Worst Egg Bowl loss......

[EurekaDog]

Maybe it's my memory failing me, but the ID wouldn't have occurred...

if Bellard hadn't called a TO before the FG attempt. During that TO, the wind had abated. I turned to the guys next to me and told them that "we" might rue calling that TO. As soon as Artie Cosby was lining up, the wind started blowing hard again.


Artie made a 51 FG earlier in the game (going the other way), which would have been good from 65 yards with the tailwind that day. Years later, Artie said he thought he could have made a 70 yarder kicking with the wind that day.

 

[Drebin]

if Bellard hadn't called a TO before the FG attempt. During that TO, the wind had abated. I turned to the guys next to me and told them that "we" might rue calling that TO. As soon as Artie Cosby was lining up, the wind started blowing hard again.


Artie made a 51 FG earlier in the game (going the other way), which would have been good from 65 yards with the tailwind that day. Years later, Artie said he thought he could have made a 70 yarder kicking with the wind that day.

Artie Cosby. Greatest kicker in MSU history. Also kicked a 53 yarder at the buzzer to beat Memphis State. They show that one a lot in the highlight packages at the stadium.

It's a shame that he was the one that had his kick blown back into his face.

 

[tcdog70]

This is it. Shut it down. There will never be a worse one.

right on--All kinds of shittyness occurred at the end of that game. a sick feeling that I still remember.

 

[tcdog70]

My god I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that PI call as that was before my time. Damn that was pathetic....

they changed the rule the next year on the spot on a PI call. To make matters worse was the fact that Emory pooched kicked and Ole Miss got the ball at mid-field. Just kick the SOB deep and we win. Then we let their dickhead QB run it in and nobody touched HIm.

 

[She Mate Me]

Artie Cosby. Greatest kicker in MSU history. Also kicked a 53 yarder at the buzzer to beat Memphis State. They show that one a lot in the highlight packages at the stadium.

It's a shame that he was the one that had his kick blown back into his face.

I was visiting State on some kind of academic deal as a HS'er that weekend. A big group of us from HS's all over the South went to that game and later I got busy with a cute little girl from Alabama (had no idea what I was doing, but I think we both had fun).

Anyway, thanks for reminding me of a top 5 weekend from my youth. Artie could kick the **** out of a football.

 

[msu84grad]

Was oN the staff of the Reflector that year. Everyone in the office was so P'O'd that we got a picture of that play and printed it full on the front page of the next Tuesday edition. The caption which filled a quarter of that page, "INTERFERENCE MY A**!"

Two years later the 1983 game and State was the home team again. This time I was the Reflector sports editor and sitting in the press box surrounded by Rebel student media (I don't know why Bo Carter put me there). Everything was going good until the missed kick -- and those jackass Rebels were the worst a""holes I had ever met in my sportswriting career.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

All of them...

 

[Shadow34]

That 2008 egg bowl is so bitter sweet. I sat through it and it was downright dreadful. BUT it forever changed our program and more importantly, it gave us some of the best Jack quotes of all time

“It’s third and so long, they’ll need to surveying equipment to see the first down marker”