Ranking The Big Games Of The Decade: #3 2008
by TwistNHook on Jun 9, 2010 3:00 AM PDT
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[We are ranking the Big Games of the Aughts. So far, we have 2007, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2003, 2005, and 2004. Now, the 3rd best Big Game, 2008.]
It was up and it was good! Stanford fans cheered wildly. With 7 seconds left in the first half of the 2008 Big Game, Stanford kicker Aaron Zagory had put the Cardinal on the board with a field goal. Now, Cal was only up 10-3. Sounds like a tight game, right? Wrong.
With a 21 point victory and 200+ rushing yards for superstar RB Jahvid Best, you'd think something on offense would be the true key of the 2008 Big Game. The reality was that for all of the trickeration and flat out awesomeness by the offense, the Cal D was the single most important aspect of that game. I say this in both a positive and a negative way. Positive, because in the first half, before Cal's expected offensive explosion, Stanford only scored 3 points. Negative, because keeping Stanford to 3 was a tightrope walk to end all tightrope walks!
In total, Stanford had only 4 drives in the entire first half. They had 3 drives of 11 plays or more. They had 233 yards (in the first half alone!).They held the ball for well over 15 minutes in that first half. This was not the lock down D Cal fans were hoping for from Pain Train and his merry band of pranksters. However, for all of the yards, for all of the time of possession, for all the offensive plays, they ended up with a missed field goal, a fumble, and a measly field goal at the end of regulation. Yes, like the Iceman, the Cal D giveth, but also taketh away.
Drive Started Drive Ended Consumed
Team Qtr Spot Time Obtained Spot Time How Lost Pl-Yds TOP
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STAN 1st S30 13:00 Kickoff S45 11:32 Punt 4-15 1:28
STAN 1st S01 09:23 Punt C08 03:30 Missed FG 11-91 5:53#
STAN 2nd S20 13:45 Interception C10 07:19 Fumble 11-70 6:26#
STAN 2nd S25 04:05 Kickoff C03 00:07 *FIELD GOAL 12-72 3:58#
Cal ended up winning 37-16. However, like so many Big Games where large scores masked an oddly ineffective Cal team, the story of the 2008 Big Game is not pure Cal dominance. In 2003, it was 7 fumbles. In 2008, it was a first half that really should have ended with Stanford up 21-7 instead of down 10-3. But it didn't and you don't get points for going 91 yards on 11 plays. Or 70 yards on 11 plays. You get points for doing what Cal did in the second half. Punching the ball in the endzone! After the jump, let's take a closer look at this Jekyll and Hyde game.
The 2008 team was really a Jekyll and Hyde team. At home, Cal was dominant, beating Michigan State to start the season and going 7-0. Oh the road, unless you were playing in Pullman, WA, it was a totally different story. Cal went 1-4 on the road, losing to Maryland, Arizona, USC, and OSU. Another aspect of the Jekyll and Hyde story was the revolving door at QB. Longshore? Riley? Riley? Longshore? Rilshore? Longley? Goldberg? McGarnigal? Who knew who was starting for Cal! In some games, whether due to injury or ineffectiveness, both QBs played. Tedford was mixing and matching to try to find the right QB at the right time. Sometimes Riley would play well, as he did against MSU:
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Kevin Riley passed for 202 yards and two second-half touchdowns, and Shane Vereen broke an 81-yard scoring run with 4:21 left in California 's 38-31 victory over Michigan State on Saturday night.
Other times, Longshore would play well, as he did in a monsoon against Oregon:
Nate Longshore stepped in for injured Kevin Riley and passed for 136 yards for the Golden Bears (6-2, 4-1 Pac-10), who stayed in the thick of the conference race with their fourth victory in their last five meetings with Oregon.
