That is one of my all time fave games, but it was a bowl/national title game. When Schlesinger scored that go ahead, winning TD, I pulled a muscle in my back from jumping up and down and thrusting my fist in the air like a complete mad man, albeit, one totally happy mad man.Beating Miami For the NC. 4th quarter was fantastic.
Mine, too. It is impossible to state how great that win was. We hadn't gotten as much respect as you'd have thought from 1970. As strong as we were to that date in 1971, there was still the question whether we could win out. Beating OU was huge. I just could not hope beyond hope that we'd win, and when we pulled it off, we all could have died and gone to heaven satisfied our huskers had done it.!971 Game of the century NU-OU...without question.
I had a bet with my OIC for this game. (The guy was a real tool. I was on Okinawa 365 days and he made us work 363 of them. Only had Christmas and Thanksgiving off.) We were waiting in the shop for it to come on the radio. They announced that they would not play it (it was delayed) because it was such a blow out it would not be entertaining. Then they announced the score. We only bet like $5. He came out of his office threw it at me and said don't say a ------- word then slammed his door. The whole shop laughed cuz we all hated him.Good call. That was probably the biggest hurdle for T.O..
That '83 PSU game was big. The Halloween beatdown of CU was huge.