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Just saw this classic pic from that game:

The Civil War, in a nutshell.

My youngest sister used to do sideline photography at PSU - I'll try to scare some up and post it

Find me some wanker with a camera on the sideline about 1982. That little Mike McCloskey sideline incident. Remember it was 4th down.
I'll always be pissed a home town ref. cost NU a national title. :brad:

In McCloskey's own words in 1998:

OMAHA -- It has been 16 years, but the Penn State tight end who made a controversial catch setting up the winning touchdown in a 1982 game against Nebraska says he was out of bounds.

Penn State went on to win the national title. Nebraska finished the season 12-1.

"That's the first time I've ever said I was out," Mike McCloskey said Monday night, May 4, after televised replays at the time and game highlights shown at the Boys Town athletic banquet indicated he was out of bounds.

"Maybe it was a good thing I was out of bounds, because it kind of made me famous," said McCloskey, who now works as a marketing manager for a financial company based near Philadelphia.

McCloskey attended the banquet so he could introduce Nebraska quarterbacks coach Turner Gill, the keynote speaker. Gill threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in the Cornhuskers' losing effort that day.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/ ... ex.htm#top

See #2 Sam.

Cornhusker, like I said back in '94..."The Catch" was definitely out of bounds. My take is that they gifted PSU with the call because they badly blew the call on Turner Gill's fumble on the previous drive. Gill fumbled, PSU recovered, but Gill was ruled down - a simple travesty of a call. Had it been called right, PSU would have won without any drama.

PSUFAN wrote:Cornhusker, like I said back in '94..."The Catch" was definitely out of bounds. My take is that they gifted PSU with the call because they badly blew the call on Turner Gill's fumble on the previous drive. Gill fumbled, PSU recovered, but Gill was ruled down - a simple travesty of a call. Had it been called right, PSU would have won without any drama.

Oh I never questioned you or anyone with at least one functioning eyeball knowing whether or not he was out of bounds .., but a make-up call in a situation like that is just allll wrong. It was a game deciding call at the most critical time and far to obviously wrong. It wasn't remotely questionable. I also seriously believe the TD was trapped in the endzone. .

I think what is lost in the situation, as I remember it, it was the same guy that made the bad call against 'Bama, and I believe he was dismissed from officiating after that season. And he was a homeboy right there in State College.


I gotta let it go Dave! :) . I just can't describe how pissed off I was, I was at a friends house and if I'd been at my place, I'd bet I'd lost not only the beer I was drinkin, but also my TV.
Anyway congrats on that NC, I guess;.... you did get the short end in '94. Again that stunk because of the system.

I'm better now. I guess 27 years of therapy is paying off.

Definitely not justifying the make-up call...that shouldn't happen, seems like it did, though. The PSU/ Neb series back then was pretty epic stuf. The '83 Bama game was amazing, I was in the South End Zone and 12 years old, right in the midst of the student section. Great game from my perspective...

Yeah, it should be a nice matchup - but I'm expecting a fairly easy win for the Tide.