"Holy moly! Man, woman and child, did that put 'em in the aisles! Johnny 'The Jet' Rodgers just tore 'em loose from their shoes!"
"I still get chills listening to that," Rodgers said.
On Thanksgiving Day 1971, Nebraska and Oklahoma achieved "perfection," as reporter Dave Kindred described it in the Louisville Times.
"Sometimes it don't live up to the billing," said Oklahoma halfback Greg Pruitt. "That one did."
Billed as "The Game of the Century," Rodgers' epic punt return for a touchdown -- and Lyell Bremser's indelible radio call -- helped top-ranked Nebraska defeat No.