Heading into the Stanford game, however, Cal was in a bit of a rut. Losses to USC and OSU, on the road, the weeks before, had put Cal fans in a foul mood. Stanford fans were not much happier, coming off of two losses themselves. However, they were desperate for a win. At 5-6, a win would put them at 6-6 and in contention for a possible goal. Not the Rose Bowl, but like Cal in 2003, Stanford fans were desperate for any bowl game! The Stanford team needed this game! Of course, they were riding high off of their stunning victory over Cal the year before in the worst and most perplexing Cal loss of the decade. It was two teams ready to get off the shneid that met that fateful day in 2008.
For all the discussion of Stanford dominating the first half, it was Cal that jumped out to a fast start. Literally. Jahvid Best had a 60 yard run on the second play of the game. Watch Danzig's highlight video above and you'll see him dodge a few tackles and make his way north. Unfortunately, the drive ended with a field goal:
C 1-10 C20 Best, Jahvid rush PR for 6 yards to the CAL26, out-of-bounds (Wopamo
Osaisai).
C 2-4 C26 Best, Jahvid rush LA for 60 yards to the STAN14, 1ST DOWN CAL,
out-of-bounds (Kris Evans).
C 1-10 S14 Vereen, Shane rush over left tackle for 3 yards to the STAN11 (Will
Powers;Pannel Egboh).
C 2-7 S11 Riley, Kevin LL pass incomplete to Morrah, Cameron.
C 3-7 S11 [SHOT], Riley, Kevin EZ pass incomplete to Ross, Jeremy.
C 4-7 S11 TAVECCHIO, G. field goal attempt from 28 GOOD, clock 13:04.
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After that, Stanford did jump out to a massive start. They more or less flat out dominated the first half, beating Cal pillar to post. Thanks to Tyson Alualu stripping Toby Gerhart, Cal managed to keep Stanford out of the end zone at the last possible moment. Then, Riley struck!
C 1-10 C41 Riley, Kevin slant pass complete to Vereen, Shane for 59 yards to the
STAN0, 1ST DOWN CAL, TOUCHDOWN, clock 04:10, TAVECCHIO, G. kick
attempt good.
Vereen actually caught this ball right in front of me and it was truly gorgeous. Cal was up 10-0, but Stanford had one more punch in them. They marched back down the field and even have 3 shots inside the Cal 10. Check this out:
S 1-G C09 Tavi Pritchard RR pass complete to Anthony Kimble for 8 yards to the CAL1
(Ezeff, Marcus;FOLLETT, Zack).
S 2-G C01 Clock 00:21.
S 2-G C01 Toby Gerhart rush over left guard for no gain to the CAL1 (Alualu, Tyson).
S 3-G C01 Timeout Stanford, clock 00:15.
S 3-G C01 Toby Gerhart rush right for loss of 2 yards to the CAL3 (Follett, Zack;KANE,
Mika).
Tavi Pritchard brought them down to the one and then Stanford tried to just stuff it down Cal's throat. NOT IN OUR DOMICILE!
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Alualu and Follet shut Gerhart down in a huge development. We discussed this huge goal line stand here. Certainly, 10-7 is far different than 10-3, going into the second half.
Houdini magic(k) aside, Cal should not have been in a position to double its lead quickly into the second half. However, with this one play immediately into the second half, Cal put itself right in that position:
Stanford elects to receive; Cal will defend north goal.
C 2-12 C29 Start of 3rd quarter, clock 15:00, CAL ball on CAL30.
--------------- 1 plays, minus 2 yards, TOP 00:05 ---------------
TAVECCHIO, G. kickoff 52 yards to the STAN18, out-of-bounds, STAN ball
on STAN40.
S 1-10 S40 Clock 15:00.
S 1-10 S40 STAN ball on STAN40.
S 1-10 S40 Tavi Pritchard pass intercepted by Young, Eddie at the STAN45, Young, Eddie
return 17 yards to the STAN28 (Toby Gerhart).
