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I have been watching Syracuse football games since 1973. Joe is the best RB Syracuse has had since I have been watching, by a large margin.
I can still see it like it was yesterday. Those lousy Northwestern tomato cans parted like the Red Sea as Joe ran through their sideline and into the wall. He would have broken 5,000 career yards if it weren't for that injury.I have been watching Syracuse football games since 1973. Joe is the best RB Syracuse has had since I have been watching, by a large margin.
It is a shame he got hurt running into the sideline wall in the Dome. He was still terrific after that but never quite the same.
They added pads to those walks because of his injury. They remain there to this day.
Anyway, I agree, this honor is well overdue. Congratulations Joe!
So this was done back in 1998 I think. I was there. They did it at the NY Athletic Club. I got such a kick out of it because at that point, my roommate was the last person to wear the number. Joe was there. I grew up in North Jersey and had met him a few times (I worked at a sporting goods store and sold him a pair of gloves). Joe was a cube. He was the same dimension in all directions. As a Giants fan, it was a hell of an honor and that was before I knew I was going to SU or understood he'd even gone there, let alone what he meant to the program. To be at that jersey retirement almost ten years later, knowing that my roommate wore the number was pretty surreal.
Surprised TGD did not retire his number in the middle of a game vs. directional Michigan without any notification