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REALLY SOLID.
***: BREAKS A TACKLE, GETS
TO THE 4O.
CLOSE TO A FIRST DOWN.
BUMPED OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE
4O, WILL BE SHY OF THE FIRST
DOWN BY ABOUT A YARD AND A
HALF.
BILL: RICE -- COLLEGE
THE WIDE FIELD.
RICE SAYS ALL THAT ROOM TO
SPRINT AND RUN.
IT'S REALLY TOUGH TO CONTAIN
HIS SPEED.
BROUGHT DOWN NEAR THE
35-YARD LINE.
ANTHONY JOHNSON THE FULL BACK
ON SPECIAL TEAMS.
LOU HOLTZ USES THOSE ON SON
TEAMS MET MIDFIELD?
O.J.: THE COLORADO PLAYERS
SAID THEY WERE AHERT THAT
NOTRE DAME WOULD TRY TO DO
SOMETHING TO SHOW THEM UP OR
INTIMIDATE THEM.
WHEN THEY WENT FOR THE
CEREMONIAL COIN TOSS, THEY
BE D WE WILL NOT
INTIMIDATED TODAY.
THUS FAR, IT DOESN'T LOOK
LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO BE.
RALPH, WHAT'S HAPPENING OVER
THERE?
RALPH: YOU SAW THE TREMENDOUS
HIT LAID ON RICKY WATTERS.
HE KIEMT OF THE GAME LIMPING
BADLY.
BACK RIGHT
IN THERE.
HE WILL BE BACK.
***: WATTERS APPEARS TO BE
WALKING WITHOUT A LIMP ON THE
SIDE LINES.
THE COLORADO BUFFALOES HAVE
THE BALL AT THEIR 35-YARD
LINE.
GOOD BIENIEMY PASSES UP
ONES BEFORE HE IS GRABBED
AROUND THE ANKLES BY BOLCAR.
BILL: FIRST PASS THROWN BY
HAGAN WAS NOT GOOD.
HE WAS ANXIOUS TO GET IT
THROWN.
BETTER FEEL FOR
HOW THEY SHOULD ATTACK THE
SECONDARY.
***: BIENIEMY IS TOUGH TO
BRING DOWN.
TROY RIDGLEY MAKES THE TACKLE
OF BIENIEMY, WHO IS ONLY 5'7"
AND WEIGHS NEARLY 200 POUNDS.
SEE CHRIS WILL
ZORICH, THE NOSE GUARD, BEING
TURNED BACK AWAY FROM THE
LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
***: THE QUARTERBACK ON THE
OPTION DOESN'T GET ANYWHERE.
SCOTT KOWALKOWSKI, WHOSE DAD
LINE MAN WITH THE
DETROIT LIONS.
***: HAGAN STAYING ACROSS
THE 45 DOT 44.
BOLCAR AND KOWALKOWSKI MAKE
THE TACKLE, THIRD DOWN AND
THREE.
BACK INTO THE LINE UP GOES
CHRIS ZORICH, NUMBER 50 FOR
THE IRISH.
HAS HAD GOOD
HISTORY IN THIS KIND OF A
SITUATION.
PERFECT ALL SEASON.
***: BIENIEMY FIGHTS CLOSE
TO A FIRST DOWN WITH THAT
SECOND EFFORT.
THAT'S GOING TO BE PERHAPS
REQUIRING A MEASUREMENT AS
ZORICH AND BOWL CAR
STOP.BORATED ON THE
BILL: NOTRE DAME IS SO TOUGH
INSIDE WITH ZORICH.
BOLCAR IS ONE OF THE GREAT
LINEBACKERS COMING OUT OF
COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYING THIS
YEAR AND GRIMM.
MAN IS AIGHT LINE
GOING TO BE READY TO BLOCK,
WATCH THE GREAT HIT INSIDE
RIGHT HERE AND THEN ACROSS
WITH THE -- BOTH LINEBACKERS
CONVERGING ON THE BALL.
REALLY TOUGH INSIDE, GREAT
OFFENSIVE LINES, EXCELLENT
DEFENSES.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE
THE SECOND S IN
HALF AS PEOPLE BEGIN TO TIRE
SOME.
***: BOLCAR WATCHING AT THE
IRISH AND COLORADO BOTH
ANTICIPATE THE MEASUREMENT AS
THEY BRING IN THE CHAINS FROM
THE FAR SIDE.
DAME 11TH MAN IN NOTRE
FOOTBALL HISTORY TO BE NAMED
CAPTAIN TWICE.
QUITE AN HONOR FOR BOLCAR.
COLORADO IS SHORT BY ABOUT
SIX INCHES OF A FIRST DOWN.
A TOUGH BALL FOR BILL
MCCARTNEY, THE 49-YEAR-OLD
HEAD MAN OF THE BUFFALOES.
SO SUCCESSFUL
ON SHORT YARDAGE AS BILL
POINED OUT, YOU HAVE THE
FEELING HE IS GOING TO GO FOR
IT ON FOURTH AND INCHES.
BILL: THEY MAY NOT GET THIS
FIELD POSITION AGAIN.
THEY NEED TO SCORE.
BILL: NOTRE DAME HAS ZORICH
RIGHT UNDER THE NOSE AND GOOD
LINEBACKERS, RIDGLEY, ONE
EXCELLENT PERSON AND ANOTHER
ONE.
GOING UP OVER THE TOP WITH
EITHER ONE OF THEIR TAIL
BACKS IS LIKELY WHAT THEY
WILL DO.
DON'T THINK THEY
WILL PLAY THE OPTION AND TRY
TO GO ONE?
BILL: THEY MAY DO THAT TOO,
***.
THEY HAVE TO TAKE NOTRE DAME
ON BUT ALSO NOTRE DAME
HISTORY ON AS THEY PLAY THIS
GAME.
AS THE GAME WEARS ON, THEY
DEAL OING TO HAVE TO
WITH IT.
THEY ARE DOING FINE.
***: IN MCCARTNEY'S THIRD
SEASON, HIS TEAM WON 1-10.
BILL: HE HAD THREE SUCCESSIVE
LOSING SEASONS.
WAS LOOKING AT THE SMU
JOB, HE NEEDED RELIEF.
COLLEGE PEOPLE AND PEOPLE ON
CAMPUS CONVINCED HIM TO STAY
WITH IT.
THIS OFTEN HAPPENS.
HAPPENED TO ME IN 1982.
I KNOW HOW A COACH CAN FEEL
WONDERING WHETHER HE CAN MAKE
IT GO OR NOT.
***: IT'S A SNEAK BY HAGAN.
THAT OFFENSIVE LINE GETS HIM
THE FIRST DOWN.
BILL: LEEUWENBURG, EXCELLENT
A GREAT PLUE NER
FRONT OF HIM.
AS OF NOW, HE IS GETTING HIS
WORK DOWN.
***: LEEUWENBURG WEARS
NUMBER 52.
LAYS A CRUNCHING BLOCK AND
ALLOWS HAGUE ON TO CRAWL
UNDER FOR THE FIRST DOWN.
***: SPINNING BACK INSIDE
AND PICKING UP ABOUT FIVE
BEFORE TROY RIDGLEY CAN MAKE
THE STOP.
BILL: WHAT A THREAT BOTH
THESE QUARTERBACKS ARE,
DROPPING THE THROW, WATCHING
THEIR RECEIVERS.
IN THIS CASE, THE PLAN SINCE
WATCHING NOTRE DAME EARLY ON
WAS TO THROW A PATTERN DEEP
DOWN BEHIND THE SUPPORTING
SAFETY MAN.
NOTRE DAME COVERED IT
BEAUTIFULLY.
RECOVERS.RE DAME
PAT TERRELL.
AS HE WAS SHIFTING THE BALL
WITHOUT A HIT.
BIENIEMY DROPS IT.
THE IRISH HAVE IT AT THE
19-YARD LINE.
BILL: BEAUTIFUL RUNNING,
EXCELLENT BLOCKING.
HAS EEN PEOPLE, AS ***
INDICATED, TRYING TO MOVE THE
BALL FROM ONE HAND TO
ANOTHER, HE GOT IN TROUBLE.
WE SAW ZORICH MOVE, WATCH HIM
TRY TO GO CHANGE HANDS, RIGHT
AT A CRITICAL POINT.
***: TERRELL WAS THERE FOR
THE IRISH AT THE 19-YARD
LINE.
COLORADO DRIVING INTO SCORING
TERRITORY.
***: THESE TEAMS FIGHTING
FOR A POSSIBLE NATIONAL
TITLE.
IF THAT SHOULD BE THE RESULT
OF THIS GAME, IT WILL BE THE
FIFTH TIME IN THE LAST TEN
YEARS THE ORANGE BOWL HAS
HOSTED THE NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
BIENIEMY, THE JUNIOR.
HE JUST RUNS INTO HIS OWN BAD
LUCK, DROPS THE BALL AND THE
IRISH ARE THERE TO RECOVER.
***: HE IS WRAPPED UP.
GOOD, SOLID HIT BY CHAD
BROWN, WHO HAS GONE IN AT
LINEBACKER .
BILL: HE HAD THE STACK
DEFENSE WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT
ALL WEEK FROM THE COLORADO
COACHING STAFF.
WE MOVED THEIR LINEBACKERS TO
HANDLE THE OPTION.
THEY GOT CAUGHT WITH A
COUNTER PLAY.
***: VUL VER WAS WITH
JOHNSON.
BILL: SCOUTING REPORT ON
JOHNSON WAS LOWER HIS HELMET.
HE IS SO TOUGH, HE BOWLS
PEOPLE OVER.
THE THING WAS TO CUT HIM DOWN
AND GET HIM EARLY.
***: IT'S TO JOHNSON.
HE IS SMOTHERED.
TONY RICE TOOK A HIT AS WELL.
ARTHUR WALKER AND WILLIAMS
MADE THE TACKLE.
GOOD DECEPTION IN THAT OPTION
CARRYING OUT NE
FAKES.
***: RICE TURNS UP INSIDE
AND CROSSES THE 4O.
SCRAMBLED AS IF THEY WERE
GOING FOR THE BALL.
THEY WILL BE JUST SHY OF THE
DOWN.
BILL: STACK DEFENSE,
LINEBACKERS STACK TO TAKE
AWAY THE OPTION.
PEOPLE OVERPURSUE.
THIS IS A TECHNIQUE THAT THE
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI USEED IT
TO STOP THE OPTION TEAMS.
AHEAD JOHNSON STRAIGHT
BATTLING WITH A SECOND SURGE.
LOOKS AS IF HE MIGHT HAVE
NOSED THE BALL FORWARD.
IT DEPENDS ON THE SPOT.
MICHAEL JONES FROM AN INSIDE
LINEBACKER POSITION SPEAR
HEADED THE COLORADO CHARGE.
BILL: SOME REAL TOUGH RUNNING
INSIDE.
I'M SURE BOTH COACHES ARE
GOING TO BE A LITTLE ANXIOUS,
THEY WANT TO GO DOWN THE
FIELD WITH THE PASS BECAUSE
IT'S TOUGH TO THROW THE
LENGTH OF THE FIELD RUNNING
THE BALL, EVEN THOUGH THAT'S
THEIR STRENGTH.
***: FIRST DOWN AT THE NOTRE
LINE.42-YARD
***: RICE CHASED AND HIT IN
THE BACKFIELD FOR A LOSS.
GARY HOWE, A JUNIOR FROM
SPENCER, IOWA MADE THE PLAY.
BILL: THEY GOT ANXIOUS, THE
WAS SO TOUGH, NEITHER
TEAM HAS UNDERESTIMATED THE
OTHER ONE.
WE HAVE A COUNTER PASS WHICH
THEY TRIED TO FOOL PEOPLE.
YOU COULD SEE RICE COMING
OUT, NOW HE IS CAUGHT WITH
PRESSURE TO HIS RIGHT, HAS TO
RUN TO HIS LEFT.
LEFT AND H TO RUN
THROW THE BALL LEFT HANDED.
MAN : RICE OVERSHOOTS HIS
INCOMPLETE.
IT WAS THE TIGHT END DEREK
BROWN BUT THE PASS TOO TALL.
BILL: DEREK IS 6'7", HE
LEACHED.
MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO THE
ROCKET, ISMAIL, ON THE
OUTSIDE.
THIRD DOWN, 16 FOR
NOTRE DAME.
BILL: THEY HAVE GONE TO TWO
STRAIGHT PASSES, MOST LIKELY
TO GO TO A THIRD NOW.
THAT'S NOT THEIR BASIC PLAN.
***: WATTERS IS OUT TO THE
41, 42 YARD LINE.
THAT GETS IT TO FOURTH AND
TEN AS THE BUFFALO DEFENSE IS
HELD.
IT WAS HOWE AGAIN IN ON THE
TACKLE -- TACKLE.
THE IRISH PUNTING TEAM COMES
ON.
***: TWISTED DOWN AT THE
18-YARD LINE.
A FRESHMAN FROM LOS ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA MADE THE TACKLE.
***: LATE IN THE FIRST
SCORE, UNBEATEN
COLORADO AGAINST FOURTH
RANKED NOTRE DAME.
O.J.: IS ON THE SIDE LINES.
O.J.: BILL MCCARTNEY, THE
COACH, RAN INTO THE ROOM, HE
WAS ANIMATED, EXCITED.
HE SAID JOHN WILL BE WIDE
OPEN.
THE ONLY JOHN I SEE THERE IS
JOHN BOMAN, THE TIGHT END.
