Sir Purr
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"When I jogged out to the field, I knew I didn't have a lot of time in that huddle, so I said, 'You guys aren't gonna believe me, you gotta trust me. They want to run the quarterback draw,'" Beuerlein said. "All the guys were looking at me and starting cracking up and were like, 'C'mon call the play.'
"I finally said, 'Listen, everybody shut up. We're running the quarterback draw. Do your job and I'm going to find a way to get this in.'"
Beuerlein took a three-step drop, looked in Walls' direction, and then took off through a hole in the middle of the field. A defender converged on Beuerlein at the goal line, but when the Packer went low, Beuerlein crashed over him into the endzone for the game-winning touchdown.
"There was a combination of feelings right there," Beuerlein said. "First off, the joy of scoring that touchdown in that fashion. But also, you'll see he hit my right knee and I thought my knee had blew up. It felt like a pain that I had never had before. I was excited but in absolute agony with the pain in my knee."
Nearly the entire sideline of Panthers dogpiling on top of Beuerlein didn't help matters. But his knee turned out okay, and Beuerlein's run remains one of Carolina's signature moments.