Indiana Week - The 1979 Final Drive vs Lee Corso's Hoosiers
Still gives me chills after all these years...courtesy Wolverine Historian!
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November 13th, 2018 at 12:55 PM ^
I never tire of Corso going out of his mind when the UM player (Reid ?) tosses the ball out of bounds on the penultimate play.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^
+1 on the excellent use of, "penultimate," one of my favorite words.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:11 PM ^
I think it was Stanley Edwards who intentionally fumbled. I met Lee Corso once at an event and he said this was one of the most maddening events in his career at IU.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
I never noticed until just now that Michigan still had a timeout remaining.
Even without the "fumble" out of bounds, they still could have stopped the clock. The result would have been exactly the same.
November 13th, 2018 at 3:11 PM ^
Was it still a rule back then? I mean if it was a rule back then I would be pretty upset too lol if not, fair game
November 13th, 2018 at 4:46 PM ^
Rule or not, the fumbling out of bound didn't need to happen. We still had a timeout left!
For years I have watched replays of that final drive thinking we got away with something with the toss out of bounds. Only today did I notice that Michigan had one timeout left.
There were 4 seconds left on the clock. Plenty of time to call that last timeout
November 13th, 2018 at 5:36 PM ^
Michigan didn't get away with anything. The rule was changed after that season to prohibit fumbling the ball out of bounds to preserve time. At the time, it was a smart play (extra remaining timeout aside).
November 13th, 2018 at 1:07 PM ^
I was 9 years old and sitting about 15 rows up in that very end zone. Family drove all the way up from Blacksburg, VA to see it. Pure awesome.
November 13th, 2018 at 5:46 PM ^
I was 10 at the time but not at the game.
I was stuck in my bedroom doing a book report (on the great state of Utah) listening to the game on my Michigan football helmet radio. Little work was accomplished on said report during and after that game.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:13 PM ^
And the call. Wangler and Carter remember Ufer's call...
November 13th, 2018 at 5:05 PM ^
the gif:
November 13th, 2018 at 1:19 PM ^
if you watch on mute and you grew up in the 80s you mentally hear tecmo bowl sounds for some reason.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:21 PM ^
My favorite part is near the end when Ufer says "...and it's SACK TIME!"
November 13th, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
reggie, you have a sick sense of humor. very funny, but sick.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:31 PM ^
My Father and Grandfather were at this game. I grew up hearing about most of their section had left but they stayed to the very end. It was the greatest comeback they saw live and one of their favorite Michigan moments. My Dad had an audio cassette tape of Ufer's call of that game and would play it before big games. I probably heard the call a dozen times before I ever actually saw the play.
I felt the same sense of pride having stayed to see entire comeback against Virginia in '95 when a lot of students and fans had given up and left. That said, I tapped out and left the Perdue/Michigan game in '95 late in the 3rd quarter. My devotion is strong but not that strong.
November 13th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
I was at the game, on a date with my wife-to-be. When the ball got lateraled out of bounds by the RB, the whole stadium went quiet - none of us had seen that before. Good times.
November 13th, 2018 at 2:00 PM ^
How great is that,,,again and again,,,,thanks
Go Blue
November 13th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
The 2 women sitting in front of us in section 19 (husbands sitting elsewhere that day) left as Indiana scored. When we ran into them as we were leaving the stadium, they asked us not to tell their hubands the next week. We promised. Squealed on them immediately at the next game. Did not hear Ufer's PBP until back at the car. Great day.
November 13th, 2018 at 3:14 PM ^
I, for one, am glad we no longer have our game broadcasts filmed by a drunk guy with a handheld camcorder.
November 13th, 2018 at 4:39 PM ^
I have a lot of respect and great memories for Frank Beckman- but it has been long enough.
The rightful heir to Bob Ufer's place in the broadcast booth is out there. The media department needs to find him (or her!) now! A complete Michigan Man. Completely eccentric. No one gives a crap about fair and biased pbp for our beloved football team! Turn on the TV to listen to lifeless boring calls of a game. Find an unabashed homer. It will be glorious.
Just as Bo had Ufer leading the propaganda machine- Harbaugh needs the same!
November 13th, 2018 at 5:38 PM ^
If you think that Jim Brandstatter's problem is that he's unbiased, I'm not sure what to tell you.
November 13th, 2018 at 7:00 PM ^
That was my husband's freshman year-- he was in the student section. I was across town at another university watching the game on TV.
November 13th, 2018 at 9:47 PM ^