The Play - Graphic Reenactment of Cal-Stanford 1982 Big Game

[adonley77]

@ethnicalbert

the difference is in football, the goal is NOT to run the ball the length of the field on one play. I agree that if this happened in rugby it would be pretty normal but in football a play with this many laterals is almost impossible

[Yora21]

This is just silly. Just because you do a low quality rendering based on a video, you don't get any new information that is not visible on the video.

[explosives14]

it looks weird when one of the red guys is traveling down the court backwards

[coolrelax82]

it was like tron for a second.

[TiredLem0n13]

Maybe because it was one of the greatest moment in sports history...if not THE best. And Cal-Stanford is one of the most intense college rivalries right behind Ohio State-Michigan and Auburn-Alabama

[631kingjames]

This was 30 years ago. Why does it even matter anymore

[ethnicalbert]

these graphix are a joke right? they prove nothing

[MrAznPillow]

Wow dude you put that comment in two cal videos. I understand this may be normal in rugby but this is football and this NEVER happens and thats why we celebrate it. But why do you have to be a douchebag just because you prefer one sport over the other?

[ethnicalbert]

@MrAznPillow im not being a douch bag because i like one more than the other. Im being a douch bag because one sport is clearly better than the other. Your one is sh*t

[MrAznPillow]

@ethnicalbert yeah but thats a matter of opinion.

[ethnicalbert]

Plays like this happen in rugby several times every game! If thats the best play you have ever seen that speaks volumes about your precious sport.... fix up

[promontorium]

@ethnicalbert You don't have downs in rugby idiot, hence a play that is almost downed many times can't even be translated. That's like saying people score hundreds of points in basketball all the time, why don't you rugby players score hundreds of points? dumbass.

[ethnicalbert]

@promontorium I think perhaps you have some sort of mental difficiency? you are suggesting basketball and american football bare an equal resemblance to rugby and thus comparisons cant be made? You dont think american football and rugby have more in common than basketball and rugby? really?

[kyoukilis20]

heres the thing:

WHO CARES if his knee was down or it was a forward lateral. this was one the greatest plays in sports so just enjoy it. and if your a stanford fan and cant accept it, GET THE FUCK OVER IT

[dabomb2272]

@abbeywood22 look up 'Cal - Stanford 1982 Big Game' at about 55 seconds stanford makes a play and he was actually out of bounds so technically cal won the game so suck on that

[mig1964ca]

The game, as called by the officials, is in the books. It is hypocritical to claim Stanford won from extended analysis of this one play without giving the same level of attention to every other call in the same game.  No matter how you slice it, this was an amazing play.

[usc384]

is this the video that loser Stanfurd fans watch?

and is that why the highest rated comments are in favor of Stanfurd?

[HxCUNstopABLE]

the best moment in college football history is when he just bombards that band member in the head in the endzone.

[Marbles1136]

It didn't look like Garner's knee was down (looking at the actual video, not this one), but that fifth lateral was definitely a forward pass. Whatever, it was thirty years ago, so I'm not complaining. :P

[chrisring123]

One extra difference it probably made is that, if The Play did not stand, then John Elway might have, could have, won the Heisman with his own last-minute heroics that day.

[atronic92]

HATERS GON' MO'FUCKIN' HATE, BEOTCHES.

[officialFletch]

yeah he was not down.. and that lateral was clearly not forward. Stanford fans just need to accept there defeat and suck it up.

[TresDs3]

His knee WAS down, and :34 was a forward lateral

[iidawgii]

wow Stanford, it's just a game. GIVE IT UP YOU LOST.

[dkc4c]

Why bother arguing over a play that happened 20 years ago? Even if you're a Stanford fan just leave it alone and let everyone enjoy one of the greatest moments in college football history.

[MamoDad]

Bears Won.

Case closed.

[MrJustinjy]

haha haters can hate. the books will ALWAYS show a Cal victory. wheeeeeee!!!

Go Bears!

[10lionelmessisgod10]

listen ive looked at it in slow motion on my tv and he was so obviously down. like im a cal fan but im admitting right now he was definitely down

[jsquad31]

I don't think this proves anything, but I also don't think he was down, besides, humans aren't perfect

[Thucydides1991]

As someone who doesnt give a flip about this rivalry -- how can you not WANT this play to be real? Even if you are from Stanford? I mean... winning some game, that's cool. Having the GREATEST FUCKING PLAY EVER.... that tops everything. It would be a very sad thing indeed if this play had not been called legal. I go with the officials, it looked alright to me.

[umahuma4]

Also dont get me wrong, I LOVE football. GOOOOO BIGGGGG REDD!!!!!!!!! GO BIG RED!!!

