first exposure to Syracuse football coincided with our first family television. My father bought it watch the 1953 Orange Bowl against Alabama. I remember hi cursing the our fatboys were way too slow to play with the Alabama speedsters. basketball was a transfer from the Nats to listening to the college guys and their losing streak which was setting records for futility. Carl Vernick was the star of the team. A good friend and I decided to go to a few home games . Then the announcement that a new coad by the name of Lewis was going to bring in a whole new set of recruits lead by a kid named Bing. My friend and I would go to watch the freshmen games. It was sad to see the crowd leave when the varsity came out toplay. I remember watching that great first team of Bong Penceal Richards and Rick Dean. Later Vaugn Harper and Val Reid would segue the greats we know today . Te hook was set in solid orange since my early days. BTW my first full year of football was 1959. I waited for the big name from the freshmen team to get bumped up to the varsity. I can't recall if the Colgate game was Ernie's first but it was one of hid great ones in any event. We wiped out Colgate and on my way to grab a soda I was high up in the endzone by the Archibold gym looking down on a play. Looking down on the play,it seemed like the whole team at the snap ran to MY lft view when I caught sight of one player running in the opposite direction . He turned the corner and ran the entire length of the field to MY right on the sideline. It was one of Ernie's longest runs from scrimmage . I could not have been more Orange from those moments. I also clearly remember watching Syracuse play UCLA for their last regular season game. I was sitting in front of that same television listening to Curt Gowdy talk about the best two teams in the country being Syracuse's first and second units of the team.
that would be Mr. (Bob) Hughes. Know the family well, he's long since retired and writes some fantastic articles for the Finger Lakes magazine.
Dream on bucko.:rolling:
He's been asked to do a lot of bachelor parties with the new marriage laws in NY :rolling:
There's been so many memorable games and times it's hard to pick out the best. The Half Court shot to beat BC in the early 80s, was that Rautins? Watching the final 4 and Championship game against Indiana in 1988 in Pascagoula, Miss and then again in 1996, I loved that team and Otis Hill. 2003 speaks for itself.
I'm still a huge Eagles fan having lived in that aerea for 10 years or so. I feel a bit guilty actually because I was such a rabid giants fan until McNabb went to the Eagles and I move there shortly afterwards. I had season tickets for several years in Philly and it was great though i don't know how I survived with all the alchohol we consumed during that time. i was one of "those" Eagles fans, and they do exist. though I never got to the judge in the bowels of veterans Standium (maybe I should have). LOL.
You might know one of my aunts, then. My dad was born in '52, but was only the third oldest of 7 kids (5 sisters). I have to admit, though, I don't remember the age difference between my dad and his youngest sister. They lived directly across the street from the big church that's at the Y in the road on Slocumb, just about a hundred feet up from the pizza place that use to be Froggers (we got pizza from there every time we came to town when I was a kid).I'm from Marcellus also. Though I was 18 in 1980
Born in 1962 and lived my first 14 years in Amber, NY and attended Marcellus Schools. Moved to the Jacks Reef area before my sophmore year and ended up graduating from JE. Didn't pay attention to SU sports until the year they went to that first final four under Roy Danforth and then never stopped being an SU fan.
Never graduated from college but did do a stint in the US Navy and used that to start a career that has taken me away from CNY again, first NJ and now Denver, which we love.
Still SU is the rock that keeps me anchored to my hometown, well other than my family of course
These boards started in the early to mid 90s with the emergence of the internet and I've been a part since then, though not on the first AOL one I don't think, but the next iteration. I've had a hand in building some of that internet, but not as much as Al Gore
Met a bunch of the long time members at a bar in Liverpool in the 90s, was it Champs. Bee's, CTO, SWC, Jake, Millhouse and the list goes on of great insiders, I just know the history. Used to have great debates in the 90s with one gentleman I don;t see on very much anymmore, but I don't get on too much anymore except to see what I've missed.
The one thing I hate is the negativity that seems to encompass some of the folks who follow SU sports in general. SU is pretty good year in and year out and you'ld thinkwe would have more of a loyal fan base. But much of what I see is pretty negative wiht people taking every chance to trash JB, the University and players like Scoop. As far as I'm concerned it's great to have such a good team in our backyard and I wouldn't change any of it, not even the zone. I'd come around more if it wasn't so negative actually. Still, glad to be a fan
