'82 Cal-Stanford

[hennessy323]

Cry Stanfurd, Cry!

[MrCabezud]

I don't even watch football.. but that was SICK!!!!!

[fsujci]

I would definitely knock over a band member if I were running in that TD!

[localboy333]

Final "Set-in-Memorial Stadium-Concrete-Forever" 1982 Big Game Score:

CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS 25,

stanfurd junior college BAND 20....

enuf said all you stanfurd crybabes!!!...

Ha!ha!ha!...LOL....GO BEARS!!!!

Beat stanfurd again today......

[papastevesy53]

@localboy333 Seeing such distinct unintelligence from our opposition brings me great joy. Even if you did win this game by such slim a margin and in such an unforgettable manner, at the end of the day we remain more intelligent, successful, and for the most part more satisfied with our lives.

[iheartboobies8]

@AVL1S is a jealous furd fan.

Nuff said.

[usa1327]

@iheartboobies8 i dont like either but i think i have to agree the knee was down. the pass wasnt forward ever tho

[insidetheredzone]

EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING OUT OF THE WAY BUT ONLY ONE DUMBASS IN THE MARCHING BAND STILL BLOWING HIS HORN WALKING BACKWARDS GOT SLAMMED! That has to be JUSTIN BIEBERS FATHER! Fucking Gay Bastard LMAO Now go find your HAT that is bouncing around in the ENDZONE!

If you PAUSE it just right when the dude gets knocked down... he Grabs his own LEG!! YUP TORN ACL LMAO

!

[slimjim506]

His knee going down makes no difference whatsoever, especially back then when we would rarely see a ref get a call like that right. I mean that play happened so fast, superman couldnt have caught that knee goin down.

[gooskigo]

go bears

[improvmaniac]

GO BEARS!

[AVL1S]

The knee was down and the pass was forward

The Cal player intentionally hit the band player with his forearm

Nuff said

[robdorg]

@AVL1S

lol 28 year later and still butthurt.

[BamaDillon]

@AVL1S im not a cal or stanford fan but youre such a sore loser. yall tried to cheat by sending the band on the field to tackle the player. just to get down to it, STANFORD SUCKS!!!

[AVL1S]

@BamaDillon You're silly.

[Leoisflyy]

@AVL1S im not even a cal fan, infact i like stanford better then cal but forward passes were allowed then and it's the bands fault for getting out there when the play is live

[ratloko]

@AVL1S you are a moron.

[usc384]

@AVL1S whether the pass was forward or not is completly irrelevant cuz all Cal would have to say is that the band distracted them. and to see if his was down or not you have to look at "the play to beat the band" which plays it in slow motion. the refs were in this in real time, so theres no way they couldve gotten that right.

[teddsman]

does anybody ACTUALLY believe that AVL1S and abbeywood got ALL those thumbs up? no one feels that much pity for stanford. they obviously got a bunch of their nerdy stanford friends to thumbs them up every day or something like that....

[maybrook1]

@AVL1S I knee is debatable, but where is this so called forward pass you speak of?

[AVL1S]

@maybrook1 knee is far from debatable.. regardless, forward pass is about at 00:30

[bballbill6]

@AVL1S Yeah. The knee was down. Question though: If the player has already started the lateral motion, but the ball was still touching his hand when his knee hits, would the play dead? Because if the ball is already being jarred loose on a fumble, it doesn't matter if the knee is down while still touching the player. However, it looked like he still had firm control. Oh well. Ref mistakes are part of the game, although thankfully becoming less and less with replay.

[psychotoad1]

@AVL1S The pass was PERFECTLY lateral.... it wasnt forward, it wasnt backwards. and I dont know hwo you can see that the knee is down........... you must have some super high tech video equipment that can magnify up close because otherwise youre just guessing........... NUFF SAID.....

[AVL1S]

@psychotoad1 The pass itself was lateral, but because the player was running so fast while he threw it, it caused it to go forward, forcing the ball to be caught BEHIND where it was thrown.

As for the knee: that is so obviously down it is insane. It's not even close.

[psychotoad1]

@AVL1S really? because they broke it down in ESPN's whose number 1 a few years back, and they broke it down frame by frame... it was PERFECTLY LATERAL................ NOT FORWARD. NOT BACKWARD. as for the knee, that is all speculation, there is no way to determine conclusively one way or the other, so while i respect your opinion that the knee was down, to say it was "so obviously down" is just showing how ignorant you really are.

[AVL1S]

@psychotoad1 Watch the video "The play to beat the band"

You will see that the knee was clearly down.

