Here is the classic highlight short of the classic game. Replete with a lot of the most popular original music selections associated with historic football highlight films.
Was 16 at the time & a Dolphin fan. I turned it off at 24-0 in cold shock & sat alone with a silent TV for maybe a minute. It looked like it was going to be 80-0 SD.... then something inside me said, ‘it’s still early, turn it back on’ which I did. So I glad I did even tho Miami lost, it was one of the greatest games ever
Watched this with my Dad & cousin as we played Monopoly...my cousin was taken from us a few years later in a car accident...looking back on this has a little extra meaning.
Ahh, those were the days! I was 11 years old and all I needed was a football, baseball glove, bicycle and a plate full of greasy French fries and ketchup! Oh, and my buddies of course. What a happy boy I was!
I was 9.first year watching NFL playoffs Epic Classic. Imagine THIS being your first NFL playoffs nd Chargers went up 24-0 here nd Buffalo Bill's went up 24-0 on My Jets the week b4.as a kid I thought going up 24-0 was expected..lol.
My father and i were glued to the tv till the last nail chewing kick . my father was breathless after that game and my mom was relieved the game ended due to our screaming and yelling. Oh what a game . great memories but better things were in store for Miami in the next year with Marino starting.!!!!!!
I love these videos. I refuse to watch anything from the NFL post mid 90's. We have enough great stuff when the NFL was a superior product to fill lifetimes.
After watching this game as a nine-year old, I said, wow I may not see a better football game than this game - ever - and still today, it is the best I've ever seen.
Why is everyone forgetting the Frank Reich led greatest comeback in playoff history, or Brady's comeback against the Falcons in the Super Bowl? Those games were classics as well
the bills vikings game last season, was the greatest football game ever. and beats this game and the chiefs bills game.and is better than the oilers bills game too
The chargers vs dolphins winner which was the chargers didn't have anything left to face the Bengals in the AFC championship game. Therefore the Bengals won by default.
I saw this game live on TV at the age of 15. It was an epic battle. One of those rare games when you feel both teams deserved to win. There was a game-within-the-game going on between the two kickers. Both were excellent and both were trying desperately to win it for their team. In the end my team lost but you couldn't help but walk away feeling you had witnessed something historic.
Need to go back to it or the one they had in the late 90s early 2000s. I played the Dolphins in Miami on Madden 23 a couple days ago, and made sure Miami wore an older uniform and not the horrible one they have now.
As a dolphins 🐬 fan this was one of the greatest games but equally heartbreaking. 40 years later and I still am upset we missed the FG. Nonetheless glad we were in so many meaningful games when Coach Shula was with us .
I was 16 and remember that weekend of great Divisional Playoffs: this one, the Bills vs Bengals and next week the NFC Championship Cowboys vs 49’ers. Since then I never recollect more epic weekends of great games all together in where the ones that were eliminated easily could win the Super Bowl XVI. Great QB’s like Ferguson, Fouts, Strock and White, all of them were Super Bowl MVP potential candidates eventually.
This weekend's (Jan 23 and 24, 2022) four divisional playoff games have done it. The first three were all won by a FG on the last play by the visiting team (Cincinnati 19-16 over Tennessee, San Francisco 13-10 over Green Bay, LA Rams 30-27 over Tampa Bay), while the fourth game went into O'T with Kansas City over Buffalo 42-36, with the lead changing hands 3 times in the final two minutes.
Tough break for the Chargers after this game. They go from humid 75 degrees in Miami, to the famous "Freezer Bowl" in Cincinnati for the AFC Championship and a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. With a game time temp of -9 degrees and a windchill temp at -59 degrees, the high fly offense of "Air Coryell" didn't stand much of a chance.
This game has stood out in my memory for so many years. I was 11 years old when I was fortunate enough to see it aired on tv. Back when football was real and NOT pussified and "fixed" (imo) as it has been since sports gambling has influenced the league
Miami's gadget Play is correctly described as a hook-and-lateral but the stupid media misunderstood Don Shula, with the fools transforming the name to hook and ladder. Both of those teams were better than the Cincinnati Bengals but Dan Fouts was unable to handle the inclement and windy conditions as well as Anderson due to smaller hands.