WILEY, WHAT'S HAPPENING ON
YOUR SIDE?
RALPH: RIGHT INTO YOUR ZONE,
JUICE.
JEFF WITH
ALM.
THE PLAY ACTION SHOULD BE
THERE.
***: THERE IS THE DEFENSIVE
COORDINATOR.
HE IS TAKING THE JOB AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF WIS CON KIN.
THIRD NOTRE DAME ASSISTANT TO
MOVE ON TO OTHER COACHING
OPPORTUNITIES.
***: THERE IT IS, FIRST
33.N AT THE
THERE ARE TWO JOHNS AT TIGHT
END, PERAK AND BOMAN.
BILL: MOVED UP TO A NEW
FORMATION, TWO TIGHT END, TWO
WIDE RECEIVERS, A SINGLE BACK
FAKE COUNTER, A
SCENE PASS BACK TO WIDE FIELD
WITH A BIG PULL ON THAT WIDE
FIELD.
***: BIENIEMY RAN WELL BUT
CREATED THE TURNOVER AS HE
TRIED TO EXCHANGE THE BALL
FROM HAND TO HAND BREAKING
INTO THE OPEN FIELD.
FLANAGAN, A SENIOR FROM
CALIFORNIA, LIGHTNING FAST.
ON THE SEASON, THIS YOUNG
STAR, JAMES JUNIOR THE THIRD
RUSHED FOR 1187 YARDS TO LEAD
THE BUFFALOES.
***: THERE IS THE LITTLE
QUARTERBACK AND SLIPPERY HE
IS, HAGAN.
JUST SHY OF A FIRST DOWN.
THE ELL ASSISTED ON
TACKLE.
BILL: AS TIME PASSES HIS
SPEED THAT COLORADO POSSESSES
BOTH AS TAIL BACK AND CORNER
BACK CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
NOTRE DAME IS STRONG AND
POWERFUL.
***: A FIRST DOWN AT THE
COLORADO 49.
GRIMM, BOTH AND
INSIDE LINEBACKERS ARE MOVING
QUICKLY TO WHAT THEY HAVE,
THEY ARE GETTING THEMSELVES
CAUGHT OUT OF POSITION.
WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT
THEY WILL DO.
YOU WILL SEE BOTH OF THEM
RIGHT HERE MOVES INTO A PLAY,
THEN THE BALL BREAKING RIGHT
BEHIND THEM.
YOU WILL SEE THE ACTION RIGHT
THERE WITH A BEAUTIFUL BLOCK
BEHIND JOE GARDENER.
***: WELL-READ BY THE IRISH
DEFENSE.
LYGHT, NUMBER
ONE, JEFF ALM WAS THE ONE WHO
FORCED IT AND LYGHT CAME OUT
TO THE CORNER.
THEY TALK ABOUT THIS TODD
LYGHT AND SAY THE SAME THING,
HE IS IN A LEAGUE BY HIMSELF.
BILL: HE IS.
RANGE, SPEED AND INSTINCTS.
***: THAT APPARENTLY IS THE
END OF THE FIRST QUARTER.
THEY PLAYED 15 MINUTES.
***: NOT ONLY INTENSE FAN
INTEREST IN THIS
COLORADO-NOTRE DAME GAME BUT
THE NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE
IS ENORMOUS.
GOING BACK 50 YEARS AGO,
WELL, 51 NOW, THE 1939 ORANGE
BOWL, YOU LOOK UP ON THE TOP
OF THE PRESS BOX, THERE WAS A
HANDFUL OF CAMERAMEN AND
RADIO COVERED THE GAME.
THOUSANDS OF KRED EJSIALS
HAVE BEEN SERVED TO THE
NATION'S WRITERS AND
BROADCASTERS AND
PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO WILL COVER
THIS ON ALL FRONTS.
***: KISSICK INTO THE
27-YARD LINE.
***, THAT WAS AN
OFFSHOOT OF THE TRADITIONAL
PLAY PASS.
KISSICK WIDE OPEN, UNCOVERED.
NOTRE DAME IS HAVING SUCH A
PROBLEM ADJUSTING TO THIS NEW
FORMATION THEY HADN'T SEEN
THAT THEY LOST THEIR PASS
COVERAGE RESPONSIBILITIES AS
PLAYS.G
***: FLANAGAN HAD A HOLE TO
THE 22-YARD LINE.
BILL: COLORADO IS ATTACKING
ARE PLAYING WITH
POISE.
THEY ARE NOT INTIMIDATED IN
ANY SENSE.
I WOULD BE CONCERNED IF I
WERE LOU HOLTZ'S STAFF RIGHT
NOW.
IF THE GAME WEARS ON, SPEED
WILL SHOW UP IN COLORADO'S
FAVOR.
***: HAGAN DIDN'T LIKE WHAT
HE SAW AND CALLS A TIME OUT,
GOES TO VISIT WITH COACH BILL
MCCARTNEY ON THE FAR SIDE
LIENGS.
1:47 REMAINING IN THE
IS SOLO THE NFL THIS
FORMATION WHERE THEY SINGLE
RUNNING BACK.
BUT NOW COLORADO STATE AND
KISSICK, THEIR NORMAL FULL
BACK, PUTTING HIM AT TIGHT
END, THIS HAS SOMEWHAT
CONFUSED THE NOTRE DAME
DEFENSE.
THEY CROSSED PEOPLE AND GOT A
MAN WIDE OPEN WITH THE PLAY
TO HOLD A LINEBACKER.
IT'S WELL DONE.
WHAT I'M IMPRESSED ABOUT IS
THE PLANNING IS WORKING OUT
FOR MCCARTNEY AND HIS STAFF.
BEAUTIFULLY DONE.
THIS IS WHAT THEY TALKED
ABOUT, WE WATCHED THEM
PRACTICE.
WHEN YOU CAN SEE THESE THINGS
DEVELOPED IN THE GAME PLAN
AND USED EFFECTIVELY, THEY
THE MONEY ON
***: HAGAN HAS A FIRST DOWN
THE HE 12-YARD LINE OF
IRISH BEFORE DEVON MCDONALD,
NUMBER 45, CAN MAKE THE STOP.
NOTRE DAME HAS REALLY HANDLED
THE WIDE FIELD OPTION.
HAGAN WAS CUT OFF JUST A FEW
MOMENTS AGO FOR A LOSS.
THEY ARE GOING INTO THE SHORT
SIDE WITH IT NOW.
NOTRE DAME DIDN'T HANDLE IT
BECAUSE VANDER POEL
AND PERAK DID A GREAT JOB OF
BLOCKING.
***: FROM BEHIND TWISTED
AROUND, KOWALKOWSKI AND
COMPANY.
BILL: LEEUWENBURG, VANDER
POEL ARE DOMINATING THAT SIDE
OF THE LINE RIGHT NOW.
FOLLOWING THE
LINE AND RUNNING BETWEEN
THEM.
YOU WILL SEE THESE TWO MEN
RIDING PEOPLE OFF THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE.
HAGAN WILL JUST FOLLOW THEM.
***: FLANAGAN HIT IN THE
BACKFIELD.
HE STRUGGLED, LOSES A YARD,
NUMBER 90 WAS THE FIRST MAN
A GIANT TACKLE FROM
GORDON PARK, ILLINOIS.
GETS ONLY TO THE
5-YARD LINE.
ALREADY YOU CAN SEE MOVEMENT
ON THE COLORADO SIDE LINES.
LOU HOLTZ IS GOING TO SEE THE
FIELD GOAL UNIT COME ON.
BOLCAR MADE THAT LAST TACKLE.
CULBERTSON WHO
MISSED ONLY FOUR OF 17 FIELD
GOAL TRIES.
HE HAS A POWERFUL LEG.
***: AND IT IS NO GOOD.
IT WAS A TOUGH ANGLE AND HE
SHOT IT WIDE TO THE TEST.
HE SHOT IS WIDE TO THE LEFT.
THE IRISH HAVE HELD TWO
MISTAKES BY COLORADO.
FUMBLE BY BIENIEMY AND NOW A
SHORT FIELD GOAL MISSED BY
CULBERTSON.
STILL SCORELESS.
BILL: HE TOTALLY MISSED THE
BALL.
HE *** IT SIDE WAYS.
I BET HE HASN'T DONE THAT IN
PRACTICE FOR WEEKS.
*** IT SIDE WAYS.
THIS IS HOW THE PRESSURES OF
A GAME WORK ON INDIVIDUAL
PLAYERS.
HE WILL HAVE HIS CHANCE
LATER.
GOODYEAR FOR NBC.
BILL: DEAN BROWN AND GRUNHARD
WILL FLOP FROM RIGHT TO LEFT.
THEY ARE TWO BIG BLOCKERS.
COLORADO KNOWS WHERE THE BALL
IS GOING.
THE RUNNING PLAYS WILL
GO BEHIND THOSE TWO MASSIVE
MEN.
THEY ARE EXCELLENT FOOTBALL
PLAYERS DOMINATED THROUGHOUT
THEIR COLLEGE CAREERS.
***: ISMAIL -- GAIN OF A
YARD.
JONES, SENIOR FROM
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
THEY ARE GOING TO APPLY THE
FIRST TIP ON ISMAIL, FASTEST
MAN IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
PERHAPS.
A TRUE ROCKET.
***: HE DOESN'T GET
ANYWHERE.
RODNEY CULVER AND BILL
MCCARTNEY'S DEFENSE ANSWERING
THE TEST AS WELL.
BILL: ONCE AGAIN RUNNING
BEHIND GRUNHARD AND DEAN
BROWN.
COLORADO IS JUST GEARING UP
FOR THAT.
***: KANAVIS MCGHEE, PART OF
THE " H" BOYS FROM HOUSTON.
***: COLORADO GETS IT BACK,
STILL NO SCORE.
DECK DEG WELCOME BACK TO
MIAMI.
COACH LOU HOLTZ HAS A BASIC
RULE, YOU DON'T PRACTICE, YOU
DON'T PLAY.
TWO STARTERS DID NOT PRACTICE
AFTER THE CHRISTMAS FINAL
EXAMINES, RALPH WILEY HAS A
REPORT.
RALPH: BILL, ***, IT'S LIKE
THIS.
SUSPENDED A HOLTZ
RUNNING BACK BEFORE THE
ORANGE BOWL.
LAST YEAR HE SUSPENDED A
RUNNING BACK, RICKY WATTERS
AND HIS TEAM BLEW OUT USC.
THE QUESTION IS CAN HE
SUSPEND TWO STRONG DEFENSIVE
FOR MOTIVATIONAL
PURPOSES AND GET AWAY WITH
IT?
BACK TO YOU.
***: BIENIEMY, BOY, HE IS
TOUGH TO FIND AND WHEN YOU DO
GET TO HIM WITH THAT POWER.
HE HAS A O-INCH WAIST.
3O-INCH WAIST.
BILL: IT'S FAIRLY TOUGH TO
GIT A REAL HANDLE ON HIM TO
BRING HIM DOWN.
***: LONG THROW BY HAGAN, HE
OVERSHOOTS EVERYONE.
THAT IRISH BACK FOUR HAS
SPEED TO RUN WITH ANYONE.
BILL: THEY WERE RIGHT ON TOP
OF IT.
A CHANCE TO VER
GET COMPLETION OTHAT PLAY.
THE IRISH HAVE HANDLED THE
WIDE FIELD FOOTBALL VERY,
VERY WELL.
THEY RUN THE OPTION AND IN
THIS CASE THE PLAY ACTION
PASS TRYING TO HIT THE
PERSON, THEY HAVE GOT THE
SPEED AND VERY, VERY WELL
COACHED.
***: HAGAN THROWS COMPLETE
TO KISSICK AT THE IRISH 48.
IT LOOKS AS IF IT'S JUST
DOWN.H FOR A FIRST
HE IS INSIDE THE 49.
THAT WILL BE A FIRST DOWN FOR
COLORADO.
***: NO ADJUSTMENT BY NOTRE
DAME TO HANDLE THIS FORMATION
WITH TWO WIDE RECEIVERS, TWO
TIGHT END.
NO ADJUSTMENT SO THEY ARE
GETTING INTO THE WEAKSIDE OF
IT.
***: HAGAN KEEPS IT HIMSELF
ON FIRST DOWN.
IN HEAVY TRAFFIC, ABLE TO
PICK UP SOMETHING WHEN THERE
DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE MUCH
THERE AT THE 44, GAIN OF
NEARLY FIVE.
***: BIENIEMY BREAKING A
TACKLE, ALMOST LOST THE BALL,
JUGGLEING AS HE FELL FORWARD
AT THE 4O-YARD LINE.
DEVON MCDONALD MADE THE
TACKLE.
BILL: QUICKNESS BETWEEN THE
QUARTERBACK AND TAIL BACK HAS
BEEN REALLY, REALLY
SUCCESSFUL.
***: WATCH HERE AS BIENIEMY
GETS HIT THERE AND WOOPS --
AGAIN.ALMOST DOES IT
BOLCAR WAS RIGHT IN THE HOLE.
***: A BIG HOLE.
IT IS FLANAGAN INTO THE GAME.
AGAIN THE COLORADO BUFFALO
OFFENSE MOVING THE BALL WELL.
BILL: THEY ARE WORKING
AGAINST THE STRENGTH OF THE
NOTRE DAME DEFENSE.
