Does anyone know SWC personally?

[cliftonparksufan]

Did he go to tailgates and games?

When and why did Syracuse stop being a football town? A fan, media, players give their takes

Reasons for poor attendance have been well-documented this week, but somewhere in its recent history this became a dilemma.

www.syracuse.com

 

[rrlbees]

When and why did Syracuse stop being a football town? A fan, media, players give their takes

Reasons for poor attendance have been well-documented this week, but somewhere in its recent history this became a dilemma.

www.syracuse.com

"I think, overall, the fans in this area are more consumers than investors," Chappell said. "That is, they simply view SU football as a product, and they decide whether they want to buy the product or not, and they don't look at it as something to invest in to use their loyalty and presence in the Dome to help build the program. I think they kind of have that backward.”

 

[IthacaMatt]

Anyone know when Steve first started to call into radio shows? I remember him doing this for a really long time.. Pretty sure he was calling in when Coach Mac was the football coach.

I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Bayside44]

I have played guitar since I was 13. I retired 13 years ago, and for the first 4 years of retirement I volunteered through a hospice agency playing guitar for hospice patients in small, assisted living facilities. I would play once a week and had regular facilities that I would visit. I would go to each place every other week. Often, they all knew I was coming...some even had me in their calendars...and they would gather in the main living area. I'd play solo acoustic stuff for about 40 minutes, and ended up arranging and playing the songs from the 1940's that the patients loved. After that, I'd pass out lyric sheets and we would have a sing along for 20 minutes.

I used to tell them "you can feel lousy before I come and you can feel lousy after I leave. While I'm here, however, we are going to have fun." And have fun we did.

One of my favorite memories was of a woman who had only been in hospice a short time. I noticed she wasn't out with the rest of the folks so afterwards I went to her room. She said she had been too tired to come out so I stayed, chatted, and played for her for a while. This was in October and I told her "In two months, I'll be playing Christmas music for you." she replied "Oh, I love Christmas music."

I told her that there was no law that said I couldn't play Christmas music in October and asked what her favorites were. I played them for her and then left her to get her nap. She passed two days later and her daughter called the hospice agency to say how happy she was that her Mom had gotten to hear Christmas songs one more time.

Doing the volunteer work at hospice was one of the most rewarding things I have ever had the privilege of doing.

Champ!

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Finished my chemo today. Not as bad as I feared.
Headaches, diarrhea, super tired, sleeping 12-16 hours a day.
Not very hungry. Little nausea.
Still got my hair. Still walking around, if a bit slowly.
Thanks for all the support.

Hang in there my friend. They do pretty well with controlling nausea these days. Losing hair takes awhile if it happens at all. Even then, a bald man can look distinguished or can claim to be in a punk rock band. Not as easy for a woman.

You sound like you have a great attitude and that is important. Don’t let cancer win for even a day.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Hang in there my friend. They do pretty well with controlling nausea these days. Losing hair takes awhile if it happens at all. Even then, a bald man can look distinguished or can claim to be in a punk rock band. Not as easy for a woman.

You sound like you have a great attitude and that is important. Don’t let cancer win for even a day.

Thank you, Dick. And I wish we had reconnected after that football game when you were in town. Wishing you all the best.

 

[Dick_in_MI]

Thank you, Dick. And I wish we had reconnected after that football game when you were in town. Wishing you all the best.

I'll always be impressed that you wore a football jersey with your board name on the back. If I did that the odds of having a beer thrown at me would be astronomical

We moved to Michigan in 1991. Shortly thereafter, I found the old AOL board and you were the first person who ever commented favorably on one of my posts. I still remember that. My board handle at the time was my first initial, my last name, and a number. I changed it to something a bit more anonymous as time went by. I think you may have been a mod at that time. So we go back over 30 years.

 

[orangefog]

I'll always be impressed that you wore a football jersey with your board name on the back. If I did that the odds of having a beer thrown at me would be astronomical

We moved to Michigan in 1991. Shortly thereafter, I found the old AOL board and you were the first person who ever commented favorably on one of my posts. I still remember that. My board handle at the time was my first initial, my last name, and a number. I changed it to something a bit more anonymous as time went by. I think you may have been a mod at that time. So we go back over 30 years.

So, it was like rhead69?