close". Most don't seem to know, or tend to ignore the fact, that Nebraska going into the Missouri game was number one in the coaches poll. After beating Missouri, Michigan leapfrogged Nebraska into the number one position. Pretty much ruins the argument for Michigan fans when Nebraska jumped back up to number one at the end of the season, now doesn't it?
Clown. What was Mi's closest win IN REGULATION over whom and what were both teams ranked? LOL What was Neb's closest win IN OVERTIME over whom and what were they ranked. I guess Neb "off campus cheating" fans would believe 5 opportunities at MO is = Michigans 4 against WSU. And LOL, Wiki sees the end differently than your frail attempt to give Nebraska another opportunity because according to you there was more time. From wiki, "The ball immediately shot down and hit a Missouri safety in the foot and popped back in the air. Then Missouri safety Julian Jones tackled Wiggins as time expired." and Never, Ever forget MI was 10 times closer to outright NC than Neb in 97. MI 3 votes away Neb 31 votes away.
A miracle ending that still shouldn't have counted since he cradled the ball using the ground. This play would've been an incomplete pass if it were today.
Nebraska beats Michigan by 4 tds if they played! Michigan barely beat a mediocre Washington state team! Nebraska beat a Tennessee 42-21 oh yeah what was that QB'S name Tennessee had Peyton Manning! Manning should've won the Heisman that year! Charles Woodson had no business winning that trophy!
@@dashx1103 Very likely. Nebraska had a completely one-dimensional offense, a run offense. Michigan had the best run stop defense in college football. On the other side of the ball, many teams ran up points on Nebraska, particularly their shared opponents: Colorado and Baylor. Michigan held both to 3 points in blow outs. Nebraska gave up a combined 45 points to them. They also went to OT with unranked Missouri, and were losing at halftime to non-power 5, unranked UCF! Their D was highly overhyped, especially when you take into account some of the horrible offenses they faced: Kansas and Iowa State come to mind. In game, Michigan contains Nebraska’s run game, gets a lead and forces Nebraska to throw, and Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson takes over with a lot of stops and probably a pick or two. Michigan wins by 13.
@@dashx1103 Based on what, your wet dream? They shared two opponents that year. Look at how those games went…. Nebraska struggled against unranked teams, and required an illegal kick to even be in the conversation. Had Osborne not retired and had Peyton Manning won the Heisman, Nebraska wouldn’t even have been in the discussion.
From Wikipedia: "In college football, the Flea Kicker was a legendary play executed by the Nebraska Cornhuskers against the Missouri Tigers on November 8, 1997 that sent the game into overtime and resulted in a win for the Cornhuskers who went on to share the NCAA Division I-A National Championship with the Michigan Wolverines."
Flea Flicker is the name of a play designed to fool the defensive team into thinking that a play is a run instead of a pass. It can be considered an extreme variant of the play action pass and an extension of the halfback option play. This specific play was called "The Flea Kicker". It's a play on words. So what if you remember watching the game. I was at the game.
As long as there's a receiver in the area it's not grounding. The passer can legally “ground” the ball if he throws it into an area where there is an eligible teammate. The eligible receiver does not need to have a "reasonable opportunity" of catching the ball. That means it can be 20 feet over his head.
I don't know if ESPN still does this every year, but it was from some end of the year college football wrap up where they would hand out all the individual awards of that season.
I was at that game. I was at the other end of the field so it wasn't clear what happened. We thought Wiggins caught it initially. We just saw the touchdown signal and starting celebrating.
Everybody is a little upset, this specific play IN THIS GAME is called the Flea KICKER because one of our receiver kicked the ball up and then it was caught by another receiver. The plays actual name in any other game is called a Flea FLICKER. Much like other plays have special names like "The Immaculate Reception". Everybody is right.
I don't know if this is true but I heard after the game they got on the bus and Tom Osborne remarked to Matt Davison, "Nice catch, Matt." It sounds like what Tom would say.
