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Message: [QUOTE="Dave85, post: 897090, member: 3946"] I was born 1962 in New Jersey. I attended SU 1981 through 1984. Coming out of high school, I don't know how I ended up going to Syracuse. I think I just liked the picture of Crouse College on the brochure. I had no idea what I was getting into (kind of like my first wife). I didn't even own a good winter jacket or boots. I didn't even know it snowed in Syracuse. I was just a stupid kid. And most of all, I did not know I was joining Orange basketball cult! 2-3 what? As a result of peer pressure I became a fan pretty quick. And because Orange basketball is all people talked about. I was at a few games where Leo Rautins was playing. One time I played a round of video games with Andre Hawkins at the back of one of the small restaurants on Marshall Street. He was a nice kid. I thought it was kind of cool that he would even talk with me. But there was one event that forever turned my blood Orange. By my junior year I had season tickets in the student section for the 1983-84 season. I had a pretty good seat with the help of some friends who camped out for tickets. I was 7 rows back to the right side of one of the baskets. So I was able to see lots of fast break points. It was a lot fun to watch Dwayne 'the Pearl' Washington exercise his super powers. It was great watching Rafael Addison, Greg Monroe, Howard Triche, Wendell Alexis, and company. So I was actually at the game when the Pearl made his famous last second half-court shot to beat BC. The shot came straight at me. I remember Dome deflating while the shot was in the air and then instantly reflating after he made it! As soon as it went in I remember leaping out of my seat over all the seats in front of me. There were knocked over chairs everywhere. I was jumping around the court and I got knocked over a chair. The foot of one of the chair legs gave me a pretty good scratch in the center of back which bled a little bit. At the time I just got back up and kept jumping around with everyone. It was awesome! THAT, was the first day I truly bled Orange. Since then I've watch every Orange basketball game I was able to see on TV. Since I live in New Jersey, I've gone to a lot of games at Seton Hall, MSG (St Johns and BET), Rutgers, and Villanova. So I have a funny story. The season after the Orange won the National Championship, I decided to take my seventy year old mother to see a basketball game. The Orange were away at Rutgers that year. Since this was a Christmas present I figured I get some good seats. We were about 10 rows back first section to the right of center court. About even with the basketball rim at one end of the court. Rutgers had a pretty good team that year and if they beat the Orange they had a good chance to go to the NCAA tournament. So I am at the game with my seventy year old mother and we are all decked out in Orange. The Orange were up by 10 points at the half. The second half starts and Rutgers is on a good run. They are 4 points down and the crowd is really into the game. There's a foul and a Rutgers player comes to the foul line right in front of where we are sitting to shoot the front end of a 1-and-1. The crowd is really tense. The RAC is completely quiet. Just as the guy is about to make the shot, my mother yells at the top of her lungs, "MISS". It was insanely loud! It echoed off the roof of the RAC and probably caused several heart attacks in the stands. The shot goes up, lands on the rim, rolls forward, sits there for what like seems forever, and then rolls off to the left and misses. Syracuse then goes on a 10-2 run and wins the game. I thought I was not going to make it out of the building alive! It was just too funny!! [/QUOTE]

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