WEBVTT - THE SNOWBALL GAMES 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.480 Welcome to Special Teams, a production of My Heart Radio 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:22.639 Greetings and Welcome inside Special Teams with Jason Smith and 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.280 Mike Harmon, a podcast where we look back in specific 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.640 years and special teams in that year. In the world 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.519 of sports. You've been listening the past few podcasts. We've 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.320 kind of been on a weather run here in the 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.120 eighties and nine nineties, talking about games that took place 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.720 in big mud, like the mud ball, games that took 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.760 place in the incredible cold, like the Freezer Bowl. We 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:49.319 had the snowplow game earlier on Special Teams. Today, well, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.080 let's finish up the weather with snowball games. Three big games, 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.760 three big football games that were affected by fans throwing 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.400 snowballs on the field. So this kind of I feel 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:03.960 like this is this is one of our opus. Is 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.839 like the weather opus that we we started with with 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.000 with the Freezer Bowl, and now we're ending here with 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.920 some snowball games. I feel like it's part of like 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.800 the the Lord of the Rings, this is our quest. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.800 We just hit another season. Uh so here you go 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.200 with the first snowball game coming to you in nineteen 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.640 eighty five game between the forty Niners and the Broncos. Now, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.640 both these teams who you could say we're teams of 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.880 the eighties and teams of late eighties. Uh, they were 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.039 both just okay so far at this point in the 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.520 Niners have won fifteen games in the Super Bowl. The 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.720 year before, they drafted Jerry Rice in the off season, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.399 and this was like, hey boy, the nine we're rolling. 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.800 But for the forty Niners, it was a season of frustration. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.480 They never really got going enough. And look eighty five, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.680 of course was the five Bears. Meanwhile, for the Broncos, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.160 they were a trendy Super Bowl pick. They had draft 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.200 Advance Johnson. Remember that that was when they had the amigos, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.480 like the three of me, go Watcher Sivers. You know, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.000 it was a big game for both of the teams 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.240 at this point in the season, because you're talking about 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:11.400 in November, heyty, Broncos nationally televised game, and it turned 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.680 out to be a game that potentially turned on one 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.560 snowball being thrown. It was not you, my Carmen, because 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.280 this fits into your wheelhouse of you be the troublemaker 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.079 when you were a kid, well a bit of an agitator. Uh. College, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.960 I was a guy that was around the big ten 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.080 a ton. But you know five, I was just uh 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.600 you know, a kid in in middle school, trying to 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.800 play football, trying to do my thing. Actually I was. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.359 I had to had to have a surgery that had 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.720 me sitting around and doing nothing but watching football for 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.880 that fall. I had to miss a season with the surgery, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.520 which which was awful. But what are you gonna do? Uh? 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.760 You sitting watching a lot of good football and a 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.760 lot of curious moments much like this one. But yes, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.760 if I'd been in the crowd like I was in 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:04.400 my college days, snow might have found my hand. I 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.640 think so. I also might have been the guy yelling 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.000 at people to not do it. I don't know now 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.280 now that back then, Now now you're that guy? Though, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.480 Now that would be you think I'm that guy? And 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:20.080 would that make me a Karen Nacular? Isn't it Karen 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.200 and ken right? Because you don't hear about Kenza, But 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.200 it's like Karen and ken right those that's what's that's okay. Uh. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.760 So here we are November eleventh, Dan Reeves and the 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.800 Broncos hosting Bill Walsh and the forty Niners. Uh, there 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.000 was no snow on the ground believe there for a 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.120 snowball game. There was no snow on the field. It 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.040 had been shoveled off. Right. The game started out well 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.360 for the Broncos. Elway through a couple of touchdowns, one 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.920 to Steve Watson, Denver was up fourteen three. San Francisco 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.560 couldn't really mount a lot of offense, but near the 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.840 end of the first half they drive down to the 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.520 Denver three yard line. This is where it becomes the 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.280 snowball game, right. San Francisco had no timeouts. They wanted 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.640 to get a scoring before halftime, because look, they're trailing 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.680 four teen three. So Ray Worshing comes out for a 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.280 twenty yard field goal and the holder is wait for it, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.600 wait for it, wait for it, Mat Kavanaugh, who was 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.760 the holder for the game winning field goal in the 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.760 snowplow game. So if there's snow involved and you need 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.560 a field goal, well Matt Kavanaugh, he is your holder. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.440 So on this play, two snowballs actually get thrown. So 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.080 the snap comes and whoever was throwing the snowballs from 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.040 the stands wanted a time and so they threw the snowball, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.480 so it landed on the field and potentially distracted Ray Worshing. