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Message: [QUOTE="All4SU, post: 715315, member: 381"] To me, any time SU plays PSU it reminds me of my father. My Dad grew up in a tiny little town in Western PA, and while he left the state to go to college -- he attended a small engineering school in Cleveland ohio, which eventually got absorbed by Cleveland State -- and never returned to live there, he always favored the Nittany Lions. When I attended SU, this game took on great significance between us. We had a standing bet for $1 on this game. Big spenders, I know. But it was the principle, not the money. One year I paid him off with 100 pennies glued to cardboard. On October 19, 1985, I called him on the phone before the game. SU would finally have a team that could challenge PSU, and this was my best chance to win in a number of years. When I called him on the phone after the game, I once again had to pay up as a result of a fumble by Roland Grimes with less than a minute left in the game, allowing PSU to drive down the field and eek out a 24-20 victory. I would have to mail him another dollar. Less than two weeks later, on November 1 he was gone. I flew to Atlanta to try and get there before he died, but was just hours too late. The next day, flying out of Atlanta to return home to Upstate NY in advance of the funeral, my bother and I spent several hours in a bar at the Atlanta airport, watching SU defeat Pittsburgh 12 - 0 in the rain. When I arrived home there was a card in the mail that my Dad had mailed to me a couple of days earlier. Two years later, SU decimated PSU in the Dome, and beat the Lions in Happy Valley they following year. A couple of years after that, the rivalry was history. I would have taken no pleasure in discussing the Sandusky/Paterno situation with my Dad, and I am certain he would have been vocally critical of PSU. I will always detest PSU and Paterno, but a part of me will always be sentimental for this former rivalry, because it always reminds me of my father. Go Orange! [/QUOTE]

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