"Whoa, he has trouble with the snap! And the ball is free! It's picked up by Michigan State's Jalen Watts-Jackson... and he SCOooOORES! On the last play of he game! Unbelievable!" God I love that call, never gets old. This video will forever be bookmarked.
Was at the game. The best part was what they don't show you. The play happened, and basically the stadium just immediately shutdown. They didn't announce anything about the next game, they didn't thank the fans for attending, they didn't even show the final score on the screen. The screens just went to a screensaver with the two logos, half the lights eventually went off, and the entire stadium just kinda stood there for about 10 minutes not knowing what to do with itself, until most of the Wolverines had cleared out. It was a thing of beauty, the goddamn stadium itself was in shock.
@@nofurtherwest3474 With 10 seconds left on the clock, trying to receive a punt and somehow make it all the way across the field without getting tackled was extremely improbable. As it was, the events here were improbable, but less so than if someone had been down at the other end to receive it. This was a last ditch effort by MSU to score, putting all their guys up front to try and get the ball. Somehow, it worked.
Ron Gallagher Ah, so when the two Wolverines fell on top of him. Still, must have made for an awkward scene. "Guys...guys...please get off me. I'm in a whole lot of pain here."
+Andrew Blechinger I think the angle of video at around 5:13 shows how his knee digs into the end zone at an awkward angle. I truly hope he has a full recovery and is able to contribute next season. What a great moment. By the way Andrew, I was in the end zone in Spartan Stadium in 1974 when Levi Jackson ran 88 yards against Ohio State**** He ran right to me.
+Andrew Blechinger Now I see a much more clear angle....The angle that starts at 6:04 really shows how his knee is in a bad position going into the turf. Jackson grabs for his hip immediately. OUCH! Go Sparty******
That call rivals the classic "AND THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD!" call. Absolutely classic. I'm proud to have been alive to witness such a classic play.
@@nofurtherwest3474 they had better chances placing all their guys up front and nothing to lose at that point, since they were likely going to lose no matter what they did. The chance of running it all the way back and making a touchdown was extremely unlikely. What actually happened was just as unlikely, if not more, but that wasn't expected. So they put all their guys at the front, gambling that something might go their way at the last second. It did. If all their guys weren't at the scrimmage line, they might not have even made the touchdown or knocked it into MSU possession. It was a long shot, but somehow it went in their favor
Every year in late July or early August, when I start to feel the football itch again, I watch this video and I remember the sound and the feeling in the stadium that night. It's nourishment for my soul. I was fortunate enough to be at our Rose Bowl, and that was completely thrilling in its own right, but I don't think sports will ever match the divine ecstasy of ripping UofM's heart out.
Check out MSU/Ohio State in 1974. It's pretty great seeing Woody Hayes' heart ripped out, too. Many OSU fans still believe, 47 years later, that the Bucks were robbed, although the video shows they are wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!
As much as I love the play by plays, hearing the crowd reaction is awesome. The initial "Ohhhhhhhhh" on the fumble, thinking that its bad, but can be recovered. Then the shriek of terror when MSU is running with the ball, Which peaks just as he gets into the endzone, then just fades into near silence.
As an Ohio State fan, I fondly remember this moment as being one of the happiest in my life. I can't express strongly enough how much I've enjoyed playing this over and over, watching the pained looks of the fans, and the fury on Harbaugh's face.
As an MSU fan, I know we’ve been in each others way quite a few amount of times, but you know what I love about you guys? We both hate Michigan just as much 😆, Go green, and this time, go bucks!
I'm surprised BTN hasn't produced a special on the 2015 Spartans. I'm convinced Nick Saban at halftime of the CFP semi final was absolutely convinced that Michigan State was literally on a mission from God that season. And why Bama absolutely blistered the Spartans into oblivion the 2nd half. They had to in order to win.
@@charlesmurphy3222 I think the game really was decided once we threw that pic in the red zone right before halftime, would’ve been 10-7 going into the 3rd Quarter :/. Completely different ballgame if we had scored that TD imo, with momentum going into half I think my Spartans would’ve came out in the second half and at least competed for the game.
@@kristyanson4828Can't really blame him. His own teammates mobbed him so hard after the play that he broke his hip. Look it up. Armed combat probably felt safer...
