This intro has to be one of the best there is. It's a perfect example of what college football is all about. Dreams of playing for your favorite school begin in the backyard sandlot games.
I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was freshman in high school and couldn’t wait for the game all week. Still think this is the best opening to a college football game!
SAME! I was a Freshman, and I couldn't wait for this game... I still have it on VHS!! (Not that it is necessary anymore...) Best Opening AND the best Finish! Go Irish!
wow....I mean WOW... You don't understand...this had me wiping tears away...I didn't realize how great the intro was back then. This is perfect...They don't have football coverage like that anymore... That's it...I am going to write NBC and tell them that either on Saturday, November 10th or on Wednesday, November 13th of 2013, they should play this game in its entirety. This is the greatest game ever...No doubt about it.
yeah that got me almost mistyeyed listening to bob costas watching the video especially the distant voice and your special parts i wish college football in 2023 would make those type of intros to big games like back in 1993.
my son was 1 yrs old when WE watched this game. he's now 16 yrs old...6'3 210 lbs. and plays right guard on offense on one of the best programs in the state. it's amazing to watch him grow into a man with decent values and respect. where did he learn this? just ask his golden domer MOTHER. i'm just the dad!
this is when college football was awesome..before the bcs screwed it all up, before ed obannon, before targeting penalties, before twitter, before rivals, etc.... this was the pinnacle of the greatest era in the history of college football.
88cutty You ain't kidding, when EVERY Bowl game meant something and all the Majors were played on NY Eve or NY Day. Oh, and don't forget to add Replay to your list. I believe Officials have gotten worse due to the ability to check the video, which somehow still ends up being incorrect at times. Conferences should have had to stay @ 8 or 10 teams and they have to play each one BEFORE adding their bogus out of conference games... and no more schools who aren't Division 1. If you play all of your conference schools, there's no need for a bogus Conf. Championship game. I would rather live with the polls than this Playoff system, which is still decided by humans.
@@nintendofan6099 You can blame ESPN for all those stupid bowl games that college football dozen't need. I am 100% sure ESPN was the one that bush for a playoff system big time so they can have it. They ruin ABC Sports now they suck GameDay is very good anymore.
Its been 18 years since this game and that intro, and none of the players or their coaches are still playing , but I still get chills and goose bumps when I watch this intro. I reminds me of my days growing up watching college football on Saturday morning, and then playing football in the back yard or park with my friends, just around the corner from main street. AWESOME STUFF!!!
Awesome post... I remember watching this game and it was the first time I ever saw FSU play football. I was 13 at the time living in NY and followed them ever since. 5 years later I would wind up attending Florida State. Go Noles!!!
Not a fan of either team, but this was an incredible game. I remember a packed rec room at the frat house I was living in at the time. It was an incredible game, one of college football's regular season best. And the following week, no shock that Boston College was able to end the Irish's NC hopes after they spent so much energy and emotion in winning this game.
The intros back in the day were the best. I remember watching these games at my grandparents house with the whole family crowded around the tv going wild. These intros raising goosebumps
Gave me Goosebumps!!!!! I played at Permian HS (Friday Night Lights) in Odessa,TX and every Pop Warner game, Every Junior High game and every pick up game all I could think of is playing MoJO football. I couldn't even imagine playing in South Bend
I remember playing a junior football game when I was 11 this day and they announced updates at the game. I grew up a die hard ND fan and every time I heard them give an update I hoped to hear that Kevin McDougal led a drive for a TD!
Agreed, the intro gives me chills. I remember watching this game and never moving a muscle until ND won it. :) I love the shots from Main St in South Bend as well as St Patrick's park in South Bend.
I'd forgotten about this digital conversation! FSU and ND got their 2011 rematch in the Champs Sports Bowl. Great, hard fought contest in which an all-freshman FSU O-line showed a lot of courage and the Seminoles produced a second half that was enough to win. There's hope for a national title re-match this year with both teams unbeaten. I hope for both our sakes we end up on the big game.
You know it’s interesting, because I grew up in North Jersey and have lived in SEC country for 30 years. I can see the allure of the warm weather schools. But if I’m Notre Dame recruiting a elite student-athlete. I’d play this intro and discuss life after football. I believe they’ll still get kids to endure those chilly weather games in South Bend.