Fouts said it... Anderson threw spirals and he didn't always throw spirals. Nothing to do with small hands. Never heard Fouts' hands called small until now.
Wow, just to reiterate how amazing Dan Fouts was, they mention in this video that he broke his own most passing yards in a game record, for the third time? I'm not sure if that's playoffs only, or all games, but still, that's dominance at his position.. Dan Marino before Dan Marino
Fouts was lucky he wasn't out of the league before Coryell arrived in 78. As for Woodstrock, there was no reason Woodley should have started over Strock other than being a coach's QB
Let’s be candid….if Miami doesn’t absolutely play horrible for the entire first quarter….this is likely a blowout win for the Dolphins….just like it was a year later in the playoff rematch (Miami won 34-13). Doesn’t matter, neither SD or Miami was knocking off the 81 Bengals in Cincinnati to go to the SB.
wow, I watch many times, saw the game when I was 9 years old. Orange Bowl hosted some of the greatest games in NFL History, see how times have changed , 70s, 80s 90s the Dolphins were like the Patriots. Pats (in Boston) were as popular as the New England Tea Men :) Enjoy the B&B boys once they leave or retire, we will see the real Pats fans.
@@alanmazzucchelli9013 You could have gotten Chiefs/Packers for $6 and moved in between the 20 yard lines because TV coverage wanted to show a filled LA Coliseum
After SD went up 24-0, I thought we were headed for a repeat of 1940, where Chicago annihilated Washington 73-0 in the NFL championship game. I'll give Miami full credit. They fought back brilliantly. Don Strock had over 400 yards passing -- and he didn't enter the game until the second quarter!
If all the hot shots who run the NFL were as smart as they think they are someone who bring back the old classic music and find someone with a voice like Jim Simpson and who can narrate the same. Then they'd be on to something. Not everything has to be high tech computer generated crap like we hear today. If ain't broke don't fix it.
Today's AFC Divisional playoff between Kansas City and Buffalo may have just outdone this one. There were 3 lead changes in the final two minutes and the game was tied 36-36 at the end of regulation. Mahomes and Allen each threw for scores in the final minute, with the Bills going ahead 36-33 with just 13 seconds left. But KC came back - using two time-outs - to get close enough for the tying FG, then won in OT 42-36. I thought about this SD vs Miami game from 40 years ago but I think today's may have exceeded it.
This had been called "The Game No One Should Have Lost" ... but after re-watching the 4th Q and OT, I'd call this "The Game That No One Wanted to Win".
I was ready for the psych ward too, after this game. :/ I couldn't believe that Von Shankin missed all of those field goals. To this day, I still think he was paid to take a dive.
@@JAWrightonline They weren't all-pros but they weren't as bad as they were in that game. I moved on over 30 years ago, but watching this video brought back all of those memories. For many years, I suspected that that game was rigged.
HACE 40 AÑOS , YO SALIA DEL BAÑO E IBA Y VI .... UN GRAN JUEGO... AQUI EN MEXICO, 40 AÑOS DEsPUES, QUIEN LO DIJERA, VERIA UN GRAN JUEGO BILLS VS JEFES....... grandioso juego nos dieron.....
Thanks for the upload. The music just makes this highlight reel so great. Love the jam starting on 18:54, can't find it anywhere, anyone know what the name of this song is?
To think, the San Diego Chargers would experience an extreme climate change from Warm, Tropical, Miami to the Freezing Cold in Cincinnati the following week.
Great Game. I hated the Dolphins so I loved to see Shula get this heartbreaking loss. The Charges had the greatest offense minded coach in NFL history.
@@ElkArrow Belichick's offense isn't doing so hot now without Brady. And didn't do well with Bledsoe when he first took over either. The only coach who got anything out of Bledsoe was Parcells. Pete Carroll ruined Bledsoe, even though he did good with Russell Wilson
I remember that game, how sick to my stomach I felt in the 1st qtr. Uwe von Schamann became known as Uwe von Choke after this debacle. But his choke was no worse than the badly exposed, over rated, hyped Killer Bs defense. The days of 2 white guys (Jake Scott & Dick Anderson) at safety and a SB title were long gone by 1981 and the evidence was the torching Fouts gave the Miami defensive backfield. Woodley was a proven choker in any clutch situation. Joe Rose was his roommate on the road and he said Woodley would start chain smoking whenever Shula benched him. The old Dolphins Curse came true for SD, they lost to Oakland a week later. Miami got mega revenge the next year on SD, beating them badly in the OB, but that weak defense was once again exposed and unable to stop the Redskins, costing Miami the SB.
