ESPN has put the band again collectively.
Extra particularly, members of the Stanford band – in addition to longtime Cal radio voice Joe Starkey, former Cal and Stanford gamers, coaches, mascots, officers and former college students – for The Band Is On The Area, an ESPN E60 episode commemorating the fortieth anniversary of “The Play.”
The episode, hosted by Jeremy Schaap, debuts Sunday at 10 a.m. (Pacific) on ESPN, after which will be streamed on ESPN+.
The chaos because the Stanford band spilled onto the sector at Memorial Stadium on Nov, 20, 1982 as Cal made a mad, lateral-filled sprint to victory on the ultimate play of the annual Large Sport towards the Cardinal. Within the second Starkey known as it “essentially the most wonderful, sensational, dramatic end within the historical past of faculty soccer.”
Greater than 40 folks had been interviewed for the hour-long retrospective. Amongst them are Ron Rivera, the NFL coach who was then a linebacker at Cal; Rod Gilmore, the ESPN school soccer analyst who was then a defensive again at Stanford; Gary Tyrrell, the Stanford trombone participant knocked to the bottom when Cal’s Kevin Moen reached the endzone with the profitable landing; and Starkey, whose “the band is on the sector” name is among the most well-known in school soccer historical past.