I had season tickets in '96-97. They were on the 5-yardline about 50 rows up in the SE corner of DKR. I had a great view of Westbrook's de-cleater! ND's interception off Brown in the 4th changed the game. Texas was running it down ND's throats and I questioned the play call. The stadium was electric the entire game. When the winning FG went through the goalposts as the gun had sounded, all you could here was the jubilant ND stuck in the cheap seats in the NW corner. An amazing win for the Fightin' Irish, and a heartbreaker for me and the rest of the Longhorns Nation.
I was at this game. You could HEAR Westbrook's hit throughout the entire stadium. It literally sounded like a car accident, you know, like if a Jeep traveling at 30 miles per hour slammed into a full mailbox. BAM!!! The entire stadium became unravelled at this point and went crazy. The only problem was that Notre Dame got down the field and won on the last drive, I seem to remember a bad roughing the passer call which was BS where Lou Holtz bitched out the officials and then they threw a flag.
He was on his way to become a All Pro before he got hurt, so was LB Reggie Brown!! You gotta feel for The Lions if their picks weren’t bust the ones they got injured and promising careers got cut short!!!
11 National titles for Notre Dame, 4 for Texas 178 All-Americans to 120 All-Americans 7 Heisman winners to 2 Heisman winners But yeah, that was a good hit...
give me a break, notre dame tries giving these schools bids all the time and every one always backs out! i think it was 3 or 4 years ago when i read that lsu was notre dames first game, then lsu backed out. knowbody wants to lose to an independant notre dame, they all want to play withing their little saftey net conference... and by the way, i think your just alittle bitter that ND won this game..
did you know that texas know has more wins than ND and is only second to michigan for all time wins? and to be honest with you, your point is not that good because your saying that ttu beat texas and ND would be able to hang with texas because of that, . . . .well if TTU played ND last year home or away they would have got spanked. so ND would not be able to hang with TEXAS espically.
i love how you conveniently ignored my other point, probably cuz you know im right, but thats cool either way lets just see who finishes with a better season this year. . . . . .if i were a betting man i gurrantee my money would not be on ND. and oh yeah good luck with michigan chump.
yeah i agree westbrook the best underrated db to go 2 texas just imagine him at ss for texas now especially with muschamp texas defense would scare the shit out of everybody laundry jones would shit his pants ha ha
it's amazing how great Westbrook was... i hear people talk about all these players under mack brown at db- aaron ross, jammer, etc... not even close to westbrook, and no one recognizes because he played on sorry teams with a lame coach... im just sayin...
ND has a very rich tradition in football that no1 can argue with. But you and any ND fan knows they would be huge underdogs if they play Texas in recent history or today. I think Weiss is a false prophet for u guys and the sooner he gets dueced the sooner your rich tradition can get back on track.
Ur right bout Bryant being the finest DB ever @ Texas but he was drafted #5 overall in the 97' draft..Achilles injury basically ended his career..the year he got hurt he was goin to da probowl..USC was shitty when Bryant was goin to HS..He almost went to Colorado..San Diego State was tryin to get him too cuz Marshall Faulk n Darnay Scott were there but SDSU was small considerin that Bryant was a Parade HS 1st Team All-American..He's my cuzzin n 1 of the best DB's I ever seen and I seen them all
Wow I hadn't seen that hit in over a decade but I still remember it. Just vicious. Would Westbrook be considered an NFL bust? I remember he went to the Lions but hardly ever stood out.
DominicanLou NFL All-Rookie Team in 1997. Pro Bowl alternate in 2000 despite rupturing an Achilles tendon during the season. He was never quite the same, and ruptured his other Achilles tendon in the 2003 pre-season. That ended his career. Not quite a bust, but still not what he could have been.
Jackson was almost always staunchly anti-ND in his broadcast, so it is not surprising. What is surprising that you forget who won that game. ND did 27-24
@bestmetallicafan We beat USC in the National Championship and the sad part you guys had home field advantage USC sucks also didn't TCU woop you guys in a bowl game a few years back
@@ark42805 Definitely not legal in college these days... Lead with the helmet and left his feet like a projectile. 15 yards and an ejection no question.
ND scored 10 points in the final 3 min. They kicked a field goal as time expired. Although they were lucky they kept it close unlike their trip to South Bend the year before.