CHRIS ZORICH, ONE OF THE TOP
PLAYERS COMING OUT THIS YEAR,
GRIMM, TWO
EXCELLENT LINEBACKERS.
***: HE GETS TO HIM AND RUNS
HIM OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 12.
FIRST DOWN, COLORADO.
BILL: THERE ARE SO FEW
PLAYERS CAN CAN CATCH HAGAN
IN THIS PLACE.
BOLCAR IS DOWN, BEAUTIFUL JOB
ON TERRELL.
WATCH HIM BREAK BACK IN A
FOOT RACE, TWO OF THE FASTEST
PEOPLE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
RIGHT THERE.
***: HAGAN KEEPS FOR THREE.
KOWALKOWSKI HAS BEEN IN ON
MANY TACKLES IN THIS HALF
MAKES ANOTHER.
HE IS FROM MICHIGAN.
BILL: THE TWO CORNER PEOPLE
ON THE OUTSIDE, THE TWO
LINEBACKERS, THEY
CALL THEM DEFENSIVE ENDS FOR
NOTRE DAME ARE NOT AS BIG AND
AS ACTIVE AS KOHL RAD'S.
***: IT'S BIENIEMY.
HE IS TO THE ONE-YARD LINE.
FIRST AND GOAL FOR COLORADO.
BILL: IT'S THE DARTING
QUICKNESS OF BIENIEMY INSIDE.
EXCELLENT BLOCKING.
WATCH HIS QUICKNESS BREAKING
BETWEEN PEOPLE.
THAT DRIVE IS SO HARD TO GET
AHOLD IF.
***: BIENIEMY TO THE GOAL
LINE BUT HE DOES NOT GET IN.
AT LEAST NO SIGNAL YET AS
D'JUAN FRANCISCO CAME UP FROM
A SAFETY SPOT TO MEET HIM IN
MIDAIR.
A SPECTACULAR MIDAIR
COLLISION.
BILL: THEY TRIED TO GO OVER
THE TOP, LEAPING AT THE SAME
INSTANT.
EXCELLENT JOB.
***: APPEARED THE BALL MIGHT
HAVE BEEN ON THE GOAL LINE.
BILL: THEY ARE JUST ONE MAN,
EXCELLENT TACKLE
INSIDE.
HE MAY HAVE SCORED.
***: HAGAN CAN'T MAKE IT.
ZORICH AND COMPANY.
BILL: PRIOR TO THIS GAME,
***, COLORADO HAD SCORED A
TOUCHDOWN 3O OUT OF 34 TIMES
THEY GOT A TOUCHDOWN IN GOAL.
THIS SHOWS YOU THE CALIBER OF
FOOTBALL NOTRE DAME PLAYS AND
WHAT COLORADO IS UP AGAINST.
THEY HAVE WALKED BY EVERYONE
ELSE WHEN THEY HAVE GOTTEN
HERE.
***: BEFORE THEY EVEN GET TO
THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE THEY
HELP THE G TO
DEFENSE.
JEFF ALM WAS THE MAN WHO
LEANED OFFSIDE, NUMBER 90.
BILL: ALM BELIEVED HE SAW
SOMEBODY MOVE.
RESPONDED THAT WAY.
BUT HE THOUGHT HE SAW SOMEONE
MOVE AND IT WAS OFF CENTER.
APPARENTLY HE DID.
IT LOOKS AS THOUGH IT COULD
BE THE LEFT GUARD
CONCEIVABLY.
BUT HE MOVES BEFORE ANYONE
ELSE DOES.
PENALTY. NO
DOWN.Y THE
***: THIRD AND GOAL FROM THE
ONE YARD LINE.
***: NAES POSITION OF
POSSESSION OF
COLORADO ALTHOUGH THE IRISH
POINT IT'S THEIR BALL.
BUT IT'S FOURTH DOWN NOW.
BILL: THEY NEED POINTS, ***.
THEY DESPERATELY NEED POINTS.
THEY GOT TO SHOW SOMETHING
NOW.
I ASSUME HE IS GOING TO KICK
A FIELD GOAL.
WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED
LAST TIME.
***: LINE OF SCRIMMAGE WAS
THE 5-YARD LINE WHEN
CULBERTSON MISSED A 23-YARD
FIELD GOAL.
NOW IT'S THE 3-YARD LINE.
IN THEY COME WITH THE KICKING
GROUP.
***: A FAKE.
CAMPBELL DOESN'T MAKE IT.
JEFF CAMPBELL IS STOPED AT
THE GOAL LINE BY SMAGALA.
AND RIDGLEY, 99.
OH MY, THE IRISH THREE TIMES
HAVE DENIED.
BILL: IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A
PLANNED PLAY.
THERE WAS NO PASS RECEIVER.
THE BALL WAS JUST PICKED UP
AND RAN WITH.
THROW WAS NOWHERE TO
THE FOOTBALL.
THE BALL WAS SNAPPED.
NOWHERE TO RELEASE IT DOWN
FIELD.
HAD TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL
DECISION.
NOWHERE TO GO WITH THE
FOOTBALL.
***: A MAJOR LEAGUE GOAL
LINE STAND BY THE NOTRE DAME
FIGHTING IRISH , OH J.
O.J.: HE WAS SUPPOSED TO
RELEASE AND BE A PASS
RECEIVER.
HE FORGOT TO RELEASE.
BACK TO YOU, ***.
***: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
***: STOPPED AFTER A GAIN OF
TWO.
CENTER OF THE COLORADO
DEFENSE, JOE STEED FROM
DENVER.
BILL: THE PRESSURES OF A GAME
***.THIS,
CHAD BROWN HAS PRACTICED THIS
PLAY TWICE.
WE SAW IT TWICE.
THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE NOTRE
DAME COULD COVER A MAN
RELEASING.
***: 2:52 LEFT IN THE HALF.
REMEMBER, THE IRISH ARE GOING
INTO THE WIND.
IS SIGNIFICANT,
OVER 2O-MILE-AN-HO
***: LOU HOLTZ TRYING TO GET
THE ATTENTION, ROCKET ISMAIL
ON THE SIDE AND PERHAPS
ISMAIL SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN
THE GAME.
THEY TRIED THE BOMB FROM
THEIR OWN END ZONE, ISMAIL.
DIFFERENCE. IS A
RICE DOESN'T HAVE THAT
PROBLEM.
HE HAS A PROBLEM FORMATION
WISE RIGHT HERE.
THE TWO OF THEM NOT ONLY WERE
COORDINATED BUT THEY BOTH
HAVE GRACES TO CALL A TIME
OUT IN THAT SITUATION.
THE PRESSURES OF A GAME LIKE
THIS CAN BE INCREDIBLE.
DON'T THINK CLEARLY
SOMETIMES.
***: IT'S RICE ON A
QUARTERBACK DRAW TO THE
7-YARD LINE WHERE IT WILL BE
THIRD DOWN AND FOUR.
ARTHUR WALKER, THE TEAM
BARBER, HE OPENS THE SHOP ON
TO 15 AYS AND CUTS TEN
HEADS.
HE HAS SOME INTERESTING
STYLES.
BILL: IS THAT LEGAL UNDER
NCAA REGULATIONS?
***: AS LONG AS HE DOESN'T
GET PAID.
BILL: COLORADO CAN PORES A
PUNT FROM THE END ZONE.
***: WHAT AN EFFORT, RICE,
FIRST DOWN AT THE 24-YARD
LINE.
THEY HAD HIM INSIDE THE FIVE.
BILL: LOOKED LIKE A POTENTIAL
SAFETY.
LOOKED LIKE HE WAS REALLY IN
TROUBLE.
GREAT INSTINCTS THAT HE
HAS POSSESSED, HAS HARDLY
LOST A GAME IN HIS CAREER,
LOOK AT THAT GREAT RUNNING
ABILITY.
PEOPLE KNOCKED OFF BALANCE,
EVERYBODY RALLYING TO RUN
DOWN FIELD.
***: ROCKET WITH GOOD
BLOCKS INTO THE SECONDARY.
A GAIN OF 16.
KANAVIS MCGHEE MADE THE
TACKLE.
NOW NOTRE DAME WITH PLENTY OF
TIME.
CLOCK STOPPING WITH EACH
FIRST DOWN.
BILL: STRONG SAFETY DIDN'T
SHOW UP, BRUCE YOUNG WASN'T
THERE.
WHERE WOULD HE BE AT THIS
POINT.
BLOWN HAD TO BE
COVERAGE SOMEWHERE.
HERE THEY HAVE A FOOT RACE,
FORTUNATELY THEY MAKE THEIR
STOPS.
***: CULVER PICKS UP NEARLY
FIVE ON A SLAM
STRAIGHTFORWARD.
WALKER MAKES THE TACKLE,
MCCARTNEY, AN ASSISTANT TO BO
SCHEMBECHLER.
THEY SAID IF BO WINS IN
PASADENA, HE COULD BE NUMBER
ONE.
A PASS TO THE
TIGHT END BROWN.
FIRST TIME COLORADO HAS
INVADED TERRITORY IN THIS
FIRST HALF.
TIME OUT FOR THE FIRST DOWN
AS THEY MOVED THE YARDSTICKS.
EILERS IS OPEN, FIRST
DOWN AT THE 19-YARD LINE.
TIME OUT NOTRE DAME.
PAT EILERS.
HE WAS A JUNE YOR SLALOM
SKIER AND RARELY GETS THE
CALL.
HAD ONLY FIVE CATCHES ALL
SEASON LONG.
BILL: COLORADO JUST PLAYED
TOO SOFT A DEFENSE FOR THE
SITUATION.
EILERS IS GOING TO BREAK HERE
BUT THIS BIG HOLE IN THE SEF
ENS, THERE IS SO MUCH ROOM
THAT RICE REALLY CAN'T MISS.
WILL BREAK INSIDE RIGHT
THERE IN THAT BIG HOLE.
HE CAME FROM THE INSIDE
RATHER THAN THE OUTSIDE .LF SO
***: ALMOST FUMBLED.
THE BALL WAS LOOSELY BEING
GRAPPLED FOR.
AND COLORADO SAYS THEY HAVE
IT.
NO.
THEY CALL TIME, THREE SECONDS
TO GO.
SO LOU HOLTZ, WHEN BILL
MCCARTNEY MISSED A SHORT
GOAL, MISFIRED ON A BIG
FIELD GOAL.
NOW NOTRE DAME WILL GET ITS
CHANCE.
BILL: LOU HOLTZ JUST WANTS --
OH, HE JUST LOST THE BALL AND
FORT
27-YARD FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT
AND THE FINAL PLAY APPARENTLY
IN THIS FIRST HALF.
OUT. CALL TIME
BILL: THREE POINTS WON'T BE A
DEADLY SCORE.
COLORADO CAN COME BACK FROM
IT.
THE QUARTERBACK DRAW, NOT
LIKELY TO SCORE FROM THAT FAR
OUT.
I GUESS LOU HOLTZ IS JUST
LOOKING FOR BETTER POSITION
TO GET THREE POINTS BEFORE
ENDED BUT THE WAY
COLORADO'S BEEN MOVING THE
BALL, THEY WILL PROBABLY BE
ALL RIGHT, NOTRE DAME MOST
LIKELY WILL TIRE.
BUT I'M SURE THAT THE
COACHING STAFF AT COLORADO,
IF THEY WERE TO LOSE THIS
GAME, TO THINK OF ALL THOSE
LOST OPPORTUNITIES WHEN THEY
HAD THAT BALL IN CLOSE, SOME
OF IT WAS PLAY SELECTION,
SOME OF IT WAS THE PRESSURE
OF THE SITUATION, A LOT OF IT
WAS GREAT DEFENSE BY NOTRE
DAME.
***: WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE
MCCARTNEY IS SAYING, BE AWARE
FAKE, DON'T RUN
INTO THE KICKER?
BILL: THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
THINGS THEY HAVE SEEN NOTRE
DAME DO OUT OF THIS FIELD
GOAL FORMATION.
***: COLORADO USES ITS
SECOND TIME OUT.
LOU HOLTZ SAYS, COME ON BACK
OVER HERE.
WE WILL TALK IT OVER.
IF ANYONE CAN LIGHTEN THE
PLAYER WITH HUMOR OR ANYONE
ELSE, INCLUDING A HUGE
HOLTZ.CE, IT'S LOU
MOST ENTERTAINING SPEAKER
AMONG THE ATHLETIC COACHS
R. ING FRAT EARNITY IN THE
COUNTRY.
BILL: WHEN PEOPLE WERE
TALK HE HAD THAT
WITH HIS TEAM WITH THE
CAMERAS AND FILM, OF COURSE
THE SOUND WHICH HE HAS NEVER
HAD TO DEAL WITH BEFORE, HE
HANDLEED IT BEAUTIFULLY.
***: BASICALLY SAID THAT'S
ABOUT THE BIGGEST
UNDERSTATEMENT SINCE GENERAL
LOOKED SAID, THEY
LIKE FRIENDLY INDIANS.
***: IT APPEARED TO BE
BLOCKED.
OH MY.
THAT'S HOW THE FIRST HALF
ENDS.
NO SCORE.
HOLTZ AND MCCARTNEY TAKES
THEIR TEAMS TO THE LOCKER
ROOM AND THEY WILL PLAY 3O
MINUTES FOR THE NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP.
BILL: THEY WENT UP INSIDE.
THEY HAD THEIR TWO LARGE
PEOPLE.
I DIDN'T GET THE NUMBERS.
