WEBVTT - The 1991 Miami Hurricanes and Washington Huskies 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.640 Welcome to Special Teams, a production of I Heart Radio 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.919 Greetings and Welcome Inside Special Teams with Jason Smith and 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.560 Mike harmon our podcast. It takes a look back at 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.960 very big years and sports and very special teams that achieve. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:35.159 Sometimes it's football, sometimes it's basketball, Sometimes it's baseball, Sometimes 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.040 it's soccer, sometimes it's hockey. Sometimes it's mumblety peg. Although, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.400 like you know, sometimes the mumbley peg it's you get 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:43.760 get real blood and if you cut somebody's finger. But 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.599 we had to do that in two parts. It was 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.360 so big, yeah, mumbley Well, they have been some big 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.920 mumble peg years because there's big moments. Yes, there goes 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.000 a ring finger. I mean, the highlights are really next level. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:58.800 Some of them. You've got to really spend a lot 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.840 of time editing to get the explains out. Today we 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.360 are looking back at the magical year of and not 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.160 one but two Special Teams. So a bit of a 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.880 wrinkle we have for you today because we're looking back 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.760 the college football season, which resulted in a co national 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:20.440 championship between the Washington Huskies and the Miami Hurricanes, a 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.760 championship that because of the way it ended with a 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:28.200 split national title helped foster what would eventually become the 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:32.679 BCS and what would eventually become the College Football Playoff. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.560 Long road to get to the playoffs. But I shake 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.280 my my fist as many people do upon hearing the 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:45.200 term BCS. Dan, that's their faults, your fault, Miami, it's 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.800 your fault, Washington. And now what you have to remember, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.440 and I'm sure everybody remembers this, but just in cases. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.720 Back in the nineties, before we got to the BCS system, 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.360 the national championship was awarded by two properties, the Associated 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.760 Press and the Coaches Poll. And what happened is we 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.760 saw the bowl games played and whoever was the number 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.040 one team in the country. Usually they win their bowl game, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.799 they're voted number one in the end. But this year 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.399 we had a split national title second year in a row, 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.680 because we're coming off the split national title the year before. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.119 The Associated Press goes one way, the Coaches Pole goes 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.799 the other way. We got into this a little bit 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.320 in the split national title between Michigan and Nebraska in 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.720 one of our earlier podcasts. Well, we chuckle any time 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.800 you say coaches Paul, because it's like, all right, information director, 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.079 who for yeah, the the the guy whose son came 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.400 to visit the coach, and the coach said, hey, just 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.639 film out my bracket over here. Fill this out. See 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.760 why I got some game tape to watch. Leave me alone. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.160 So the season begins for Washington and Miami teams. Who 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:46.680 do you want to do first? Washington? And how we 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.600 start with the Huskies? All right, Yeah, we've got some 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.160 personal connections to that team, so let's give them the others. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.600 Who's our buddy, Lincoln Kennedy? Oh right, yes, long time, Yes, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.079 I forgot about league and Fox Sports Radio Football Hall 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:04.800 of Fame. Yeah, all around? Good guy? Is he is? He? Is? 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.079 He really that? And he's walking in front of you. 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.040 I mean he blocks the sun. He does. He is 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.240 a very big dude and he played on this team. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.040 Washington Huskies, coached by Don James, had high hopes coming 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.440 into the season, much like many teams we talked about 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.440 here on the podcast. They have high helps. Everybody's got 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.440 high hopes coming into the year. They were coming off 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.519 a really good and Mark Brunel was the starting quarterback 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.200 for Washington. He looked like he was going to become 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.400 one of the next star quarterbacks in college football. But 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.600 he rips up his knee in the spring, and he 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:45.160 has done for months, and the Washington Huskies have to 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.839 open up with their backup quarterback Billie Joe Hobert, who 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.760 was gonna start for Brunel while he rehabbed and tried 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.320 to race his way back into the lineup. Well, remember 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.840 how the year before, right, they get a big Rose 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.560 Bowl win, but a late season lost U c l 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.360 A kept them from having a steak at the national title. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.320 So they're all salty, and now you have your quarterback 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.800 go down in in the spring, wondering how quickly you 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.400 can rehab and again knee injuries then a whole other volume. