The story I heard was the referee tried to talk him out of it and asked the player, “Are you sure you want to kick? You sure you aren’t intending to defer?” And the player confirmed that they in fact wanted to kick. The Florida guy definitely screwed up. But the ref tried to give him a chance to correct the mistake.
Was there, brought two international students who were in grad school with me. They'd never been to a football game of any kind. At one point they both said to me "is every game like this!?"
You are 100% correct on the noise level after Johnson’s pick six. There used to be a picture of him running all alone down the sideline in the Union.
I was in the student section for this…. Hands down the loudest I’ve ever heard a stadium get…anywhere
Personally I would add Kellum Clark's homerun in Omaha. That's when I knew and it got to me.
Sergeant Matt Zajac. I'll never forget him. He rolled out on the red carpet and turned around to face the home side stands in a regular wheelchair. He got so pumped up with all the cheering and bell ringing that he put on his "legs" stood up and walked off the field. You could tell he was struggling with all he had to do it. The school attempted to put out a highlight video a few days afterwards. But the evidently not many were filming at the time. (Note: The carpet roll-up guys ticked me off. They needed to chill out.)
To me this will always be the biggest 'moment'. Biggest game might be 2014 Auburn to go to #1 but that game didn't really come down to the wire. To hit that FG against Ark in 98 with the SEC championship game on the line (yea, I know we still had to beat a bad OM team the next week). That will always be the biggest moment I've ever witnessed in MSU football history.
This is a great list. I would add Florida 92 and Florida 2000. And Alabama and Ole Miss in 2007.
