My wife and I were Stanford season ticketholders throughout John Elway's illustrious 4-year football career there. We also bought tickets for the 1982 Big Game, held in Berkeley, 6 months in advance--but this only put is in Row 75---at the very top of the north end zone. Believe it or not, we actually brought our 2-1/2-year old daughter and our 3-month old son with us, too, adding to the overall "drama." More importantly, while walking out the front door, I decided to grab my rusty, but trusty Super 8 movie camera, along with four 50 ft. film cartridges, to document potentially (and what turned out to be) Elway's final collegiate game. Filming VERY selectively, I managed to capture many significant plays, but ran out of film during Stanford's last-minute drive which culminated with a "game-winning field goal" (i.e. 20-19), just below us, with a mere four seconds left.....Or so I thought. Alas, had I possessed a tad more film, THAT would have been some "rare footage." It still hurts 39 years later---on multiple levels---from the 75th row on down. Ouch.
I was there, too, but don’t worry, the last lateral was actually an illegal forward pass. Seen in slow motion, it’s not even close: the ball was caught 2 1/2 yards in front of where it was released. Watch in 0.25 speed slow mo at 0:35 or at 2:52!
Look closely at the damaged horn on the wall of the trombonist. Then look at the video of the trombone after the collision. There's no damage to the bell part. He damaged it himself after the fact to show off his "trophy" souvenir of the game.
Actually, that is a replica, because the original is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. I’m sure he’d like to have to original but having it be in the Hall is a little bit bigger than that lol
"The Play" was one of the most memorable events in college football for many years. You just had to be there for the emotion and excitement of the whole game.
I walked into my home after being out all day, flicked the TV on just in time to see the last few seconds of this play and turned the TV off with the certain knowledge that I would never in the rest of my life see another such fantastic play for the rest of my life.
Cal player Richard Rodgers who was one of the players involved in The Play 33 years ago has a son Richard who just made a spectacular "Hail Mary" Catch to win the game for the Packers tonight vs. Detroit.
We used to watch Richard Sr. as a great guard on Daly City's Jefferson High School basket ball team. That inner city school was fantastic and really fun to watch. Besides Rodgers, there was future Cleveland Brown lineman Reggie Camp at center, and the high school all American Daryl Jackson playing whatever position he wanted at the time.
Saw it live on TV at the time, lived in Modesto, CA. What made that finish even more amazing was an incredible drive by QB Elway and Stanford, who converted a 4th down and 17 on their 20.. Eventually Stanford got the field goal for a 20-19 lead with 0.04 left...
True. BTW, also amazing was what Kosar did, quite heroically, in the desperation drive just prior to Doug Flutie's big moment, if you've never watched that.
It ended up on the ground, and the camera immediately cut away. Someone could have stepped on it before he got up, and he thought it happened from the impact.
Actually the player stepped on a saxaphone, the guy was reaching down for it after the score, not the trombone that got knocked out of the hands of the the guy who lost his hat, the one that jumped out of the way but his sax got dropped and stomped on
"Somebody who looks like a street person who'd gotten on the field, he's rally the first person who signals the touchdown" Only in Berkeley!!!! Go Bears!
I know this comment is 5 years late, but I've watched this play over and over again this morning cuz the virus has me locked down. The "street person" (he's wearing a brown coat) also grabs the goalpost protector after the touchdown...tho it looks like he drops it or something in the ensuing mayhem.
I have been a Cal fan since 1950. My best friend was a Stanford rooter. We had gone to 40 consecutive “Big Game” games. After “The Play” he was crushed! We’ll never see a final play ever again. Go Cal!!
And this remains why Cal dominated in West Coast Rugby, and is still going with it as the sport grows. The bears just kept the rules in their mind, and played as a team. I was still in HS at the time, and, honestly, I had a dream to go to Stanford (which I could not afford). I went to Cal years later, and I am still proud. It is little things like this that make a person proud, even if it is kind of silly. Best to all, Cal, and Stanford (though Cal Band still wins).
Missed call by the refs @2:46 - which when frozen at the right split second clearly shows Roger's knee on the ground while he still has the ball on his fingertips during the beginning stage of him lateraling it. This should have been a Stanford victory, as the clock had already hit 0:00 at that point.
LOL at 2:46 the guy is clearly down, watch it frame by frame. And that final lateral at 2:53 was forward. Follow the path of the ball not the ball carriers. The ball is flipped at the 27 yard line, but it's caught at almost the 25. The ball only appears to be flipped backward but it's momentum carried it forward.
