I remember watching this game and being totally shocked when Marino threw that pass, let alone that it was caught and the receiver hung onto it…. What a game!
So interesting seeing Dan Marino actually winning the final game. To think this would be the last time of Dan Marino’s football career that his season didn’t end in disappointment. That’s wild when you think about him only being 20 years old here.
Thanks for posting this. Back when college football was available locally not like today. The corporate college football where every bowl game is practically on ESPN . I will never forget how Marino hit John Brown on that critical 4th down touchdown late in the game.
Two great programs during their top level early 80's years, each with a once in a generation superstar, surrounded by future pro's, in a packed Sugar Bowl with the great Keith Jackson calling the game. Only fitting that it was a great ball game that went right to the wire.
Biggest game Marino ever won. They were rolling the credits (like the game was over) and then he throws the winning TD. Shame on you Roone Arledge 2:34:05
I was a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh after Tony Dorsett left the previous spring, but I was a senior when Dan Marino was a freshman. I think I would’ve rather been a freshman when Tony was still at school I could’ve witnessed the national championship.
That pass Marino threw look just like the 4th down pass he threw 12 years later. 4th and 5 to go, instead of just going for the 1st down, he threw a bomb for a touchdown.
Pitt lost that game in a rainstorm at Florida st. Had like 7 turnovers while Florida st. had none. Herschel didn't do much against Pitt in this game. He sure as hell wouldn't have done anything against Hugh and Ricky Jackson.
@@fivehundrediq5212 Avoiding? Really? Or avoided? Either way great teams can and do have to face a variety of teams. Some ranked some not ranked, and some just so awful is sad to watch. However GREAT teams DON'T EVER make EXCUSES! They go out and play. If they happen to lose a game or sometimes even two, they battle back. The 70's and 80's had some iconic players coming into college. The ACC was packed FULL of extremely talented and some extraordinary players/students/etc. Other conferences also had some powerful teams. USC, UCLA, the Big Ten, Notre Dame, Florida State Seminoles, and some others which were just as lethal. NCAA Football was always great, but the 70's, 80's, and 90's brought to light some insanely talented players and DAMN IT WAS FUN TO BE A FAN!
Weird story, but I remember I happened to be sitting next to one of the Panthers at an airport a day or two after this game. Can't recall who, but I recall him telling me that he was having trouble on the Superdome turf while wearing turf shoes in the 1st half, that they gripped too good, scaring him that his foot would get stuck. He switched to Adidas Pro Model basketball shoes, and they worked great. A lot of the Pitt players are wearing basketball sneakers here.
Quite a bit of future NFL talent here; Herschel Walker, Dan Marino, Jim Covert & Kevin Butler (the latter two winning a Super Bowl with the '85 Bears) This game was considered one of the bigger upsets in bowl history. Both defenses played really well in this game.
It was not a big upset. Pitt was undefeated until they lost their last regular season game to Penn State. UGA had lost to Clemson, so two one loss top ten teams.
Pitt alone had 20 future nfl players.. the entire OL, all but one DL, both LBs, Flynn and Lewis both had long nfl careers, couple other DBs had a cup coffee as did both WRs as well as some backups at other positions Don’t know the Georgia roster well but TE Clarence Kay played in the nfl
Sadly true, and by a wide margin. But there was a brief period under Walt Harris when Pitt was kinda "Wide Receiver U", the way Penn St was "Linebacker U" for a long time even when they weren't great. Not much of a consolation prize, but it's the best we've had since this game.
@@archenema6792 Believe, 88% of the team is coming back all we need is a qb. Slovis or Patti will continue the success. Our goal should be to get an win the Acc championship again we keep building the brand.