@klank99 the REASON NU didn't play UM for the national championship wasn't on NU. being in the big10 at the time, UM HAD to play in the rosebowl against the pac10 champion no matter what. don't blame that on NU and take away our undefeated championship season because of that. we wanted to play UM, we wanted to play anybody. unfortunately UM and the Big10 couldn't make that happen. same exact thing goes for Penn St in 1994. both seasons we played the #3 team cause u couldnt play us!
Since 1936, the AP is the more prestigious poll bec coaches don't have time to follow what the writers and broadcasters can. NEB did not win the AP in 97.
@@robjohnson8861 If you think the AP poll in the pre BCS-CFP era was the only poll that mattered---then you don't know anything about CFB. Nebraska won the title in 97. Michigan also won it. It's not complicated. Vegas said Nebraska would be about a TD favorite over Michigan btw.
something clever don’t argue with Rob. He thinks he knows everything even though he doesn’t. I’ve watched College Football all my life. Nebraska was a National Champion. Osborne wanted to play Michigan that year just he wanted to Penn State in 1994. He wanted to settle it on the field. If the Big Ten wasn’t greedy about this, we could of had a couple great National Championship games
@@sorney98 ok, stupid shit for brains. Let go by total votes. AP MI 51, Neb 18, MI won 74% Coaches MI 30, Neb 32, Neb won 52% Total MI 81, Neb 50 MI won 62%. almost 2 out of every 3.
@klank99 Both the Big 8 head of officals and the NCAA head of officials stated that the play had been called correctly. NCAA rules say -player may use any part of his body to try and bring the ball under his control.
dont be too sure of that. we got a highly ranked recruiting class comin in and a 5 star QB. we could be in title talks a couple of years from now.
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People can complain about the ball being illegally kicked into the air on that last play, but no one wants to admit that the receiver was interfered with, and there should have been an interference penalty called on that play.
There wasn't any pass interference there. He hit him exactly when the ball got there, if not a fraction of a second early. It would have been like the national championship of Ohio State and Miami, whether or not it was pass interference is debatable, but in the situation it was far too close to call, so pass interference wasn't really there
Anybody complaining about the ball getting booted in the air needs to watch the rest of the game. Refs left their flags in their pockets and Mizzou got away with a ton, would have been hypocritical and just plain unfair to flag us there.
@klank99 Please tell me what is illegal about this play. BTW if 1997 Nebraska had played Michigan, Michigan's national championship drought be 62 years.
What rule did they break? The NCAA rulebook says that a team is penalized for an *intentional* illegal kick, and if there is any question as to whether the kick was intentional or not, it should be ruled accidental. I don't think there's any way you can watch that play and say that the kick was obviously intentional.
Pat Lynch but not to someone else... you can’t kick the ball to advance it or to get it to someone else. The guy who kicked said he intentionally did it... which is illegal
@@noeldimaggiojr101 he didn't kick it to himself seeing as how another person caught it. Once you kick it and someone else catches it, it's not to himself. The rule is about reality, not about what the player says his intention was seeing as how that would make it possible to break the rule as long as you say that you meant to kick it to yourself...like what happened.
@@GeoJesse Any court would rule in favor of a legal catch. There were two competing rules. A player can use any part of his body and a player can't kick the ball. Find the part of the rule where it has to be to himself. Yes, he said what he said......*"after the game."*
Right, it's like throwing the ball away out of bounds. It's technically against the rules, but qbs do it all the time if no receivers are open, just has to be somewhat justifiable and is only called if the qb chucks it 10 rows up without any receiver in the same zip code. Are qbs cheating when they throw the ball away rather than take a sack?
We are, Okie, so suck it. Plus, it was only 3rd down, and had the play been called a penalty, it would have been dead as soon as an official threw his flag and there still would have been time on the clock. Although with home town timing officials, they probably would have let the clock run out.
You are correct. Nebraska is (0-1) against Ole Miss & (0-1) against Arkansas. It is kind of bizzare that Nebraska didn't play Arkansas more, but I guess they were in different conferences (Southwest vs Big 8).
