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Message: [QUOTE="Timonen, post: 894201, member: 81"] I figured I woulda already replied here but doesn't appear so. -Born in Wilmington, DE in 75 (so Philly area) -Was always a contrarian with sports team interests so couldn't like PSU and graviated towards Syracuse. I remember the Sugar Bowl, Keith Smart stuff, Peach Bowl, Billy Owens on SI, Marvin Graves breaking in against USC in the Meadowlands (weird one) and a bunch of others. Wore Syracuse stuff all the time at school. -Was bigtime into pro wrestling and loved the bad guys. When Mike Rotundo was doing his Syracuse wrestler schtick, I was in heaven. Wore Cuse stuff every month and used to go to the airport marriott to meet them all. Have great pics of little me with Flair, Road Warriors, etc and have Syracuse on in every one. -My sophomore year of high school, my dad and I drove up to Cooperstown and planned to be there three days. After one day, we realized we didn't have anything else to do there so took an impromptu trip down the road. I took my first official tour, got on the mailing list, etc. -The summer after my junior year in high school, I did summer college at SU. My plan was to be Bob Costas so signed up for the intro Newhouse course. Had to sign up for a second so took Poli Sci. Ended up hating Comm and loving the other so my route changed fro Newhouse to Maxwell (which wasn't Maxwell undergrad back then but thankfully appears that way now) -I applied early decision and was admitted. Soon after, my dad took me to my first game in person - the Conrad McRae game at the Spectrum vs. Nova. -During school, I played snare drum in the marching band for 4 years and then stayed on as instructor while I got an MPA at Maxwell. Have a crazy story of how we got tickets to the '96 final four but no room for that here. Was also a drummer in Sitrus for a couple years (though marching was more my thing and I knew I'd never travel with Sitrus since they only took one drummer on the road). -Highlight of school was during block party when I was playing in a band on a porch, another member motioned to me to look up front in the crowd. McNabb was dancing! -My first job out of grad school was actually in Syracuse, so I was able to stay very connected and continue to teach the drumline (that was through Fiesta and Orange Bowls) -My company asked me to move to Atlanta in '02 and have been here since. -I've been many names on the board over the years. Believe I was mdh to start. Was Pitkanen most recently and now Timonen (for non witty Flyers fans, those are #44 for Philly). -Married an LSU grad. We tell people it's a marriage of convenience where she gets my basketball and I get her football...though still tease that we won last time we played (not that she knows the difference). Was a lot of sports karma in '03, though. SU won bb and LSU won fb...both in New Orleans which is where she's from. How can that NOT work? -Board highlight was deciding the night before the finals in '03 to drive to Nola in the morning and coordinating on here with somebody from Minnesota to hang out for the day. I wish it was the facebook era because I'd still be connected to him but have totally lost touch. -Like most others in the south, ecstatic for the chance to see SU more...though could do without games like GTech this year. [/QUOTE]

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