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This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 12:02 AM
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Who remembers the sheer jubilation? I remember at the beginning of the broadcast, NBC and the announcers had a little piece about where Clemson was. Then to be nice, they showed where the University of Nebraska was. Anyway, good times.
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Hall of Famer [8998]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 12:27 AM
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I was a freshman in high school & will never forget writing a letter to & receiving a response signed by Danny Ford...
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Scout Team [169]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 3, 2022, 12:23 PM
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Was there - surreal. It was like David taking down Goliath, except Clemson had prepared itself to be there.
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All-In [10957]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 12:33 AM
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that cover has hung on my wall for i don't know how long.to see it,all i need do is look up from my desk.one of the highlights of my life.
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CU Guru [1271]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 1:07 AM
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I was 14 and watching the game with family in NYC (they thought Nebraska had it in the bag).Still have my copy of SI .
A great time to repost this especially after a good bowl win !
Sports Illustrated January 11 1982
Perry Tuttle said "You know at 7:30 this morning Homer came to my room and woke me up and said "I'm so nervous I can't sleep. "I said "Homer, those big farm boys are going to kill you." but in the game he was so confident.
It was clear that the Huskers had come up against more of a team than they had expected. "I could tell they were taking us lightly." said Jeff Davis. "Just being around them during the week , around town, at discos, the hotels, the stadium. You could feel it, as if they were saying "We're from the Big 8 and you boys aren't of the same caliber."
There was still 5:24 remaining on the clock when Clemson took over the ball, and so far in the quarter its two possessions had gained a total of 12 yards. Now Jordan kept the ball safely on the ground, in the hands of Jeff McCall and Chuck McSwain, who made 2 first downs as Clemson gobbled up all but six seconds of the time remaining.
Those six seconds were counted down by the orange -clad crowd-loudly ,of course -and then it was over. No one had to wait for any pollsters to vote. The Tigers had made their "stupid" dream a reality.
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Orange Blooded [2562]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 1:35 AM
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I was at the game and truly loved the experience. Some folks were shooting fireworks out of their windows into DuPont Plaza. Enjoyed the whole experience.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 7:27 AM
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Still have the SI copy in my keepsake drawer. Great memories!
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Game Changer [1604]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 8:10 AM
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My wife and I were there! It was great!
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110%er [3722]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 8:36 AM
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I was at the Orange Bowl (also Tampa and Santa Clara)! Before the game I ran into GG Galloway who played DLine for us in the 70's and asked him how he thought we'd do. He said we were going to win because Nebraska couldn't handle our DLine. I said they had one of the best OLines with Outland winner Dave Rimington (2 times) and (future Outland winner) Dean Steinkuhler. He said our strength and flexibility training under George Dostal was superior to anybodies! G G was right! When we lined up with Perry and Devane in the middle they didn't know what to do!
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Yea they did... HOLD!... 3 times if I remember correctly...***
Jan 3, 2022, 9:28 AM
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My senior year in HS. We drove down, went to the game and drove back. No sleep.
Jan 2, 2022, 9:02 AM
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What a week for four HS seniors. Never forget it.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 9:25 AM
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That was the first time I was allowed to stay up past midnight. I watched with my Dad (‘59 alumni) and had no idea just how special that win was as a youngster. I think I’ll rewatch the game and reminisce. Watching it makes me miss my Dad.
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I was a Senior at Clemson...
Jan 2, 2022, 9:29 AM
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...and we watched on a 19" tube TV in our apartment. Cable TV was a new thing then so we didn't have to worry about antenna reception.
We went to downtown Clemson after the win and it was crazy. I would do about anything to relive that day.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 9:34 AM
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I do! I was there and have saved the SI, the game program, and the ticket stub. I was managing a project in South Florida and was comped 6 tickets by a supplier. One of my guest dropped out so I also ended up having 1 unused ticket. I've been a Tiger for a long time.
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Orange Blooded [2693]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 9:47 AM
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Was there and got to talk to William Perry years later. He said him and Devine were determined to show the Huskers the REAL CLEMSON. Perry said all week Nebraska showed little respect and they thought they had it in the bag because they were Nebraska. Perry then said that Nebraska didn’t know what to do when him and Devine pushed them around. They by the end of the game had taken the fight out of them. Then the rest was history………
Go Tigers!!!!!!!!
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It was Devane, not Divine, but correct otherwise. I always
Jan 2, 2022, 11:39 AM
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find it humorous that there is now an award named after Dave Rimington, the Nebraska center. It is given to the "best" center in the land each year. Perry and Devane used and abused Rimington all night.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 9:45 AM
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Thank you for your post and thank you all for your replies.
This is the best thing I've read in a while.
That game was truly special.
While I'm at it, Happy New Year!
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [98107]
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Was there with Family, and Husker Fan handed me a tiny Bible
Jan 2, 2022, 9:48 AM
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and said I’d need it to survive what was coming! ??
