Forty years later, Cal broadcaster Joe Starkey would tell the SF Chronicle that he felt he blew the call. He couldn't be more wrong. It was perfect, in all its raw emotion. He did his last Cal game yesterday, and the Bears sent him into retirement in style, with three TDs in the fourth quarter to beat...Stanford. Thanks for the memories, Joe. This one will last forever.
Absolutely. This was a perfect call. This was total mayhem. Guy in the booth is the eyes, ears, and emotion of the listener and Joe was full throttle for the fan. This moment isn't remembered if Joe doesn't go to the wall like he did. Seriously.
@@ElvishShellfish I am pretty sure a lot of people would say Auburn returning Alabama's missed field goal for a touchdown for the win with no time left would be considered a better play this maybe more chaotic because the band was on the field but that doesn't necessarily make it better
@@Salty-Doggy I'm pretty sure nobody outside of Auburn and Alabama (and maybe other SEC schools who for some reason think what good thing happens to another SEC school make them look good) would agree with you. Show these two plays to anybody side by side and they'll love them both. But almost all will think The Play is the greatest play in college football, or probably just football, or probably just sports, ever. EVER. There is simply nothing like it. The rivalry game. The finish. The sheer absurdity of it. And the joyous call. The ending of Auburn and Alabama was great, but not even in the same league.
I love the tone change from the commentator. "They get it to Rogers!" "They give 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'S GONNA GET AHH 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 FOOTBAL
I listened live to this broadcast on the radio. There was a long delay after the touchdown until the "THE BEARS HAVE WON" as the referees took a long time deciding just what the hell to do!
That wasn't exactly the way it went. Now after Moen went into the endzone Joe Starkey sounded confused and was wondering if the play would count since there were flags on the field. The officials huddled for the longest time discussing what happened ( remember there was no way for officials to look at replays back then) then they signaled touchdown and Starkey and the whole place went NUTSO!🤣😂
I was laughing so hard I was crying at that. I imagined a bionic elbow. It is hard times baby! Hard times! www.dailycal.org/2012/10/19/fallin-stanford-trombonist-gary-tyrrells-life-after-the-play/
You're probably right. I was just thinking that a big part of what made this sporting event so thrilling was the announcer's play by play & the changes in his voice.
@@ericstaudt2991 I’m sure there would’ve been some kind of a penalty for the band coming out onto the field. They were already within field goal range at the point of the final lateral.
The guy who called that play is STILL the radio play by play announcer for the Cal Bears. His name is Joe Starkey and he just called his 500th game a couple weeks ago.
+jamesk479 it was too hectic and he was just excited he got it in the endzone, didn't mean to tackle him or hit him. He admitted it was an accident from the chaos.
This was my senior year at UCB. I will never forget this game. I left early to get a jump on traffic so I gave up my seat. I was tired of watching my school lose games at the end. I will never forget the roar I heard as I was getting into my car...
"Oh, the band is out on the field! He's gonna go into the end zone! He got into the end zone! 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!" Such a great call. And he wasn't even overstating it!
🎉❤😅I was there! Cal Class of 83. We couldn’t believe it. Then the Cal students section, as one, up and flowed onto the field and followed the team in a slow, exultant victory procession. What really sticks in my memory was the dead silence and stillness of the Stanford section. They had a very close vantage of the end zone where Moen creamed the trombone player. Anyway, I’ve never seen 5,000 people sitting so silently, not moving. You could tell that they were in a state of shock. Go BEARS!
I was at that game. John Elway stood on the sideline, sobbing and with tears streaming down his cheeks. Decades later, he knows that a video of "The Play" will be shown at his funeral.
Elway mistimed the preceding field goal play - left two seconds on the clock. If it had been timed correctly for time to expire during the field goal, the game would have been over and Stanford/Elway would have won. There would have been no subsequent kickoff.
One of the best games ever. The band came out on the field because Stanford thought it for sure had won the game with only four seconds left. "The Play" will live forever.
Yeah, me. I'm in the UK and follow the NFL via NFL Redzone but don't know anything about college football. The mention last Sunday sent me to youtube and it was an amazing play made iconic by the commentary. I particularly liked "... I have never never seen anything like it in the history of I've ever seen any game in my life!"
