Southern Cal-UCLA: Close Your Eyes, Think Of (& Share) Three Bruin Memories
by Nestor on Dec 6, 2008 8:53 AM PST
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Bumped. GO BRUINS. -N
So thanks to A’s idea (w a HT to Halos Heaven) we have been playing a pretty fun game of "pre-game guesses" throughout this season starting with Tennessee. We didn’t get to do one for ASU because … well we took the day off for Turkey Day. Also, we still have to tabulate the scores for a number of games. I am sure A will get to them sometime. No worries.
I wanted to do something different for tomorrow’s game. Given this is always the biggest game of our football season, it makes sense to mix things up just a bit. Right?
So here is the deal. This is what I have been doing a lot last 48 hours to get ready for Saturday. I have been playing this from the Bourne soundtrack ...
The bourne supremacy - Goa (John Powell) (via susankatel)
... then turning up the volume, closing my eyes and picturing three memories around THIS GAME during my years of following UCLA football. Hey ... we are going to need some super human - Jason Bournesque - effort from our boys tomorrow for an epic right. Here are my three memories:
- Barnes-Littleton Magic (1992): Do you remember it? Barnes calling the audible. He looks toward his right (at JJ) and moved his helmet just a bit before the snap. You know what happened rest of the way. I have also been envisioning the very last defensive play. Rob Johnson going for the win (thinking he was about to get revenge for his whiny big brother). Throws the pass and it was Nikosi Littleton batting down the pass. Game over. Bedlam in the student section. Don’t really have the words to describe the sheer euphoria, unbridled, pure emotional BRUIN JOY.
- Goodwin’s Rose (1993): The year after. A classic
- Lavelle Woods Becomes A "Hero" (1996): This was it. Trojies were going to snap the streak. Bruins were suffering through a tough, frustrating first season under Bob Toledo. Just how tough was the season? It included a mind-blowing choke job against Jake the Snake’s ASU Sun Devils at the Rose Bowl in a game we were up by something like 5 TDs. Not a lot of excitement around a 4-6 Bruin team heading into this game with a deflating loss against in
Guess one can argue there were more than three. But I am lumping them into three cluster of memories I guess. I keep thinking of those moments and replaying in my head when I am listening to the soundtrack with eyes closed. So with that … share with us your three moments/memories/plays … from this game that you can remember.
If the track above doesn’t work for you pick your favorite track that gets you fired up, then close your eyes, and think of your three favorite moments from this game and then put them up in this thread.
It doesn’t matter whether you were watching in person or on television or its just something that’s burned into your psyche for eternity. So … ready, set, GO.
Share three of those (positive) moments to get us into THIS GAME DAY – the last one for 2008 – in Bruin Nation.Beat ’SC.
GO BRUINS.
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Three + Three
..gotta get this down on paper before the memory fades. The 1965 game: (1) Beban to Witcher for bomb #1, (2) Dallas Grider recovering the subsequent onside kick, and (3) Beban to Altenberg for bomb #2. Final score: 20-16 and a trip to the rose bowl.
The 1966 game (supposed to be ALL Condoms with a revenge motive): (4) Norm Dow’s stand-in performance for Beban, and (5) Cornell Champion’s 25-yard TD run on Prothro’s famous 4-2-5 trap play. We don’t go to the Rose Bowl, but should have.
..my sixth fondest “miracle” memory? Well, it will have to be the 2008 classic: O.J. scores a big SIX — years, that is, in the Graybar Hotel. At least, he won’t be prowling the sidelines for forseeable future.
God, it's great to be a Bruin!
by WHP '68 on Dec 5, 2008 3:29 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Yep, Beban to Altenberg
… is my greatest moment as a sports fan, UCLA fan, UCLA alumnus, and possibly as a human. (I know, ridiculous overstatement, but it is SUC Saturday after all…). My dad was a UCLA alum, was at Westwood when the campus opened, and began our family with season tickets in the Larry Zeno era… and kept them until his death at 94 in 1998. Dad celebrated his 80th birthday in the Rose Bowl in 1985. I remember clearly as Beban dropped back, and launched the ball to Altenberg, the whole universe was in order, time stopped, and the Bruins, my dad and I celebrated the defeat of the arrogant SUCsters.
Go Bruins, Beat SC!
by harry bruin on Dec 6, 2008 9:42 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
theres some great 10 minute long
condensed highlight reels for the ’92 and ’96 games mentioned.
92
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMy-000o4Rw
96
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIR0lKeYT4
O.A.
by Ollie on Dec 5, 2008 3:44 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
sorry 92
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMy-000o4Rw
O.A.
by Ollie on Dec 5, 2008 3:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
argh sorry that one isnt working
but you can type in “1992 ucla usc” in youtube and it should be the first video result
O.A.
by Ollie on Dec 5, 2008 3:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
'93 Marvin Goodwin!
Have to choose by far my one favorite: my senior year, Rose Bowl on the line for both teams, sitting with my friends in the band watching $C drive right in front of us to possibly win the game…then Marvin Goodwin’s interception. I can still see it in my mind, I remember the reaction in the band like it was moments ago, and I get goosebumps thinking about it even now. Amazing.
by AZBruin on Dec 5, 2008 7:35 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
2006
the strain on the nerves as suc marches down the field. the tip. the pick. my 19 year old daughter sobbing on the phone in joy. my 16 year old son jumping up and down in my arms. priceless
by bruinbornandraised on Dec 5, 2008 9:55 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
My Fav 3 UCLA-USC Moments
Being a Bruin growing up in a small town in northeast Iowa wasn’t always easy but I fell in love with UCLA in the late 60’s watching the annual crosstown showdown. So here’s the three moments that stand out for me:
(1) 1975 – For a long time, I didn’t think we were EVER going to beat USC AND go to the Rose Bowl. Then that magical 1975 season when John Sciarra was our QB. We got up 25-14 on USC in the 2nd half and I thought we were on our way to an easy victory. But then Wendell Tyler came down with a horrible case of fumbilitis and the Trojans eventually pulled to within 22-25. Fortunately for us our “D” came through in the clutch when it had to but I could hardly watch those last few frantic final minutes.
