What is the biggest play you have missed?

[Poultrygeist]

I posted this question once before and got some interesting answers. What I mean is, you were at a game, but left early or were in the bathroom when a big play happened. For example, I was at the concession stand years ago when Duce Staley ran back the second half kickoff for a TD against Florida.

 

[CockofEarle]

Oh, now yer gonna blame the stomach

 

[KingWard]

The whole country missed our lone touchdown in the Georgia/Carolina game in 1980. It was ABC's national game that day. Georgia won 13-10 when Herschel gained 237 yards and George fumbled near the end. Carl West ran for our only touchdown, I believe for 39 yards, while ABC was having technical difficulties.

 

[CockofEarle]

The whole country missed our lone touchdown in the Georgia/Carolina game in 1980. It was ABC's national game that day. Georgia won 13-10 when Herschel gained 237 yards and George fumbled near the end. Carl West ran for our only touchdown, I believe for 39 yards, while ABC was having technical difficulties.

I can’t recall that specific issue, maybe Charlotte tv hadn’t paid their bill

 

[West Ashley Gamecock]

Two I can recall quickly. Was under the stadium when we threw a very long bomb to beat Ole Miss at home. Think it was 1978. Ran up the ramp and watched us go for two and the win. Was in the bathroom at The Swamp when we blocked a Florida punt and recovered the ball to go on and force overtime and win in 2015.

 

[gamecox4982]

Witt’s base hit to win CWS.

 

[KingWard]

I can’t recall that specific issue, maybe Charlotte tv hadn’t paid their bill

Whatever, I missed the play without going to the bathroom or the refrigerator. I seem to remember Keith Jackson apologizing. But dang, going on 42 years, I can't be sure of anything.

 

[CockofEarle]

Witt’s base hit to win CWS.

What!…….& don’t blame it on a woman

 

[cockthehammer]

Horace Smith’s late TD catch from Gary Harper in the 1980 Wake Forest game to salvage a win. I thought were dead in the water & was outside the stadium when the roar sounded. I had plenty of company. We all looked at each other with wide eyes & rushed toward the NW corner of the endzone to see if we could tell what was going on!!

 

[Game...Cocks]

I posted this question once before and got some interesting answers. What I mean is, you were at a game, but left early or were in the bathroom when a big play happened. For example, I was at the concession stand years ago when Duce Staley ran back the second half kickoff for a TD against Florida.

2002. Troy Williamson 70-yard TD after halftime @ Clemson

 

[18IsTheMan]

I was at the 2001 game against Bama. I never leave games early, but something about that game was frustrating me. It was a back and forth game in terms of scoring but Bama was just a step ahead of us the whole game. I finally got fed up in the 4th quarter and left, which, again, is something I never do. I sat my butt in the seat until the final second ticked off the clock of the infamous blackout game against UF. There was just something about that Bama game that had me feeling like it was a lost cause. I remember I was walking to my car and I heard a roar from the stadium. Got in and turned on the radio and we has scored. Of course, we went on to win the game. Looking back at the play-by-play of the game, I must've got frustrated and left when Bama went up 36-24.

 

[GuitarCock]

Skipped the entire Mayonnaise Bowl because I thought we'd lose for sure

 

[Poultrygeist]

I was at the 2001 game against Bama. I never leave games early, but something about that game was frustrating me. It was a back and forth game in terms of scoring but Bama was just a step ahead of us the whole game. I finally got fed up in the 4th quarter and left, which, again, is something I never do. I sat my butt in the seat until the final second ticked off the clock of the infamous blackout game against UF. There was just something about that Bama game that had me feeling like it was a lost cause. I remember I was walking to my car and I heard a roar from the stadium. Got in and turned on the radio and we has scored. Of course, we went on to win the game. Looking back at the play-by-play of the game, I must've got frustrated and left when Bama went up 36-24.

WOW, that’s got to hurt. I saw grown men crying at that game when we stopped them on their last drive and we were up by two scores.

 

[uscwatson21]

I was changing seats to go join some friends and missed Ko Simpson’s interception against Georgia.

 

[GuitarCock]

I was changing seats to go join some friends and missed Ko Simpson’s interception against Georgia.