The bolts really missed their window. From approx 78-82. But along with the vikings/Rams of the 70s and countless othet teams. The 01-04 eagles and bills of 90-93 and and a dozen others. Who never got a ring. All those others i named made atleast 1 S.B. unlike Air Coryell. Tragedy. Just how it goes i guess.
Greatest game ever played! It had EVERYTHING!
It didn’t have titties
The sea of hands was on the same level as this one, I think they are the two best games in NFL history
All of the classic music in this highlight film.
The scene with Kellen Winslow getting help off the field by his teammates ill never forget
Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!!
One of the best games ever. As a Dolphin fan was a crushing defeat. When real men played football. Unlike today a bunch of wimps.
True!!!
Amazing that Don Shula coached two of the greatest back up quarterbacks ever Don Strock and Earl Morrall.
Was 16 at the time & a Dolphin fan. I turned it off at 24-0 in cold shock & sat alone with a silent TV for maybe a minute. It looked like it was going to be 80-0 SD.... then something inside me said, ‘it’s still early, turn it back on’ which I did. So I glad I did even tho Miami lost, it was one of the greatest games ever
That guys voice and the background music gives me cold chills. Transports me back to another time and place.
John Wise the late Harry Kalas
You’re right about that!!!!
Watched this with my Dad & cousin as we played Monopoly...my cousin was taken from us a few years later in a car accident...looking back on this has a little extra meaning.
Joe Proctor bro wtf
Great family memory, in the end those memories are what stay with us even though they may no longer be on this Earth.
Who won that game of Monopoly?
Great question...I'll say my Dad👍
Ahh, those were the days! I was 11 years old and all I needed was a football, baseball glove, bicycle and a plate full of greasy French fries and ketchup! Oh, and my buddies of course. What a happy boy I was!
I watched this when I was 12.For sheer drama this game and the NFC Championship between Dallas and San Francisco a week later have never been topped
I seen this historic playoff game when I was 6 and this game is in the top 5 greatest for sure
Agreed
I was 13, totally agree
I was 9.first year watching NFL playoffs Epic Classic. Imagine THIS being your first NFL playoffs nd Chargers went up 24-0 here nd Buffalo Bill's went up 24-0 on My Jets the week b4.as a kid I thought going up 24-0 was expected..lol.
That intro - take me back to this era and leave me there.
My father and i were glued to the tv till the last nail chewing kick . my father was breathless after that game and my mom was relieved the game ended due to our screaming and yelling. Oh what a game . great memories but better things were in store for Miami in the next year with Marino starting.!!!!!!
I also agree, the GREATEST GAME EVER
The music in this film is outstanding. The game itself ranks high. However the sea of hands game was the best.
This game put Kellen Winslow, Charlie Joiner, Dan Fouts, and Don Coryell in the hall of fame.
You might be right about that. For a team that ended up without a Super Bowl this was pretty much the pinnacle.
Wes chandler,
People who think that the Bills-Chiefs game was the greatest of all time haven't seen this one...
True!!!
I love these videos. I refuse to watch anything from the NFL post mid 90's. We have enough great stuff when the NFL was a superior product to fill lifetimes.
I watched the game on TV. Even though they lost this is when I became a Dolphins fan. When it was over, even I was tired. Greatest game ever played.
this was the most amazing game I have ever seen. I was exhausted just watching it.
Happy 40th Anniversary to the Epic in Miami.
Love those Vintage NFL Games; Real Football played by Real Men!
Agreed!!!!
I watched this game as a newlywed with my husband in our tiny apartment. We're still together, still watching football. Great game, great music too.
Love this flick 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼....had it on VHS for a long long time🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
This version is the NFL Game of the Week narrated by the late Harry Kalas...there have been many other NFL Films segments about this “Epic in Miami”
I remember watching this game on the coldest winter in California ..
Is that Right?
After watching this game as a nine-year old, I said, wow I may not see a better football game than this game - ever - and still today, it is the best I've ever seen.
Agreed!
