Texas/OU: What is your all time favorite play?

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  1. Austin_Bill

    Austin_Bill 2,500+ Posts

    For me it has to be Stoney Clark stone walling the ou running back to win the game in 94. The greatness of that moment was unmatched for me.

     
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  2. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts



    I was in the upper deck but close to the front in the corner of that endzone, so he was running right towards me.
     
  3. stanhin

    stanhin 5,000+ Posts

     
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  4. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    It was that play that I knew the curse was over.
     
  5. zuckercanyon

    zuckercanyon 2,500+ Posts

    We used to say, "Someone told Stoney that RB had his sandwich!"
     
  6. Horns11

    Horns11 10,000+ Posts

    Stonie was the first one to come to mind.
    Gardere to Cash and Gardere to Walker... both huge implications for OU's early 90s downfall.
    Bubba Jacques fumble return for TD.
     
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  7. George Bailey

    George Bailey No beans in my chili, thank you

    Tie between Stoney's play and Shipley's punt return.
     
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  8. FWHORN

    FWHORN 10,000+ Posts

    I was at three of the four of those games (missed Gardere to Walker) and my first two thoughts were Stonie and the Cash throw, particularly since Gardere to Cash was my first OU game in person. Bubba’s fumble return the next year is a great honorable mention. Ricky’s td run in ‘98 then his point to the heavens and Doak is also up there.
     
  9. LousianaHorn

    LousianaHorn Kabong

    Earl leaping over the OU defender in 77...............first time we had beaten the Dirt Burglars since Barry had taken over.
     
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  10. IvanDiabloHorn

    IvanDiabloHorn 1,000+ Posts

    So many....so so many....but if I had to pick one

    1976 OU misses extra point and we tie 6-6. It was almost as if God looked down and said Texas doesn’t deserve to lose this game. That game might be the hardest hitting game in the series.
     
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  11. Austin_Bill

    Austin_Bill 2,500+ Posts

    Honestly surprised no one mentioned this little gem.

     
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  12. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    That is my fav single play - 24 yard TD run by Earl, sprung by TE Steve Hall from Broken Arrow OK -couldn't find it on YouTube.
     
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  13. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    I was at that BITTER 1976 Texas - ou game. My date was my HS girlfriend who was a student at ou at the time, but she wised up and transferred to TCU.

    Anyway, I have remarked to others over the years the same thing you said Ivan:

    That was THE hardest hitting college or pro football game I had seen to that point at 22 years old and since... 44 years later.
     
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  14. IvanDiabloHorn

    IvanDiabloHorn 1,000+ Posts

    I was also there and watched that ball hiked high on the conversion. The only scoring until the fumble was two long range field goals by Erxleben and we led 6-0. I thought that would be the final score.
    When I think of that season, that failed conversion probably saved DKR from having his only losing season.
     
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  15. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Earnest Lee, Earl's teammate at Tyler John Tyler, lined up at NT, looked at the center (from Spring Branch HS IIRC) and said, "You're gonna snap that ball over the kicker's head". I was frightened that the kid snapped the ball so far that OU might convert for two points.
     
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  16. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Re: 1976 ou game.

    UT RB Ivy Suber from O.D. Wyatt HS in Fort Worth fumbled the ball late in the 4th quarter deep in Texas territory and the sooners recovered. Seems like 3 to 5 minutes left in the game.

    I was incredibly angry at Suber as the sooners had a short field and moved the ball for the first time against the Horns defense and scored a quick TD to tie it up 6-6.

    Thankfully the snap for the PAT went way over the holder and Uwe Von Schaumen (or however you spell his name), never got a shot to kick it.

    It was a bitter ending to a game that the Horns should have won, but a 6-6 tie was so much better than a last minute loss to those SORRY ******** .....
     
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  17. Phil Elliott

    Phil Elliott 2,500+ Posts

    No doubter for me:



    Which of course reminds me a lot of my all-time favorite UT play:

     
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  18. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    After 57 Texas/OU games there are so many to choose from, but here are a few with caveats:

    1) It would be Earl's run off Steve Hall's block in 77, but I later realized we would probably have won it anyway, but still Hall being from Tulsa, and his block being on that piece of crap from Ball HS, and having a personal grudge because of the dirty play he made against my HS in his last HS game, that play has lots of satisfaction for me.

    2) Richard Peavy braking Marcus Dupree's helmet on the last play of Dupree's career, was especially wonderful for years until Switzer told me the truth about Marcus' recruitment. That story took a lot of the satisfaction out of that play.

    3) That brings me to Stoney Clark. I watched from either 106 or 107 and screaming my head off "Reverse", and watching live and on replay, I still don't understand how He got that 300+ pounds moving that fast. It's my #1
     
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  19. caryhorn

    caryhorn 5,000+ Posts

    2005 Jamal Charles' 75(approx) yard run to break open the big win to break the ou "curse" that had smothered the Horns for a few years. That run seemed to break the heart of the ou defense. That dynamic Texas offense just had way too many weapons for the ou defense that year.
    That play rubbed that fact in ou's face. Freshman Charles rose up to join Super Vince as home run threats. Oh yeah, Baby!
     