It's so perfect that it's right in the corner of the UofM Band and Student Section too. God that had to just have been unbelievably painful and heartbreaking. Go Green!
I still watch this every year on rivalry week. Have to say that there are three favorite things about this: The National Broadcaster voice crack, the dude losing his mind in the back ground on the MSU broadcast, and just how instantly salty the UM broadcasters are!
I found out it's possible to yell "Yeeeeaaaahhh" loud enough to interrupt the HDMI signal from a receiver to a TV at the end of that play. It was awesome.
This is why college football is our greatest spectator sport. I was a student at Michigan State from 1972 through 1975. I still dislike Ohio State, Notre Dame, and especially, Michigan. This ending, 40 years after I graduated, warms my heart. The two teams, both 7-0, play tomorrow (10/30/21). I still care deeply about the outcome. A win will create intense euphoria. A loss will hurt deeply. That's why I love college football still.
I was a student at MSU from 1973-77 and then a grad student at UM from 1977-1979. I have lots of memories of football Saturdays from back then. Watching MSU beat OSU in 1974 and MSU beat UM in the Big House in 1978 were the highlights. But this game probably outdoes them all.
Awesome. That last stretch you edited together is an assault on the senses-and totally perfect. Wish there had been a camera on both Dantonio and Harbaugh each, respectively, as the play progressed. That would have been awesome to see the disparate reactions. Oh, and Desmond Howard, too.
+csmcp2009 Too bad Desmond Howard dropped that ball on the two point conversion years ago. If he didn't trip over his own feet they might have won that game!!!
Huge block. Also #5 on State for not tripping JWJ at the 10. #86 (Macksood) walked in to a bar a few months after that and a group of 6 of us congratulated/ got selfies with him like he had just saved the planet from an asteroid strike
Really wish I had a visual on Dantonio for this. Forever will be my favorite win. I remember sitting in a moonraker, pretty much had given up waiting for it to end. There were only two MSU tables. And I remember standing and just screaming, "go, go, go!" over and over. Such a great day to be a spartan.
Here it is Jan 1, 2021. For some unknown reason, I found my way to this wonderful montage from over 5 years ago. It just never gets old. As an MSU season ticket holder for forty years, and alum for 40 plus, I have seen a lot of football. This is still the craziest most unbelievable play I will ever see. Great hearing the different reactions from the different broadcast teams. I thought Jason Strayhorn might tear the MSU broadcast booth apart, while I have never heard Jim Brandstatter become so quiet in his long career doing U of M games. “ whoa he has trouble with the snap”. Happy New Year!
Strayhorns reaction gives me chills every single time, you can tell just how much of a true State fan he is, he doesn’t give a fuk about the broadcast at that moment and is just watching and reacting like we all were.
I remember this day... My family was watching with me and my mother wanted to change the channel(we’re Msu fans) and I told her it’s not over until there’s no time left. Right after this play happened and I lost it! To this day they will no longer change the channel until the words “final” pop up. XD Go Green!!
A bit of curiosity on the Michigan radio call: Jim Brandstatter was a lineman under Schembechler, and his "great story" as told by him (its up on RUclips) is about how in his first year Bo thought he let a man through in a punting drill ("A Schembechler Michigan team does not get a punt blocked-ever") and Bo proceeded to berate and throw Brandstatter off the team (an assistant brought him back- kicking out players and firing coaches was an everyday occurrence with Bo, apparently). Dan Dierdorf, his radio partner, played around the same time and would be familiar with the sentiment. I wonder as when this play was unfolding if that instant shot through their minds.
I didn't see this play when it happened, I was at Walmart. I had my Michigan State jacket on and a guy at Walmart told me "you all got lucky today winning that game" So when I got home, the first thing I did was playback the end of the game. What an ending. I could run that play again and again and never get tired of it.
I was watching this with a group of fellow students at msu and a bunch of people started leaving. One guy turned and sternly said "No. Don't leave. I have a feeling about this." We all sit down and watch as the glory unfolds. We saw many couches being removed from homes that night.
Bro, that’s a serious time traveler vibe; you should find that savant and thank him for stopping you. Imagine if you’d left that game early? 8 years later and I STILL get chills watching this, every time.
Not 100% sure but I assume starting at the 1:30 mark that is the MSU radio network? Those guys are hilarious. The guy in the background probably lost his voice. Good stuff.
