Best and Worst Moments of the Callahan Era

by Husker Mike on Jul 22, 2007 10:11 PM CDT in Football Comment 6 comments

JJ reminded me on Friday about the 18 yard field goal against Pitt...something I had finally put behind me, which got me thinking of the Best and Worst moments of the Callahan era:

Worst:

Texas Tech scores their 70th point after Beau Davis' fifth turnover of the night.

Kansas State sniffs out a swing pass in the end zone for their second safety of the game.

Kansas hangs 40 on the Huskers in Lawrence.

Callahan lets his emotions get the best of him against Oklahoma (throat slash/"F-in Hillbillies")

1-AA Maine pulls to within 1 score of the Huskers midway through the 4th quarter.

But, in the interest of ending on a positive note, I'll throw in the best moments:

Callahan gets a Gatorade dunk from his players after blowing out Colorado in Boulder 30-3.

Barry Turner blocks an A&M field goal, Todd Peterson makes a couple of clutch receptions, and Maurice Purify leaps for the game winner in College Station.

Zack Bowman finally gets the Weasels out of bounds (since the Stanford band wasn't available) to seal an Alamo Bowl victory.

The Huskers block an attempted Pitt game winning field goal.

Joe Dailey completes pass-after-pass on the opening drive on the opening drive of the Callahan era. (OK, it didn't happen much after that, sans against Baylor...but it was a pretty exciting, impressive drive...)

Anybody want to throw out other candidates for best moments? (We really don't want to remember any more of those "other" moments...)

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Eight or nine trick plays against Colorado

last season.

My favorite being the one where Taylor walked away from center looking like he's calling timeout then the ball was direct snapped to the back for a first down.

Of course, Purify's TD pass didn't suck either.

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Jul 23, 2007 10:38 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

This was the very type of thing I was dreading...

...when I heard that Husker Mike was going to be contributing here. Wasn't one blog enough for him to bestow his insight unto us?

I can't wait for this next month to pass, so I can stop hearing about this sort of thing....I mean, I personally think it's sort of a reach when two of the "worst" moments of the Callahan era occurred during Husker victories. I'd suppose that the reason for this is that those wins weren't achieved via the patented Nebraska Way™...but I don't know. But I guess it sure was terrible watching NU beat Kstate on the home turf in '05. It sure was a drag watching our Huskers beat Bill Snyder's final team in the stadium where the wildcats had beaten us by 4 TD's the previous time we met them on Tom Osborne field! I don't know what I was doing jumping up and down so giddily after Congdon's kick sailed through the uprights that day--stupid me, I should have been bemoaning one of the "worst moments of the Callahan era"! (And we seem to have ironically forgotten all about Cally's decision to burn Harrison Beck's redshirt that same afternoon. I remember vividly reading in the paper on the way back home the next day how much of an idiot Callahan was for that and how it was just about the end of the world...but I guess that must've been "worst moment #6".) But this all begs the question: when a coach runs off the two freshmen heroes of the "second worst event of his NU career"...is that a good or bad thing?! This can all become so confusing at times--thankfully we have people like Husker Mike to dictate and define the ever-evolving nature of the Nebraska Way™...so simpletons like myself will always be reminded of how terrible the events that we once celebrated truly were.

But all sarcasm aside, it looks like Mike needs some new material. And with a new season's worth of games just about to begin, I'm sure the endless nitpicking of Husker wins will soon commence as well.

by DTsker on Jul 23, 2007 2:44 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

DT

nice post DT, very nice!

'za blang thang

by Ze Robertinho on Jul 23, 2007 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well...

I'm glad you brought up the KSU win. I was driving back to Nebraska for deer firearm season, listening to that game on the radio. We really pulled out the season with that one....

Go Big Red!

by Jon Johnston on Jul 24, 2007 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Highlights

Repeated successful trick plays vs Puff Tards '06. Best one: ZT's fake time out on 4th down, Green goes for the first. ( Mo P also had a ridiculous one handed catch along the sideline in that game).

Near upset of TX '06.

'za blang thang

by Ze Robertinho on Jul 23, 2007 10:15 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

peaks and valleys

My favorite moment

My least favorite moment

I'd also add the fumbled interception against Texas Tech two years ago and Terrence's fumbled first-down against Texas last year to the worst moments list. Those were straight knees-to-the-groin.

Can you hear this, Denver, or shall I turn it up for you?

by Ignignokt on Jul 23, 2007 11:11 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs