Mushnick The Wise
I could not agree more with Mushnick today. The announcers said that the hit woke up the defense and crowd. Miami got a first down on the next play and the announcers quickly backed off.
New York Post Online Edition: sports: "In the second quarter, something so fabulous happened for FSU that its entire team and its tens of thousands of fans in the stands jumped for joy. Man, they were happy. Even ABC's commentators, Brad Nessler and Bob Griese, got all pumped up.

Heck, if one didn't know that it was early and Miami was up, 6-0, one might have thought that FSU had just won the game.

The joyous eruption was caused by FSU defensive back Stanford Samuels, who, on the full run, had laid Miami receiver Roscoe Parrish down, then out, with a brutal and illegal helmet-first hit to the chest.

No flag was thrown and the need for one went unmentioned on ABC, despite replays showing the contact to have been in violation of rules designed to prevent both victim and assailant from spinal cord and neurological injuries.

And as Parrish, 5-9 and 163 pounds, struggled for his next breath, Samuels posed and preened and accepted the congratulations of his teammates and the delighted approval of FSU's fans."