It all looks good to me. This isn’t baseball, but I’m reminded of a line in Ken Keiser’s memoir. An umpire, on the matter of balls and strikes, says: “until I call it, it’s nothin’.”
That last no look lateral between 3 Stanford players, was sick, they all thought he still had the ball for a split sec, just enough time for the other player to out run them
I agree, smart play by Moen circling back and getting in position for another lateral, anybody else notice the fan steal the padding from the goal post.
I know. Unbelievable intelligence and hustle. I imagine that play set up his whole life selling real estate, etc. I wonder if it was subtly denoted on his business cards. Everyone would remember him.
Thanks for posting this TTAI82. I read somewhere BG historians are aching to identify the soon to be joyous tan jacket and pants cal guy (carrying a small blue daypack) leaning into the ref's post game parlay, whose face is seen fairly close up here about the 3:15 mark. Three decades later, darn, he still hasn't been found. #GoBears!
The next day on CBS's The NFL Today that play was shown and Brent Mussburger described the touchdown run as "He's got one man to beat......the trombone player"
Moen took a little celebratory jump and landed just before running into Tyrell from the right rear (looked like forearm-to-upper-arm), causing him to turn slightly and tumble onto his side. Now, I wouldn't call the guy "lucky", but that's about the best way he could've taken that hit. Had he gotten drilled full-blast, or taken it in the head or neck, or had his leg twist on the way down, or landed flat, it could have been serious. As it is, just a little arm bruise. As for that accursed knee...the refs get 1. one look 2. from one position 3. in real time. If... *IF*... they missed the knee touching down .0001 second before he released the ball, I'm not in the mood to crucify them for it.
The last lateral was CLEARLY an illegal forward lateral! Slow down the video to 0.25x speed. See the ball released outside the 27 yard line, and caught at the 25 yard line. It’s NOT a close call. 0:35 or 2:52 Still in doubt? Watch it in slow motion at 0.25x speed. It becomes very obvious!
I was there, on the hill next to the gun shooting at each cal score, with a bunch of people unable to find seats in a fully booked stadium. I unfortunatelly lost the T-shirt of "the play", with notes for each stanford band player invading the field before the end
My buddy and I were watching from the "cheap seats" on the hill. I wasn't really raised with football in my family and it was the first live game I'd ever seen anywhere. I remember seeing it live and asking my, more experienced buddy "is that legal"? He told me thought so, but Cal always fired a cannon if they scored. After what seemed like several minutes (I guess it was just seconds) the cannon went off... Cal had won. I still enjoy football to this day.
I've been to the College Football HOF in Atlanta. They supposedly have the trombone that Tyrell (sp??) had when he got hit. Yet, he has one with the bell completely crushed on his wall. In the film, it doesn't look like the bell took that much damage and the HOF one looks like one that he had, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, the HOF has a vocal booth where you can be an announcer on a number of famous college football plays and record yourself. I did this one as I'm pretty familiar with it. It was a lot of fun.
The trombonist says "I saw this player running...", but the footage shows clearly that he (@2:57, to the right of the blue shirt photographer) was looking the other way and really never saw Kevin coming... Great footage.
2:45 is a big question-mark if the guy's knee was down or not, but it's a pretty close call. I'm assuming that that right there was why the band ran out onto the field to celebrate the victory.
I was a freshman in high school when this happened and this was all we could talk about for weeks. All of a sudden we thought the lateral was the answer to everything. It took a few turnovers to disabuse us of that illusion.
In today's age of replays, can you imagine how long it would take for the refs to scrutinize this call? It looks like the knee may be down there, but if the initial call is touchdown, it may be inconclusive enough to not overturn it. I'm glad the refs didn't screw this one up.
At that stadium,the officials stole a game from Rutgers in 1999 when they refused to see an obvious holding by Deltha O'Neal on Errol Johnson,leading to O'Neal's interception and score.It happened right in front of where I was sitting.
Was that guys knee down on that one lateral? 2. Thank you stanford for celebrating after you scored and getting penalized which helped cal win. 3. Thank you Stanford band for helping CAl win. 3. RIP Kevin Macmillan killed in a car accident the year before... Stanford Safety. 4. I don't like either team..... GO DAWGS>>> GO HUSKIES!
confused. watch the video of the player plowing into the band guy in the end zone. he falls. if you see, he has on sunglasses. in the Black and white snapshot he has no sunglasses on. Thoughts???
