09-17-2017, 01:14 PM
Last night... an old prof of mine (a very good friend) was sending me photos from the stands... and all of a sudden I was missing UT and Toledo so much... I remember my first game... it was an afternoon game... there was NO ONE in the stands... I went with the cross country team, which I was a part of... we had the weekend off... most of us had been drinking a bit... I ended up rolling down the green grass at the south corner... and then after that being part of the scene... it was such a fun time to be there... the bars on Door and Secor... not to mention the Blind Pig... Angelos... the concerts out behind the library, with hotdogs and beer... the spirit rock (how many layers of paint does that have?)... and in 1989... I think back now when they fired the coach after a winning season... the collegean was all in an uproar... why would Toledo fire a coach that was mediocre... we are NOT Michigan or Ohio St... ENTER stage left Nick Saban... that was an AMAZING thing to watch UT go from zero to ranked... I remember being at the Navy game... still have the ticket stub... so, in my final season as a student... my friends came for a game in which they were from all over the US... while in the stands... they came up with a devious plan... two guys held another by the ankles and lowered him so he could take the cheerleaders football.. he grabbed it... and they tossed the ball to one friend, then to me and I tossed it to another at the top of the stands and he took off running out of the stadium... a couple of the cheerleader guys ran up after the ball... the cheerleader asked me where it was... I said... I think the ball went that way... so, the next morning before my friends took off back to where ever they came from I made them sign it... and on the last game of my UT college student years... which was that same season, two games later... the cheerleader that chased after the ball... was walking selling raffle tickets in Lot 10 I think... I walked up to him and gave him the ball back with our signatures on it... he looked at me and smiled...