A Sea Of Red

Yes Mountaineer fans, if the name Dan Rocco sounds vaguely familiar or, to the point, infamous, it’s understandable.

And you may not even know the name, but hard-core Mountaineer fans will remember the play.

West Virginia-Penn State, Mountaineer Field, 1980. Peterstown’s Steve Newberry certainly remembers it.

WVU was going for a big upset of the nemesis Nittany Lions, a team it hadn’t beaten since 1955 (there was that unspectacular 14-14 tie in ’58) and many of those games had been lopsided affairs.

Not this one.