Don Criqui occasionally speaks on the local radio station around here (Lima, Ohio) as the station covers ND football. Criqui has been doing ND radio for the past several years. I think of that 1984 game every time I hear his voice.
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Locked due to no posts in 60 days. Report 1st post if need unlocked The 30th Anniversary of the 1984 Orange Bowl discussion
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1) This game started a Miami dynasty that won four NC's in nine years.
2) The game itself has everything: Drama, swings in momentum, gutty plays, adjustments to strategies, etc.
3) Everything was on the line until the very end with regards to an NC.
4) It revolutionized college football with Miami's concept of "team speed," especially on defense. One that would take Nebraska many years to adjust.
5) The texture of the day given the fact that Texas lost added to its drama.
If you want to call it the most significant game ever played, that's fine as well.
The "Game of the Century" was a regular season game, and to me ranks as the greatest regular season game ever played followed by this year's Alabama/Auburn game.
The greatest game played was the 1971 NU-OU game, it was the national championship game, 1 vs. 2. NU's 1971 defense was pretty special. With probably as many NFL players as Miami.
Yes, you're correct. I didn't notice my error until now. This is what happens when you type at work.
Most disappointing game of all my decades of following Husker football. Huskers didn't settle down and tend to business until it was too late. Gill's errant failed conversion pass destroyed me for weeks. All I remember of the game is that incomplete pass. It allowed the buffoonery Schnellenberger to bask in the limelight. Huskers were denigrated, mocked and laughed at by the Orange Bowl committee throughout the days leading up to the game, the OB committee turned the stadium over to the drunken Schnellenberger so he could fly helicopters in and land on the field, etc. Bitter disappointment to lose the game to those creeps.
8th grade. Went to the game. The OB was an absolute dump in a dumpy part of town. At halftime I went down to take a leak and after I finally made it into the restroom people were using the sinks! I decided to wait. Anyone remember "Mad Mike" and his drum? I remember him coming up into our section when all seemed lost (down 17 I think).
My 14-year-old daughter made this Bitstrip with me in it. I think you will get a kick out of it.
Being in NJ, my best friend was waiting for me in homeroom the day after the game with a "How 'bout those Huskers?" Another one of my friends started making the noise of a breeze and said "What's that, I think I hear a hurricane a coming!"
Being in NJ, my best friend was waiting for me in homeroom the day after the game with a "How 'bout those Huskers?" Another one of my friends started making the noise of a breeze and said "What's that, I think I hear a hurricane a coming!"
I was very disappointed that this game was not replayed on any of the sports channels such as ESPN Classic, or the Big 10 Network - yet they put the UCLA/Wisconsin Rose Bowl on.
It was a day of memories yesterday, for more than one reason. That's because it was also the anniversary of the Florida throttling in the Fiesta Bowl.
Looking forward to 2014.
It was a day of memories yesterday, for more than one reason. That's because it was also the anniversary of the Florida throttling in the Fiesta Bowl.
Looking forward to 2014.
Of course he would have, but if you read the lengthy, air-tight argument that I posted, it shows that even the greatest are human.
I agree. The rules now dictate that you play for overtime but there was still 48 seconds left to play and with Kosar's arm they might have gotten into FG range.
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