Probably the best way to sum up what I am saying about Nebraska losing to Power Running, Play Action Passing, Passing, football teams is this. 9 out of 10 times Nebraska will lose to Iowa, and Wisconsin and Alabama, Nebraska had no answer for UCLA back when UCLA played this style of football and they were an equal calibur team in the 1980's. In my lifetime Nebraska has lost 9 out of 10 games against Stanford and Auburn and California and Oregon, for the reason I mentioned above.
actually BBrinkNU, the guy who actually kicked the ball admitted that he did it on purpose so it should have been a penalty. Also later he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 14 year old, so im glad Nebraska has such great sport icons.
I WAS THERE !!!!!....ME AND MY DAD ,IT WAS FREEZING 🥶 AND WE WERE THE ONLY WHAT SEEMED LIKE HUSKER FANS IN THE CROWD...... EVERYONE RUSHED THE FIELD AND MY DAD YELLING ITS GOOD ITS GOOD BABY !!!!!!.......
@klank99 Illegal play? Not according to the NCAA. Michigan barely beat on overated Washington State and Nebraska beat a Great Tennesse that won the National Title the very next season.
@IamthatdudeBanks true boise had trouble vs air force, but how many good teams have trouble with a option/veer type offense first time playing it? it was the first year boise played a complete option offense in air force. in 2010, OU bearly beat AF 27-24 and they were ranked 7th. in 2011 a 5-7 navy barely lost to #10 south Car 24-21. Navy also came a 2 point convert short of a possible upset of #6 Ohio State in 2009. Boise lost to tcu cuz of the kicker... Boise woulda crushed northwestern EASY!
You're kidding right? Penn State was blown out three times in 1997. Michigan 34-8, Michigan State 49-14 and Florida 21-6. Penn State beat mighty 3-9 Minnesota by one point. Tenn lost one regular season game to #1 ranked Florida(game time). Michigan got a share beause they hadn't one a NC since 1947.
Please refer to the various subsections of 7.3.2 in the NCAA rulebook to see the actual NCAA rule on throwing out of bounds as your interpretation is incorrect / incomplete.
@Blastfimine80 can you tell me the last time boise state lost TO A 3-5 NORTHWESTERN??? boise state lost against a one loss nevada team that finished the year 11th in the polls and this year they lost to tcu who will probably finish in the top 15 in the polls. you guarantee that boise would have two or three loses a year but what about nebraska: 2011: 8-3(for now) 2010: 10-4, 09: 10-4, 08: 9-4, 07: 5-7, 06: 9-5 (Neb lost to OU 21-7 while BSU beat OU...just sayin)
Against Neb: Manning 134, A&M the game before 264, CO the game before that 362. Avg against Neb:189. Manning, for most of his career, inc NFL, sucked when it matted. 14-13 in playoffs (60th in win % and he is just 3 yrs retired). History will be cruel on his stat.
@@robjohnson8861 Wins aren't a quarterback stat. Forget that Manning had awful defenses most of his time on the Colts, whereas Brady had mutiple top 10 defenses during that time. It makes a large difference.
@coolcam28 I don't know why you removed your comment. Boise State could be Pac 10/12 team someday. The Boise State fan I was commenting back to knew nothing about the Huskers or their records vs. other teams. Good luck this year.
Hells ya!!! You guys didn't know about the "intentionally kick the ball up in the air while lying on your back" play? NU had been working on that for weeks before this game. Mizzou really should have prepared a little better. Actually, NU has run this exact same play at least a dozen times since.
it happened to us last year. basically with the BCS if youre gonna lose, lose early and u still may have some title hopes. yall shouldnt have fired frank solich, and never hired callahan. solich had that one bad year, the other years yall was still pretty good even went to the nat'l championship. pelini should be good for ya'll
ftball1999-Why is it hard to believe?? Nebraska was DOMINANT in the 90's. We've always had a good team. The only thing that's hard to believe is the disasterous era of Callahan, who single handedly destroyed our program. It's okay, I understand, you're envious. And now we have Pelini. Playing with Callahan's recruits and going 9-4, not bad. It's called restoration, and the Huskers are back. Fear the red, baby!!! Go Big Red!!!