--------------- 1 plays, 0 yards, TOP 03:02 ---------------
Ok, so let's see here. Stanford is receiving. The Italian Stallion kicks off and it goes out of bounds. Ruh roh! And now Stanford has the ball at their 40 and surely they will continue to push the Cal D and wait a second, Eddie Young, what were your thoughts about that??? Oh yes, I agree. You should intercept that ball and take it back 28 yards. On the first play from scrimmage.
Continuing Tedford's all-day plan of a steady diet of Best/Vereen, Cal rushed down the field and immediately cashed in on with an awesome TD:
C 1-10 S28 CAL ball on STAN28.
C 1-10 S28 [SHOT], Best, Jahvid rush up middle for 8 yards to the STAN20 (Chike
Amajoyi).
C 2-2 S20 Ta'ufo'ou, Will rush up middle for 4 yards to the STAN16, 1ST DOWN
CAL (Matth Masifilo;Chike Amajoyi).
C 1-10 S16 Riley, Kevin middle pass complete to Best, Jahvid for 11 yards to the
STAN5, 1ST DOWN CAL (Bo McNally).
C 1-G S05 Best, Jahvid rush right for 1 yard to the STAN4, out-of-bounds (Pat
Maynor).
Best took direct snap from center.
C 2-G S04 Vereen, Shane rush up middle for 3 yards to the STAN1 (Will Powers;Sean
Wiser).
C 3-G S01 Timeout Stanford, clock 12:03.
C 3-G S01 Riley, Kevin EZ pass complete to Morrah, Cameron for 1 yard to the
STAN0, TOUCHDOWN, clock 11:58, TAVECCHIO, G. kick attempt good.
It says that Riley threw a pass to Cameron Morrah for a 1 yard TD. However, it was much more awesome than that! Tedford called a misdirection play that left Cameron Morrah all alone in the southeast corner of the South end zone. This all took place right in front of me and seemed to last 400 years. Morrah was wide open and Riley started to throw the pass. His arm moved in slow motion and the ball slowly spiraled through the air like we were playing in sort of giant bowl of molasses. As a Cal fan, I assumed that, up until the point at which Morrah actually caught the ball with his hands, somehow someway this would completely fail. Surprisingly, it did not! Cal was up 17-3. GO BEARS!
We were off to the races!
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That wasn't even the craziest TD of the day. After Rulon Davis sacked Pritchard for an 8 yard loss, Stanford had to punt on the next drive and Cal was back in the driver's seat! This was fun:
C 1-10 C50 CAL drive start at 10:32.
C 1-10 C50 Best, Jahvid rush ML for 36 yards to the STAN14, 1ST DOWN CAL
(Wopamo Osaisai;Kris Evans).
C 1-10 S14 Riley, Kevin middle pass complete to Tucker, Verran for no gain to the
STAN14, Best, Jahvid for 14 yards to the STAN0, 1ST DOWN CAL,
TOUCHDOWN, clock 09:55.
TAVECCHIO, G. kick attempt good.
First up, Jahvid Best has a huge rush. Then, a hook and lateral play. It is confusing to read there, but basically Kevin Riley threw the ball to WR Verran Tucker, who immediately lateraled it to Jahvid Best. Best sprinted in for another score, putting up Cal 24-3. 24-3! All this was happening near the South goalzone, too. Thanks, geography! Another great play of trickeration.
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Cal scored another couple of touchdowns, including a long TD run by Jahvid Best (music to my ears!). The Cal D had some more great moments, including intercepting Pritchard again and stopping Gerhart on a 4th and 1 at the Cal 28.