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.679 I I got hurt back then, like things they wouldn't 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.200 clear me for trying to look at no. But in 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.240 all series of broken leg that I that I did 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.839 when I was in high school that I had, you know, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.760 they wouldn't sign off on me when I was looking 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.680 to go to a military academy back then. If you're 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.880 a quarterback, a knee injury, we may see again, we 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.000 may not for Brunell. Unfortunately, long term it worked out 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.560 pretty well Jaguars, but in short term opened the door 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.120 for for a replacement. So the seventeenth year of Don 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.039 James's run at Washington. Who were the star players We 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.320 told you about Mark Brunell, who did come back into 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.680 action that year, Billy Joe Hobert, who oh, by the way, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.920 goes from hey, this is a guy that won the 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.880 national championship to this guy brought down the Huskies Pro 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.839 Graham a year later. Something we'll get into later on 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.440 in the podcast. Napoleon Kaufman was there, big running back. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.120 He was just a freshman. He was so fast. Obviously 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.680 he's known for the horrific knee injury he suffered in 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.240 the National Football League, but this is back when he 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.680 was a freshman and he was so fast. I mean, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.560 you watch this guy in artificial turf, and there was 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.719 nobody who was better than he was on defense. Steve 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.279 Entman went very high in the draft to Marco Farr, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.159 who I've done many shows with uh in the course 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.919 of my career doing sports talk radio Ram's coverage in 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.000 Los Angeles. After a nice career in the National Football League, 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.280 a guy have run into it several taco places through 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.760 the years here in l A very crazy so they 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.719 were the team to beat in the then Pack ten Conference, Meanwhile, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:48.520 the Miami Hurricanes Dennis Rickson head coach ed Orgeron was 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.560 on the stand of young Eddio, who they probably couldn't 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.919 understand anything he was saying. No, he got a mumbled 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.120 like the dude from the Water Boy still does. But 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.240 it's been successful for him and his coaching career. Uh. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.640 This is a team that wound up finishing twelve and 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.719 oh overall, they played a partial conference schedule in the 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.360 Big East. Things were really messy, and Miami was able 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.200 to get out of the gate fast and become the 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.800 rock stars of college football. I say this because way 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.120 do you see some of the star power they had 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.800 on this team, guys that went to the NFL that 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.840 you go, My goodness, these guys were great. You had 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.400 Leon Searcy, all right. You had Gino Torretta who went 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.240 on to win the Heisman Trophy. You had Michael Barrow, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.560 Darryl Williams, Jesse Armstead. Dwayne Johnson was a freshman on 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.240 this team. Yes, that Dwayne Johnson, the Rock was on 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.839 this team. Horace Copeland played in the NFL for a 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.640 long time. It was top to bottom back when the 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.960 Miami Hurricanes were really the bad boys of college football 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.240 back in their midst to their rivalry with Notre Dame. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.800 Jimmy Johnson had left to go to the Dallas Cowboys. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.320 The program in great hands with Dennis Ericson. I do 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.200 want to point out before we get into the US 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:04.680 that the Big East football standings, of which Miami played 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.440 a partial schedule, they were not your Big East champions. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.960 That was number eleven Syracuse, which finished five O and 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.120 o in the Big East back when you played like 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.200 five conference games. I don't even remember any of the 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.880 stars from that Syracuse team. Oh there were there were some. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.760 That's PASCALONEI right, Oh, yeah, that that was him taking 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.200 over for Dick McPherson. Uh, that was I believe, Ernie Davis. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.920 In the backfield, Floyd Little Brown, Jim Brown was just 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:36.840 doing it all. Marvin Harrison, uh, Marvin Graves, a lot 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.640 of guys named Marvin, you know. And yeah, I like that. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.840 No it certainly Quentin spot Wood was catching some passes 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.000 on the outside. Quintin's fy like that showing you some 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.360 Syracuse knowledge. That pretty good. That is pretty good. So 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.560 these are your team's Miami highly rated coming into the season, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.520 as was Washington three thousand miles away. What was everybody 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.680 else talking about besides college football? In let's take a 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:10.280 look back at that year in review. Debuting on television 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:15.480 in Home Improvement with Tim Allen Wilson, Wow, why what 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.080 are you just grunting? Like? Well, that's what he did. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.240 I know, but run a lot, I know, but that 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.720 that sounded really weird that you just started grunting, Like 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.200 I said, Tim Allen's name was like a Pavlovian response 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.240 in you I'm gonna grunt. It was either that or 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.560 I was gonna start running lines from Galaxy quests, but 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.440 I thought those might be a bit obscure for people. No, 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.160 I was giving him though we're finished line. Oh I 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:39.800 didn't know that. Uh Ren and Stimpy debuted in eight, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:46.160 as did the Jerry Springer Show. Nice, you know it 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.880 really it really gets me that. I guess I feel 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.680 like in this day and age, it shouldn't shock me, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.680 but it's still At that time, this guy was the 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.080 mayor of Sinconna and now he's a guy saying you 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.160 are not the father. No, no, no, it's Mari. He 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:05.480 also debut that's doing that. Terry Springer was just how 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.920 can I get a bunch of craziness up on stage, 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.240 and then Steve, who was the security guy. He got 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.320 him show himself a show for a decade. Steve, Steve, Steve, Steve. