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[QUOTE="Ragman2000, post: 686, member: 118"]
Was sitting here thinking about the prospects for this football season, and I randomly thought of the first play from scrimmage in the Minnesota game in Marrone's first season (which I got home to see live in the Dome).

Place is  electric...band sounded great, they just played the new amazing "This is Syracuse football" intro, fans are screaming for kickoff, ready to exorcise the demons of choo-choo trains and want-to.  Local boy Paulus comes home to lead us to victory and set right a bad decision not to play football for us 4 years earlier.  The fans were back, near sellout, entire preseason and coaching search was literally leading up to that moment.  We were going to do this!  We are going to turn it around this year!

First play from scrimmage, and the Center snap from McKenzie goes 50 feet over Paulus' head, and the next play was a touchdown less than 10 seconds into the game.

I don't care who you are, that is one of the funniest football moments I've ever witnessed.  Has enough time passed yet that we can laugh at how absurd that was?  How many people, in that moment, thought "Marrone sucks and is another Robinson, we're doomed to be 2-10 every year" ?   I've never seen such a shift in emotion in the beginning of a game in my life.  Absolutely hilarious, can we please laugh at how absurd that was yet?  Too soon?
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