Last home game of my life as a ND student...
Everyone was holding their breath in the end, and after Reggie Brooks caught the 2 pt conversion, the whole student section erupted, and everyone was randomly hugging each other.
The lady I was hugging was someone that I knew quite well, and we absolutely despised each other. For a second, we were both joyously hollering and embracing, and then both of us saw who each other was, and both of us went silent with horrified / disgusted looks on our faces.
That's OK. Suffering that moment of disgusted regret was worth it, seeing us take out Penn State like that. Coming away with a victory by a razor's edge was something truly amazing to watch in person.
Everyone will certainly remember the heroics of a flu-struck Rick Mirer, Jerome Bettis, Derrick Mayes (for seizing away a sure interception from a defender's hands), and certainly Reggie Brooks for their last minute heroics, but it was the defense that deserves special credit for the very last second heroics.
After that go-ahead score, the 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty made us kickoff at the 20 yard line, and Craig Hentrich had his only bad kickoff of the year. When Penn State started at the 50 yard line, and only needed about 20 yards to have a chance at a game winning field goal with 20 seconds left, that made for a lot of unease until the final seconds ticked away.