Super Bowl 52 topped it. But that was how long afterwards?
The best!
Re-watching this after the Chiefs/Bills game in 2021-22 playoffs in Kansas City . I saw both games They were great games!
Yea, I think the Charger game was a better overall game, including the OT.
Why is everyone forgetting the Frank Reich led greatest comeback in playoff history, or Brady's comeback against the Falcons in the Super Bowl? Those games were classics as well
the bills vikings game last season, was the greatest football game ever. and beats this game and the chiefs bills game.and is better than the oilers bills game too
The classic Chargers uniforms 😂😂😂😂😂😂💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Yeah most people don't like them for some reason, I think their great and the Chargers should pull them out of the closet from time to time.
@@cognitivedissident2881 They were awesome. The Chargers and Padres during this era had epic uniforms.
I know Right!!!!
But now the Chargers are in LA and they wear the original unis but with the yellow facemasks from this era.
I remember matching this as kid one of the greatest games ever
Game of the week for sure and possibly the game of the century
Really Really miss those days. Players were real role models.
The chargers vs dolphins winner which was the chargers didn't have anything left to face the Bengals in the AFC championship game. Therefore the Bengals won by default.
I just watched the Chiefs beat the Bills . It reminded me of this classic
I saw this game live on TV at the age of 15. It was an epic battle. One of those rare games when you feel both teams deserved to win. There was a game-within-the-game going on between the two kickers. Both were excellent and both were trying desperately to win it for their team. In the end my team lost but you couldn't help but walk away feeling you had witnessed something historic.
I was 14, my team lost too. Best game I ever saw.
Yea, I was in high school too. That was an incredible game.
It's one of the best games i have ever seen. Watched it with my Dad when i was a kid. We are both Dolphin fans to this day.
The Dolphin helmet logo. Greatest ever.
It's better than the submissive Dolphin logo they have today
Need to go back to it or the one they had in the late 90s early 2000s. I played the Dolphins in Miami on Madden 23 a couple days ago, and made sure Miami wore an older uniform and not the horrible one they have now.
I'll never forget the hook and ladder play!
As a dolphins 🐬 fan this was one of the greatest games but equally heartbreaking. 40 years later and I still am upset we missed the FG. Nonetheless glad we were in so many meaningful games when Coach Shula was with us .
I was 16 and remember that weekend of great Divisional Playoffs: this one, the Bills vs Bengals and next week the NFC Championship Cowboys vs 49’ers. Since then I never recollect more epic weekends of great games all together in where the ones that were eliminated easily could win the Super Bowl XVI. Great QB’s like Ferguson, Fouts, Strock and White, all of them were Super Bowl MVP potential candidates eventually.
Ferguson? White? Ummm....No.
This weekend's (Jan 23 and 24, 2022) four divisional playoff games have done it. The first three were all won by a FG on the last play by the visiting team (Cincinnati 19-16 over Tennessee, San Francisco 13-10 over Green Bay, LA Rams 30-27 over Tampa Bay), while the fourth game went into O'T with Kansas City over Buffalo 42-36, with the lead changing hands 3 times in the final two minutes.
I remember that game.
Tough break for the Chargers after this game. They go from humid 75 degrees in Miami, to the famous "Freezer Bowl" in Cincinnati for the AFC Championship and a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. With a game time temp of -9 degrees and a windchill temp at -59 degrees, the high fly offense of "Air Coryell" didn't stand much of a chance.
This game has stood out in my memory for so many years. I was 11 years old when I was fortunate enough to see it aired on tv. Back when football was real and NOT pussified and "fixed" (imo) as it has been since sports gambling has influenced the league
Top 10 all-time game.
Agreed!!!!
Miami's gadget Play is correctly described as a hook-and-lateral but the stupid media misunderstood Don Shula, with the fools transforming the name to hook and ladder. Both of those teams were better than the Cincinnati Bengals but Dan Fouts was unable to handle the inclement and windy conditions as well as Anderson due to smaller hands.
Alan Mazzucchelli and now the miracle in miami
Inclement weather? That's putting it mildy as the wind chill was minus 57 degrees the following week in Cincy....the Freezer Bowl.
Fouts said it... Anderson threw spirals and he didn't always throw spirals. Nothing to do with small hands. Never heard Fouts' hands called small until now.