The photo was taken as the player started to jump. The guy in that photo is a sax player. The Cal State guy then lands and knocks over the trombone player, who was not in the photo. The video makes it seem as though the sax player and trombonist were the same person.
2:54 the man in the blue shirt took the picture. The sax player is in front of the trombone player and the cal player passes the sax guy and hits the trombone guy.
I was at this game. I remember yelling, "Get the f*** off the field!" when I saw the band going onto the field and then remembering that my grandmother was sitting two seats down from me and hoping that she wasn't offended by my swearing. She never mentioned it so I'm pretty sure she didn't hear me with everyone else yelling and cheering in the stands.
I was there in the CAL rooting section. It was difficult to see anything with the Stanford band on the field and the Stanford trombone player getting involved in the play. Go Bears!
I was in the student section too (used my then fiancée’s student ticket) and I agree, after the field goal everyone was pretty bummed. Then the play happened and no one knew what was going on. Finally when the officials indicated the touchdown, it was bedlam. I’ve kept my ticket stub to this day.
3:15 the only person in sports history who was pissed off his team won in the brown jacket facing the refs w/his back to the camera. His reaction is priceless
I saw a documentary on this play a few years ago, and Stanford players were adamant that #43's knee hit the turf because he let loose of the ball. The game should've ended at that point. Looking at it here, it looks awfully close. Of course the quality of the video isn't good.
In order to make that call, the players would have had to be in position both to see Garner's knee(s) touch the ground and the ball leaving hands, which is not very likely.
Not only that, but the last lateral to Moen was actually forward. Even though the pass went to a player who was running behind him, the ball moved forward.
Now how am i supposed to "subscribe" to this channel with the number stuck on 666?!? Even someone who's not superstitious would be a bit unnerved by that...cmon!
+Jack Joseph I was in the Band and on the field for the Play. As I recall, the penalty against Stanford just before the onsides kick was for a Delay of Game, as the Stanford players were celebrating the successful field goal that they thought had won the game for them, but four seconds remained on the clock.
If there was a delay of game penalty, the refs are supposed to whistle the play dead, move the ball back five yards, and DO let the play continue (with the clock starting on the snap). Note that the kickoff here was from the 25-yard line, so it seems the delay of game penalty WAS enforced. You just didn't see the enforcement in the video.
@@jackjoseph2762 the delay of game penalty (I think it was actually excessive celebration) was before the kick-off. But do you mean the two flags thrown from the bottom left at 2:51 and 2:52? They must have been against the defense, and so weren't enforced or were declined.
The irony is Cal Collegiate Rugby team has won more Collegiate Rugby Championships than anyone of any college sport and what do they do in Rugby 🏉, lateral passing.
I was in the band at high school football games in western NY. We were the ones smokin pot and hitting the Nips while the jocks were freezing their asses off
2:27 Does he mean he didn't see what happened, or he didn't know there was even going to be a kick-off? Did the band think the field goal was the last play of the game?
Why didn't Stanford simply kick it deep near the goal line? The chances of a run back were very slim. Instead the picked up the ball on Stanfords side and that set up the "play"
Uhhh...yes, I can. You can play RUclips videos at 3/4 speed, 1/2 speed, and 1/4 speed. Click on the red HD sign at the bottom of the video and click "SPEED" and you can choose a speed to watch the video. If you run it at .25 speed and pause the video at 2:46 you can clearly see the ballcarrier's knee is on the ground, he hasn't released the ball, and the official closest to the play is behind the pile up of tacklers so he can't see the player's knee or the ball.
It's not. His right knee is resting on the shoulder pad of a Stanford player. If you watch a bit earlier, the position of his left knee would have made it virtually impossible for his knee to have touched the ground because he was already falling down towards his right side. I am not a fan of either team. I am just stating from what I see had I been an official.
