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Topic: What's your earliest college football memories?

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OrangeAfroMan

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What's your earliest college football memories?
« on: June 08, 2020, 08:14:50 PM »
Warning:  this may date some of you, but it's just for fun.  I've shared mine, previously, but I have a couple.
1 - I remember wanting to be Barry Sanders while he was at OKST.  I don't remember watching him, just wanting to be him and telling the girl of our group that was being a cheerleader that their mascot was the Cowboys.
2 - I remember Rocket Ismail's non-game-winning punt return in the '91 Orange Bowl ('90 season).
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2020, 08:19:54 PM »
I remember going to Texas tailgate parties in the 70s.  I was born in 1971 so I was young, but at the time, my dad was manager of the radio station that owned the local broadcasting rights, so he was pretty dialed in.  I met Darrel K Royal at some of those events (probably not the actual tailgate party since he would have been prepping the team, but other promotional events the radio station ran throughout the season).

I remember watching Earl Campbell plow through unfortunate defenders, my folks and older brother made a pretty big deal out of that kind of stuff, and I remember the radio announcement when Earl was announced as the Heisman trophy winner.  I ran around outside yelling my head off.  A year or two later, I got a BMX bike with number placard "20" in burnt orange and white.  That was the bomb-diggity.

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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2020, 09:24:01 PM »
I have sporadic 1988 and 89 UM memories.

My first memory I have that is more than just a vague recollection of a football game existing is oddly a prime time game where Virginia was ranked #1 in 1990.  I somehow remember that more clearly than the first game I attended, a couple months earlier, Michigan-Maryland

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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2020, 09:51:51 PM »
I took a liking to UW football when Al Toon was around. Randy Wright, and others.

Pro ball was more comin in my family. Baseball even more. Most were all Cubs. I was a rebel. Sox all the way.
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2020, 09:53:37 PM »
1895, Auburn played Georgia in the park next to where I now live.  I was but a tike, but my dad took me to the game.  That's me, far right, standing.  Auburn won.


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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2020, 10:07:52 PM »
Guess that Umpire was moonlighting as a Ref
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2020, 10:08:47 PM »
2001 Cal in bits and pieces. They were dreadful. I didn't start seeing the bigger picture until later that year when Colorado upset Nebraska and sports radio told me it was a big deal. 

The next year, Kyle Boller got good under Jeff Tedford and I attended a few games. If I lived near home, I wonder if I'd get some tickets for kicks. I do like the full command center experience at home, but maybe. 

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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2020, 10:14:44 PM »
Around 1982. I went to my first college game (WVU vs Richmond) that season. WVU won 43-7 and with 17 seconds left my dad got up and said we needed to head out. I told him there were 17 seconds and stayed in my seat. He loved telling that story.

I had already developed a hatred for Penn St. I remember the TD pass against Bama where half the dude’s body was out of bounds. My dad just shook his head and talked about Paterno and home cooking.

Later in the year I thought Herschel (who in my mind was Superman) would finally give PSU its come uppance. I watched in tears as the Penn St defense smothered him all night.

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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2020, 10:25:01 PM »
When I moved to suburban Columbus Ohio as a 4th grader. Up until that point I had no idea that college football was a thing that anybody cared about. I remember Michigan week quite well. It was absolutely insane, even in a random elementary school on the outskirts of town. It was John Cooper's first season as HC. 1988.

The following year, 5th grade, we had DARE class. Every week they would hand out an OSU Football card to the kids in the class, and boy did we collect the hell out of them. Greg Frey, Bobby Olive, Jeff George, Carlos Snow. I can still remember most of them to this day. The kicker was Pat O'Morrow. I remember that one well because I was absent that week, and it took me a month to find someone who was willing to part with that card. In the meantime, it was my White Whale. They also had a few cards that were just filler; the schedule, Brutus Buckeye, Woody Hayes, etc. 

I really got into it there for a while, but once I hit my surly teens I quit paying attention for the most part. So I sorta missed the Eddie George years. But then when I enrolled at OSU, I was all in. My Freshman year was the 1998 season where they beat everyone except Michigan State. My final year was the 02 National Championship. So it was a great start and finish; book ending the Steve Bellasari nightmare that included a pair of Outback Bowl losses to S Carolina, where my brother was enrolled in the Strom Thurman Law School at the time. So he really enjoyed those two seasons at my expense. 
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2020, 10:33:23 PM »
I remember parts of the '68 season when tOSU won the MNC.My older brothers and some friends were watching Purdue @ tOSU and the Boilers were no 1 in the country at the time.Buckeyes won and I don't recall watching a whole lot more until beating USC & OJ Simpson on Jan1,1969
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2020, 10:48:31 PM »
Do you recall how Penn State was thought of that year?  They finished undefeated and #2, but they may have not been "Penn State" yet, idk.  
Their schedule was crap, though.
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2020, 12:53:30 AM »
New Year's Day, 1963.  Bama beat Bud Wilkinson's last Big 8-champion OU in the Orange Bowl, USC beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.  Bummer.
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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2020, 01:51:42 AM »
'80 cotton bowl.  My Dad taking the ricochet Td pass very badly as Houston beat Nebraska 17-14.  We also have an audio recording of us watching the 79 Sun bowl for some reason, I have no memory of it but that's my voice on the tape.  My Dad had a dictaphone and my older brother loved playing around with it.  

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Re: What's your earliest college football memories?
« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2020, 02:13:41 AM »
After watching Saturday morning cartoons with my brothers, Grandpa, who was living upstairs would flip on the noon games. We were living in Florida at the time. I saw Emmitt Smith, already famous as the Cowboys RB, on the sideline of a Gators game. It was the 1995 FSU @ Florida game, which Florida won to finish with an 11-0 regular season. Watched the whole game and spent the rest of my childhood and beyond a huge Gators fan, despite my Grandpa’s insistence I join him as a Notre Dame fan (Mom’s side from Indiana/Michigan).

 

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