(04-24-2013 04:05 PM)stinkfist Wrote: (04-24-2013 03:54 PM)eagleriffic Wrote: I have to add this on -
1987 FSU @ USM (homecoming)
FSU destroyed us 61-10 I was there & still wonder to this day who in heck thought it was a good idea to play FSU for homecoming
Yep...they got us back for that 58-14 butt stomping we put on them in Tallahassee in '81....
I was in school then and talked to several players that all told the same story. It was magical in the first half. We scored every time we touched the ball 31-0. Then oc Whitey Jordan addressed the team, asking the srs if they remember their freshman year. Fsu had come to hb and were just beginning their climb in the polls. (They happened to go to their first orange bowl that year.) Jordan reminded them " You boys remember they were ahead of us by 10 late in the game, and used all their time outs to get the ball back and go score another touchdown?? Its payback time, lets go beat those sum ******* JUST AS BAD AS WE CAN!
My most memorable, I was just a kid and didn't understand what was said in the papers that week. It was Oct 17,1970. Just a few days earlier, a guy named Archie Manning qb of the no 4 ole miss webels said, we shouldn't have to play Southern. They are a third rate school.
Archie basically got beaten to death that day. Mike Dennery's performance was honored by his being named National lineman of the week. Wee Willie Hieldberg scored 3 td's as the Southerners Beat the mighty rebels for the first time in history 30-14. My oldest brother was a student at usm at that time. He didn't go to the game that week like he usually did. He came home and we spent the day working on the farm and listening to the game on the radio.
When the game ended and we had pulled of what would be called the biggest upset in the south in 50 years, my brother dropped to his knees and cried. I didn't understand it at the time.
Ten years later I was a student at usm, walking from the parking lot at Memorial stadium in Jackson I was called awful names by a group of frat boys wearing white Lacosta shirts and plaid shorts.
We beat the webels 28-22 that day which is another story. but after the game those frat boys were no where to be found. I remembered my brother crying 10 years before and then I understood why.
