Favorite single play ever

[C Bomb]

Awesome! just Awesome thread! Made life at the office a little more pleasant this morning! I almost screamed a few times watching the highlights. All of these are GREAT and more significant in the big picture than mine and a lot less painful. In 92 when Cuse played Texas in the Dome I was starting my 1st senior year and my student tickets were at the tunnel area where the players run out (yes current young students our section then ran from the 20 or so around the end zone to the band). It was a big game..I think Cuse was ranked in the top 10 at the time and if I remember right Keith Jackson was doing the game on ABC. Syracuse was down to a average Texas team and came back to tie the game on a Graves pitch to David Walker throw back to Graves 2 pt conversion. Graves lays out in the end zone and makes a sick fingertip catch. I am in the first row and the players come to high 5 us and I am getting crushed between the orang railing and the mass of people behind me. All of a sudden BAM the railing collapses and we are on too of graves and I think I am literally headed for the big man cave in the sky as I am basically hanging onto the railing with thousands of pounds behind me. The railing continues to to fall to the ground and probably 10 of us or so are on the field. Security comes over pissed at us because we are there and starts kicking people out (our fault for thinking the railings would hold us of course). I play hurt so they don't kick me out and I watch the rest of game from the field! Cuse wins and all is well. I couldn't find any video of that game but it was awesome!

Wow, so you were one of those people

 

[elimunelson]

Coach Mac was so excited about that return. Great clip.

What a game. That staff was (deservedly) more elated after that trip than they'd been in years.

Best game I ever went to. Spent post game in Mary Ann's laughing at the Superfans, including my brother in law, in their sombreros and cooking up scenarios where we could end up in the Fiesta Bowl as the WORST EVER BCS team.

 

[will6786]

although it was a loss to penn st but the int by rob welsh where he gets upended and does the flip on the 1 yard line..

 

[Pyle]

Nassib to Lemon with 3 seconds left to complete the 20 point comeback win over USF in 2012. I went on a tirade through my whole house, banging on walls, yelling obscenities about USF, etc. It felt REALLY good to be a SU fan that night.

 

[Millhouse]

Best game I ever went to. Spent post game in Mary Ann's laughing at the Superfans, including my brother in law, in their sombreros and cooking up scenarios where we could end up in the Fiesta Bowl as the WORST EVER BCS team.

i'm pretty sure i spent an incredible amount of time at mary anns the week SU killed clemson in the gator bowl. that road trip took years off my life.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

Diamond Ferri's interception return for a TD against BC in 2004.

It wasn't as meaningful as most of the scores mentioned so far, but since he had already scored 2 rushing TDs that pick-6 was the ultimate kick in the groin to those sombrero-wearing Super Fan dopes.

Oh god yes, this times a thousand. I still have pictures of Ferri from that game that I use for my desktop image. Listened to the game on the radio, still have not seen it, but I was so fired up with his performance. Amazing.

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

I was in the Dome for Rob Moore, Michael Owens & Kirby Dar Dar but that punt return by Riddle really stands out to me even though I was watching it on TV. I hated VT so much, and the sting of the 62-0 humiliation the last time we had been to Blacksburg had me so fired up. I remember reading their board for days after that game, and their tears were delicious.

Agreed. Though I too watched it on TV, by far the best sound an opponent's home fans can make is stunned silence.

 

[Rocco]

 

[shandeezy7]

Ugh that game...

 

[Toga]

Oof

 

[stuckinbig11]

One that comes to mind from freshman year in 1967: Larry Czonka runs up the middle, is hit but keeps going, keeps getting hit but the pile keeps moving. When the pile finally stops, all but three of the defensive players were on the pile, but he had carried them all for five more yards.

 

[Cusester]

One play that I'll never forget, even though I wasn't there, was Marvin Graves catching a thrown cup of soda/beer/moonshine and taking a celebratory gulp. It was just the right exclamation point on that emotional game. Sadly, I couldn't find a clip of it on youtube.

 

[MadNY3]

1. Donnie to Rob Moore to open up the Penn State rampage in 1987.

2. McNabb to Brominski '98 against Va Tech

3. Kriby Dar Dar taking it to the house against Florida '91.

4. One shoe McNabb TD in the Big House in '98.

5. Pat %$# Dye going for the tie. '87

6. Billy Owens for 2! vs WVA in 87

I'll start with a darkhorse - Down 24-0 to Oklahoma Bryce Bevill covers half the field to track a guy down at the goal line and punch the ball out. Best no quit effort I've ever seen.

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[MadNY3]

1. Donnie to Rob Moore to open up the Penn State rampage in 1987.

2. McNabb to Brominski '98 against Va Tech

3. Kriby Dar Dar taking it to the house against Florida '91.

4. One shoe McNabb TD in the Big House in '98.

5. Pat %$# Dye going for the tie. '87

6. Billy Owens for 2! vs WVA in 87

7. Siano catch vs Nebraska '84

I'll start with a darkhorse - Down 24-0 to Oklahoma Bryce Bevill covers half the field to track a guy down at the goal line and punch the ball out. Best no quit effort I've ever seen.

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[Forza Azzurri]

I'll start with a darkhorse - Down 24-0 to Oklahoma Bryce Bevill covers half the field to track a guy down at the goal line and punch the ball out. Best no quit effort I've ever seen.

#1 - the block

#2 - the catch

#3 - wide right

Not an SU football play in the trio but I'm hopeful that there will be a#4.

Had Gedney gotten 3 more yards, #4 would be that play.