Hugh celebration at Stanford after win over USC

[Oeditpus Rex]

http://www.ktvu.com/video/14288822/index.html

If you would've told me Kollyforniya college students would get this riled up about football, I would've said you were nuts.

[petronius]

1. Of course they're excited.

They have to go to Stanfurd, after all - they'll seize any chance for a little happiness...

:)

[JVS]

2. Is Stanford not a coed institution?

[Missy Vixen]

3. I'm only sorry I wasn't there

Let's just say that I held UW Husky football season tickets for many years, and we used to sell our tickets to the USC game yearly. I'm sure that there are nice folks that graduate from that institution of higher learning, but I haven't met them in Husky Stadium.

Congratulations to Stanford!
Julie

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Rosotti's (Alpine Inn) in Portola Valley was hopping, too

I suspect a lot of people at Berkeley are happy. too. The 'Big Game' at the end of the season just got bigger. ;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. It'll never be as Big as this one

Greatest. ending. EVarr. :headbang:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awax0xMDcdY&mode=related&search=



The long version, starting with Elway's completion on fourth and 17 with 40 seconds left, then the subsequent field goal to give Stanford the lead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ka2TWrAdqU&mode=related&search=

"Only a miracle can save the Bears." :7

[BrotherBuzz]

6. The trombone was the looser that day

I believe in miracles.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I read a story about that poor sucker

not long after that Big Game.

If memory serves, he was angry. He got knocked pretty hard. I think it broke his shoulder or somethin'.




How very unfortunate. :P

[BrotherBuzz]

8. Nobody remembers the player, just the trombone

I hear it's residing in a glass case, somewhere. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Gary Tyrrell

This isn't the story I was talking about. That one was much earlier, and I'm pretty sure it was in either the Chron or the Merc.

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/novdec/features/theplay.html

Guess I remembered wrong, though:

By the time Moen reached the end zone, Band members were spread out across the playing field and nobody, not even the officials, was sure what had happened. Tyrrell knew one thing: he got hammered. “I remember looking up at the clock, and I turned to watch all kinds of folks rushing onto the field. . . . I turned around again to find our drum major, and that’s when I got plowed over,” he recalls. “It looked bad, but it really didn’t hurt. I bounced off the Astroturf, picked up my hat and my music, and just kept playing.”

His dented trombone resides in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.

[piesRsquare]

10. Yeah, go ahead...rub it in!

Loyal Trojan, here.