Let's take a look at the game stats:
STAN CAL
FIRST DOWNS................... 23 17
Rushing..................... 7 10
Passing..................... 14 4
Penalty..................... 2 3
NET YARDS RUSHING............. 123 287
Rushing Attempts............ 37 38
Average Per Rush............ 3.3 7.6
Rushing Touchdowns.......... 1 2
Yards Gained Rushing........ 158 308
Yards Lost Rushing.......... 35 21
NET YARDS PASSING............. 312 101
Completions-Attempts-Int.... 23-39-3 7-11-1
Average Per Attempt......... 8.0 9.2
Average Per Completion...... 13.6 14.4
Passing Touchdowns.......... 1 3
TOTAL OFFENSE YARDS........... 435 388
Total offense plays......... 76 49
Average Gain Per Play....... 5.7 7.9
Fumbles: Number-Lost.......... 1-1 0-0
Penalties: Number-Yards....... 7-54 3-25
PUNTS-YARDS................... 4-136 4-241
Average Yards Per Punt...... 34.0 60.2
Net Yards Per Punt.......... 32.5 55.2
Inside 20................... 0 3
50+ Yards................... 0 3
Touchbacks.................. 0 1
Fair catch.................. 2 1
KICKOFFS-YARDS................ 2-109 7-388
Average Yards Per Kickoff... 54.5 55.4
Net Yards Per Kickoff....... 44.5 40.9
Touchbacks.................. 1 0
Punt returns: Number-Yards-TD. 0-0-0 1-6-0
Average Per Return.......... 0.0 6.0
Kickoff returns: Number-Yds-TD 5-102-0 0-0-0
Average Per Return.......... 20.4 0.0
Interceptions: Number-Yds-TD.. 1-0-0 3-27-0
Fumble Returns: Number-Yds-TD. 0-0-0 0-0-0
Miscellaneous Yards........... 0 0
Possession Time............... 36:26 23:34
1st Quarter................. 7:25 7:35
2nd Quarter................. 10:29 4:31
3rd Quarter................. 11:23 3:37
4th Quarter................. 7:09 7:51
Third-Down Conversions........ 4 of 13 3 of 9
Fourth-Down Conversions....... 2 of 3 1 of 1
Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 2-4 4-5
Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 1-15 4-31
PAT Kicks..................... 1-2 4-4
Field Goals................... 1-2 1-1
Stanford had more yards than Cal and 3 times as many passing yards as Cal. We'll talk about the Cal passing game in a moment, but this was clearly a rushing attack. Note the difference in time of possession. Over 13 more minutes for Stnaford. They particularly dominated the second and third quarter with over 10 minutes each. An interesting note is that Cal punted as many times as Stanford: 4. However, Cal had nearly 100 more punt yards. Was this because Bryan Anger is a stud? Was this because Stanford was punting closer to Cal territory? Not sure, but that is quite the difference.
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Rushing totals:
Rushing No Gain Loss Net TD Lg Avg
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Best, Jahvid 19 205 4 201 2 60 10.6
Vereen, Shane 12 56 0 56 0 16 4.7
The tandem of Best and Vereen (or Besreen) was stellar. Best, in particular, had over 200 yards and averaged 10.6 yards a carry. That..............is good. He also had 2 touchdowns, including that sweet hook and lateral.
The flipside is that Cal didn't ask a lot of its passing game.
Passing Att-Cmp-Int Yds TD Long Sack
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Riley, Kevin 11-7-1 101 3 59 1
Riley didn't do bad, per se. But he only had 11 attempts. It helped that once Cal got up big, we were running a lot. What is really, really interesting here is who Riley was throwing to:
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Receiving No. Yds TD Long
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Best, Jahvid 3 35 1 15
Vereen, Shane 1 59 1 59
Riley, Kevin 1 6 0 6
Morrah, Cameron 1 1 1 1
Tucker, Verran 1 0 0 0
Totals... 7 101 3 59
1 pass to a WR. 1 pass to a WR! And it was the hook and lateral play. 1 pass to a WR for a grand total of 0 yards. WHAT?!?!?!?? Vereen had that sweet TD down the sideline. So......that was interesting. Hey, when you have a running back like Jahvid Best, what more do you need? Then, PARTY TIME!
Let's leave with one last delightful memory:
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From the start of the second half to Jahvid's TD in the 4th quarter
Is the most enjoyable 16 minutes of Cal football I have ever watched in my life. I loved it. Dominant and unstoppable on offense, ferocious on defense, and outscored them 27-0 during that stretch.
