1975 - Wisconsin @ Iowa -- Iowa 45 - Wisconsin 28 -- This Iowa win started a string of Iowa wins against Wisconsin in which Iowa went 18-1-1, which made the Iowa/Wisconsin series competitive. I was a freshman and had season tickets. It seems meaningless, and random, as Iowa was such a bad team in the 1970s, -- so bad I took a pic of the scoreboard, but it falls directly within the OP's "theme of the thread." The all-time Iowa-Wisconsin series now stands at 47-49-2.
2003 - FSU @ Notre Dame -- FSU 37 - Notre Dame 0 -- I had always wanted to see a game at Notre Dame, and the Seminoles were playing them there in a down year for ND. We had our Seminoles gear on. We met the father of one of FSU's D-Linemen on the walk to the stadium.
I negotiated to buy tickets out front. Someone wanted to charge me original price on tickets and I turned my back on him to negotiate with another seller because ND was so bad, and I believed tickets should not be original price, and he hollered at me after I turned my back, and discounted the tickets by $5.00.
I looked at the tickets and said, "Where are these?" I asked because they had weird lettering describing location. He said, "I don't know, I am from Nebraska." I bought them anyway. We walked in and they directed us toward our seat and we kept walking down, and there was a security guard checking tickets at the bottom of the stadium. Our tickets said FL 2 for "Row." I could not figure out what FL meant and feared somehow we would be somewhere high. We were at field level, and when the security guided us down on the benches in the end zone onto the field I realized what an idiot I was for almost passing on these tickets and trying to negotiate with someone else.
The All State Insurance net girl, a student at St. Mary's College, took our pic on the field during a time out.
1968 - Indiana @ Iowa -- Indiana 38 - Iowa 34 - I was 9. I had my own paper route money. Mom and dad had tickets; I didn't. I was there to see my football heroes, Eddie Podolak, and Larry Ely.
I put my finger up trying to buy tickets. Someone tried selling me a ticket in the end zone for I think $5. I said, "Let me ask my dad." I could not find him and the guy walked away. My thinking was that was expensive for an end zone ticket. When I found dad he excoriated me for not buying the ticket, and damn near made me cry (See the FSU @ ND post -- still hadn't learned my lesson or maybe I did what I did because of this experience as you shall see).
I put my finger up again seeking a ticket. An older woman approached (probably a young woman at the time but way older than me), I asked the woman, "How much?" She said, "This is free for a cute little boy like you." I had a ticket! I redeemed myself, having defeated dad's excoriation.
I sat at the 25-yard line about 25 rows up. These were really great tickets. At half-time the PA announcer asked the Iowa Legislature to stand, and for everyone to give a round of applause for them. Everyone around me stood up, except me -- and probably spouses of state legislators.