[umahuma4]

Why the fuck are we arguing over this. Maybe we should be arguing whether we should of invade Saudi Arabia and that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 and that bush was just pissed off because his daddy did a piss poor job 10 years earlier. Bush manipulated the opinion of the american public and sent over 4,000 people to die for a pointless war, now if Clinton can be impeached for getting some head in the oval office, imagine what we could do to a mass murderer?

[friendlyfire53]

Lol this is proof? You made a 3d model of his knee not being down and call it proof? Watch, i'll make a video and say I have proof he was in fact eating a hot dog while he pitched the ball and we can all call it proof.

[beng3138]

Lol CONCLUSIVE proof? What a fool . I laughed pretty hard at your comment.

[IIKeRsEyII]

@friendlyfire53 That's what I was thinking haha. Although if you look closely in the actual footage his knee isn't down. That's the proof.

[trojantjl]

Cal should [lay against a much tougher opponent: kike The Sisters of the Poor.

[psychoboo13]

does it matter? his knee may have been down and we all know there was a forward lateral. however, thats what happened and u cant change it and its still a great play and fun 2 watch

[gyuhyung]

Go Bears!

[HumboldtZ]

making a 3d representation of his knee on the ground dosent mean thats what happened. I dont care either way, just saying

[nmmeyer9922]

seriously

[up4fun52]

i dont understand the american football rules but i can see u can pass the ball backwards like rugby

so why arent there more plays like this?

[danmartin011]

because there is more of a chance of fumbling

[aaaahhovohhovvv]

Because if it is a backward pass and the ball is dropped, it is a fumble

[bedeman44]

wow u probably spent forever making that and it isn't even real. What an idiot

[ThaiGoalie]

GARNER WASN'T TACKLED LIKE THAT

watch the enhanced version and you'll see

[ThaiGoalie]

yeah, thats wat i said, his knee was down. i didn't say that his knee wasn't down. i agree with you

[crazykskid]

the thing i think that gives it away in the real video that he was down was the actual jolt when his knee hit...these graphics don't even make it close to explaining what happened

[indianajones510]

OH SNAP!! VERY COOL!!!!!!!!!

[localboy333]

Final Score:

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

[TengoJuego]

Why does everyone say he was CLEARLY down. Its obvious it wasn't that clear. Otherwise the refs would have called him down.

The so called "forward" lateral looked to me, as though the ball was tossed backwards on the 26 just as he is tackled a falls across the 25 yard line, THEN being received(remember its where the ball is when its caught, not where his body is) at the 26.

[californiakid2007]

the only thing that matters is this...the Stanford Banned came out onto the field when they should have stayed put. If they stay put, Stan-furd wins. But, alas, they could not resist, and lost the game for their school.

If I may quote Neslon Muntz"HA-HA!"

[SayWhatSucka]

@abbeywood22 is an asshole. its a game.

[xenahead]

@abbeywood22 prove it loser prove it prove it prove it

[MrStorm1337]

@abbeywood22 So? I failed a math exam years ago but I'm not going to go up to her with proof I passed and bitch at her for it

[dogolog22]

@abbeywood22 dude....your seriously trolling these videos too?!?!?!, Im done with you, you cant accept a loss when your HOW OLD?! you are whinning about a game HOW LONG AGO?!?! and you have done this on HOW MANY VIDEOS?!?!? pathetic.

[abbeywood22]

@dogolog22 Go back to playing with your Pokemon cards, pee wee. Didn't you ever hear that children should been seen and not heard? Well, in your case, no one needs to see or hear you as you provide nothing of any worth to the world. If you can't deal with the truth that the play was blown by the refs, wait until you finally make it out of ninth grade--possibly by age 18--and perhaps the world will be easier to understand for such a small minded person like you. Now piss off, loser!

[dogolog22]

@abbeywood22 funny, because im 17...and a senior in high school,not a kid, why dont you make me shut up? oh, thats right, because you cant. Know why? Because your a small man being a whinning bitch from long distance, like I said before, Im done with wussies like you, so im just not going to argue with you anymore, you can THINK what you want to think, I will think what I want to think, because one of us has to be the adult here, right?

[abbeywood22]

@dogolog22 If you're "done with me", then shut the hell up and just go away. You ARE a kid. A clueless, brain-dead kid. Sure, you think you know everything, but you don't know crap about anything at all. If you're really seventeen, it's rather pathetic that you still spell like you're eight. You might think that spelling like a child is "cool", but try finding a job with your "cool" skills. It's a great big world out there. It's going to swallow you up and spit you out into the garbage.

[GamuhCube]

@abbeywood22 The player had lost possession of the football when his knee touched the ground. You're wrong.

[guaranic]

@abbeywood22 /watch?v=BYROBfMPCso&feature=r­elated you can see much clearer in this video, he threw it before he even got tackled. You check it for yourself. I haven't gone to either school, so I'm just being honest.