And the pass was NOT lateral.

[LaxaMillion123]

incredible

[cwk12782]

This is why the game is never over until the clock ticks zero.

[localboy333]

FINAL 1982 BIG GAME SCORE FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN:

CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS 25.

leland stanfurd JUNIOR COLLEGE INJUN BAND 20.

Enuf said, all you stanfurd JC crybabes!!! Ha! ha! ha!  LOL..GO BEARS!!!!

[localboy333]

Final Score:

CALIFORNIA 25, stanford BAND 20....enuf said!!!...Ha!ha!ha!...LOL...GO BEARS!!!!

[thegofdd]

26 years, and this play still haunts the "cardinal" faithful. it's not really complicated, garner was not called down, the refs didnt call any penalty on Cal, the bears won. as with any fluke play, incident, missed call in sports history, no matter how hard we wish it, the final results never change.

[abbeywood22]

Do a search on 'Cal-Stanford "The Play to beat the Band"' and watch that 1:33 video. It CLEARLY shows that Garner's knee was down BEFORE he pitched the ball and that the last lateral was forward as the ball leaves the player's hands at the 28-yard line and Rodgers catches it at the 26-yard line. That is an ILLEGAL forward pass. The facts are that Garner's knee was down before pitching the ball and there was a forward lateral. cal lost the game. Check it out for yourself.

[munden1971]

What a play.

[vmg314]

THE PLAY!

[Fleury292929]

Its better when you wacth Stanfords drive before this

[andybasketball3]

that was ridiculous! amazing how standford couldn't tackle any of the players. i think that the cal player ran over a trombone player... lol... :)

[dud8112084]

the band is on the field

[masangke]

"The Bear never quits. The Bear never dies." -- Joe Kapp, California head football coach

[firstbasedude2]

Except in 2007

[abbeywood22]

In 2007, the bear rolled over, gagged, puked all over itself, quit and died a painful death. Starting with the last play of the Oregon State embarassment, I loved every second of its' choke job...

[acidinurmind]

simply amazing, just simply amazing

[mcgaj5555]

thank you!

[hebrewhammer010]

LMAO

[eedave2003]

I like how he ran over that bandie and just kept on going.

[ugadawgs8]

please dont flame me... but if you watch this in better definition and slow-mo you can see that the fifth lateral (Ford to Moen) was obviously a forward lateral and therefore it wasn't a TD

[DaniPower0]

quit whining pussy...

WE WON

and STANFURD SUCKS

[ugadawgs8]

OK im not whining buddy, i dont even like standord... and if u could read you would know that i'm a georgia fan. im just pointing it out because it is so obivous that it wasnt called right

[skifast182]

get over it pussy. georgia sucks. go bears!

[ugadawgs8]

ya the bears are obviously better than georgia...you wish

[skifast182]

cal eats pieces of shit like sec teams for breakfast. case in point: cal over tennessee last year, usc 63, arkansas 7...it must suck for you, but you guys just can't handle west coast speed, sorry

[abbeywood22]

Be serious. Georgia would destroy cal. Also, you claim that "cal eats pieces of shit like sec teams for breakfast" and then you use USC's win over Arkansas as one of your examples. Don't take credit for USC since the Bears lose to USC year after year. Face the truth. The Bears are USC's bitch. If cal played Georgia, they would be Georgia's bitch. Tedford's message will soon fade and cal will return to being mediocre. Wait until you don't have the worst stadium in the country before bragging.

[improvmaniac]

I don't think the average Georgia grad could even find California on a map let alone a jock from Georgia.

[trojantjl]

But Cal is far better than stanford at everything.

[abbeywood22]

You're obviously 100% wrong; but that's just your opinion, so who cares what you think. If you ever look at the annual rankings of every college in the country, Stanford ALWAYS ranks in the top five while cal is always far behind and has NEVER ranked higher than Stanford. So, according to the experts--of which you are not one--cal is NOT far better than Stanford. If you are an example of a cal education, then cal is one of the worst schools in the country. You're nothing more than a sad loser.

[mpmcd81]

Hey, in engineering it just depends on the discipline. Stanford has quite a bit larger endowment, fwiw, which makes a big difference in the rankings. So as a Berkeley grad, I have to say both schools are awesome. There is a difference in the type of person who goes to Cal and Stanford, though. Cal is a very dog-eat-dog environment, and nobody is sheltered. Stanford is very friendly and significantly less. I think Cal grads are mentally tougher, but both sets of grads are brilliant.

[hppybob]

@abbeywood22 Wait, but Georgia is the bitch school, right?

