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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: OrangeAfroMan on June 08, 2020, 08:14:50 PM
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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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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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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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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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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.
(https://i.imgur.com/50JpBeB.png)
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Guess that Umpire was moonlighting as a Ref
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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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.
Steve Bellasari got unfairly dumped on as he was a pariah of John Coopers swan song.Coopers ineptness in C-Bus was poking thru yet again.The QB stable was weak so Bellasari was called on - he was erratic but there was no one else to play until his senior yr when he got a DUI and Tressel turned to some guy named Krenzel.But the kid didn't need to hear comments like Bella-sorry,when he was out there giving it a shot
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I remember Notre Dame winning the championship in 1988. I was going to an elementary school named Notre Dame and assumed they were part of my school.
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I have no memories of college football until, well, college. Chicago being a pro sports town, and my dad having studied at IIT while my mom was at UofI at the old Navy Pier campus, they weren't exactly college football fans.
So in 1996 I made my way to West Lafayette, never having seen a college football game that I can recall. I only have two recollections of that season, as I did not have tickets to games:
- I was at a fraternity rush event and the Purdue/Notre Dame game was on TV. Notre Dame returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown before beating Purdue 35-0. Not a good first impression for me...
- Purdue beat Michigan 9-6, which was meaningless to me. When I heard the fans had rushed the field, torn down the goalpost, and carried it down to the levee to throw it in the Wabash, I realized it must have been a big deal.
Purdue finished 3-8 and fired Jim Colletto that year.
The next year I had joined a fraternity, and got season tickets as part of our house bloc, and my first game in Ross-Ade Stadium was the defeat of Notre Dame that again led to fans rushing the field (including me). That was a much better impression.
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I vaguely remember the 1969 Rose Bowl (OSU vs USC). But my clearest memory was my dad listening to games on the radio while Archie Griffin was the tailback. I would hear the announcer talk about Griffin running the ball and thinking of Andy Griffith and trying to figure out why he was playing football.
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i remember going to homecoming parade and bonfires as a kid in the late 80's.
as for a football specific memory, the 92 season. the stomping of florida in first seccg and then miami talking trash and thinking we had no chance, just happy to be back in title discussion. then george teague chasing down the miami wr on a long pass and stripping the football. just demoralizing. also remember the national champs parade and celebration on the quad. fun times. still have the shaker and little plastic football from that parade.
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also, the sherman shake. sherman williams, part of that 92 team, should shake his shoulder pads after big plays or td's. i'm sure it wasn't the first or only one to do it, but it had a cool nickname and was one of my favorite celebrations. simple and fun.
here it is, about 0:13 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG7R1A2GwZU
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i remember going to homecoming parade and bonfires as a kid in the late 80's.
as for a football specific memory, the 92 season. the stomping of florida in first seccg and then miami talking trash and thinking we had no chance, just happy to be back in title discussion. then george teague chasing down the miami wr on a long pass and stripping the football. just demoralizing. also remember the national champs parade and celebration on the quad. fun times. still have the shaker and little plastic football from that parade.
George Teague running down big mouth Lamar Thomas may be my favorite memory that doesn’t involve my favorite team.
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The matchup between PSU and Miami in the 1987 Fiesta is probably the only bowl game I truly remember, outside of Rose Bowls and UW bowls, going back that far.
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i remember going to homecoming parade and bonfires as a kid in the late 80's.
as for a football specific memory, the 92 season. the stomping of florida in first seccg
Ehhh, stomped?
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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
Very similar, I have some vague memories prior to 68, but the real memories are part of the regular Season, but it is the 1969 Rose bowl against Orange Juice, as me and my cousins were calling him at my grandparents house watching the game that is totally ingrained. I was 8 years old.
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Ehhh, stomped?
mixed up my words. originally it said stomping of miami in title game, then i added the seccg in there, cause i remember the pick6 from langham late in 4th to win game.
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The next year I had joined a fraternity, and got season tickets as part of our house bloc, and my first game in Ross-Ade Stadium was the defeat of Notre Dame that again led to fans rushing the field (including me). That was a much better impression.
Fookin' rioters
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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
about the same time, I was a big Woody, Jim Otis fan.
didn't like that John Brockington played for the Packers later
OJ Simpson was a helluva running back
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'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.
Was that the Sun Bowl after Barry Switzer surprised Bob Devaney with a bag of tacos?
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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.
You showed up right when I left. I was there for the 1993-1997 seasons.
I remember Ohio State playing in a Rose Bowl when I was young and I can figure out by process of elimination that it had to be the 1985 Rose Bowl (1984 season). Ohio State Rose Bowls in my lifetime:
- 1/1/76: Ohio State lost to UCLA, I was 7-1/2 months old.
- 1/1/80: Ohio State lost to USC, I was 4-1/2 years old.
- 1/1/85: Ohio State lost to USC, I was 9-1/2 years old.
- 1/1/97: Ohio State beat ASU, I was 21 years old and I was in the stadium watching the game.
- 1/1/10: Ohio State beat Oregon, I was 34 years old and I cooked Duck for the meal, watched at my brothers'.
