ZE BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL WISHBONE: STILL MORE
Declare your love for the wishbone, and the ‘bone freaks come out of the woodwork. Reader Peter sends us the following email:
Dear Orson and Stranko,
It was an absolute pleasure to log on this morning and check out the video clip of Oklahoma running the ‘Bone. While fairly simple to execute, this offense was absolute deadly in its efficiency and effectiveness. As a long-time Colorado Buffaloes fan, even I have to admit that the Sooners’ wishbone attack was a beautiful thing to watch.
That said, I think you could have found a much better video clip to illustrate the mechanics of the offense. May I present to you QB Darian Hagan, circa 1989, making use of the ‘Bone offense to produce what many consider the greatest run in Colorado football history:
Late pitch! As usual, our readers prove to have a longer memory, better taste, and a longer reach into the archives than we do. And yes, Peter, that block by the fullback is just obscene. One minute his man’s there, and the next he’s an irrelevance.












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Please, you idiots.
Anyone who says that the wishbone, or any type of option can’t be run effectively is a moron. I don’t give a crap about defensive speed.
All you need to have a successful running game is a badass o-line that can take out those fast boys on defense. The fact of the matter is, offenses have gotten to be too much about pretty boy spin moves. Whatever happened to lowering the shoulder and punishing the crap out of someone?!
Comment by Brent — June 5, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
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Cal got Hagan’s kid and he’s supposedly a stud. And another reason the bone and option became obsolete is recruiting. Kids were hammered every day that if they went to school x they wouldn’t be ready for the league. That said, the best team ever was that 95 (?) Nebraska team that smoked Florida they were unreal.
Comment by MP — May 18, 2007 @ 10:11 am
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Lemme see:
As previously noted, that is the I-bone. It is somewhat humorous to see people who profess to “looooove the Wishbone, want it to have my children, it is so AWESOME, it rul3z!!1!”, yet can’t identiy the formation to save their lives.
People, it is called the Wishbone for a reason; it LOOKS like a wishbone.
As for Darian Hagan, someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t he come from Locke HS in Los Angeles? Locke is in an area that is controlled by the Crips.
Using gang affiliation to explain why he didn’t go to Nebraska sounds like typical ‘husker sour grapes to me.
Perhaps they’d like to explain why that safety completely blew his assignment, and didn’t tackle Hagan, forcing the pitch early?
Comment by Beergut — May 17, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
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clearing up a couple things:
-The Hagan didn’t go to nebraska b/c of red has morphed into an urban legend. Hagan said years ago that a couple of the bangers in the ‘hood mad a crack or two about the husker colors. DH wasn’t in the gang, no connections, other than living in their area
-Bieniemy is the RB coach with the Vikings now. He and Houston had issues. I wouldn’t say he ran MH out of town, but he didn’t help.
-Pritchard was the WB in this offense. He was a helluva WR, played in the NFL for some time.
Comment by CommishCH — May 17, 2007 @ 10:14 am
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And boobs. But boobs are almost always involved.
Comment by LSUJoshua — May 17, 2007 @ 9:21 am