Prob greatest day of my childhood. Was 12yrs old & biggest ND fan. Never forget how much hype was around this game & everyone picking FSU but ND came out & dominated in South Bend to become#1
Wow ..even tho I’m a Michigan Man and never cared for either of these teams but this is one of the greatest intros Ever.. Pure nostalgia of Playing football in my grandparents yard imaging I’m running back a KR to win the RoseBowl. And wasn’t that far from Main st. Every Hs Game I ever played was down the st from Main st, this Intro embodies my childhood, wow 💯💯
As a die hard Notre Dame fan I truly believe this was the last season we were truly NOTRE DAME. The Irish have not been the same since. I feel like we have been cursed.
I was fortunate to have witnessed that game in person . My son(attending FSU @ the time) had a ticket as his friend backed out, picked me up in Atlanta & drove to Indianapolis for a round of golf @ Crookedstick before arriving in South Bend for College Game Day before the game .Excuse the run-on sentence. What an experience! Met some nice Domer fans & remember my son's amazement after meeting a family consisting of a Great grand father, grand father, father, and son who were ND fans. He remarked that FSU couldn't match that extensive legacy. The seats extend down close to the field. Our seats were in the end zone and were literally 6 feet from the back end line of the end zone . ND let the grass grow tall enough to cover the players shoes to their ankles. I remember the calves of the ND linesmen's legs the size of our players thighs .Their bathrooms were deplorable and were ankle deep in piss @ halftime. It was windy as hell and most TDs were scored with the wind. If I remember correctly we scored first on a pass into the end zone less than 10 ft. in front of us. We ran into the end zone and high fived our receiver. A unique experience I may say. ND led late in the 4th Qtr Charlie Ward led a drive deep into ND territory but they intercepted his pass in the end zone as the game expired. We were devastated as that defeat allowed the Irish to take over the #1 spot late in the season. Boston College upset ND the very next week paving the way for our 1st National Championship. What an experience considering I did not even plan to attend until the Wednesday evening before the game. We also got to tour the INDY Speedway on the trip.
As I sit here with 36 days left until the first game of the 2013 college football season, watching this video makes me thirst for a new college football season. There is nothing better than waking up on a fall morning and watching football. Absolutely nothing.
Bob Costas is the greatest pre-game intro announcer in history!!! Not to mention two of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time, Rudy and Last of the Mohicans in there... AMAZING!!!
“A game in a perfect place” Anybody who has been to Notre Dame’s campus on a game day knows this to be true. It’s a place like no other. And an energy you will never forget.
Great Game...like the '80s Miami vs. Notre Dame games. I still think the pre-game ABC did before the Texas and USC National Championship in 2005 (Will Ferrell and Mathew McConaughey ) was true greatness...and the game was one of the best college football games ever. I agree with the comment..."get your pulse checked if you can't get pumped for college football after watching this video.
I can remember i was 13 years old ,and watching this game on NBC Charlie Jones did the Play-by-Play that saturday afternoon is one of the top ten greatest games i watched on TV and it lived up to the hype to go back and do it all over again yeah i think so.
Chills. Greatest intro, backed by the greatest music. After Clausen's outstanding numbers against Hawaii following a better year than 07, it is clear that we are on the right track. The 'Brady Bunch' was something special, but it is time for a new group to bring respect back to ND. Blue-gray sky blog breaks it all down. GO IRISH
This game was on the day of my Bar Mitzvah! I remember having my service in the morning and then coming home relaxing and watching some of the game and then my party was at night, what a day!
i agree with you but, they're not idiots...they're just college football fans. the video is truly inspiring to any young man wanting to play this game. it also makes dads remember their years playing the game.
Congrats on leading the series, that is a fact, congrats again. It's also a fact that in 1993, FSU won the NC and beat the SEC champion UF in Gainesville by 12.
