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Message: [QUOTE="BuffOrange, post: 248732, member: 1643"] Born in Camillus, 1980. In trying to recall my earliest memories for this post I've realized how much longer the losses stay with me than the wins. Kinda like poker hands. I remember listening to losses in the dome to Nova and Providence on the radio and being very upset - "how the heck do we lose to these teams"? Vague memory of the Rhode Island & Minnesota debacles. I'll never forget the name Lynch from Minnesota. No idea if he killed us or not but the announcers seemed to say his name a lot, so that's what I remember. And the OT losses to Umass/Missouri/Arkansas happened at pretty much the worst possible age where in your early teens you take the game way too seriously (as opposed to now, ha). The BET loss to Providence when 2 guys went up for a loose ball and we got whistled for the foul also infuriated me. Fortunately I was not even 7 for '87 so I didn't watch it. Just asked Dad if we won the next morning. From what I gathered from him before the game we didn't have much of a chance to win anyway so I just shrugged and went off the school. Dad never was the most optimistic fan, ha. Anyone know how much of an underdog we were in that game? Earliest good tv memory I think was the John Thompson technical aka Billy Owens FT game. Sophmore yr of high school was the first year I started going out on Friday nights. I had made plans one Friday night in March of '96 but decided to stay home and watch the Georgia game. Boy was that a good decision. As I said in the 'Orange Glory' thread it was a special game to me not because they ultimately played in the final game, but because it just seemed like the kind of game we[B] never ever won[/B]. At least not in the tournament. Went to college in Rochester when my fandom tailed off for a bit. Maybe it was because it wasn't a big college hoops environment or maybe I just never thought the '99-02 teams were really any good but the Michigan St loss wasn't as crushing to me as others. I just never felt like we could win that game. :noidea: Moved to Philly in the middle of the '03 season. Drove up the NJ turnpike to Rutgers for my first "road game" where their fans chanted 'overrated' as they banked in a 3 to win. I guess the joke was on them. When Kentucky & Arizona both lost in the tournament I thought for the first time in a long time that we could actually win the damn hardware. As the Bills are the only other team I really love, the night of the Kansas game was my first and last taste of championship. Can't believe that was 9 yrs ago. :eek: [/QUOTE]

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