Yes, I am an Old Blue. Now get off my lawn.
Right before the Morrah TD, we had Stanfurd totally screwed on an easy TD for Best on a pitch play to the left corner of the end zone. But Stanfurd was able to get a timeout from the sideline right before the ball was snapped.
On the TD pass to Morrah, I remember Riley saying after the game that Best was the primary receiver coming out of the backfield. But Best got bumped around the goal line and Riley went to his secondary receiver — Morrah.
Yes, I am an Old Blue. Now get off my lawn.
Right before that timeout, Furd had stopped us twice, inside the 5, and then it was 3rd and Goal from the 1yd line.
Riley takes the snap, rolls to his right, has no one to throw it to. I remember thinking, we failed again. Then all the sudden Riley turns himself and throws left?? No way to know, Morrah was wide open. He was off the TV screen.
Anyways, this was the best play of the game. I think we gained momentum rest of the game.
2002 vs 2009
I wonder which one will be #1.
Nostalgia and the end of the 7 year drought and the dawn of the Tedford era
OR
The most competitive and tight Big Game of the modern era between two teams heading in different directions and possibly signaling the beginning of a new era in the rivalry.
PS I don’t count 1982 Big Game as a comparison game primarily because those teams didn’t have winning records. But that is of course the greatest Big Game of all time.
PS I don’t count 1982 Big Game as a comparison game primarily because those teams didn’t have winning records.
I am a blasphemer. I think I was thinking of winning conference record.
by PlayClassyBears on Jun 9, 2010 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
At risk of being a blasphemer for saying this
Not only should 2009 be the clear # 1, but 2002 is already too high on the list.
Yes, I am an Old Blue. Now get off my lawn.
I concur.
But the 2002 v. 2009 debate is really a sort of referendum between the semi-old and new blues. 2002 is the vote of eeryone who came from the mid 90s and before. 2009 is for the Tedford era fans and on. I started at Cal in 2001, so obviously, 2009 is far more compelling to me.
And as individual games go, I think 2009 was hands down, from a general football standpoint, the best overall big game of the decade, bar none. the lopsided wins of all the others kind of deflated the whole thing (yes we were close in score in 2001).
Finally, the MikeMo Pick, Gerhart’s absurd single handed effort, Cal-D’s even more absurd response and general containment. Vereen’s beyond-absurd game, Tedford and Harby’s battle for worst coaching moves, c’mon. not even a question
Not exactly
2002 is the vote of eeryone who came from the mid 90s and before.
I’m an early 90s Cal graduate. I pick 2009 because Cal won the best game (competitively) of the decade, Cal won it at the Farm, and Cal did it when the conventional wisdom was that we would lose.
I would rank 2002 no higher than 4th — behind 2009, 2004, and 2008 (in that order). Don’t get me wrong — that was a glorious Saturday. I appreciate that it was the streak breaker. But with the passage of time, I appreciate the ’09, ’04, and ’08 performances a little more.
Yes, I am an Old Blue. Now get off my lawn.
With passage of time, I appreciate 2002 more actually. Not saying whether 2009 or 2002 will be first on our list, just that the more Big Games we win, the more I appreciate the Big game that started it all off!
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Tough, tough call.
I’m a mid-ish 90’s grad. I really appreciate the ’02 game as the streak breaker because of the sheer absence of hope that preceded our present era.
Even so, I’d have to rank ’09 higher simply because there was no way on paper that we win that game. They had all the momentum, but our guys found a way to rally. It was tightly contested which meant that it came down to a battle of wills. The ’furds will forever know that they tried to stare down the Bear and blinked.
Firm-jawed and ready to extract the Poisonous Fangs of Communism
I'm torn
Personally, I struggle between 2009 and 2002. I was in Memorial in ’02 and will never forget the energy and sheer jubilation. It was no secret Stanfurd was going to lose. But there was something extremely cathartic about watching Cal fans do wave after wave after wave for like 30 minutes while cheering loudly almost joyfully oblivious as to the happenings on the field. It was an era of hope and joy and was my first Big Game win…so in my heart it will always be special.
