For me, it was a pair of games. On November 20, 1982, I was in Memorial Stadium watching The Big Game between Cal and Stanford. It was really a crummy game ... until the end when 'The Play' happened. The whole multi-lateral, Stanford band thing.
One week later, I was in Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge watching 3-7 Tulane beat 6th ranked, Orange Bowl bound LSU 31-28. Even my brother, who went to USM, said it was the best game that he's ever seen.
(07-08-2017 03:25 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote: 1984 Chicago Cubs v Philadelphia Phillies
My first game ever in Wrigley.
Sandberg hit two homeruns (one onto Waveland), the cubs won and I fell in love with them that year on WGN.
Yes, I cried when they lost game 5 to the Padres. No shame in a 12 year old crying because his team lost.
As a lifetime Phillies fan, that was the worst of many horrible trades Philadelphia ever did and the start of a long downward turn by the Phillies. To receive Ivan DeJesus for Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg should have been criminal. It was one of the biggest heist of the baseball century.
Fast forward to today and you can look no further then horribly overpaying ageing veterans for way too many years for the Phillies current position as cellar dwellers.
(07-01-2017 01:13 PM)cotton1991 Wrote: I'm so old . . . . .
UCLA @ Tennessee football in Memphis c. '65 or '66. I was a kid selling programs and got in free of course. Great game.
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(07-02-2017 12:54 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: tiger football - the 2014 Miami Beach Bowl overtime win over BYU. I thought we had won and lost that game 5 times before it finally ended. throw on that the post game brawl and just the emotion of bouncing all the way back from the larry porter disaster and it was just a special day
tiger basketball - the 2008 national semi final win over UCLA in San Antonio. just spectacular.
It's a shame that so-called "good fans" can't let go of the Larry Porter bashing. Was he ready for the job? Probably not. But he was the ONLY one who would take that job and follow the sh*tfest & public bully pulpit rant of Tommy West. Even worse, he is one of our own but I would expect no more from our "Booster Group" bunch.
Thank God for Fred Smith and other boosters who pushed Tiger Football to the forefront after 40 years of neglect and scraps.
our AD, President, and HH needed to hear that speech. Porter was a great hire on paper. Memphis grad, named recruiter of the year while at LSU, experienced asst coach and he wanted the job.
it just didn't work out that way and he's had no trouble finding work as an asst since leaving Memphis.
I don't disagree with any of this, Drew except that West could have expressed it publicly a WHOLE lot sooner. Instead, he chose to take the money and extension from RC to be quiet for 4 more years after Orgeron got the Ole Miss job that Tommy and Fichtner coveted in '05. That public rant was more about his being angry over getting fired mid-season after the MTSU loss.
Larry Porter was fairly compensated when he left Memphis and has been a very successful assistant at Arizona St, Texas, UNC and now Auburn. I'm happy for him. Just wish a couple of former HH Presidents could quit referring to his two years as a disaster. Fuente inherited an entire class at Memphis that made up the bulk of the defense tigerjeb previously claimed he enjoyed so much in Miami vs. BYU. He oughta be thanking Larry instead of bashing him.
I love Larry Porter and wish him nothing but the best.
(07-01-2017 01:58 PM)Hurricane Drummer Wrote: 1A. Tulsa @ Notre Dame, 2010. We scored 1 offensive TD, 2 FG's, 1 punt return TD, 1 Pick Six, and had a 2pt conversion off a blocked extra point attempt, and missed one of our extra points I think? We beat ND 28-27 after we intercepted them in the endzone. You'd thought we'd won the Super Bowl.
1B. Beating Iowa State in the 2012 Liberty Bowl. There were way more ISU fans but we smoked them anyways. Tied a program best with an 11-3 record.
I was at both...great games...the notre dame fans were polite yet stunned
Didnt se many UH fans opting in this thread. Past couple le seasons they're were some pretty good games. Uh vs Memphis and FSU in 2015, Oklahoma and loiuisvile last season....
Oklahoma last year was probably the best one for me. I must have seen Brandon Wilson returning that kick 6 at lest 20 times.
(07-08-2017 05:21 PM)TU77CAL82 Wrote: For me, it was a pair of games. On November 20, 1982, I was in Memorial Stadium watching The Big Game between Cal and Stanford. It was really a crummy game ... until the end when 'The Play' happened. The whole multi-lateral, Stanford band thing.
One week later, I was in Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge watching 3-7 Tulane beat 6th ranked, Orange Bowl bound LSU 31-28. Even my brother, who went to USM, said it was the best game that he's ever seen.
That's an astonishing two-fer. Just curious, why were you in San Francisco one week and Baton Rouge the next, with Thanksgiving in between?
BTW, i remember 11/27/82. I was living in Tampa then and skipped watching college football to attend a concert by The Who in Orlando. The B52s and Joan Jett opened. It was at the Tangerine Bowl, which I guess links it to college football, LOL.
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(07-09-2017 04:58 AM)quo vadis Wrote: That's an astonishing two-fer. Just curious, why were you in San Francisco one week and Baton Rouge the next, with Thanksgiving in between?