Yes that was MSU radio, guy in the background, Jason Strayhorn. Center for MSU played 24 games and senior year he was first team all-Big Ten. Fun to listen to them announce the games
@@petethomas3824, I have read someplace that the guy going wild is not Strayhorn, he left the call to Blaha and interjected after the fact. How some other guy got in their booth to make that much noise, a lesser assistant coach, an intern, who can say. Can't source the article, but the whole bombastic reaction that went on with Strayhorn summing up shortly thereafter helps me accept it may be two different people.
2:28 You can tell pretty clearly that the guy freaking out in the background is not one of the announcers, unless Strayhorn somehow learned to bilocate lol. What an amazing call though.
I'm a MSU FAN, my brother is a UM fan, when this happened I jumped up off the couch and got in his face he got so p****ed off I thought he was gonna kill me, I still laughed which made him even madder!!!!!!!
Let me tell you, the amount of students running and screaming aimlessly on MSU campus the moment this play happened was a glorious thing. Can’t beat the feeling of pure joy
This is IMO the second greatest play and call in NCAA football history. Number 1 has to be that Cal game when the band came on the field. But this is hands down number 2. One of the single most historic plays in the history of college football. This is the play that will forever define Jim's career.
this version of the fight song somehow always strikes me as the best I've ever heard. so so so sweet to hear it after that game in that stadium against that team. *GO GREEN*
To listen to this nearly four years later, Brandstatter's call as the action unfolds is most credible. His lack of experience as a play by play man stymies him thereafter. Still a wonderful thing to make Wolverine alumni and program men chew on a loss like that, for a regional audience of loyalists.
As a buckeye fan , I also have a connection to MSU. In 1968 George Perles lived right next door to me in Centerville,Ohio. George was an assistant coach at the University of Dayton(ohio). Interestingly, wiki and other sources do not mention his job at UD. I knew his 2 sons, one of whom was in my class. i think he also had a daughter, but this was 50 years ago, give me a break.
ESPN needs to do a 30 for 30 on just that Michigan fan with the glasses and hands on top of his head, looking like he's ready to puke at the end of that play.
I remember being bummed UM was going to win. And all of the sudden this happens. I was screaming and hollering. I remember time warner tech was fixing my internet , I scared the crap out of him. I come running out and go watch this shit. Even he was like OMG that didn't just happen. lol. It was awesome.
I was watching this was friends. One um fan said right before the punt "Well boys the better team won" I said its not over yet. The play ensued. We are jumping up and down going nuts and he is turning ghost white. A few minutes later he says he feels sick and goes home.
The next year at the game in Spartan stadium a UM supporter said to me that all this play meant was that MSU could run for 10 seconds. I told him, that’s all we needed. The stunned look on his face was priceless.
"Whoa, he has trouble with the snap! And the ball is free! It's picked up by Michigan State's Jalen Watts-Jackson... and he SCOooOORES! On the last play of he game! Unbelievable!"
God I love that call, never gets old. This video will forever be bookmarked.
+nate smith I love the Michigan play by play guys the like 20 second silent pause after JWJ scores is a thing of beauty.
+nate smith I like how on some of the camera angles, you can see the Michigan crowd and how there is virtually ZERO movement.
+nate smith THIS * INFINITY
+Scott Hillier I love Hairbutt's reaction. He wants to cry. LOL
+BBKlima hairbutt "well crap... there goes my perfect season...."
I've watched a lot of sports, I've never lost my mind like I did when State won this game. It will NEVER get old to me :D
+AlexMacIsKING Agreed. All I could do is go out on to the front porch and yell as loud as I could. I was hoarse for days.
Auburn-Alabama missed field goal return for touchdown is the only ending I can recall anywhere near the same sort of shock.
Same. My mom and I cried.
@@rosscarter734 Why didn't MSU put anyone back to field the ball? i don't understand.
no further west It would give them more people on the line to try and block the punt
Was at the game. The best part was what they don't show you. The play happened, and basically the stadium just immediately shutdown. They didn't announce anything about the next game, they didn't thank the fans for attending, they didn't even show the final score on the screen. The screens just went to a screensaver with the two logos, half the lights eventually went off, and the entire stadium just kinda stood there for about 10 minutes not knowing what to do with itself, until most of the Wolverines had cleared out.