Man! That one takes the cake!!! Been watching replays of this for years and to hear this...right up there with having to defend Ford and how Stfnrd fans want to say Ford's knee was down (game over) but if you look at how there are 2 refs RUNNING up to try to catch up with the play (and there are a COUPLE Stanford guys on top of him or in the way) how in the world are they going to be able to say he was down!!!!
So hard to believe this was 38 years ago !!! Wow, how time flies !! I remember it like it was yesterday, my senior year in high school. My brother's best friend was a 3rd string DL on the Cal team that year. UNFORGETABLE FOR SURE !!!!
Without question the best ending to a college football game ever. This game happened a few years before I started watching football but I always enjoy watching the end. Every sports league needs to have a few moments like this.
+ArtMonkforHallofFame Wrong -- that lateral was made at the 25 yard line tossed slightly backward to the 26 yard line. It was close, but it was legal. If you pause it right at 0:24 as he is colliding with the 3 Cal players then you can see it clearly.
+ArtMonkforHallofFame 30 years later and you fucking idiots still try to argue this? Every official that has commented on this play say there was no illegal forward laterals on the play. GET OVER YOURSELVES YOU STANFORD FUCKS, YOU LOST! LOL!
+Chris Jenkins +Jason Delaney i have no dog in this fight as I have no allegiance to either team. but just look at the ball. We don't care where the players are positioned other than where they are when the ball leaves their hand/touches their hand. So, at 0:23 you can see the player release the ball. The ball is at about the 27 yard line. It's not HD so maybe it's the 26 1/2 yard line. The player who catches the ball (0:24) first touches the ball with the ball at the 25 yard line. Again, without HD it maybe closer to the 26 yard line but there is no doubt that the ball left on one side of the 26 and was caught on the other. forward lateral. that the guy's body is in front of the ball does not change where it was released/caught. This is fully on display at the Music City Miracle where the bodies made the throw look forward but the ball itself only traveled backwards. Here the ball traveled forwards. it is as clear as day. what would likely also be clear if there were 2015 era cameras is that the runner was down at midfield before releasing the lateral earlier in the play.
Mentioned today, Nov 8, 2020. Dallas Cowboys acting QB Garret Gilbert's dad played in this game & the 2020 announcers who referenced it are still calling it "The Play".
This game was John Elway's last college game. Seconds before the final play Elway had miraculously brought Stanford back to gain the lead. The Cal radio announcer you hear going crazy, is the great Joe Starkey who became the 49ers radio announcer a few years later. When we got home we saw the replay on the news, and see why Starkey went so crazy.
Nowadays, this play may have well been overturned and this epic play would have been nullified. Don't get me wrong instant replay has its upside, but ALOT of downside.
Go Bears and Go Joe Starkey - forty years ago and retiring this year. Thanks for the great Cal memories! This was my first game ever at Cal - I was a senior in high school and got into Cal a few weeks later. I had to go after this...
Starkey's call is horrible. He doesn't tell you what's going on. He never once even uses the word "lateral". The only reason it went down in history is because his voice got hoarse and he screamed about the band being on the field but his "cal" is absolutely awful.
(US college gridiron wasn't shown in Britain at the time) - the band prematurely coming onto the pitch was the subject of a British TV quiz where the film was stopped just before that and people were asked "What Happened Next?" - and nobody guessed correctly.
Dolphins miraculous win over Patriots yesterday reminded me of The Play. The sublime last lateral, the hysterical call, the marching band, and last but not least, the two-handed tomahawk spike on the trombone player. The most memorable ending to any football game.
The spike on the trombone player was certainly least, could have given him a concussion or been charged with assault. And there was no marching band coming out onto the field in the Dolphins win.
How does this not have more views? I feel like this was one of the first UA-cam videos ever lol i remember being in high school and we would spend hours just watching football nightlights
That guy 28 seconds in getting smashed is the funniest thing I've ever seen, it gets funnier every time I watch it. 3 sports in 1,American football to start off with,then into rugby, and finally basketball when ur man slam dunks the ball off that band members face.