[iamliltaz]

@abbeywood22 this vid show both yo claims r wrong

[setentaycuatro74]

@abbeywood22 It has been reviewed about a thousand times with the same result. Give it up, man.

[rambo7276]

@abbeywood22 well doc brown, get into your time machine and point that out to the officials or the NCAA.

[1yellafella]

GO BEARS!!! FUCK stanfurd!!

[ultimatejoeshmo]

this doesn't shot anything!

[freakshow176]

it was a forawd lateral

[promontorium]

@freakshow176 Where? You can clearly see by the lines that it wasn't. Everyone who gave you thumbs up is a Stanford moron.

[dogcatdotty]

what happens, they just give the computer a video and then it makes 3D graphics out of it? because if they don't, that meant humans had to draw where the player's knee was and you don't know what kinds of error can happen then so that don't prove nothing. what I don't get is why the players never used their ability to slide on the field without moving their legs until the last play of the season.

[micomedy08]

of course, why didn't the refs just look at this back when it was live in 1982? with the advanced computer technology of the 80s they should have shown this on the big screen so Stanford wouldn't dispute it.

[Punisher2all]

wow this is extremely accurate, this is what i call high technology...AMEN lol

[pianorockerdude003]

people who go to stanford are losers.start getting used to losing cal.

[xxOuTsIdExx]

@abbeywood22-You are the biggest low life I've ever met. You call people idiots and world rejects?Ok here's some facts your dumbass missed. Look up the play enhanced,pause at 9 secs. His knee is NOT down when he threw the ball. Then move to the last lateral, and you'll see that the ball NEVER moves forward at all. Also, Stanford had a questionable previous drive, which u neglected to state. Then Stanford had too many people on the field during the Play. You claim to be at the game,ok sure. idiot

[nmmeyer9922]

how was stanford's previous drive questionable? and whether or not garner's knee was down is irrelevant, cal didnt have enough players on the field right from the start so it should have been called back even before stanfords band took the field.

[HumboldtZ]

you can run short of 11 im pretty sure, just not over 11

[nmmeyer9922]

no you cant run short of 11 or over 11. must be exactly 11. i know i know it would obviously be harder to execute a play with only 10 players on the field which makes it kinda even more impressive for cal but it still is against the rules thus the play should have been called back. but even as a stanford fan, im sorta glad it wasnt called back because if it was then this wouldnt be such a great piece of history that stanford was involved in.

[xxOuTsIdExx]

There were two questionable penalties on stanfords drive. And no, you can have less than 11 on the field. There is no penalty for less players, rather there is for more.

[nmmeyer9922]

ok you already said that, can you please explain WHAT the two penalties were and WHY they were questionable? and i;m sorry i stand corrected, youre right about having less than 11 men on the field, i misread the article i got that info from.

[DougUte]

I am not a CAL or Stanford fan, but I do understand being in a heated rivalry (I am a Utah fan and we HATE BYU). I don't know if the knee was down or not. But there was not a forward lateral. If you watch, the ball would have fallen 2 yards behind the throw if the guy had not reached back to get it. Cal had 11 men on the field, but the last player was to come on was out of position when the kickoff was made.

[PeskyPanda]

@abbeywood22 Couldn't really see your comment, the glare from all the Nobel prizes and gifts Berkeley has given to the world was attracting my attention. Berkeley is an Academic Titan, deal with it.

[JenBenSoFresh]

@abbeywood22 I bet you still have your rejection letter from Cal tucked away somewhere. Get over it.

[abbeywood22]

@JenBenSoFresh I would NEVER want to slum it at a lowlife school like cal. Maybe you should get over the fate that life dealt you. I didn't go to Stanford University either. However, even the average idiot from cal can see that the officials blew this play completely. Go back to making protest signs complaining about the tuition increase. Just realize that when you jackasses trash what's left of your crappy school, you make the budget problem even worse. What a bunch of clueless dumbasses!

[Frusciantefan77]

@abbeywood22 Something gives me the idea your a Stanford fan.

[epirgj12]

i had to watch again to see how much of a joke this was. right after the blue blob that is supposed to be Garner tosses the ball, his blue blobby leg looks to break. he did not get a broken leg. this 3D crap again i say is just red and blue blobs.

[epirgj12]

but now with technology, we can make a football game out of red and blue blobs and show a person's knee wasn't touching the ground at a certain time. give me a break. you can't tell that closely with the footage of the game. bunch of crap. he was down. The Play should be called "The Gift"

[WARDOGG4L]

he wasnt down

[jpark382]

this is complete crap

[strags11]

Nice CS101 project by someone, but it's a propaganda piece rather than a serious study. The virtual players are moving jerkily and often well out of synch with their real-life counterparts. I doubt anyone will ever truly prove or disprove that those two laterals were legal, which is fine by me - it only adds to the mystique of The Play