Tater

November 23rd, 2015 at 7:47 PM ^

I was there, but I didn't know about the Heisman pose until I got home.  I was sitting highe in the stadium around the 15, near the opposite end of the field.  I was going apeshit over the return, but it just looked like a great endzone celebration to me.  He did the pose so quick that I am guessing a lot of people had no idea what he was doing.

But that is still my favorite OSU game.  As the OSU fans started exiting the stadium in a tsunami of scarlet and gray, I remember thinking that the rivalry had become so one-sided in Michgan's favor that it had lost some of its luster.  

Maybe ten years from now, we will be back on the right side of a "one-sided rivalry."

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The FannMan

November 23rd, 2015 at 10:39 PM ^

I was junior in the student section.  I was going nuts over the return too, and heard someone say "He struck the Hiesman pose!"  (There is also a non-zero chance that I was pretty drunk at the time.)

It was incredible watching him play that year.  So many incredible moments.

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rob f

November 24th, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^

was Edition #9 of The Game for me, and it's still one of the 5 most memorable of the 20 I've attended. I recorded it (and still have it) on VHS. After seeing that Desmond "Hello, Heisman" Keith Jackson clip, its gonna be mandatory that II hook up the VCR and take yet another look at that game.

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Luckey1083

November 23rd, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^

God Keith Jackson couldn't have timed it any better...  Its like Keith and Desmond went over the call and when Des would return it before the game!  After enduring Brock Huard the past couple of weeks, so glad to listen to some Keith Jackson.  He is and forever will be the voice of college football

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J.

November 23rd, 2015 at 5:25 PM ^

Whoa, Nelly! Wouldn't that be something?

Jackson was the best.  You can see one of his strengths in this clip, actually.  Note the 40+ seconds of announcer silence after the score.  The crowd noise and raw emotion carry the moment.  A lot of announcers today seem to be afraid to be quiet -- if they're not talking, they must not be working.  Keith Jackson showed that sometimes the game says more by itself than any announcer ever could.

I hope he gets up early Saturday, flips on the TV, and joins all of us while we enjoy the game that he helped bring to the national consciousness in the place that he named, and I hope he sees one for the history books.

Go Blue! Beat Ohio!

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uminks

November 23rd, 2015 at 5:27 PM ^

I was working in Norman, OK at the time and could not make it to the game. But had fun watching the game on ABC! Wow, hard to believe it was so long ago! I was only 28 when this game was played!

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George Patton

November 23rd, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^

Went straight through to grad school.  It was an emotional day for that reason alone.  I didn't see the pose at the time.  Now, my nine year old has a poster of the play on his wall.

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