The National Football League won't allow others to use their trademark word "Superbowl" in other advertising, so you often see commercials for big TVs, snacks, pizzas, and wings talking about getting ready for the "Big Game." But the annual rivalry between the Stanford Cardinals and the (UCLA-Berkeley) California Golden Bears has been called the "Big Game" for a long time before the NFL's lawyers started sending "cease and desist" letters to pizzerias. And there's one play that stands out among all others in all other Big Games, and indeed among all games, that is simply called The Play. It's 1982, and it's the 85th annual Big Game (the first was in 1892, 124 years ago. The Superbowl is just getting ready for its 50th game). John Elway's Cardinals had just kicked a field goal to bring Stanford to a 20-19 lead, with four seconds left in the game. Mark Harmon kicked a squib from his own 45, but the effort appeared to fail. The game clock ticked down to zero. The Stanford bench and marching band stormed the field in a victory celebration, filling the Stanford endzone and redzone. But the ref had not blown his whistle... and the play was far from over.
The Stanford band had no business being on the field. Even if the player was tackled before getting to the end zone, it should've been unsportsmanlike conduct against Stanford.
Why are there more people in football bands than some countries have in their army? I didn't know there was that many trombones in the world. And better uniforns than the Civil War.
My wife and I were Stanford season ticketholders throughout John Elway's illustrious 4-year football career there. We also bought tickets for the 1982 Big Game, held in Berkeley, 6 months in advance--but this only put is in Row 75---at the very top of the north end zone. Believe it or not, we actually brought our 2-1/2-year old daughter and our 3-month old son with us, too, adding to the overall "drama."
More importantly, while walking out the front door, I decided to grab my rusty, but trusty Super 8 movie camera, along with four 50 ft. film cartridges, to document potentially (and what turned out to be) Elway's final collegiate game. Filming VERY selectively, I managed to capture many significant plays, but ran out of film during Stanford's last-minute drive which culminated with a "game-winning field goal" (i.e. 20-19), just below us, with a mere four seconds left.....Or so I thought.
Alas, had I possessed a tad more film, THAT would have been some "rare footage." It still hurts 39 years later---on multiple levels---from the 75th row on down. Ouch.
I was there, too, but don’t worry, the last lateral was actually an illegal forward pass. Seen in slow motion, it’s not even close: the ball was caught 2 1/2 yards in front of where it was released. Watch in 0.25 speed slow mo at 0:35 or at 2:52!
that last lateral was genius.
It sure was..
Agreed....amazing how he knew someone wd be there, waited til the last possible second, and threw a perfect over the shoulder lateral to Moen.
No look pass. It was a thing of beauty.
It was half a squirt-out from player contact, it seemed.
A good offload
Look closely at the damaged horn on the wall of the trombonist. Then look at the video of the trombone after the collision. There's no damage to the bell part. He damaged it himself after the fact to show off his "trophy" souvenir of the game.
+bear101897 time travel confirmed
Actually, that is a replica, because the original is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. I’m sure he’d like to have to original but having it be in the Hall is a little bit bigger than that lol
Typical band nerd
"The Play" was one of the most memorable events in college football for many years. You just had to be there for the emotion and excitement of the whole game.
My roommate was at the game and I had to watch the news to find out what happened because he couldn't speak!
I walked into my home after being out all day, flicked the TV on just in time to see the last few seconds of this play and turned the TV off with the certain knowledge that I would never in the rest of my life see another such fantastic play for the rest of my life.
Cal player Richard Rodgers who was one of the players involved in The Play 33 years ago has a son Richard who just made a spectacular "Hail Mary" Catch to win the game for the Packers tonight vs. Detroit.
Go Packers!
father to son, I guess great plays run in the family
And aaron rodgers played for both teams. *chime twilight zone*
Great piece of trivia! Bogus penalty call to give Aaron Rodgers another chance lol.
We used to watch Richard Sr. as a great guard on Daly City's Jefferson High School basket ball team. That inner city school was fantastic and really fun to watch. Besides Rodgers, there was future Cleveland Brown lineman Reggie Camp at center, and the high school all American Daryl Jackson playing whatever position he wanted at the time.
Saw it live on TV at the time, lived in Modesto, CA. What made that finish even more amazing was an incredible drive by QB Elway and Stanford, who converted a 4th down and 17 on their 20.. Eventually Stanford got the field goal for a 20-19 lead with 0.04 left...
True. BTW, also amazing was what Kosar did, quite heroically, in the desperation drive just prior to Doug Flutie's big moment, if you've never watched that.
So Tyrell has a framed trombone with a crushed bell, but the footage shows his trombone intact after the collision...
well you never know, he probably crushed it in anger after the result lol
It ended up on the ground, and the camera immediately cut away. Someone could have stepped on it before he got up, and he thought it happened from the impact.