Also amazing, Cal pulled off this miracle with only 10 players on the field instead of stardard 11, due to an oversight-error by the Cal bench. Stupefying additional detail which only heightens the lore.
IMO that's the greatest play in College football history, due to the band being on the field. That's what puts it over the top for me. I had just come from the Rose Bowl that day, where my team the Bruins had just beaten SC on a Karl Morgan sack as time expired. It was right in front of me in the end zone. SC was going for 2. Man, and I thought I had just seen the best play of the day. I came home to see this play on ESPN. Ha!! Good times.
From time to time i go on UA-cam just to listen the Cal announcer's call.....I get goose bumps everytime I hear it.....Best part, "the band is on the field."
I remember my first lecture at Pimentel Hall and how intimidated I was not knowing anyone, being in a lecture hall with more kids than my graduating class, etc. Professor played this video at the end and told us anything was possible... I kind of believed it.
This is one of those things that will never be dethroned as the best in history. The commentating in addition to the ridiculousness happening on field makes this moment irreplaceable. So glad to be a golden bear just for this play 🤣
This highlight always came on for me growing up. I’m 25 now and first time seeing this in 8+ years. The band member getting decked is hilarious and this may be the only CFB highlight before 1985 I know of.
Love how he practically nearly loses his voice making this call. Such an iconic play accompanied by some of the best commentary. You could feel the raw emotion and shock in his voice. This is why we watch!
The guy that did the last lateral stated that he just let it fly since he knew there was no way he was going to make it in the end zone. Luckily he had teammates that kept good pitch relations with him.
That was no lateral. The ball leaves his hands at around the 27 yard line and is caught at around the 25 1/2 yard line. That's an illegal forward pass and should've been a penalty. Also, on the 3rd lateral, the Cal players knee had clearly touched the ground before the ball left his hands. That should've been the ball game. That's what I call home cookin' at it's best!!
Joe Starkey will call his final Big Game between Cal and Stanford on the 40th anniversary of 'The Play' this Saturday from Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium.
@@gigifreakingdies NFL cheerleaders arent there for their cheer ability... they are there for their looks as eye candy. it isnt a cheer competition. very few would care if they were skilled or would even notice the difference.
The band member getting decked in the end zone is the best part of this whole play.
When you get a degree from Stanford but don’t get the job
But surprisingly, that front dude wasn't the one that got bodied, it was the dude that ends up to the side of the camera man that gets stumbled over.
muzik dude the player who scored the TD gave an interview about this play and he said he did that on purpose. It makes this play so much more fun
I completely agree. Couldn’t happen to a nicer band full of jerks.
@@Calvin1985 The players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield, "American Pie"-Don Mclean. Just art imitating life..
Had the Stanford Band defense on my Fantasy Team.
Very disappointed.
Lol
+Aaron Schwartz You win. I give up.
Panthers losing in the super bowl gotta be more disappointing
+Lou. A It's up there.
#W
"ohh, the band is out on the field!!" Perhaps the greatest line in College Football history.
*400TH LIKE!*
Accurate.
That was probably the greatest most iconic call I’ve personally heard of any level
yes!
I always remembered his voice cracking at the sheer lunacy he was seeing, haha!
@@furnitureconsortium OoOoohh mYyy GOD!!!! 🤪😳lmao love when his voice cracks 😂
Joe Starkey, the man who made this iconic call, just announced his retirement today after 48 years broadcasting Cal football.
That call is an all timer
Absolute legend
Perhaps the greatest call in the history of college football.
Legends never die. His voice is iconic. 49ers, cal games. I wish him the best retirement.
Isn't he a pedo?
Forty years later, Cal broadcaster Joe Starkey would tell the SF Chronicle that he felt he blew the call. He couldn't be more wrong. It was perfect, in all its raw emotion. He did his last Cal game yesterday, and the Bears sent him into retirement in style, with three TDs in the fourth quarter to beat...Stanford. Thanks for the memories, Joe. This one will last forever.
