Great comebacks

RaceBannon

1981. Washington 27, Cal 26 (The Comeback, Part I).

Cal led 21-0 in the third quarter at home. Washington then scored 17 points in a matter of minutes thanks to two Cal fumbles on their own 12 and 25 yard lines. Then Cal got fortune from a safety to extend their lead, only to immediately give up another Husky touchdown, completing a 24-2 run in just under a quarter. Both teams then exchanged field goals, with Washington kicking the game-winning field goal with 11

Washington went onto win the Pac-10 and the Rose Bowl. Cal finished 2-9.

1988. Washington 28, Cal 27 (The Comeback, Part II).

Cal led 27-3 with 263 yards on offense at halftime, then got outscored 25-0 in the final 25 minutes. Washington would score on four of its six drives and Cal would have trouble crossing midfield. The Huskies hit the game-winning field goal as time expired to complete the greatest comeback in Washington football history.

The most confusing part of this game. Washington went for two to cut it to 27-11 (correct), then kicked a regular extra point to cut it to 27-18 (why). Washington would’ve only needed two scores if the touchdown converted! Why did football genius Don James do that? What was the thought process here? So many questions.

Washington finished 6-5. Cal finished 5-5-1, but only one Pac-10 conference win.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Greg Lewis' 10-yard run with 1:02 remaining in the 4th quarter brought the Washington Huskies from a 21-point deficit Saturday to defeat the UCLA Bruins, 28-27.

Husky place-kicker John McCallum put the winning point on the board when he successfully kicked the conversion point following Lewis' touchdown.

https://upi.com/Archives/1989/10/28/Washington-28-UCLA-27/3573625550400/

Winners win. Better to learn a lesson in victory than defeat. Better to win the second half than the first. Better to FINISH than to not

Jimmy 3.0 baby

backthepack

PurpleBaze

I remember an article in the Seattle Tims before the 1988 Cal game about a senior Cal linebacker (I think his name was Ortega) who was sick of losing to the Huskies and how he wanted to silence the siren. Didn't work out too well for him in the second half of that game.

I remember that UCLA game also. I'm not sure if it was televised, but at the very least I was listening on the radio. I couldn't stand them, because they had our? number and I thought they got the calls from the wefs when they played in Seattle with Aikman and beat the Huskies. Anyway, I held a high level of contempt for the Bruins, especially after the 1990 debacle and then the whole JJ Stokes game against puppy's beloved Lambo.

GrundleStiltzkin

https://youtu.be/Qu3bJ1-4aHQ

GreenRiverGatorz

I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.

TheRoarOfTheCrowd

I stopped watching after that play and watched good morning viet nam with my wife while having a drink to cheer up. Cued up the game again and watched to the end to see what happened after the movie. That play was the zenith of weird, the visible footprint of WTF, could not believe what i was seeing.

PurpleBaze

GreenRiverGatorz said:

I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.

Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.

I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.

backthepack

My parents don’t GAF about husky football and my immigrant grandparents couldn’t GAF about football in general. This is the closest thing to learning about husky lore from my elders that I get. TYFYS guys.

DerekJohnson

PurpleBaze said:

I remember an article in the Seattle Tims before the 1988 Cal game about a senior Cal linebacker (I think his name was Ortega) who was sick of losing to the Huskies and how he wanted to silence the siren. Didn't work out too well for him in the second half of that game.

I remember that UCLA game also. I'm not sure if it was televised, but at the very least I was listening on the radio. I couldn't stand them, because they had our? number and I thought they got the calls from the wefs when they played in Seattle with Aikman and beat the Huskies. Anyway, I held a high level of contempt for the Bruins, especially after the 1990 debacle and then the whole JJ Stokes game against puppy's beloved Lambo.

Sounds like you cared

DerekJohnson

PurpleBaze said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.

Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.

I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.

Either Gaspard or Bailey dropped a perfect pass in the end zone that would have beat Colorado

PurpleBaze

DerekJohnson said:

PurpleBaze said:

I remember an article in the Seattle Tims before the 1988 Cal game about a senior Cal linebacker (I think his name was Ortega) who was sick of losing to the Huskies and how he wanted to silence the siren. Didn't work out too well for him in the second half of that game.

I remember that UCLA game also. I'm not sure if it was televised, but at the very least I was listening on the radio. I couldn't stand them, because they had our? number and I thought they got the calls from the wefs when they played in Seattle with Aikman and beat the Huskies. Anyway, I held a high level of contempt for the Bruins, especially after the 1990 debacle and then the whole JJ Stokes game against puppy's beloved Lambo.

Sounds like you cared

I did.

PurpleBaze

DerekJohnson said:

PurpleBaze said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.

Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.

