Stanfurd Sucks
ChuteOut
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"All right, here we go with the kickoff. Harmon will probably try to squib
it and he does. The ball comes loose and the Bears have to get out of
bounds. Rodgers is along the sideline, another one (lateral)... they're
still in deep trouble at midfield, they tried to do a couple of (laterals)...
the ball is still loose as they get it to Rodgers! They get it back now to
the 30, they're down to the 20... Oh, the band is out on the field! He's
gonna go into the end zone! He's gone into the end zone!
Will it count? The Bears have scored, but the bands are out on the
field! There were flags all over the place. Wait and see what happens
— we don't know who won the game. There are flags on the field. We
have to see whether or not the flags are against Stanford or Cal. The
Bears may have made some illegal laterals. It could be that it won't
count. The Bears, believe it or not, took it all the way into the end zone.
If the penalty is against Stanford, California would win the game. If it
is not, the game is over and Stanford has won.
We've heard no decision yet. Everybody is milling around on the field
— And the Bears!! The Bears have won! The Bears have won! Oh, my
God! The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending...
exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football! California has
won the Big Game over Stanford! Oh, excuse me for my voice, but I
have never, never seen anything like it in the history of I have ever
seen any game in my life! The Bears have won it! There will be no
extra point!
Hold it right here, don't anybody go away. After just about everybody
on the kickoff team handled the ball, Kevin Moen finally did it. And he
ran through 15 members of the Stanford band, nobody tackled him.
The fool! Len Shapiro, our statistician, has just held up a card and it
says the truth! The Stanford band just cost their team that ball game!
The Stanford band ran out on the field, it left all the defenders in an
impossible situation to get to the Bears carrying the ball. They
couldn't tackle 'em. The band, in effect, served as extra blockers, the
official had no choice but to let the play go as was. The Bears have
scored on the kickoff, brought it all the way back. At least five men
handled the ball on one lateral after another. I thought Rodgers was
dead at one point. He got rid of the ball [cannon fire]. I believe it was
Kevin Moen that Jan said that scored the winning touchdown as the
kickoff came from the 25-yard line. This place is like it has never
been, ever. The Stanford team can't believe it."
