YouTube-o-vision strikes back!
I’m working on a bigger project for the rest of this day, even got the day off work to do it1. Ergo, no Better Know A Buckeye feature coming today, but I thought I would make it up by broadcasting this post live, in YouTube-o-vision (TM). Of course, what is YouTube-o-vision (TM) you ask? Why only the latest and greatest revolution in the Buckeye blogging experience it is!
Anywho, in doing so, you’re also taking a gander into what the next Classics feature may be, and that such a feature will be forthcoming sometime in May/June when all work/blogging projects are out of the way.
First up, a nice blocked punt for a TD in one of the Buckeyes’ least talked about bowl games. While the announcing for this game is terrible (you can pick up as much from the clip), the game itself was pretty good, and a bowl victory too at a time when bowl victories were few and far between for the Buckeyes2. Also a pretty neat matchup too, since Kansas State is not a team you would assume would be on the regular docket for the Buckeyes.
Again, I can’t stress enough how lousy the announcing is. You’ve been warned.
And, of course, second, easily my favourite play in all of Buckeye football history. Granted, I’ve not seen everything, but Terry Glenn’s catch and run against Notre Dame is probably the most underappreciated football play in all of college football history. When most players these days get their football moves from their video game consoles, and try to razzle dazzle their way to the end zone, Terry Glenn astutely noted that the quickest route from Point A to Point B is a straight line. And watch him burn Allen Rossum too.
Yes, that very same Allen Rossum, too. The HS track champion, the future “fastest man” of the NFL. Terry Glenn burned him, and while gripping a ball.
Actually, considering the way Regis Philbin sets up this play and looks like a sucker afterwards, this could very well be the greatest 3 and a half minutes ever captured on network television.
Yes, the video quality is grainy, but until Ohio State gets on the wagon and starts selling these games over digital medium so crazy fans like me can buy them and use them for date night movies, grainy VHS hand-me-downs are what we’re going to get.
Enjoy nonetheless.
Love Regis saying “We gotta lock on it, we’re gonna win” seconds before the snap on that Glenn play.
Brian, I mean, Melvin Fellows switched his committment over to the good guys today.
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That Notre Dame game was exactly where I fell in love with Ohio State football. Growing up in the 1980s in Western PA, nobody talked about OSU much except when joking about Woody’s punch. But, they gave me scholarship to get my masters degree. And I bought student season tickets when I got there. It seemed to be the thing to do. Grad students got the worst seats in the student section, behind the seniors, juniors, sophomores, and even freshmen. All of us were in the crotch of the Shoe then.
I sensed early on that Ohio State Football fans were more passionate than any we had in PA (including Steelers), and especially my undergraduate alma mater Pitt. But it wasn’t until Glenn caught that pass that I got the full measure. My main mental memory from that day 13 years ago is Glenn streaking directly towards us in the student section. In front of him, I remember maybe thousands of human hands from the student section below me waving him towards us, like how I might get my 15 month old daughter to come to me now. When he crossed the goal line, all hell broke loose. Drinks, food, handfulls of Buckeyes gathered off of the Oval, everything went up in the air. Deafening.
I’ve never missed a game since, although living at a distance with a family, I’ve had to catch most of them on TV. My near-obsession was cemented by those painful upset losses to Michigan in the late 1990s and that Rose Bowl comeback. But it was born as Terry Glenn streaked towards the crotch of the Shoe in 1995 (right?).
You don’t know how much my wife and neighbors wish that I hadn’t been there that day.
Thanks for a ton of memories sparked by a great moment in Ohio State Football history. Keep posting these YouTube videos!
yep, 1995 was the year. We had the return leg in North Bend in 1996 and pantsed them there as well.
Of course, by time this game was played, I was an 11yr old kid living in Southern California who had no real exposure to the Buckeyes. When I did start for my freshman year in 2002, and, of course, subsequently won a national title, I did all the research I could and came across this game on Buckeye Classics that they show on UNITS TV (in the dorms) every now and then.
This game truly was magical and featured big plays by both teams. Even though the score became lopsided, it’s one of those handful of college football games you watch that seemed like a movie. From Ohio State marching down the field and coming up short on 4th down, to struggling to stop Notre Dame’s offense through the first half, to Stanley’s catch in the bright sun, to the muffed punt by Notre Dame that set up the Dudley score, to Powlus having body fluids run down his leg as Ohio Stadium got more hostile, to Powlus one-upping Shawn Springs, to Springs having his revenge 3 plays later.
And then, the Glenn catch and run.
I fell in love with when I saw it because it was the most beautifully efficient thing I’ve seen in college football. No fancy zigs or zags, just a mad dash to the end zone. The fans knew it too, I think. I think they knew that wasn’t supposed to score a touchdown, just secure a first down. Glenn made it a touchdown.
The wheels fell off Notre Dame as they fumbled, the Buckeyes scored again, though Notre Dame would respond with a touchdown (and botched 2pt conversion) afterwards, Eddie would take over with his 61yd scamper and eventual touchdown.
Truly a special game, but the Glenn catch and run was a thing of beauty. In my view, easily one of the top plays in all of Ohio State football history. And for me, my personal favourite (until something else comes up, perhaps).
Oh, and as for the YouTubes, no problem. My pleasure. I just wish I didn’t have to be the one to put these up. I’ve got a few more, and I will basically rip that entire Notre Dame game and upload it. I’ve also got a few more YouTube surprises up my sleeve.