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Confirmed The Game That Started The Run

BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
Never liked Penn State.
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That pedo @#$% was going on there for a long time, well before it made the news. Joe pa was very protected when the whole group of them should have been behind bars.

I can't lie, going to a game is a great time with the crowd and all, but I personally despise them. And Notre Lame. OSU hate did not happen til the bs National championship game because they were never really a factor growing up except for maybe being occasionally good.
 
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tsimonitis said:
Penn St started another run, twenty years later…

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This was a post a while back talking about that game in a response to SWFLHurricane talking old games
Apr 19, 2024

And my 'as long as I live I'll never forget' was at PSU in 2001, opening night at Beaver. My roommate was a rb on our state championship HS team with Matt Senneca who was another stud qb/safety in the area up here. Matt was the starting QB, and his first start for them and we got top notch seats there. Razzed him all week of how we were going to crush him and them.

It was also the game where Adam Talifero was honored pre game after his terrible injury the season before. Actually that was pretty cool to see that place erupt for him. Place was shaking it was so loud.

Back to the game, Matt didn't last more than a series, and actually never played qb again after that game. We actually destroyed him, and I mean destroyed him, and them in that game. I was a happy camper that night.
 
tsimonitis said:
Penn St started another run, twenty years later…

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Awesome game and reference.

In my opinion, the game I always remember starting the second golden run was at WVU in 2000. The Canes were down in the early part of the game and playing a bit lackluster. Suddenly, Leonard Myers took back an INT for a pick6. I feel like the entire program immediately did 34 lines of cocaine.
 
rsa coral gables said:
Highlights of Miami’s victory over Penn State at Penn State. Features Freshman Jim Kelly and starting center Don Bailey and many others. Paterno greets Kelly after the game. Word in the locker room was that Kelly said to Paterno “how did you like my linebacker play, maricon?”

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Howard didn't take a knee either!
 
I remember watching this game with my best friend at the Kendall Bowling alley. We were 12. We couldn’t believe they won. Both my parents were Miami alums, and had taken me to games from the middle 70s on (they had started their season tickets in 1954 when my dad graduated). None of us believed Miami would become a national power. The rise of the Canes in the early 80s, and the impact it had on Miami is tough to describe to those that didn’t live through it.
 
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BigDikDaddyFromCincinnati said:
I have family friends who were huge fans of PSU. I heard a lot of mierda through the years about thug U, paying players, cheating, etc. then Nevin Shapiro hit and the chatter got louder. However, once the Sandusky story broke, crickets. Been that way ever since.
F Penn St
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Someday our "thug" rep may dissipate. (Probably not)

Sandusky and Paterno's ****e should never be forgotten.
 
LuCane said:
Awesome game and reference.

In my opinion, the game I always remember starting the second golden run was at WVU in 2000. The Canes were down in the early part of the game and playing a bit lackluster. Suddenly, Leonard Myers took back an INT for a pick6. I feel like the entire program immediately did 34 lines of cocaine.
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I distinctly remember the Talifaro kid leading their team out to the field, after overcoming a bad spinal injury, and just thinking they have no idea. Should have waited til next week for this.
 
hanchiii said:
I was an 11 year old living up in the Lehigh Valley area in Pa. watching that game.

I never looked back as a die hard fan from that day on. My area was all PSU and ND growing up!
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Grew up in Bethlehem but older
Penn State was my safety school when applying
 
Cuttercane said:
I remember watching this game with my best friend at the Kendall Bowling alley. We were 12. We couldn’t believe they won. Both my parents were Miami alums, and had taken me to games from the middle 70s on (they had started their season tickets in 1954 when my dad graduated). None of us believed Miami would become a national power. The rise of the Canes in the early 80s, and the impact it had on Miami is tough to describe to those that didn’t live through it.
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Spoiled us as fans also. Set expectations high every season back then and we finished teams off like we were supposed to. Some nail biters, happens to the best of em, but for the most part we beat teams down. We were the 'given' in college football back then and it was great!
HurricanePhilly said:
A lot of those great Central Teams sent players to Psu. So you def were surrounded by it.
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Graduated with Eddie McCaffrey and his brother and sister were below me.

He was smart and picked Stanford. Watched him practically beat ND myself back then. NFL career needs no explanation. On multiple super bowl teams. Brother Billy went on to star on Duke's basketball team With Laettner and Hurley, and sister went to Georgetown for hoops.

Greatest HS running back I ever saw was Austin Scott. There Parkland team beat multiple nationally ranked teams his sr year usually running for 300 yds + per game in each. Couldn't stop him even though every team knew he was getting the ball. Used to get in friendly debates on grassy back then about who was better, him or Moss. Both were highly ranked.

Then he went to PSU and never lived up to expectations along with supposedly fake rape allegations. I think went to the Bengals and just never turned it around.
 
SWFLHurricane said:
The 79 Penn St team was barely ranked. The win in 81 against #1 Penn St was more impressive. Much better Penn St team.
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yes, the second game was more impressive perhaps because that Penn State team was better, but this game IMO is the one that started the first run, where Schnelly's plan came together and we went from hope to actually beating a perennial winner at home with a freshman quarterback.
 
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hanchiii said:
Spoiled us as fans also. Set expectations high every season back then and we finished teams off like we were supposed to. Some nail biters, happens to the best of em, but for the most part we beat teams down. We were the 'given' in college football back then and it was great!

Graduated with Eddie McCaffrey and his brother and sister were below me.

He was smart and picked Stanford. Watched him practically beat ND myself back then. NFL career needs no explanation. On multiple super bowl teams. Brother Billy went on to star on Duke's basketball team With Laettner and Hurley, and sister went to Georgetown for hoops.

Greatest HS running back I ever saw was Austin Scott. There Parkland team beat multiple nationally ranked teams his sr year usually running for 300 yds + per game in each. Couldn't stop him even though every team knew he was getting the ball. Used to get in friendly debates on grassy back then about who was better, him or Moss. Both were highly ranked.

Then he went to PSU and never lived up to expectations along with supposedly fake rape allegations. I think went to the Bengals and just never turned it around.
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Austin was legit in high school that Parkland team was so good. I'd still probably take Mungro from up at East Stroudsburg because he had nothing around him, everyone knew he was getting it too, and it didnt matter but splitting hairs.

We upset you guys in the Districts (BBall) in 88. My buddy was the star of the team, ended up going to La Salle and playing with Lionel Simmons and those guys. Said Billy Mac has had a rough go of it over the years with some addiction.

Played Babe Ruth Baseball against Matt Senneca(He was from Pen Argyl) and 1 year of summer ball after college with Tommy Williams (Who I have mentioned at times told me the game in 01 vs Miami was an absolute blur and at halftime Paterno didnt even talk about a comeback...just playing for respect.)

small world.
 
kyle_schick said:
Post more old classic games.
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I think Youtube has Louisville at the Orange Bowl, opening game of 1979. Other then that, either someone is sitting on game film or it was thrown away. The 1981 season, you can find a few whole games, like PSU again, but mostly highlights.
 
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