And I was in Shreveport for Thanksgiving. I had graduated from Cal the summer before, but still had friends there. I told them that if they got game tickets, I'd come for a long weekend. My best friend, brother and I already had plans to go to Shreveport for Thanksgiving. A roommate from my Tulane days who was stationed at Barksdale and his wife invited us. It then happened that my boss had tickets to the game at LSU, but no one wanted them, so we took them and stopped for the game on the way back to N.O. from S'port.
(07-08-2017 05:21 PM)TU77CAL82 Wrote: For me, it was a pair of games. On November 20, 1982, I was in Memorial Stadium watching The Big Game between Cal and Stanford. It was really a crummy game ... until the end when 'The Play' happened. The whole multi-lateral, Stanford band thing.
One week later, I was in Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge watching 3-7 Tulane beat 6th ranked, Orange Bowl bound LSU 31-28. Even my brother, who went to USM, said it was the best game that he's ever seen.
That's an astonishing two-fer. Just curious, why were you in San Francisco one week and Baton Rouge the next, with Thanksgiving in between?
BTW, i remember 11/27/82. I was living in Tampa then and skipped watching college football to attend a concert by The Who in Orlando. The B52s and Joan Jett opened. It was at the Tangerine Bowl, which I guess links it to college football, LOL.
Even though Tulane was 3-7 they had a nice run in the late 70s into the early 80s and had a really good program and a tough schedule usually. I'm pretty sure they beat LSU a couple of years before that 82 game as well.
(07-08-2017 05:21 PM)TU77CAL82 Wrote: For me, it was a pair of games. On November 20, 1982, I was in Memorial Stadium watching The Big Game between Cal and Stanford. It was really a crummy game ... until the end when 'The Play' happened. The whole multi-lateral, Stanford band thing.
One week later, I was in Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge watching 3-7 Tulane beat 6th ranked, Orange Bowl bound LSU 31-28. Even my brother, who went to USM, said it was the best game that he's ever seen.
That's an astonishing two-fer. Just curious, why were you in San Francisco one week and Baton Rouge the next, with Thanksgiving in between?
BTW, i remember 11/27/82. I was living in Tampa then and skipped watching college football to attend a concert by The Who in Orlando. The B52s and Joan Jett opened. It was at the Tangerine Bowl, which I guess links it to college football, LOL.
Even though Tulane was 3-7 they had a nice run in the late 70s into the early 80s and had a really good program and a tough schedule usually. I'm pretty sure they beat LSU a couple of years before that 82 game as well.
That's more elation than I've ever seen in pretty much any stadium in the last 10 years. I think they should bring back those HUGE shoulder pads. It makes you look much more imposing.
(07-08-2017 05:21 PM)TU77CAL82 Wrote: November 20, 1982, I was in Memorial Stadium watching The Big Game between Cal and Stanford. It was really a crummy game ... until the end when 'The Play' happened. The whole multi-lateral, Stanford band thing.
Both then and now, I had/have Zero connection to Stanford and don't care whether they win or lose. If anything, I enjoyed seeing Karma bite the Indians in the @ss for failure to keep the band under control. And even at that early stage of his career, Elway's aura of whiny entitlement was already getting on my nerves. So I honestly have no problem with the result.
But for those interested in what actually happened, it is a simple fact that one of the refs *indisputably* whistled the play dead when Garner was tackled at approx. the 50 yard line. At most, Cal should've been allowed one play from scrimmage, and that only if Stanford were penalized on the play.
For me, greatest game I ever attended was played the same year as the Cal/Stanford shenanigans -- North Carolina 63, Georgetown 62. NCAA Championship at the Superdome in New Orleans on 29th March 1982. In my memories I can still hear the Hoya fans bitterly cursing sophomore Fred Brown (he screwed up -- big time -- at a critical point) as my Dad and I walked back to the car after the game.
(07-28-2017 01:48 AM)Native Georgian Wrote: For me, greatest game I ever attended was played the same year as the Cal/Stanford shenanigans -- North Carolina 63, Georgetown 62. NCAA Championship at the Superdome in New Orleans on 29th March 1982. In my memories I can still hear the Hoya fans bitterly cursing sophomore Fred Brown (he screwed up -- big time -- at a critical point) as my Dad and I walked back to the car after the game.
Not even one of "my teams", but I went to the 2003 Orange Bowl game, USC v Iowa, #4 v #5 in the BCS rankings. My dad is a USC alum and we lived in South Florida, so he got tickets. Iowa (understandably) had a TON of fans in town, and they easily made up 3/4 of the stadium (I still call it Joe Robbie). USC had a much smaller contingent, so as soon as we walked in, it felt like an Iowa home game. Iowa ran back the opening kickoff 100 yards for a TD, and the place was absolutely crazy. The Hawkeye fans were all around us and I thought "this is going to be a long night." After that, USC marched down the field and scored, and Iowa didn't score another TD until the 4th quarter. The Trojans ended up winning 38-17. The Iowa fans were quiet most of the night, and with each score, the USC group got more and more vocal. At the end of the game, someone shouted to us "head over to the band!", and we made our way over there with several thousand other Trojan fans to celebrate. The band played all their big songs and the team gathered and celebrated right in front of them on the field. Just a fun night.
My favorite game I attended at SMU was probably the 2003(?) home bball game where we beat Bobby Knight and his Texas Tech team. The early 2000's were rough years for being at SMU, so not a whole lot of winning going on.
