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Message: [QUOTE="SgtCuse, post: 249067, member: 2137"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]I’m a long time lurker that used post a couple times a year on the old forum and can even remember the old AOL, Prodigy and CompUserve forums. Ill be 44 in May and was born at St Joe’s in 1968. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]My fandome goes back to JB’s first year where I remember all of those ECAC tournaments before the Big East. So I’ve been bleeding orange since I was about 7 or 8. We moved to Michigan because of my Dad’s job from 80-82 and we only got to see 1 live game on TV while there. It was the Purdue game (See the Orange Glory DVD for the younger crew). I remember my Dad saying how big a win that was for the program. We did get to watch the NIT Semi’s and Finals during that time but we didn’t have cable and we had to do the old antenna with tin foil trick. It was blurry as heck but we could make out the players. Also remember getting the Iowa game while in Michigan on the radio and being crushed when we lost (Late Technical on younger JB if I remember correctly).[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]Moved to the Rochester area for my High School years. It was during this time frame when Santifer and then Pearl became my all-time favorite players. Left for the Army right out of HS in the summer of 1986. My first duty assignment was in Germany where I was able to get 3 or 4 games on Armed Forces radio each year. Some chick I was dating thought that I was crazy for leaving the bar at Midnight sometimes to listen to some “stupid basketball game just because they play a stupid team named Georgetown”.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]I ended up doing 20 years in the Army. Kids came, raised, moved out (and moved back in) but the constant in my life was SU Hoops. I used to carry an old 7” B/W TV when I was out in the field. I saw the Arkansas game (crushed) and the Georgia game (pure elation) on that TV while in the middle of nowhere.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]I was fortunate enough to spend my last 5 years in the Army here (3 years in Liverpool training Reservists and National Guardsman and the last 2 at Ft Drum) , so I have been local since Nov. 2000 (this is when my kids love for SU really took off). I retired at the ripe old age of 38 from the Army in 2006 and we have decided to make Liverpool our home. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]This past weekend I was blessed to be in Boston for the regional’s. It was the first time I have ever seen SU in a NCAA tournament in person. With work, wife’s work, kids, etc, we were never able to pull it off. My Aunt and Uncle own a condo on the West End that they never use so they offered it to us for the weekend. A 2 minute walk to the Garden was great. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Calibri]On a side note, that girl I was dating who thought I was crazy to listen to games on the radio while in Germany was sitting next to me on Saturday night as the final horn went off. As we watched “our boys” leave the court for the last time as a team I looked over and saw tears coming from her eyes. She has been my bride for 24 years now and loves the Cuse as much as I do. I knew I married her for a reason.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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