MOST LIKELY THOSE TWO TALL
LINEBACKERS.
WALKER IS RIGHT OVER THE TOP.
THEY LEAPED.
THEY ATTACKED TO KNOCK THE
LIEB MEN BACK AND LEAPED OVER
THE TOP AND MADE THE PLAY.
***: NO SCORES AND NO
AZ THE -- PENALTIES
THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF.
BILL: EXTRA TIME THEY GET FOR
THIS KIND OF A BOWL GAME,
THEY CAN PRACTICE THOSE
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES TO DEAL
WITH A FIELD GOAL.
THE PUSH INSIDE HELPS.
***: 27 WAS GREG THOMAS.
GARY HOWE WAS 95.
IT APPEARED IT MIGHT HAVE
BEEN HOWE, DEFENSIVE LINE
MAN, WHO GOT A PIECE OF IT.
SIX FEET TALL,
PENETRATION MAY HAVE MADE THE
DIFFERENCE.
WHAT A GAME.
THE ELECTRICITY, I CAN'T
BELIEVE, ***.
I HAVE BEEN IN ALL KINDS OF
PRESSURE SITUATIONS MYSELF
AND I CAN'T HANDLE THE
PRESSURE.
***: BILL MCCARTNEY SAW HIS
DRIVE THREE TIMES
INTO SCORING TERRITORY,
FUMBLE, MISPLAYED FAKE FIELD
GOAL DENIED HIM.
HE CLOSES ON UP AS HE BLOCKS
LOT OF
THEY AIN'T PLAY ENGINE KANSAS
STATE.
WE GOT TO BE PATIENT ON
DEFENSE.
FRUSTRATION WILL SET IN ON
COLORADO'S OFFENSE BY THE
MIDDLE OF THE THIRD QUARTER
LEAVE THE GAME FOR
GRAB BAG.
REMEMBER ME TELLING YOU THAT.
***: LOU HOLTZ SAYING THAT
COLORADO WOULD FRUSTRATE ON
THE DEFENSE.
NOT?HE RIGHT OR
SCORE IS EVEN.
COLORADO KNOWS THEY CAN MOVE
THE BALL.
IT MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT, BUT
COLORADO SCORES FIRST, IT
WILL BE ALL RIGHT.
IF NOTRE DAME SCORES FIRST,
LOOK OUT.
HAD THREE OR S
FOUR GOOD PLAYS, THAT'S ALL
THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF F
COLORADO KEEPS IT UP, NOTRE
DAME IS GOING TO FINALLY PASS
TO WIN.
***: BOTH COACHES SAID BILL
WALSH, HE WILL GO CRAZY IN
THIS GAME.
THE ONLY TIME WE PASS IS
BACKWARDS.
HIS STYLE.
BOB: QUICKLY BOBBY BEATHARD,
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN THE
SECOND HALF?
BOBBY: THE MOMENT UM HAS
CHANGED.
IT LOOKS LIKE AN UNEVEN GAME
IN THE SECOND HALF IN FAVOR
OF NOTRE DAME.
BOB: NOTRE DAME NOW MIGHT
SNEAK A GLIMPSE AT THE SCORE
BOARD BECAUSE ALABAMA IS
HANGING CLOSE TRAILING MIAMI
2O-17.
IN NOTRE DAME WINS HERE IT IS
VERY POSSIBLE, MAYBE EVEN
LIKELY THAT THE FIGHTING
BE NUMBER ONE
AGAIN.
BACK TO *** AND BILL.
***: THE IRISH WILL GET THE
FOOTBALL AND WE WILL LEARN IN
A HURRY IF THERE ARE ANY NEW
SURPRISES THAT THE TWO
COACHES WILL PULL AS WE GO 3O
MINUTES TO A NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP AND OBVIOUSLY,
WIN LD THEY
UNBEATEN ONE WOULD FIGURE
THEY WOULD BE CROWNED AS
CHAMPIONS HERE IN THE 1989
SEASON BUT LOU HOLTZ WITH A
VICTORY COMBINED WITH THE
POSITIVE RESULT FROM ALABAMA
WOULD SUGAR BOWL HE
HAVE PROCLAIMED THE
CHAMPIONSHIP.
85, ERIC L TAKEN BY
SIMIEN.
A LINEBACKER.
THEY KEPT IS AWAY FROM
ISMAIL.
MCCARTNEY WILL TAKE THAT ALL
NIGHT.
KICKING WITH THE WIND, HE
THOUGHT THEY MIGHT HAVE GONE
DEEP KICKING INTO THE END
ZONE.
NOT TAKING ANY CHANCES.
WE BEGIN FROM THE IRISH
32-YARD LINE.
***: TONY RICE IS NAILED AT
THE 3O-YARD LINE AS TERRY
JOHNSON, 48, CAME IN FROM HIS
LINEBACKER POSITION TO MAKE
THE HIT .
BILL: HE IS GOING TO BE
OFFSIDE HERE
APPEARED GETTING TO THE BALL
BUT THE KEY IS THE PEOPLE
DOWN THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE,
BREAKING THAT UP IS TWO BIG
LINEBACKERS TAKING THINGS
APART SO THAT THE INSIDE
LINEBACKERS COME ON AND MAKE
A PLAY.
***: NO FLAG.
IT'S NO CONTACT AS THE
COVERAGE FROM JIM JAMES,
NUMBER 17 ON ISMAIL.
***: JAMES IS MAKING A PLAY
ON THE BALL, HE DIDN'T
NECESSARILY HAVE TO RUN AS
FAST AS ISMAIL TO GET TO IT.
HE IS LOOKING AT THE BALL,
MAKES CONTACT Y
WITH HIM.
NO FOUL.
***: RICE DOWN THE MIDDLE.
CAUGHT.
TONY SMITH.
SOPHOMORE FROM INDIANA
GIVES THE IRISH A FIRST DOWN
AT THE COLORADO 43.
BILL: THEY ARE GOING TO
SPRINT OUT, THERE IS NO HEAT
OUTSIDE.
SEE A ZONE DEFENSE, A MAN
OPEN RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE
WITHOUT ANY COVERAGE PEOPLE
ABLE TO CONVERGE ON THE BALL
QUICK ENOUGH.
***: AT THE 4O-YARD LINE
AFTER A GAIN OF THREE IS JOEL
STEED AND TERRY JOHNSON MADE
THE HIT.
FORCED NBLOCKABLE, HE
RICE TO KEEP THE BALL INSIDE.
NOTRE DAME, THEY ARE THE ONES
WITH A PASSING GAME THAT
COULD BE THE DIFFERENCE HERE.
***: ANTHONY JOHNSON WAS
OPEN.
SAVED THE TOUCHDOWN, BRUCE
YOUNG.
NUMBER 7.
MIKE HELDT, THE CENTER WITH A
KEY BLOCK.
BILL: COLORADO WAS CAUGHT
PLAYING FOR THE PASS.
THEY HAD PEOPLE RETREATING
ZOUN THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE
LINEBACKERS WERE
SOFTENING UP.
THAT MADE THE DEFENSIVE BACKS
THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY TO
MAKE THE PLAY.
***: HE HAS THE SPEED.
ISMAIL IS TO THE ONE-YARD
LINE.
AGAIN SAVING A TOUCHDOWN BACK
TO BACK.
IS A COLORADO'S, THERE
MOMENT OF TRUTH, NOT SO MUCH
THIS IF THERE IS A SCORE BUT
BEING BEHIND ALMOST FOR THE
FIRST TIME THIS YEAR AND
DEALING WITH THE PRESSURE OF
THE GAME.
***: ISMAIL IS VERY TOUGH
AND VERY STRONG FOR HIS SIZE.
JOHNSON, TOUCHDOWN!
AND YOU BET THE IRISH FANS
ARE CHEERING THE LAST TIME
NOTRE DAME SCORED AN
OFFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN HERE IN
THE ORANGE BOWL WAS IN 1985
WHEN THEY WERE BOMBED BY
MIAMI 58-7.
THAT IS THE ONLY NOTRE DAME
OFFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN IN A
DECADE OF THE 198O'S IN THE
ORANGE BOWL.
THIS NOW FIVE GAMES.
***: HE NAILS THAT ONE
THROUGH AND THE IRISH HAVE
BROKEN THE SCORELESS DUAL 7-0
EARLY IN THE THIRD PERIOD.
***: THREE KEY PLAYS IN THE
DRIVE, THE RICE TO SMITH
PASS, THE RUN BY JOHNSON,
THIS RUN BY ISMAIL.
BILL: THAT BY DEREK BROWN,
THE BIG TIGHT END, BLOCKED
WILLIAMS.
WILLIAMS DIDN'T THINK HE
COULD DO THAT ALL WEEK.
THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD KNOCK
BROWN BACK INTO THE
BACKFIELD.
***: TO THE 34-YARD LINE.
THINGS CONSIDERED, A
GOOD RETURN FOR COLORADO.
***: THIS MAN IS HEADING
THIS WAY TO SEE THE OCEAN, HE
GOING TO BE ON A SURF
BOARD.
***: J.J. FLANAGAN RUNNING
INTO JEFF ALM.
BILL: ALM WAS UNBLOCKED IN
THE AREA IN FROMT OF YOU.
FIGHT END, NUMBER 33, ABOUT
215 POUNDS, TRYING TO HANDLE
ALM.
NEVER DONE IT BEFORE.
NO ONE THERE.
THE MAN RIGHT IN THE THICK OF
THINGS PURSUING DARIAN HAGAN.
HAGAN WITH ALL THOSE QUICK
FEET AND STRONG ARM IS AN
BASEBALL PLAYER.
HE WAS A SWITCH HITTING SHORT
STOP AND DRAFTED IN THE
SECOND ROUND.
WE HAVEN'T HAD A PENALTY
THUS FAR. THE GAME
WE HAD NEGATING PENALTIES AS
YOU RECALL COLORADO TRYING TO
GO INTO THE ONE-YARD LINE.
***: INCOMPLETE.
INTERCEPTED BY NOTRE DAME AT
THE 46-YARD LINE.
ON THE DEFLECTION, IT WAS NED
BOLCAR, THE CAPTAIN.
THIS FIELD AR IN
WHO RAN 49 YARDS WITH AN
INTERCEPTION AND A TOUCHDOWN
AGAINST MY ALI -- MIAMI IN
THEIR DEFEAT.
BILL: MAYBE SIX INCHES SHORT
OF HIS HEAD.
TAPED BACK AND FORTH.
THAT'S ONE OF THE REAL
PROBLEMS OF THROWING AGAINST
THAT ZONE DEFENSE.
OFFSIDE, COLORADO IS T
BEING TESTED RIGHT NOW.
***: IT'S ISMAIL, HIT DOWN
AFTER A GAIN OF A YARD.
CHARGING THROUGH IS JERRY
JOHNSON AND ARTHUR WALKER.
BILL: FIELD POSITION FOR
NOTRE DAME, 7-0 LEAD.
***: RICE BREAKING TACKLE
SMOTHERED BEHIND THE
LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
VICIOUS TACKLE THERE.
BILL: COLORADO JUMPED INTO
THEIR STACKED DEFENSE.
WILLIAMS AND MCGHEE ON EITHER
SIDE ABLE TO HANDLE THE
OPTION PLAY.
HAPPENS WITH JOHNSON UP
INSIDE ABLE TO RUN THE BALL
THEN THROWING.
***: ANTHONY JOHNSON TO
THE-YARD LINE.
BILL: ANTHONY JOHNSON MISSED
A KEY TACKLE.
THE ONE ON THE ONE TACKLES
DOWN FIELD, COLLEGE FOOTBALL,
I REALLY NOTE YOU HAVE TO
MAKE THOSE DOWN FIELD TACKLES
VERY CLEANLY.
EVERYONE ELSE IS ISOLATED.
HERE IS THE PLAY.
YOU JUST LOSE IT RIGHT THERE.
HEADS, SES, DROPED
LOSING FUNDAMENTAL POSITION,
THAT CAN MAKE THE POSITION IN
THIS BALL GAME.
IT, N'T GET
PUSHED OUT OF BOUND BY BRUCE
YOUNG.
AND IT APPEARS TO BE HOLDING
AGAINST NOTRE DAME.
BILL: BRUCE YOUNG IS DOWN
TOO, ***.
HE IS ON THE SIDELINE.
AND YES INDEED, THIS WILL BE
A PENALTY MARCHED OFF.
THIS WILL BE THE FIRST OF THE
ENTIRE GAME.
REFEREE: HOLDING ON THE
OFFENSE, STILL FIRST DOWN,
10-YARD PENALTY.
***: YOUNG IS STILL DOWN ON
THE SIDE LINES.
YOUNG IS 26 YEARS OLD.
HE STAYED OUT OF FOOTBALL,
OUT OF COLLEGE FIVE YEARS
AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, WORKED
HIS DAD IN CONSTRUCTION
AND THEN ELECTED TO GO TO
SCHOOL, JUNIOR COLLEGE, LONG
BEACH CITY COLLEGE THEN ON TO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO .
***: CARRIED ONLY 13 TIMES.
SHOWS HIS OUTSIDE SPEED.
AT THE 3O.WN
BILL: IT APPEARS THAT DEREK
BROWN WAS HOLDING ALFRED
WILLIAMS AND ACTUALLY PULLED
HIM TO THE GROUND.
THAT'S WHY THE THING OPENED
UP.