May be the only play that gets mentioned from a second quarter. (This is your buddy TC btw)

 

[winloseortie]

When Henry Aaron was chasing the HR record, Pat Conroy was a sports writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Conroy decided it would a great story to stakeout the men’s room whenever Aaron came to bat. He thought it would be fascinating to interview the poor Schlub. The guy was so embarrassed he refused to talk to Conroy.

 

[Dod Rangerfield]

Papa John’s Bowl. Was at a wedding.

In retrospect, it didn’t bother me.

 

[USCBatgirl21]

Although I was not in Rosenblatt, I didn't actually see Whit's hit on TV when it happened. I was bent over with my head in my hands trying not to be sick in my living room, I was so nervous. I looked up as the ball landed in RF. But I know that "ping" anywhere.

 

[uscwatson21]

May be the only play that gets mentioned from a second quarter. (This is your buddy TC btw)

Yeah it's probably just more sentimental than anything, but it was one of the first few Carolina games I was able to attend in person. It was one of the first times I truly heard the stadium erupt and I just remember feeling hopeless in the concourse with no idea what was happening.

 

[gamecox4982]

What!…….& don’t blame it on a woman

I fell asleep the top half of the inning…. I too couldn’t believe I did it

 

[Importcock]

In 1980 my girlfriend and I left a little early during the Wake Forest game. We were behind and I couldn't stand to see us lose to a sorry Wake team. In the car on the way back to campus I listened on the radio as Gary Harper led us down the field to a come from behind victory.

 

[GuitarCock]

I imagine most missed Zeb's game winning TD vs Vandy last year

 

[Gamecock Jacque]

I went to the convenience store and missed Joe Theismann's last play of his career.

 

[MrCockStrong]

I missed "The Hit."

I had been divorced for two years and was taking my son back to his mom's house from my weekly parenting time. When I got back home and resumed watching the game, I kept getting txts and FB messages about the play that I missed. I really wasn't interested at the time, because I was zoned in watching Connor Shaw and Dillon Thompson slinging it up and down the field.

 

[Thomas_Shelby]

I've never seen "Cats".

 

[GcockNan13]

I was on business in Hong Kong when we played Mizzou a few years ago. Woke up early at like 3am or something to watch it on ESPN Gamecast (not live picture, had to keep up with it play by play). When it was 4th and Goal in OT on our 15 i closed the computer and started getting ready. Checked the score before I left to grab breakfast just to make sure we lost and literally could not believe I saw a W by our name. Spent the next 30 mins trying to find a replay of that Shaw TD pass to Ellington.

 

[DrMickeySC]

Not me, but the voice of the Gamecocks, Mr Bob Fulton missed the biggest play of his last Carolina/Clemson game his last year. At Death Valley, in the 90s. I think there was a 6 year stretch where the visiting team won, and this was our turn. We clobbered them that day. But they honored Fulton on the field at half time. On the opening kickoff of the 2nd half, the kick receiver threw a lateral pass all the way across the field at about the 10, and we ran it to about the 5 yard line just short of a TD, and we scored on the next play. Fulton got back to the booth just in time for the extra point (not sure who called the play by play for that one), and he just said “I was in the elevator and I missed it!”

 

[MrCockStrong]

Not me, but the voice of the Gamecocks, Mr Bob Fulton missed the biggest play of his last Carolina/Clemson game his last year. At Death Valley, in the 90s. I think there was a 6 year stretch where the visiting team won, and this was our turn. We clobbered them that day. But they honored Fulton on the field at half time. On the opening kickoff of the 2nd half, the kick receiver threw a lateral pass all the way across the field at about the 10, and we ran it to about the 5 yard line just short of a TD, and we scored on the next play. Fulton got back to the booth just in time for the extra point (not sure who called the play by play for that one), and he just said “I was in the elevator and I missed it!”

I remember that! It was Brandon Bennett who received the kick and threw the ball backwards across the field to Reggie Richardson. Tommy Suggs was the one who made the play-by-play call, and he almost lost his mind when Reggie took off down the sideline! At one point, I remember him dropping the yardline marker calls and just reverting to: "RUN, REGGIE!!!" I got a new found appreciation for the play-by-play descriptions that Bob Fulton provided that day. It was just sad that it was his last day making live football calls on the radio.