Fiesta Bowl Revisited
OK, now that the hoopla has died down from the amazing Fiesta Bowl game between Boise State and Oklahoma, which saw Fox force removal of all highlight video on YouTube in the days after the game's conclusion, we are seeing the videos crop back up in various forms. There are a ton of versions, some straight forward, some sappy. Here are a few, beginning with a sappy one set to music -- "Nessun Dorma" from the Puccini opera "Turandot." As a closet opera fan, I enjoyed it:
Here are the highlights from SportsCenter:
ABC national news doing its own report, including Ian Johnson's marriage proposal:
The "Around The Horn" guys blather on about the game:
ESPN's Brian Kinney, Mark May and Lou Holtz debate whether this was the best bowl game of all time:
Finally, video highlights with the actual play-by-play call as it happened:
So is it hook and ladder or hook and lateral? Maybe both are OK.
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Very cool blog JB, loved the highlights. I can watch those plays over and over again.
Regarding the Puccini opera, does anyone out there know if this is the same opera music they play in The Shawshank Redemption movie, where Tim Robbins locks himself in the office and plays it over the loud speaker at the prison? I have seen that movie at least a dozen times or more and I still forget to check which opera was credited.
thanks for the kind words notorious. that puccini opera is not the one from shawshank redemption as I am familiar with what you speak of. that movement is called "Che soave zeffiretto" and is from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro"
also, if i remember correctly, when Andy (Tim Robbins) first puts the record on and begins playing it, you can see a blue album cover that says "Marriage of Figaro"
Gracias JB. I will check out the Figaro piece. But I'd swear that Puccini piece sounded really familiar, not sure why.
notorious, i think the puccini piece might have been used in a commercial about pasta or something where this man sees a woman from his window and goes over there and makes her dinner, or something like that. i forget the brand of the pasta.
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