The Band is on the Field, 40 Years Later

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It’s arguably the greatest play in college football history. November 20th, 1982. Stanford vs. Cal. A legendary rivalry known as the “Big Game,” that was made even bigger that year by the presence of Stanford’s all-world QB, John Elway. What happened in the final seconds still echoes across 40 years…the iconic call of Cal Radio’s Joe Starkey exclaiming, “The band is out on the field!” With a new E:60 special airing Sunday, Jeremy Schaap tells the story of how five laterals and a trombone became an indelible part of college football history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Jeremy Shap, you are obviously our resident historian and the most recent trip you
0:07.0	took was to a different sort of museum.
0:09.3	It was to the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.
0:13.5	What did you find there?
0:14.5	Well, there's all kinds of great stuff in there, Pablo.
0:18.3	Yeah, the College Football Hall of Fame, I had never been before.
0:27.2	You know, all this great memorabilia, helmets, displays.
0:31.6	I'm kind of a private quarterback for the football, not an athlete.
0:35.6	It really is a feast for the senses if you're a College Football fan.
0:42.0	It is up out of the score!
0:44.7	Enthusiast, such as I am, touched down the scene.
0:49.5	And but there was one item that I went down there that I made the trip specifically to Atlanta
0:55.5	to see this one thing.
0:57.8	Well, this is Gary Terrell's trombone.
1:01.4	So this is the trombone.
1:04.4	Sure.
1:05.4	This is probably one of the greatest musical instruments ever.
1:12.2	This is a musical instrument.
1:13.5	This trombone that holds a special place in the hearts of tens of millions of people.
1:19.4	And in the annals of instruments that have played a role throughout our history, in society,
1:26.4	from the Old Testament to trumpets and the walls of Jericho, Louis Armstrong's trumpet,
1:32.4	this trombone holds a place as significant as any of those.
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