YouTube Thursday: DO NOT NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO!
For a generation of Cal fans, this is our The Play. Raised on a diet of stale The Play memories, we wanted to create our own Big Game legend. Our own Big Game stories. Telling our grandchildren "We were there when we heard about The Play for the 40,000th time right before Stanford beat us" didn't exactly have the same pinache as we might have hoped.
So, thankfully, there was this:

Those last two videos had poor quality, but this is good. You know, the guy was on top of the goalpost for like one half of one second. But at the time, it seemed like it was an eternity.
Lets look at some great Big Game highlights:
And some video of the post-game lockerroom celebration after the 1986 Big Game:
No sound on this find, but card stunts at hte Big Game from the 60s:
Old Bear Territory video on the 1994 Big Game. Whatever happened to those guys?
Not great kwality (a theme, it would seem), but Marshawn's run in the 2004 Big Game:
1972 Big Game. Great end here:
That's some great Big Game stuff. Let's look at some Stanford football players:
I have a strong distaste for Stanford, but I gotta respect them for this:
Finally, let's meet Paper-rad. Yes, Paper-rad. Wikipedia describes them as a "art collective that makes comics zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands." They are kinda crazzy, but I like them. They have the bright colors and the MIDI sounds. Either you think it's creative or you think it's the stupidest thing ever and look forward to your next semester at USC starting. Plus, they sort of came from the same incubator that I did, so I respect that. To call them crazzy is to call me crazzy.
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did we forget The Play?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZCCAqoSwY
The Maharg makes me look like an idiot.
by carp on
Nov 20, 2008 2:49 PM PST
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Video 4 is about the Play and has it with Starkey’s call.
by CountDuku on
Nov 20, 2008 2:50 PM PST
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good call
I had no idea he has/had red hair
The Maharg makes me look like an idiot.
by carp on
Nov 20, 2008 2:58 PM PST
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He look so young!
Please disregard the above ramblings as those of a clearly delusional fan.
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by TwistNHook on
Nov 20, 2008 3:02 PM PST
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Blue Collar Football?!
How can they take themselves seriously with this “Blue Collar” crap? It’s Stanford for crying out loud. I think that “Bourgeois Collar” fits better.
by CountDuku on
Nov 20, 2008 3:11 PM PST
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I love the first video where
you can hear the band playing “All Hail Blue and Gold” as the goal post comes down.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on
Nov 20, 2008 3:31 PM PST
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Can you hear me in there?
Please disregard the above ramblings as those of a clearly delusional fan.
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by TwistNHook on
Nov 20, 2008 3:35 PM PST
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Big Game '86
The 2nd best Big Game next to The Play. Yes, I know some of you little pishrogues weren’t even swimming in daddy’s balls when it happened, but let me tell you it was miraculous and one of the biggest Cal upset’s ever.
Watching the video of Coach Kapp in the locker room was really something. He sucked as a coach, but there probably has never been a bigger, better, badder Golden Bear ever.
Perfect to help get me into a frenzy for Saturday.
You know it! You tell the story! You tell the whole damn world this is BEAR TERRITORY!
Go Bears!
by SoCal Oski on
Nov 20, 2008 6:51 PM PST
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Joe Kapp
“Wear your Gold. Wear your Gold. WEAR YOUR GOLD, close to your heart.” “And I like Tequila; thank God for rum.” Classic. Especially when you consider the emotional weight of the moment, addressing his team post-game for the last time. There will never be another Golden Bear like him. Last Cal quarterback to take the Bears to the Rose Bowl, and 12th man on Pete Newell’s national champions. He clearly wasn’t a great X’s and O’s coach, but man could he motivate. (Not to speak like he’s deceased. He’s alive and well, and he WILL live to see the Bears win that coveted Rose Bowl. Tequila for everyone!)
Go Bears!
by California Pete on
Nov 20, 2008 8:29 PM PST
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Sadly
I don’t have the strength of will nor the character that Joe has. My vow is to not have any tequila unless Cal wins a game. And like Joe, I like tequila too. A lot. I hope to be having a few glasses tomorrow.
But you are right … Joe Kapp is an iconic kind of guy … the kind of guy from which legends spring. It’s pretty cool to think that we all are of the same fraternity as he is.
Go Bears!
by SoCal Oski on
Nov 21, 2008 7:55 AM PST
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yes. Kapp is just one of those guys.
I hope that Tedford has found a way for him and his boundless enthusiasm to get involved a bit with the players.
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on
Nov 21, 2008 9:15 AM PST
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My favorite post-game celebration is still 1996...
…no, we didn’t win the game – but we did (after the mic man’s ‘alleged’ instigation) rush the field and send the ‘Furd running for cover . ’Course, they weren’t fast enough, as we caught up with and demolished the hated Tree. My RA had chunks of the costume hanging on his wall all year, as did a couple of my friends. It always cracked me up when I always saw the Tree with a personal cache of guards after that… I’d think, “We did that.” Ha!
Good times, good times.
I haven't seen that many tear-stained dollar bills since my dad hired a stripper for my uncle's funeral.
by BearStage on
Nov 22, 2008 9:21 PM PST
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