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The band is on the field.
Six words.
Six laterals.
The entire Stanford band rushing the field. The trombone player getting run over by the sixth Cal player who handled the sixth lateral crossed the goal line and culminated in the greatest football moment of all time. A comeback win as time expired.
This happened November 20, 1982 – 42 years ago.
Wouldn’t it be something if tonight at half-time of the Wake Forest game against Cal this play was re-enacted on the field?
After the teams headed into the locker rooms tonight, there would be six guys at mid-field lateraling the ball around and across the field, progressing towards the goal line.
The Cal band would be rushing onto the field from the endzone. The last guy with the ball, Tate Carney, would run over the trombone player. On the stadium jumbotron, the call by the announcer when this actually happened would blare throughout the stadium.
“The band is on the field. He’s going to go into the endzone. Will it count? The Deacs have scored. But the band is out on the field. There are flags all over the place. The Deacs have won. The Deacs have won. Oh my God. The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, exciting thrilling finish in the history of college football. Wake Forest has won the big game over Cal. Excuse me for my voice. I have never, never seen anything like it. The Deacs have won. There will be no extra point.”
Can you imagine the national media attention this half-time show would generate? College GameDay would spotlight it. More NIL banks would gush into the Wake football program because high school recruits and transfers would see Wake as being creative and fun, as well as historically aware.
Can you imagine the crowd watching this half-time ingenuity tonight? Then in the real second half of this game, this same miracle happens with the Cal band rushing on the field as Tate Carney runs over the trombone player in the endzone to give Wake Forest the come-from-behind victory as the clock strikes zero.
He will have handled the ball on the play with Taylor Morin, Demond Clairborne, Nick Anderson, Micah Mays, and Deuce Is Loose. Or maybe it could be Sammy Sportface, DJ, TJ, Idea Man, Rip, and Silly Willie with Sportface scoring the touchdown.
We will all rush the field.
Sportface will rush over to the trombone player and start blowing into it the Wake Forest fight song.
Can you imagine?
It could happen tonight.
The play.
The band running on the field.
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