That's not the one I was thinking of. I was thinking of the 1983 game. Oklahoma got the ball down close at the end. Nebraska lost the Orange Bowl to Miami.
I thought some bad calls helped the Steelers, but had the Seahawks done their job it wouldnt have mattered.
They did do their job the 1st half, but the 2nd half they just didnt do enough imo. If a team allows the game to be close enough for a few bad calls to matter, I blame them because they should expect that. The Seahawk receivers dropped half a dozen well thrown passes that mattered.
That, in the end was the difference imo and I cant blame the zebras for dropped passes.
Congrats to the Steelers for their 5th SB win.
Shoulda gone with my very first instinct. I was thinking 1984 at first, so that was closer. But this one was the Buster Rhymes game I could see in my mind's eye. That was pre-Aikman and pre-Holieway. Danny Bradley was QB and Spencer Tillman was "just" a freshman.
We lost 28-21. I do remember that. It was a home game, Sat of Thanksgiving weekend. I lived in OKC then, but was in Houston for Turkey Day. I almost never got Neb tickets and I never went to Lincoln, but did go to many away games. In fact, come to think of it, '83 was when we played UofHawaii and I did go to Honolulu for that one a week after the Neb game, right before "Mele Kalikimaka."
No bowling for us that year, I guess. Our trip to the Rainbow was better (well, "almost as good," anyway).
We did win the National Championship 2 seasons later and beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl then. Glad you remembered the bad refs!