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  20. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    The play that really got me in 2005 was the bomb to Billy Pittman right before half. We were leading 17-6 but had only scored 3 points on our last 3 possessions after a quick start so we weren't really pulling away.We had the ball at our own 35 with 20 seconds to go. It was clear this wasn't the same Mack Brown any longer who, with a 14-11 lead against OU in 2002, had taken a knee from midfield with 5 seconds left before the halftime.

    Since we had to throw deep even just to get in FG range, I have no idea how Oklahoma let Pittman, who wasn't blazing fast in the first place, get 10-15 yards behind everybody. But VY rolled out kind of slowly and I suppose they were expecting he was just gonna turn on the jets and turn it into a bootleg run instead?
     
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  21. SlothHorn

    SlothHorn 25+ Posts

    Not so much a single play as a game.
    Circa '89 or '90. I believe the game wasn't on TV due to OU's probation. I was a soph in high school, couldn't watch the game anyway, so I decided to go to work (Skaggs Alpha-Beta). Note: I also believe OU was a pretty big favorite anyway. So I go to work and start bagging. Skaggs had an electronic's section at the time. I notice that the game is at half and Texas is winning. For the first time (of many) in my life, I feign food poisoning. I hurry home on my bike and listen to the rest on the radio.

    Few years later, I'm working at a Mexican restaurant in Knoxville. Since most of the employees were also attending U-Tenn, it was really, really hard to ask off on some Saturdays. So, TX/OU is on the same day as TN/GA. No way I'm getting off. Or is there. GM told me I'm fired if I call in sick. So, I go to work, wait until about 30 mins before kickoff and "drop" a case of Corona. I roll around a bit for effect. I had a knee brace on (recent ACL surgery), so my GM sends my *** home. Best part? He let me take the rest of the case of Corona with me.
     
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  22. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    it was a GREAT moment....
     
  23. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    the two of us in my avatar were standing right there....could NOT believe the ball being hiked to the 30 yd line...still, a BITTER game...I remember saying to my partner, "get the baseball bats out, let's settle this!!!"

    Years later, I'm selling anesthesia machines and living in Tulsa.....on the Friday before the game I was calling on the hospital in Durant. I was waiting in the lobby for my appointment and talking to the nice candy-stripper lady and I told her I was headed to Dallas for THE Game. I told her I had been cheerleader at UT 74-76...she said, "those were the years my son played for o.u., you might remember the CENTER that hiked the ball over everyone's head???...well, that's my son!"....

    ...small world.

    FYI---HUGE MOMENT in LONGHORN HISTORY....!!!!
    It was during THIS game that the RIVALRY hit it's ZENITH....Switzer (Anti-Christ) was spying, DKR caught them! Students started "o.u. SUCKS, o.u. SUCKS...." in the warm-ups....it was deafening as o.u. took the field....
    By the end of THIS game, "o.u. SUCKS!!!" was FOREVER placed in the fight song....and to this day....[​IMG]
     
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  24. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Cool story Tex.
     
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  25. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    100% correct.
     
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  26. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Also, leading up to the 1976 game:

    DKR offered Switzer a $10,000 donation to his favorite charity if the Anti-Christ could pass a lie-detector test to clear himself and his staff of the spying / cheating allegations he made. If Switzer passed DKR would give $10,000 to his fav charity.

    ou Asst. coach Larry Lacewell personally spied on UT practices leading up to the 1972 Texas - ou game. He later admitted it was true. "Qucik Kick" and ou blocked it and went on to get a TD to break open a close game.

    DKR also called their program "SORRY ********" and that is exactly what they were.
     
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  27. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    .....what they ARE!!!

    1972 was my FIRST.....34 rows up...the guy to my left had RED on...that's how 50 yard line our tickets were....

    QUICK KICK!!! ....ouch!!!

    haven't missed a year, since....49, coming up....
     
  28. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    Stoney was NOT allowing that guy to score....just rolled his 300lbs into him....DONE!!!
     
  29. WorsterMan

    WorsterMan SEC here we come!!

    Great seats on the 50... we can thank Lacewell for the stolen "quick kick" play....

    49 years in a row... you deserve a medal for it!!! Especially for games like 1971, 1976, 1984, 2000, etc.
     
  30. TEXnSEATTLE

    TEXnSEATTLE 1,000+ Posts

    we were sitting on row three about the 10 yard line, across from the band....when Johnny Walker came walking right by us high-fiving folks, he threw his sweat rag into the stands and my buddy caught it and it is now framed with a great picture of the catch in his home....exciting ending!!!
     
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