The Greatest game ever.......

can someone please link me to a replay of the play in the 4th quarter when the Texas WR (or TE, can't remember) caught the ball and then Cushing knocked it out and it was reviewed to see if it was a fumble but it was ruled incomplete pass? I believe it was 4th quarter but maybe 3rd. I couldn't find it on that website and the replays are hard to see anything clearly as they don't flow smoothly. Anyone else know where I can see this replay clearly?

Thanks.
 
Soviet - that was Jamaal Charles. It was definitely a close call. I like that the refs called that play consistently with the Kelson interception that wasn't. In both cases a player had physical grasp of the ball for a very limited amount of time before losing it, and in both cases the refs said he didn't keep it for enough time to "establish possession."
 
Thanks do you know of any place online where I can see the replay? I've never watched any highlights of the USC Texas Rose Bowl but I would like to see that play again. When it happened live, I remember thinking it was the right call, close, but the right call, and that I didn't think there was even a 1% chance they would reverse it after checking replay. However, all the blind homer SC fans swear it was the worst call in the history of sports. It's because they, like most sports fans, have no objectivity whatsoever.
 
I agree Husker. I have been on thie Earth longer but I saw that game in 1971 live and it was the greatest game ever played in my opinion until the UT - USC game and even then it would have been even closer had that 1971 game been played in a bowl game.
 
Not this one jimmy and I am old enough to remember the 1963 NC UT team! That Rose Bowl game in 2006 is the top one! And I have seen a lot of them.
 
Not to be too picky here, but the banner at the top calls it the "2006 National Championship." It was the 2006 Rose Bowl, but it was the 2005 National Championship.

Besides that, I agree with everything else he said.
 
Speaking of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis of the great Army teams of 1944-46 there was a movie about them made in 1947 called The Spirit of West Point which was about their lives at West Point and it covers the three football seasons there and you can see lots of plays of their games then. They did have an amusing incident in the movie which was pure fiction like they had in the movie Knute Rockne with Pat O'Brian. Remember there was not great television coverage like today back then and there was a coach from another team that went to Army to see about having a bowl game with Army. They showed the coach some films and it wasn't long that the coach left in a hurry not wanting to meet Army in a bowl game was implied. He left so fast that the secretary said "I thought it was Blanchard and Davis!"
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A good gag but in actuality Army was like Notre Dame back then and avoided bowl games. Still it was great for the Hollywood benefit.
 
WorSTEER Man, I lent the '06 RB DVD to my DHL delivery guy. He is an OU fan who was in Iraq and never saw the game. I told him to guard it with his life and he said it would take him a week to watch it.

He came in the NEXT day and said he could not stop watching and finished it in one night staying up very late.

Called the game AWESOME!

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Greatest Post of the Greatest Game. Thank you for this awesome breakdown. When my son is old enough to explain to him what a labia is, I will sit him down and show him this like a family heirloom.

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Good point Texas Rugby but technically the first time was when we played USC in the Rose Bowl in 2006. Matt had won it the year before and Reggie was announced the winner a few weeks before the Rose Bowl game so they were in the backfield.

Army's Doc Blanchard had won it in 1945 and Glenn Davis won it in 1946 when both were seniors. But Glenn's announcement did not come until December 1946 after Army's last regular season game had ended on November 30, 1946 when they defeated Navy 21 - 18. Army did not play in a bowl game so Glenn and Doc never got to play in the same backfield as Heisman Trophy winners. So Matt and Reggie was the first time that two announced Heisman Trophy winners played in the same backfield.
 
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