What a game...what a joy it provided... better days, better game. Sadly, those days and games are gone forever.
Wow, just to reiterate how amazing Dan Fouts was, they mention in this video that he broke his own most passing yards in a game record, for the third time? I'm not sure if that's playoffs only, or all games, but still, that's dominance at his position.. Dan Marino before Dan Marino
Fouts was lucky he wasn't out of the league before Coryell arrived in 78. As for Woodstrock, there was no reason Woodley should have started over Strock other than being a coach's QB
A true classic. And both teams had awesome uniforms at this point.
Let’s be candid….if Miami doesn’t absolutely play horrible for the entire first quarter….this is likely a blowout win for the Dolphins….just like it was a year later in the playoff rematch (Miami won 34-13). Doesn’t matter, neither SD or Miami was knocking off the 81 Bengals in Cincinnati to go to the SB.
In civilized weather conditions, the Bengals would have lost to either of these teams.
@@thomasn3882 - Meanwhile, Cincinnati defeated the Chargers 40-17 in SD in Week 10 of the 1981 season.
Smiling orange logo with crown at midfield. 9:39. Dolphins aqua jerseys had two different striped patterns on jersey sleeves. 10:34
1982 Orange Bowl between Clemson & Nebraska was played the night before.
wow, I watch many times, saw the game when I was 9 years old. Orange Bowl hosted some of the greatest games in NFL History, see how times have changed
, 70s, 80s 90s the Dolphins were like the Patriots. Pats (in Boston) were as popular as the New England Tea Men :) Enjoy the B&B boys once they leave or retire, we will see the real Pats fans.
Don't forget some of the greatest college football games in the Orange Bowl too
I had end-zone Orange Bowl seats in Super Bowls 2 + 3 for $7.50.
@@alanmazzucchelli9013 You could have gotten Chiefs/Packers for $6 and moved in between the 20 yard lines because TV coverage wanted to show a filled LA Coliseum
I remember this game. It was January 2nd, 1982. A Saturday. And because of that, they didn't show it on TV...
After SD went up 24-0, I thought we were headed for a repeat of 1940, where Chicago annihilated Washington 73-0 in the NFL championship game.
I'll give Miami full credit. They fought back brilliantly. Don Strock had over 400 yards passing -- and he didn't enter the game until the second quarter!
Great game great game. San Diego left the heat of Miami to go to freezing Cincinnati for the AFC championship game.
Yup, the Freezer Bowl with the wind chill hovering at minus 57 degrees.
You’re right about that!!!!
"The light at the end of the tunnel...at last Miami could see it".
@Buddy S Not only leading by 7 but Miami had the ball around the Charger 20. They were about to put the Chargers away and then the fumble....
Great post!!
Great video of a great game!!!
If all the hot shots who run the NFL were as smart as they think they are someone who bring back the old classic music and find someone with a voice like Jim Simpson and who can narrate the same. Then they'd be on to something. Not everything has to be high tech computer generated crap like we hear today. If ain't broke don't fix it.
Today's AFC Divisional playoff between Kansas City and Buffalo may have just outdone this one. There were 3 lead changes in the final two minutes and the game was tied 36-36 at the end of regulation. Mahomes and Allen each threw for scores in the final minute, with the Bills going ahead 36-33 with just 13 seconds left. But KC came back - using two time-outs - to get close enough for the tying FG, then won in OT 42-36. I thought about this SD vs Miami game from 40 years ago but I think today's may have exceeded it.
The first football game I ever watched at age 12. Unfortunately I have been a Charger fanatic ever since.
All time great uniforms.the good old days!!!!
This had been called "The Game No One Should Have Lost" ... but after re-watching the 4th Q and OT, I'd call this "The Game That No One Wanted to Win".
I was ready for the psych ward too, after this game. :/ I couldn't believe that Von Shankin missed all of those field goals. To this day, I still think he was paid to take a dive.
Naw, he was just a bad kicker who choked.
@@JAWrightonline Did David Woodley choke too? He threw several interceptions, before Shula finally yanked him. I think they were both paid off.
@@jeffgreen3376 Let it go: Von Schaumann was a bad kicker, Woodley was a bad QB. Live with it, deal with it, and move on.
