Hello from Krakow, Poland

[billorange44]

I will be following the game thread here this evening. The wife and I are going on a tour of Auschwitz today and we will be back in time.

We had dinner with our tour guide last night and he told me something profound about the Polish people and it is so true for Syracuse football. He said, with everything the Poles have been through over the years they embrace their history. He said, "It is impossible to have a future without a history"! The first thing I thought of was for those teams (Rutgers) to go pound salt! Go Orange, beat Clemson!!!

 

[CanadianSU]

if you get the chance (probably won't but whteva) head over to the city of my fathers birth Lviv, Ukraine. Great city. Kraków is an awesome city, enjoy !

GO Orange !

 

[Roger N]

Hello from Budapest Last night on trip. Have to leave for the airport at 3:30 am. Hello to SU fan John Tierney from your cousin Julie

 

[llandz]

OK. I'm out of the country also, but to as exotic as you all. I'm in Toronto visiting my son. Probably will just follow the game on my phone with score updates. Will be in Syracuse for NC State before heading back to AZ.

 

[OburgOrange]

OK. I'm out of the country also, but to as exotic as you all. I'm in Toronto visiting my son. Probably will just follow the game on my phone with score updates. Will be in Syracuse for NC State before heading back to AZ.

See you at the tailgate!

 

[Millhouse]

Chip just got back. He heard there was millions of poles everywhere. He came back disappointed

 

[billorange44]

Chip just got back. He heard there was millions of poles everywhere. He came back disappointed

It's true. Poles everywhere. Kind of funny. Our guide at Auschwitz today sounded like a female Bela Lugosy. She was blond and pretty good looking too. Matter of fact, everyone sounds like frikken Dracula here when they talk. Kind of funny actually. If the doorman at my hotel says to me"Look into my eyes......"! I am heading back to the states!

 

[orange79]

After today's historic upset, I'm going to Krakopen a celebratory beer or two.

{rim shot}

 

[bevosu]

Witaj mieć dobry czas.

 

[billorange44]

Witaj mieć dobry czas.

Yes, right back at you. I am so sick of hearing non English accents and broken English. The upside is damn if they don't have pretty girls here.

 

[SWC75]

A tour of Auschwitz and then a football game? Quite a contrast. I don't know if I could care about a football game immediately after that.

 

[billorange44]

A tour of Auschwitz and then a football game? Quite a contrast. I don't know if I could care about a football game immediately after that.

I came away feeling different than I thought I would. I can't put my finger on it. I have seen so much Nazi hatred in the past two weeks here and in the Warsaw Ghetto and Wolf's Lair. Different here, kind of numbing until you realize it's a memorial to those who died.

 

[qdawgg]

Did you make it "across the street" to Birkenau?

 

[SyracuseMiami]

Krakow is a great city. Hit Weirzynek for a nice dinner Been there since 1364

Wierzynek, Krakow Restaurants

 

[billorange44]

Did you make it "across the street" to Birkenau?

Yes we did.

 

[bevosu]

My dad was in the Air Force stationed right outside of Munich when I was a kid. He took me and my brothers to Dachau when I was like 5-6 years old. Dachau is near Munich...made a lifelong impression on me.

I could not believe it. Sad commentary on the human race. I think I've been a cynic ever since.

 

[cuseattle]

My dad was in the Air Force stationed right outside of Munich when I was a kid. He took me and my brothers to Dachau when I was like 5-6 years old. Dachau is near Munich...made a lifelong impression on me.

I could not believe it. Sad commentary on the human race. I think I've been a cynic ever since.

I went as an 18 year old and will never forget.

 

[atom58]

Witaj mieć dobry czas.

My Polish-born wife tells me she would say "Spędźmy prźyjemnie cźas" which is something like "let us have a good time" - if there is a spelling error, that's on me. She grew up there in the communist period and was a excellent "junior sprinter" taking about 11.8 s to run the 100 meters but they had them training in the mountains where she hurt her knee and was never as good as before. She did tell me that when Hitler took over Poland they were capturing blonde-haired, blue-eye children and taking them to Germany. Of the 11 million people who died in the concentration camps, I understand many non-Jewish Poles died there as well.

 

[billorange44]

My Polish-born wife tells me she would say "Spędźmy prźyjemnie cźas" which is something like "let us have a good time" - if there is a spelling error, that's on me. She grew up there in the communist period and was a excellent "junior sprinter" taking about 11.8 s to run the 100 meters but they had them training in the mountains where she hurt her knee and was never as good as before. She did tell me that when Hitler took over Poland they were capturing blonde-haired, blue-eye children and taking them to Germany. Of the 11 million people who died in the concentration camps, I understand many non-Jewish Poles died there as well.

Yes, lots of Poles died at Auschwitz. From what I understand, those thug Nazis thought Poles should go as the Jews did so they could have their land and make Germany bigger. Nazis were the scum of the earth and I would just soon kill any I saw, but you know what? I would be no different than a Nazi then! But my thoughts belong to me.