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Countdown to Kickoff II: The Final 24 Days

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Doug Flutie.

On Nov. 23, 1984, the University of Miami and Boston College staged a football game that probably still inspires in defensive coaches screaming nightmares.

The two quarterbacks in that game, Doug Flutie of Boston College and Bernie Kosar of Miami, combined to throw for 919 yards, more than half a mile. They also combined for a total of 12 feet, 3 inches in height. Kosar accounted for most of it. Flutie stood 5-foot-10 when he was on his toes.

Together they established early what would turn out to be the game’s plot line: The quarterback who got his hands on the ball last would probably win it.

Flutie got it last. But with six seconds left on the clock, time for one more play, B.C., down 4, was barely past the middle of the field. And Flutie used the first few of those six seconds to scramble back to the B.C. 36.

The final play was called "55 Flood Tip" in the B.C. playbook. Wide receiver Gerard Phelan’s job was to tip the ball to one of the other receivers in the end zone.

Instead, he caught it. The final score was 47-45. And the winning number wasn’t established until a click before the clock ran out.
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https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/12/15/doug-flutie-boston-college-pass



 
USS Rabaul, AKV-21.

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USS Rabaul (CVE/CVHE/AKV-21) was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was delivered on 30 August 1946, but never commissioned. After spending 26 years in reserve, she was scrapped in 1973.

History

Accepted into the 19th Fleet, (the Pacific Reserve Fleet), Rabaul was berthed at Tacoma without seeing any active service. The warship was mothballed there during the early years of the Cold War and served as a mobilization reserve in case of war with the Soviet Union. Reclassified CVHE-121 in June 1955, she was transferred to the San Diego Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet in June 1958 and reclassified AKV-21 in May of the following year.

She remained in reserve at San Diego until 1 September 1971 when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Rabaul was sold on 25 August 1972 to the Nicolai Joffe Corporation of Beverly Hills, California, for scrapping at its San Francisco Bay area facility in Richmond, California, the former Kaiser Shipbuilding Yard No. 3. Shortly before scrapping, it was used in the closing scenes of the 1973 movie Magnum Force.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rabaul

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Now let’s look at Magnum Force. Dirty Harry got rid of the last two of the vigilante CHiPs in a thrilling action sequence on two abandoned aircraft carriers. John Milius, who came up with the story and wrote the first draft, did state that his version didn’t have the ‘carrier chase’ on it, so that makes this scene Cimino’s brainchild.

Are we dealing with the same carriers here? Alas. The USS Valley Forge was docked in Long Beach near Los Angeles. The carriers on which Harry got rid of David Soul et al. were docked at Point Richmond near San Francisco. They were the USS Badoen Strait (also a Korean veteran) and the USS Rabaul. All three carriers were scrapped not long after filming ended.
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https://westhoff.tv/19831962753/

http://seaclassicsnow.com/assets/scapr19dirtyharry.pdf

The third escort carrier has been rumored to be the USS Commencement Bay, the lead ship of the class, but there is no documentation that she was transferred from Washington state as was Rabaul.

Hope this post makes your day.  LOL

 
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The Silver Fox 

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Got David's autograph, along with that of Leonard Wood, at a get together for car enthusiasts at Darlington back in 2009.

 
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Neil Bonnett

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One year I went to Darlington with some friends and bought one of his hats during the race, which he ended up winning.  Still have the hat.

 
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#20 FS Bryant Gilliard from Hinesville, GA (1980-84)





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Year


Solo


Ast


Tkl


TFL


Sacks


Int




1982


6


7


13


0


0


 




1983


26


76


102


3


0


2




1984


40


85


125


2


1


9




Tot


72


168


240


5


1


11





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