- 1/1/19: Ohio State beat Washington, I was 43 years old and watched with my dad.
So tOSU is 3-3 in RoseBowls in my lifetime but basically 3-0 in my memory because I only vaguely recall the 1985 game and have no recollection whatsoever of the 76 and 80 games.
I was always an Ohio State fan but it was tough times when I was first paying attention a little bit so I really didn't pay that close of attention. The Buckeyes were great in the '70's but I don't remember that. Then came Earle Bruce's seven year streak of three-loss seasons from 1980-1986. Those were neither great nor terrible so nothing really stands out other than the aforementioned Rose Bowl.
The transition from Bruce to Cooper was a mess. Bruce's last year was a pathetic 6-4-1 mess only brightened by beating Michigan. I do remember that because by then I knew some Michigan fans who trash talked a lot because they were heavy favorites and then Ohio State won. Unfortunately, that win in 1987 when I was in 7th grade was the last over the Wolverines until I was a sophomore at Ohio State in 1994.
The other thing to point out here is that the Browns were really good in the mid-1980's so I tended to follow them a little more closely. I well remember the Browns barely missing the Superbowl in the 1986 season on Denver/Elway's 98 yard drive for a tying TD in the AFC Championship game in Cleveland to send the game to OT where Denver won. A year later the Browns and Broncos met in the AFC Championship Game again and the Browns drove close to the goal line for what would have been a tying TD with just over a minute to play then fumbled on the goal line with 1:12 left.
If the Buckeyes had been better or the Browns worse in the mid-1980's I would probably have earlier specific CFB memories.
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One of my earliest football memories (college) was listening to the Huskers play after the Kennedy assassination. I was in the third grade and those two memories are linked forever in my mind. I couldn't tell you for sure who we played or who won, but it sparked some interesting dinner conversations over whether it was appropriate for us to play so soon after Kennedy died. Even before that, my dad (who had played trombone in the UNL marching band in 49-51) would have my brother (trombone) and I (flute) practice marching to all the Husker pre-game songs every game day. We got our first TV in 1961, and it was always a treat to get to actually watch the Huskers play on TV. We usually just listened to the game if we could pick it up on our radio. We lived in south central South Dakota so it was kind of hit and miss with the radio. Loved Lyle Bremser (?).
I miss those days.
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One of my earliest football memories (college) was listening to the Huskers play after the Kennedy assassination. I was in the third grade and those two memories are linked forever in my mind. I couldn't tell you for sure who we played or who won, but it sparked some interesting dinner conversations over whether it was appropriate for us to play so soon after Kennedy died. Even before that, my dad (who had played trombone in the UNL marching band in 49-51) would have my brother (trombone) and I (flute) practice marching to all the Husker pre-game songs every game day. We got our first TV in 1961, and it was always a treat to get to actually watch the Huskers play on TV. We usually just listened to the game if we could pick it up on our radio. We lived in south central South Dakota so it was kind of hit and miss with the radio. Loved Lyle Bremser (?).
I miss those days.
You played OU and Nebraska won.
OU head coach Bud Wilkinson was on JFK's President's Council on Physical Fitness and considered the president a friend. He thought that the game should be canceled, but Robert Kennedy called him and said that "Jack would have wanted the game played."
The game was at Lincoln and Nebraska won 29-20.
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Was that the Sun Bowl after Barry Switzer surprised Bob Devaney with a bag of tacos?
The Tacos - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQMpgnI5ERA)
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That may have been the first major sporting event played post assassination.
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That may have been the first major sporting event played post assassination.
I think it was. It was the day after.
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may have been one of my earliest memories - I would have been a year and a half
I remember my mother sitting on the floor in front of the TV crying
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Mom and dad took me to a game when I was about 9 years old. I think I had been to a game before this seated with one or both of them. This time, they had tickets. I got a ticket out front, and sat by myself and about 55,000 others.
I was instructed at age 9 to meet my parents under the water tower after the game. Finding parents after the game even under a water tower amongst 55,000+ people seemed unlikely, but I was all in. I didn't know how I would get home 90-miles away if we missed. I had to find the water tower, and I had to hope like hell they would find me. I was a little kid.
We did this several more times over the years, and it worked. My first Iowa game was circa 1966.
The water tower can be seen in this video I took a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aLASjTlpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aLASjTlpg)
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Mom and dad took me to a game when I was about 9 years old. I think I had been to a game before this seated with one or both of them. This time, they had tickets. I got a ticket out front, and sat by myself and about 55,000 others.
I was instructed at age 9 to meet my parents under the water tower after the game. Finding parents after the game even under a water tower amongst 55,000+ people seemed unlikely, but I was all in. I didn't know how I would get home 90-miles away if we missed. I had to find the water tower, and I had to hope like hell they would find me. I was a little kid.
We did this several more times over the years, and it worked. My first Iowa game was circa 1966.
The water tower can be seen in this video I took a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aLASjTlpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4aLASjTlpg)
Damn. Really?