Absolutely. This was a perfect call. This was total mayhem. Guy in the booth is the eyes, ears, and emotion of the listener and Joe was full throttle for the fan. This moment isn't remembered if Joe doesn't go to the wall like he did. Seriously.
For a season or two in the early 70s, Joe Starkey was the play by play man for the Pittsburgh Penguins....What a bonanza!!!
This is the single best play in college football, ever.
generatorx that depends on who you ask
No, no, its a fact. Don't you know your sports facts?
@@ElvishShellfish I am pretty sure a lot of people would say Auburn returning Alabama's missed field goal for a touchdown for the win with no time left would be considered a better play this maybe more chaotic because the band was on the field but that doesn't necessarily make it better
How about just football in general
@@Salty-Doggy I'm pretty sure nobody outside of Auburn and Alabama (and maybe other SEC schools who for some reason think what good thing happens to another SEC school make them look good) would agree with you. Show these two plays to anybody side by side and they'll love them both. But almost all will think The Play is the greatest play in college football, or probably just football, or probably just sports, ever. EVER. There is simply nothing like it. The rivalry game. The finish. The sheer absurdity of it. And the joyous call. The ending of Auburn and Alabama was great, but not even in the same league.
I love the tone change from the commentator.
"They get it to Rogers!"
"They give 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'S GONNA GET AHH 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 FOOTBAL
I listened live to this broadcast on the radio. There was a long delay after the touchdown until the "THE BEARS HAVE WON" as the referees took a long time deciding just what the hell to do!
Bro this comment is so funny because the change in tone
*thrilling* 😂 What a call. What a play.
That wasn't exactly the way it went. Now after Moen went into the endzone Joe Starkey sounded confused and was wondering if the play would count since there were flags on the field. The officials huddled for the longest time discussing what happened ( remember there was no way for officials to look at replays back then) then they signaled touchdown and Starkey and the whole place went NUTSO!🤣😂
AMAZING! SENSATIONAL!
"The players tried to take the field,
The marching band refused to yield . . . ." - Don McLean
This was a reference to the Beatles taking over music in the middle of the 1960's, especially with their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
@12thManInTokyo he really doesnt bud.
Don McLean's song came out 11 years before this play.
Are you saying he's psychic as well as musical?
Yes
5 years later where still commenting on this
That band member got Hulk smashed.
lol me and my nephew play hulk smash all the time but that guy really got hulk smashed, at least he had his band helmet for protection
I was laughing so hard I was crying at that. I imagined a bionic elbow. It is hard times baby! Hard times! www.dailycal.org/2012/10/19/fallin-stanford-trombonist-gary-tyrrells-life-after-the-play/
NOW THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE
He deserve it!
Joe Buck announcing monotone: "The ball is loose, a couple laterals, he runs through the band, touchdown and the Bears win" - commercial break.
no flags
@@brandonmcgowan4897I was about to say that
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You're probably right. I was just thinking that a big part of what made this sporting event so thrilling was the announcer's play by play & the changes in his voice.
"The band is on the field! A disgusting act!"
Nobody ever talks about that last lateral, it was so smooth and effortless. Like something out of a rugby player.
And nobody talks about it wasn't a lateral there should've been a flag right there game over
@@ericstaudt2991 I’m sure there would’ve been some kind of a penalty for the band coming out onto the field. They were already within field goal range at the point of the final lateral.
Seriously , he took 3 defenders with him on that last lateral!
@@ericstaudt2991 I’m not sure what you’re saying here - how was that not a lateral?
Man. Immaculate lateral
Great call and emotion from the play by play guy. No one calls games like that anymore.
Gus Johnson
Gus Johnson.....
The guy who called that play is STILL the radio play by play announcer for the Cal Bears. His name is Joe Starkey and he just called his 500th game a couple weeks ago.
@@oaktownklaygrounds5514 No gus johnson just yells he doesn't genuinely get excited
@Brian Pangburn got your back bro. Starkey is the shit when it comes to getting hyper.
