The Band is on the Field | College GameDay 

I laughed so hard when I watched it the first time. I was crying.

I love it!! hahahahahahaha

It's probably the greatest most incongruous calls in all of sports history. Just the sudden awareness of it... "ohhhh, the band is out on the field!!!"

Nice

"All right, here we go with the kickoff. Harmon will probably try to squib it and he does. Ball comes loose and the Bears have to get out of bounds. Rodgers, along the sideline, another one... they're still in deep trouble at midfield, they tried to do a couple of - the ball is still loose, as they get it to Rodgers! They get it back now to the 30, they're down to the 20... OH, THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD! HE'S GONNA GO INTO THE END ZONE! HE GOT INTO THE END ZONE! Will it count? The Bears have scored, but the bands are out on the field! There were flags all over the place. Wait and see what happens; we don't know who won the game. There are flags on the field. We have to see whether or not the flags are against Stanford or Cal. The Bears may have made some illegal laterals. It could be that it won't count. The Bears, believe it or not, took it all the way into the end zone. If the penalty is against Stanford, California would win the game. If it is not, the game is over and Stanford has won. We've heard no decision yet. Everybody is milling around on the [officials finally signal touchdown] FIELD! AND THE BEARS! THE BEARS HAVE WON! THE BEARS HAVE WON! OH, MY GOD! THE MOST AMAZING, SENSATIONAL, DRAMATIC, HEART-RENDING... EXCITING, THRILLING FINISH IN THE HISTORY OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL! CALIFORNIA HAS WON "THE BIG GAME" OVER STANFORD! OH, EXCUSE ME FOR MY VOICE, BUT I HAVE NEVER, NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN THE HISTORY OF I HAVE EVER SEEN ANY GAME IN MY LIFE! THE BEARS HAVE WON IT! THERE WILL BE NO EXTRA POINT!"

@@CJ87317 for them to not include Joe Starkey in this clip is almost criminal. His epic call was truly sensational. He's as much a part of The Play lore than any of the players (or band members, or axe committee members, lol).

Indeed ! To hear this chilling ending on the radio was just amazing … and Joe Starkey was just brilliant and moving on that crazy sequence to end this game.

you win for that comment!

GG

The River City Relay is pretty much the NFL version of this, but it isn’t as memorable or gets overlooked becaus the Saints’ touchdown only made it 20-19 and then John Carney missed the extra point attempt, so the Jaguars won.

idk blowouts doesnt seem that good to me(the champ tcu and georgia)

😂😂😂

That's one of those "Beam me up Scotty," "Play it again Sam" things.

Still Cal. The band puts it on another level.

There is a video that syncs the Stanford radio call with the TV footage. The play-by-play was Jim Grundberg and color commentator was Joey Mitchner.

Lol, moments after this game ended, the Hall of Fame Classic bowl committee apologized because Stanford would not be getting a bowl invite. They were 5-5 going into this game and needed a win to have a winning record. Edit: not to mention the ridiculous heroics Elway pulled off to drive his team down and be in position for Mark Harmon to kick the field goal.

I know you're joking around but for Cal, at least, the coaches initially thought about recovering the ball, spiking it, and sending QB Gale Gilbert throw a Hail Mary. However this was not conveyed to the "hands team" that was called out to go onto the field, and their plan was to lateral the ball. "Don't fall with the ball." Two members of the hands team had already were off the field and didn't hear the call, so the coaches sent in halfback Scott Smith. At the last second they pushed Steve Dunn onto the field, which was just the right position to block Darrell Grissum and protect Richard Rodgers for a second.

The officials couldn't see through the crowd of Sanford bench players in the middle of the play. It is their own fault.

@@mjaynes288 That’s nonsense! There’s zero evidence of officials’ view being blocked; nor was there a “crowd” of illegal players on the field. Even you don’t dispute the illegal forward lateral; 2 1/2 yards forward!

As a bear I would say you are right - for the people in motion, the ball was thrown "backward", but that is not the rule for football - whether it is lateral or not is judged in relation to the field. But I can imagine that the referees could not figure the situation out when it was so chaotic. It seems that the Play cost Cal four decades of fortune.

@@kirkhoo7456Thanks for your honest assessment “Bear!” You’re right that the officials can’t be blamed for not seeing it; but just wanted everyone to know there’s no question the last lateral was an illegal forward pass. It’s ridiculous people still debate that.

Do you think it would have been overturned if video replay existed back then? I know the standard is clear evidence that the call on the field was wrong. Does having to slow it down to 0.25x speed make that more or less likely to be overturned? Anyway, Charles Moffitt has said that he could have awarded a touchdown to Cal for Stanford's interference so it was kind of relief when one of the other refs said that Cal had scored. He didn't really want to personally make such a game changing decision like that.

Lateral passes?

No it wasn’t, you’re delusional! Try watching what actually happened!!

@@jeffmorrison6086 I am delusional. The first runner let go at the 28 1/2 yard line and Moen caught it at the 25. That's 3 1/2 yards or just over 10 feet.

i’d like to see a count of every penalty commited on that play

I think that they're awesome. All those wacky stunts over the years are exactly what the world needs.

The head ref, Charles Mofit, has said in interviews that he could have awarded a touchdown to Cal due to band interference. He would probably be far more likely to do so if Moen fell down before the end zone because of the band or illegal Stanford players (a couple of them have said that they had fleeting thoughts of tackling Moen.) The example often cited as precedent for this is when Tommy Lewis of Alabama jumped up from he bench to tackle the Rice ball-carrier in 1953.