Love this video from the 84 game
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You don't hear the Scorpions on too many sports highlight reels these day 😂
I’ve seen posters on here ask what a “playmaker” was or what it meant ( which always caught me off guard, but I digress…). Mike Hold was the consummate playmaker.
That game wasn’t televised, at least in my area, but they had replays (“delayed broadcast” they called it) at like 11pm or so which I watched. Listened to it live on radio; exciting game.
That game wasn’t televised, at least in my area, but they had replays (“delayed broadcast” they called it) at like 11pm or so which I watched. Listened to it live on radio; exciting game.
Clemmons was some dirty pos tacklers. Good job coaches
Clemmers were on probation & were not allowed to be televised “live”. Their games were shown tape-delayed at 11:30 p.m. Sat. night. Watched here in Greenville on WSPA channel 7 out of Spartanburg.
Paul Vogel the middle linebacker was a tackling machine 164 total tackles
I was sitting on "The Hill". It was glorious. The TD right before halftime, 4th and goal from the 4 yard line. Wow, ran right over The Fridge. He even knew it was coming because he put his hand behind his back and motioned the LB's over prior to the snap.
I watched it live on closed circuit TV at the Coliseum here in Columbia. That might have been the loudest crowd I've ever been in. At the very end, when Hold offered the football to "the Fridge," I thought the roof was coming off the place.
It was shown at FMA on what was called Closed Circuit TV. Place was packed!
I wonder how many targeting and unsportsmanlike penalties would have been called if modern day rules were used to officiate this game.
I was sitting in that west end zone for that game and when our kicker missed that PAT our crowd went flat until we saw the penalty flag, we got a second chance and the rest was history. Hold handing the ball to the "fridge" is a piece of history I will never forget.
I went to the closed circuit broadcast at the Coliseum for the 86 game; fun environment although the video typically sucked on those closed circuit shows; was sometimes hard to tell which team was which.
I also went to Ali Foreman, Leonard Duran, and Leonard Hearns at the Coliseum.
I was surprised this video didn't show either one of those. Hold dropping the ball at The Fridge's feet was a perfect coda to that game.
Yes you did, as did I. In 1982 I was escorted out of the South UD upthar by Pickens County’s finest in the 4th quarter. Talked my way out of going to jail on the way out with my law enforcement escort. Lol
And a damn good soccer player as well. Had the duty of trying to check him when he was playing right wing for Eastside. He played soccer the way you would expect a linebacker to play soccer. Was a long afternoon for me.
Man that's Led Zepplin as H_ll right there now!! =;-p
I was there as well. The made PAT was caught by a guy sitting right below me. To this day it was my most gratifying experience at a football game ever. Nothing like winning on the road......especially versus that team!
Yes...I remember that run of “closed-circuit” games we had with them from about 1981-1986. “Closed-circuit” was the exception to the “live televised” ban for the taters in ‘84. Just couldn’t watch it “live” in someone’s home or at a sports bar. I believe the 1986 “tie” at taterville was the last USC-tater game that was not televised by a conventional means (other than closed-circuit at both schools’ coliseums). There was one in the ‘90’s that appeared to be destined for no “conventional” live-airing, but a petition campaign by fans of both schools got ESPN to pick it up...on the deuce, maybe??
I was there. A friend of mine, a Clemson fan, had season tickets and invited me. Up until game time he was a smug SOB and just knew they would beat us. They jumped out to a lead but we came back and beat them. He was sick, literally. On the way home he had to pull over and vomit. No kidding.
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