That trombone player got fucked up
haha his name is Gary Tyrrell and apparently that's all he gets remembered for
EVERY time I see this video, I used to wonder that! +brenbal823
+jamesk479 it was too hectic and he was just excited he got it in the endzone, didn't mean to tackle him or hit him. He admitted it was an accident from the chaos.
IKR
He got Rekt *airhorns*
This was my senior year at UCB. I will never forget this game. I left early to get a jump on traffic so I gave up my seat. I was tired of watching my school lose games at the end. I will never forget the roar I heard as I was getting into my car...
And then the boom of the cannon! I heard it from the Cafe Strada.
Sorry man ...
THE BAND IS ON THE FIELD
TeamChallenge The sherif is near!
TeamChallenge OH WHAT A BONANZA!!!!!!!!!
@@MWorsa this was the 80s, you could hit nerds and not go to jail for it back then.
TheFlowerPeople this was a Blazing Saddles reference, I don’t believe law enforcement was on the way.
HE'S GONNA GO INTO THE ENDZONE
"Oh, the band is out on the field! He's gonna go into the end zone! He got into the end zone! 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!" Such a great call. And he wasn't even overstating it!
Keith Lewis Good boy!! We need morelikeyou. More positive thinking with the schmux running this country. Damnnit.
Love how he fucking plowed the trombone player. No fucks even given.
+Marshmallow Its like he meant to spike the ball, but spiked that dude instead.
Marsh lol!!!!
Why was the football team doing on the marching field?
best most original joke ever
+jason lipop because they thought they had won. I was there
+Francois Mauduit you are stupid. Read the comment again
right, I read backwards, good point
+Francois Mauduit old ass😂😂😂😂
i never get tired of him screaming, the band is on the field. great stuff!!
out* on the field
you'd think you'd know the line that you never get tired of
@@B3Band you’re not real
I’m neither a Cal or Stanford supporter, but that play never gets old.Just amazing
The crescendo of his voice as it builds as the play develops is perfect. One of the greatest sports calls ever.
🎉❤😅I was there! Cal Class of 83. We couldn’t believe it. Then the Cal students section, as one, up and flowed onto the field and followed the team in a slow, exultant victory procession. What really sticks in my memory was the dead silence and stillness of the Stanford section. They had a very close vantage of the end zone where Moen creamed the trombone player. Anyway, I’ve never seen 5,000 people sitting so silently, not moving. You could tell that they were in a state of shock. Go BEARS!
I was at that game. John Elway stood on the sideline, sobbing and with tears streaming down his cheeks. Decades later, he knows that a video of "The Play" will be shown at his funeral.
Elway mistimed the preceding field goal play - left two seconds on the clock. If it had been timed correctly for time to expire during the field goal, the game would have been over and Stanford/Elway would have won. There would have been no subsequent kickoff.
Elway was crying because he knew he had just lost the Heisman Trophy.
Nothing more satisfying than watching that receiver charge into the band. Like a lion running into a herd of gazelles
Forget about the Kick Six or Vince Young’s run, THIS is the greatest moment in college football history
This meaningless game over "Kick Six?.. Hmmm🤔.. Let me think about it... FUK OFF!!
I'm gonna kick six you in a second!!
Yeah, but those 2 Rose Bowls VY played in?… Wow..
Oh, the BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD!!!
This is one of my favorite sports calls ever.
One of the best games ever. The band came out on the field because Stanford thought it for sure had won the game with only four seconds left. "The Play" will live forever.
F the Stanford Band.
As an aspiring Cal alumni, this is great to watch
Anyone here after they mentioned “The Play” during the Cowboys and Steelers game
lol me
Right here, bro!
Yeah, me. I'm in the UK and follow the NFL via NFL Redzone but don't know anything about college football. The mention last Sunday sent me to youtube and it was an amazing play made iconic by the commentary. I particularly liked "... I have never never seen anything like it in the history of I've ever seen any game in my life!"
I like listening to Jim and Tony commenting NFL games. It feels like they have a genuine friendship.
Here after this was mentioned by Larry Elder and that Trump is still in the fight just like these guys were!
Who told the band the game was over?