Odd thing is, had the pass been incomplete there probably should have been one second left. Should have been one second left anyway. Imagine if Missouri returns the kickoff for a touchdown after this play.
@gooseballz86 we just won the holiday bowl and are ranked in the preseason top ten, won every major defensive trophy last year, and had a Heisman candidate. Can't wait to stomp you tigers in Lincoln this year, Go Big Red
My son and I were there rooting for Nebraska. We were seated on the south side of the field, 100 yards from the action. Our guess was that the ball had been caught, then fumbled into the end zone and recovered by Nebraska for the touchdown. Only when we returned to the motel did we see what had really transpired. After the game we ran onto the field and mixed with the Husker players. My son who was 16 at the time happened across Matt Davidson and shook his hand. At that time, we didn't know Matt had caught the ball.
I was 13 at the time and had to go run around in the yard for an hour after this game. The 90's were a good time.
We were there for a football tournament. Im from Iowa and a huge husker fan. Our coach got the whole team tickets to the game. It was crazy down there. I had a classy Missouri fan who was in his 40s threaten to punch me because I was jumping and screaming with joy.
Husker football in the 90s was great to experience as a kid. I remember being able to hear the whole neighborhood cheering on Saturdays.
Oh yeah, bars filled up. You could hear a touchdown all across nebraska no matter the household.
The look on Larry Smith's face - may he rest in peace - was classic
A blast from the past!💪🏼💥 I remember this game as it was yesterday. I was living in Omaha, Nebraska during this time. Now Scott Frost is the Cornhuskers head coach...let’s get back to greatness!🏈🔥 Boom!
I'm sure it will be GREAT!!!!
I was 10 years old when I watched this game live! I will always be a true husker fan for life because of best fans and legacy that college football will ever have. GBR!
I was watching this with my brothers and we did a celebration around the house for about 3 straight minutes.
I ran the camera that was shooting Larry Smith that day! I felt so bad for him! They were 1 play away form their biggest win to that point! I'm going to miss working with Brent Musburger!
I was 14 in 1997 with a white Nebraska jersey on I was like yes.
I remember this game, sports announcers said Penn state and michigan was the game of the day, they were wrong.
THANK YOU for posting this... I've been looking for a video of this play for years!
I went to one college football game in my life and this was it...:D
mahuer and henry are the best klickers eva
Great classic. And Musburger at his best in commetary!
There are some interesting facts about this game. If the ball had hit the ground, the game wasn't actually over. This was 3rd down. There were 1, possible even 2 seconds left on the clock as the ball hit the ground. Now, home cooking may have gotten the game over with (clock operator lets it run) so it's hard to say there. Also, this was the season where Michigan was #1 going into the bowl games in both the AP and Coaches polls, and after a resounding victory over Tennessee and Peyton Manning 42-17, and Michigan's lackluster win over Washington by a single score, the coaches voted for Nebraska at number one.
Many Michigan fans and a few in the media lamented "A number one team should never be passed over by a team underneath them, even if the win is close". Most don't seem to know, or tend to ignore the fact, that Nebraska going into the Missouri game was number one in the coaches poll. After beating Missouri, Michigan leapfrogged Nebraska into the number one position. Pretty much ruins the argument for Michigan fans when Nebraska jumped back up to number one at the end of the season, now doesn't it?
Clown.
What was Mi's closest win IN REGULATION over whom and what were both teams ranked?
LOL
What was Neb's closest win IN OVERTIME over whom and what were they ranked.
I guess Neb "off campus cheating" fans would believe 5 opportunities at MO is = Michigans 4 against WSU.
And LOL,
Wiki sees the end differently than your frail attempt to give Nebraska another opportunity because according to you there was more time.
From wiki, "The ball immediately shot down and hit a Missouri safety in the foot and popped back in the air. Then Missouri safety Julian Jones tackled Wiggins as time expired."
and Never, Ever forget
MI was 10 times closer to outright NC than Neb in 97.
MI 3 votes away
Neb 31 votes away.
