Clemson football: 3 cinematic masterpieces that mention Clemson

Back to the Future: Part II (1989)

For this last example, we have to go even further back in time- pun intended.

Back to the Future is one of the greatest cinematic masterpieces of all-time and is widely respected by those in the general public. The trilogy stars Michael J. Fox (Marty McFly) and Christopher Lloyd (Doc Emmett Brown) as they travel through time.

In the first one, McFly is transported back to Nov. of 1955 and he calls on the help of Doc Brown (the one who is living in the year 1955) to help him repair the time machine and get him back to the future (1985). The two hatch a plan using a bolt of lightning to generate 1.25 gigawatts of electricity into the flux capaciter and send McFly just at the perfect time, in a nutshell.

However, it’s the second one where we hear a reference to Clemson football.

McFly and Brown first go into the future to help Marty’s kid who has gotten himself in trouble. McFly picks up an Almanac that contains results for the last 50 years (1950-2000) looking to ‘place a few bets.’ Even though Brown discards of the almanac, the two don’t realize that Biff (the antagonist bully back in 1955 who is now an old grandfather) overheard their plan and realizes that the two have come to the future (2015) in a time machine.

He follows them, steals the time machine and gives the book to his former self back in 1955. When the two return to 1985, they realize what has happened and go back into the past looking to steal the book away from young Biff.

While young Biff is skeptical of this ‘old man’ who is giving him this book, he ultimately holds on to and that’s when we hear the Clemson reference.

He is looking at the results in the book and listening to the radio, which is giving a rundown of Saturday’s college football results. The radio announcer says that Maryland defeated Clemson 25-12, exactly as it says in the almanac.

Of course, if you look into it, you’ll see that the 25-12 score was actually a real-life result from the game played between the Tigers and Terps on Nov. 12, 1955 (the day that young Biff is looking at the almanac in the movie).

It’s a cool little Easter egg and just a small little mention of Clemson getting through to the viewer.