@@johnwaffleh2p70 I'll hope with you for one season. If they can put up convincing wins against solid non-conference opponents, I'd feel better about the future, regardless of whether they can repeat as ACC champs. I went to school with Marino's little sister Debbie at Sacred Heart Elementary, and we used to get student tickets to the early season cupcake games for a couple of bucks and go in a big pack. I never went to the games when I was a Pitt student, but a part of my heart will always live in Trees Hall, and bleed blue and gold.💙💛 But I'm getting pretty old, and I'm not sure how much I can bleed anymore.🤣
Watching this how could Dan Marino have fallen in the 1983 draft?? to #28 to Miami?? Dallas was in desperate need of a QB as Danny White wasn't the answer and @ ##16 picked DE Jim jeffcoat 🤦♂️
Danny White was between 2 consecutive pro bowls at the time of this game. I felt bad for the guy because he inherited a declining Cowboys team when becoming the starter, played great but because he kept making it to the NFC Championship. and not winning the Super Bowl for 3 straight seasons people were very hard on him. Expectations were way too high when he was likely the best QB in the league in that 3 year span if not then 2nd to Fouts. and no one won more games in that span than White. Jeffcoat was the wise draft pick considering Martin and Too Tall were in their mid 30's. Teams that Marino should have been drafted by in my Opinion, Colts, Bills, Steelers, Oilers, Browns, Packers, Lions, Buccaneers, Saints, And the Rams. All those teams had questions at QB. and Marino dropped to #27. and the Dolphins who needed him the most. got him. Maybe the Buccaneers needed him even more because Williams was not resigned.
@@johnliberty3647 John Elway is the consensus #1 pick in this draft and despite his saying he wouldn’t play in Baltimore Colts GM Ernie Accossi was confident they could sign him after They drafted him. He never got the chance as Colts owner Robert Irsay instigated the Elway trade to Denver and as a result Accossi quit as GM and warned the NFL front office that Irsay was going to be a major headache.(which he was. He is definitely one of the worst owners in sports history)
In the regular season finale Pitt not only lost but was absolutely blown out by Penn St. 48-14 and that was after having a 14-0 lead in the game. Georgia had lost in week 3 to Clemson and had time to move back up in the polls. After Georgia lost to Clemson they also took a dive in the polls dropping from #4 to #17. They would finish 6-0-0 in the SEC(SEC only played 6 league games at the time)
Herchel Walker would have only ran for 5 more TDs and passed for only 88 more touchdowns i would have probably voted him as tied with Tim Tebow as the best college football player ever.....but passing for 88 touchdowns and running 57 touchdowns is hard to do in the sec
Even back then the referees, announcers, and networks were biased for the SEC. Signs of things to come, including the same results. An overrated SEC team loses to a superior non SEC team.
I remember watching this game, First it was luck on Pitts part. Cause of this lucky crap, I never liked Marino and was glad he lost the Superbowl next year. Better didn't win.
As a young boy growing up in the 70's I wasn't big into College Sports. My teams were Wisconsin teams. The Green Bay Packers(NFL), the Milwaukee Brewers(MLB), the Milwaukee Bucks(NBA), & for Hockey the Milwaukee Admirals(IHL). We didn't have a NHL team and that always bummed me out. So for College 🏈🏉football🏉🏈, it was the Wisconsin Badgers. College 🏀Basketball🏀 was again the Wisconsin Badgers, but also the Marquette Warriors, now sadly called the Golden Eagles. Also a few years back the UWGB(Green Bay) Phoenix was also a very good team. Bennett was the head coach. However the 70's was my favorite times for being a KID, NOT a sports fan. My attention span was so short, sitting for 2½-4 hours to watch a game was, well it wasn't easy. Besides the Badgers & the Packers weren't exactly really good teams back in the 70's. The later part of the 70's, say 1977-79 my Dad & Grandpa took me to Packers game at Milwaukee County🏟Stadium.🏟 The Packers played the Lions, we lost, but I was unable to move. That game had me memorized. The following year I started playing Little League and we started going to Brewer's games. Those memories are some of the very best times of my life. Once the 80's began I became more and more and more of a football, baseball, basketball, and hockey fan. So having the opportunity to see these classic games as they were broadcasted back then is awesome! So many great players, teams, games, playoffs, Championships, and other games are possibly here to watch. For that I say THANK YOU AGAIN! AND KEEP THEM COMING!