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Orange Blooded [2535]
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Re: Was there with Family, and Husker Fan handed me a tiny Bible
Jan 2, 2022, 10:16 AM
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Was there with my roommate and a few friends. Was my sophomore year. 40 years ago this morning was walking into team hotel when Coach Ford was walking out. Took the time for us to get pictures with him. I dropped those pictures off at Jersey several weeks later and left them, asking for Coach Ford to sign them. His secretary called me back about a week later and said she had my pics for me. A proud moment. Still have one of my roommate and I with him on my wall.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 2, 2022, 10:24 AM
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I was there and remember parking in someone’s yard that was very close to the stadium. Had several Nebraska fans asking where was Clemson? I remember asking them afterward how far back was it to Lincoln. Also have a vivid memory of a buddy wearing a Clemson styrofoam #1 on each hand , it was priceless! Got back to hotel in Fort Lauderdale close to dawn . 7 of us in one room .
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Orange Elite [5310]
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Dec 81 grad then headed to Miami...
Jan 2, 2022, 10:34 AM
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Met a group in Orangeburg and we headed down in a van with a couple seats. The rest of us sat on coolers or on the floor. Seat belts?
We had a great time and spent what little money we had (cheap hotel, a bar or two or three..). Upper deck seats in the real Orange Bowl.
Biggest (only) regret. We had an opportunity to get some free tickets to the Miami-San Diego NFL playoff game the next day (famous overtime game). Our heads were throbbing and we declined. Big mistake.
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A buddy of mine had an early 70's Ford Econoline...
Jan 2, 2022, 2:15 PM
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...around 1978 at Clemson. It had two seats plus bean bags in the back.
We once put a keg of beer in the back and drove up to Baltimore.
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Orange Elite [5310]
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Re: A buddy of mine had an early 70's Ford Econoline...
Jan 2, 2022, 2:59 PM
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Was the keg buckled in?
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Orange Blooded [2226]
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I was a senior in high school
Jan 2, 2022, 11:26 AM
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and one of my friends had a big party. Much alcohol was consumed. I actually was legal to drink beer...the age for beer and wine was 18 at the time, but you had to be 21 to buy liquor.
Anyway, after the game, for some reason I don't remember, we all went downtown in my small lowcountry hometown.
Most of our parents were there...I don't know why they were there either, but they were as hammered as the kids, so no one got in trouble. Thankfully no DUIs either as there was a good bit of unwise driving around town. The whole town celebrated.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 3, 2022, 12:15 AM
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Although I didn't get to be there in person, I celebrated every minute watching it on TV with my sweet mother who had just lost her precious 51-year old husband to a sudden unexpected heart attack on 12/26. There was no way I was going to let her grieve for a couple of weeks totally alone, so I took two weeks off from work (in Richmond, VA at that time) and stayed with her in her Easley home and we watched and enjoyed every single minute of that game on her little TV! We reminisced often during the game about what Dad would have said about said play. It was such a lovely bonding time for us.
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 3, 2022, 2:17 AM
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Freshman in college that year. Watched the game with my brother, mom and dad at home in a little town in upstate SC. Knew people who made the 12 hour drive. Was amazed at the domination of our interior defensive line. Perry and Devane were amazing.
Many years later living in Miami beach I would enjoy driving by the old Orange Bowl stadium imagining what it must have been like for so many great people from SC to watch their Clemson Tigers bring home a national championship in person.
Constant between 1981, 2016, 2018
1. Dominant interior defensive line play
2. NFL quality WR to make game winning plays
3. Tough, hard core head coach from Alabama who knows how to build and coach a team to be tough enough and deep enough to win it all.
4. QB play with toughness and will to win it all.
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Team Captain [484]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 3, 2022, 2:17 AM
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Freshman in college that year. Watched the game with my brother, mom and dad at home in a little town in upstate SC. Knew people who made the 12 hour drive. Was amazed at the domination of our interior defensive line. Perry and Devane were amazing.
Many years later living in Miami beach I would enjoy driving by the old Orange Bowl stadium imagining what it must have been like for so many great people from SC to watch their Clemson Tigers bring home a national championship in person.
Constant between 1981, 2016, 2018
1. Dominant interior defensive line play
2. NFL quality WR to make game winning plays
3. Tough, hard core head coach from Alabama who knows how to build and coach a team to be tough enough and deep enough to win it all.
4. QB play with toughness and will to win it all.
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Paw Master [17309]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 3, 2022, 8:30 AM
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Best night of back in my early 20’s. We shout the 12345 cadence all night everywhere we went and passed out $2 Clemson Bills. What a game such electricity and energy in the stadium mostly Clemson Orange.
A night I will never forget that experience.
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Clemson Icon [27980]
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Re: This time tonight 40 years ago we were celebrating
Jan 3, 2022, 8:43 AM
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I was a sophomore at Clemson and couldn’t afford a trip to Miami so I watched it at a bar in Charleston with some HS friends. I played quite a bit of basketball at Fike with some of the football players so it was really great to watch them just destroy Nebraska. I kept my Clemson Orange Soda cans until they corroded and leaked everywhere.
We watched our DVD of that game at the beginning of this season and had to laugh at the announcers going into the coaches box and broadcasting their conversations and telling everyone what the next play would be. Classic!
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