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Message: [QUOTE="CuyahogaCuse, post: 3379921, member: 409"] Some thoughts: [LIST] [*]This was the first Syracuse game I ever watched. Stumbled across it as a high school freshman and originally watched on my 12” black and white TV that I had bought with my own money made from paper routes and other odd jobs, etc. [*]Had no idea at the time that I would end up at Syracuse, but remember the stories of that day (and night) from the seniors in The Pride of the Orange, who recalled that day to us when we arrived as freshman to band camp in 1987 [*]The 1959 Championship team was celebrated that day. It had been 25 years. Hard to believe we are 36 years to the other side now. [*]Tim Greene. Legend. My son met him when he came to our elementary school to promote his children’s book. But I’d never really seen him play. What a day he had. [*]It wasn’t a national ABC game. But we had Curt Gowdy and Len Dawson on the call. Does it get any bigger in 1984 than Curt Gowdy? Maybe if Keith Jackson shows up. But still. Huge game. A Team announcers. [*]Dome Ranger cameos, in his prime. And Otto, well, he’s come a long way. [*]Norley to Siano! There should be some type of mural or statue, forever memorializing that catch. [*]Doug Dubose. I completely forgot about him. But he came from Montville High School of the Eastern Connecticut Conference. Montville. A longtime ECC rival of my alma mater, Killingly. Dubose was a later Heisman candidate and Super Bowl winner with the 49ers. But we bottled him up that day. Sadly, the kid ended up a drug addict and seemed to have lost everything by 2005, based in the last published info I could find on him, from The Hartford Current. [*]Tom Osborne had never lost a game by more than 7 points. Until that day. [*]Multiple shout outs to “Doug Marrone and the right side of the Cuse offensive line” during the 4th quarter. [*]Ted Gregory has himself a heck of a game. He dominated as a senior during my 1987 freshman year. Until Colgate. I couldn’t help but think that he was but one difference that Nebraska saw from the 1983 team they destroyed in Lincoln. Glad I got to see him in person [*]Caught a couple glimpses of Donnie Mac on the sidelines. This game taught those young guys how to win. 1987 was no joke. It was built on the foundation laid against Nebraska [*]Dome roof #1. Still relatively new and bright. Quite nostalgic to obverse it, given what we know is going on now [*]Early on the game, they mentioned Nebraska’s O-Line was huge, averaging 262 pounds. In one of the many covid-19 threads, I made note that we are starting down the D3 recruiting path with my high school junior. He’s 6-2, 260. Will be a 3-year starter if they play this fall. He’d fit right in, if it were 1984. He’d walk to Syracuse if he could play for Dino. But my 5-8 genetics is probably working against his D1 options, even though he’s more than held his own out here in Ohio, even against D1 level opposition (Cincy, OSU, WVU recruits) [*]Bottom line. Loved watching this game again. Love the Dome and love Syracuse. So hoping we somehow get to enjoy football again in the fall. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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