It's in the CFB hall of fame, the one on his wall is obviously a replica.
Actually the player stepped on a saxaphone, the guy was reaching down for it after the score, not the trombone that got knocked out of the hands of the the guy who lost his hat, the one that jumped out of the way but his sax got dropped and stomped on
"Somebody who looks like a street person who'd gotten on the field, he's rally the first person who signals the touchdown"
Only in Berkeley!!!! Go Bears!
I know this comment is 5 years late, but I've watched this play over and over again this morning cuz the virus has me locked down. The "street person" (he's wearing a brown coat) also grabs the goalpost protector after the touchdown...tho it looks like he drops it or something in the ensuing mayhem.
Thanks for posting this extended footage of this play.
I have been a Cal fan since 1950. My best friend was a Stanford rooter. We had gone to 40 consecutive “Big Game” games. After “The Play” he was crushed! We’ll never see a final play ever again. Go Cal!!
And this remains why Cal dominated in West Coast Rugby, and is still going with it as the sport grows. The bears just kept the rules in their mind, and played as a team. I was still in HS at the time, and, honestly, I had a dream to go to Stanford (which I could not afford). I went to Cal years later, and I am still proud. It is little things like this that make a person proud, even if it is kind of silly. Best to all, Cal, and Stanford (though Cal Band still wins).
who's here after cal finally beat stanford today
It'll be the last thing I play before I die!!!! So I can go to hell laughing!!!!
Thumbs up if you're here after watching the Rodgers to Rodgers Hail Mary touchdown against Detroit!
I remember that play like yesterday. I was at a bar with barely anyone there. Guy ordered a round right after that play.
Boy stfu
Apparently, the Rogers that caught that pass is the son of a player who was on Cal during this play.
Missed call by the refs @2:46 - which when frozen at the right split second clearly shows Roger's knee on the ground while he still has the ball on his fingertips during the beginning stage of him lateraling it. This should have been a Stanford victory, as the clock had already hit 0:00 at that point.
Yup. Been saying that for years. Even with the old analog television you can clearly see his knee is still on the ground before the lateral.
Exactly! I saw the same thing! His knee was clearly down on the ground when he finally lateraled it back.
But did Richard Rodgers at 2:46 had full possession of the ball when his knee touched the turf? Nope. The ball was still loose on the lateral.
1 of the most Iconic plays in my life time I hope this footage lives on for ever!!1 Happy New Year 2020!!!!!1
LOL at 2:46 the guy is clearly down, watch it frame by frame. And that final lateral at 2:53 was forward. Follow the path of the ball not the ball carriers. The ball is flipped at the 27 yard line, but it's caught at almost the 25. The ball only appears to be flipped backward but it's momentum carried it forward.
Eternal Reign the last lateral was definitely not forward
It was lateral. Notice how Moen may have been at the 25 but he twisted his arms around to get the ball then bring it forward.
Since his knees aren't visible, it's certainly not at all clear that he was down.
It all looks good to me. This isn’t baseball, but I’m reminded of a line in Ken Keiser’s memoir. An umpire, on the matter of balls and strikes, says: “until I call it, it’s nothin’.”
Rubbish
One of my most prized possessions is an autographed picture Moen running over Tyrell
That last no look lateral between 3 Stanford players, was sick, they all thought he still had the ball for a split sec, just enough time for the other player to out run them
He took out the sax, THEN the trombone. I never knew that. I always thought it was only trombone.
Kevin moen has the wherewithall to stay with them after the first lateral and scores , how awesome
I agree, smart play by Moen circling back and getting in position for another lateral, anybody else notice the fan steal the padding from the goal post.
I know. Unbelievable intelligence and hustle. I imagine that play set up his whole life selling real estate, etc. I wonder if it was subtly denoted on his business cards. Everyone would remember him.
I watched this with a cousin who was a Stanford grad. I remembe her screaming "What the..." when she saw this...
WE GOT THE AXE BACK 2019!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE SONS OF CALIFORNIA!!!!GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS
Thanks for posting this TTAI82.
I read somewhere BG historians are aching to identify the soon to be joyous tan jacket and pants cal guy (carrying a small blue daypack) leaning into the ref's post game parlay, whose face is seen fairly close up here about the 3:15 mark.
Three decades later, darn, he still hasn't been found.
#GoBears!
The next day on CBS's The NFL Today that play was shown and Brent Mussburger described the touchdown run as "He's got one man to beat......the trombone player"
3:29 jon gruden gained some weight.