I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.

Either Gaspard or Bailey dropped a perfect pass in the end zone that would have beat Colorado

Yeah, but still.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

PurpleBaze said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.

Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.

I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.

That game is my earliest memory of football play calling frustration.

There may have been earlier moments but I probably wasn’t as invested in UW football yet.

AtomicDawg

@RaceBannon the 2000 game vs cal and the 93/94 season were great too. Typical tui game and Huard led them back from a 23-3 deficit in late 3rd quarter

This is when our players expected to never lose to
Cal.

theknowledge

The Curtis Williams game in 2000 was a great last drive. Tui threw three or four passes right down the field for the win. Zip, zip, zip game over. The 1989 UCLA game was one of my first memories of actually caring about Husky football. Greg Lewis running up the middle and then dancing in the end zone with the ball over his head will forever be logged in my memory. We? just didn't beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl at that time. We? just didn't.

whlinder

The Curtis Williams game was at Stanford and wasn’t shown on TV anywhere in Seattle. That was a great last second comeback.

A year later, in the last game before 9-11, we were down 12-6 to Michigan in the 4th when they lined up for a short FG. Instead of down 2 scores we blocked it and returned for a TD and the lead. After the kickoff we picked 6 to go up by 8. I can’t recall a similar swing, from nearly going down 2 scores to going up by 8 in the fourth. We kicked another FG to put the game away before Mich scored a meaningless TD.

DoogmanRefund

I left a game against Arizona in like 2003 only to hear the crowd roar as Reggie Williams took the game winner to the house.

theknowledge

whlinder said:

The Curtis Williams game was at Stanford and wasn’t shown on TV anywhere in Seattle. That was a great last second comeback.

A year later, in the last game before 9-11, we were down 12-6 to Michigan in the 4th when they lined up for a short FG. Instead of down 2 scores we blocked it and returned for a TD and the lead. After the kickoff we picked 6 to go up by 8. I can’t recall a similar swing, from nearly going down 2 scores to going up by 8 in the fourth. We kicked another FG to put the game away before Mich scored a meaningless TD.

I'm think I remember watching that Stanford game on Prime Sports NW. It's possible I listened on the radio and watched the game on replay as I was young and drunk a lot but I'm pretty sure I watched it live.

Alexis

PurpleBaze said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

I'm relieved to hear that Don James wasn't immune from the occasional trip-over-your-own-dick decisions. Last night's delay of game penalty instead of taking a timeout was so wildly incompetent I briefly considered that Jimmy may not have the fast-paced aptitude to survive in this game. But maybe that's just it. In a sport that is high-intensity and high-pressure, even the best coaches are bound to turn into complete momentary retards from time to time.

Don James was not perfect in gameday situations. I wonder what things would have looked like if there was social media and message boards back then. How would we have reacted to the way some games were called. We would have wanted him fired multiple times.

I still remember the 1990 Colorado game, where the Huskies were inside the Colorado 10 and went with 4 straight pass attempts to try to score the a game-winning touchdown. That was a head-scratcher, especially since the Huskies had a good running game. The other game that sticks out for me was the 1992 "Snow Bowl" Apple Cup. They kept trying to run the ball with Kaufman, but it was hard for him to make his cuts and turn the corner around the end. The Huskies were having success running the ball up the gut with Darius Turner. They decided to abandon this and to this day I don't know why. I remember talking to some cuog frens back then and they wondered the same thing.

I've seen Greg Lewis at a few UW fundraiser golf tourneys over the years and I always ask him why he didn't touch the ball from the 7 yard line when he was averaging about 4.5 yards a carry.

He just smiled and never really answered.

CSB

huskyhooligan

That Stanford game i was so disgusted i got in the car and headed to my go to glory hole for some pitty sex. Got the dial turned just in time to hear rondeau call the touchdown to Robbins. Pity sex turned into celebration sex.

dnc

PurpleBaze said:

I remember an article in the Seattle Tims before the 1988 Cal game about a senior Cal linebacker (I think his name was Ortega) who was sick of losing to the Huskies and how he wanted to silence the siren. Didn't work out too well for him in the second half of that game.

I remember that UCLA game also. I'm not sure if it was televised, but at the very least I was listening on the radio. I couldn't stand them, because they had our? number and I thought they got the calls from the wefs when they played in Seattle with Aikman and beat the Huskies. Anyway, I held a high level of contempt for the Bruins, especially after the 1990 debacle and then the whole JJ Stokes game against puppy's beloved Lambo.

It was on TV. I had been watching games for a couple years by then but that is one of the first games I have clear specific memories of watching. I knew beating Jon Don's Uncle in Pasadena was a BFD. IFL'ed Greg Lewis.