[Basch152]

How on earth did this lose in ESPNs greatest highlights of all time? That's BS.

[yappydog8m]

This "play" should define the word clutch.

[abbeywood22]

Actually the play should define "luck" and "horrible officiating".

[rmckee123]

my mom was born in 1970 and she has never heard of this...what an idiot. but yea greatest play in the history of football

[joesakic91]

'The Play' was a gem. So's Boise St's trifecta in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, and Trinity's 15 laterals against Millsap.

[prestonite]

It's a sorry state of affairs when you call your own mother an idiot.

[abbeywood22]

I feel sorry for your mother. She has an idiot for a son.

[yangistan]

Lol abbeywood, you are the one that needs to look at the play again, his knee CLEARLY did not hit the ground. That is absurd to say that it was a forward lateral. Anyway, Standford sucks and always will.

[abbeywood22]

Perhaps you should remove your head from your ass before you watch the video. It is not absurd to say that it was a forward lateral. It's reality. You should try it some time. Leave your parents' basement and see the real world. Also, don't be jealous that you could never get into a top school like Stanford in a million years. All of the cal fans don't seem to be able to make a comment without using childish terms like "lol". Grow up! Even my 12 year-old niece stopped using "lol" two years ago.

[yangistan]

I agree, Stanford is a respectable a school. When i first heard you, i hoped you didn't actually go there because you make it sound like Stanford is full of sore-assed retards. Check any college rating website by the way, Cal is up with Yale and Harvard before we even see Stanford which is compared to schools like USC and UCLA. Sorry man, i dont know if your bitter that Stanford hasn't defeated Cal in 8 years or what. But you need to grow up. By the way, lol.

[abbeywood22]

Stanford hasn't defeated cal in eight years??? Could you please tell me who won the 2007 Big Game? The longest win streak in the history of the Big Game is seven by STANFORD. From 1995 through 2001, the axe resided in Stanford. They also won six straight in the '60s. The most won by cal is five. I checked US News & World Report's 2009 college rankings, Stanford is #4 and cal was down at #21. Nice for them, but cal is never ranked above Stanford except in "Civil Disobedience" where they're #1.

[yangistan]

Aww cute, the axe resides at Cal right now you lousy bastard. This whole talk has just become funny now, you go to Stanford yet you sound like you haven't argued a thing in your whole life. Cal is better than Stanford in every respect, the funny thing is including civil disobedience. Plus, which school had the voted #1 proffessor in 2006, i thought so. Get a life, you probably applied to cal and didn't get in. Hah, lame ass.

[abbeywood22]

I do not go to Stanford and would never apply to cal since I have no desire to spend half of my time at protests. I'm not a debate major like you, but I don't have to be a Stanford student to know that it's one of the top five elite schools in the US and will always rank above cal which is a decent school but not close to Stanford when it comes to education. Coach Harbaugh has the Cardinal program on the way back and the axe will return to Stanford in 2009. Maybe you need to do more research.

[yangistan]

Wow, half your time at protests? That's one of the worst I've heard in a while. Whoever you got that from is just silly. Just because there are those absurd tree sitters or whatever, doesn't mean we are all like that here.

[improvmaniac]

And yet most of its professors are Cal graduates. Cal rules Standford. And if you want protests, go to UC Santa Cruz. Get your facts straight Tallahassee Juko grad.

[gostate101]

nice play i think that knee was mabe down tho anyways...GO STATE

[djm0j0]

Greatest play EVER.

[1Fresh2Prince3]

whoooo hasnt heard of this play

[OJSMOKE]

This is the greatest play in Football history :)

[laxmiddi21]

that si the greatest play ever

[kaz2534]

lol, what the fuck was the band doing on the field? ...probably my favorite football highlight ever.

[87sFan]

that one guy passed it forward at about the 25 right before they got to the band...just sayin. but ya, that band guy got trampled

[klein77]

funny enough, that band member still has his smashed trombone in a case, I wonder what some Cal fans would be willing to pay for it

[generatorx]

The single-most awesome play in college football!!

[plip365]

lmao.. THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD

[VampireYoshi]

I flashed back to this game when Boise State pulled the last gasp hook and lateral.

[CanadienDestroyer]

OK, for some reason I was not expecting the band to be there and laughed pretty hard when they came into frame.

[drummeralec]

wow...

that guy in the band got trampled...

wow...

[Kyletravers]

That was awsome

[rickross22]

wow nuclearthreat545 is a dumbass

[nuclearthreat545]

well.........wtf happend after that? this sucked

[Helix73]

That was the end of the game there was no time left during the play