I love how Kevin and Gary will be forever tied to that moment forever. I think they don't mind.....well maybe Gary does.😏
Thanks for uploading this. :)
Okay but can we get a rip to the saxophone that flew as well
Moen took a little celebratory jump and landed just before running into Tyrell from the right rear (looked like forearm-to-upper-arm), causing him to turn slightly and tumble onto his side. Now, I wouldn't call the guy "lucky", but that's about the best way he could've taken that hit. Had he gotten drilled full-blast, or taken it in the head or neck, or had his leg twist on the way down, or landed flat, it could have been serious. As it is, just a little arm bruise.
As for that accursed knee...the refs get 1. one look 2. from one position 3. in real time. If... *IF*... they missed the knee touching down .0001 second before he released the ball, I'm not in the mood to crucify them for it.
The last lateral was CLEARLY an illegal forward lateral! Slow down the video to 0.25x speed. See the ball released outside the 27 yard line, and caught at the 25 yard line. It’s NOT a close call. 0:35 or 2:52
Still in doubt? Watch it in slow motion at 0.25x speed. It becomes very obvious!
love how he has that trombone hanging up on his wall. wonder how much that would go on auction????? i say at least 50k probably more
0..trombone clearly wasn't damaged during the fall
I think it was the on he stepped on a mili second before he landed on him
It's all college fun. When you get older and as a professional, you work with people who attended different colleges. We chuckle at the memories.
I was there, on the hill next to the gun shooting at each cal score, with a bunch of people unable to find seats in a fully booked stadium. I unfortunatelly lost the T-shirt of "the play", with notes for each stanford band player invading the field before the end
Never once does Cal announcer Joe Starkey mention the word "lateral" despite five laterals by Cal players during The Play.
My buddy and I were watching from the "cheap seats" on the hill. I wasn't really raised with football in my family and it was the first live game I'd ever seen anywhere. I remember seeing it live and asking my, more experienced buddy "is that legal"? He told me thought so, but Cal always fired a cannon if they scored. After what seemed like several minutes (I guess it was just seconds) the cannon went off... Cal had won. I still enjoy football to this day.
I've been to the College Football HOF in Atlanta. They supposedly have the trombone that Tyrell (sp??) had when he got hit. Yet, he has one with the bell completely crushed on his wall. In the film, it doesn't look like the bell took that much damage and the HOF one looks like one that he had, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, the HOF has a vocal booth where you can be an announcer on a number of famous college football plays and record yourself. I did this one as I'm pretty familiar with it. It was a lot of fun.
The trombonist says "I saw this player running...", but the footage shows clearly that he (@2:57, to the right of the blue shirt photographer) was looking the other way and really never saw Kevin coming... Great footage.
He's clueless to what happened
I love this so much, the trumpeter is so cool.
I was 17 years old and watch it on live TV.
2:45 is a big question-mark if the guy's knee was down or not, but it's a pretty close call. I'm assuming that that right there was why the band ran out onto the field to celebrate the victory.
I don't think its even close. His knee is clearly down.
I was a freshman in high school when this happened and this was all we could talk about for weeks. All of a sudden we thought the lateral was the answer to everything. It took a few turnovers to disabuse us of that illusion.
If you play it back at .25 speed he was down by knee @2:46... doesn't take away from how great the play was but had to go back just to check
In today's age of replays, can you imagine how long it would take for the refs to scrutinize this call? It looks like the knee may be down there, but if the initial call is touchdown, it may be inconclusive enough to not overturn it. I'm glad the refs didn't screw this one up.
nope
The band guy looks better than the football guy now!
That third lateral may have been invalid because the guy seems to have the knee down before passing the ball backwards.
At that stadium,the officials stole a game from Rutgers in 1999 when they refused to see an obvious holding by Deltha O'Neal on Errol Johnson,leading to O'Neal's interception and score.It happened right in front of where I was sitting.
Was that guys knee down on that one lateral? 2. Thank you stanford for celebrating after you scored and getting penalized which helped cal win. 3. Thank you Stanford band for helping CAl win. 3. RIP Kevin Macmillan killed in a car accident the year before... Stanford Safety. 4. I don't like either team..... GO DAWGS>>> GO HUSKIES!
Joe Starkey called his final Big Game showdown between Cal and Stanford last week in Berkeley. Cal won 27-20.