I WAS 20 yrs old, wasn't really into Football at that time, but these 2 fore my favorite 2 college Football teams the past 10 years, but Love my ND Irish #1
College football is better when both the historically good teams and underdogs are BOTH great. When teams like ND, Texas, Michigan, Tennessee are good, it makes the sport better
Yeah, brother. Jerome Bettis came from Notre Dame, and he did very well as a Steeler. He is one reason why I like Notre Dame, and I hope he goes into the Hall of Fame.
For all you Florida State fans, you need to thank BC for beating ND the next week and because of that you got into the National Title game with Nebraska. That next week's game was the beginning of the end of ND dominance of football and since then they have had only 1 bowl win since 1994.
As a lifelong FSU fan, it just hit me that the '93 ND win against the Noles has probably been the last greatest win in program history. To be more specific...the SECOND quarter of that game was probably the greatest quarter of football for the Irish since then. The only other great moments I can think of would be Willingham's great start (and win vs FSU in 'Tally) in his first or second year, but they still finished that season blundering... Ah well, who cares, really... Go NOLES!
The Irish pushed around FSU the field all day in this game. FSU made it close at the end but ND never received the credit it deserved for the beating the "unbeatable team of the century". The media had already made up its mind early in the season that FSU was getting the title.
LaVar, good list, especially 2001 Miami and 1972 USC. Other great teams in history: -2004 USC - two Heisman winners, won title game 55-19 -1956 Oklahoma - last and arguably greatest Sooner team of their 47-game winning streak -1947 Notre Dame - 41 players went on to play pro ball, they never trailed in any game -1901 Michigan - outscored teams 550-0, won first Rose Bowl by 7 TDs -1888 Yale - outscored opponents 694-0, largest difference ever, beat undefeated Princeton in last game
I’m a huge FSU fan, but when the “Here Come The Irish” came on with the players, that was HOT!
That was 🔥.. here come the Irish gives you chills.. Go Irish
I wish the networks would still produce such inspirational intros to big sporting events.
Jeff Hietala that intro was racistsexistoppressive
i don't even know what you are talking about haha.
Hector Terrero shithead....
ya now all the intros are bland and boring
Agreed! Today, the intros tell you how awful our country is and has always been.
This intro has to be one of the best there is. It's a perfect example of what college football is all about. Dreams of playing for your favorite school begin in the backyard sandlot games.
Bob Costas brings poetry in sports. He's the best in the business.
He’s a jackass
One of the greatest openings to a football game regardless if you support both teams or not.
This one still tops it: ruclips.net/video/_qUakS5BG2M/видео.html
I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was freshman in high school and couldn’t wait for the game all week. Still think this is the best opening to a college football game!
SAME! I was a Freshman, and I couldn't wait for this game...
I still have it on VHS!! (Not that it is necessary anymore...)
Best Opening AND the best Finish!
Go Irish!
wow....I mean WOW...
You don't understand...this had me wiping tears away...I didn't realize how great the intro was back then. This is perfect...They don't have football coverage like that anymore...
That's it...I am going to write NBC and tell them that either on Saturday, November 10th or on Wednesday, November 13th of 2013, they should play this game in its entirety. This is the greatest game ever...No doubt about it.
yeah that got me almost mistyeyed listening to bob costas watching the video especially the distant voice and your special parts i wish college football in 2023 would make those type of intros to big games like back in 1993.
The best college football intro ever.
I remember this.
Great, but 1986 Oklahoma vs Miami intro with "In The Air Tonight" was better.
Close 2nd was the Orange Bowl later that year. FSU vs Nebraska Tom Osborne vs Bobby Bowden narrated to the soundtrack from the movie Gettysburg.
my son was 1 yrs old when WE watched this game. he's now 16 yrs old...6'3 210 lbs. and plays right guard on offense on one of the best programs in the state. it's amazing to watch him grow into a man with decent values and respect. where did he learn this? just ask his golden domer MOTHER. i'm just the dad!
this is when college football was awesome..before the bcs screwed it all up, before ed obannon, before targeting penalties, before twitter, before rivals, etc.... this was the pinnacle of the greatest era in the history of college football.