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that was normal back in the 60's
the good old days
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that was normal back in the 60's
the good old days
Yeah, I guess. I look at the stuff my mom let me do as a kid that I wouldn’t dream of letting my kids do. Riding in the back of pickup trucks, riding bikes on dangerous roads with almost no shoulder to get off on if a car came. I don’t think sitting by myself around 55,000 people when I was 9 would have made the cut though.
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55,000 good Iowans - as safe as in your mother's arms
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Growing up in Alabama requires that you be a Bama fan or an aubie. I was a Bama lean in the late 40s with Harry Gilmer at QB. Signed the Bama LOI on 01/01/1953 after watching Bama beat Syracuse 61-6 in the Orange Bowl. This after reading and hearing the entire month of December how the "Beast of the East" was going to trample Bama.
First game, and first date, was 1953 Alabama-Tennessee. Little girl and I rode the trolley from Woodlawn on the Eastern side of Birmingham to Legion Field on the Western side. Nobody scored that day. :) it was a 0-0 tie!
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Damn. Really?
Yes, but a worse experience occurred in 1968 when I was 11. But, I believe in redemption, and I was redeemed. I had a paper route since I was 9 delivering the Des Moines Register, so I had my own money. Mom and Dad had tickets, I had none. So I put my index finger up out-front signaling I needed 1-ticket. A guy offered me a ticket for I think $5, so I asked, where is it? It was in the end zone and in that day, Iowa sold "knot hole" tickets to kids in the end zone for select games for $2 or $5, I don't remember which price, applied to which years. But Iowa wasn't selling knot hole tickets for that Indiana-Iowa game.
I wasn't so sure I wanted a ticket in the end zone at his price. I said to him let me ask my dad, but dad was no where to be found at that moment. I found dad, and he started hollering at me harshly about dadgummit, and he wasn't Bobby Bowden so that isn't exactly what he said. I was feeling really bad. I put my finger up again, pretty much not crying. A few moments later a middle-age woman found me, and I said, "How much?" For a cute little boy like you this ticket is free.
I didn't question the seat location. I accepted it. My mother was beaming. I sat on the 25-yard line about 25 rows up. At half-time the stadium announcer asked the Iowa legislators to stand and everyone around me stood up. It was the best seat I sat in until I went to one of Iowa's Alamo Bowls in 1996 and we sat in Row 2 on the 40 behind the Iowa bench. My brother-in-law was the San Antonio I-Club president.
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Yeah, I guess. I look at the stuff my mom let me do as a kid that I wouldn’t dream of letting my kids do. Riding in the back of pickup trucks, riding bikes on dangerous roads with almost no shoulder to get off on if a car came. I don’t think sitting by myself around 55,000 people when I was 9 would have made the cut though.
One of my college dorm floor-mates was a quadriplegic. He rode in the back of a pickup and was thrown out. We did not allow that, or motorcycle rides, for our daughter.
I wished I knew who gave me the ticket. It is one of those things I never forgot. I think it may have been Iowa's first female legislator, but I don't know that. An article was written about these events for the 75th anniversary of Kinnick Stadium game day program in 2004, and the writer interviewed my mother, and me. It was interesting to hear my mother's recollections of the same event. I had hoped the person who gifted me the ticket would read that article and try to contact me, but I wasn't contacted.
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Yeah, I guess. I look at the stuff my mom let me do as a kid that I wouldn’t dream of letting my kids do. Riding in the back of pickup trucks, riding bikes on dangerous roads with almost no shoulder to get off on if a car came. I don’t think sitting by myself around 55,000 people when I was 9 would have made the cut though.
My folks had 5-kids. If they lost one, it would be a 20% loss. Forty years later, if I lost one it would be all I had, a 100% loss. Our math was different. My mom had to watch over the babies and supervise my older sister on not hiking up her skirt (my sister is 66). They were young and had little children and would have no idea what I was doing, or where I was, so long as I was home at dinner and before bed time.
In the 1990s I saw the son of a local meth-head at age 7 ride his bike to the river with a fishing pole and stand in the middle of the river on a rock. I was horrified. But at age 9 I would have done the same, and no one in our Catholic town with big families would have seen a thing wrong with it in the 1960s.
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the 60s had a ton of social problems
I'm sure my parents were worried about raising children during that time, but I enjoyed my childhood & growing up during that time
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Yes, but a worse experience occurred in 1968 when I was 11. But, I believe in redemption, and I was redeemed. I had a paper route since I was 9 delivering the Des Moines Register, so I had my own money. Mom and Dad had tickets, I had none. So I put my index finger up out-front signaling I needed 1-ticket. A guy offered me a ticket for I think $5, so I asked, where is it? It was in the end zone and in that day, Iowa sold "knot hole" tickets to kids in the end zone for select games for $2 or $5, I don't remember which price, applied to which years. But Iowa wasn't selling knot hole tickets for that Indiana-Iowa game.
I wasn't so sure I wanted a ticket in the end zone at his price. I said to him let me ask my dad, but dad was no where to be found at that moment. I found dad, and he started hollering at me harshly about dadgummit, and he wasn't Bobby Bowden so that isn't exactly what he said. I was feeling really bad. I put my finger up again, pretty much not crying. A few moments later a middle-age woman found me, and I said, "How much?" For a cute little boy like you this ticket is free.
