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Used AI Assist to get year Brent Musberger made the iconic 25..
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Mar 27, 2025, 9:11 AM
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Most Exciting Seconds in College Football” stadium entrance statement live on TV as the Tiger Team ran down the famous HiLL after rubbing Howard’s Rock statue..and it was: 1985 and The opponent was none other than Georgia.
Actually 1985 is wrong since Brent said this sentence out-loud in front of Danny Ford, AID Bob Bradley & Asst AID Tim Bourret while they were walking in Death Valley on morning before the huge game and Brent looked up the steep Hill and uttered his thoughts but never said that sentence on national TV, that night or any game til 28 years later.
Instead, it was an overheard statement that Bob Bradley used from that day on but Brent never said it on Live TV on ABC that night in 1985.
Instead, it was in 2013 when ABC wanted to build on the famous saying so they had two dozen cameras follow Dabo & Team from the Locker room, around the stadium and down the Hill..at which time Brent Musberger actually said it on live TV..
And here it is Ladies & Gentlemen: “The most Exciting 25 Seconds in College Football” (of entry into a football stadium)..vs Georgia at that, but in 2013 and not 1985 as lore had it.
Oh, when Brent dies (who loves Clemson football & the ESSO Club) maybe they both will put up a small bust of him since his public TV comment has been one of the most iconic statements ever made live before such a huge public TV sports audience and whose prolific statement has been reused around the world of college football throughout these past 40 years.
Mentioning busts and/or statues for other noble football figures, I have always enjoyed the large bust and statute inside & outside of the football stadium where the infamous FB Coach ERK Russell (a D-Coordinator with UGa originally) re-found the FB program at Georgia Southern in 1981 after a 40 year hiatus of their original program and won about 5 FB Natties while there..and where I visited around 2015 to see.
Saying, why not statues at Clemson of John Heisman, Frank Howard, Danny Ford and later Dabo?
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Mar 27, 2025, 9:17 AM
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John Heisman is more of a footnote in our history, albeit a high profile. When I consider the Mount Rushmore of Clemson football coaches, for me it is: Walter Riggs, Frank Howard, Danny Ford and Dabo Sweeney.
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Yep e2themfd (<~thats hard to type out!) you are right
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Mar 27, 2025, 10:10 AM
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In that Walter Riggs is a big name in Clemson’s football history since he came from Auburn to start up our 1st “FB Club” and maybe named it TiGERS as well as choose the similar colors of Auburn as well as the fight song TiGER Rag..
But after a year or so Riggs called up Coach John Heisman to come from Auburn to take over..and thus our gloried football history started and b/c of two Auburn men.
Saying, the state of Alabama has been big in Clemson football history when you add up all the football coaches it has produced for Clemson to exceed..like Riggs, Heisman, Howard, Pell ?, Ford & Dabo.
Oh, don’t tell Judge Keller why FOOTBALL is “The” sport at Clemson and is best known for and best at!
Ha..
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OneJedi..I respectively disagree about Heisman being left out!!
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Mar 27, 2025, 10:47 AM
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Check this out..
Heisman’s first Clemson Club FB Team beat Bama 35-0 in 1900 to complete Clemson’s 1st undefeated season (6-0), til the late 1940’s.
And, He invented the Hidden Ball Trick, Hand-off, Lateral and the Flea Flicker..and pioneered the Forward Pass and originated the Center Snap and the word Hike (whereas before the center just rolled the ball backwards on the ground, for goodness sake).
Heisman believed in smart players and benched a player not up on his studies..and used smart & quick players over brutes.
Also, his philosophy was: the game was 25% Talent, 20% Mentality, 20% Aggressiveness, 20% Speed and 15% Weight/Size.
Saying, John Heisman who still retains Clemson’s best % win record of .833 in the 4 years of 1900-1903 should be a recipient of a statue at Clemson Football..even though the Bum snuck out of Clemson early one morn via the railroad station to head for ATL to Coach at GT for a raise and the first % of the gate ever given.
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Mar 27, 2025, 10:56 AM
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I think they did a major rendition of this around 2011-12 when we played VT at night and it was for ACC championship. I think I am close to correct dates and team, but I could have been drunk and got all my facts wrong. The newer rendition when they followed the busses and I think we dumped balloons was better. But maybe I made up the ballons part too, all of it because it sounds cool in my mind. Ha! But I think I am close?
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Mar 27, 2025, 8:56 PM
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I agree about the statues outside of the stadium. That would be a nice touch. Deciding on who to honor, beyond the obvious, could prove to be more difficult.
Frank Howard
Danny Ford
Banks McFadden
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