My parents had cable, but were very controlling with how much of it I could watch, unless I was sick. I had strep throat, and was on the couch that whole day. I remember being nearly comatose, with a fever over 100, and then that play happened, and I shot up on the couch and yelled.
The first year I followed was 1990, so I was the perfect age to think of Nebraska as an unbeatable power, and Texas as some scrappy up and comer