Thirty-five years ago on this very day, standing in the student section in a jam-packed Folsom Field, I bore witness to the most extraordinary sporting event I have ever seen live and in person. Coach Mac's Buffaloes began the day as decided underdogs against Tom Osborne's undefeated and third-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers. They ended it ten points better than the Huskers.
It was a day featuring lots of Buff razzle-dazzle, courtesy of Hatch Boom and Soupy...
Jeff Campbell Reverse = TD
...and O.C. Oliver and Lance Carl...
OC to LC = TD
If you have nothing better to do on this most glorious of late October days, for instance if you live in Nebraska, then sit back and enjoy...
Before that afternoon thirty-five years ago, the Buffs had not beaten the Huskers, against whom they played annually, in nineteen years. They had not beaten them in Boulder since 1960, during the final few months of the Eisenhower Presidency.
Sunday Boulder Camera
October 26, 1986
Shoulder to Shoulder, baby. Shoulder to Shoulder.
-AK
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