It was a thing of beauty, the goddamn stadium itself was in shock.
just reading this fills my soul. MSU grad 2008.
I don't understand - why was no one back for MSU?
@@nofurtherwest3474 With 10 seconds left on the clock, trying to receive a punt and somehow make it all the way across the field without getting tackled was extremely improbable. As it was, the events here were improbable, but less so than if someone had been down at the other end to receive it. This was a last ditch effort by MSU to score, putting all their guys up front to try and get the ball. Somehow, it worked.
@@andrewtalbott2539 thx
Thanks for telling us that, that's a thing of beauty.
Chills, on every cut. I'll watch this anytime I'm having a bad day.
its a tradition to come here and watch this at least once a week, just puts you and overall good mood :)
"...AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY...SINGLE...TIME I SEE IT!"
Beetlejuice reference...love it
Watts-Jackson wasn't a notable player before this, gotta appreciate how this commentator was getting his name out in the middle of all that madness.
+captianlinger1 And then he dislocated his hip in the dogpile. :/
+Andrew Blechinger Actually dislocated hip when his knee hit in the end zone prior to the pile up....
Ron Gallagher Ah, so when the two Wolverines fell on top of him. Still, must have made for an awkward scene. "Guys...guys...please get off me. I'm in a whole lot of pain here."
+Andrew Blechinger I think the angle of video at around 5:13 shows how his knee digs into the end zone at an awkward angle. I truly hope he has a full recovery and is able to contribute next season. What a great moment. By the way Andrew, I was in the end zone in Spartan Stadium in 1974 when Levi Jackson ran 88 yards against Ohio State**** He ran right to me.
+Andrew Blechinger Now I see a much more clear angle....The angle that starts at 6:04 really shows how his knee is in a bad position going into the turf. Jackson grabs for his hip immediately. OUCH!
Go Sparty******
Here it is, almost 6 years later, and i am still watching. Never gets old.
That call rivals the classic "AND THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD!" call. Absolutely classic. I'm proud to have been alive to witness such a classic play.
"but you have to be careful here...make sure the snap's on target" LMAO!
why was no one back for msu as the annoucer said?
@@nofurtherwest3474 they had better chances placing all their guys up front and nothing to lose at that point, since they were likely going to lose no matter what they did. The chance of running it all the way back and making a touchdown was extremely unlikely. What actually happened was just as unlikely, if not more, but that wasn't expected. So they put all their guys at the front, gambling that something might go their way at the last second. It did. If all their guys weren't at the scrimmage line, they might not have even made the touchdown or knocked it into MSU possession. It was a long shot, but somehow it went in their favor
Every year in late July or early August, when I start to feel the football itch again, I watch this video and I remember the sound and the feeling in the stadium that night. It's nourishment for my soul. I was fortunate enough to be at our Rose Bowl, and that was completely thrilling in its own right, but I don't think sports will ever match the divine ecstasy of ripping UofM's heart out.
Check out MSU/Ohio State in 1974. It's pretty great seeing Woody Hayes' heart ripped out, too. Many OSU fans still believe, 47 years later, that the Bucks were robbed, although the video shows they are wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!
Yes
I get chills every single time that I watch this! Go Spartans!
As much as I love the play by plays, hearing the crowd reaction is awesome. The initial "Ohhhhhhhhh" on the fumble, thinking that its bad, but can be recovered. Then the shriek of terror when MSU is running with the ball, Which peaks just as he gets into the endzone, then just fades into near silence.
As an Ohio State fan, I fondly remember this moment as being one of the happiest in my life. I can't express strongly enough how much I've enjoyed playing this over and over, watching the pained looks of the fans, and the fury on Harbaugh's face.
71259mark respect! Go green! Go red and white! (I'm an Ohio native)
Jay May Ha ha! Maybe. 😆
As an MSU fan, I know we’ve been in each others way quite a few amount of times, but you know what I love about you guys? We both hate Michigan just as much 😆, Go green, and this time, go bucks!
I'm surprised BTN hasn't produced a special on the 2015 Spartans. I'm convinced Nick Saban at halftime of the CFP semi final was absolutely convinced that Michigan State was literally on a mission from God that season.
