Back in 2003 - After Sundays NFL games, I was down by about 40 points in my Fantasy Football game with 1 player left..and his dad died that night I assumed he wouldn't even play on MNF. I was wrong. Less than 24 hours after his fathers death, Brett Favre threw for 399 yards and 4 touchdowns. I won that fantasy matchup and later on won the league.
In the final 4-1/2 minutes of this game, a total of 48 points were scored. If you don't know the story of the John Tyler vs. Plano East game, you MUST watch this now. Both Amazing and Amazingly heartbreaking.
Spoiler My father and I watched this game at the Dome on November 23 or 24, 1968. Towards the end of it, the homecoming crowd was chanting, "We want a hundred! We want a hundred!" They got it. I tried to feel sorry for Tulsa, who were getting crushed while playing UH's 2nd and 3rd string during much of the 2nd half, but couldn't. It was too much fun. Sorry, but don't have the stat line. Gipson scored three touchdowns on runs of 35, 18 and 14 yards while setting single game, single season and career rushing records. The hard-running fullback gained 282 yards in 29 carries to up his season's total to 1386 yards with one game to play Friday night against Florida State. His three-year total is 2585 yards, wiping out the former mark of 2507 yards set in 1949-51 by Gene Shannon. Record Score A 27 point onslaught in the third period and 49 point deluge in the fourth quarter, turned the game into a runaway as the Cougars mounted their highest point total in history. Sharing the spotlight with Gipson on this historic night was Terry Leiweke, the Cougars' kicking specialist. It was he who kicked the extra point following Mike Simpson's 58 yard punt return for the final Cougar touchdown that enabled the Big Red to reach the magic 100 point barrier. The Cougars would have broken that magic number if Leiweke had not missed a point after touchdown following Gipson's second touchdown in the third quarter. But hitting on 13 of 14 conversions and toeing a 36 yard field goal, which Leiweke did in the second quarter, isn't a performance to be sneezed at. Scoring Distributed The remainder of the Cougar scoring was well distributed. Quarterback Ken Bailey, who completed four of nine passes for 92 yards, connected on a 68 yard pass to Elmo Wright for one touchdown and ran one yard for another. Wright scored a second time on a 66 yard end-around play. Rusty Clark, who took over the Cougar quarterbacking late in the third period, scored one touchdown on an 11 yard run and passed for three, connecting with Jim Strong on a 26 yarder, with Larry Gatlin on a 25 yarder and with Otis Stewart on a 19 yarder. Carlos Bell ran 21 yards for another TD, Johnny Peacock returned an intercepted pass 34 yards for a touchdown and Mike Simpson carried another back 58 yards for the final score. The Cougars also had two more touchdowns called back on a night when they could do little wrong. Tulsa passes for TD Tulsa's only score on its most embarrassing football day in history came early in the third period on a 14 yard pass from Joe Fitzgerald to Mike Burkett. Les Rogers, a 5-10 tailback, set the stage for the score by returning the second half kickoff 80 yards to the Cougar 14 where Charlie Hall dragged him to the turf. That score cut the Cougar's lead to 24-6, and put new hope into the visitors, who had lost six of eight games going into Saturday's 19th game with Houston. But that touchdown also turned on the faucet that led to the great flood of indoor touchdowns in football history. It was a rout the rest of the way with Cougar fans yelling for more as the Big Red piled point on point. Records Fall The Cougars, hoping to impress enough folks across the nation to gain a place in the top 10, set a new school record of 37 first downs and a single game offense record of 762 yards. Tulsa made 12 first downs, but could gain only 86 yards rushing and 78 yards passing against the nation's ninth best defense. Houston scored the first two times it had the ball and was stopped on the Tulsa one on the third time. Gipson galloped 35 yards for the Cougars first score with 12:26 to play in the first stanza and Ken Bailey passed 60 yards to Wright for the second score with 8:30 to go. It looked like the Cougars would get a third when Gipson broke loose on a dazzling 49 yard run that carried to the Hurricane seven. But the Gipper could get only six yards in four tries as Ed Brown stopped him three times and Jim Fiddler once. Houston, while piling up large chunks of yardage, then found points hard to come by and had to settle for a 14-0 first quarter lead. Settle for Field Goal Tulsa staved off another Cougar threat at the four and following Paul Shires' 10th pass interception of the season, that tied the school record, the Hurricane forced the Cougars to settle for Leiweke's 36 yard field goal with 4:31 to go in the first half. Houston managed to score again before intermission on a 32 yard drive following a 15 yard Tulsa punt. Bailey sneaked across from the one with 1:02 to go in the half, upping Houston's lead to 24-0. Tulsa cut that margin to 24-6 in the opening minutes of the second half. But Houston got that touchdown back in a hurry, going 55 yards in five plays following the kickoff. The touchdown came in Bell's 21 yard run around right end. Peacock's interception of a Johnny Dobbs' pass at the Tulsa 28 set the stage for another Cougar score. Gipson