40 Years Ago Today...

[nesjunk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ3Jg321pK0

[Tejano Jawg]

"On January 2nd, 1978...the Okies and Arkies had a little date." Remember that little tune?...I thought about that last night. The song helps me remember that the game wasn't on Jan 1st.

Jim Simpson and Merlin Olsen. How glorious.

[Pigsknuckles]

Is Lou wearing a University of Miami hat in the intro?

[Hoot72]

May be the best defense that the Razorbacks ever fielded!  I read article once, where Holtz said that Monte Kiffin walked into his office two weeks before the game saying, "We've got'em."  Holtz said that never doubted that they would win, once Kiffin said that.  Would love to see a similar defense now.

[tlmack]

And I was there ! Can't believe that was 40 years ago.

[LZH]

Love watching those old commercials.

[pignparadise]

Again who is dressed out in Donnie BoBo's uniform?

[redleg]

I was 6 years old when this game was played. I remember watching my dad jump up and down on the couch in our living room, hollaring at the TV and laughing his butt off! 
I became a Hog fan that night!

[BloodRedHog]

Love watching those old commercials.

Goodyear...Tiempo?
National Airlines?
Those commercials were great.

[BloodRedHog]

May be the best defense that the Razorbacks ever fielded!  I read article once, where Holtz said that Monte Kiffin walked into his office two weeks before the game saying, "We've got'em."  Holtz said that never doubted that they would win, once Kiffin said that.  Would love to see a similar defense now.

I remember that, too.
I think it was an Orville Henry piece where Holtz walked into JFB's office after watching film and told Frank he had doubt they would win.

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Is Lou wearing a University of Miami hat in the intro?

Yes!

[LZH]

Goodyear...Tiempo?
National Airlines?
Those commercials were great.

Doesn't seem that long ago.

[Inhogswetrust]

Is Lou wearing a University of Miami hat in the intro?

Yes he was. Surprised Frank didn't fire him on the spot! To say Lou is/was an enigma is an understatement. WHY on earth would ANY coach wear another teams hat on TV or anywhere in public.

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Yes he was. Surprised Frank didn't fire him on the spot! To say Lou is/was an enigma is an understatement. WHY on earth would ANY coach wear another teams hat on Tv or anywhere in public.

When he went out to tape the pregame comments, it was raining & Lou didn't have a hat, so someone gave him that one to wear. Just a spur of the moment thing.

[pghawg1]

 Don't u all Know O U was drugged that Night. We drug them All over the field. . W P S

[Torqued pork]

I mostly remember being in such a state of shock I was reluctant to believe what I was seeing until the last minute or two of the game.

[Inhogswetrust]

When he went out to tape the pregame comments, it was raining & Lou didn't have a hat, so someone gave him that one to wear. Just a spur of the moment thing.

Why did he need a hat with an umbrella.....................If I were the coach I would never agree to wear another teams hat under any circumstances in public. Especially on national TV.

[(notOM)Rebel123]

Why did he need a hat with an umbrella.....................If I were the coach I would never agree to wear another teams hat under any circumstances in public. Especially on national TV.

The umbrella was a last second addition and he didn't think to take off the cap (According to a guy I know who was working in the staff at the time). Plus, they blotted out "Miami Hurricanes" on the cap but you could still see the logo. But It was 1978. Nobody gave a crap about it....until....well now.

[Tejano Jawg]

It's a trip watching the broadcast as it was, commercials, pre-game and all. This will take awhile to get through. I'll watch a few minutes every chance I get.

I remember the opening segment, with Switzer under the umbrella in the rain. And I thought it was more obvious that Holtz was not in the rain (interesting story here about Lou's cap), like the bad weather was only on the Oklahoma side...maybe I just imagined it. Or it was a strange positive premonition.

So many great details, like the short-lived NBC "N" logo. Forgot that Frank did the opening prayer. It's funny hearing how the play-by-play and color are done...Merlin sounded very subdued at first. And when he was introducing OU's offensive line, I could swear he says their right tackle is a "full-blooded Indian." I backed it up several times, can't figure out anything else he could've said.

