Editor's Note: We posted this last year on Back to the Future Day, and figured it was worth it to repost it.
"My name is George McFly, and I'm your density. I mean, your destiny." Since today is November 5, which just happens to be National Back to the Future Day, we are going back in time to right a wrong. Most Back to the Future fans know November 5, 1955 was the day Doc Brown invented time travel. But it's also the day Northwestern lost to Wisconsin 41-14 at Dyche Stadium. Gonna go back in time!
--------------- Marty meets Doc Brown at Old Orchard Mall at 2:05 a.m. "Oh my God, they found me. I don't know how, but they found me. RUN FOR IT MARTY!" "Who? Who?" "Who do you think? The IOWANS!" "Holy sh*t" Marty hops in the DeLorean and races around the parking lot of Old Orchard, smashes through the food court, and starts flooring it. He gets it up to 88 miles per hour, enough to generate the 1.21 gigawatts, and back goes Marty to 1955. The mall at that point was just being built, and it opened in 1956. ----------------- Marty walks into a small diner (later Mustard's Last Stand). "You gonna order something, kid?" "Ah, yeah... Give me - Give me a Tab." "Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something." "All right, give me a Pepsi Free." "You want a Pepsi, PAL, you're gonna pay for it." He then walks back, makes a phone call to Doc, who he finds out lives on the corner of Lincoln and Sherman. He sees a young African-American woman, and says "hey you're Lorraine Morton, you're gonna be mayor!" "MAY-OR. Now THAT'S a good idea. I can run for mayor." In walks Biff Paterno...who already dislikes Marty. "Since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break... today. So, why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?" "Hey Biff, it's 'make like a tree and leave.'" "Whatever. Just COME TO PENN STATE!" --------------- While following his dad, George McFitz, Marty gets hit by a car on Isabella. When he wakes up, Marty's greeted by his "mom." "I've never seen purple underwear before," she says. --------------- Marty wanders into the Northwestern locker room during Northwestern's "Enchantment Under the Sea" game looking for his dad, George McFitz. After the NU quarterback messes up his hand, and can't play, the 'Cats are looking for a quarterback. Of course Marty can play quarterback. And he's darn good. "Nick. Nick. It's Lou - your cousin, Lou SABAN. You know that new quarterback you're looking for? Well, listen to this." Marty is a beast on the field, running the futuristic spread offense to perfection. He leads the Wildcats to a win over Wisconsin, which obviously is a huge upset and a change in history, messing up the space-time continuum. In the postgame press conference the media has no idea what to make of the NU offense Marty used. Principal Jim O'Donnell asks: "Marty? What was that offense out there?" "I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it." After Marty leaves the presser he asks George McFitz: "That's O'Donnell? Jesus. Didn't that guy ever have hair?" Now he needs to get back. ------------ "Damn! Where is that kid?" asks Doc Hankwitz. /looks at his watch. "Damn!" /looks at the watch on his other wrist. "Damn, Damn!" The only thing that can generate 1.21 gigawatts is a lightning strike from the clock tower (which wasn't built yet, but play along). "Time circuits on. Flux capacitor...fluxxing. Engine running. All right." /Engine stops "Come onnnnnnn" The engine starts. He hits the line just as the lightning hits the clock tower (and turns it purple forever). And off goes Marty back to 2009. The space-time continuum is all messed up, and Northwestern becomes a power for the second half of the 20th century, winning multiple national titles. --------------- And that's how Northwestern football was changed by one guy and the power of the 1.21 gigawatts ("What the hell is a gigawatt?") going through a flux capacitor in a DeLorean.
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