It was 20 years ago today ...

Yes, it's been 20 years, and my human still rambles about this.

K-State beat KU, October 12, 1991, I guess. It may not seem like a big deal now, but I guess at the time, it was a huge victory for K-State, as the intro will explain. KU had two future Super Bowl champs on their defense, Gilbert Brown and Dana Stubblefield. Dan Eichloff was one of the best kickers in the country. Several other members of the defense saw time with the NFL. KU was favored by 10; K-State was unanimously picked to finish last in the Big 12. Clearly, no one knew about Bill Snyder at that point. The Cats finished 7-4, which was huge for the program at the time.

So they tell me. Not that I really care.

--Mr. Abrams.

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[niwert]

Is the clip of Coach Snyder jumping up into a hug from another coach from this game? It looks exactly like a clip from the North Texas win in 89.

[DudeWheresMyEMAW]

@niwert That clip is from this game. It's actually from the very end of the game. The game did not end with the K-State touchdown; the Hawks got the ball back, drove down the field, and with one second left, a Cat safety (I'd ahve to check to see who) batted away what would have been the winning touchdown in the endzone. The crowd erupted, and Snyder jumped up and hugged his defensive coordinator, Jim Leavitt, who went on to USF years later.

[TheAiDaN2110]

Great! How did you get these clips?

[DudeWheresMyEMAW]

@TheAiDaN2110 I was at that game that day. When I got back to my apartment in Manhattan, I saw that Prime Sports Network, which had broadcast the game earlier that day, was doing a rebroadcast at 10:00 p.m. that night, so I set the VCR and went to the Ville to get drunk. 

[TheAiDaN2110]

@DudeWheresMyEMAW Ah ok, but how do you get it on the computer? I have some recorded games but i dont know how to get them on the computer. .

[DudeWheresMyEMAW]

@TheAiDaN2110 There are different ways. In my case, my computer captures from a deck that plays mini-DV, so I plugged my mini DV camera into my old VCR, mad a copy of the footage, and then captured that with Final Cut Pro. It's an old version of FCP, unfortunately, and you can see what a second generation cpy does to the quality of the video --- plus we didn't have HDTV back in 1991.

[shanusbohemus]

Like if you got goosebumps too

[jls4657wildcat]

Sara...me too (the crying part).

I was a die hard KSU fan at the time, but more for the University in general than for the football team. Heck, I had only been 12 years old for a month when this game was played.

Seeing all of these clips of The Miracle in Manhattan just gets me choked up. Every. Single. Time.

GO CATS!!! EMAW!!!

[saraed77]

This made me cry. Honestly in 1991, we had just moved to Kansas, so I was rooting for the Washington Redskins on their way to the 1992 Super Bowl victory. But, I am so glad I stayed in Kansas, and went to Kansas State University!!!