The guy in the brown jacket huddled with the Refs was the best
1:20 I love how they showcased the trombone behind him.
confused. watch the video of the player plowing into the band guy in the end zone. he falls. if you see, he has on sunglasses. in the Black and white snapshot he has no sunglasses on. Thoughts???
The photo was taken as the player started to jump. The guy in that photo is a sax player. The Cal State guy then lands and knocks over the trombone player, who was not in the photo. The video makes it seem as though the sax player and trombonist were the same person.
2:54 the man in the blue shirt took the picture. The sax player is in front of the trombone player and the cal player passes the sax guy and hits the trombone guy.
Does anyone else find it creepy that Don McClean predicted this football game in his 1971 song "American Pie" ?
When? What lines are you talking about?
@@shable1436 the marching band refused to yield
I was at this game. I remember yelling, "Get the f*** off the field!" when I saw the band going onto the field and then remembering that my grandmother was sitting two seats down from me and hoping that she wasn't offended by my swearing. She never mentioned it so I'm pretty sure she didn't hear me with everyone else yelling and cheering in the stands.
I was there in the CAL rooting section. It was difficult to see anything with the Stanford band on the field and the Stanford trombone player getting involved in the play. Go Bears!
I was in the student section too (used my then fiancée’s student ticket) and I agree, after the field goal everyone was pretty bummed. Then the play happened and no one knew what was going on. Finally when the officials indicated the touchdown, it was bedlam. I’ve kept my ticket stub to this day.
2:15 Is it just me or has this man aged in reverse?
I have seen storming the field early as a tactic by other teams as well since this game.
There’s a flag on the play... too many men
Penalty declined ;-)
THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD!
Better than a movie!
Could something like this happen again
Check out the Michigan vs. Nebraska 2005 Alamo Bowl final play. Also, check out Trinity vs. Millsaps and Miami vs. Duke.
o7 to that poor saxophone that also went flying
THE craziest play in organized football. #2 would be The Holy Roller (Raiders vs. Chargers 1978).
Gold! Pure Gold!
4:00 U GOT TO HIT ME HARD IF U GONNA IF U WANNA KEEP ME DOWN
Stanford can have the next 1,000 Big Game victories. But to me, the 1982 Big Game is the only game that matters.
Why is the play "hotly disputed"? Are people saying that the laterals were illegal?
Greatest play in ACC history.
i wish i was alive to see that
The trumpet wasn't damaged like it was on the wall look at the very last photo when he turns around d on the ground it still has its shape
3:15 the only person in sports history who was pissed off his team won in the brown jacket facing the refs w/his back to the camera. His reaction is priceless
That was Buddy Brennan's son, I think.
That shot on the trombone player was definitely a hit to the back.
Sure, but he had no business being there.
I saw a documentary on this play a few years ago, and Stanford players were adamant that #43's knee hit the turf because he let loose of the ball. The game should've ended at that point. Looking at it here, it looks awfully close. Of course the quality of the video isn't good.
In order to make that call, the players would have had to be in position both to see Garner's knee(s) touch the ground and the ball leaving hands, which is not very likely.
Not only that, but the last lateral to Moen was actually forward. Even though the pass went to a player who was running behind him, the ball moved forward.
@@bunpeishiratori5849 - It looks good to me, watching in slo-mo.
Now how am i supposed to "subscribe" to this channel with the number stuck on 666?!? Even someone who's not superstitious would be a bit unnerved by that...cmon!
Does this remind anyone else of American Pie ? Not the movie but the song?
What were the penalty flags against Stanford for? The band being out on the field?
+Jack Joseph I was in the Band and on the field for the Play. As I recall, the penalty against Stanford just before the onsides kick was for a Delay of Game, as the Stanford players were celebrating the successful field goal that they thought had won the game for them, but four seconds remained on the clock.
+Ben Watches Thanks. If there was a delay of game penalty, the refs always whistle the play dead and don't allow the play to continue.
If there was a delay of game penalty, the refs are supposed to whistle the play dead, move the ball back five yards, and DO let the play continue (with the clock starting on the snap).
Note that the kickoff here was from the 25-yard line, so it seems the delay of game penalty WAS enforced. You just didn't see the enforcement in the video.
@@jackjoseph2762 the delay of game penalty (I think it was actually excessive celebration) was before the kick-off. But do you mean the two flags thrown from the bottom left at 2:51 and 2:52? They must have been against the defense, and so weren't enforced or were declined.