And why Bama absolutely blistered the Spartans into oblivion the 2nd half. They had to in order to win.
@@charlesmurphy3222 I think the game really was decided once we threw that pic in the red zone right before halftime, would’ve been 10-7 going into the 3rd Quarter :/. Completely different ballgame if we had scored that TD imo, with momentum going into half I think my Spartans would’ve came out in the second half and at least competed for the game.
The delightfully audible "OH SHIT!" in the Spartan Radio booth at 2:26 is also amazing.
Great catch!
Free drinks for the next 60 years for Jalen Watts-Jackson.
No forever
No for life
He went on to enlist in the Armed Forces....a national HERO twice !!!
@@kristyanson4828Can't really blame him. His own teammates mobbed him so hard after the play that he broke his hip. Look it up. Armed combat probably felt safer...
One of the greatest moments of my life.
The BEST montage of camera angles I have seen on this historic play. Excellent work. GO GREEN
It's so perfect that it's right in the corner of the UofM Band and Student Section too. God that had to just have been unbelievably painful and heartbreaking. Go Green!
I still watch this every year on rivalry week. Have to say that there are three favorite things about this: The National Broadcaster voice crack, the dude losing his mind in the back ground on the MSU broadcast, and just how instantly salty the UM broadcasters are!
That’s possibly my favorite RUclips video I have ever watched. GO GREEN!
I found out it's possible to yell "Yeeeeaaaahhh" loud enough to interrupt the HDMI signal from a receiver to a TV at the end of that play. It was awesome.
Sometimes when I feel bad about my team losing... I just come back to this gem and suddenly it doesn’t seem so bad lol. This will NEVER get old
When ever I’m having a bad I just watch this and I’m happy again
This is why college football is our greatest spectator sport. I was a student at Michigan State from 1972 through 1975. I still dislike Ohio State, Notre Dame, and especially, Michigan. This ending, 40 years after I graduated, warms my heart.
The two teams, both 7-0, play tomorrow (10/30/21). I still care deeply about the outcome. A win will create intense euphoria. A loss will hurt deeply. That's why I love college football still.
I was a student at MSU from 1973-77 and then a grad student at UM from 1977-1979. I have lots of memories of football Saturdays from back then. Watching MSU beat OSU in 1974 and MSU beat UM in the Big House in 1978 were the highlights. But this game probably outdoes them all.
Awesome. That last stretch you edited together is an assault on the senses-and totally perfect.
Wish there had been a camera on both Dantonio and Harbaugh each, respectively, as the play progressed. That would have been awesome to see the disparate reactions. Oh, and Desmond Howard, too.
+csmcp2009 Too bad Desmond Howard dropped that ball on the two point conversion years ago. If he didn't trip over his own feet they might have won that game!!!
this showed up on my feed today. thank you algorithm for the push needed to make it through a friday.
How can you make this call any better than it happened in real life. One of a kind. GO GREEN!!
Goosebumps and tears man.
Every. Single.Time.
I forgot, I also blew a blood vessel in my right eye during this play. I’m honestly proud of it.
Edmondson (#39 for Michigan State) deserves a lot of credit for the big block at the end that allows the guy to score.
Huge block. Also #5 on State for not tripping JWJ at the 10. #86 (Macksood) walked in to a bar a few months after that and a group of 6 of us congratulated/ got selfies with him like he had just saved the planet from an asteroid strike
This just NEVER gets old...
Really wish I had a visual on Dantonio for this. Forever will be my favorite win. I remember sitting in a moonraker, pretty much had given up waiting for it to end. There were only two MSU tables. And I remember standing and just screaming, "go, go, go!" over and over. Such a great day to be a spartan.
Here it is Jan 1, 2021. For some unknown reason, I found my way to this wonderful montage from over 5 years ago. It just never gets old. As an MSU season ticket holder for forty years, and alum for 40 plus, I have seen a lot of football. This is still the craziest most unbelievable play I will ever see. Great hearing the different reactions from the different broadcast teams. I thought Jason Strayhorn might tear the MSU broadcast booth apart, while I have never heard Jim Brandstatter become so quiet in his long career doing U of M games. “ whoa he has trouble with the snap”. Happy New Year!
This will never, ever get old.
Thanks for compiling this. It brings me joy from every perspective.
