Thanksgiving isn't just about the NFL. All across the nation, Turkey Day is one of the biggest days in high school football. Rivalry games, playoff games and championship games are often played early on Thanksgiving, so that millions of the high school football players that come out on the losing end of things will contemplate suicide during the bird carving.
If you were watching SportsCenter back in 1994, you may remember these highlights from the Plano East-John Tyler game. Plano East trailed in this game 41-13 with just under three minutes to go. What happened next is the kind of thing that happens in one out of every one billion football games, if that. And, if it ever happens again, it probably won't be presided over by two of the biggest redneck, stereotype-justifying yokel announcers you'll ever hear. If you haven't seen this clip, take a deep breath. It's my favorite sports highlight ever. Enjoy.
Good gosh almighty, stop me before I blitz again!
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ReplyDeleteThat is, in fact the greatest thing I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure at least one of those announcers, if not somehow both, is Terry Bradshaw.
Not gonna lie, I wanted to throw up a little too.
ReplyDeleteUh, that was fucking amazing.
ReplyDeleteawful tackling. worse announcing. But very impressive
ReplyDeleteWow, that was insane. And sad to see both teams tackle like Pop Warner squads.
ReplyDeleteI think the announcing team was Terry Bradshaw and stuttering Mel Tillis, reprising their buddy roles from "Cannonball Run."
DId that moron actually say "dad gummit"? Classy announcing team. Is it me, or did that one that kept screaming sound like someone was sucking his dick with all the "oh babies" coming out of his piehole.
ReplyDeleteI'm surrounded by more babies than an Ashanti song Oh baby
ReplyDeleteGreat vid, that was f'ing funny.
ReplyDeletePerhaps also te most biased announcers ever?
Good God Aw-mighty, if the Greeks had written tragic sports plays, that would be Oedious Rex.
ReplyDeleteHere is a retrospective -- the last 48 points in this game were scored without John Tyler's offense taking the field.
ReplyDeleteGreat God Almighty, that's the worst dad-gum announcing I've ever heard. No amount of positive thinking could make the audio from that clip any better. I feel like I just wet my britches, and I'm gonna be sick.
ReplyDeleteBoy howdy.
I second J.L. -- it could have only been made better by going into the future and having Larry the Cable Guy as the color commentator.
ReplyDeleteBut still, awesome.
They broke the cardinal rule of sports fans everywhere. You never call for the celebratory Oreos until the last second ticks off the clock. Amateurs.
ReplyDeleteI may be from the South, but at least I'm not from Texas, dad-gummit.
ReplyDeletei'm with UM up there...at least one of those guys worked at a used 'Lac dealership back in Plano, hence his innate disgust and desire to wretch. That Used Car Manager was a total 'Alabama porch monkey'...his words...not mine.
ReplyDeleteThat's some fucked up vid, though. Plano must have had a very hard week of practice after Thanksgiving.
hah, Plano East was one of my rival high schools. I remember hearing about that game.
ReplyDeleteThat was an incredible ending and probably the most improbable come back I've ever seen or heard. Hot damn.
ReplyDeleteUntil the last ten seconds, that's a pretty good clip, especially "I done wet mah britches." But the final return brings it all together magically. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteI believe one of those announcers played an announcer in the football movie with the Dawson's Creek kid (the name of which escapes me for some reason). And I think I sat near him in more than one media booth when I was covering Texas high school sports after college. In fact, I think I was at the game before that Plano East game at Texas Stadium, but left before it started. Pretty stupid, in retrospect.
ReplyDeleteHow pathetic is this:
ReplyDeletejmw, you're thinking of Varsity Blues "starring" James Van Der Beek.
Now if all of you will excuse me, I'll go slap myself now.
sadly enough, both the announcers were the ones in Varsity Blues... gotta love me some Amy Smarth though. but even worse, they both made the late night circuit rounds (Leno/Letterman) after those highlights got national media attention.
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The orc warrior in the soon to be produced World of Warcraft movie.
I think i am gonna be sick...well, at least youre not crying like Terry Bradshaw #2.
ReplyDelete"I done wet my britches" is classic. What a great clip!
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