88cutty Amen also back when all big games were played on New Year’s Day And we didn’t have 60 bowl games I miss that
88cutty You ain't kidding, when EVERY Bowl game meant something and all the Majors were played on NY Eve or NY Day. Oh, and don't forget to add Replay to your list. I believe Officials have gotten worse due to the ability to check the video, which somehow still ends up being incorrect at times. Conferences should have had to stay @ 8 or 10 teams and they have to play each one BEFORE adding their bogus out of conference games... and no more schools who aren't Division 1. If you play all of your conference schools, there's no need for a bogus Conf. Championship game. I would rather live with the polls than this Playoff system, which is still decided by humans.
@@nintendofan6099 You can blame ESPN for all those stupid bowl games that college football dozen't need. I am 100% sure ESPN was the one that bush for a playoff system big time so they can have it. They ruin ABC Sports now they suck GameDay is very good anymore.
@@wcs494 ESPN has ruined everything… they suck big time. Games on CBS were the best back then
My Grandma took me to this game when I was 11.
best intro ever, i get goosebumps everytime i watch that
The opening to America's Game
Its been 18 years since this game and that intro, and none of the players or their coaches are still playing , but I still get chills and goose bumps when I watch this intro. I reminds me of my days growing up watching college football on Saturday morning, and then playing football in the back yard or park with my friends, just around the corner from main street. AWESOME STUFF!!!
Just something so soothing about the combination of that music, the storyline and bob costas voice 🥹
This is probably the best intro to any sporting event ever.
Awesome post... I remember watching this game and it was the first time I ever saw FSU play football. I was 13 at the time living in NY and followed them ever since. 5 years later I would wind up attending Florida State. Go Noles!!!
27 years after the game was played, and this intro still gives goosebumps
26 years later and I remember this like it was yesterday.
Not a fan of either team, but this was an incredible game. I remember a packed rec room at the frat house I was living in at the time. It was an incredible game, one of college football's regular season best. And the following week, no shock that Boston College was able to end the Irish's NC hopes after they spent so much energy and emotion in winning this game.
The intros back in the day were the best. I remember watching these games at my grandparents house with the whole family crowded around the tv going wild. These intros raising goosebumps
Gave me Goosebumps!!!!! I played at Permian HS (Friday Night Lights) in Odessa,TX and every Pop Warner game, Every Junior High game and every pick up game all I could think of is playing MoJO football.
I couldn't even imagine playing in South Bend
I remember playing a junior football game when I was 11 this day and they announced updates at the game. I grew up a die hard ND fan and every time I heard them give an update I hoped to hear that Kevin McDougal led a drive for a TD!
Agreed, the intro gives me chills. I remember watching this game and never moving a muscle until ND won it. :) I love the shots from Main St in South Bend as well as St Patrick's park in South Bend.
Greatest opening indeed, and a damn fine soundtrack from the most inspirational film in recent history.
31 years later I still get chills watching this.
I have this game on dvd. It's still awsome to watch
HERE COME THE IRISH
I like that part very cool
I still remember this game. I also remember the next week when we got beat by BC. Should have been national champs that year.
Watching this to get ready for the Clemson game
Back then ND put the most Players in the NFL, not today, that’s y ND can’t compete against Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State....it’s the recruiting
Was 15 years old when The Irish played FSU in 93. When the intro played I was like wow this game better be a good and it certainly did.
I'd forgotten about this digital conversation! FSU and ND got their 2011 rematch in the Champs Sports Bowl. Great, hard fought contest in which an all-freshman FSU O-line showed a lot of courage and the Seminoles produced a second half that was enough to win. There's hope for a national title re-match this year with both teams unbeaten. I hope for both our sakes we end up on the big game.
Hmm...Warm-weather school vs real football weather school. I will cheer for ND.
You know it’s interesting, because I grew up in North Jersey and have lived in SEC country for 30 years. I can see the allure of the warm weather schools. But if I’m Notre Dame recruiting a elite student-athlete. I’d play this intro and discuss life after football. I believe they’ll still get kids to endure those chilly weather games in South Bend.
Those warm weather teams have OWNED the modern era of college football. Period.
Prob greatest day of my childhood. Was 12yrs old & biggest ND fan. Never forget how much hype was around this game & everyone picking FSU but ND came out & dominated in South Bend to become#1
Greatest intro to a college football game ever.
