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Message: [QUOTE="SoBeCuse, post: 2778090, member: 796"] Born in 1979. Born in Oswego and lived there until 1988. Earliest memories of SU would be guys like Seikaly/Pearl/Sherm. My godparents lived right down the street from Manley and were season ticket holders. We saw them a lot and I LOVED the drive from Oswego to Syracuse. Couldn’t wait to see the Dome on the horizon every time. Moving to Akron initiated the hatred towards OSU and ND. Later on Duke and UCLA were added but those four and Georgetown are the ones for me. Nothing else comes close. Everywhere you went it was the gear of those two. All my classmates ever talked about were those two since I went to a catholic school as well. Still remember guys like Cooper, Holtz, Bowden, etc., coming to my high school and recruiting Mike Vrabel. Played baseball and was a PG. Was pretty good at both. Undergrad in NYC. Grad in LA. Never went to SU. Watching games now is a piece of cake compared to back then. In grad school at USC I had no money and if my housemates/roommates during my time out west had a TV we didn’t have cable. The TV was for gaming, movies, porn, etc. I eventually found some friends who did have cable. One was a cinema/piano double major from CT who knew his sports. He loved the Big East and such. So I had him and another person to bribe to watch games. However, many games (football especially) started at 9AM out there. Back then it was regional coverage and many games were only on ESPN Full Court or GamePlan. No bar is open at 9. So, I would have to pay people who had cable to order (usually would need to call in) and watch it at their places. Some didn’t take me seriously. They would agree to do it and on Saturday I would show up like clockwork at 8:50 ringing the doorbell/knocking while they were still in bed! That didn’t go over well at first but soon enough they accepted and supported my lunacy. ‘SoBeCuse’ was coined when I lived in Miami (South Beach) briefly after grad school. Went to the 2001 rout down there at the Orange Bowl. I’m a big cinema guy especially after attending USC. I have a particular affinity with the cult classic Fast Times at Ridgemont HIgh and Sean Penn’s brilliant performance in that. I remember the old board back then well, Mason’s Orangenation.net, etc. Through the board I found an amazing SU watch party in Atlanta (Dunwoody) for the National Championship game when I was there traveling. Couldn’t believe how many SU and Kansas fans were there that night. What a memory. I live in Cleveland now. My work lets me travel often and my offices are usually the stages in big arenas and theatres in cities everywhere. A dream come true, really. I haven’t been to the Dome since Iverson’s last game. However, I go see them on the road often. Pitt, UL, Cincinnati back then, etc. Went to like five straight BET’s in the mid-2000s including the 6OT game. I have a special friend in media there in NYC who has hooked me up at times. I’ve been in the locker rooms there with the team, at press conferences there, met Matt Park there, hung out with Devendorf one night there, etc. (note: he hates “Devo.” E is what he prefers.) [/QUOTE]

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