17 Missouri fans must have stumbled across this.
19 now
and michigan fans :p
John Cate 48 today
@@sorney98 50
Im one of those mizzou fans :(
Sorry to see Nebraska leave the Big 12. It was getting to be a lot of fun the past 5 years.
A miracle ending that still shouldn't have counted since he cradled the ball using the ground. This play would've been an incomplete pass if it were today.
They’ve reviewed it since then and it’s a catch. Cry some more
@@BigDawg31675fax. You can clearly see his hands under the ball.
Ball has to touch the ground to be incomplete, not the receiver's hands
You couldn't be more wrong if your crack went sideways.
I was at that game!
No one ever mentions that it should have been a dead play due to Frost moving before the ball was snapped
Michigan should have been outright championions in 97
Nebraska beats Michigan by 4 tds if they played! Michigan barely beat a mediocre Washington state team! Nebraska beat a Tennessee 42-21 oh yeah what was that QB'S name Tennessee had Peyton Manning! Manning should've won the Heisman that year! Charles Woodson had no business winning that trophy!
Where did it "clearly" hit the turf? What does laying on his back have to do with anything? Would you please cite the rule? Thanks.
This is why we always should've had a 1 vs 2 championship game (Or even better, a playoff!). I would've killed to see NEB vs UofM for a title.
Michigan would have kicked their teeth in.
@@danielchester7974 Unlikely.
@@dashx1103
Very likely. Nebraska had a completely one-dimensional offense, a run offense. Michigan had the best run stop defense in college football.
On the other side of the ball, many teams ran up points on Nebraska, particularly their shared opponents: Colorado and Baylor.
Michigan held both to 3 points in blow outs. Nebraska gave up a combined 45 points to them. They also went to OT with unranked Missouri, and were losing at halftime to non-power 5, unranked UCF! Their D was highly overhyped, especially when you take into account some of the horrible offenses they faced: Kansas and Iowa State come to mind.
In game, Michigan contains Nebraska’s run game, gets a lead and forces Nebraska to throw, and Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson takes over with a lot of stops and probably a pick or two. Michigan wins by 13.
@@DeshCanter NU by 21.
@@dashx1103 Based on what, your wet dream? They shared two opponents that year. Look at how those games went….
Nebraska struggled against unranked teams, and required an illegal kick to even be in the conversation.
Had Osborne not retired and had Peyton Manning won the Heisman, Nebraska wouldn’t even have been in the discussion.
Poor Missouri. They also had the fifth down play go against them.
From Wikipedia: "In college football, the Flea Kicker was a legendary play executed by the Nebraska Cornhuskers against the Missouri Tigers on November 8, 1997 that sent the game into overtime and resulted in a win for the Cornhuskers who went on to share the NCAA Division I-A National Championship with the Michigan Wolverines."
Still get goosebumps to this day!!!!
Flea Flicker is the name of a play designed to fool the defensive team into thinking that a play is a run instead of a pass. It can be considered an extreme variant of the play action pass and an extension of the halfback option play.
This specific play was called "The Flea Kicker". It's a play on words. So what if you remember watching the game. I was at the game.
Welcome back, Scott
I was really young but I remember be so upset that Nebraska was about to lose this game that my dad sent me to my room....then this! ☝️
As long as there's a receiver in the area it's not grounding. The passer can legally “ground” the ball if he throws it into an area
where there is an eligible teammate. The eligible receiver does not need to have a "reasonable opportunity" of catching the ball. That means it can be 20 feet over his head.
I don't know if ESPN still does this every year, but it was from some end of the year college football wrap up where they would hand out all the individual awards of that season.
@rainbows2013 Suh was 10 when this game was played, what the hell does he have to do with it?
You don't quit until you hear the whistle blow and you guys walking around like the game was done haha bites you in the ass haha
that was the greatest play of all time
I was at that game. I was at the other end of the field so it wasn't clear what happened. We thought Wiggins caught it initially. We just saw the touchdown signal and starting celebrating.
Everybody is a little upset, this specific play IN THIS GAME is called the Flea KICKER because one of our receiver kicked the ball up and then it was caught by another receiver. The plays actual name in any other game is called a Flea FLICKER. Much like other plays have special names like "The Immaculate Reception". Everybody is right.