This was definitely one of the best intros
Wow ..even tho I’m a Michigan Man and never cared for either of these teams but this is one of the greatest intros Ever.. Pure nostalgia of Playing football in my grandparents yard imaging I’m running back a KR to win the RoseBowl. And wasn’t that far from Main st. Every Hs Game I ever played was down the st from Main st, this Intro embodies my childhood, wow 💯💯
What a day, what a game. I was thirteen and remember where I was and how the game played out to this day. Awesome! Thank you for posting.
As a die hard Notre Dame fan I truly believe this was the last season we were truly NOTRE DAME. The Irish have not been the same since. I feel like we have been cursed.
Looks like you could win the title this year.
I dont want to jinx us but I am VERY excited
Sorry bout that you should still get into a really good NY6 bowl.
Lol, like I said.... We're cursed
You are still a top program with that NBC money,
I was fortunate to have witnessed that game in person . My son(attending FSU @ the time) had a ticket as his friend backed out, picked me up in Atlanta & drove to Indianapolis for a round of golf @ Crookedstick before arriving in South Bend for College Game Day before the game .Excuse the run-on sentence. What an experience! Met some nice Domer fans & remember my son's amazement after meeting a family consisting of a Great grand father, grand father, father, and son who were ND fans. He remarked that FSU couldn't match that extensive legacy. The seats extend down close to the field. Our seats were in the end zone and were literally 6 feet from the back end line of the end zone . ND let the grass grow tall enough to cover the players shoes to their ankles. I remember the calves of the ND linesmen's legs the size of our players thighs .Their bathrooms were deplorable and were ankle deep in piss @ halftime.
It was windy as hell and most TDs were scored with the wind. If I remember correctly we scored first on a pass into the end zone less than 10 ft. in front of us. We ran into the end zone and high fived our receiver. A unique experience I may say. ND led late in the 4th Qtr Charlie Ward led a drive deep into ND territory but they intercepted his pass in the end zone as the game expired. We were devastated as that defeat allowed the Irish to take over the #1 spot late in the season. Boston College upset ND the very next week paving the way for our 1st National Championship.
What an experience considering I did not even plan to attend until the Wednesday evening before the game. We also got to tour the INDY Speedway on the trip.
I’m a life long ND fan and I loved your story! I’m glad you had a great time in south bend!
Best college football game ever! Every minute lived up to the hype!
As I sit here with 36 days left until the first game of the 2013 college football season, watching this video makes me thirst for a new college football season. There is nothing better than waking up on a fall morning and watching football. Absolutely nothing.
Bob Costas is the greatest pre-game intro announcer in history!!! Not to mention two of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time, Rudy and Last of the Mohicans in there... AMAZING!!!
This will darn near move you to tears
“A game in a perfect place”
Anybody who has been to Notre Dame’s campus on a game day knows this to be true. It’s a place like no other. And an energy you will never forget.
Great Game...like the '80s Miami vs. Notre Dame games. I still think the pre-game ABC did before the Texas and USC National Championship in 2005 (Will Ferrell and Mathew McConaughey ) was true greatness...and the game was one of the best college football games ever. I agree with the comment..."get your pulse checked if you can't get pumped for college football after watching this video.
My favorite ND game in my lifetime. The BC game soon after was the worst game... ND was robbed that year
Yeah. I grew up in Massachusetts and the rest of my family are BC fans. They got the last laugh
still hurts
The game that made me a Notre Dame fan. This intro is awesome.
I can remember i was 13 years old ,and watching this game on NBC Charlie Jones did the Play-by-Play that saturday afternoon is one of the top ten greatest games i watched on TV and it lived up to the hype to go back and do it all over again yeah i think so.
I'm effing crying like a baby
Chills. Greatest intro, backed by the greatest music. After Clausen's outstanding numbers against Hawaii following a better year than 07, it is clear that we are on the right track. The 'Brady Bunch' was something special, but it is time for a new group to bring respect back to ND. Blue-gray sky blog breaks it all down. GO IRISH
This game was on the day of my Bar Mitzvah! I remember having my service in the morning and then coming home relaxing and watching some of the game and then my party was at night, what a day!
I was 13 . I remember this intro.