That was one incredible pass by Dan Marino
Thanks for posting. This was a very good Pitt team for a number of years. Outplayed Georgia on both sides of ball.
I remember watching this game and being totally shocked when Marino threw that pass, let alone that it was caught and the receiver hung onto it….
What a game!
So interesting seeing Dan Marino actually winning the final game. To think this would be the last time of Dan Marino’s football career that his season didn’t end in disappointment. That’s wild when you think about him only being 20 years old here.
Marino was overrated. Similar to Dan Fouts.
That last throw by Marino was the definition of perfection. Money.
Zesty boy
Thanks for posting this. Back when college football was available locally not like today. The corporate college football where every bowl game is practically on ESPN . I will never forget how Marino hit John Brown on that critical 4th down touchdown late in the game.
New Year's Day Bowl games by network. NBC, Fiesta, Rose & Orange Bowl. CBS, Cotton Bowl. ABC: Sugar Bowl.
I love the Pac-Man scoreboard graphic & music. This was at the time the arcade game was very popular. 🕹🏈
Very cheesy and lame
Two great programs during their top level early 80's years, each with a once in a generation superstar, surrounded by future pro's, in a packed Sugar Bowl with the great Keith Jackson calling the game. Only fitting that it was a great ball game that went right to the wire.
Doesn't get much better than this.
I remember the Pac-Man themed graphics before the commercial breaks. Was waiting for the big finale at the end of the game, but it never came.
I’ve NEVER forgotten those graphics!
If only Marino had a consistent 1000yard rusher like he did here at Pitt.
Thanks for this, 80s and early 90s were great times in the world of sports all around and it was a great time to live
Thank Tim I love that im able to watch the rebroadcast I have the 1977 Sugar Bowl too
Frank Broyles, the color man , was the coach of teammates Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones at Arkansas .
National champion
Biggest game Marino ever won. They were rolling the credits (like the game was over) and then he throws the winning TD. Shame on you Roone Arledge 2:34:05
I was stationed in W. Germany and listened to this on Armed Forces Radio. Being from PA., I was glad to see Pitt win.
Best version I've ever seen!
Thank you!
I was a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh after Tony Dorsett left the previous spring, but I was a senior when Dan Marino was a freshman. I think I would’ve rather been a freshman when Tony was still at school I could’ve witnessed the national championship.
How old are you now?
That pass Marino threw look just like the 4th down pass he threw 12 years later. 4th and 5 to go, instead of just going for the 1st down, he threw a bomb for a touchdown.
The only reason Georgia won the National Title in 80….is because they avoided Pitt
Pittsburgh should have avoided Florida State.
@@shanehowell8169 Florida State should’ve avoided Oklahoma
@@shanehowell8169 so Notre Dame was better
Pitt lost that game in a rainstorm at Florida st. Had like 7 turnovers while Florida st. had none. Herschel didn't do much against Pitt in this game. He sure as hell wouldn't have done anything against Hugh and Ricky Jackson.
@@fivehundrediq5212 Avoiding? Really? Or avoided? Either way great teams can and do have to face a variety of teams. Some ranked some not ranked, and some just so awful is sad to watch. However GREAT teams DON'T EVER make EXCUSES! They go out and play. If they happen to lose a game or sometimes even two, they battle back. The 70's and 80's had some iconic players coming into college. The ACC was packed FULL of extremely talented and some extraordinary players/students/etc. Other conferences also had some powerful teams. USC, UCLA, the Big Ten, Notre Dame, Florida State Seminoles, and some others which were just as lethal. NCAA Football was always great, but the 70's, 80's, and 90's brought to light some insanely talented players and DAMN IT WAS FUN TO BE A FAN!