(2) 1980 – After enduring yet another string of losses to those clowns, we actually had some VERY good luck go our way this time. Late in the 4th quarter we were down 17-13 and Jay Schroeder dropped back and threw a long bomb downfield. At the time I was like “Oh Jay WHAT are you doing??!!” But, SC’s Jeff Fisher tipped the ball trying for the INT and it fell into the waiting arms of Freeman McNeil who raced untouched to the endzone for the winning TD. I was so excited and out of breath that I hyperventilated after the game. Was so awesome to see Terry Donahue gleefully jump into the pile of our guys celebrating.
(3) 1982 – Karl Morgan sacking Scott Tinsley on USC’s 2 point conversion attempt to try and win it for the Trojans. You talk about drama and going nuts, this was it. Especially after the heartbreak we suffered the year before when Norm Johnson’s FG attempt on the last play of the game was blocked knocking us out of the Rose Bowl in ’81.
Los Angeles Rams and the UCLA Bruins!!!!!
by Minnesota Bruinfan on Dec 5, 2008 10:43 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
1982 Win..
(3) 1982 – Karl Morgan sacking Scott Tinsley on USC’s 2 point conversion attempt to try and win it for the Trojans. You talk about drama and going nuts, this was it. Especially after the heartbreak we suffered the year before when Norm Johnson’s FG attempt on the last play of the game was blocked knocking us out of the Rose Bowl in ’81.
..remember that headline in the LAT: "UCLA’s Morgan delivers rose in a sack..
..great win!
God, it's great to be a Bruin!
by WHP '68 on Dec 6, 2008 4:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
1993
I was in med school in Houston and watched the game in my condo with 3 or 4 other UCLA guys in my class and several other very sympathetic friends. It’s funny that I can’t remember any details of the game, but cannot forget watching them drive right down the field in the final minute. I think we all died a hundred times those last few plays. But when Bret’s brother threw that pick, we just screamed and dogpiled for 20 minutes with sheer joy. An hour or so later, we were in some bar on Richmond and I bought the entire boquet of roses (like 20 of them) from the waitress girl selling roses and we passed them out to every girl in the bar. That combo of drama, victory, a Rose Bowl berth, & those friends hasn’t been equalled since.
greg in denver - UCLA guy for life
by gbruin on Dec 5, 2008 11:16 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Here are my three memories.
(1) 1992, Rose Bowl, outside Gate C.
Swarms of Bruins marching north, motley bands of Trojans trudging south. And a whole bunch of blue and gold clad young men and women serenading the condiment (ketchup and mustard crew) with a new anthem:
“37-38! Lots of luck with Fresno State! 37-38! Lots of luck with Fresno State!”
(2) 2006, Rose Bowl, Section 22.
For some silly reason, a moment NOT carried live by ABC and the Mushmouth crew and NOT contained in the Classic Sports replays (bastards). But nevertheless, sometime in the 3rd quarter IIRC, the indomitable Bruins and the indictable Torjans turned the ROse Bowl field into an intra-city mosh pit. Everybody jumping, everybody howling, everbody puffing out chests — and you just know it’s a hell of a day when it’s DORRELL (?!?) whooping up the guys.
When a Biblical sign of Armageddon like Dorrell going all chumbawhumba shows up, you just KNOW anything can happen. What time is it? 13 to 9, baby!
(3) Wednesday, October 1, 1992, CTO.
OK, OK, NOT an actual $C game. BUT, incredibly important. That was the day the tickets for the 1992 victory (ahem, game) went on sale.
That was also the day I ditched my 10 am class to get said tickets… with my future wife. I had met her 2 days before, but I didn’t find out until that Wednesday that she already had a boyfriend. A dude with a very large ring, which she was wearing around her neck.
SO, in a warped-logic effort to not look like I was blatantly hitting on her, I stayed to talk with her even after she told me about the boyfriend. That meant walking with her all the way from the GSM building to CTO and picking up tickets.
That led to two years with her as my best friend, two years as my girlfriend, two years as my fiancee, ten years of marriage so far, and two great kids.
And to think, I would have forgotten $C tickets went on sale that day… were it not for her.
GO BRUINS!!!
MIM
"In this program your passion bucket must be full to play SC." -- CRN, to Dan Patrick, 1/2008
by Meriones on Dec 6, 2008 7:34 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
'96 game
ESPN Classic just had it on Thursday
Bob O. (Signholder #3)
by TuneMan7 on Dec 6, 2008 7:59 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
My 3
1) 1992- I watched the game from my hotel room in Seattle (where I was interviewing for Med School). An absolute improbable victory.
2) 1993- I was also in the student section at the Crapeseum. It was absolute bedlam after that Goodwin pick; there were flying color cards raining from the upper deck (remember those?)….good times
3) 1998- 8 in a row and a #1 ranking. I remember feeling we absolutely owned this rivalry, and trOJan fans feeling they wouldn’t beat UCLA again for a long, long time. But the best thing about this game for me was a duplicate ticket mishap that moved me from a corner endzone seat into a lower level 50 yard line seat! Unbelievable.
by godblesstyus95 on Dec 6, 2008 8:02 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
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