Man! That one takes the cake!!! Been watching replays of this for years and to hear this...right up there with having to defend Ford and how Stfnrd fans want to say Ford's knee was down (game over) but if you look at how there are 2 refs RUNNING up to try to catch up with the play (and there are a COUPLE Stanford guys on top of him or in the way) how in the world are they going to be able to say he was down!!!!
The clock
Dan Brenner: Thank God there wasn't replay back then to screw up the best moment in college football history.
Tiger Lily
That sensational kickoff.
Tiger Lily they thought the carrier was down
So hard to believe this was 38 years ago !!! Wow, how time flies !! I remember it like it was yesterday, my senior year in high school. My brother's best friend was a 3rd string DL on the Cal team that year. UNFORGETABLE FOR SURE !!!!
So cool to hear bro!Whats your brothers best friend name
This never gets old or tired. Best football play ever.
Best part is when the scorer plows into the dude who's got his back turned and is just playing his trombone hahhahahahahaha 0:29
Sounds like the annoucer had a bone calling this play
see just a comma
why did u have to hate why
😇💯🍄🐑👨🏽🎨
This play and two years later Doug Flutie Hail Mary are the reasons why iconic highlights must be synchronized to the home radio broadcast.
Without question the best ending to a college football game ever. This game happened a few years before I started watching football but I always enjoy watching the end. Every sports league needs to have a few moments like this.
greatest football finish ever
+Shawn Ward too bad it should have been called back for a forward lateral.
+ArtMonkforHallofFame Wrong -- that lateral was made at the 25 yard line tossed slightly backward to the 26 yard line. It was close, but it was legal. If you pause it right at 0:24 as he is colliding with the 3 Cal players then you can see it clearly.
+ArtMonkforHallofFame 30 years later and you fucking idiots still try to argue this? Every official that has commented on this play say there was no illegal forward laterals on the play. GET OVER YOURSELVES YOU STANFORD FUCKS, YOU LOST! LOL!
+Chris Jenkins +Jason Delaney i have no dog in this fight as I have no allegiance to either team. but just look at the ball. We don't care where the players are positioned other than where they are when the ball leaves their hand/touches their hand. So, at 0:23 you can see the player release the ball. The ball is at about the 27 yard line. It's not HD so maybe it's the 26 1/2 yard line. The player who catches the ball (0:24) first touches the ball with the ball at the 25 yard line. Again, without HD it maybe closer to the 26 yard line but there is no doubt that the ball left on one side of the 26 and was caught on the other. forward lateral. that the guy's body is in front of the ball does not change where it was released/caught. This is fully on display at the Music City Miracle where the bodies made the throw look forward but the ball itself only traveled backwards. Here the ball traveled forwards. it is as clear as day. what would likely also be clear if there were 2015 era cameras is that the runner was down at midfield before releasing the lateral earlier in the play.
ArtMonkforHallofFame blah blah blah blah typical regurgitated rhetoric. We've heard it before kid, all the experts agree that you're wrong. Shut up.
The line delivery for “the band is out on the field” was perfect
Mentioned today, Nov 8, 2020. Dallas Cowboys acting QB Garret Gilbert's dad played in this game & the 2020 announcers who referenced it are still calling it "The Play".
This game was John Elway's last college game. Seconds before the final play Elway had miraculously brought Stanford back to gain the lead. The Cal radio announcer you hear going crazy, is the great Joe Starkey who became the 49ers radio announcer a few years later. When we got home we saw the replay on the news, and see why Starkey went so crazy.
Great effort by the Stanford trombone player, but Cal was not to be denied!
Life without instant replay was glorious, these days you'd wait for 20 minutes for the refs to decide the winner.
Taking the split second decision making out of sports killed the excitement in every league across the board
This is edited, they took a few minutes to discuss it.
@@kewltony okay and?
@@onemanarmysswampparty and what
Nowadays, this play may have well been overturned and this epic play would have been nullified. Don't get me wrong instant replay has its upside, but ALOT of downside.
Go Bears and Go Joe Starkey - forty years ago and retiring this year. Thanks for the great Cal memories! This was my first game ever at Cal - I was a senior in high school and got into Cal a few weeks later. I had to go after this...