But 2009 was a gutsy incredible win. Agree with the comments about horrible coaching calls (on both sides). I would summarize that game as the “Game of Sheer Will.” It really came down to who wanted it more and it was clear the Bears won out in the end, but all the credit in the world to Toby Gerhart for one of the nastiest and out-right Heismanesque games of the year. He should have won the Heisman that year for that long sideline run (in which he plowed Mikey-Mo over). Irrespective of Harblow’s horrible play calling at the end (how do you not hand off three times in a row to the hottest player in the nation who no one can tackle?). Just incredibly fun to watch. I got kicked out the bar I was watching it in for cheering as loudly as I did when Mikey Mo got the INT (incidentally that is an example of why San Francisco is the nation’s worst sports city).
by PlayClassyBears on Jun 9, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
BTW, you dont hand off the ball to the hottest player in the nation who no one can tackle at the end, because you don’t have any time outs………because Tedford forced Harby to use all 3 of them right before. Just sayin’ is all, just sayin’
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There was still a good 50 seconds left. Given their hurry up offense plenty of time to make something go. Harby got ahead of himself and he even admitted in post-game interviews.
by PlayClassyBears on Jun 9, 2010 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
There will be an opportunity after we run all of the posts for people to list their own rankings with comments. So, while I don’t wnat to stop your discussion here, we’ll get to see your views and hear your thoughts, in full, down the line. But, by all means, go ahead!
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Way to hook the discussion, Twist. Thanks.
by PlayClassyBears on Jun 9, 2010 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t know what you are saying here. What does “hook the discussion” mean??
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Hook as in “to end” from the expression “to give the hook” originating from Vaudeville acts in which a hooked cane was used to end acts that had gone past the point of funny. Or in your case past what you have already written for your article causing you to go back and edit. LOL.
by PlayClassyBears on Jun 9, 2010 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Twist is like that. The key is to ignore him.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jun 10, 2010 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Heh.
You’re amazed stuff took place in the South end zone? Almost EVERYTHING takes place in the South end zone. We will, however, lay claim to the OT TD pass to Makkonen in 03 vs. USC.
Well, I sit in QQ, so right by the South end zone. I love it when everything happens in the South end zone (except for Jahvid’s injury,which happened like RIGHT in front of me :().
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Scary
I was in QQ about 10 rows up when that happened. Worst play ever…
by Another Failed Tedford QB on Jun 9, 2010 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
That Hook and Ladder play
is probably my favorite play I’ve ever seen live (also see BeastMode OT touchdown that led to the golfcart celebration, Mesean’s deadleg move at Oregon, and Jahvid’s 90 yard run at UCLA).
Man we have had some fuckin amazing athletes…
Also….check this about TG: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/peter_king/06/06/mmqb/1.html
by Another Failed Tedford QB on Jun 9, 2010 9:30 AM PDT reply actions
Haha Great pic to end on!
Mainly because that’s my sign!!!! (Well my gf made it, because I have zero artistic talent)… You can see my Cal hat in the bottom right corner :)
Another great post, I really enjoyed this game (esp after the 07 debacle in Palo Alto). We got to sit about 15 rows up from the end of the Furd bench so many inappropriate comments were made throughout the game (mainly directed at their kicker and back up RB who found out that day that “even their parents didn’t love them”… for about 60 minutes of football)
Nice write up Twist, these last two better put some icing on the decade!
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Dude, I talked to you that day, then. Briefly. I congratulated you on the sign, since we were in the same house. We were at the tailgate at the same time, too!
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I was pissed at this Big Game too.
Not as much as 2005 because we were doing significantly better than where we were come Big Game time in 2008, but I was still pissed at Furd for literally stealing the Axe right out of our hands the year before.
This game made me feel all warm and fuzzy afterward though, so that anger was put away for another time.
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