I didn't question the seat location. I accepted it. My mother was beaming. I sat on the 25-yard line about 25 rows up. At half-time the stadium announcer asked the Iowa legislators to stand and everyone around me stood up. It was the best seat I sat in until I went to one of Iowa's Alamo Bowls in 1996 and we sat in Row 2 on the 40 behind the Iowa bench. My brother-in-law was the San Antonio I-Club president.
I was 11 on the TSIO in 1953 (post above). No way in Hell does an 11 year old ride a bus by himself, much less with a girlfriend, from Woodlawn to Legion Field today. Not for the last 30 or 40 years for that matter.
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You played OU and Nebraska won.
OU head coach Bud Wilkinson was on JFK's President's Council on Physical Fitness and considered the president a friend. He thought that the game should be canceled, but Robert Kennedy called him and said that "Jack would have wanted the game played."
The game was at Lincoln and Nebraska won 29-20.
Thanks, CW. I thought maybe it was but wasn't totally sure. Most of our Thanksgiving meals revolved around that annual game. I can't remember the first game I actually watched on TV, but can remember the radio broadcast. My dad preferred the radio broadcast so much that when he went to the games in the stadium, he wore his radio headset rather than listen to the crappy PA announcers in the stadium. I think he would have enjoyed most of the changes over the last decade (he passed in 2011).
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I remember when I felt young when I showed up to CFN at 19
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Little girl and I rode the trolley from Woodlawn on the Eastern side of Birmingham to Legion Field on the Western side. Nobody scored that day. :) it was a 0-0 tie!
The fact you went scoreless in 1953 is one reason you can joke about it 67-years later. Did her parents know where the two of you were headed?
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Thanks, CW. I thought maybe it was but wasn't totally sure. Most of our Thanksgiving meals revolved around that annual game. I can't remember the first game I actually watched on TV, but can remember the radio broadcast. My dad preferred the radio broadcast so much that when he went to the games in the stadium, he wore his radio headset rather than listen to the crappy PA announcers in the stadium. I think he would have enjoyed most of the changes over the last decade (he passed in 2011).
The first time I watched that game was in 1971. It was a pretty good one to watch.
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I'm sure I watched the battle of the Big Reds before the 71 game - aunts, uncles, and cousins would come up to grandma's for dinner from Omaha
I was always up to watch football with anyone since about 67-68
my father wasn't a football fan
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Back in the day, there was one game a week on TV. It was called, oddly enough, well, you know. It was nearly always ND or OSU or Texas et al.
The newspaper the next day would have large photos of key plays from the UGA and Tech games with arrows and arcs showing where the ball was thrown. Later on Sunday would be a kind of replay with the coach of each team. I can still hear Dooley's monotone with the announcer who later became highly regarded but wasn't yet, Larry Munson. Larry was from Nashville and early on not really a Dawg fan. He was actually boring. There was a game in 1972 I think it was at Kentucky where he got excited and became a fan.
If UGA and Tech were ranked in the top ten, that game would make the GotW, often, in part because not much else was happening. The two polls were big items for me, as a kid, seeing whether we moved up or not. If we lost, I would ignore them, and the shows. UGA was good in 1966 and 1968 and I, being young, expected them to keep getting better and better, which didn't really happen consistently.
They were not good when I was on campus and I attended a few games, not many, and the stands were not very full.
We had to take 6 quarters of PE. You started with calisthenics, and at the end of the quarter if you passed this pretty tough test, you could pick any PE course you wanted. I managed to pass in part because of the long jump, and there was a 25 yard swimming event and a 600 yard swim, which was tough for me. I took volleyball one quarter and half the other folks there were UGA football players. They were not any bigger than I was, the tight end was there and we had some epic battles at the net. I once spiked through his hands and he went down, I was mortified, Richard Applebie, nice guy. He got up smiling and said "Good hit". His nose was bleeding. A few days later he spiked and caught me and he was past the net to see if I was OK, I was laughing, we all laughed, but it hurt.
At least I didn't take out our starting TE. He later beat Florida 10-7 on a tight end pass. I remember taking bowling which was coed and found a GF for a while who was a piano major. I liked her a lot, but she was weird it turned out.
I moved to a private barely off campus dorm my soph year that was pretty nice and coed, which was a big deal back then, but not really.
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You showed up right when I left. I was there for the 1993-1997 seasons.
I remember Ohio State playing in a Rose Bowl when I was young and I can figure out by process of elimination that it had to be the 1985 Rose Bowl (1984 season). Ohio State Rose Bowls in my lifetime:
- 1/1/76: Ohio State lost to UCLA, I was 7-1/2 months old.
- 1/1/80: Ohio State lost to USC, I was 4-1/2 years old.
- 1/1/85: Ohio State lost to USC, I was 9-1/2 years old.
- 1/1/97: Ohio State beat ASU, I was 21 years old and I was in the stadium watching the game.