The irony is Cal Collegiate Rugby team has won more Collegiate Rugby Championships than anyone of any college sport and what do they do in Rugby 🏉, lateral passing.
SMASHIN ON SOME NERDS
FUR SUREEEE
I was in the band at high school football games in western NY. We were the ones smokin pot and hitting the Nips while the jocks were freezing their asses off
Joe Starkey had Layrngitis for five days after this game.
The shako (band hat) is on display at Cal.
2:27 Does he mean he didn't see what happened, or he didn't know there was even going to be a kick-off? Did the band think the field goal was the last play of the game?
What do musicians know about football?
I noticed the trombone on the wall. Is that The Play trombone?
Dude where’s your neckstrap?
Why didn't Stanford simply kick it deep near the goal line? The chances of a run back were very slim. Instead the picked up the ball on Stanfords side and that set up the "play"
Slower runners are up front (to block). Deadliest runners at the back
The Play vs The Drive, Elway played in both games.
trombone is in the college football hall of fame and no more his knee was down by Stanford people.
The one runner was downed before the lateral back to #5
John Elway couldn't go to a bowl game in his senior year because of this
knee was down at 2:45 seconds game over all the players were in the way for the ref to see it
He might have let go of the ball before his knee was down and then pushed it out after.
Eric Rinehart It looks like his knee is on the arm of a Stanford player, not the ground
Watching it in slo-mo and freeze frame he was definitely down before the ball came out.
Uhhh...yes, I can. You can play RUclips videos at 3/4 speed, 1/2 speed, and 1/4 speed. Click on the red HD sign at the bottom of the video and click "SPEED" and you can choose a speed to watch the video. If you run it at .25 speed and pause the video at 2:46 you can clearly see the ballcarrier's knee is on the ground, he hasn't released the ball, and the official closest to the play is behind the pile up of tacklers so he can't see the player's knee or the ball.
It's not. His right knee is resting on the shoulder pad of a Stanford player. If you watch a bit earlier, the position of his left knee would have made it virtually impossible for his knee to have touched the ground because he was already falling down towards his right side. I am not a fan of either team. I am just stating from what I see had I been an official.
I want to know what happen to the band boy they must have been yelled at for hours
He wrecked that dudes saxophone
Is there any other footage to see if that 2nd dude's knee was down? Everything else is legit
Lol one of the band members could’ve tackled moen or one of the other cal players, then they would have to do it over again
The greatest!
Go Cal!
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The Clarences
The National Football League won't allow others to use their trademark word "Superbowl" in other advertising, so you often see commercials for big TVs, snacks, pizzas, and wings talking about getting ready for the "Big Game."
But the annual rivalry between the Stanford Cardinals and the (UCLA-Berkeley) California Golden Bears has been called the "Big Game" for a long time before the NFL's lawyers started sending "cease and desist" letters to pizzerias. And there's one play that stands out among all others in all other Big Games, and indeed among all games, that is simply called The Play.
It's 1982, and it's the 85th annual Big Game (the first was in 1892, 124 years ago. The Superbowl is just getting ready for its 50th game). John Elway's Cardinals had just kicked a field goal to bring Stanford to a 20-19 lead, with four seconds left in the game. Mark Harmon kicked a squib from his own 45, but the effort appeared to fail. The game clock ticked down to zero. The Stanford bench and marching band stormed the field in a victory celebration, filling the Stanford endzone and redzone.
But the ref had not blown his whistle... and the play was far from over.
You can blame the fans for Stanford losing that game XD
This is not a memory at all if it happened nowadays. Dude was tackled near the 50. Knee was down.
yeah dude was done. I was like, why is this a big deal? Other than idiots on the field. I had never seen this version of the coverage.
His knees aren't visible when he is being tackled, so there is no indisputable video evidence to make that call.
@@calguy3838 there's probably someone under him preventing his knees from touching the ground too.
And why did Stanford kick it from their 25 yard line?
There was a penalty for excessive celebration on Stanford following the go-ahead score on the previous drive.
@@tylerwarner6448 that's hilarious!
that poor band geek
The Stanford band had no business being on the field. Even if the player was tackled before getting to the end zone, it should've been unsportsmanlike conduct against Stanford.
Why are there more people in football bands than some countries have in their army? I didn't know there was that many trombones in the world. And better uniforns than the Civil War.