On this day, 13 years ago...

[satyanash 14282]

Keith Jackson called the final game of his career.

Brian Robison stopped LenDale White on 4th and 2.

Vince young scored. And again. And again.

ESPN called it "the greatest game ever played." So did Sports Illustrated.

Oh, and Hornfans went absolutely nuts.

 

[SDG 3319]

Video

 

[Mez2 4022]

i'm still hungover from the celebration

[jimmyjazz 45605]

Watching Frostee Rucker whiff and Hookem mob Vince always gives me the chills.

[SDG 3319]

Rose Bowl > Santa Clara 

 

or translated for Kyler Murray (RB < Santa Clara) 

[Vic Mackey 46939]

This is false. Aggy told me their game against LSU was da greatest evar!!!

[Shaggy3.0 1695]

This is false. Aggy told me their game against LSU was da greatest evar!!!

Cuz 7 overtimes and 70 points. WHOOP!

[Shaggy3.0 1695]

No question. The greatest college game ever played.

[JOSEYWALES66 1790]

Sorry.  No SEC team present.  Fake news/didn't happen.

SEC moose out front should have told ya.

 

[satyanash 14282]

 

[ramirezut 63]

"I didn't know y'all was doin all this shit..."

 

[Wally Fairway 5528]

[4Pete 156]

best day of my life.  will never forget it.  start to finish, just a great day and that atmosphere was electric.  Didn't miss a game that year.  Best money I ever spent.

[The_Great_Hornsby 3329]

This was the best game ever played between the 2 best teams to ever play the game. There will never be another game with the storylines like this one.

[crash_davis 23088]

sure is dusty in here.

[BillyGoatHill 4278]

Great ending to my 44th Birthday....

 

Edited January 4, 2019 by BillyGoatHill

[Bama Llama 1447]

I watched every play of this game and was pulling for Texas every step of the way.  Two or three of Alabama's last second wins over the years have come closer to stopping my heart but I can honestly say I have never enjoyed watching a sporting event more than the Horns vs. USC BCS champeenship in the best setting of all.  One reason I enjoyed it even more was the way Reggie Bush's and Lyndale White's fathers where mugging and glad handing whopping it up on the USC sideline earlier in the day when USC had all the momentum and they were cashing Reggie's and Lyndale's checks in their heads.  Plus - didn't like Pete Carroll then, don't like him now.  Anyone who got to be there in person, count yourself lucky, and good on you.

[SDG 3319]

This video is 2:39 of pure ecstasy.

 

[Nivek 16873]

It was also a pretty cool 3rd anniversary.

[Horn80 6081]

Seem to recall how most the media proclaimed USC was the greatest team ever until Texas beat them.  

[Magus Ossis 2784]

The story couldn't have been written better by a Hollywood scriptwriter, down to the 12-point deficit/Brown forearm fracture play. VY was such a force of nature, and not just him but that whole team.

[MissingInAction 24863]

There was a great thread on hornfans titled USC vs history's greatest armies or something 

[TrashMaster G 17397]

Too bad we've been overshadowed by all those aggy NCs since then.

[MissingInAction 24863]

Also didn't something like 28 players from that game go on to the nfl?

[Machinator 32098]

[F250 28716]

12 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Too bad we've been overshadowed by all those aggy NCs since then.

Don't forget the legendary aggy/LSU overtime game where Jimbo's nephew punched a dude's pacemaker.

That game was so epic that it's already been forgotten after a few weeks.

 

[jimmyjazz 45605]

2 hours ago, ramirezut said:

"I didn't know y'all was doin all this shit..."

 

Matt Leinart just can't help himself.  Immediately after the game he was acting the sore loser, and in this interview he basically said "I knew we had no chance".

You know who would never say either of those things?  Vince Young.  Had Texas lost, he would have (a) congratulated USC on a great victory and (b) for the rest of his life tell everyone he just KNEW we were gonna win, but in the end didn't get it done.  It's like night and day.  Gah, Leinart is such a twat.

 

 

 

Edited January 4, 2019 by jimmyjazz

[satyanash 14282]

28 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

There was a great thread on hornfans titled USC vs history's greatest armies or something 

https://www.hornfans.com/threads/history-channel-usc-v-greatest-armies-in-history.5768/

[SDG 3319]

The man himself comments 

though I wouldn’t use the word “arguably” when it is the greatest game.

Edited January 4, 2019 by SDG

[Beau Vine 54018]

The thing I will always remember about this game is that we had my best friend's family over to watch, and his son was an overly-emotional little shit at the time who had had a crying, screaming meltdown in our house over an NFL game a month earlier.  When we lined up for the 4th-and-5, my friend tells the boy, "We might lose the game right here, so prepare yourself."  I remember looking at him and thinking, "Are you out of your fucking mind?  Vince Young is about to win this game."

[Wally Pryor 5245]

Every time I watch that play I see how close Young came to stepping on the right tackle's foot right before he took off on the run.

[Bama Llama 1447]

Watching the video of Mack with the crystal ball, I am reminded what a chintzy-looking object the current trophy is.  It looks like George Jetson's urinal.