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Message: [QUOTE="wooddoc, post: 1539148, member: 5496"] The game was different, "back then." By back then, I mean I can remember what things were like in the late 50s - early 60s. The first SU game I ever went to was at Archbold, against Miami, in '65 - not a good day for the Orangemen. I can remember the cold concrete stands and the walk back to my father's car. Syracuse lost, but as a first timer, it was something you just don't forget. I'm not that much a student of the game, but back then, it was more about football than going to an overpriced circus. Hard to explain the environment, really, but it just seemed more like a workingman's game, and beers were probably a quarter. Csonka and Little were in the backfield and Rick Cassata played QB. He went to Canada to play, and I can't remember if he played any NFL - don't think so. It was different - athletes were different - the crowd was different... Sitting on that concrete on a cool fall day, out in the open... that was different. [/QUOTE]