got in on an 18 yard dash down the sideline bowling over Doug Wyatt at the one and barging into the end zone standing up. It was then that Leiweke missed for the only time of the game, but Houston led 37-6. Punt Return Wiped Out Even though they had a 50 yard punt return by Simpson wiped out by a holding penalty, the Cougars continued to keep the scoreboard operator working at a maddening pace. By this time the Cougars were scoring every time they got the ball (they had to punt only once during the game). Wright hot-footed it 66 yards on an end around for a touchdown. Then the Cougars went 48 yards in three plays with Gipson going over on a 14 yard burst through right tackle. At the three-quarter mark Houston led, 51-6. And though reserves were in the lineup, the Cougars kept rolling. They scored in four plays from the Tulsa 39 following a short punt with Ted Heiskell smashing over from the two. They added another touchdown 14 seconds later when Clark passed 19 yards to Stewart in the end zone. This one came after Rogers fumbled the kickoff and Houston recovered on the Tulsa 22. Clark Loses Jersey The next time Houston got the ball Clark passed 26 yards to Strong for a touchdown, then Peacock returned a pass interception for 34 yards for another. The Cougars went 48 yards in six plays for their 13th touchdown with Clark going over from the 11 and leaving most of his jersey in the hands of clutching Tulsans. Now the score was 86-6. And wouldn't you know it, Tulsa fumbled the kickoff and Houston recovered and quickly scored on a 25 yard pass from Clark to Gatlin. The score was then 93-6 and Cougar fans set up a howl for 100 points. When Simpson returned a punt 58 yards for a touchdown and Leiweke had enough oomph left in his right leg to boot the ball through the uprights for the conversion. It was the sixth victory of the season for the once-beaten and twice tied Cougars and the third time they have been over 71 points. They defeated Cincinnati 71-33 and Idaho, 77-3, just a week ago.
In October 2014 Logan Thomas comes in at QB for Drew Stanton. 1-8, 81yds, 1TD. Arizona loses 41-20. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201410050den.htm In 1979, Chargers RB Hank Bauer had season totals 22 rushes for 28yds and 8TD. In 2014 as a color commentator for the Chargers he was suspended for anti-Semitic joke. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BaueHa00.htm In 1983 the Seattle Seahawks beat the eventual SB Champion LA Raiders 38-36. Jim Zorn was 4-16, 13 yards. 1 sack - 11yds. The Raiders had 383 total yards to the Seahawks 153 (151 rushing, 2 passing). The Raiders commited EIGHT TURNOVERS (3 INT, 6FBLs (5lost)). https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/198310160sea.htm
THIS WEEK IN HEISMAN HISTORY: ANDRE WARE AND HOUSTON SCORE 95 College football history is replete with mind-boggling scoring explosions. Individual teams have surpassed the 100-point barrier 194 times since 1884, with most of these blowouts coming during the leather helmet era. Georgia Tech’s record 222-0 crushing of Cumberland in 1916 remains the gold standard for such performances. While Heisman history doesn’t feature any 100-point games, it came awfully close back in 1989. Thirty years ago this week, Houston defeated Southern Methodist, 95-21, as eventual Heisman winner Andre Ware threw for 517 yards and six touchdowns while playing just the game’s first half. https://www.heisman.com/articles/this-week-in-heisman-history-andre-ware-and-houston-score-95/
reminds me: Fernando Tatís 8 RBIs in one inning...lulz That 2nd slam is definitely Trolling ... like, "you really going to let Jeremy Lin pitch to me again this inning?"
The Coogs have a fantastic sports history. Yes, it's been a while since a lot of it, but considering how long they were shut out of the Southwest Conference, and how they were treated with it's demise, they're hanging in there. Fighting to be relevant. I'll always be a fan.
That was a candyass game and nobody associated with UH should be proud. First year they had a team after the death penalty, SMU played all freshmen. Biggest joke of a Heisman in modern history, and nothing against Andre Ware, who is a great guy.
No love for Gronkowski? https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/01/su...high-school-basketball-buffalo-joke-story/amp
In your opinion who should have won the Heisman that year? Anthony Thompson, who finished 2nd in voting for a 5-6 Indiana team? Major Harris who finished 3rd and had a solid year for 8-3 West Virginia? Or my personal favorite, Notre Dame QB Tony Rice, who finished 4th with a breathtaking stat line of 1122yds passing, 49.6%, 2TD, 9INT, with 884 rushing yds and 7TD? I guess if you mean it wasn't a strong year for Heisman candidates overall, then mea culpa.
NBA Allan Houston 37pts 0reb 0ast 0stls 0blk 38mins Damon Stoudemire 54pts 0reb 1ast 1stl 0blk 0TO 43min Rasual Butler 1TO 0min played. (Committed 5 second violation while clock was stopped, subbed out) Corey Maggette 10min, 17-20 FT/FTA Hakeem Olajuwon 48pts, 0FTA, 24-40 FG/FGA MLB Jaime Moyer had faced 8.9% of all MLB hitters EVER when he retired. Tony Gwynn had 45 career four hit games. Tony Gwynn had 34 career multi-strikeout games. WTF. Greg Maddux faced 20,421 batters in his career. Only 133 of them saw a 3-0 count. Greg Maddux once threw 76 pitches in a complete game. Nolan Ryan struck out 163 batters at least 10 times.