I love college football...
College Football lost this somewhere along the way
you’re right. CF is dead now, OT, conglomerate conferences and the dumb playoffs
The day after my 17th birthday.... 27 years ago today. God I'm old. Go noles
For anyone wondering, the piece of music at 1:05 is "Fort Battle" by Trevor Jones from the Last of the Mohicans OST.
that was the best intro i've ever heard
When it is the dead heat of the summer their is nothing better than hearing this video it makes you more thirsty than ever for college football
i agree with you but, they're not idiots...they're just college football fans. the video is truly inspiring to any young man wanting to play this game. it also makes dads remember their years playing the game.
1993 was a hell of a year
I about cried. Someone showed me this link earlier and it's so...Jesus Christ it's fantastic.
Congrats on leading the series, that is a fact, congrats again. It's also a fact that in 1993, FSU won the NC and beat the SEC champion UF in Gainesville by 12.
NBC intros from the 90s were the best, no matter the sport. Especially with Bob Costas.
This video never gets old.
I never saw this before because I was at the game. I agree, chills but mostly pride.
Gives me chills everytime I see this .
what a great game that was. very cool...
As an fsu fan and alumni, still thankful for 1993 Boston College lol
They desperately need to bring these back
20 years ago this November. I remember it like it was yesterday
best pre game intro of all time the begining of the end of the holtz era.
I WAS 20 yrs old, wasn't really into Football at that time, but these 2 fore my favorite 2 college Football teams the past 10 years, but Love my ND Irish #1
I fell in love with Notre Dame Football after watching this video...
excellent find
Had to watch this after the win tonight! ND 12-0, BCS Championship bound!
just beautiul
College football is better when both the historically good teams and underdogs are BOTH great. When teams like ND, Texas, Michigan, Tennessee are good, it makes the sport better
I still remember this Saturday to this very day. Take care everyone.
That right there sums up college football for me and i'm english! GO NOLES
This game is on TV tonight!
Bob Costas does a great job with these intros
I remember watching this game. I was 13 at the time.
I agree, I wish you guys would get it together too
I marvel at how fucking epic this intro was.
Yeah, brother. Jerome Bettis came from Notre Dame, and he did very well as a Steeler. He is one reason why I like Notre Dame, and I hope he goes into the Hall of Fame.
THE GREATEST INTRO EVER!!!!
For all you Florida State fans, you need to thank BC for beating ND the next week and because of that you got into the National Title game with Nebraska. That next week's game was the beginning of the end of ND dominance of football and since then they have had only 1 bowl win since 1994.
Bob Costas....legendary intro...they don't get much better.
Man, the first part of this makes me want to cry...
As a lifelong FSU fan, it just hit me that the '93 ND win against the Noles has probably been the last greatest win in program history. To be more specific...the SECOND quarter of that game was probably the greatest quarter of football for the Irish since then. The only other great moments I can think of would be Willingham's great start (and win vs FSU in 'Tally) in his first or second year, but they still finished that season blundering...
Ah well, who cares, really... Go NOLES!
actually it had started in 1992. and is still going to this day.
ND fan to FSU fan- I have to agree, the best football game ever played...college or pro.
Wow that was actually really good...
this came out when i was born
Game of the century part II, this Saturday
So true. They don't make 'em like this anymore.
The Irish pushed around FSU the field all day in this game. FSU made it close at the end but ND never received the credit it deserved for the beating the "unbeatable team of the century". The media had already made up its mind early in the season that FSU was getting the title.
I wish they would make intros like this again.
@wow13d Notre Dames fans say this a lot, but almost all of us could live without them.
When Notre Dame was a player...wow, they've fallen so far.
LaVar, good list, especially 2001 Miami and 1972 USC. Other great teams in history:
-2004 USC - two Heisman winners, won title game 55-19
-1956 Oklahoma - last and arguably greatest Sooner team of their 47-game winning streak
-1947 Notre Dame - 41 players went on to play pro ball, they never trailed in any game
-1901 Michigan - outscored teams 550-0, won first Rose Bowl by 7 TDs
-1888 Yale - outscored opponents 694-0, largest difference ever, beat undefeated Princeton in last game