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.520 Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs was still years away. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.439 The movies in theaters. Terminator to Judgment Day had everybody 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.400 running to the box office. I feel like Bob going, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.760 you don't have the hair. But it also had a 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.120 guns and Roses song. Everyone was quiet watching the silence 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.120 of the lambs. Yeah, Oscar Winner for a few minutes 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.760 on screen, still terrifying. Beauty and the Beast was the 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.840 latest hit by Disney on the animation screen. Cell Cell Cell, 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.040 I remember going to that. You know, that was date 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.280 night with in high school and everyone wanted to have 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.280 sex on top of a fire truck because of backdraft. 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.200 Now I'm Russ Leatherman. If you would like to see 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.559 a sex scene with Billy Baldwin and Jennifer Jason Lee 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.640 one now and here I was gonna start quoting Bull 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.240 you go, I go. I mean, well, don't spoil it 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.840 for anybody. It's spen a minute, you know. Obviously ninety 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.480 one was a very heavy year as well. At the 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:16.200 beginning of Operation Desert storm, Mike Tyson was arrested. It 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.520 was a very heavy year in the news, and the 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.240 Gulf War really took on the majority of the news 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.160 cycle for a long time. Yeah, you had that. You 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:28.240 had a lot of world leaders change out. Michael Gorbachov resigned, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.439 like Wealnza you had. You had a bunch of turmoil 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.840 and and just change over in world powers. When I 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.360 found out when the Gulf War was on, I was 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.079 in my history of the horror film class at Syracuse, 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.120 right I took. I took history though. It was a 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.640 great class. It was so awesome. And we were watching 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.040 a movie and the class was we'd watch a movie 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.640 one night and then talk about it the next night. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:50.760 And that was that was a class. It was such 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.880 a great class. Tomatoes. We didn't watch that. We watched 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.880 good come on, we watch good stuff. And we were 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:01.679 watching a movie and the Gulf War was announced and 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.079 somebody opened up the bat like we're in a big auditorium. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.440 Someone opened up the big doors and yelled, we just 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.360 bombed Iraq. The wars on and everybody's like muttering to 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.000 each other, going and half the people got up to leave, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.920 and I'm like, okay, I get that and our professors 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.200 up and said, you are all responsible for this movie 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:24.480 for tomorrow. I still got to do your work must 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.800 go on. I think we're watching Suspiria. I mean not 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.480 the remake, but the old one. Yes, the Spiria. The 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.040 old movie was really good. I mean the original. It's 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.200 an Italian horror movie. Okay. There are a lot of 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.120 great horror movies came out of Italy in the eighties 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.360 and nineties. I have to go revisit trust. Maybe that'll 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.160 be an episode of a podcast. That was the precursor 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.240 of all the great European NBA players who came over 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.200 in the nineties. So fired by the horror films we 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.440 had the United States and then we had players like 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.320 Dirk come over in the nineties. That's what it was. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.400 So that's where we are going into the college football 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.080 season of coming up next, we have traversy. We have 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.160 games interrupted on television on a Saturday because of hearings, 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.679 and the very first wide right as we celebrate Washington 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.560 and Miami, they're dual national championship. Here on Special Teams. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.520 Continuing on with Special Teams, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Our 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.640 show heard on Fox Sports Radio Monday through Friday, ten 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.839 pm to two am on the East Coast, seven to 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.720 eleven on the West Coast. We are your genial hosts 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.280 as we look back at big teams in big years 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:49.640 in sports history. Today, continuing on with the shared National Championship, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.080 as we break down two teams for you, the Washington 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.720 Huskies and the Miami Hurricanes, both teams highly rated coming 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.439 into the season. For the Miami Hurricanes, it was no 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.880 problem early on. They blitched to a four and o record, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.640 beating Oklahoma State four three in early October, setting up 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.640 their first big showdown of the year against number nine 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.440 Penn State in a game in which they would win 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.680 to twenty. But this game wasn't really known as much 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.920 for what Miami did is the fact that this game 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.640 was interrupted outside of South Florida because of the Clarence 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.320 Thomas hearings. He was nominated to the Supreme Court. He 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.280 was then accused of sexual misconduct by Anita Hill, and 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.760 the world was consumed with Clarence Thomas. Is he gonna 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.560 be okay as a Supreme Court justice? Is he gonna 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.240 wind up not getting it? This is a very big story, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:43.920 And when the hearings resumed, ABC cut away from this 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.680 game to go show the Clarence Thomas hearings. So if 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.120 you're watching this game nationwide, it's wait a minute, I 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.800 still want to watch football. I don't want to watch this. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.640 I want to watch football. It's before the current world 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.600 where you could go put it on any one of 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.160 your cable properties if you'd like to watch this Fox 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.880 Plasiness channel over here, right? How crazy that? Like Fox 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.080 Business Channel has? I remember watching Stanford and Cal on 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.319 Fox Business Channel because there was they had to put 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.959 the games someplace because other things happened and and games 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.120 ran overtime. Well, I've been at watering holes restaurants and 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.480 people like what am I watching here? Because you'll see 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:23.560 the commercial Hey on Monday's show come back to It's like, no, no, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.040 it's really the football game. Just calm down. It'll get 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.560 back there in a second, just a different set of ads. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.200 It'll be there. But yeah, it's it's just a different 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.440 world in terms of how news is disseminated, how people 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.000 get their reach through their phones or laptops or in 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.440 this case, multiple cable channels. I mean, it was it 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.040 was really shocking to think that there was no other 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.160 way to watch the game. There was we're not moving 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.800 into a sister station, We're not watching on PBS, You're 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.800 not going anywhere else because look, cable was still in 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.320 its infancy in early nineties, but everybody had fifty five 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.720 sixty channels. Yeah, you could have found a way to 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.280 do it in fear, Yes, but he's at that point. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:07.400 Perhaps you know, there wasn't the need or desire. Maybe 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.120 we looked at politics and the world a little differently. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.840 Some thirty years ago. It was a big day for 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.600 Gino Torrette at quarterback. You through an eight yr touchdown 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.240 past to Horace Copeland, a forty two yard touchdown pass 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.640 to Lamar Thomas, but Penn State fought back and had 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:29.320 a chance to potentially win this game. Tony Saka throws 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.160 a pick late in the fourth quarter on a play 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.720 that has been subject of a lot of controversy because 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.840 Darryl Williams, who was their best defensive back it was 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.600 a first round pick in the NFL, caught the ball 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.840 outside of the goal line, but his momentum kind of 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.960 carried him into the end zone and then he kind 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.640 of ran and he ran out of bounds, and the 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.760 clock stopped, and it probably should have been a safety 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.960 that Penn State cuts the score to two and then 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.640 gets the football back with at least a few seconds left. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.720 Is this play happened in the final minute. It's a 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.480 play now that you would watch and go, well, he 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.320 caught it, okay, well man the end, he tried to run. Wait, wait, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.440 you can't just wait a minute, that's a safety, but 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.640 not rule the safety on the field and Miami escapes 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:17.560 well and with no replay, although in nineteen would replay 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.080 have gotten it right even if they went back to 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.560 check the tape, there is that right has the old 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.720 rule of thumb is like if we only had the technology, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.480 It's like sometimes it really doesn't clear things up either. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.840 But you know, for for Joe Paterno and Mission and 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.560 and for Penn State, I got Michigan on the brain 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.080 because you're you're a Michigan game. The idea of Joe 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.640 Paterno and Penn State was only in year two in 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.360 the Big Ten, so it's a different world as opposed 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:51.200 to the past years as a juggernaut outside of that structure. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.960 So this was a huge game to top ten teams. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.400 And it ends just like that Miami came into the 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.960 year ranked number three. After this win against Penn State, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.960 they stayed at number two, and then they would go 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.199 on to many big time victories. But we'll get to 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.720 their next close game coming up in a couple of minutes. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.160 For the Washington Huskies, they started out they were ranked 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.000 number four out of the gate and again they didn't 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.960 have too much problem their first few weeks. They got 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.879 back to back shutouts of Arizona and Toledo fifty four nothing, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.879 forty eight nothing. And after these couple of games, but 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.400 Washington defense started taking on a life of its own, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.520 as it was widely viewed as the best defense in 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.479 college food. Well, what was interesting about it? All right? 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.080 As we mentioned the injury to Brunel and Hobart having 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.240 to take over. As you go into games at Stanford 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.920 at Nebraska, two places where you're like, all right, first 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:43.159 year quarterback, first year attempt to start a season. You 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.440 thought with Brunella it was gonna roll in Instead, n 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.200 and the the defense take on a whole other life. