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pierrezo;842184816 said:

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You beat me by 8 minutes. I think Carpenter was talking trash and taunting us - all the more sweet.

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Iirc he was talking about folletts mom and she had a bad trip to ASU due to their fans being the scum of the earth

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Yes - Follett waited a year to get his revenge, and it was sweet. My favorite part of the story -- while the sack was going on, a Cal DL was locked up with an ASU OL, and saw the hit, and said: "Dude....I think your QB just died."

God I miss Cal football.

Not the best hit in history, but this one gave me a lot of satisfaction.
In the run up to the 2006 Holiday Bowl, they'd been talking up Stephen McGee's leadership & toughness, and then Bishop did this (loved the commentary after the hit "...and that time, McGee did not pop up & talk trash"):

tokuno said:

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Not the best hit in history, but this one gave me a lot of satisfaction.
In the run up to the 2006 Holiday Bowl, they'd been talking up Stephen McGee's leadership & toughness, and then Bishop did this (loved the commentary after the hit "...and that time, McGee did not pop up & talk trash"):

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Ma guy Desmond Bishop was really layin' the wood towards the end of his two years at Cal... and as nice a young man as you could possibly imagine, off the grid iron!

What an old-timey thread.

JSC 76 said:

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Phantomfan said:

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pierrezo;842184816 said:

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You beat me by 8 minutes. I think Carpenter was talking trash and taunting us - all the more sweet.

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Iirc he was talking about folletts mom and she had a bad trip to ASU due to their fans being the scum of the earth

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Yes - Follett waited a year to get his revenge, and it was sweet. My favorite part of the story -- while the sack was going on, a Cal DL was locked up with an ASU OL, and saw the hit, and said: "Dude....I think your QB just died."

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if that's true (and gawd I hope it is) it's one of the best Cal fb stories I've heard in a long time

My favorite hit was in the Cal-Oregon game, I believe in 2006. I remember it was in Berkeley, and I think it was the rain game where the new turf in the south end basically melted. Anyway, DeSean Jackson went out of bounds on the Oregon sideline. Ducks tight end Dante Rosario punched him. The Cal players and sideline saw it and reacted, however I don't believe that a flag was thrown. Clearly a cheap shot though. Shortly thereafter, when the Ducks had the ball, Follett basically de-cleated Rosario with a perfectly legal, but absolutely withering blind side hit, and Rosario had to be helped off the field. The Bears sideline went wild. Today, that hit would be called targeting, but it was legal at the time, and along with the aforementioned hit on Tennessee's QB, one of many memorable hits by Follett. He was an awesome Bear, and unfortunately, I believe that his playing style ended up costing him an NFL career due to the damage it did to his neck. Loved seeing him play though. For those of you who are old enough to remember the Cal teams of the 70s, Follett reminded me of another linebacker I loved watching as a kid, Karl Crumpacker, who also had the benefit of one of the all-time great names for a linebacker. Dude could lay the wood.

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Not the hardest hit in Cal history, but one of my favorites is the Aaron Rodgers pancake block of a furd linebacker on the 55 yard Marshawn Lynch touchdown run in 2004.

Second place is that Marus Ezeff hit against the ducks.

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I don't remember that block at all, but the description is beautiful.

I just realized how old this thread is. Holy cow! Nice bump, ColoradoBear.

In any case, I'm glad that McMorris has been mentioned here. Thanks for bringing him up, 01Bear. He will go down as one of my favorite Golden Bears on the gridiron.

"Best" hit? Duh...

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The first hit that comes to mind is Zach Follett bending Erik Ainge's spine backward.

Then I thought of the hits Malik McMorris laid out as a blocker. Check the blocks at the 1:10 and the 2:00 marks in this video though, TBH, he had some great blocks throughout the video.

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I think special teams deserves it's own category when it comes to big hits simply due to the gunner speed, you almost can't compare it to regular plays.

Man, that Malik highlight, it really shows how crucial he was to Enwere and Laird, so many times they are past the LOS before they get touched. Was it our playcalling? did we lose this due to no having the blockers or did teams adapt to our schemes?

Follett is definitely the king of big hits off the top of my head. Pain Train. Nuff said.

I don't have any specifics or highlights but I'm pretty sure Jerrott Willard had some good hits during his career at Cal

Ron Rivera's hit on Marcus Allen. Layed him bout bad. RR hopped up and went back to the huddle. MA layed there all concussed. Cal fans erupted in huge applause. Then felt bad about it. MA had been killing us. They got MA off the field and he returned to the game to add 100+ more yards against us.

JSC 76 said:

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Phantomfan said:

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pierrezo;842184816 said:

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You beat me by 8 minutes. I think Carpenter was talking trash and taunting us - all the more sweet.

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Iirc he was talking about folletts mom and she had a bad trip to ASU due to their fans being the scum of the earth

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Yes - Follett waited a year to get his revenge, and it was sweet. My favorite part of the story -- while the sack was going on, a Cal DL was locked up with an ASU OL, and saw the hit, and said: "Dude....I think your QB just died."

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I recall Follett stating that a year earlier Rudy kept calling Follett by his first name while trash talking him which irked him.

I love this 2-play sequence that starts with a big hit on freshman Jahvid Best . . .


Big hit at Maryland best forgotten, but hard to purge the memory

Damn you....now I have to watch the whole thing!


Again.