0:28 “OUTTA THE WAY NERD.”
😂
The 80s were the best
Joe Starkey is one of the great Bay Area sports announcers, along with Bill King and Lon Simmons.
Joe Starkey was an amazing game caller :)
He really isn't. Even listening to this call, without the video it's impossible to actually tell what is going on.
dayyyiiimmm starkey
@@bryancarbone6053 boo
Starkey's call is horrible. He doesn't tell you what's going on. He never once even uses the word "lateral". The only reason it went down in history is because his voice got hoarse and he screamed about the band being on the field but his "cal" is absolutely awful.
@@neneshubby you’re a horrible call
My dad just showed me this clip and oh my GOD i was dying. It’s beautiful.
This is one of those events that even to have been present to witness it would have been an honor. Simply amazing!
(US college gridiron wasn't shown in Britain at the time) - the band prematurely coming onto the pitch was the subject of a British TV quiz where the film was stopped just before that and people were asked "What Happened Next?" - and nobody guessed correctly.
To be fair, who WOULD say "And he gets the touchdown, with the penalty being declined because they won the game!"
One of the most memorable plays in sports history, and definitely a call for the ages, enjoy retirement Joe Starkey 👏🏼
Dolphins miraculous win over Patriots yesterday reminded me of The Play. The sublime last lateral, the hysterical call, the marching band, and last but not least, the two-handed tomahawk spike on the trombone player. The most memorable ending to any football game.
The spike on the trombone player was certainly least, could have given him a concussion or been charged with assault. And there was no marching band coming out onto the field in the Dolphins win.
How does this not have more views? I feel like this was one of the first UA-cam videos ever lol i remember being in high school and we would spend hours just watching football nightlights
I remember this from back in middle school... Just amazing! And always loved it when Elway lost!
The Stanfurd Band was ridiculous back then and ridiculous today. Go Bears!
I’m neither a Cal or Stanford fan, but this moment will never be outdone. Ever!
The absolute GREATEST comeback victory play OF ALL TIME!!!!! GO BEARS!!!!!
that’s nuts awesome
That guy 28 seconds in getting smashed is the funniest thing I've ever seen, it gets funnier every time I watch it. 3 sports in 1,American football to start off with,then into rugby, and finally basketball when ur man slam dunks the ball off that band members face.
I have tears in my eyes when I see this.
🎉 40th anniversary of The Play!!! Still just as refreshing to watch after all these years (Go Bears!!! 🐻)
THE BAND IS ON THE FIELD!
Also amazing, Cal pulled off this miracle with only 10 players on the field instead of stardard 11, due to an oversight-error by the Cal bench. Stupefying additional detail which only heightens the lore.
That's the answer to the question: what was the odd part about this play!!
no there were much more than just 10, maybe like 100
The band was the "11th man"
Who's here after the Ball state/W. Michigan play?
IMO that's the greatest play in College football history, due to the band being on the field. That's what puts it over the top for me. I had just come from the Rose Bowl that day, where my team the Bruins had just beaten SC on a Karl Morgan sack as time expired. It was right in front of me in the end zone. SC was going for 2. Man, and I thought I had just seen the best play of the day. I came home to see this play on ESPN. Ha!! Good times.
The most exciting play in college football play, no doubt.
To most of the world however, we just call this: rugby.
From time to time i go on UA-cam just to listen the Cal announcer's call.....I get goose bumps everytime I hear it.....Best part, "the band is on the field."
"THE BAND IS ON THE FIELD!" GO BEARS 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
The single GREATEST PLAY BY PLAY CALL in College Football history. No question...
Anyone here after the western Michigan & ball state game? 🤧
Exactly why I'm here ,
Go bucks o-h
@@drunkenmmamaster419 I-O
0:29
I love how that dude tackles one of the guys from the marching band.
listen to this call from time to time....get goose bumps everytime....what a play
He slams dunks on the band member at the end hahahaha
bruh why y’all complaining hook[imagine okayuya2
but isk it’s just looked premeditates sorta
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Joe Starkey, the radio voice of Cal in those days, later became the radio voice of the 49ers and called Super Bowl XXIV
"The Play" was even better in person. Go Bears.......
