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[QUOTE="mike32768, post: 893727, member: 1927"]
Great stories.   Don't want to be a stick in the mud so here goes...

Born and raised on Long Island so college sports weren't really a thing. When I was a kid, we had the Yankees (OK they sucked at the time and Dad was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan so liking the Yankees was never going to happen anyway), Mets (Tom Seaver era so not sucking), Rangers, Islanders, Giants, Jets, Knicks (Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe ) and Nets (Dr. J.) all about an hour's drive, so you might understand why I didn't know Jack about college [I]anything[/I].

In 1989 I moved to and started working in the Syracuse area. I recall being in the Sears store in Shoppingtown, walking through its TV dep't and thinking "Hmm.. I don't know these team playing basketball. Oh, how quaint, they are all watching [I]college[/I] hoops."

MANY years later, I attended my first SU MBB game (against Providence, Jan '08) thanks to a pair of tickets I received as a Christmas gift from my wife (a Syracuse area native and one-time employee of SU).  She was pregnant with our second child so I took our oldest to the game and had a blast.  I realized that was a sort of test, because for my birthday later that year I received "the book" containing two seasons tickets.  Halfway through that season I was hooked.

So, I'm a relative old timer but kinda new to the game.

This board has been a great resource. Kudos to all - admins, regular members.
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