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The Play still stands after 20 years

By Ted Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

When Kevin Moen sent Gary Tyrrell rear-end-over-tea-kettle, it became the greatest collision of the sublime and ridiculous in sports history. On Nov. 20, 1982, Moen concluded a preposterous, five-lateral kickoff return to beat Stanford by weaving through the red-coated Cardinal band that had prematurely taken the field. He leaped into the end zone and landed on top of Tyrrell and his trombone. "I had no idea how he got to that point with the football," Tyrrell said. "Nobody really knew what ha ...

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