Strayhorns reaction gives me chills every single time, you can tell just how much of a true State fan he is, he doesn’t give a fuk about the broadcast at that moment and is just watching and reacting like we all were.
I remember this day... My family was watching with me and my mother wanted to change the channel(we’re Msu fans) and I told her it’s not over until there’s no time left. Right after this play happened and I lost it! To this day they will no longer change the channel until the words “final” pop up. XD Go Green!!
A bit of curiosity on the Michigan radio call: Jim Brandstatter was a lineman under Schembechler, and his "great story" as told by him (its up on RUclips) is about how in his first year Bo thought he let a man through in a punting drill ("A Schembechler Michigan team does not get a punt blocked-ever") and Bo proceeded to berate and throw Brandstatter off the team (an assistant brought him back- kicking out players and firing coaches was an everyday occurrence with Bo, apparently). Dan Dierdorf, his radio partner, played around the same time and would be familiar with the sentiment.
I wonder as when this play was unfolding if that instant shot through their minds.
He never runs out of bounds....there's never a penalty....every single time he takes it to the house. Love it!
Every time he loses his shoe, too, and no one picks it up for him.
I'll never get tired of watching this!
We need to institute the "Jalen Watts-Jackson Most Opportunistic Player Award".
I could watch this a million times ,they will never ever ever live this down,Go Green
At about 1:57
“Wuh! Whoa! WOOOAAAAHHHH!!! Are you kidding me?!!!!”
Thanks for posting this
I didn't see this play when it happened, I was at Walmart. I had my Michigan State jacket on and a guy at Walmart told me "you all got lucky today winning that game" So when I got home, the first thing I did was playback the end of the game. What an ending. I could run that play again and again and never get tired of it.
I remember watching that game live and Michigan football program has never been the same ever since.
Ahhh the Gift that keeps on giving! Thank you SPARTANS!!!
I was watching this with a group of fellow students at msu and a bunch of people started leaving. One guy turned and sternly said "No. Don't leave. I have a feeling about this." We all sit down and watch as the glory unfolds. We saw many couches being removed from homes that night.
Bro, that’s a serious time traveler vibe; you should find that savant and thank him for stopping you. Imagine if you’d left that game early? 8 years later and I STILL get chills watching this, every time.
It never gets old. It never gets old.
I was watching the Lion’s game and came here for some excitement. Great job on compiling all the different camera angles and radio broadcasts!
The most brilliant video in the history of humankind..............
said nobody ever
This is maybe my favorite video of all time.
Not 100% sure but I assume starting at the 1:30 mark that is the MSU radio network? Those guys are hilarious. The guy in the background probably lost his voice. Good stuff.
schmidt640 the paper smacking the table in the background OH MMMMYYYYYY GGGOOODDDDD I'm dead
Yes that was MSU radio, guy in the background, Jason Strayhorn. Center for MSU played 24 games and senior year he was first team all-Big Ten. Fun to listen to them announce the games
@@petethomas3824, I have read someplace that the guy going wild is not Strayhorn, he left the call to Blaha and interjected after the fact. How some other guy got in their booth to make that much noise, a lesser assistant coach, an intern, who can say. Can't source the article, but the whole bombastic reaction that went on with Strayhorn summing up shortly thereafter helps me accept it may be two different people.
@@JohnSmith-op1tc I would most disagree, I have been listening to that duo for over two years now and Strayhorn has a very distinctive voice.
2:28 You can tell pretty clearly that the guy freaking out in the background is not one of the announcers, unless Strayhorn somehow learned to bilocate lol. What an amazing call though.
I'm a MSU FAN, my brother is a UM fan, when this happened I jumped up off the couch and got in his face he got so p****ed off I thought he was gonna kill me, I still laughed which made him even madder!!!!!!!
Let me tell you, the amount of students running and screaming aimlessly on MSU campus the moment this play happened was a glorious thing. Can’t beat the feeling of pure joy
State just keeps on finding ways to win.
Cuz we the best in the country.
I love how they show Every angle possible of this EPIC play,Go Green!
"I'm struggling to deal with what I just saw" Maybe my favorite line from a broadcaster ever.
That day ranks right up there with the 1980 Olympic hockey victory. Miracle on Grass.!!!
