UTL Game is on BTN
It's what they deserve. ESPN Classic played the 1990 game (28-24 loss in the 4th quarter, ref measuring with an index card, ricocheted pass and catch going 60 yards for ND) non stop for a decade.
We paid our dues. Now let ND be subjected to UTL until 2022.
I don't think a screen is usually a coach's go-to touchdown play. It kind of just happened to work out that way.
At that point in the season, Gibbons was much more of an unknown quantity, so I don't think we wanted to take chances on last-minute field goals if we could avoid it. A screen can be a fantastic call against a blitzing defense, which is exactly how it worked out.
Obligatory Don Criqui perspective (embedding per gopoohgo, as I didn't see anyone do this earlier in the thread). Anytime he goes from building up drama to being genuinely upset, it's beautiful, as was that last series for the rest of us - so glad I was there:
remember Damefan1 on Youtube?
...but I think we also remember him for his awesome insight:
"We have to start winning!...You can't start winning till you stop losing!" - Damefan
Yogi Berra would be proud of this man. After all, baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Things were awesome. Good times were had.
pure awesomeness.
can't wait for the start of the season.
It should be an even better game this year since kelly obliterated the team and we just keep getting better.
I thought they were gonna win that game for 99% of it
Could have had tickets for this game when the 4 game ticket packs went on sale, however my brother in-law set his wedding for this day and we live in Ohio (another story for another day). I thought no problem as the wedding was set for 3:00 PM. Ceremony around 20 minutes, say my congrats and up 75 I will roll, HOWEVA, my brother in-law asked me to be a groomsmen...I couldn't tell him no. So no ND game tix, instead I went with the TSIO ticket pack and that turned out fairly well. So fast foward to the day of the game and low and behold my brother in-law set up a HDTV connection for me and I was able to watch the game, unfortunately surrounded by Ohio fans, save one ND fan. As the first half started I was already slightly buzzed and that quickly turned into very buzzed watching the poor play. But as the 2nd half rolled around and the momentum started to build I remember a bad intereference call on us and I started yelling BS over and over to which my wife yelled back "you're sleeping on the couch tonight." About half way through the 4th quarter my brothers in-law (all three) came over to finish watching the game with me and then the first go ahead TD by Vincent Smith happened and I went nuts but quickly calmed down realizing there was just entirely too much time left. As ND scored I was absolutely deflated and remeber saying that if we can score I'll slam the rest of the Miller Lite. The rest, as we are all well aware, is sweet history and lucky for me there were only a couple of Miller Lite's left. It was absolutely sweet to watch that win amongst all the Ohio fans. For the one ND fan, he left a at the first go ahead score saying we suck. I said nothing in return and left it at that.
GO BLUE!
Oh, wait, you said it was in Ohio. Nevermind.
Butt light, PBR or Busch Light. Oh how I long for the days of Ashley's!