Pitt had a great run from 1975 to 1982. Since then, not much.
Posted this 7 months too early. 2021 ACC Champions!!
@@BlackMan614 Eh, like he said, not much.
Marino is the greatest qb who never won a Super Bowl. Definitely top 10 QB
Georgia went to the sugar to play for the national championships 3 years in a row from 80-82 but could only win the 80 game against Notre Dame
Weird story, but I remember I happened to be sitting next to one of the Panthers at an airport a day or two after this game. Can't recall who, but I recall him telling me that he was having trouble on the Superdome turf while wearing turf shoes in the 1st half, that they gripped too good, scaring him that his foot would get stuck. He switched to Adidas Pro Model basketball shoes, and they worked great. A lot of the Pitt players are wearing basketball sneakers here.
If there were a tv sports equivalent of "comfort food", listening to Keith Jackson call a game would be it...
Amazing hearing the O lineman being considered huge, listed at the 250-260 range 😂
Damn Marino didnt give that secondary time to react...that ball comes out like lighting.
@dave4248 less than a second it was boom boom instant
We would’ve clobbered Clemson
Quite a bit of future NFL talent here; Herschel Walker, Dan Marino, Jim Covert & Kevin Butler (the latter two winning a Super Bowl with the '85 Bears) This game was considered one of the bigger upsets in bowl history.
Both defenses played really well in this game.
It was not a big upset. Pitt was undefeated until they lost their last regular season game to Penn State. UGA had lost to Clemson, so two one loss top ten teams.
Big upset? Georgia was favored by 1 1/2 points. Pitt was #1 for a good part of the season.
Chris Doleman.
Pitt alone had 20 future nfl players.. the entire OL, all but one DL, both LBs, Flynn and Lewis both had long nfl careers, couple other DBs had a cup coffee as did both WRs as well as some backups at other positions
Don’t know the Georgia roster well but TE Clarence Kay played in the nfl
Bill Fralic also had a good NFL career.
boy that #13 could really toss that ball around the yard. wonder whatever became of him...
The last time “Pitt Was It”
Sadly true, and by a wide margin. But there was a brief period under Walt Harris when Pitt was kinda "Wide Receiver U", the way Penn St was "Linebacker U" for a long time even when they weren't great. Not much of a consolation prize, but it's the best we've had since this game.
@@archenema6792 we’re coming back
@@johnwaffleh2p70 I wish I had your hope. Without Pickett, who knows?
@@archenema6792 Believe, 88% of the team is coming back all we need is a qb. Slovis or Patti will continue the success. Our goal should be to get an win the Acc championship again we keep building the brand.
@@johnwaffleh2p70 I'll hope with you for one season. If they can put up convincing wins against solid non-conference opponents, I'd feel better about the future, regardless of whether they can repeat as ACC champs. I went to school with Marino's little sister Debbie at Sacred Heart Elementary, and we used to get student tickets to the early season cupcake games for a couple of bucks and go in a big pack. I never went to the games when I was a Pitt student, but a part of my heart will always live in Trees Hall, and bleed blue and gold.💙💛
But I'm getting pretty old, and I'm not sure how much I can bleed anymore.🤣
2:35:23 Only Keith Jackson could call it as well!
He was the best on ABC at the time.
Watching this how could Dan Marino have fallen in the 1983 draft?? to #28 to Miami?? Dallas was in desperate need of a QB as Danny White wasn't the answer and @ ##16 picked DE Jim jeffcoat 🤦♂️
There was a rumor that Marino had a drug problem which caused the slide.