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.000 All right, So what happens is you see the snowballs 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.720 hit the ground. Kavanaugh says he was distracted, he lost concentration, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.240 couldn't catch the ball and place it down. This is 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.839 a chip shot twenty yard field goal, so he tries 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.680 to throw it in a scrum. He can't. Denver takes over. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.479 They kill the clock. They go to halftime up four 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.440 teen three. You know what's funny, though, Jason, right there 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.599 is the end of that play would be a would 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.280 have been a fifteen yard flag all day every day. Now. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.719 The defender comes up and butts him in the head. Yeah, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.400 knocks him. It's like, what the hell? That's like, that's 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.839 one where there's a pedally flag immediately. He also didn't 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.200 sell it right, Kevana, you gotta go to the ground 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.839 like you you just got hit by a Rick Flair 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.279 Judo chop man. And that that's one that Kavanaugh failed on. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:36.720 So the Broncos go on to win the game seventeen sixteen, Right, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.599 fourteen three and a a half time, they win seventeen sixteen 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.359 Rich Carlos game winning field goal of the minute twenty 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.160 seven left to go. So this field goal play turned 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.800 out to be a really big deal. And if you 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.440 watch this replay, you can see the two snowballs come 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.479 in and you can easily tell that Kavanaugh looks like 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.480 he's distracted. Right. He tries, but you can see, okay, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.760 whether the corners I or something else, and he doesn't 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.159 the ball cleanly and he can't put it down. And 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.440 it's amazing to see it because it's it looks like 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.320 it's just ice that hits the ground in a couple 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.640 of spots and and and splatters. When you see it live, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.240 you can't really see it. But on the replay you 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.920 see the snowballs fly in hit the ground, and that 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.919 distracts Kavanaugh. You can't put the football down. Now. The 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.320 referee at the time, Jim Tunney, said they couldn't call 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.240 a foul on the home team as a result of 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.400 somebody throwing a snowball on the field, right, So we 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.599 couldn't call a foul home team. They did wind up 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.839 increasing security at halftime because it was a people are 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.960 throwing snowballs on the field. We we don't want this 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.920 to happen, so let's put uh let's let's put more 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.080 security on the field. But they said they couldn't call 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.560 a foul on the home team, when now they would 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.960 they would usher a warning saying, anybody does us again, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.720 you're gonna wind up getting thrown now as to be 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.760 a fifteen yard penalty and you would see that um. 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.839 But there was nothing they could do on this. So 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.960 it goes in the books as as an unsuccessful field 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.680 goal attempt. And it's just crazy to see that this 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.400 is what winds up costing a team the game. And 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.440 after the game was over, Dan Reeves, head coach of 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.520 the Broncos, said it probably didn't disrupt the play because 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.840 Kavanaugh didn't argue at that time. So I'm like, okay, 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:18.760 so because you didn't argue, it didn't disrupt the play. Yeah, okay. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.760 Uh And and look, and it was one of those 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.400 situations where it's difficult because you can see what can 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.160 you really do about it, and there's not a lot 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.680 to do, but still to see it go down this way, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.760 you could just tell something was wrong here. Well, it's 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.240 funny because they actually in the broadcast because you know, 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.280 if you if you can go back and watch young 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.720 Joe Montana and John Elway, you're gonna do this right, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.040 and then you're gonna light this up is that they 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.720 didn't come back after a bit of a time out 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.400 to say here's the SlowMo, which was brilliant, right to 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.680 bring that back. Uh, and Frank Gifford on the call, Hey, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.760 there's the snowball. I spoke of, man, that had to 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.120 be distracting. One of those kind of moments. You can 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.560 see the second one here. You know you figured five 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.480 years later you got to tell us straighter and boom, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.200 see there's a snowball right there. Even I had a 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:18.080 John Madden like effect as it went. But you know, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.680 they certainly made sure to point that out there. And 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.480 some technological glitches over the course of the telecast too 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.800 that made it interesting. Hey, we didn't get to show 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.760 you this angle before, but we got a beam back 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:32.760 from New York, so let's see this. So they did 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.200 that on the field goal, they did that on some 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.640 other things. But yeah, the fact that he didn't go 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.520 and argue it was it was the time. Man. It 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.280 looks like like, hey, did you see that, Hey, we 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.320 look what's going on. I looked like he was still 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.719 incredulous that this is what went on, This is this 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.440 is what happened. You know. It was weird, but that's 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.440 what Dan Reeves hooked onto as he said, quote, I 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.480 don't think Kevin Off thought of effect in him, because 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.000 if it did, he'd be standing there arguing with the official. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.440 Right now, Here's where Dan Reeves, who never releases anything 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.959 and never really said anything while he was a head coach, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.760 he was a master of of of of coach speak 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.320 where he could talk for hours and just not say anything. Uh. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.160 He said this quote, I think if you shot me 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.520 with a thirty odd six when I was a holder, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.360 you've still got to catch that football. So here's Dan Reeves. Yeah, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.480 here's a foot, there's snowball that was started. Helped my 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.760 team win. But you know what, Yeah, hey, I would 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.079 catch that ball. You gotta catch that ball. You could 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.480 have shot me, you still got to catch the football 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.760 and put it down. This is Dan Reeves saying that 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.880 after the game. I dig that though. I mean, you 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.679 can put that on a T shirt these days. Look 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.160 how now many people in the NFL after this was over, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.680 said that the officials should have intervened in this but didn't. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.520 And here's a big quote Giants general manager George Young 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.640 remember New York Giants for something coming up later in 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.760 this podcast. New York Giants general manager George Young said 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.000 it was a disgrace. We have a game that's decided 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.200 on something like a snowball, and clearly that field goal. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.520 Maybe game doesn't end with a nineteen seventeen when, but 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.840 it's a different game, and clearly you're adding three more 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.640 points to the forty niners total, and maybe the game 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.120 does and differently. After this was over, people in San 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.880 Francisco were so pissed, and rightfully so. The San Francisco 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.280 Examiner offered five hundred dollars for an interview with the 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.480 person who threw the snowball, and a young guy came forward, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.000 apologized for it, did the interview, but didn't take the money. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:27.480 Now I'll do what. I'll talk about it. But he 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.120 didn't take the money. So I was like, wow, he 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.000 came forward to that, if I'm doing that, I'm taking 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.440 the money. Unless he thought, like it's the movies. Hey, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.600 they're gonna say they're gonna pay me, They're gonna find 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.640 out where I live and there there's gonna be guys 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.679 there and and and I'm not gonna like that. I'm 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.000 gonna have to be on the run for the rest 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.880 of my life and suddenly I'm I'm hopping freight cars 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.000 from town to town and and and living on the 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.400 railroad tracks. I don't want that. No, no, no, you 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.280 keep your money going down to Bartman Road is what 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.760 you're saying there. I mean, but it's like knock out 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:02.600 the door. Who's there? Goons? Who iron goons? Uh? And 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.280 I don't know that is a curiosity. Five hundred bucks 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.920 at the time, that's pretty decent money. I didn't look 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.560 never never say five isn't a lot of money. But 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.920 you know, for throwing the snowball and coming forward, which 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.400 means he would have had to identify himself. So he 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:26.120 was the identity of this dude in the process, whether 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.080 he took the money or not. I just gotta say, though, Jason, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.640 it was it was a gift to go back in 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.560 time and watch a young spride. John Elway running a 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.920 flee flicker was Jim but running the flea flicker and 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.839 advanced Johnson. There was a play where he started getting 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.680 towards the sideline, didn't quite tap out fast enough for 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.920 Ronnie Lott's taste, so he kind of bumped him a bit. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.840 And because it's wet and slippery, Elway goes down, so 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.360 all hell breaks loose. I mean, you got all sorts 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.160 of cool little moments watching this game. Game John Joe 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.560 Montana trying to do his magic, and Roger Craig coming 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:09.240 up short uh to to cement the game at Rice 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.480 with an athletic catch, but he's two feet out of 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.559 bounce like that's fun. But he also took the official 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 down with him, so I think maybe the officials were 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.800 still salty. I mean, there's so much going on, but 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.560 it's fun to go down memory lane and and you 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:28.200 forget about the snowball game. Now remember George Young, Jim 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.200 of the Giants. It's ridiculous, it's cost that way. Dan Reeves, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.720 head coach of the Broncos, doesn't matter. You gotta catch that. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.319 Just remember those two names, because if you like the 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.600 snowball game here, you ain't heard nothing yet. That's coming 0:12:41.679 --> 0:13:02.240 up next right here on special Teams. So snowball game 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.680 in our rear view mirror. Remember the names again, George Young, Giants, GM, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.760 Dan Reeves, head coach of the Denver Broncos, because we 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.360 are jumping ahead now ten years to the next snowball game, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.839 which lives in infamy in NFL history as the New 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.880 York Giants, who were then coached by Dan Reeves, hosted 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.160 the San Diego Chargers in the final game of the season. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.400 This game is notable because this was a year where 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.880 San Diego had a huge run of the playoffs where 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.840 they started four and seven but won their last five 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.040 games to get in. You know, starting the run of 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.760 the Charges when every year all the Chargers are terrible 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.600 the first few games and they go on a big run. 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 This was the first game year where they had that 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.600 big run four and seven, They win five in a 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.199 row to get to the playoffs. Now the Giants, they 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.199 were done right there, five and ten. They're finishing out 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.440 the Season's the final game of the regular season. So 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.400 in New York in the winter, it gets snowy. Now, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.400 the snow wasn't on the field because the snow was 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.440 was pushed off, but it was on the corners of 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:09.160 the fields, and it was all over the stands, all right. Somehow, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.880 the Giants in this game get up seventeen nothing while 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.000 fans are throwing snowballs at each other in the stands. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.080 This is New York, all right, or New Jersey. Hey, 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.320 the game we're winning. Yeah, but let's throw snowballs at 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.640 each other. I mean, this is the Giants are terrible, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.600 and then there's they're playing for nothing and the Chargers 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.120 are playing for everything and the Giants get up seventeen nothing. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.440 So what do you think is gonna happen? Well, you 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.800 got a bunch of New Yorkers and New Jerry have 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.400 a snowball. Fine, you know you, You and me I. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.960 Everybody turns into Rocky Bell boy, you know you. And 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.440 so eventually it gets to, hey, no, we should do 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.600 a forget about throwing stuff at each other. How ably 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.600 show some stuff on the field of the players. I mean, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.120 that's New York. So they started throwing snowballs at the 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.440 players on the field and players started getting hitting with 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.160 these snowballs regularly. This wasn't like one or two, but 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:01.040 this was snowballs are being bombed every few seconds because 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.320 there was so much snow in the stands that they 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.760 were hitting the players. And this is where things started 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.360 to get out of control. Yeah, the report was that 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.360 Wednesday of that week they had about a foot of 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.320 snowfall by game time, and this is a Saturday game. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.200 They moved it from the aisles and the the well 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.720 the seats were cleared, but it was all under the 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:26.040 seats and packed and condensed, and because it was cold. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:30.120 We're also not just talking snowballs, we're talking ice balls, 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.480 and that that become part of this. So about fifty 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:39.400 people in attendance trying to pass the time and finish 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.480 off the season. Yeah, that's uh, that's a recipe for disaster. Well, 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.640 don't forget. You have to add alcohol to this because 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.400 as the game is going on, people are drinking and 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.080 you know, shock, hey, wait stop, people are drinking beer 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.640 and alcohol NFL games. As the beer gets flowing, things 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.000 get even more crazy. It's not like, hey, you know, 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.440 after a while, everybody stopped throwing snowballs at the players. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.520 It's just keep drinking and throwing snowballs. The Giants start 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.600 giving away the lead on the field, the Chargers start 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.960 coming back, and it's crazy. So now you have fans 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:14.440 who are really upset, and snowballs are flying faster, more consistently. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.000 You can see the games, you can see the highlights 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.200 of this game. You just see snowballs into the picture. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.840 Out of the picture. Every few feet you see one 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.560 laughing Giants. Officials said they saw kids throwing snowballs on 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.720 the field and Dad's given them I fives after their Hey, 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:32.840 that was a good troke, Tommy. I bet you cant 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.000 throwing far to out. You know, Hey, how about I'll 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.960 buy you a bicycle if you control want to hit 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.640 somebody on the field. That's a good one, Tommy. Hi five. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.800 I mean that's really what it was. That that's what 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.480 you went all good fellas at the end there too, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:52.360 you're like, I went, Tommy, Hey, Tommy know, just amazing video, man, 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.840 Just yeah, the way in the way it starts to flow, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:02.280 because look, we're used to seeing games in Philadelphia, Chicago 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:08.000 and other places where you'll have the you know, snowball here, 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.360 a snowball there. This is just a constant barrage. Yeah, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.280 and then that we're we're only in the third quarter 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.520 at this point. Yeah, I mean you feel like, okay, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.560 you're no, no, no, you're only the third quarter. Because 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.840 like I said, things always get more and more insane 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.479 the more alcohol, the more time you bring. And in 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:29.200 the third quarter of this game, uh, a security guard 