(06-06-2011 10:08 PM)Springfield Soxfan Wrote: (06-06-2011 03:29 PM)Huskie_Fan Wrote: It is tough. NIU 73 Fresno State 18 was great, but NIU beating DePaul in Chick Evans Field house in 1991 was awesome. I thought that the roof was going to blow off due to to the noise.
Agreed the 1991 DePaul game rocked. Good call, I mean great call.
BEST TEAM MEMORY/TIME: DePaul in 1991 would be my tops. Loudest game ever by far. Lot of hype, lived up to it. Friend and I got there right at tip after class. We went all the way to the top to meet some other guys. And oh yeah, had a case of beer in our book bags.
HONORABLE MENTION & BEST ROAD MEMORY Being @ the Purdue game in 2009 was great. The look on the Purdue fans was priceless.
WISHED I WAS AT: Missed the Fresno drubbing. Went on roadtrip instead.Always wished I would have went to Alabama game.Remember listening to the Alabama game in the radio @ Lake Geneva on a very faint signal and going nuts.
WORST MEMORY/ONE THAT GOT AWAY IN PERSON was the 2005 NW FOOTBALL. I was in shock. I couldn't believe NIU lost.I caouldn't even talk. I was convince we would never beat a Big 10 team. Last year's MAC championship was close, but program had advance a lot more since the 05 loss.
STILL IN SHOCK.On tv was the 2005 MAC championship. Was alone watching it in a hotel room in St.. Few beers, went back to watch end. My old roommate who is from and lives in NY is watching the game. We hung up with each other, thinking game was over. He said something right before and I called him a jinx. We didn't talk for a long time.
MOST UPSET/WISH WE WON THE MOST was the 96 NCAA tourney game vs. Texas Tech. I was in Vegas wearing all my NIU stuff with another NIU alum. We must have been the only 2 people cheering for NIU. Everyone had TT minu the pts. I had NIU +pts for hondo and money line w/parley. We were going nuts. Then these Texas Tech yahoos and a few other people tried to have pity on me and said "you guys played well, put up a good fight." I was letting people have it. I was looking to hook one of those hilljacks.
FAVORITE INDIVIDUAL PLAYER MEMORY/HONORABLE MENTION WISH WE HAD THE MOST: NIU @ MICHIGAN. 4 of us in NIU stuff were getting a lot of crap from some 45ish inbreds (we were 35 at the time)at there only game for the year.They were not grads. They were swearing, making fun of us one guy in particular with a Cubs hat (ok, maybe he deserved it). I just ran my line "act like you been here before" to my friends getting mad. I had enough though. They just kept ripping on NIU. Wolfe busts the 76 yarder, I turn around and said "PUT THAT IN YOUR MOTHER $%^&ING CRACK PIPES AND SMOKE IT JACKASSES"
Then,security comes up to me and asks for my ticket. There was a little room, but 2 of us were in the wrong seats. We get escorted away. Guy next to us with a kid who said something to us once (but of course not to the 4 guys a few rows behind us) got a cop(not security). 2 others stayed. Cop was giving me the business about how he could kick me out, but said hardly anything about swearing. Went to our seats on the 40, met others later. Seems we got ratted out by the guy next to us with a kid, who didn't like the swearing. (He said something once)But friends told us that the guys behind us kept swearing (in general about the game), and guy w/ kid said something and they let him have it. He just left with kid then.
FAVORITE MEMORY OF OPPOSING TEAM PLAYER(s): There was a cute little pt guard for University of Washington who was there for a tourney.She was pretty good and a tough little player.Kept calling out her name Were also hitting on the Maryland players who sat in front of us after their game. Kept asking them all kinds of strange questions about school, themselves and they were more than happy to answer like we were interviewing them. Loved the women's games in the late 80's/early 90's.