I don't know if this is true but I heard after the game they got on the bus and Tom Osborne remarked to Matt Davison, "Nice catch, Matt." It sounds like what Tom would say.
The mussirri coach though 😂😂🖐️🖐️
@klank99
the REASON NU didn't play UM for the national championship wasn't on NU. being in the big10 at the time, UM HAD to play in the rosebowl against the pac10 champion no matter what. don't blame that on NU and take away our undefeated championship season because of that. we wanted to play UM, we wanted to play anybody. unfortunately UM and the Big10 couldn't make that happen. same exact thing goes for Penn St in 1994. both seasons we played the #3 team cause u couldnt play us!
Mizzou lost on big plays twice. They never catch a break!
Good riddance. Safe space babies.
Davison, not Davidson.
damn does your vcr have tracking?
@IamthatdudeBanks and how do you know that? are you some kinda psychyc with your crystal ball?
If Auburn can even play for a title with two miracle plays, then yes, Nebraska can deserve the title it won in 1997.
Since 1936, the AP is the more prestigious poll bec coaches don't have time to follow what the writers and broadcasters can. NEB did not win the AP in 97.
@@robjohnson8861 If you think the AP poll in the pre BCS-CFP era was the only poll that mattered---then you don't know anything about CFB. Nebraska won the title in 97. Michigan also won it. It's not complicated. Vegas said Nebraska would be about a TD favorite over Michigan btw.
something clever don’t argue with Rob. He thinks he knows everything even though he doesn’t. I’ve watched College Football all my life. Nebraska was a National Champion. Osborne wanted to play Michigan that year just he wanted to Penn State in 1994. He wanted to settle it on the field. If the Big Ten wasn’t greedy about this, we could of had a couple great National Championship games
Rob Johnson AP is not as prestigious as you think it is or was.
@@sorney98 ok, stupid shit for brains.
Let go by total votes.
AP
MI 51, Neb 18, MI won 74%
Coaches
MI 30, Neb 32, Neb won 52%
Total
MI 81, Neb 50
MI won 62%. almost 2 out of every 3.
@klank99 Both the Big 8 head of officals and the NCAA head of officials stated that the play had been called correctly. NCAA rules say -player may use any part of his body to try and bring the ball under his control.
Regardless, they had trouble with WSU and Leaf and Nebraska was head and shoulders above WSU. National Champs, if you recall.
davidson was a public speaker at my school about a month ago... hes amazing as is all the other huskers
dont be too sure of that. we got a highly ranked recruiting class comin in and a 5 star QB. we could be in title talks a couple of years from now.
People can complain about the ball being illegally kicked into the air on that last play, but no one wants to admit that the receiver was interfered with, and there should have been an interference penalty called on that play.
There wasn't any pass interference there. He hit him exactly when the ball got there, if not a fraction of a second early. It would have been like the national championship of Ohio State and Miami, whether or not it was pass interference is debatable, but in the situation it was far too close to call, so pass interference wasn't really there
Anybody complaining about the ball getting booted in the air needs to watch the rest of the game. Refs left their flags in their pockets and Mizzou got away with a ton, would have been hypocritical and just plain unfair to flag us there.
Actually, on the previous play, there was a blatant DPI in the end zone. Nebraska should have had the ball on the 1-yard on that play.
These Nebraska teams would get destroyed today.
@klank99 Please tell me what is illegal about this play. BTW if 1997 Nebraska had played Michigan, Michigan's national championship drought be 62 years.
I don't even watch college football; but that was amazing.
What rule did they break? The NCAA rulebook says that a team is penalized for an *intentional* illegal kick, and if there is any question as to whether the kick was intentional or not, it should be ruled accidental. I don't think there's any way you can watch that play and say that the kick was obviously intentional.
It was not an "illegal" kick! The receiver can use every part of their body to try to make a catch.
Pat Lynch but not to someone else... you can’t kick the ball to advance it or to get it to someone else. The guy who kicked said he intentionally did it... which is illegal
Jesse Pugh yes, he said he intentionally kicked it. so how did you miss him say he intentionally kicked it to himself?
