[NU Sports] A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !!! (fwd)

[Joe Thiegs]

That was a great, great, great game.  I won't say that it was the best game
of all time, but it is up there, probably in the top 5 most exciting
finishes I've ever watched not involving NU, and in the top 10 including all
NU games.  It's up there with last year's USC-Texas game for the ages,
Miami-tOSU in the 2002 title game, the incredible Minnesota upset of #2 Penn
State in 1999, and the six-overtime Tennessee-Arkansas game in 2002.  I'm
sure I'm forgetting a couple, but you get the idea.  If we're including NU
games, it's up there with Michigan 2000, Minnesota 2001, Wisconsin 1996, MSU
2001, tOSU 2004, Iowa 2005, the Rose Bowl vs. USC, and-as Mike
notes-Michigan 1996.  Of course, for me it didn't provide quite the same
level of joy as the NU wins, but it definitely was the greatest-ever
feel-good college football game for me not involving a team about which I
have any reason to care.  I love this sport.
 
To top it off, star running back Ian Johnson's wedding proposal to his
girlfriend, head cheerleader Chrissy Popadics, at the end of his national TV
interview was very cool.  If only the interviewer (Chris Meyers?) hadn't
been such a blockhead.  He said something like (almost verbatim):  "Okay,
Ian, I know you want to propose to your girlfriend now, so why don't you go
ahead and do that?"  She still was clearly surprised, only by the wrong guy!
As my wife observed:  "Couldn't he have just said, 'I know you have
something you want to ask' or 'Is there anything else you want to say?'"
Oh, well, it was still a sweet moment.
 
Happy New Year!
 
-Joe
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Nolan
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:26 AM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: [NU Sports] A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !!! (fwd)
 
> I dunno what Phoenix can do for an encore next week
> with the title game. Last week, we host the greatest
> comeback (or choke job) in NCAA history. Then tonight
> we have the most amazing non-NU game I think I've ever
> seen.
 
Yes, it rivals, possibly tops, the 17-16 Michigan game!
 
I don't care if the game was on Fox, ESPN should find a way to dub
that game an instant classic and replay it.  I saved it on TIVO,
I may watch it again in the morning.
 
That may get my vote for the best game of the year, decade and possibly
century.  For darned sure those last 2 plays in overtime will get SERIOUS
consideration for play of the season.  (It is apparently too late to make
ESPN's "Sports Play of the Year", since it is now 2007.)
 
BTW, Happy New Year, everybody!  
--
Mike Nolan
 
PS.  One of the names being floated for the Minnesota job is former Nebraska
coach Frank Solich, currently at Ohio U.
 
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