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IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER…...

This was posted elsewhere to make a political point, but I don’t want to use it for that….just for pure nostalgia.

First, this game is “The Big Game” for UC Berkeley (Cal) and Stanford University. It goes back a LONG ways…...and even when both teams stink, it’s really important to the two schools.

Second, it was a very tight game, in which Stanford was favored, and with only a few seconds left, Stanford led by a point. Remember that the game doesn’t end until the last play that gets underway is over, so all Stanford has to do it tackle the runner and they are the winners. “Many the slip twixt the cup and the lip” as someone once said…...

Third, listen carefully to Joe Starkey, the guy broadcasting the game for KNBR, the station carrying Cal football…...I’ll say something more about him after the video clip…...

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Isn’t that great?
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Now, Thor and I were listening to KNBR regularly during the time this happened - mainly the morning show, when Joe did the sports. And for MONTHS after this game, especially when someone would ask Joe about a gig he had calling a game here or there, the producers would simply run the tape, starting when Joe gets completely hysterical there as he sees the STANFORD band all over the field in front of the Cal runner….and ending when the referees call the game for Cal.
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We’d sit on the edge of our seats almost every time Joe was on the air, because you never knew when those guys would run it. If anyone called up to say what a great job Joe had done at this or that, everyone knew what was coming…..it was such a GREAT running gag. Watching and listening to this just brings those years back in a delightful way—takes my mind completely off the political campaigns, and THAT has got to be a good thing!
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