@@noeldimaggiojr101 he didn't kick it to himself seeing as how another person caught it. Once you kick it and someone else catches it, it's not to himself. The rule is about reality, not about what the player says his intention was seeing as how that would make it possible to break the rule as long as you say that you meant to kick it to yourself...like what happened.
@@GeoJesse Any court would rule in favor of a legal catch. There were two competing rules.
A player can use any part of his body and a player can't kick the ball. Find the part of the rule where it has to be to himself. Yes, he said what he said......*"after the game."*
Memories. =D
No, it's not illegal to throw the ball way out of bounds. It's only illegal if you're avoiding a sack.
Right, it's like throwing the ball away out of bounds. It's technically against the rules, but qbs do it all the time if no receivers are open, just has to be somewhat justifiable and is only called if the qb chucks it 10 rows up without any receiver in the same zip code. Are qbs cheating when they throw the ball away rather than take a sack?
We are, Okie, so suck it. Plus, it was only 3rd down, and had the play been called a penalty, it would have been dead as soon as an official threw his flag and there still would have been time on the clock. Although with home town timing officials, they probably would have let the clock run out.
How they been doing for the past 5 years lol?
wow i didnt know that the teams were the same in 05 as they were in 97... 8 years earlier
@SuperBrown789 NCAA rules say -player may use any part of his body to try and bring the ball under his control
You are correct. Nebraska is (0-1) against Ole Miss & (0-1) against Arkansas. It is kind of bizzare that Nebraska didn't play Arkansas more, but I guess they were in different conferences (Southwest vs Big 8).
Probably the best way to sum up what I am saying about Nebraska losing to Power Running, Play Action Passing, Passing, football teams is this. 9 out of 10 times Nebraska will lose to Iowa, and Wisconsin and Alabama, Nebraska had no answer for UCLA back when UCLA played this style of football and they were an equal calibur team in the 1980's. In my lifetime Nebraska has lost 9 out of 10 games against Stanford and Auburn and California and Oregon, for the reason I mentioned above.
@hailhopes Of course it isn't a flea flicker, it's just a play on words since the ball was kicked.
actually BBrinkNU, the guy who actually kicked the ball admitted that he did it on purpose so it should have been a penalty. Also later he was arrested for sexually assaulting a 14 year old, so im glad Nebraska has such great sport icons.
I WAS THERE !!!!!....ME AND MY DAD ,IT WAS FREEZING 🥶 AND WE WERE THE ONLY WHAT SEEMED LIKE HUSKER FANS IN THE CROWD...... EVERYONE RUSHED THE FIELD AND MY DAD YELLING ITS GOOD ITS GOOD BABY !!!!!!.......
why is it called the flea kicker?
It’s a wordplay on flea flicker where you toss the ball to someone else to throw the defense off
when did fsu last have a decent team??
i watched this as a kid. best catch ive ever seen. GO HUSKERS!
I was also 13 and I cried at the dinner table that night haha
@klank99 Illegal play? Not according to the NCAA. Michigan barely beat on overated Washington State and Nebraska beat a Great Tennesse that won the National Title the very next season.
@IamthatdudeBanks true boise had trouble vs air force, but how many good teams have trouble with a option/veer type offense first time playing it? it was the first year boise played a complete option offense in air force. in 2010, OU bearly beat AF 27-24 and they were ranked 7th. in 2011 a 5-7 navy barely lost to #10 south Car 24-21. Navy also came a 2 point convert short of a possible upset of #6 Ohio State in 2009. Boise lost to tcu cuz of the kicker... Boise woulda crushed northwestern EASY!
You're kidding right? Penn State was blown out three times in 1997. Michigan 34-8, Michigan State 49-14 and Florida 21-6. Penn State beat mighty 3-9 Minnesota by one point. Tenn lost one regular season game to #1 ranked Florida(game time). Michigan got a share beause they hadn't one a NC since 1947.
it does say flea kicker not flea flicker
Please refer to the various subsections of 7.3.2 in the NCAA rulebook to see the actual NCAA rule on throwing out of bounds as your interpretation is incorrect / incomplete.
