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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4623012, member: 173"]
I have a very different memory of that game.  I'd bought tickets to go with my dad (which I'd left at his house).  I was working at the time at a horrible company with a boss who had no regard for work-life balance near Albany, NY.  The site I managed started having issues late Friday night, and my boss demanded that I go in to get things resolve (in spite of that fact I wasn't on call and he knew I was going to the Syracuse game).

I ended up continually adjusting my plans with my dad through the day on Saturday as the site was still struggling until I realized there was no way I was going to make it, so he went with my mother instead.  Part of me thought I might have left the tickets at his house because in the back of my mind I thought something like this might happen.  I got out of work around 7:30PM, went home and watched the game on TV getting increasingly pi**ed I wasn't there.  I updated my resume that Sunday, started sending it out that week and had a new job about 6 weeks later (right before the Final Four).

I've used that story when interviewing people when they asked about work life balance, and said if they ever felt like they were even remotely close to remembering a day the way I still remember 2/1/03 - I'd find a way to make sure that didn't happen.  My former boss got fired a couple months after I left, and I'm not ashamed to admit I organized a group from that place to celebrate his sacking at the Lark Street bars in Albany that night.  I couldn't even guess how many Irish Car Bombs I drank that night.

Its been 20 years, and I'd still be tempted to run that mofo over if I saw him walking across a street.

On the other hand, my mother still talks about how that was the best game she's ever gone to.
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