I remember my first lecture at Pimentel Hall and how intimidated I was not knowing anyone, being in a lecture hall with more kids than my graduating class, etc. Professor played this video at the end and told us anything was possible... I kind of believed it.
"Personal Foul, unnecessary roughness. Number 26 of the receiving team. He gave that trombone player the business...and then some."
Happy 40th Anniversary!
Did anyone see the Duke vs Miami play that just happened last night
I did
That's why I'm here lol
+SpruceYourMoose
Me too haha
+Mike Aquino Yeah, where the hell was the Duke Band on that one? Totally dropped the ball there.
+Mike Aquino I just saw it; like, wow, man, awesome. :)
This is one of those things that will never be dethroned as the best in history. The commentating in addition to the ridiculousness happening on field makes this moment irreplaceable. So glad to be a golden bear just for this play 🤣
Even more amazing trivia. The QB on the losing team...John Elway
That was the exclamation point for me. I hated Elway
Despite winning two Super Bowls his said this game always haunted him to this day.
Truly, this never gets old.
"THE BEARS HAVE WON!!!!! OHH MY GOD!!!!!"
classic, just classic
This highlight always came on for me growing up. I’m 25 now and first time seeing this in 8+ years. The band member getting decked is hilarious and this may be the only CFB highlight before 1985 I know of.
What was Gronkowski doing out on the field!!!
I got you, man. Nice.
You're not wrong
This remains my favorite, all-time play! I saw the replay the day it happened
The announcer's voice at the touchdown is priceless: THE BEARS!!!
Love how he practically nearly loses his voice making this call. Such an iconic play accompanied by some of the best commentary. You could feel the raw emotion and shock in his voice. This is why we watch!
Anyone here after esteem michigan vs ball state
till i die...this moment will always be my top ....maybe 2 amazing moments in football history. just not sure what no.2 is.
“He’s got gettin away from the cops speed!!!” - Gus Johnson
I'm a big CFB fan though and with everything I have seen over the years, this has to be the best finish of all time.
0:29 rip band
Ps play it over and over again it is great 👍
That last lateral was smooth AF. You don't have this iconic play without that.
The guy that did the last lateral stated that he just let it fly since he knew there was no way he was going to make it in the end zone. Luckily he had teammates that kept good pitch relations with him.
That was no lateral. The ball leaves his hands at around the 27 yard line and is caught at around the 25 1/2 yard line. That's an illegal forward pass and should've been a penalty. Also, on the 3rd lateral, the Cal players knee had clearly touched the ground before the ball left his hands. That should've been the ball game. That's what I call home cookin' at it's best!!
Richard Rodger's dad :)
Came to watch this too after that Hail Mary
Same
+Mark Merldawg same
LOL GLAD I WASNT THE ONLY ONE NICE. I WAS SO HAPPY AFTER THAT CATCH
+tailsofUSSR21 Thought I was the only one
Joe Starkey will call his final Big Game between Cal and Stanford on the 40th anniversary of 'The Play' this Saturday from Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium.
I wish the NFL was like this. But instead of the marching band, you run over the cheerleaders.
I would much rather "bump" into a cheerleader or better, cheerleaders... than a band member any day.
+Alex Moreno Amen to that.
Lmao. I hate NFL cheerleaders, most of them aren’t actually good at cheer.
@@gigifreakingdies NFL cheerleaders arent there for their cheer ability... they are there for their looks as eye candy. it isnt a cheer competition. very few would care if they were skilled or would even notice the difference.
I love how he runs into the one of those band players to put the exclamation point on the game winning TD.
Who is here after Ball State/Western Michigan in 2020?
OmG - here it is 37 years later (well, almost) and this play STILL cracks me the eff up!
First! Miami vs Duke brought me here.
I was playing NCAA 2005 and this was one of the “Pontiac Classic Games” And it won’t let you do that. It’s difficult too.
Jansen Via I wish that was the case.
My favorite thing about this is how he took out the band member on purpose
Scotty P ”If you can't strap it on, then stay off the field!”