- 1/1/10: Ohio State beat Oregon, I was 34 years old and I cooked Duck for the meal, watched at my brothers'.
- 1/1/19: Ohio State beat Washington, I was 43 years old and watched with my dad.
So tOSU is 3-3 in RoseBowls in my lifetime but basically 3-0 in my memory because I only vaguely recall the 1985 game and have no recollection whatsoever of the 76 and 80 games.
I was always an Ohio State fan but it was tough times when I was first paying attention a little bit so I really didn't pay that close of attention. The Buckeyes were great in the '70's but I don't remember that. Then came Earle Bruce's seven year streak of three-loss seasons from 1980-1986. Those were neither great nor terrible so nothing really stands out other than the aforementioned Rose Bowl.
The transition from Bruce to Cooper was a mess. Bruce's last year was a pathetic 6-4-1 mess only brightened by beating Michigan. I do remember that because by then I knew some Michigan fans who trash talked a lot because they were heavy favorites and then Ohio State won. Unfortunately, that win in 1987 when I was in 7th grade was the last over the Wolverines until I was a sophomore at Ohio State in 1994.
The other thing to point out here is that the Browns were really good in the mid-1980's so I tended to follow them a little more closely. I well remember the Browns barely missing the Superbowl in the 1986 season on Denver/Elway's 98 yard drive for a tying TD in the AFC Championship game in Cleveland to send the game to OT where Denver won. A year later the Browns and Broncos met in the AFC Championship Game again and the Browns drove close to the goal line for what would have been a tying TD with just over a minute to play then fumbled on the goal line with 1:12 left.
If the Buckeyes had been better or the Browns worse in the mid-1980's I would probably have earlier specific CFB memories.
Cool, another 75'er. I made it just barely, Dec. 1975. Coincidentially, the day I was born was the last time the Aggies were ranked #1 (got smoked by a late season game by Arkansas, the reasons for playing a game so late escape me to this day).
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Back in the day, there was one game a week on TV. It was called, oddly enough, well, you know. It was nearly always ND or OSU or Texas et al.
The newspaper the next day would have large photos of key plays from the UGA and Tech games with arrows and arcs showing where the ball was thrown. Later on Sunday would be a kind of replay with the coach of each team. I can still hear Dooley's monotone with the announcer who later became highly regarded but wasn't yet, Larry Munson. Larry was from Nashville and early on not really a Dawg fan. He was actually boring. There was a game in 1972 I think it was at Kentucky where he got excited and became a fan.
It may have seem to you that Ohio State was always on, but it didn't seem that way to me. The good thing was that WOSU (the public TV station) would show a delayed broadcast of the game. So I would listen to it on 610 WTVN and then later watch it on TV.
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I was a transfer student to A&M in 1996, I didn't have any experience at all with college football, I didn't realize it was such a big deal. We started off the season with much hope and hype as we had a hot shot QBack transfer from Tennessee that got beat out by Peyton Manning (Branndon Stewart FWIW). In the first game we played at USL (I think they're now U-La-La, USL was better name). Stewart tossed 6 INT's and we lost like 22-26. It was a big deal at the time, like when Troy beat LSU a few years ago or when App St beat Michigan. I actually forgot, we lost to BYU in the first game, I think USL was the 2nd. The first game I attended it was the very first A&M Big 12 game. A&M vs Colorado. Dante Hall was receiving a kick sometime during the game and I can't remember the details but he really flubbed it and CU had the ball inside our 20 and scored pretty easily. A&M was 6-6 that year including close losses to Kansas St and wins vs OU and oSu. We had a humiliating loss to the hated 'horns at the end of the year, 51-15 or something like that. It was terrible. At the time we had hoped that we could win the last one and qualify for a bowl (we had won our bowl in 95 vs Mich). In those days 6-6 teams generally didn't go to bowls. 1998 was a great yet, we won the Big 12 (also our last conference championship) and beat #1 KSU but lost to Ohio St in the Sugar Bowl. Dante Hall went on to have a pretty solid NFL career returning kicks for I think Kansas City.
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It may have seem to you that Ohio State was always on, but it didn't seem that way to me. The good thing was that WOSU (the public TV station) would show a delayed broadcast of the game. So I would listen to it on 610 WTVN and then later watch it on TV.
Well, it usually was one of the Blue Bloods anyway for obvious reasons, USC, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan ...Alabama on occasion. The shift in population really had not occurred then, Michigan probably had 2.5 times more people than Georgia.
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Back in the day, there was one game a week on TV. It was called, oddly enough, well, you know. It was nearly always ND or OSU or Texas et al.
The newspaper the next day would have large photos of key plays from the UGA and Tech games with arrows and arcs showing where the ball was thrown. Later on Sunday would be a kind of replay with the coach of each team. I can still hear Dooley's monotone with the announcer who later became highly regarded but wasn't yet, Larry Munson. Larry was from Nashville and early on not really a Dawg fan. He was actually boring. There was a game in 1972 I think it was at Kentucky where he got excited and became a fan. . . .