IN THE PAST, WILLIAMS HAS
BEEN DOMINATING AND GOING
SCRIMMAGE. LINE
THERE COULD BE ANOTHER
HOLDING PENALTY HERE.
15-YARD PENALTY.
FIRST DOWN.
OF 15 MAJOR PENALTY
YARDS ON THE CLIPPING CALL.
THAT WILL MARCH THE FOOTBALL
BACK INTO COLORADO'S SIDE OF
THE FIELD.
BILL: YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT
HERE.
THEN HE WILL LOSE HIM RIGHT
HERE THEN THERE WILL BE A
HOLE.
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE, NOW
HE IS GRABBING AND HOLDING
AND PUSHING HIM DOWN.
THAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE.
ALMOST SEEN EVERYTIME.
***: RICE THREW AND IT'S
CAUGHT BY EILERS AGAIN.
THEY PICK UP BIG YARDAGE,
ALMOST BACK TO THE ORIGINAL
OF SCRIMMAGE ON THIS
SERIES.
BILL: DAVE MCLUEG AN THE BEST
COVERAGE MAN THEY HAVE TO
OFFER.
NOW THEY GO WORK FOR IT.
HIS BODY IN
POSITION.
***: RICE AGAIN THROWS IT.
ANTHONY JOHNSON WAS OUT THERE
AS WAS WILLIAM POLLARD.
BILL: VERY DIFFICULT RUNNING
LEFT AND THROWING RIGHT
HANDED.
HE DIDN'T GET THE BALANCE
NEEDED.
***: HE MAY GO ALL THE WAY.
HE WENT.
TOUCHDOWN ISMAIL.
SO ZAING ROUSE IS A KICK
RETURNER AS A PASS RECEIVER
AS A RUSHER OUT OF THE
BACKFIELD AND THIS TIME ON
THE REVERSE 35 YARDS.
BILL: ONLY WILLIAMS TO
CONTAIN THE PLAY.
ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS GET PAST
WILLIAMS WHO WAS PRETTY GOOD
POSITION.
POINT HE GETS THE EXTRA
THROUGH, HENTRICH, IT'S 14-0.
BILL: WE HAVE HIM UP INSIDE
WITH PEOPLE FINALLY PURSUING
BUT ONLY ONE MAN TO CONTAIN
IT.
WAS IT GOT BY HIM, IT
OVER.
WILLIAMS IS GOING UPFIELD
BASICALLY UNBLOCKED.
HE IS NOT IN POSITION TO MAKE
IT.
IT'S GONE ALL THE WAY.
REALLY, WILLIAMS WAS THERE TO
MAKE THE PLAY.
MAKE THE PLAY FOR BIG LOSS.
SO CRIS CAL.
YOU SEE THE REVERSE STARTING
A MAN RIGHT THERE TO MAKE
THE STOP WHO WASN'T IN
BALANCE, DIDN'T SEE THE
REVERSE COMING.
NOW THE SPEED BEGINS TO BE A
FACTOR.
***: GREAT BLOCKS BY ANTHONY
JOHNSON.
BILL: WE GET A GOOD LOOK AT
THE REVERSE.
WE GOT OUR CONTAIN MAN HERE.
IT'S BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED.
FIRST THE TACKLE IS OUT TO BE
MADE RIGHT HERE, NOT IN
POSITION.
WATCH NOTRE DAME PEOPLE BEGIN
TO ENTER THE SCREEN TO OUR
RIGHT.
BLOCKS MADE THROUGHOUT THE
FIELD, EVERYONE IS IN
POSITION ALL THE WAY DOWN
THROUGH THE FIELD.
WHAT A CALL, MOST UNLIKELY
CALL IN THAT SITUATION.
***: PICKED UP BY AN UPBACK.
HE WAS ZOUN.
BILL: POISE IS THE KEY FOR
COLORADO.
TOTALLY DEPART
FROM THEIR BASIC GAME PLAN AS
LOU HOLTZ IN A SENSE
PROPHESIZED.
***: BUFFALOES ARE GOING TO
HAVE TO LOOK TO GET THE
BREAKS NOW.
THEY ARE NOT THE KIND OF TEAM
COMING BACK FROM A 14-0
SCORE.
IF THEY KEEP THE PRESSURE ON
THEY HAVE TO LOOK FOR BREAKS
TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.
***: CAUGHT FROM BEHIND AS
ALM SHOT THROUGH AND GRABBED
THE QUARTERBACK BEFORE HE
COULD EVEN MAKE A MOVE.
BILL: IT LOOKED AS THOUGH IT
WAS A BLOCKING SIDE
BREAKDOWN.
HE IS GOING TO COME STRAIGHT
THROUGH AND MAKE A PLAY, IT'S
THAT SIMPLE, RIGHT OFF THE
FIELD TO PULL A GUARD.
THEY JUST DON'T GET THE PLAY
BECAUSE COLEMAN
DIDN'T STEP AS NEAR TO IT OR
GET HIS HELMET FOR
PENETRATION.
DECK DEG HAGAN FINALLY GETS
OUT OF BOUNDS.
WHAT A DANCE ON THE FIRST
DOWN AT THE 46-YARD LINE.
YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT QUICK
FEET, LOOK AT HIM WORK.
BILL: ALMOST A DESPERATE
MOVE.
HE DOESN'T THROW THE BALL.
WATCH THE SPEED.
SOME EXCELLENT SPONTANEOUS
PLAYS OUTSIDE.
A GREAT ATHLETIC ABILITY.
COLORADO RALLIED.
***: THE FULL BACK GETS ONLY
A COUPLE BEFORE DEVON
MCDONALD MAKES THE STOP.
BILL: KISSICK IS NOT
OBVIOUSLY A MAIN BALL
CARRIER, A MAIN FACTOR.
RIGHT NOW, NOTRE DAME'S
THE NG OFF THE EDGES OF
DEFENSE AND CUTTING OFF THE
OPTION PLAYS .
***: BIENIEMY MAKES THINGS
HAPPEN.
A FIRST DOWN AT THE NOTRE
DAME 43.
KOWALKOWSKI MADE THE TACKLE.
HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS.
THAT'S THE FIRST TIME THAT
PLAY HAS BEEN CALLED AND
UTILIZED SINCE THE FIRST
QUARTER OF THE GAME.
WHEN THEY MADE ALL THOSE
YARDS THEY HAD THEIR GOOD
DRIVES.
***: KOWALKOWSKI LEADING THE
CHARGE DEFENSIVELY.
A GAIN OF ABOUT THREE.
BILL: VANDER POEL AND
LEEUWENBURG MADE THE TACKLE.
REALLY NO OPTION.
HE USED THAT BLOCKING TO GET
THOSE YARDS AGAIN.
***: INCOMPLETE FOR
CAMPBELL.
JONES, THE FRESHMAN, NUMBER
81, INDIANA JONES WAS
PRESSURING HAGAN.
BILL: HAGAN AGAIN HAD
UNBLOCKED PEOPLE COMING RIGHT
UP INSIDE.
HE TO -- HE HAD TO GET RID OF
THE BALL PRIMARILY.
HAGAN INCOMPLETE.
INTENDED FOR THE TIGHT END.
JOHN PERAK AND D'JUAN
FRANCISCO.
BILL: JUST TAKES SO MUCH
PRACTICE TO DEVELOP A PASSING
OF E WITH A LOT
CONSISTENCY.
THESE PLAYS ARE WELL
DESIGNED.
THE BALL WAS THROWN EARLY AND
PERAK STOPPED INITIALLY
BEFORE HE SHOULD HAVE AND
THAT WAS NECESSARY.
***: DOWNED BY NUMBER 59,
MICHAEL JONES, THE
LINEBACKER, 4-YARD PUNT.
NOTRHAVINCENTER OF
THEIR OFFENSIVE LINE AT
COLORADO.
THE CENTER MAN HAS BEEN
OF HEAT FROM
MCCARTNEY.
THEY HAVE A LOT OF NEW GUYS,
THEY LIKE TO CUT BACK.
THIS ENTIRE SECOND HALF HE
HAS HAD THAT CHALK BOARD
TRYING TO TELL THESE GUYS
THEY HAVE TO WALL UP THAT
BACKSIDE.
WHAT'S HAPPENING RALPH?
RICKY WATTERS CAN'T
GO.
WORST NEWS OF THE NIGHT FOR
COLORADO.
ROCKET ISMAIL'S PLAY WAS VERY
SIMPLE, REVERSE EIGHT WAS THE
NAME OF THE CALL.
YOU CAN'T CATCH WHAT YOU
CAN'T SEE.
HE IS THE FASTEST.
TONY RICE GETS A TOUGH
ONE YARD ON THE VERSION OF A
DRAW.
NOTRE DAME STYMIED MOST OF
THE FIRST HALF.
HAD A CHANCE TO SCORE ON ITS
FINAL POSSESSION.
TURNING POINT OF THE GAME WAS
THE GREAT GOAL LINE STAND OF
THE IRISH LATE IN THE SECOND
QUARTER.
***: SLOWED DOWN.
AND CUT INSIDE HIS O-YARD
LINE T WILL BE THIRD DOWN AND
SIX, ALFRED WILLIAMS IN ON
THE TACKLE.
BILL: CHAD BROWN MAKES AN
EXCELLENT PLAY.
MEETS HIS BLOCKER, IS IN GOOD
POSITION.
HE GETS HELP FROM THE
BACKSIDE FROM WILLIAMS.
***: ROCKET AGAIN.
HE IS RUNNING DOWN FROM
BEHIND BY WILLIAMS, WHO LED
THE BIG 8 WITH TEN AND A HALF
SACKS.
NOTRE DAME WILL HAVE TO PUNT
END. DEEM IN THEIR OWN
BILL: AGAIN WILLIAMS, GOOD
CALL BECAUSE THEY JUST CAN'T
TAKE ANY CHANCES BUT HE
PENETRATES THEN CUTS THE
WHOLE THING DOWN.
***: TAKES A GOOD NOTRE DAME
BOUNCE.
BOUNCE FOR THE
IRISH.
ALL THE WAY TO THE COLORADO
47-YARD LINE.
FUMBLING THE SNAP.
41-YARD KICK OUT OF
DESPERATION BY THE FRESHMAN.
BILL: NOT THAT IT WOULD HAVE
BLOCKED BUT IT GETS OFF
AND BOUNCES.
***: HE IS TO THE NOTRE DAME
45-YARD LINE AND A GAIN OF
EIGHT.
HAGAN GETTING HIT AS HE MADE
THE TOSS, APPARENTLY OK.
HAGAN SAID WHAT AUNESE GAVE
HIM, HE WAS YOUNG, WAS
PLAYING BEHIND SOMEONE HE
FIGURED WOULD BE AROUND.
HE TAUGHT ME TO BECOME A MAN
AT 19.
HE SAID I HAD TO CALL UPON
THE SPIRIT AND FIGHT HE HAD
SHOWN.
***: BOLCAR KILLING THE
HOLE.
IS HERE.SE FAMILY
HIS FATHER ON THE LEFT, HIS
MOTHER IN THE YELLOW, IN THE
MIDDLE AND THAT'S SAL
AUNESE'S SISTER.
THEY LIVE IN OCEAN SIDE
CALIFORNIA, THE SAN DIEGO
AREA.
BREAKING TACKLE.
PAT TERRELL, A SENIOR, MANY
FEEL HE WILL BE A TOP NFL
PROSPECT, MADE THE TACKLE.
FINAL SECONDS IN THE THIRD
QUARTER.
THEY STOPED THE CLOCK WITH 19
SECONDS.
A PLAY Y MAY NOT GET
OFF UNLESS THEY HURRY.
***: BACK INSIDE.
HE GOES ALL THE WAY WITH A
TOUCHDOWN.
THAT 39 YARD SCORE
AWAKEENS COLORADO'S HOPES ON
THE FINAL PLAY OF THE THIRD
PERIOD.
DARIAN HAGAN.
EX- TRA KATEING HIMSELF FROM
A PILE OF IRISH TACKLES.
THE POINT AFTER HITS THE
UPRIGHT.
NO GOOD.
CULBERTSON, SENIOR
FROM BOULDER HAS MISSED AN
EASY FIELD GOAL.
NOW HE TAKES THE FUN OUT OF
HAGAN'S TOUCHDOWN RUN BY
STRIKING THE UPRIGHT NO GOOD.
IT'S 14-6.
BILL: IT WAS THE PRESSURE OF
THE GAME.
HERE WE SEE THE OPTION DOWN
BY THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE.
THE SPEED TAKES OVER, DOWN
FIELD BLOCKS, WATCH THIS
GREAT INSTINT OF CUTTING
BACK.
YOU REALIZE THE ENTIRE FIELD,
HAVE TO TURN AND RUN
AND CHASE HIM ACROSS THE
FIELD.
THEY DON'T COME CLOSE.
***: WATCH CULBERTSON, AGAIN
JUST AS HE MISSED THE FIELD
GOAL HITTING IT LOW AND
WACKING IT WIDE TO THE LEFT
POINT. THE
BILL: ISMAIL WENT DOWN THE
SIDELINE.
YOU CAN SEE HOW INSTINCTIVE
HE IS.
ONE HAGAN GETS PAST THIS
DEFENDER AND THEN BREAKS
ACROSS THE FIELD, IT MAKES
THE DIFFERENCE.
HE WAS CUT OFF OTHERWISE.
THAT'S GREAT ATHLETIC
ABILITY.
***: GETS AROUND THE CORNER
AND CUTS BACK.
HERE THEY HAD HIM FOR A LOSS,
ISMAIL PICKS UP FOUR OR FIVE
YARDS.
BILL: TURNOVER PART OF IT
GAME HAS BEEN A DIFFERENCE.
COLORADO HASN'T REALLY GOTTEN
A BREAK OTHER THAN THOSE TWO
CONCURRENT PENALTIES THEY HAD
RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER.
OTHERWISE THE DISCIPLINE,
FLAWLESS GAME, UTILIZING ALL
THE EXPERIENCE THEY HAVE
GAINED WITH THIS TEAM, THE
HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL AND
PERFORMING UNDER PRESSURE.
***: THEY DRAG HIM DOWN, A
SOLID PLAY BY GARY HOWE.
SPENCER, G MAN FROM
IOWA TRANSFERRED TO COLORADO
AND HAS HAD A FINE GAME AT
THIS ORANGE BOWL.
***: DEREK BROWN CAN'T MAKE
CONNECTIONS WITH THE TIGHT
END.
HE GOT BEHIND DAVID GIBBS,
THE QUARTERBACK.
HAVE TO PUNT TO
COLORADO.
***: MORE THAN 13 MINUTES TO
GO.
COLORADO HAS SCORED ON ITS
LAST POSSESSI
***: A CINDERELLA SEASON,
4-6, TRYING TO PUT OUT A
CINDERELLA WIN.
YOU ARE REALLY VIBRANT.
BILL: THE ENERGY THAT COMES
OUT OF THIS STADIUM FROM THE
STUDENTS AND FANS AND PLAYERS
BENCHES.
IT'S SHOCKING, THE ENERGY
THAT COMES OUT OF THERE.
IT HAS EFFECTED ME.
I KEEP NUDGING WHICH WAY
WHICH TEAM SHOULD GO.
***: YOU STARTED YOUR FIRST
COMMENTARY WITH A PROF ANTI-.
THE : MIKE BIENIEMY IS IN
TAIL BACK, TAKES IT FOUR
YARDS TO HIS OWN 4O.
CHRIS ZORICH, HARD-NOSED
YOUNG MAN, SAME HIGH SCHOOL
THAT PRODUCED *** BUTKUS.
MIKE CENT YEARS,
SINGLETARY IS THE MAN HE
LIKES TO I AM MATE.
***: THE WING BACK SLIPPED
OUT INTO THE FLAT.
A FIRST DOWN AT THE NOTRE
DAME 44, 16 YARDS FOR HAGAN.
NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THE TALENT
FIRST ORE, THE
MAN IN BIG 8 HISTORY TO RUSH
AND PASS FOR 1,000 YARDS IN A
SEASON, THE SAME SEASON.
BILL: SOME MOMENTUM COMING
BACK.
IT WAS TAKEN DOWN FIELD.
HE USED SOME JUDGMENT
DRILLING DOWN THE SIDELINE.
***: HAGAN RIPPED DOWN BY
BOLCAR.
THAT THERE IS TALK
DOESN'T HAVE THE SPEED
TO PLAY PROFESSIONAL
FOOTBALL.
THAT TIME HE USED AN
EXCELLENT ANGLE PENETRATING.
NOWHERE TO GO.
***: GREW UP AS A BIG
STEELERS FAN.
BILL: SAW HIM KEEP COMING
RIGHT DOWN THE LINE OF
SCRIMMAGE TO MAKE THE PLAY.
USES THE DRILLING HE HAS HAD
ALL THROUGH COLLEGE AS TO
WHAT ANGLE TO TAKE.
***: HAGAN AD-LIBING HIS WAY
IN TRAFFIC TO THE 44.
BOLCAR TRAPS HIM AGAIN.
IT WILL BE THIRD AND TEN FOR
COLORADO.
BILL: COLORADO WAS WARNED.
COACHES WARNING THEIR
SCOUTING REPORT THAT THE
COACHES PLAY BEAUTIFULLY WITH
THEIR HANDS.
DIDN'T GET ANYONE CUT DOWN
THAT TIME.
EVERYBODY'S STANDING UP,
NOTRE DAME IS PLAYING
FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND FOOTBALL.
***: INCOMPLETE TO HIS TIGHT
END PERAK.
PASS WAS A LITTLE LOW.
FRANCISCO WITH GOOD COVERAGE.
BILL: THE LONG HALFTIME
REALLY BENEFITS THE COACH P-Z
IN THIS KIND OF SITUATION.
THE PLAYERS CANNOT ONLY
REFRESH THEMSELVES BUT CAN
LISTEN TO SOME REAL
METHODICAL REFLECTIONS ON
WHAT HAPPENED THE FIRST HALF.
DONE A GREAT
JOB OF COUNTER ACTING THAT
SOLO FORMATION.
***: 10:27 LEFT IN THE FINAL
PERIOD.
***: COLORADO IS BAT ING
MORE THAN NOTRE DAME'S GREAT
TRADITION.
LOOK AT THAT RECENT HISTORY
UNDER LOU HOLTZ.
THEY DON'T COUGH UP A CHANCE
TO WIN .
***: FINALLY ALFRED WILLIAMS
WRESTLES ISMAIL TO THE GROUND
42-YARD LINE.
FLAG DROPPED BACK AT THE 23.
BILL: IF THIS IS AGAINST
NOTRE DAME, WHAT A BREAK.
THAT LAST RUN IF NOTRE DAME
STOPPED, COLORADO
WOULD HAVE HAD TERRIBLE FIELD
POSITION.
NOW THEY STILL HAVE A CHANCE.
***: YOU WATCH ISMAIL RUN,
WITH THAT KIND OF ELECTRIC
SPEED AND YET THE LEG POWER
SO MANY MEN WITH HIS KIND OF
SIZE, A TACKLE AND HE IS
DOWN.
REFEREE: 10-YARD PIN A --
PENALTY, STILT FIRST DOWN.
***: HOLTZ SAYS HE IS GOING
TO GO BACK TO A TOTALLY
DIFFERENCE OFFENSE NEXT YEAR.
MORE OF A PASSING GAME.
***: ISMAIL AGAIN, ALFRED
WILLIAMS, 235-POUND
LINEBACKER HIT HIM.
HE DIDN'T DRIVE HIM BACK.
ISMAIL ABLE TO GO FORWARD FOR
TWO, SECOND DOWN
AND 8.
BILL: BOTH TIMES HAVE PUT IN
SO MUCH WORK.
***: ANTHONY JOHNSON HAS A
FIRST DOWN.
MICHAEL JONES MADE THE
TACKLE.
THAT GIVES THE IRISH ANOTHER
FOUR DOWNS.
THE CLOCK CONTINUES TO RUN.
9:13 CURRENTLY.
AS SOON AS THEY MOVE THE
YARDSTICKS THEY WILL WIND IT
UP.
***: IT'S ISMAIL.
BILL: HE IS AMAZING.
***: DOWN TO THE 39-YARD
LINE.
CLOSE TO ANOTHER FIRST DOWN
BEFORE MICHAEL JONES CAN MAKE
THE TACKLE.
BILL: IT APPEARED TO ME THAT
COLORADO IS GOING TO HAVE TO
DO SOME GAMBLING AND BLITZING
TO STOP SOME OF THESE THINGS.
THEY ARE BEING TURNED SIDE
WAYS, THEY ARE BIG FOR THESE
BIG BACKS.
***: JOHN SON MAYBE A YARD
NECESSARY FOR A FIRST DOWN.
***: ISMAIL THIS TIME NOT
ABLE TO TURN THE CORNER AS
GARY HOWE AGAIN MAKES THE
TACKLE.
A FLAG GOES DOWN.
THEY MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN A
PIECE OF THE FACE MASK.
YEP.
BILL: DOES THAT HURT.
***: LOU HOLTZ RIGHT THERE
ON THE SIDE LINES.
BEEN CAMPAIGNING.
HE FEELS THERE HAS BEEN SOME
GOING ON.
REFEREE: FACE MASK, FIVE-YARD
PENALTY AGAINST THE DEFENSE.
BILL: COLORADO HAS BEEN A
HEAVILY PENALIZEED TEAM ALL
YEAR.
SEVEN PENALTIES IN 11 GAMES.
***: YOU TALK ABOUT JOHNSON,
HE DOESN'T GET ALL THE
RECOGNITION THAT ISMAILS AND
BUT JOHNSON, THEY
SAY IF YOU WERE STILL LOOKING
AT FULL BACKS THE WAY WE DID
THE LAST 4O, 50 YEARS, THIS
MAN WOULD BE AN ALL AMERICAN.
***: HE IS CLOSE TO WILLIAMS
OF SEATTLE.
***: CULVER TO THE 50.
THAT WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR
A FIRST DOWN.
MICHAEL JONES MADE THE
TACKLE.
BILL: COLORADO NEEDS THEIR
DEFENSIVE BACKS, YOUNG,
SAFETIES.
GETTING THERE AT
ALL.
AND THE BALL CARRIERS ARE
GETTING AN EXTRA TWO AND
THREE YARDS.
***: JOHNSON AGAIN GETS THE
CALL.
THEY ARE GOING TO THE WORK
HORSE ANTHONY JOHNSON.
THEY ARE INSIDE A RUNNING
GAME.
WALTER WHOSE IDOL WAS
PAYTON.
***: RICE USING JOHNSON AS A
PLOY, FAKING TO HIM, TAKING
IT HIMSELF.
APPEARS THAT'S GOING TO BE
ANOTHER FIRST DOWN.
EIGHT MORE YARDS FOR TONY
RICE.
BILL: COLORADO HAS YET TO
HAVE HAD THIS HAPPEN.
THEY DON'T HAVE THE MECHANISM
THIS.OP THINGS LIKE
***: RICKY WATTERS ON THE
SIDE LINES TRYING TO HELP AS
A CHEERLEADER.
***: ISMAIL IS ACROSS THE 35
FOR A GAIN OF FIVE OR SIX.
BILL: ISMAIL HAS THAT GREAT
SPEED.
IS REALLY ALERT TO
IT, HE WILL BASICALLY OUTRUN
PEOPLE AND GET YARDAGE.
YOU SEE A TRAPPING GUARD AND
TACKLE.
HE BURSTS OUTSIDE AND OUTRUNS
EVERYBODY WITH THAT SPEED.
***: JOHNSON GETS THE CALL
AND IS ONE TACKLE FROM A
TOUCH ZOUN.
A VERY IMPRESSIVE DRIVE BY
NOTRE DAME.
CHEWING UP MOST OF THE TIME
IN THIS FOURTH QUARTER.
BILL: JOHNSON COMES ALL THE
ACROSS THE GREEN AND
ALMOST MAKES IT HAPPEN.
AT THIS POINT COLORADO IS
REALLY GOING TO BE DESPERATE.
***: BASICALLY THERE IS NOT
MUCH DECEPTION HERE ACCEPT
WHAT RICE PROVIDES.
HIS FAKE, GIVE
IT TO ANTHONY JOHNSON AND MIX
IN.
OCCASIONAL KEEPER BY RICE OR
A TOSS TO ISMAIL.
BILL: TIM GRUNHARD IS PLAYING
AN ABSOLUTELY GREAT FOOTBALL
GAME WITH BROWN RIGHT NEXT TO
HIM.
GRUNHARD KNOCKED HIS HAND OFF
THE BALL FIVE YARDS.
***: RICE STOPPED.
LOOK AT HIM WITHSTAND THE
PUNISHMENT.
FEET. ON HIS
THE WHISTLE REALLY SOUNDS.
HE REALLY WAS STILL MOVING
FORWARD THEN.
TONY RICE DRIVING TO THE
16-YARD LINE AS THE CLOCK NOW
AT 2:49 AND RUNNING.
A TEST FOR
COLORADO.
THEY ARE MOST LIKELY GOING TO
LOSE THIS GAME AND TO KEEP
YOUR COMPOSURE AND KEEP UP
INTENSITY IS REALLY A TEST.
***: CLOSE TO EIGHT MINUTES
HAVE BEEN CONSUMEED ON THIS
DRIVE ALONE.
BILL MCCARTNEY LOOKS AT THIRD
DOWN AND A LONG THREE.
***: BIG HOLE.
RODNEY CULVER FIRST DOWN
THE TEN.
BRUCE YOUNG FINALLY GOT HIM
DOWN.
BILL: YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM A
LOT OF CREDIT ON THIS
OFFENSIVE FIRST DOWN.
THEY ARE COMPLETELY BLOCKING
HIM.
THEY ARE CUTTING PEOPLE DOWN
ON THEIR BACKSIDE AND THEN
THE STRENGTH OF THE BALL
CARRIER TO FINALLY FALL
FORWARD AFTER HE IS HIT.
***: HE GETS TO THE 6-YARD
LINE.
COLORADO IS GOING TO HAVE TO
THINK ABOUT SPENDING SOME
TIME OUTS.
WHAT A YEAR FOR THIS MAN,
BILL MCCARTNEY.
THE TESTS OF THE MAN AND WE
WILL KRON CAL THOSE ONCE
AGAIN THAT SEEMED DESTINED TO
BE THAT SAL AUNESE, THAT
STORY WOULD CONTINUE TO A ROUTI
AND ITS OWN HURRICANES FOR A
NATIONAL TITLE.
ENTERPRISE IN THE 2OTH YEAR.
PLEASURE TO HAVE THOSE GREAT
SHOTS WITH THE FEELING OF
CITY.
