30 years today - Where were you?

[SWC75]

I'm in the upper left hand corner, (after the camera pulls back) right near the exit in Section 308, right where I was last Saturday for the Pitt game.

 

[HyattsCuse]

lost my voice at this game

 

[Marsh01]

lost my voice at this game

got hammered and no foul on the play

 

[Moontan]

Because us students used potty mouths towards the other team.

Especially following made free throws in '80-'81. Not that I participated, or anything.

 

[two3zone]

YouTube Video lost my voice at this game

I was in a Baton Rouge hotel room hung over from being at Mardi Gras for 14 hours the previous day watching that game. After the game my buddy and I went back to NO and partied some more and that's when I predicted Syracuse will be in NO to win it all, everybody laughed at my buddy and I but we had the last laugh.

I'm currently one out of four with my Cuse winning it all predictions :/

Etan, Blackwell, Hart senior year I thought we would.

Melo and Gmac year

AO injury year

And of course the Fab year (which I still believe was the best Cuse team I have ever seen)

 

[Moontan]

I was in the student section behind the basket.

Me too... following 3 years of much better seats at mid court.

 

[DoubleDee]

317, 14 years old.

 

[Col. Bleep]

I remember Greg Monroe hitting a buzzer beater and me and my Brother going nutts!

I believe that was the St. John's game in February 1984.
Pre-shot clock...half the team had fouled out.
The Orange held the ball for the last 2:30 of OT and Monroe hit a corner jumper with a second or 2 left for a one point win.

Greg Monroe may be the most underappreciated shooting guard we've ever had.
He shot better than 47% for his career.

 

[HarrisonJBounel]

it definetly was.

i remember now. my dad got tickets, had to call the school to get me, to tell me to go home and not go to basketball practice. i then had to run to the coaches class, inbetween periods to tell him i had a family emergency and couldnt make practice.

he said bullshit, so i told him the truth and he said enjoy it.

it was definetly a weeknight and im guessing a monday as it wouldve been the espn game and we played games on tuesdays and i didnt play because i missed the practice.

this is not the anniversary.

It was a Saturday. It was Jan 21, 1984:

http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2013/01/pearl_washingtons_halfcourt_sh.html

And here's a calculator to show the day of the week:

http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar/Day_of_the_Week.html

I was watching the game at my in-laws. They weren't fans, but they laughed when I went berserk.

 

[BayonneOrange]

2:59
Or better yet here it is.

I was sitting at the end of the bench. If you look closely, you can see me running from the end of the bench to the locker room in a light blue sportscoat.

 

[Marsh01]

I was sitting at the end of the bench. If you look closely, you can see me running from the end of the bench to the locker room in a light blue sportscoat.

Ha, thats great

 

[KaiserUEO]

It was a Saturday. It was Jan 21, 1984:

http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2013/01/pearl_washingtons_halfcourt_sh.html

And here's a calculator to show the day of the week:

http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar/Day_of_the_Week.html

I was watching the game at my in-laws. They weren't fans, but they laughed when I went berserk.

weve already moved on from this, but heres a weird one http://www.democratandchronicle.com.../12/syracuse-takes-on-boston-college/4445341/

that wouldve put it on a monday. dont care either way, i also remember staying in Cuse after a game, that couldve been it. that wouldve needed to be a sat, so whatever.

i think i went to go a game in 85 too, which couldve been my mystery big monday.

twas high school, had a lot of more important things to remember and do, like girls and getting drunk in the woods.

 

[tbonezone]

i was up in the rafters when pearl hit THE SHOT. probably hit my head on an air duct. only seats i could afford back those days. unfortunately my girlfriend then had vertigo and had to close her eyes and grab my belt loops to climb all the way up to our lofty seats. luckily for me she was ok going down.

 

[rosconey]

i can remember important things like when the challenger failed or when the towers dropped- remembering a football or basketball game just doesn't seem important enough- except dc's first su game and the time i took some hallucinogens at a hoops game with a friend and we thought 30 thousand people all knew and were watching every move we made- then they stopped, turns out the national anthem was playing and we were sitting under the flag:rolling:

 

[OttoMets]

Section 114, Row GG, and -- according to my parents -- sound asleep.

So I can't say I saw the shot.

 

[Bornorange]

I was three years old so I was probably being brainwashed into loving the Orange by my dad.

Smart father, you are so lucky.
I am that kind of father, my daughters kill Hoyas on sight because they love my smile.
Oh and I was in the Nose bleed seats somewhere.

 

[jekelish]

Smart father, you are so lucky.
I am that kind of father, my daughters kill Hoyas on sight because they love my smile.
Oh and I was in the Nose bleed seats somewhere.

My own son came home from the hospital dressed head to toe in Syracuse gear. The brainwashing started pretty much literally straight out of the womb in this house.

 

[TexanMark]

in the mezzanine behind the Syracuse bench. that was my 1st hoop game in the Dome.

still have the ticket in a box in my parents basement next to my bed and computer where I have lived since college.

FIFY buddy

 

[GoSU96]

In my house off campus at Geneseo, sick as a dog, watching Len Berman on USA Network.

Hit my head on the ceiling when that shot went in.

 

[HarrisonJBounel]

I'm in the upper left hand corner, (after the camera pulls back) right near the exit in Section 308, right where I was last Saturday for the Pitt game.

Get a barf bag ready, but check out which ref makes the call to give BC the free throw.

 

[Marsh01]

Get a barf bag ready, but check out which ref makes the call to give BC the free throw.

a very young Jimmy Burr

 

[HarrisonJBounel]

a very young Jimmy Burr

Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.

 

[rrlbees]

When did they switch the benches to the opposite side of the court? Was it because TV wanted a better shot of JB's outfits?

When I suggested it to them.

 

[CaptainJ]

Back in those days if you were rugged enough you could on occasion cross a border in Southeast Asia without being completely aware of it. This was especially true if you weren't in the most sober of states and wondering if the bats overhead were real was taking clear precedence over some line underneath your feet you knew wasn't real. It's not like the women in the brothels suddenly looked different or became any more or less appealing. It always was a role of the dice when it came to that. It wasn't like they had to necessarily care as much about customer service and reputation as the escorts on craigslist had to before the government used one incident out of tens of thousands of untaxed transactions to try to shut down an overall safer form of an industry and destroy the anonymity on a site they so much loathed. Sometimes the joke about the superman and wonderwoman(and the invisible man) crept into the conscious, and you became mindful to keep at least one eye leery for any nearby movement. This wasn't necessarily flashbacks to Charlie, but the youth were known to be on some strange things, and I'm not just talking about good ol' kratom. Sometimes it was good to be Canadian for a time.

Of course none of that had anything to do with where I was at the time, but it seemed more interesting to me.

 

[OburgOrange]

i was up in the rafters when pearl hit THE SHOT. probably hit my head on an air duct. only seats i could afford back those days. unfortunately my girlfriend then had vertigo and had to close her eyes and grab my belt loops to climb all the way up to our lofty seats. luckily for me she was ok going down.

I see what you did there.