As I recall, in the '70s, a school could be on national TV a maximum 3 times in 2 years, no more than twice in any one year. They could be on regionally broadcast games more often than that, however.
I loved those Sunday sports sections with sequential photos and the dotted lines showing the arc of the pass or the punt or occasionally the fumble. Those sports sections were as big as a whole daily newspaper.
I was a paperboy for the Tulsa World as sophomore in HS (1969-70). It seemed like Sunday papers weighed about 2 pounds each, Thursdays--with ads for the stores that were staying open until 9:00--were about a pound each, and the other days were measured in ounces. Nowadays, the Sunday paper weighs about what the Thursday paper weighed back then, and the daily papers are much smaller, and the Monday and Tuesday papers seem no thicker or heavier than a free local community paper would have been back then.
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Yeah, the local paper has receded in heft, a lot. Our neighbor has it on his door step every day. I get USA Today when I'm in a motel often as not and am amazed that anyone would pay for that, it's ultra thin. It once was a kind of decent national news source.
I'm a bit surprised papers still exist on paper.
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I was a paperboy for the Tulsa World as sophomore in HS (1969-70). It seemed like Sunday papers weighed about 2 pounds each,
Probably because they did,maybe more.Today the whole thing is about as thick as the old Comics Section.And the content is a joke.I really liked stretching out on the couch/recliner with cup of coffee thumbing thru and perusing every last page of the weekend fish wraps.
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enjoyable quality time
especially the sports section
the Sunday Omaha paper was great during football season - I'd drive 20 miles to pick it up
it was the closest thing we had to the internet back then
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The polls came out in the Tuesday sports section.
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Yeah, I kinda miss the paper being a thing, especially the Sunday paper.
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Wsj weekend edition is great lazy reading sat/sun. An easy half hour alone at least w the book reviews.
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I'm sure I watched the battle of the Big Reds before the 71 game - aunts, uncles, and cousins would come up to grandma's for dinner from Omaha
I was always up to watch football with anyone since about 67-68
my father wasn't a football fan
My grandparents would come up to South Dakota from Nemaha, NE occasionally for Thanksgiving and we would all be glued to the set except for one; I always felt sorry for my sister as she was never into sports at all and would go to her room during the game. As an adult living in Lincoln, she was even known to change her clothes on game days if she accidentally wore red, lol. Not a fan at all. Still not a fan but very kindly lets me babble on during football season and was known to make sure Mom had all the preview magazines each year. My husband calls himself the football widow in our house; he's not a sports fan either. Luckily my youngest son has moved in with us for a while and while he is more of a pro fan, at least he is willing to talk football with me, lol. Now if I can just get him to root for my Vikings instead of the Jaguars....
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I’m very picky about who I watch games with which is why I typically just watch them by myself at home. When I’m watching a game I want the people watching it with me to be as into it as I am. One of my pet peeves is when people have gatherings centered around a WVU game but it’s more of a social event with the game on in the background. I’m actually ok doing that with many other sporting events but not WVU games. That isn’t the time I want to be chatted up and asked how my family is doing. I’m focused on the game and any conversation is based on what is happening in the game.
I also want to watch it with people who understand the game a little and don’t make dumb comments. I watched a few games with my buddy and his dad and brothers and found myself getting annoyed with them. His dad had a comment after every play. If a run was stopped he would say, “Why are we running?! We should be throwing the ball!” If a pass play didn’t work he would say, “Those aren’t the kind of passes we should be throwing!” He never actually specified what we should be throwing but just commenting that the ones that weren’t working should be scrapped.
He also frequently called for more blitzing and got pissed at our corners every time the opponent completed a pass.
Anyway, after a while I figured out it was best if I just watched games by myself or with 2-3 friends who met my criteria. I usually watch games alone but have a running dialogue via text during the game.
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The fact you went scoreless in 1953 is one reason you can joke about it 67-years later. Did her parents know where the two of you were headed?
Yes, her parents knew. I still can't believe that happened.
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When I was maybe 13-17 years old, I'd enjoy laying on the floor and looking through the sports section.
A - I ran a pre-interwebs fantasy baseball league and tracked everything by hand, using box scores from the paper. And had to go back the next day for late games. But I didn't mind.
B - I'd HAVE to see the college football polls as they were released each week. And I want to say USA Today updated all of the national statistical leaders in its Sunday paper. I may have that wrong, but it was weekly, and getting that paper was special.
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Yes, her parents knew. I still can't believe that happened.
I cannot believe we have someone on here who rode a trolley to a football game. But then, we currently have the Hawkeye Express (but no trolley):
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I’m very picky about who I watch games with which is why I typically just watch them by myself at home. When I’m watching a game I want the people watching it with me to be as into it as I am. One of my pet peeves is when people have gatherings centered around a WVU game but it’s more of a social event with the game on in the background. I’m actually ok doing that with many other sporting events but not WVU games. That isn’t the time I want to be chatted up and asked how my family is doing. I’m focused on the game and any conversation is based on what is happening in the game.
I also want to watch it with people who understand the game a little and don’t make dumb comments. I watched a few games with my buddy and his dad and brothers and found myself getting annoyed with them.