This is IMO the second greatest play and call in NCAA football history. Number 1 has to be that Cal game when the band came on the field. But this is hands down number 2. One of the single most historic plays in the history of college football. This is the play that will forever define Jim's career.
I watched this live. MSU alumnus. I was astounded for weeks. Still am.
August 2, 2016 and it still give me chills and makes me grin ear-to-ear.
this version of the fight song somehow always strikes me as the best I've ever heard. so so so sweet to hear it after that game in that stadium against that team. *GO GREEN*
Never gets old, does it.
Greatest play ever. Incredible montage of all the angles. Beautiful.
This never gets old six years later. Especially on seasons when MSU beats Michigan.
3:07 "oh he fumbled the ball!!" never will get old
To listen to this nearly four years later, Brandstatter's call as the action unfolds is most credible. His lack of experience as a play by play man stymies him thereafter. Still a wonderful thing to make Wolverine alumni and program men chew on a loss like that, for a regional audience of loyalists.
Whenever I am sad this clip cheers me up
As a buckeye fan , I also have a connection to MSU.
In 1968 George Perles lived right next door to me in Centerville,Ohio.
George was an assistant coach at the University of Dayton(ohio). Interestingly, wiki and other sources do not mention his job at UD.
I knew his 2 sons, one of whom was in my class. i think he also had a daughter, but this was 50 years ago, give me a break.
He helped build the steel curtain defense as an assistant to chuck noll 4 super bowl wins
Happy 5 year anniversary of this spartans!!
ESPN needs to do a 30 for 30 on just that Michigan fan with the glasses and hands on top of his head, looking like he's ready to puke at the end of that play.
I remember being bummed UM was going to win. And all of the sudden this happens. I was screaming and hollering. I remember time warner tech was fixing my internet , I scared the crap out of him. I come running out and go watch this shit. Even he was like OMG that didn't just happen. lol. It was awesome.
I remember listening to this on the radio. Will never forget that feeling
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Go Green! F Michigan!
MSU FOR LIFE! GO GREEN! GO WHITE!
Honestly I don’t like any cause I’m a Notre Dame fan but I hate Michigan so in this case MSU is the 2nd best
If ever I'm feelin down, this picks me right up!
This will never get old. GO GREEN!
I remember thinking the only way MSU could win was with a fumbled snap, then it happened right in front of my eyes
Happy Anniversary!
0:44 "Damn even I can't figure out how to beat sparty". LOL
On their way to a national title now
7 Oregon- 31-28
12 Michigan- 27-23
3 Ohio State- 17-14
So proud of my Spartans this season, keep on rolling boys!
love the field level shots of this play!
It's not over, it'll never be over...
And Jalen Watts-Jackson becomes an instant legend in East Lansing.
Right before this play, I knew that somehow Sparty was going to win. Absolutely amazing. This will never ever get old.
I’ll be watching this video when I’m on my deathbed!! I want this to be the last video I ever watch!! Lol
Nice compilation. Quality. Thx for uploading!
I just loved anytime Jim Brandstatter had to eat crow.
I was watching this was friends. One um fan said right before the punt "Well boys the better team won" I said its not over yet. The play ensued. We are jumping up and down going nuts and he is turning ghost white. A few minutes later he says he feels sick and goes home.
Football! What a wild sport! Nothing compares.
My favorite reaction is Madaris at 5:20 literally having no idea what to do with his body just jumping lmao I think my reaction was the same 😂
0:34 those voicecracks got me dead! 😂😂😂😂
I come here in times of turmoil
I swear I have watched this every day since this happened. I. LOVE. IT. so so much
I'm glad it's not just me, thought I was becoming OCD, can't stop watching it
+duane chumney haha, i can literally recite everything the announcers are saying 😂
The next year at the game in Spartan stadium a UM supporter said to me that all this play meant was that MSU could run for 10 seconds. I told him, that’s all we needed. The stunned look on his face was priceless.
this is a good example to explain the phrase its not over till its over!!!!
Bless this video and Go Green.
Can't watch that enough! GO GREEN! GO WHITE!
I imagine East Lansing was pretty lit that night?
Illuminated by the light of burning couches
Michigan crowd: Blake O'Neil fumbles, WHAA
Jalen Watts-Jackson Recovers: WHAAAAAA
Touchdown: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I could watch this every day
I will never get tired of watching this. 😁 Go Sparty!