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Message: [QUOTE="UnderHisOwnPower, post: 546254, member: 1205"] Born and raised in CNY, graduated high school '85 and recall growing up in the shadow of the Dome, although it was some 30 miles away. I would attend the early Dome games in football, hoops and lax. My Dad worked at Carrier, so he accrued some benefits as an employee by virtue of the naming rights, including tickets to watch Joe Morris tear up the turf after getting a history lesson and tour of the University from a student group, and leaving with a 44 jersey which I still have. For basketball, we listened to the Louie and Bouie show on the radio as we picked up my dad from his second shift at the TR plant. I still remember the disappointment in the announcers voice as he went through the post game after the David Thirdkill led Bradley victory in the '82 NIT. JB brought the team to my high school for a preseason work out/scrimmage around 83 or 84, and we would attend games several times a year around that same time. I saw many of the great early big east battles, including the fruit throwing at the hated Hoyas, the Michelle Munn game and beating Phi Slamma Jamma. As I went onto college in Albany, my interests of course changed, but I watched the '87 title game with a hometown buddy, watched the Moten timeout game from my living room in Dallas, and was again recharged by the '96 run, during which I was relocating to NJ. I was listening to the closing minutes of the Miss St final 4 win on headphones as I boarded a plane for NJ, and while I didn't get to the Champ. game in the Meadowlands, I was able to watch it from ESPN in NYC and recall thinking how good Kentucky was and that JB might never win the big one dammit! Then recruiting picked up, I caught Carmelo at the Mickey D's dunk contest and game on TV and knew something special was again brewing, and the mission was finally accomplished in '03! I am raising my 2 boys as fans of the program, and to my amazement I still find myself having to defend JB to the uninitiated. It doesn't help that my Orange gear doesn't go over so well in the heart of Rutgers country now, but I chalk that up to jealousy. Anyways, that's my story as a lifetime bandwagoner. Beat the Hoyas! [/QUOTE]

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