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Because you can never read about it enough... - 71Bear - 10-18-2012

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/the_bonus/10/18/the-play-stanford-cal/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a0

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - FarmBoy - 10-18-2012

Okay, I'll bite. My take on "The Play":

Yes, it's a fun moment in sports lore. 5 laterals to win a rivalry game and the chaos of the band of the field is iconic. But I also find it telling that "The Play" is basically the only thing that the vast majority of sports fans know about Kal. They're defined by being on the positive side of one of the best known fluke plays ever. Not because of skill, talent, perseverance, intelligent play or any other positive athletic characteristic. They happened to luck into a last second win when the refs decided to stop calling the game. The way some Kal fans worship "The Play" comes across as a tad desperate.

Perhaps if I were at the game, let alone even a a football/Stanford fan at the time (I was 5 years old), perhaps it would carry more weight. But for me, "The Play" is just another symbol that the team across the Bay doesn't have any substantial football legacy for the past 30+ years worth noting, so they huddle around their smart phones and watch YouTube replays of a game from 30 years ago.

If you want to see a truly insane finish to a football game, check out this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eeEy060qrA

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - yvonne - 10-18-2012

Not even Pratt was alive for the Play.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - Oasis - 10-18-2012

I thought I read that some of the participants in the Play, young as I would consider them, are no longer living.

After the 82 BG I found myself double-checking a lot of things I usually take for granted.  Is my wallet in my pocket?  Do I have my keys? Looking twice to see something was in the trunk of my car.  It sort of undermined my confidence in the everyday realities. 

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - Farm93 - 10-18-2012

1982 was a long time ago.  And many football players do not live to reach 50.  If a football player was 22 then, they would be 52 now.  Some Americans will die in their 50s, but a whole lot of former football players die in their 50s.  So I have no doubt that a few from that event are no longer with us.  Sad, but death is inevitable.

After the 2010 Orange Bowl Coach Shaw reminded everyone at a basketball game in Maples that if the team wants to be successful in the future then the team and the fans will need to move on and stop celebrating the Orange Bowl win.  It was so true.  I can't imagine how negatively the obsession with "The Play" has impacted UCB football over the years.  Oh well, too bad for them.

I personally hate when the Stanford AD celebrates amazing events from the previous year, like they did in 2008 vs. SC with highlights of the 2007 game.  30 years with the same highlight??  Umph...

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - Spiny_Norman - 10-18-2012

(10-18-2012, 01:58 PM)garvin link Wrote:
Quote:I also find it telling that "The Play" is basically the only thing that the vast majority of sports fans know about Kal.

I take strong exception to that statement, FarmBoy. Kal is also well known for Roy Riegels carrying the ball 69 yards in the wrong direction in a Rose Bowl game, and for Kevin Riley's heroic scramble against Oregon State in 2007 that gained a gritty five yards, notwithstanding the fact that it ran out the clock and lost the game. The 59ers are no mere one-trick pony.

Also Kal's Rose Bowl history is so famous even Stanford fans will tell you about it.  We all know their Rose Bowl highlights from the past half century 53 years.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - Oasis - 10-18-2012

  My take on the play is his knee was down.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - jacketree - 10-18-2012

We had the 'skin' from the 1929 Rose Bowl hanging in our fraternity.  It was actually in great condition, in a locked frame, and bolted to the wall about 16 feet above the floor.  By contrast, the Duke and Tulane skins from the '70s may have found their way onto various homecoming displays and wrecks.

Tech gave Riegels a varsity letter, and apparently he was a great sport about it all.  Personally, I think Tech and California should crank the series back up. They last played in 1978, which was the first game between the two since 1940.  California has gotten some measure of retribution with a 4-2 record against GT since the Rose.

http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/spr98/div04.html

As an aside, I thought The Play was hilarious at the time.  (Still do really.  If the band is that clueless as to what is happening on the field, they deserve to be part of infamy.)  We saw some late night replays. We might have been drinking. That is within the realm of possibilities.  "Check out that dude with the trombone....hahahahaha....Boom!!  Hey, who the ***** stole my grilled cheese!  You ******* bastards!"  Couldn't even tell you who the two teams were at the time.  Weird brown astroturf.  Our TV may have "fallen off a truck." That is also within the realm of possibilities.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - FarmBoy - 10-19-2012

A great reminder of the real winners of Big Game '82: The Stanford Daily writers who did this:

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/13078/stanford-journalists-rewrote-cal-history

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - dabigv13 - 10-19-2012

Was just about to post this myself.

"Life isn't fair, I swear to God it isn't."

Absolutely classic.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - CompSci87 - 10-19-2012

(10-19-2012, 01:32 PM)FarmBoy link Wrote:A great reminder of the real winners of Big Game '82: The Stanford Daily writers who did this:

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/13078/stanford-journalists-rewrote-the college near a BART station-history

Nice article. Anyone know if there is a complete scan of the bogus paper online somewhere?  I found this, but it looks to be only the front page: http://www.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/history/daily_cal_82.html

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - 76lsjumb - 10-19-2012

(10-18-2012, 04:56 PM)Oasis link Wrote:  My take on the play is his knee was down.

'Nuff said...

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - 81alum - 10-20-2012

(10-19-2012, 01:32 PM)FarmBoy link Wrote:A great reminder of the real winners of Big Game '82: The Stanford Daily writers who did this:

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fandom/post/_/id/13078/stanford-journalists-rewrote-the college near a BART station-history
That newspaper hoax almost made enduring the injustice of the play worthwhile.  I first typed bearable but then thought better of it.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - Leftcoast - 10-20-2012

For me the injustice and outrage faded fairly quickly and was replaced by, how to put it?, an acceptance of the result coupled with a satisfaction in what '82 means for the rivalry.  There is also some pleasure in having been at the game and participated in the events as only a student could have.

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression?  I've done that.  Now I'm on Acceptance.

Re: Because you can never read about it enough... - Leftcoast - 10-20-2012

Ouch!  I may have to challenge Garvin to a duel with black powder single shot pistols to defend the honor of my great-great-great-great grandfather.  After all, he hated tea.