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Nan3cy,

We might have been seat neighbors at that game.  I watched that from 50 yard line seats smack dab in the middle of a Bunch of B.ear Backers, with my wife who was pregnant. 

I saw my father-in-law cry two times that night.  The first was at the final gun; the second was after we got home and my wife showed them the ultrasonic image of their new granddaughter.

One of the best games I've ever seen at any level.  Strangely, once Easy Ed caught the TD that brought Stanford to within one I was pretty satisfied with the outcome no matter what.  Watched the ending in a freaky preternatural calm.  First, they went for the win. Second, Stanford, after some bottom-feeding from the Elway days had beaten ND in South Bend earlier that year had sort of crashed and burned against Southern California, Oregon and maybe one other game.  So it wasn't clear that the Green era was going to be any better than the Wiggin or Elway eras.  But man they looked good that day and clawed back from the grave more than once.

Unfortunately, while that last 12 seconds of game time is riveting and pretty crazy, in real time it took forever ("clear the field the game's not over") and it doesn't fit neatly into an 8 second montage complete with hysterical screaming. "Oh the band is on the field!!!!" Not too many people have really seen this or remember it outside the rivalry.  At the 100th Big Game they showed both clips (a pretty sporting gesture on Stanford's part btw), but couldn't even finish the '90 replay because the game resumed and interrupted it.

[jacketree]

Nan3cy,

We might have been seat neighbors at that game.  I watched that from 50 yard line seats smack dab in the middle of a Bunch of B.ear Backers, with my wife who was pregnant. 

I saw my father-in-law cry two times that night.  The first was at the final gun; the second was after we got home and my wife showed them the ultrasonic image of their new granddaughter.

One of the best games I've ever seen at any level.  Strangely, once Easy Ed caught the TD that brought Stanford to within one I was pretty satisfied with the outcome no matter what.  Watched the ending in a freaky preternatural calm.  First, they went for the win. Second, Stanford, after some bottom-feeding from the Elway days had beaten ND in South Bend earlier that year had sort of crashed and burned against Southern California, Oregon and maybe one other game.  So it wasn't clear that the Green era was going to be any better than the Wiggin or Elway eras.  But man they looked good that day and clawed back from the grave more than once.

Unfortunately, while that last 12 seconds of game time is riveting and pretty crazy, in real time it took forever ("clear the field the game's not over") and it doesn't fit neatly into an 8 second montage complete with hysterical screaming. "Oh the band is on the field!!!!" Not too many people have really seen this or remember it outside the rivalry.  At the 100th Big Game they showed both clips (a pretty sporting gesture on Stanford's part btw), but couldn't even finish the '90 replay because the game resumed and interrupted it.