Danny White was between 2 consecutive pro bowls at the time of this game. I felt bad for the guy because he inherited a declining Cowboys team when becoming the starter, played great but because he kept making it to the NFC Championship. and not winning the Super Bowl for 3 straight seasons people were very hard on him. Expectations were way too high when he was likely the best QB in the league in that 3 year span if not then 2nd to Fouts. and no one won more games in that span than White. Jeffcoat was the wise draft pick considering Martin and Too Tall were in their mid 30's. Teams that Marino should have been drafted by in my Opinion, Colts, Bills, Steelers, Oilers, Browns, Packers, Lions, Buccaneers, Saints, And the Rams. All those teams had questions at QB. and Marino dropped to #27. and the Dolphins who needed him the most. got him. Maybe the Buccaneers needed him even more because Williams was not resigned.
@@johnliberty3647 John Elway is the consensus #1 pick in this draft and despite his saying he wouldn’t play in Baltimore Colts GM Ernie Accossi was confident they could sign him after They drafted him. He never got the chance as Colts owner Robert Irsay instigated the Elway trade to Denver and as a result Accossi quit as GM and warned the NFL front office that Irsay was going to be a major headache.(which he was. He is definitely one of the worst owners in sports history)
They thought he was on drugs. The Raiders would have taken him, but they screwed up too.
Should have gone to the Steelers.
So Pitt and Georgia were both 10-1 but Georgia was #2 and Pitt was #8?
In the regular season finale Pitt not only lost but was absolutely blown out by Penn St. 48-14 and that was after having a 14-0 lead in the game. Georgia had lost in week 3 to Clemson and had time to move back up in the polls. After Georgia lost to Clemson they also took a dive in the polls dropping from #4 to #17. They would finish 6-0-0 in the SEC(SEC only played 6 league games at the time)
I imagine WTAE's ratings for this bowl game were pretty good.
Herchel Walker would have only ran for 5 more TDs and passed for only 88 more touchdowns i would have probably voted him as tied with Tim Tebow as the best college football player ever.....but passing for 88 touchdowns and running 57 touchdowns is hard to do in the sec
1:50:05 The Stupidest rule in College football history
Finally changed in 1992
What was up with Broyles hair??😂
Some play action...woah is us to early
Wait... CAN'T advance a fumble on defense in college football why ??
Woooh Nelly
Marino never won anything. Let that sink in.
10:54 Georgia peach
Even back then the referees, announcers, and networks were biased for the SEC. Signs of things to come, including the same results. An overrated SEC team loses to a superior non SEC team.
Ohh really???
I remember watching this game, First it was luck on Pitts part. Cause of this lucky crap, I never liked Marino and was glad he lost the Superbowl next year. Better didn't win.
As a young boy growing up in the 70's I wasn't big into College Sports. My teams were Wisconsin teams. The Green Bay Packers(NFL), the Milwaukee Brewers(MLB), the Milwaukee Bucks(NBA), & for Hockey the Milwaukee Admirals(IHL). We didn't have a NHL team and that always bummed me out. So for College 🏈🏉football🏉🏈, it was the Wisconsin Badgers. College 🏀Basketball🏀 was again the Wisconsin Badgers, but also the Marquette Warriors, now sadly called the Golden Eagles. Also a few years back the UWGB(Green Bay) Phoenix was also a very good team. Bennett was the head coach. However the 70's was my favorite times for being a KID, NOT a sports fan. My attention span was so short, sitting for 2½-4 hours to watch a game was, well it wasn't easy. Besides the Badgers & the Packers weren't exactly really good teams back in the 70's. The later part of the 70's, say 1977-79 my Dad & Grandpa took me to Packers game at Milwaukee County🏟Stadium.🏟 The Packers played the Lions, we lost, but I was unable to move. That game had me memorized. The following year I started playing Little League and we started going to Brewer's games. Those memories are some of the very best times of my life. Once the 80's began I became more and more and more of a football, baseball, basketball, and hockey fan. So having the opportunity to see these classic games as they were broadcasted back then is awesome! So many great players, teams, games, playoffs, Championships, and other games are possibly here to watch. For that I say THANK YOU AGAIN! AND KEEP THEM COMING!