4th and 5

The Bomaring.

The Okie St comeback in 2004 was my favorite game in DKR. Not a single play, but a great many of them.

Then next year, the VY pump fake in comeback part deux.

The Boise St. Hook & Ladder and Statue of Liberty plays probably need to be listed for Sooner schadenfreude alone.

For basketball, the Boggan-Durant slugfest against the Cowboys is up there for me, even if the good guys lost.

Maybe 2006 or so…

interception at the goal line and the crowd’s reaction when the replay is shown.

Very sorry for your loss, Joe. However, in reading your post, I went from tearing up to laughing out loud at this line: “I remained clam the whole time.” God help me, that is one funny fucking inadvertent typo.

My favorite highlight from the National Championship year was the Jamaal Charles whiff-pursuit-and-destruction of AJ Hawk. Our true freshman scatback showed enough heart to chase the most intimidating player in college football across the field and then absolutely smash him. That was the moment when I knew the team was special.

when I saw this hit from the student section at dkr

My Dad was on NATO exercises with a British unit once, and after the maneuvers they held a little ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of some obscure military defeat from their long history. One of the GIs asked why they were celebrating a defeat, and the reply came: "My dear sir, if we celebrated the victories, we’d never get any work done."

In that spirit, raise your glasses for our brethren, and salute the wrong Roy Williams. Evil, but impressive. The most into a game I have ever been, and until that play, I was sure that we’d find a way to pull it out. When I think about why college football continues to hold sway over me, I think about the tension that built up during that game.

For the purposes of this post, you have to go with 4th & 5. But it is testament to the transcendence that is Vince that I had no doubt that we’d win. Once we stopped LenDale White (4:50 mark), for me it became simply a question of how. Doing it on 4th down was just icing.

As for a personal favorite, my daughter’s victory dance after Tucker said goodbye to the Aggies wins out (no tape available).

I’m in Pasadena all week. Any Rose Bowl requests?

Set the controls for October 20, 1962. The highlight here is gonna hafta be multiple - to the tune of (working from fuzzy memory here) I think 19 or 20 plays. Having stopped Arky (again - earlier we took a fumble away from them on our two, and this time we intercepted it in our red zone - wait… no, the picture’s still fuzzy, maybe it was vice-versa) deep in Longhorn territory, trailing 3-0, and with eight minutes left to make something happen, Texas marched almost the length of the field, eating up all but a few seconds of the time on the clock. Three times, we converted on fourth down to keep the drive alive. Not a single pass was thrown, that I recall. Tommy “TBird” Ford scored on third and goal with just a few seconds left to bring down the piggies, 7-3.

We rarely sat back in the old daze, but this time, on my row, we couldn’t, because in the excitement, we broke our bench somewhere in the middle, and it just collapsed… as did at least three of the Old Farts in the West stands - the farts themselves, not their benches - three times during the game, an ambulance came in through the North end, drove on the track that used to surround the field and stretchered out another heart attack. To say it was intense would be a serious, serious understatement - and it was typical of Texas-Arkansas.

We had several future pros on the field - Ernie Koy, Scott Appleton, Pete Lammons, George Sauer. You’ll be happy to know that among the Razorbacks whose guts were ripped out that night were some of your favorites: Ken Hatfield, Jimmy Johnson, and Jerry Jones.

There’s a whole season worth of highlights in that game.