In light of that game Missouri tiger fans are mad as hell at the end of the game
It ended up a lot closer than you thought it would though, didn't it Inferno?
@Blastfimine80 can you tell me the last time boise state lost TO A 3-5 NORTHWESTERN??? boise state lost against a one loss nevada team that finished the year 11th in the polls and this year they lost to tcu who will probably finish in the top 15 in the polls. you guarantee that boise would have two or three loses a year but what about nebraska: 2011: 8-3(for now) 2010: 10-4, 09: 10-4, 08: 9-4, 07: 5-7, 06: 9-5 (Neb lost to OU 21-7 while BSU beat OU...just sayin)
Still, 21 years later, arguably greatest play in college football history.
Nah, the hook n ladder on Oklahoma was better
Based upon what? Michigan had trouble with Ryan Leaf and WSU, while Nebraska soundly defeated Peyton Manning and a much better Tennessee team.
Against Neb: Manning 134, A&M the game before 264, CO the game before that 362. Avg against Neb:189. Manning, for most of his career, inc NFL, sucked when it matted. 14-13 in playoffs (60th in win % and he is just 3 yrs retired). History will be cruel on his stat.
@@robjohnson8861 Wins aren't a quarterback stat. Forget that Manning had awful defenses most of his time on the Colts, whereas Brady had mutiple top 10 defenses during that time. It makes a large difference.
Let's overlook the PI on Wiggins, shall we? lol Half the distance to the goal and play 3rd down again.
why was that the final play? if he didnt catch it there would have been 2 secoinds left
Yes, actually 3. The clock kept ticking.
:O wow what a play
back when football pads were big
Lol
@coolcam28 I don't know why you removed your comment. Boise State could be Pac 10/12 team someday.
The Boise State fan I was commenting back to knew nothing about the Huskers or their records vs. other teams. Good luck this year.
Hells ya!!! You guys didn't know about the "intentionally kick the ball up in the air while lying on your back" play? NU had been working on that for weeks before this game. Mizzou really should have prepared a little better. Actually, NU has run this exact same play at least a dozen times since.
that just proves how fast we think and react to thing, by the way, EVERYBODY BLEEDS HUSKER RED
it happened to us last year. basically with the BCS if youre gonna lose, lose early and u still may have some title hopes. yall shouldnt have fired frank solich, and never hired callahan. solich had that one bad year, the other years yall was still pretty good even went to the nat'l championship. pelini should be good for ya'll
ftball1999-Why is it hard to believe?? Nebraska was DOMINANT in the 90's. We've always had a good team. The only thing that's hard to believe is the disasterous era of Callahan, who single handedly destroyed our program. It's okay, I understand, you're envious. And now we have Pelini. Playing with Callahan's recruits and going 9-4, not bad. It's called restoration, and the Huskers are back. Fear the red, baby!!! Go Big Red!!!
Shevin wiggins beer tab is at infinity
That's not the first Cornhusker Kickback, nor was it the last!
I think you mean DOCTOR Osborne. MU was a contender in the North...10 years later. Very funny.
Odd thing is, had the pass been incomplete there probably should have been one second left. Should have been one second left anyway. Imagine if Missouri returns the kickoff for a touchdown after this play.
Yes, he did. What is it about "it's a judgment call" don't you understand?
that was when Nebraska was good. i think they will get better
Not illegal, tried to catch it using his feet, perfectly legal play.
william biodrowski he literally admitted he kicked it to get the other guy to catch it. Illegal play
Jesse Pugh he “literally” admitted the intention was to kick it back to himself
Remember seeing this and saying wtf did I just watch
Stomped on?
@gooseballz86 we just won the holiday bowl and are ranked in the preseason top ten, won every major defensive trophy last year, and had a Heisman candidate. Can't wait to stomp you tigers in Lincoln this year, Go Big Red
I said when they were in the big east! They weren't in the big east in the 80's! I thought you knew that already.