Yeah, same here.
And I don't mind explaining the intricacies of the game to someone who doesn't know enough to be annoying.
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I used to watch all Saturday with a buddy in Cincy who was an OSU fan, a real fan, he knew the game. That was pretty fun. He has visited us here and we watched games on Saturday. One time we decided to invite over some more of our wine drinking friends, fortunately it wasn't a Big Game Saturday. We never did that again, ever. One lady just talked, which was a bit unusual for her, maybe she got tipsy. Another kept asking questions, she knew just enough about football to ask basic and fairly annoying questions, and then she'd say "Oh sorry, I'll be quiet now.". But she wouldn't.
They didn't get the flow of the game, how you talk during commercials, not between plays, unless it's very quick.
Now I watch by myself, unless he or another fellow visits. The other guy is also an OSU fan (and grad), or with my kids if they are here.
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When I was maybe 13-17 years old, I'd enjoy laying on the floor and looking through the sports section.
A - I ran a pre-interwebs fantasy baseball league and tracked everything by hand, using box scores from the paper. And had to go back the next day for late games. But I didn't mind.
B - I'd HAVE to see the college football polls as they were released each week. And I want to say USA Today updated all of the national statistical leaders in its Sunday paper. I may have that wrong, but it was weekly, and getting that paper was special.
I used to get The Sporting News when I was a kid and it would update the baseball statistical leaders every week. I’d keep up with the standings in the local paper every day. I miss being into baseball because I enjoyed that part of it but I just can’t get into it anymore.
For about a 5 year stretch in the mid to late 80s I would get the Street & Smith’s Baseball Preview. It was awesome. In depth previews on every team and I read every one of them. But the best part was they had the stats from every player in the league who played the season before. This is going to sound over the top dorky but I would go through the stats of every player in MLB and write down the top 3 in each category. BA, Hits, Doubles, Triples, HR, RBI, and SB. Then for pitchers I’d do Wins, ERA, SO, Saves, and Innings Pitched. Then I’d do like this mock awards ceremony where I’d call the top 3 up for each category and give them a plaque.
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Being a kid in my day was largely boring. There was nothing on TV when you got home from school but soaps. I'd take the dog and go walk in the woods behind out house and occasionally dam up the creek for fun. There was a small field that had old abandoned cars in it and I would take the gauges out of old cars and use it to build a "space simulator" using a large box that had a large TV in it that I found and got home somehow. It had a motorized "hatch" and I used some wax paper and moving flashlight bulbs to make a radar screen kind of thing. One summer I read the World Book Encyclopedia, except for the biography parts, seriously, the whole thing. My Mom sold them door to door for a while and we got a nice set "free".
There was a circle in front of our house that had filled up with dirt eroded from construction up the street. One day I started scraping the dirt into a drainage culvert. It would have taken me all summer and then some to do it all, the dirt was half a foot thick in places. Oddly enough, neighbors started coming over to help out and in a couple days we had all the dirt removed.
So, the idea of keeping detailed records about some sport is pretty appealing in a world with no TV and no Internet and no computer games.
And my own dad's childhood was vastly different from mine.
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My grandparents would come up to South Dakota from Nemaha, NE occasionally for Thanksgiving and we would all be glued to the set except for one; I always felt sorry for my sister as she was never into sports at all and would go to her room during the game. As an adult living in Lincoln, she was even known to change her clothes on game days if she accidentally wore red, lol. Not a fan at all. Still not a fan but very kindly lets me babble on during football season and was known to make sure Mom had all the preview magazines each year. My husband calls himself the football widow in our house; he's not a sports fan either. Luckily my youngest son has moved in with us for a while and while he is more of a pro fan, at least he is willing to talk football with me, lol. Now if I can just get him to root for my Vikings instead of the Jaguars....
after my brother got his doctorate from UNL and we were both obviously huge fans, my father would sit with us to watch games and (I think) listen to us carry on about the game.
I know he only did it to spend time with his sons, but it was good.
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our grade school library had the sporting news.......
every week we would pour over the stats for baseball and then football
I thought it the best paper published
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Now that we have every stat known to mankind at our fingertips (or those of The Bobs anyway), we no longer write them down.
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Another early one was watching a solid Cal team get frustrated by a triple-option service academy.
Cal went up 12-3 and 15-10, but gave up back-to-back TDs in the fourth.
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Now that we have every stat known to mankind at our fingertips (or those of The Bobs anyway), we no longer write them down.
And so we don't remember them. Physically writing things down helps us remember them. We don't remember much of anything anymore now that we don't need to write it down because we can re-"access" it almost instantaneously.
Young people are particularly susceptible to this. They've grown up with the internet, social media, the whole shebang. They know more than oldsters will ever know about how to find information, but they don't actually commit the information to memory. So they have trouble contextualizing what they found out just now with what they read an hour ago but have already forgotten.
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And it's why they're screwed without their phones. They don't have anyone's number memorized to help them. And no paper maps in their cars.