IT'S BEEN A TERRIFIC WEEK FOR
THOSE WHO HAVE VISITED FROM
COLORADO AND NOTRE DAME.
NOW IT'S THE IRISH SECOND AND
GOAL.
***: JOHNSON, HE HAS A
TOUCHDOWN.
A DRIVE ENTIRELY ON THE
GROUND BASICALLY FROM TACKLE
TO TACKLE AS THE OFFENSIVE
HELD AT THE IRISH
CENTER, ROUEN AND GRUNHARD
THE GUARDS.
DEREK BROWN JUST OUTHIT,
OUTMOVED THE COLORADO
DEFENSE, PUSHED HIM DOWN THE
FIELD TO SCORE IMPRESSIVELY A
TOUCHDOWN THAT APPARENTLY HAS
WON THIS 190 ORANGE BOWL FOR
NOTRE DAME.
BILL: COLORADO IS NOT IN A
DEFENSIVE ALIGNMENT THAT'S
GOING TO GET MUCH DONE.
ALL THAT E WITH
SHOCKING POWER UP FRONT JUST
SPLIT PEOPLE BETWEEN THEM.
IT'S A MATTER OF BEING
PREPARED FOR THESE KINDS OF
SITUATIONS.
COLORADO DEFENSIVELY WASN'T
READY FOR THAT ONE.
ON THE UT
FIELD.
MIKE HELDT AN INJURED CENTER.
HE IS HOLDING THAT WRIST.
HOLTZ WATCHING ANTHONY
JOHNSON SCORE HIS 24TH CAREER
TOUCHDOWN.
PUTT JUST LIKE SINKING A
SAYS HEY, REACH INTO YOUR
WALLET, THIS ONE IS MINE.
***: HENTRICH HITS IT
THROUGH.
21-6.RISH NOW LEAD
***: APPARENTLY THERE WILL
BE ON JANUARY 2 FOUR TEAMS
WITH ONE LOSS, COLORADO
LOSING TO NOTRE DAME, NOTRE
DAME LOSING TO MIAMI, MIAMI
LOSING TO FLORIDA STATE.
BOY, FLORIDA STATE WAS TOUGH
AND TENNESSEE FINISHES WITH
ONLY ONE DEFEAT.
THE DEBATE WILL RAGE ON AS TO
NUMBER ONE.
THAT WILL STIR UP TALKS OF A
POST SEASON PLAY OFF.
***: MIKE PRITCHARD OF
COLORADO CROSSES AND MIKE
SIMIEN MAKES THE TACKLE.
WHILE WE WERE AWAY, DARIAN
HOW FRUSTRATING THAT
MUST HAVE BEEN.
MCCARTNEY AND HAGAN WATCHING
THE DEFENSE UNABLE TO STOP
NOTRE DAME.
IT TOOK THEM NINE MINUTES TO
GO THE YARDS FOR THE
TOUCHDOWN.
***: INCOMPLETE.
BROKEN UP NICELY BY THE IRISH
DOWN FIELD.
BILL: TENSION IS OFF.
BOTH TEAMS WILL SHARE THEIR
RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER.
COLORADO, 11-0 TO MAKE THE
BIG MOVE BEYOND OKLAHOMA,
BEYOND NEBRASKA.
THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO
HAVE A TOUGH FEW WEEKS.
THEY WILL TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN
WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISH.
***: THEY ARE GOING TO
RETURN MANY STARTERS.
***: I THINK THE COLLEGES
OFTEN CAN SPEND MORE TIME
WITH IN THEIR EARLY FALL OR
SPRING PRACTICES WHEN THEY
ARE BEHIND WHEN THEY ARE
LIKELY TO USE, HAVE A STYLE
OF FOOTBALL THEY CAN USE TO
GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO DO
SOMETHING DOWN THE FIELD.
***: CAMPBELL TACKLED IN THE
BACKFIELD BY A FRESHMAN.
AND NOW FOURTH AND ABOUT 12.
A BALL OFF OT GET
BEFORE WE ARE DOWN UNDER 25
SECONDS.
THAT MAY BE IT.
***: WANT TO THANK JIM DAVIS
FROM NOTRE DAME AND BECKY
YOUNG FROM COLORADO FOR
HELPING US.
***: INTEREXCEPTION AND THE
IRISH HAVE WON 21-6.
BILL: LOU HOLTZ BROUGHT HIS
TEAM BACK UNDER A LOT OF
ADVERSITY, A LOT OF
QUESTIONS.
HIMSELF TABLISHING
LAST YEAR WITH THE GREATS OF
NOTRE DAME COACHING HISTORY,
ROCKIN E AND THEN HOLTZ PUTS
TOGETHER A RECORD, THEN COMES
BACK WHEN MANY FELT THE TEAM
WOULD HAVE TROUBLE GETTING
MOTIVATED FOR THIS GAME.
BILL MCCARTNEY AND LOU HOLTZ
MEET AT MIDFIELD BUT IN MANY
WAYS IT'S BEEN A YEAR OF HIGH
VICTORY, A SEASON OF HIGH
VICTORY AS WELL FOR THE
OF COLORADO.
DISAPPOINTMENT NOW BUT THEY
GAVE THEIR FANS PERHAPS THE
GREATEST SEASON IN THEIR 100
YORS.
LOU HOLTZ GETS THE
TRADITIONAL BATH.
HE SAYS, I'M NOT BIG ENOUGH.
I ONLY WEIGH 150.
AS THE MASCOT
FOR THE IRISH.
AND WE WILL RETURN.THE VICTORIO
DAME LOCKER ROOM WITH THE
STILL DRIPING WET COACH LOU
HOLTZ.
HERE T TO GET OUT OF
QUICK BECAUSE JOHNNY CARSON
COMES ON IN A FEW MINUTES.
YOU WERE SAYING YOUR VISION
LEAVES SOMETHING TO BE
SKIERED.
THEY SNUCK UP ON YOU WITH THE
BUCKET.
LOU: I WANT TO TELL YOU, THAT
IS COLD.
THAT'S WHY I'M JUMPING.
I CAN'T STAND TO BE COLD.
I'M HAPPY WITH OUR FOOTBALL
TEAM.
WE OVERCAME ALL KINDS OF
ADVERSITY THIS YEAR.
I'M VERY PROUD OF NOTRE DAME
AND OUR PLAYERS.
DID CONTROL THE
FOOTBALL, IS THAT FAIR TO
SAY?
LOU: WE COULDN'T REALLY GET
IN RHYTHM.
WE KNEW IT WAS THIS TYPE OF
FOOTBALL GAME.
WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO.
PLAYED NINE BOWL TEAMS I
GUESS THIS YEAR, EIGHT IN THE
TOP 2O.
I'M VERY PROUD OF THEM.
IT WAS A HARD FOUGHT WIN.
I GIVE COLORADO CREDIT.
BOB: MIAMI AT LAST CHECK LED
CRIMSON TIDE.
THE HURRICANES WIN,
WHO'S THE NATIONAL CHAMP?
LOU: I THINK IT'S US.
I THINK WE DESERVE TO BE
NUMBER ONE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT MORE YOU
CAN DO THAN BEAT THE FINAL
15 POINTS.
BOB: THEY WIN OVER COLORADO,
21-6 IN THE ORANGE BOWL.
***: IT CERTAINLY WILL BE AN
INTERESTING VOTE.
WE HAVE TO WAIT A DAY OR TWO
TO FIND OUT.
GET A HT INDEED EVEN
SPLIT VOTE THERE.
IF YOU HAD A BALLOT, BILL
WALSH, TO WHOM WOULD YOU GIVE
THE NATIONAL TITLE?
BILL: MIAMI BEAT NOTRE DAME
SOUNDLY.
YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE
CHAMPIONSHIP.
***: THE IRISH DESERVE TO
CELEBRATE.
THEY WERE VERY IMPRESSIVE.
WHEN THEY HAD TO CONTROL THE
BALL AT THE END OF THE GAME,
THEY KEPT IT FROM THE
COLORADO OFFENSE JUST WHEN
HAGAN SEEMED TO BE GETTING IN
STRIDE.
WAS PART OF GAME
THE SEQUENCE.
THEY COULDN'T TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF MANY SECOND HALF
OPPORTUNITIES.
HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR.
AL: TURNER BLOCKING.
THEY GET IT TO THE 2O-YARD
LINE.
2ND AND 7.
FRANK: TALKING ABOUT THE
GREAT LINE BACKING COMING
FROM ALABAMA OVER THE YEARS.
BENNETT AN JUNIOR AND ERIC
THOMAS.
ONE OF THE GREAT LINES MEN
THAT CAME FROM MIAMI, JEROME
BROWN.
JIM BURT.
AL: LASSIC.
DAN THIS MOO YEA MY
RECRUITING MESSAGE BROUGHT TO
YOU BY FRANK GIFFORD.
FRANK: YOU ARE VERY SMUGE.
AL: THERE WILL BE MORE
COMPETITION IN THE AREA OF
KRE KRUETMENT FOR MIAMI
BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED
YESTERDAY TO STEVE SPERIOR
ACCEPTING THE JOB AT FLORIDA.
FRANK: HE STATED HE'LL GET
MIAMI BACK ON THE SKHREED
YUEL.
AL: OWEN LASSIC GOES OUT TO
THE 28-YARD LINE AND HAS A
FIRST DOWN.
7:22 REMAINING IN THE GAME.
THE LAST TIME THESE TWO TEAMS
MET WAS IN 1979.
IRONICALLY ALABAMA WAS ON ITS
WAY TO A NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP AND MIAMI WAS
JUST BEGINNING TO PUT ITS
PROGRAM BACK IN PLACE.
AND ALABAMA WON IT BY A SCORE
3O-0.
1O YEARS LATER THE TWO TEAMS
ARE MEETING AGAIN PERHAPS ON
THE VERGE OF A MIAMI NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP.
AL: LASSIC UP TO THE 33.
WHO WILL BE NUMBER ONE?
THAT'S THE QUESTION.
SEEMINGLY LIT BE MIAMI.
IT WILL BE SHOCKING IF IT
WASN'T.
BUT -- FRANK: WE'VE BEEN
SHOCKED BEFORE.
AL: WE WILL HAVE A POLL HERE
AND WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE PHONE
IN I UNDERSTAND.
AL: SIRAN STACY OUT TO THE
34.
THERE'S A MARKER DOWN.
FRANK: WE WILL GET A FEW
NOTRE DAME LUM NIE INVOLVED
IN THAT, WOULDN'T YOU THINK?
AL: DAN IS OUT VOTING FOR MIP
GAN.
DAN: I WAS JUST THINKING
ABOUT THAT.
DAY DREAMING HERE FOR A
SECOND.
EVEN IF MICHIGAN HAD WON I
DON'T KNOW HOW ANYONE COULD
HAVE SEEN THIS MIAMI SQUAD
PLAY DURING THE COURSE OF
THIS SEASON AND WHAT THEY DID
TO NOTEER DAME AND NOW HOW
THEY'RE HANDLING ALABAMA HOW
YOU CAN SAY THEY ARE NOT THE
NUMBER ONE TEAM IN THE
COUNTRY.
I DON'T CARE IF MITCH GONE
BEAT SOUTHERN KRAL BY THREE
TOUCHDOWNS.
MIAMI IS THE BEST TEAM IN THE
COUNTRY.
I KNOW THAT NOTEER DAME
PEOPLE WON'T LIKE TO HERE
THAT BUT THE FACT IS THEY
PLAYED AND MIAMI WON HANDYLY.
AL: LOU HOLTZ SAID LOOK AT
OUR STKHED YUEL AGAINST
MIAMI'S.
LOOK WHAT WE DID OVER THE
COURSE OF THE SEASON.
AL: BATTLE MAKES THE CATCH.
OUT OF BOUNDS AT THE 47.
THAT'S A FIRST DOWN.
AL: LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT
MIAMI'S TEAM HERE.
DAN WHEN YOU THINK A TOP
CONSISTENT TEAM WOULD PLAY
DURING THE SEASON.
AL THE HURRICANES KNOW WHAT
ARGUMENT IS AGAINST THEM.
BUT THEY SAY WE BEAT NOTRE
DAME, BEAT PITTSBURGH, NOTRE
DAME.
THEY ALL WENT TO BOWLS.
DAN: I WANT TO TALK ABOUT
BILL CURRY IN A SECOND HERE.
AL: UNDERNEATH HAND OFF TO
MARK HOUSTON.
HE'S WRAPED UP AT THE 5O-YARD
LINE.
AL: MIAMI STRETCHED THE
IMAGINATION.
THIS HAS BEEN A SUCCESSFUL
SEASON FOR ALABAMA.
AND YET THERE IS NO DOUBT
THAT THERE IS STILL LINGERING
RESENTMENT TOWARD BILL AND
THE FACT THAT HE'S A GEORGIA
TECH GUY AND NOT AN ALABAMA
MAN.
AL: HOLLINGSWORTH HAS THE PAD
DROPPED BY SIRAN STACY.
FRANK: BRYANT IS NO LONGER
THERE BUT THE GHOST OF BRYANT
REMAINS THERE.
BILL WAS CAN DATE ON WHAT HE
SAID.
AL: IT WILL BE INSIDE THE
1O-YARD LINE, MAKE IT THE 6
WHERE IT IS DOWNED.
AND IT IS A 43-YARD BOOT.
MIAMI TAKES OVER.
LET'S CHECK IN WITH ROGER.
>> THANK, YOU VERY MUCH.
