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Message: [QUOTE="tptcuse, post: 897664, member: 1119"] Grew up in North Syracuse (graduated from C-NS in 1987) and started going to Manley with my Dad during the Louie and Bouie show. Some of these memories may be out of chronological order, but the events are quite vivid. I was also one who hovered around a transistor radio listening to Joel M. calling the games. Many a crying moment as a kid during devastating tourney losses starting with Charlotte in 1977, then Western Kentucky in 1978, etc. Earliest memory was seeing Syracuse in some tourney in Rochester and getting Rosie's autograph on my ticket stub, which I promptly dropped in some sketchy liquid stuff on the floor. That didn't keep me from putting the stub in my pocket and saving it for decades. I am not sure if I still have it, but I suspect that the disgusting, unidentified liquid is still wet. My dad had season tickets at Manley and my sister and alternated going to several games with him. The Zoo was amazing and I got to say the word $h1t really loudly during the famed player line-ups. Because he and my mother were no longer married during these years, I have come to suspect that my dad frequently used his tickets to enhance his dating prospects. If so, props to him! Random early memories include: [LIST] [*]Attending the last game at Archbold Stadium and the first football game at the Carrier Dome. [*]Being behind the basket watching Pearl's half court shot and the ensuing chaos [*]Going to the Meadowlands for the 1984 NCAA tourney (VCU, I believe) [*]Attending the three overtime victory over Villanova [*]Watching the 87 loss to Indiana. I can't remember if I cried, but I do remember watching the final play over and over and over... [*]Watching the Sugar Bowl game with high school friends during a break from college and immediately hating Pat Dye. [/LIST] There was somewhat of a gap in my fandom during my undergraduate and grad school years (1987-1993). I was a music major for both degrees, and I spent most of my time practicing, studying, and partying. I did grad work at SMU, and now find it amusing that they are in the AAC. Once I started my career in 1993, I began to follow the basketball team more and more. I had a gig during the 1996 Final Four, but managed to listen to the games, or part of them on the radio to and from the gig. In the past ten or fifteen years, I have become progressively more obsessed and I was thrilled to find this board a couple of years ago. Syracuse.com hurts my head and eats away at my soul. As an aside, I moved to London from 2001-2004 and followed via the internet with a terrible dial-up connection and by reading updates throughout the seasons. Therefore I had to listen to the National Championship game on the internet. I was extremely loud at a random time by myself in my flat. My neighbors must have wondered What was going on. There was no 'football' game on at that hour! :) Interestingly, I did watch the Texas semi-final game. I was in Warsaw, Poland for a music festival with students and happened across some international teachers from Upstate New York (Vestal/Binghamton, I believe) who were huge Cuse fans. The principal of the International School's husband was also originally from Lake Placid and had satellite television. They arranged to pick me up at my hotel, drove me to his house, and about six of us screamed until the wee hours of the morning as we beat Texas to a pulp! I often wonder if any of those guys from the Warsaw International School are on this board? Let me know if you are! I now live in NYC (Queens) and go to the Garden for whatever Cuse game I can make. I also head up to the Dome at least once a year for a basketball game or a football game. I still love the Dome experience and I never pass up a Dome Dog. Thanks to all who make this board such a great experience! [/QUOTE]

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