When I moved to Tampa for my first year of college, the first few Sundays, I'd drive all around Tampa/St. Pete, get lost, and find my way back. Just to get a lay of the land with no maps or anything. It just seemed the prudent thing to do.
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Being a kid in my day was largely boring. There was nothing on TV when you got home from school but soaps. I'd take the dog and go walk in the woods behind out house and occasionally dam up the creek for fun. There was a small field that had old abandoned cars in it and I would take the gauges out of old cars and use it to build a "space simulator" using a large box that had a large TV in it that I found and got home somehow. It had a motorized "hatch" and I used some wax paper and moving flashlight bulbs to make a radar screen kind of thing. One summer I read the World Book Encyclopedia, except for the biography parts, seriously, the whole thing. My Mom sold them door to door for a while and we got a nice set "free".
Yeah, when I was 9-13 we had woods behind our backyard, with creeks all through it and I'd spend hours out there. Whether it was alone or with friends, just exploring or toiling, didn't matter.
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When we moved here, I had a very general idea of the lay of the land, but so much has changed of course. The wife and I drove around a good bit just seeing where this road went or that. I got lost a few times before realizing I was HERE, but HERE didn't look anything like it did back in the day.
The wife now has a pretty good idea where things are and the car has a pretty good GPS.
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And it's why they're screwed without their phones. They don't have anyone's number memorized to help them. And no paper maps in their cars.
When I moved to Tampa for my first year of college, the first few Sundays, I'd drive all around Tampa/St. Pete, get lost, and find my way back. Just to get a lay of the land with no maps or anything. It just seemed the prudent thing to do.
I question the value of remembering people's numbers. Like it's a nice thing, I guess, but doesn't seem super valuable.
The maps thing, ehh. We have better maps now. And it takes a little longer, but folks figure out how to navigate where they live just fine for the most part.
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There's a great medley of old Auburn games on ESPNu tonight. This sugar bowl vs Michigan is a good early childhood college football memory for me. We had this game on a little b&w 13 inch while we had the Orange Bowl on the large inch.
Love the attempts at block M and a peculiar block A in the field. This was a damn good 9-7 game.
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Yeah, I kinda miss the paper being a thing, especially the Sunday paper.
I subscribe to the Dubuque Telegraph Herald at my office. I have numerous glossy publications, and historical publications in my waiting room about the JFK assassination, mlb ball parks no longer existing, "Our Iowa" which has great photos of our state, magazines on floriculture, magazines about Iowa, but the publication everyone looks at 1st is the daily Dubuque Telegraph Herald despite the fact we are 45-miles from Dubuque and few people here subscribe to it. I grew up in Dubuque and view the obits each day. If given a few minutes and a recent newspaper mixed with historical publications even those that are 3-months old with beautiful color photos, people view the newspaper.
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Yes, her parents knew. I still can't believe that happened.
There was some inherent trust. So, what is your marital status, and hers?
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When I was in NC in school, I would snag the Charlotte Observer at times. I thought it a good newspaper, it was more comprehensive than the Raleigh paper, or even the AJC (Atlanta). I remember getting a subscription to the Cincinnati Enquirer when I moved there and being very disappointed at their sports section.
And the last time I saw one, it was a pale model of what it was even then, for obvious reasons.
The AJC on Sunday has some heft to it, but I have not read it other than on line, where I seem able to see everything for free even though they keep wanting me to pony up. I don't know what I get if I pay for it on line.
The WSJ gives you 3 I think peaks a month. I used to walk up to my broker's office to read it on occasion, but they have been closed to customers. Maybe they have reopened now, not sure.
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I question the value of remembering people's numbers. Like it's a nice thing, I guess, but doesn't seem super valuable.
The maps thing, ehh. We have better maps now. And it takes a little longer, but folks figure out how to navigate where they live just fine for the most part.
remembering someone's number when you don't have your phone doesn't seem valuable
I've always been proficient with paper maps, but google maps kicks arse.
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It's not phone numbers, it's knowing what on what continent the Mississippi River lies, in what century the Civil War took place, who was the "Father of our Country," without having to look it up that bothers me.
You can't understand today if all you know about yesterday is what you can look up.
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this is true
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It's not phone numbers, it's knowing what on what continent the Mississippi River lies, in what century the Civil War took place, who was the "Father of our Country," without having to look it up that bothers me.
You can't understand today if all you know about yesterday is what you can look up.
Since you're a teacher, I'll trust that happened to you, and lord almighty.
I think the ability to look up often gives an enormous depth to the information we can acquire. Like a kid could just get the itch and come to school knowing a whole boat load about the history of the river. But certianly the rigid adherence to the broad factual stuff is probably lost.
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Since you're a teacher, I'll trust that happened to you, and lord almighty.
I think the ability to look up often gives an enormous depth to the information we can acquire. Like a kid could just get the itch and come to school knowing a whole boat load about the history of the river. But certianly the rigid adherence to the broad factual stuff is probably lost.
I think that action yields the opposite outcome: because you can look anything up really quickly, you no longer remember any of it.
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I think that action yields the opposite outcome: because you can look anything up really quickly, you no longer remember any of it.
This.