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS
NUMBER ONE.
AL: JUST A THOUGHT TALKING
ABOUT TALKING TO BILL CURRY.
SOME TYPES YOU WONDER WHY
DOESNY ONE WANT TO BECOME A
MAJOR COLLEGE COACH.
IT IS NOT JUST ALABAMA.
ALMOST EVERYWHERE THERE ARE
5O--YEAR-OLD ADOLESCENT
ALUMNI WILL NEVER BE HAPPY.
AL: LYNN?
LYNN: I'M WITH JERRY PATE.
I KNOW YOUR TEAM IS NOT
PLAYING AS WELL.
>> SIT QUIET ON OUR SIDE OF
THE PEOPLE.
BILL CURRY IS A CLASS ACT.
THEY ARE PLAYING WELL
CONSIDERING.
>> WE HAVE SOME BIG GOLF
GAMES?
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
LYNN: SENIORS AN TOURING PROS
ON THAT PARTICULAR
TOURNAMENT?
>> YES E CURTIS STRANGE.
TOM KITE ALL TIME LEADING
MONEY WINNER.
PAYNE STEWART.
>> OK.
I HOP YOU HAVE A LOT MORE FUN
THAN AS AN A LUFMT UMNUS
HERE.
>> THANK YOU.
AL: SECOND DOWN AND 8.
ALABAMA HAD JUST SPENT A TIME
OUT AS THEY TRY TO CON THE
CLOCK HERE.
4:52.
HURRICANES ON TOP.
WE TALKED ABOUT CURRY AND
THEN THERE'S DENNIS ERICKSON,
THE MILD MANNERED DENNIS
ERICKSON.
HE WENT TO WYOMING FOR A YEAR
AND THEN WASHINGTON STATE.
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE MADE
ABOUT AS LONG A MOVE AS YOU
CAN MAKE IN THE LOWER 48 IN
THE COUNTRY OF EASTERN
WASHINGTON ALL THE WAY DOWN
TO SOUTH FLORIDA.
NIE.
THERE'S A FLAG DOWN ON
THE LAST PLAY.
DAN: THERE IS ART THERE.
HE'S THE OFFENSIVE LINE
COACH.
WHAT A DREAM COME TRUE FOR
ANY COACH.
AL: ERICKSON NEARLY GETS
CAUGHT IN THE END ZONE.
COMES BACK OUT TO THE 1.
KEITH MCCANTS WAS THERE TO
DROP HIM AT THE 1-YARD LINE.
DAN: WAIT TILL YOU SEE THIS
EFFORT BY MCCANTS.
HE HURT WILLS A BLOCKER.
JUST WATCH THIS.
YOU SEE IF THIS GUY IS AN
ATHLETE.
FRANK: THREE YEAR FOOTBALL
PLAYER IN HIGH SCHOOL AND A
THREE YEAR BASKETBALL
ALL-STAR WHO CAN STUFF A
BASKETBALL HEN HE WAS A
SOPHOMORE IN HIGH SCHOOL.
HE IS SHOWING YOU GRAUT ATLY
TICK ABILITY.
DAN:AND NEED BE SWO C1.
AL: WE'RE BACK.
AL: ALABAMA HAS ONE TIME OUT
REMAINING.
WE WILL SEE IF THEY WILL TAKE
IT HERE.
MIAMI WILL HAVE TO TO PUNT
HERE.
4:02 REMAINING.
THEY SPEND THEIR FINAL ONE
HERE.
THEY ARE TWO TOUCHDOWNS AN
TWO TWO POINT CON VERSIONS
BEHIND.
TRAILING BY 16.
LET'S GET ANOTHER WORD FROM
-- WHAT IS THIS A POST PARADE
HERE.
HERE IS ROGER.
AL: WOO!
HELLO?
YOU TALK ABOUT A LICK 1/2.
AS THE SAYING GOES.
DAN: LOOK AT THIS.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT BOUBSING
RIGHT BACK UP.
GENE JELKS, SUFFERS A MAJOR
COLLISION AT THE HANDS OF
DARRIN SMITH.
FRANK: WHERE WAS THE FAIR
CATCH WHEN HE NEED IT.
DAN THIS IS NOT A GAME FOR
THE MEEK AND MILD MAERND.
LOOK AT BILL CURRY.
DAN HOW ABOUT A PHONE POLL ON
WHETHER YOU WOULD LIKE TO
RETURN PUNTS?
HERE IS GENE JELKS.
LOOK AT NUMBER 45, DARRIN
SMITH.
THAT'S AS VIOLENT A COLLISION
AS YOU WILL SEE ON A NOT BALL
FIELD.
AL: HOLLINGSWORTH GETS
SACKED.
WE TALKED ABOUT MIAMI AND
SOME OF THE THINGS THEY'VE
DONE DEFENSIVELY.
ALL SEASON LONG ON PUNT
RETURNS THE OPPOSITION HAS
RETURNED PUNTS FOR A TOTAL OF
TWO YARDS.
AL: HOLLINGSWORTH.
DAN: WHAT I FIND IRONIC ABOUT
THE NOTEER DAME, MIAMI
CONNECTION.
YOU WILL NOT FIND TWO SCHOOLS
THAT DON'T LIKE EACH OTHER
MORE THAN MIAMI AND NOTRE
DAME.
YET MIAMI WAS PUT IN THE
SITUATION OF KNEADING HELP
FROM NOTEER DAME TO WIN A
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
NOT THAT THEY HAVE WON IT BUT
I CERTAINLY THING THEY HAVE
TO BE VIEWED AS THE
FRONTRUNNER.
EVERY E NOTRE DAME ALUNUS IN
THE COUNTRY IS SAYING COOL
YOUR JETS HERE, DAN.
MIAMI HASN'T WON THE NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP YET.
I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW YOU
CAN'T GIVE IT TO THEM.
FRANK: THEY ARE BUSY DIALING.
DAN: I EXPRESSED MY VOTE.
AL I WOULD VOTE FOR MIAMI.
FRANK: I WOULD VOTE FOR
MIAMI.
AL: THEY KEEP IT ALIVE.
MARCO BATTLE KEEPING ALABAMA
ALIVE.
CRIMSON TIDE OUT OF TIME
OUTS.
THEY HAVE A FIRST AND GOAL AT
THE 9.
AL: NO GOOD.
BATTLE AND MCNEIL WERE THERE.
IT IS INCOMPLETE.
2ND DOWN AND GOAL.
2:A 7 TO PLAY.
THE BIG QUESTION, YOU
MENTIONED 1O OUT OF THE 11
COME BACK ON OFFENSE BUT THE
BIG QUESTION IS MCCANTS.
THE LINE BACKER, WILL HE COME
BACK OR NOT?
DAN: WE ASKED THAT QUESTION
OF BILL CURRY YESTERDAY AND
HE KNOWS.
YOU HERE THE CROWD RESPONDING
AGAIN.
AL: THAT ONE IS CAUGHT FOR A
TOUCHDOWN BY PRINCE WIMBLEY!
DAN: PRINCE REMEMBER ORRLY
YER IN THE GAME YAIN -KED FOR
A CELEBRATION.
YOU CAN CELEBRATE AFTER THAT
ONE, GUY.
GREAT GRAB.
FRANK: TWO PERFECTLY THROWN
BAWLS BY HOLLINGSWORTH.
THE ONE A MOMENT AGO
ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND
PERHAPS COULD HAVE BEEN
CALLED A TOUCHDOWN.
AND THIS ONE THROWN TO
WIMBLEY IN DEAD STRIDE.
LITTLE FADE AWAY.
234O-9>ING THAT COULD BE DONE
ABOUT IT.
AL: IF YOU MAKE A TWO POINT
CON VERSION YOU DOWN BY 8.
THIS ONE IS NOT OVER.
IF YOU ARE A TIE BACKER YOU
THINK BACK TOO TWO SITUATIONS
DURING THIS GAME WHERE IT
APPEARED MIAMI FUMBLED THE
BALL BUT ON BOTH THOSE
OCCASIONS IT WAS RULED DOWN
BY THE OFFICIALS.
AL: IN THE END ZONE IT IS
CAUGHT BY LAMONDE RUSSELL SO
THEY ARE DOWN BY 8.
BUT THE PROBLEM FOR THEM IS
THEY DON'T HAVE A TIME OUT
REMAINING.
FRANK: A LOT OF THEIR FANS
HAVE GONE HOME.
DAN: A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
FOLLOW THE GOLDEN DOME IN
SOUTH BEND ARE GOING, GO
TIED.
GO TIED!NOT YETPLAY.
NOW IT IS.
DAN: I WAS THINKING BACK.
THAT TWO-POINT CON VERSION OF
ALABAMA HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE
INTERESTED.
33-25.
8-POINT DIFFERENCE.
AL: THERE IS A HUGE FIRST
DOWN.
THAT SHOULD YOU ABOUT DO IT
AS HE TAKES IT TO THE 26-YARD
LINE.
FRANK: BIG NIGHT FOR MCNIER.
YOU SAW HIM COVER UP THAT
FOOTBALL.
HE KNEW THAT ALABAMA WOULD BE
TRYING THE STRIP IT.
THE YOUNG ESH MAN FROM
BROOKLYN.
QUITE A SHOE TONIGHT.
DAN IT IS ONLY FITTING WE ARE
ON THE AIR LAST.
WE DO THE FINAL GAME OF THE
PROS EVERY WEEKEND ON MONDAY
NIGHT.
AND THIS IS REALLY THE END OF
OUR FOOTBALL SEASON.
THIS IS OUR LAST GAME.
A MONDAY NIGHT GAME.
AND, GENTLEMEN, IT'S BEEN
ANOTHER FUN YEAR.
TO THE GUYS IN THE TRUCK AND
THE CAMERAS YOU ARE THE
GREATEST.
I'M PRUED OF YOU.
21 GAMES.
DAN: AUGUST 5TH WAS THE HALL
OF FAME GAME.
THAT WAS THE FIRST.
AL: IT WIND DOWN TO WE WILL
GO OFF THE AIR BUT STILL TO
BE DETERMINED OFFICIALLY WHO
IS NUMBER ONE.
AND AS FAR AS THE PHONE POLL
IS CONCERNED HERE IS ROGER
WITH THE THAT UP DATE.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AL.
NUMBER ONE IS STILL NOTEER
DAME AS THEY ARE COMING IN
WITH 55% OF THE VOTE.
AL: THE MIAMI SIS TAN COACHS
CELEBRATING THE FINAL PLAY OF
THE GAME.
DENNIS ERICKSON,
CONGRATULATIONS.
FIRST YEAR COACH.
AND PROBABLY THE COACH OF THE
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM.
FRANK: TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW,
JIMMIE JOHNSON.
HE'S DONE IT WITH STYLE.
SUCCESSFUL AT WASHINGTON
STATE.
DAN: LET'S TALK FOR ONE
SECOND ABOUT TONIGHT'S GAME.
AN EXCELLENT FOOTBALL GAME.
TWO CLASS PROGRAMS.
A LOT OF HARD HITTING
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
TONIGHT.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SUPERBLY
PLAYED GAME.
27-13 WAS THE SCORE AT THE
HALF.
AND ALABAMA KEPT FIGHTING
BACK AND FIGHTING BACK.
FRANK: THEY STAYED MANY THE
FOOTBALL GAME AND HAD A
CHANCE.
TO TIE THIS GAME AT THE VERY
END.
AL: BUT MIAMI TOO MUCH FOR
THEM.
LYNN SWANN IS GETTING IN
POSITION TO GET A WORD WITH
DENNIS ERICKSON AND AS SOON
AS HE'S READY WE WILL GET
DOWN TO HIM.
>> COACH, A GREAT WIN.
CONGRATULATIONS.
>> ALABAMA REALLY PLAYED
WELL.
THEY ARE A DARN GOOD FOOTBALL
TEAM.
THEY DID A GREAT JOB OF
COACHING.
WE ARE VERY VERY FORTUNATE TO
WIN THE FOOTBALL GAME.
BUT WE DID AND THAT PUTS US
IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE RIGHT
NOW.
LYNN: YOU HAVE AN 8-POINT
VICTORY.
WHY DO YOU THINK YOU COULDN'T
PULL AWAY FROM THIS FOOTBALL
TEAM?
>> THEY ARE A GREAT FOOTBALL
TEAM ONLY LOST TO AUBURN.
I HAVE TO GIVE THEM A GREAT
DEAL OF CREDIT.
LYNN: THE ONLY REMAINING
KWHRE BE LEFT UP TO THE
VOTING.
IS THIS MIAMI FOOTBALL TEAM
NUMBER ONE IN YOUR NIEND?
>> WE'RE NUMBER ONE.
LYNN: JUST THAT SIMPLE?
>> WE'LL FIND OUT IN A COUPLE
DAYS.
LYNN: WOULD THERE BE ANY
REASON YOU CAN THINK OF THEY
WOULDN'T VOTE MIAMI THE
NUMBER ONE TEAM IN AMERICA?
>> NOT THAT I CAN THINK OF.
BUT I'M KIND OF PREJUDICE.
LYNN: SO ARE OUR GUYSTHE
BOOTH.
THEY THINK YOU WILL AS WELL.
>> THANK YOU, LYNN.
LYNN: CONGRATULATIONS.
>> SO THE MIAMI HURRICANES.
WILL IT BE THIRD NATIONAL
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE DECADE?
CLEARLY THEY FEEL THEY ARE
THE TEAM OF THE DECADE.