I was a freshman in high school then, and was watching the game with my parents in our living room. We all came out of our seats on every good play. Like every play in OU's first series...we were just hammering them. Heck, they fumbled on their first play, but Sims recovered it. I love our first snap, with Calcagni keeping on a nice option run. He was so money running the veer-option. And after Sales scored on the next play, Jim Simpson exclaims "What a day for football!" Indeed.

[bennyl08]

Sgt Pepper taught the band to play...

[rzrbkman]

I was trying to remember just how late the game kicked off due to the Rose Bowl taking so long to complete. I was thinking 8:15 or 8:30 CST and it lasted until almost midnight. Public school started back up the next day but I'm guessing a lot of kids had no problem getting up that morning.

[Inhogswetrust]

I was trying to remember just how late the game kicked off due to the Rose Bowl taking so long to complete. I was thinking 8:15 or 8:30 CST and it lasted until almost midnight. Public school started back up the next day but I'm guessing a lot of kids had no problem getting up that morning.

Heck everyone I know didn't even go to sleep after that!

[rljjr]

I was 9. We had to go to school the next day if I remember right and I hadn't done my homework during the Christmas break. I was forced to sit in my room and do my homework while all the hooting and hollering was going on in the living room. I managed to fake my homework pretty quickly during my sneak peeks at the TV from behind everyone. I sure was extra thirsty too, having to get up and go to the kitchen every few minutes. What a game.

[Corkscrew Johnson]

Even Houston Nutt got in a few snaps at QB.  I wonder if he claimed credit for those play calls. 

[LZH]

"Full blooded Indian "......

I heard that too.

[12247]

I remember the game well.  Was working out of town and had just got home for a few days and had a few friends over for drinks.  One was an OU grad who just wouldn't shut up about how bad Arkansas was going to lose, especially after Holtz suspended 3 or 4 better players.  Well, I finally offered that we would likely lose the game but was certain we could cover the points which were Hogs + 20 where I was at.  That got a chuckle from the OU grad and he wondered how much I was willing to play that for.  I stated a bunch and he called me on that.  I laid down 12 one hundred dollar bills on the coffee table expecting him to say lets stay within reason but he covered the bet with his own hundred dollar bills.  40 years ago, those 100 dollar bill were each worth about 250 in today's money.  His wife and my lady friend, having not drank as much as he and I went down the line picking up the money until there was 100 dollars each left.  After a good scolding by the women, we agreed that was fair and history tells the rest. 

A very good friend, a big OU supporter and an overall good person, but he had to pay off in front of all our buddies the next day.  As any gambler knows, its not always how much but how you accept the win and it must be wherever brings the most disgrace to the loser.  I've certainly been on both sides of that.

[12247]

Roland Sales, from zero  to hero. 

[Mo_Better_Hogs]

This video is fantastic. I've never seen it, who dug that up? I'm only a few minutes in, so bad-ass, this will take some time to get through. I was in 8th grade, and no, going back to school didn't hurt so much because everyone was sky high from the game. It's all anyone wanted to talk about.

We all know about Cowins, Forest and Bobo getting suspended, but I didn't remember our All-American o-lineman Leotis Harris was out with an injury. Wow, that's a big hole to fill, but someone filled it. It was just our night!

[hogsanity]

Love watching that. Lineup snap, huddle, lineup snap. No prairie dog, no giant posters on the sidelines.

I was 7 yrs old when that game was played, and I was lucky the school I went to did not start back until the 4th, so I got to stay up and watch the whole game.

[swinemaster]

I was also 7 years old but we lived in Los Angeles.  About 8 or 10 of our cousins were visiting from Arkansas.  We took them all to Disneyland and then watched this game the next day.  I remember it like it was yesterday.  It was also the day that I became a Razorback fan.  We moved to Arkansas the next summer.

[nesjunk]

We moved to Oklahoma just the summer before.  We took a lot of ribbing from the locals prior to the game.  The next day, Dad took a sack of oranges to work and passed them out.  It's really a shame that rivalry hasn't been nourished.  There is real potential there.

[wildturkey8]

Goodyear...Tiempo?
National Airlines?
Those commercials were great.

American Exceptionalism.  What a great time.

[Arthur pigby sellers.]

"Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play?"

[welchog]

And I was there ! Can't believe that was 40 years ago.

Same here.  First Hog game I saw in person.  And only second in color.