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.800 gets hit with a snowball. Then a fight breaks out 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.159 in the stand. So now violence is going on. Snowball 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.720 start coming down from the upper deck, which if you 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:40.840 throw a snowball from the upper deck in a football game, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.119 you had somebody you could really hurt them, especially with 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.359 a lot of these being made up of ice, because 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.280 it's not like you know, you just this is just 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.879 all like fresh fallen snow and hits you and and 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.600 falls off, and you go, oh, it's funny. You'll have 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.119 a snowball fighting like. This is not elf Okay, this 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.040 is this is you know, throwing snowball from the top 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.720 deck in a football game. The game gets halted and 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.080 halls are made up to the booth to have an 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.560 announcement made to warn the fans about not throwing snowballs anymore. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.080 All right, So you have this warning go out to 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.720 the fans and and of course it doesn't matter because 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.119 people still keep throwing. Yeah, what are they gonna do 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.520 to us? Uh? The San Diego charges equipment manager, who 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.800 is standing next to one of the officials, gets hit 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.240 in the head by a snowball and is knocked unconscious. Yes, 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.879 Sid Brooks then sixty years old. He gets hit and 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.199 is knocked unconscious. The cord guy. And when I say that, 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.440 because that's the that's the assistant on the sideline. Who 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.560 who holds the cord for the head coach? Back when 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.800 before they had wireless records, you know that you had 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.960 two hundreds of yards who came. Yeah, you had the 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.760 guy who would hold the cords for the head coach, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.040 like Bruce Coslet when he was head coach of the Jets, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.679 his daughter would hold the cord form. My roommate in 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.199 college was the cord guy for Syracuse Paul. Yeah, he was. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.720 He was an equipment manager and uh, you know he 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.560 got money to go to college, but equipment man because 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:00.480 he did that in high school. And he job on 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.479 game day was the cord guy for Paul Pasqualoney. And 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.080 so who was the head coach? You would always sit 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.760 there and I'll move around, move around, move around. He 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.879 was the cord guy. So the cord guy for Dan Reeves, 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.600 responsible for Dan reeves headset took off because he knew 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.720 Dan Reeves is gonna be a target because the Charges 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.520 are coming back winning this game. So I'm like, you 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.560 know what I'm done. I know they're gonna start throwing 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.119 stuff at Dan Reeves. I'm gonna get hit. So the 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.840 cord guy just leaves. It's the end of the year 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.119 and he probably knew Reeves hated him. Anyway, I'm not 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:31.720 coming back to this. There's no way I do in 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.600 this again. It's the way they're we're doing my contract 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:38.440 um out of here. So the chord guy takes off. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:43.600 The game is seventeen seventeen. Sean Gale picks off a 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.439 pass and goes nine nine yards for a touchdown. You 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.520 can watch this highlight and you see his Sean Gale 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.880 is getting ready to cross the goal line. Snowballs come 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.119 flying down at him. So San Diego Chargers they go 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.760 up seventeen. They wind up winning the game. More people 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:02.320 are getting hit, a initials are getting hit. One flipped 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.720 off the crowd after getting hit. How this game wasn't 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.159 stopped or even forfeited after the Shaan Gail touchdown is 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.320 beyond me because officials clearly had no control of this game. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:13.960 And at that point it's I go, you know what. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.360 I know you don't have forefeits that often, but but 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.200 you had no control over what was going on the Giants. 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.359 You gave up the lead, you're losing the game. Now 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.120 we're done, we're going off the field. But they kept 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.199 playing the game even though they had no way to 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.040 stop the snowballs from flying out of the stands. It 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:31.840 was a barrage near Sean Gale. As he runs into 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.000 the end of with his touchdown and still the the 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.800 officials said, Okay, hey, sorry, Dave Brown, you just through 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.640 that big ninety nine yard pick. You gotta go back 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.800 out there. Good luck staying away from the snowballs. It's 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:46.160 just amazing right now. It's safety, safety, safety. Then can 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.720 we finish running clock? What don't we do? Uh? And 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.320 just you know, getting over the loudspeaker, please refrain, be 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.440 a good citizen and you're no nobody cares. It's done 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:00.240 between the alcohol or the kids trying to impress their 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.800 dad's it's over. You're just open to get out of 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:07.080 there in one piece. Man. Just crazy scene the Shawn 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:12.119 Gayle former bear uh yard or uh. That is the 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.000 play that that stands out when you see any video 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:18.880 footage of Here's the great weather moments in NFL history. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.960 Fourteen people were arrested, A hundred and seventy five people 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.520