THEY WON A BALLGAME!!!

[WonderMeal]

What it is!!! What it is!!! It's a big, big, big big big big touchdown!

On this day 25 years ago, Frank Hernandez burned some chump corner and caught a moonball from Carl Straw in the North endzone as time expired to give the KSU 'Cats their first victory in 31 games. Cats win 20-17 over Corky Nelson's North Texas State University.

Everyone do yourself a favor and watch the final drive one more time: . But just know that it will get dusty in your house as you watch it.

Tonight we toast LHC Bill Snyder's hair, the stand-up tight end, Sonny Ray Jones, Fatty4KSU, our horrible offensive line, Michael Smith, those dudes who broke the bell, the students not wearing purple, and the miracle completion to Frank Hernandez that made it all possible.

Cats, man. Cats.

 

Not sorry if WonderLuked. Go 'Cats.

[SkinnyBenny]

My favorite things about this entire game are as follows.

1. Those d00ds who break the bell
2. North Texas State's unbelievably shitty celebratory dogpile in the end zone after they took the lead before our final drive.
3. The Frank Hernandez catch
4. The hangdog way the sad corner stands after he realizes he blew the game. but still 

[RickRampus]

"He caught it! He caught it! TOUCHDOWN, TOUCHDOWN"  I've watched that part a lot

[MadCat]

Was the bell a significant fixture for Kansas State football before this?

[Emo EMAW]

If you look at the right hand side (it appears) that a rough ridin' ref is helping the kids tear down the goal posts. 

[sonofdaxjones]

I went to the ku game that day, I believe they played OU and only had about 8 or 9,000 empty seats, pretty impressive.   They got killed.   They had the game on the radio at the fairly large fraternal living domicile where a large group of extremely hardcore ku fans had gathered to consume adult beverages and the like.    They were extremely pissed off when K-State won.   

[Steffy08]

4. The hangdog way the sad corner stands after he realizes he blew the game. but still 

If North Texas had not given that poor corner nosetackle shoulder pads, he might've been more mobile.  Maybe we don't win?   

[doompaul]

What was the bell for? Why would they tear it down after winning?

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

did all QBs moonwalk in their drop backs?

[Brock Landers]

Was the bell a significant fixture for Kansas State football before this?

I have never heard of K State having a football related bell before today.  Shame Yourself thread crosspost?

[EMAWican]

Sure is a lot of "to the Lou" yells.

[Big Sam]

If you look at the right hand side (it appears) that a rough ridin' ref is helping the kids tear down the goal posts. 

Good eye.  Never noticed it before (and I've seen that video probably 2 or 3 dozen times).

If the ref wasn't helping, then he crazy enough to believe he could somehow save them from falling by pulling the one due off by his feet.

[Stevesie60]

I went to the ku game that day, I believe they played OU and only had about 8 or 9,000 empty seats, pretty impressive.   They got killed.   They had the game on the radio at the fairly large fraternal living domicile where a large group of extremely hardcore ku fans had gathered to consume adult beverages and the like.    They were extremely pissed off when K-State won.   

Wow, dax used to be a squawk?

[sonofdaxjones]

I went to the ku game that day, I believe they played OU and only had about 8 or 9,000 empty seats, pretty impressive.   They got killed.   They had the game on the radio at the fairly large fraternal living domicile where a large group of extremely hardcore ku fans had gathered to consume adult beverages and the like.    They were extremely pissed off when K-State won.   

Wow, dax used to be a squawk?

No, one my little ku besties invited me to go to the ku game that weekend.   The ku dudes reaction to K-State winning is one of the things that I always remember when some ku dude or chick is trying to tell me that they don't really hate K-State.   That large group of guys was livid. In '92 at the K-State game in Lawrence, where they whooped K-State pretty good, those guys were out for blood.  I mean the stadium still had about 5-10,000 empty seats, but those that were there cheering for ku were flat angered up.   Which is a nice seque into the 2004 game when all the little ku dudes said it was the loudest they'd ever heard venerable Memorial Stadium.   So . . . anger, largest crowds ever, loudest crowds ever . . . for K-State?

[SkinnyBenny]

Never change, dax.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

I went to the ku game that day, I believe they played OU and only had about 8 or 9,000 empty seats, pretty impressive.   They got killed.   They had the game on the radio at the fairly large fraternal living domicile where a large group of extremely hardcore ku fans had gathered to consume adult beverages and the like.    They were extremely pissed off when K-State won.   

Wow, dax used to be a squawk?

No, one my little ku besties invited me to go to the ku game that weekend.   The ku dudes reaction to K-State winning is one of the things that I always remember when some ku dude or chick is trying to tell me that they don't really hate K-State.   That large group of guys was livid. In '92 at the K-State game in Lawrence, where they whooped K-State pretty good, those guys were out for blood.  I mean the stadium still had about 5-10,000 empty seats, but those that were there cheering for ku were flat angered up.   Which is a nice seque into the 2004 game when all the little ku dudes said it was the loudest they'd ever heard venerable Memorial Stadium.   So . . . anger, largest crowds ever, loudest crowds ever . . . for K-State?

Super Bowl, confirmed.

[Deez Nutz]

I am proud to say that North Texas game was the very first KSU game I ever attended.   
Little did I know then how significant the victory would be, so in later years I have often tried to sit down and remember every single thing about it that I could. 

[pvegs]

Whenever I see this vid I lol at all the backpedaling. Was the shotgun not invented?

[Katpappy]

Whenever I see this vid I lol at all the backpedaling. Was the shotgun not invented?

With the front line we had for so many years a QB had to be fast on his feet... Josh Hypbile(sp-OU QB) fast. 

[Frankenklein]

I think I recall Snyder saying Carl Straw was the toughest QB he ever had and how much of a beating he took that year

[Sandstone Outcropping]

the Genera Hypercolors 

[CatMission]

Was the bell a significant fixture for Kansas State football before this?

I have never heard of K State having a football related bell before today.  Shame Yourself thread crosspost?

We also used to have a cannon over there as well.


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[Dr Rick Daris]

a super young rick daris was at that game and rushed the field. 

[sonofdaxjones]

You know, not a bad crowd for a game against N. Texas and a home team that was 23-79-3 in the previous 10 years and 3 games.   In the one shot almost the entire East side from goal line to goal line was full including the old steel stands up high.   

[MadCat]

Was the bell a significant fixture for Kansas State football before this?

I have never heard of K State having a football related bell before today.  Shame Yourself thread crosspost?

We also used to have a cannon over there as well.


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I think I remember the cannon.  Was that still used in the mid-90s?