@@JAWrightonline They weren't all-pros but they weren't as bad as they were in that game. I moved on over 30 years ago, but watching this video brought back all of those memories. For many years, I suspected that that game was rigged.
Saw this live and was awed by Dan Fouts. I almost changed my QB number 7 to 14 because of him!
HACE 40 AÑOS , YO SALIA DEL BAÑO E IBA Y VI .... UN GRAN JUEGO... AQUI EN MEXICO, 40 AÑOS DEsPUES, QUIEN LO DIJERA, VERIA UN GRAN JUEGO BILLS VS JEFES....... grandioso juego nos dieron.....
Epic is the right word
Thanks for the upload. The music just makes this highlight reel so great. Love the jam starting on 18:54, can't find it anywhere, anyone know what the name of this song is?
"High Tension" Gordon Giltrap
Song at 12:39 is simply badass.
It's called, The Westerner, by Sam Spence.
Nice.
@@cozmotone Thanks. Been wanting to know the name of this song myself.
By far these blue helmets are the best helmets that the chargers have ever had.
Me and my brother Bob went to this game...great game but we lost but next season we kicked their ass..oh yea
Yelling ...the Entire Game ..KraZy Aerial Shoot out... Electric..
To think, the San Diego Chargers would experience an extreme climate change from Warm, Tropical, Miami to the Freezing Cold in Cincinnati the following week.
Yes, now that you mentioned it!!!
With the win in sweltering Miami, the Chargers were rewarded with a trip to Cincinnati to play in 900 below temps.
When the nfl had standards and class
TRUMPTARD ALERT
NFL, NHL games are rigged but not by the Italian mafia, they're virtually out of business. It is the CIA, shadow govt, and NWO that does it.
Does any have a list of the music that was used in this?
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Bruce Hardy TD might be called down inside the 1 or 2 in the present day
Game featured the kicking duo of Baron Vander choke and Uwe Von Shit-the-bed.
Great Game. I hated the Dolphins so I loved to see Shula get this heartbreaking loss. The Charges had the greatest offense minded coach in NFL history.
Except for Bill Belisceck
Eat ass
@@ElkArrow Belichick offensive system started with Bill Parcells and Drew Bledsoe
@@ElkArrow Belichick's offense isn't doing so hot now without Brady. And didn't do well with Bledsoe when he first took over either. The only coach who got anything out of Bledsoe was Parcells. Pete Carroll ruined Bledsoe, even though he did good with Russell Wilson
I was at this game
Until the day he died, Bob Kuechenberg (Miami guard) whined about the fact that Kellen Winslow needed to be helped off the field.
The next year was the rematch…Chargers got butts kicked lol
Bet jerry rice wouldnt have got exhausted
Horse shit!
I remember that game, how sick to my stomach I felt in the 1st qtr. Uwe von Schamann became known as Uwe von Choke after this debacle. But his choke was no worse than the badly exposed, over rated, hyped Killer Bs defense. The days of 2 white guys (Jake Scott & Dick Anderson) at safety and a SB title were long gone by 1981 and the evidence was the torching Fouts gave the Miami defensive backfield. Woodley was a proven choker in any clutch situation. Joe Rose was his roommate on the road and he said Woodley would start chain smoking whenever Shula benched him. The old Dolphins Curse came true for SD, they lost to Oakland a week later. Miami got mega revenge the next year on SD, beating them badly in the OB, but that weak defense was once again exposed and unable to stop the Redskins, costing Miami the SB.
Do not compare Scott and Anderson to the Blackwood brothers
Here because someone told me that this game was better than the Chiefs vs Bills playoff game.. I'm about to see if I agree with that.. Do u?
interesting
The bolts really missed their window. From approx 78-82. But along with the vikings/Rams of the 70s and countless othet teams. The 01-04 eagles and bills of 90-93 and and a dozen others. Who never got a ring. All those others i named made atleast 1 S.B. unlike Air Coryell. Tragedy. Just how it goes i guess.
This was an exciting game. But I believe Chiefs vs. Bills 2022 was better
What is the music at 6:12
It's called Starmover by Sam Spence.
Would the 81 dolphins beat the 23 dolphins, would they be able to compete in todays NFL 🤔
#68 Leroy Jones blocked the kick not kellen winslow
The chargers will never get a Superbowl win🤣
No color.