1989 Auburn- The run!

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#1fulmerite said:


I remember this play from a fan favorite! Dude had both size and speed!
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I remember this game so well. Coming off the horrible year prior. We were an underdog in this game. I remember reading the Tennessean pre-game report and telling my buddy that we looked better on paper.

Talk about a dominant O-line. This team had it.
 
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I remember this play; I thought they showed an angle from the offensive backfield where you can really see Charles McRae absolutely level that linebacker.

Funniest thing to me is just how grainy the picture looks now. I can’t figure out if these video clips have deteriorated over time or they were originally this bad. I don’t remember them looking like they were from 1971.
 
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I just looked up his weight when he played. The search engine said 212 pounds. Does he look that light to anyone watching that video. He looks 225 plus to me.
 
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VOLdo Raine said:
I remember this play; I thought they showed an angle from the offensive backfield where you can really see Charles McRae absolutely level that linebacker.

Funniest thing to me is just how grainy the picture looks now. I can’t figure out if these video clips have deteriorated over time or they were originally this bad. I don’t remember them looking like they were from 1971.
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Probably the best block in UT history. And it was on Quentin Riggins who was a very good LB.
 
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One of the most fun games I ever attended. Rain-soaked, marathon afternoon game due to the long, old fashioned TV timeouts.
People were partying in the stands like a rare Southern snowstorm.
It was my Freshman year at UT and just remember all the Jack Daniels being consumed and passed around under the clear rain tarps during the game. No one was worried about getting caught with their flasks!
 
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VOLdo Raine said:
I remember this play; I thought they showed an angle from the offensive backfield where you can really see Charles McRae absolutely level that linebacker.

Funniest thing to me is just how grainy the picture looks now. I can’t figure out if these video clips have deteriorated over time or they were originally this bad. I don’t remember them looking like they were from 1971.
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I do believe that VHS and Beta tapes deteriorated over time. Partly due improper storage. In my personal DIY efforts, I transferred tape to CD/DVD early on and got better video display results. They keep better than tapes.
 
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VOLdo Raine said:
I remember this play; I thought they showed an angle from the offensive backfield where you can really see Charles McRae absolutely level that linebacker.

Funniest thing to me is just how grainy the picture looks now. I can’t figure out if these video clips have deteriorated over time or they were originally this bad. I don’t remember them looking like they were from 1971.
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conversions... probably not that bad on TV originally.

I recorded that game on VHS tape. Then converted it to DVDs as I did hundreds of others for storage purposes. Then converted the DVDs to ISO file structures on a hard drive. Then converted the ISO files to MP4 to compress them for less storage.

Storage is much cheaper today but I still use compression when collecting games. I have over 1100 Tennessee football games (not all full games) recorded. I also have thousand of other games recorded not just UT football, Super Bowls UT basketball, baseball, SEC Football championship games, National championship games, final fours.

But yeah, the 80s and even 90s is much grainer than todays recordings. Freaks recordings are great quality. I'm more about quantity than quality
 
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AlsaceFreak said:
One of the most fun games I ever attended. Rain-soaked, marathon afternoon game due to the long, old fashioned TV timeouts.
People were partying in the stands like a rare Southern snowstorm.
It was my Freshman year at UT and just remember all the Jack Daniels being consumed and passed around under the clear rain tarps during the game. No one was worried about getting caught with their flasks!
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There was so much rain that it lead to TWO safeties for Tennessee in the first half due to bad snaps with the wet football.

Also, the fans were so inebriated by the length of the game that we rushed the field and tore the goalposts down with 7 seconds left and Pat Dye had to concede the game despite 7 seconds still on the clock.
 
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Someone can correct me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure those goalposts made an appearance at the the Last Lap during the post game celebrations.
 
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LWSVOL said:
conversions... probably not that bad on TV originally.

I recorded that game on VHS tape. Then converted it to DVDs as I did hundreds of others for storage purposes. Then converted the DVDs to ISO file structures on a hard drive. Then converted the ISO files to MP4 to compress them for less storage.

Storage is much cheaper today but I still use compression when collecting games. I have over 1100 Tennessee football games (not all full games) recorded. I also have thousand of other games recorded not just UT football, Super Bowls UT basketball, baseball, SEC Football championship games, National championship games, final fours.

But yeah, the 80s and even 90s is much grainer than todays recordings. Freaks recordings are great quality. I'm more about quantity than quality
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I remember when HD TVs were first coming out, I had a hard time seeing the difference. One store had them sitting across from each other, and then I could see the difference. Even then it did not seem that huge of a difference.

But most of these replays from the 80s and 90s look terrible. Its weird that you can watch a film from the 50s and even some from 30s and they look fine, but the videotape they were using in the 80s and 90s does not hold up nearly as well.
 
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LWSVOL said:
conversions... probably not that bad on TV originally.

I recorded that game on VHS tape. Then converted it to DVDs as I did hundreds of others for storage purposes. Then converted the DVDs to ISO file structures on a hard drive. Then converted the ISO files to MP4 to compress them for less storage.

Storage is much cheaper today but I still use compression when collecting games. I have over 1100 Tennessee football games (not all full games) recorded. I also have thousand of other games recorded not just UT football, Super Bowls UT basketball, baseball, SEC Football championship games, National championship games, final fours.

But yeah, the 80s and even 90s is much grainer than todays recordings. Freaks recordings are great quality. I'm more about quantity than quality
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I sure would like to have all those games recorded.
 
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AlsaceFreak said:
There was so much rain that it lead to TWO safeties for Tennessee in the first half due to bad snaps with the wet football.

Also, the fans were so inebriated by the length of the game that we rushed the field and tore the goalposts down with 7 seconds left and Pat Dye had to concede the game despite 7 seconds still on the clock.
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Auburn eventually went to their regular center, John Hudson, as their long snapper in that game and for the rest of the season. He did well enough to be drafted by the Eagles in the 1990 Draft. He also played for the Jets and the Ravens during his career. His family and mine went to the same church in Paris. In fact, his dad played in the old AFL during the 1960s for the Chargers and Bills.
 
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That's a very young Jim Nantz with Pat Haden doing the color.
 
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