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Message: [QUOTE="stuckinbig11, post: 146917, member: 503"] -born in '49 in Jamestown, NY and grew up nearby -Buffalo TV stations carried Cleveland Browns games, and my love of Jim Brown made me a Syracuse fan -ironically, I ended there as a biochem major at ESF -as a freshman, the Bill Smith, Bob McDaniel, Bill Finney, and Tom Green freshman games drew the crowds. I later got to know all of those guys. Smitty even taught me how to juggle. -being a bball fanatic that played in Archbold more times than I can count, I also attended all but one SU bball home game from Fall '67 through Spring '78 and was in the original Manley Zoo -which means I stayed there for my M.S. and worked there for a few years after -used to run into JB at Drumlins when he was an assistant coach and bugged him that my friend Tom Stundis should be starting instead of Bob Dooms -moved to Indiana to start a real professional career in wetland research in '78, got a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology at Purdue while working full time, enjoyed seeing Rosie and the boys beat Joe Barry Carroll and Purdue in a nationally televised game that proved to be a great birthday present -I was still in Indiana when we lost to IU in the NC game--tough place to be; at least I was distracted by having to console my then-7-yr-old son, who was crying his eyes out -moved to the Ann Arbor area in '87 and coined Stuckinbig11 as I had to endure Michigan fans all around me -everyone in town knew my kids as the ones who wore Syracuse gear -retired from USGS in '08 with 35 years of service and took an endowed faculty position at SUNY Brockport, so I am now 1:45 from home to campus and can get to games several times a year -my birthday is on Saturday, so I just bought tickets for the Providence game and will be there -as an aside, when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer some years ago, Joyce put me in touch with JB, and we had a half hour phone conversation in which he provided some great advice -I have LOTS of reasons to bleed Orange [/QUOTE]

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