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.280 They had beaten Nebraska early in the season thirty six 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.800 twenty one. That was their closest game. Nebraska was a 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.320 top ten team. They go into a game October nineteen 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.239 at Cal, who has ranked seventh in the country. And 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.280 I remember this game. I remember watching it. I remember 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.719 everything about it because I can say it because it's 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:15.119 years later. I illegally bet on this game is gone, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.080 you know how. I remember this was kind of Pack 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.840 twelve after Dark before Pack twelve after Dark. I remember 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.040 this because I won a lot of money on this. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.320 Now I'm I'm a college senior at this point, and 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.080 I knew a guy who knew a guy who did 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.359 right who I thought you were gonna say, who was 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.639 really close to a player on the team, And I 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.520 was gonna start sinking underneath my chair. I can't tell 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.080 you who it is, but his name rhymes with Schmive Schmittman. No, no, no, no. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.320 I knew a guy do a guy that did parley sheets, 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.399 and I this was a five team parlay and I 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.520 bet ten dollars on it, right, And back then it 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.040 was like if you hit five games, you won like 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.480 sixty bucks. Right then you had to go five for five. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.359 And this was my last game of the day, and 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.399 I bet Cal because they were getting fourteen points. And 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.040 I'm saying, Cow's at home. I know washing this good, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.399 but they're getting fourteen points. Cow's pretty good. Mike Paulowski 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.680 is a pretty good quarterback. He was a quarterback at 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.960 Cal and I said, Okay, you know this is gonna 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:12.880 be this is gonna be a big day. I'm gonna win. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:17.560 And I wound up winning because Washington wins this game 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:21.600 in dramatic fashion by a touchdown seventeen. But I don't 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.560 care because I was getting fourteen points and I was 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.080 sixty dollars Richard, which when I was twenty one sixty bucks. 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:31.840 The beer I bought, oh, the Peels bar bottles that 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.080 we were in a big Peels bar bottles thing back then. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.199 The Peels bar bottles I bought like four cases. Then 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.439 they're like ten dollars. We were drinking those for like 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.560 a month and a half. I was a little nervous 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.480 that you're gonna start telling me about the list of 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.920 hobo wines or something that you're going there for cents. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.119 I really loaded up. Hey, let's this is from Mike Velosky. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.960 We're still enjoying this beer because he almost pulled off 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.439 the upset. A couple of great things out of this. 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.479 Bruce Sneider's your cow coach. Yeah, alright, and long career 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.800 for him and before he went on to start beating 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:03.959 up on cupcakes at Kansas State. There is that too, 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.119 uh and then you, um, you looked at having a 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.960 touchdown called back because of a holding puddally which helped 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:15.520 you finished the job. Now, this game ended very not controversially, 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.320 but very heart stopping. Lee. I remember the offensive coordinator 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.959 Cal was Steve Mariucci. Sure, this is Mooch who started 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:27.399 to really grow his legend where he would go on 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.320 to become the head coach of the forty Niners head 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.400 coach of the Lions because he was this great offensive 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.840 genius and he did great work at Cal. This was 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.919 a close game. Cal was driving down. They were on 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.040 the Washington twenty seven yard line. Final play of the 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.720 game incomplete, but Washington is off sides, so they get 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.400 one more play from the twenty two yard line. This 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.240 is the only time Washington was threatened in the fourth 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.040 quarter all season long, and Pulaski's pass was just over 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.919 the outstretched fingertips of one of his wide receivers. The 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.639 ball falls incomplete and why Shington wins. And many players 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.159 said after that game they knew that was gonna be 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.480 their big test it was survived, advance and exhale, and 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:09.800 they get out of this big showdown against Cal with 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.400 a seven point win. Escape on the road. Right, there's 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:14.480 always gotta be one of those. And all of these 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:19.280 special teams that we've examined, the ones that succeeded, Yes, man, 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.959 obviously we've got the abject failures mixed they're in. But 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.280 for those that finished the job, there's one or two 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:30.080 games where they've got to survive some crazy sequence, the 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:34.720 near miss, a bogus penalty. But this one at at 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.840 Cal seventeen, your final get you to six and oh, 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.520 you're halfway through. Your defense has played really well and 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.560 even here comes up with stops in big spots to 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:49.240 thwart Maryuchi's best efforts. But yeah, you have to exhale 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:51.880 and then get back on the grind for the rest 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.520 of your schedule. And that's exactly what they did. That 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.520