09-19-2014, 03:25 PM
That is just so wonderful. I weep tears of joy everytime I rewatch that.
It is so much better than your ordinary miraculous come-from-behind last-second victory over your traditional rival. What makes this special is that we owe the victory in large part to C.al's own fans, whose premature celebration gave us the critical 15 yards on the onside kick. And after the C.al fans had shot their team in the foot, the C.al team went ahead and shot themselves in the other foot.
The contrasting images of a swarm of blue and gold fans celebrating on the field just a few seconds before a swarm of red and white fans got to celebrate is one of the sweetest contrasts I have ever seen.Â
It is the perfect Greek tragedy, in which hubristic C.al is savagely punished by a dramatic reversal (peripeteia) of the highest order.
Still doesn't make up for 1982. C.al deserved to lose in 1990. We did not deserve to lose in 1982.Â
It is so much better than your ordinary miraculous come-from-behind last-second victory over your traditional rival. What makes this special is that we owe the victory in large part to C.al's own fans, whose premature celebration gave us the critical 15 yards on the onside kick. And after the C.al fans had shot their team in the foot, the C.al team went ahead and shot themselves in the other foot.
The contrasting images of a swarm of blue and gold fans celebrating on the field just a few seconds before a swarm of red and white fans got to celebrate is one of the sweetest contrasts I have ever seen.Â
It is the perfect Greek tragedy, in which hubristic C.al is savagely punished by a dramatic reversal (peripeteia) of the highest order.
Still doesn't make up for 1982. C.al deserved to lose in 1990. We did not deserve to lose in 1982.Â