[longtimeHogfan]

I wasn't there but I know where I was!  WPS!

[elksnort]

I was there.  One of my favorite times of my life.

I could go on and on about this game my dad's mother's house was about 20 blocks west of there and I went to school 55 miles north of there I was 12 years old. The halftime show at the Orange Bowl was one of the first big Productions of halftime shows. They passed out these orange flashlights to everyone

[Albert Einswine]

We watched it on TV. It was a continuous celebration that night. I was 27 days shy of my 12th birthday.

[LZH]

I was there.  One of my favorite times of my life.

I could go on and on about this game my dad's mother's house was about 20 blocks west of there and I went to school 55 miles north of there I was 12 years old. The halftime show at the Orange Bowl was one of the first big Productions of halftime shows. They passed out these orange flashlights to everyone

Little Havana!

[(notOM)Rebel123]

"Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play?"

Uh, that was "20 years ago..."😉

[Hogtimes]

Couple of years ago I saw an interview with Holtz talking about that game.   He said OU was so good and so confident that they had become predictable and Arkansas game planned for that.  That is probably what Kiffin was referring to in an above post.   The plan gave Arkansas the edge they needed.

He also said something else that will probably get me a bunch of smites....but I am just repeating what Holtz  said.   What he said was.... if they would have had to play OU again, OU would have beaten them badly.
 


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[murthage]

Thanks for the video... really enjoyable evening watching every second on a bitter cold afternoon.  Houston Nutt was a part of the history...... how ironic. Don't take that for anymore than it is... reliving the past.  Back then, everybody knew Ron Calcagni, Roland Sales, Dan Hampton, etc.  Never remembered Huston Nutt as a player. 

[PigTimePlayer]

wow...and a televised opening prayer by Frank Broyles. Hard to imagine that today. Great video.

[DeltaBoy]

Many Delta Farmer's Wife's were driving New Caddys that Spring!

[Tejano Jawg]

Couple of years ago I saw an interview with Holtz talking about that game.   He said OU was so good and so confident that they had become predictable and Arkansas game planned for that.  That is probably what Kiffin was referring to in an above post.   The plan gave Arkansas the edge they needed.

He also said something else that will probably get me a bunch of smites....but I am just repeating what Holtz  said.   What he said was.... if they would have had to play OU again, OU would have beaten them badly.

You never know...if they'd hit one early, would it have been a different game? We nailed that triple option of theirs a lot, but they put some drives together too. And a few long runs. But we always had an answer it seemed. Merlin talked about our lack of size on D, but we had smarts and speed.

Our offensive line may not get enough credit. Calcagni had some nice seams to run through, and we all know about Sales. We'd just push them off the ball when we needed too. I'm not quite an hour into the video, end of the first qtr—we're up 14-0.

A couple quotes—Arkansas has allowed, over the year, less than 9 points a game. And...Oklahoma has put more than 50 points average on the board in the last 4 games. So...something had to give.

[razorbacker3]

I was 23 and spent the 2 days before in Dallas celebrating New Years and going to the NFC championship, Dallas vs, Minnesota. Left Dallas when the Cotton Bowl, Texas vs. Notre Dame started and got back to Pine Bluff just in time to eat dinner and watch the hogs destroy OU. Capped off a fantastic weekend.

[PonderinHog]

Sgt Pepper taught the band to play...

Finally!

[PonderinHog]

Uh, that was "20 years ago..."😉

More like 60 now!

[Grunt]

And I was there ! Can't believe that was 40 years ago.

I just watched nearly the whole thing. Remembered every big play and that night sitting in the floor with a bottle of champagne.

[OneTuskOverTheLine™]

I was 7... The Broadmore cinema in Pine Bluff had a cartoon event for kids that I got shuffled off to attend. I guess it was to get the kids out of the house. I remember being so mad at my parents after hearing about that game everyday for nearly a month... Now I finally get to see it in all of it's glory. Thank You OP... +1

[Wild Bill Hog]

The Steve Little quick kick is the play that sticks out most in my mind.  When he kneeled down in the backfield (so as not to be in OU's sight I'm guessing) I jumped up and started yelling "Quick Kick".  He stuck out like a sore thumb because we didn't have any white backs except Calcagni.  He got all of his foot into that ball.  A great night indeed.