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My trip to the Big House

Discussion in 'College Football Forum' started by kshead, Oct 28, 2003.

  1. Oct 28, 2003 at 8:41 PM #1
    kshead

    kshead What's the spread?

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    Really cool pics. One year I'd like to spend football season going on a roadtrip to all kinds of cool places. Michigan would be one of them - but only to a game that wasn't sold out. :D

    Are you a few inches thinner from being packed in there?
     
  2. Oct 29, 2003 at 3:21 AM #2
    LarryD

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    nice freakin' seats!
     
  3. Oct 29, 2003 at 9:49 AM #3
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    I bet your ears are still ringing. :)
     
  4. Oct 30, 2003 at 11:47 PM #4
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    mediafreak Freak me

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    Best memory of my one and only trip to Michigan

    Oct. 1993. Illinois at Michigan.

    My first real college road trip (a late night excursion from Champaign to the burbs doesn't count).

    After a night of not being able to find a party on campus (We're Michigan. We party after the win' said one snobbish bookworm) and getting bounced from the student union) and nearly getting crushed by a lane-changing semi (3 of us in a Mitsubishi Eclipse), we arrived at The Big House. About 106,385 packed into the largest stadium I'd ever seen. Yowza.

    The biggest win of the Lou Tepper era at Illinois took a near-miracle to pull off.

    Michigan led the entire game and were leading 21-10 in the fourth quarter.

    Though the Illini cut the lead in half with a touchdown by freshman running back Ty Douthard, the Wolverines had to simply run the clock out.

    In the last few minutes of the game an up-and-rising defensive end named Simeon Rice came of age. Rice hit Michigan tailback Ricky Powers, recovering a fumble he caused.

    With 1:13 to go, quarterback Johnny Johnson, later named Big Ten player of the week, drove the Illini downfield. With 34 seconds left, Johnson avoided a heavy Wolverine rush to find receiver Jim Klein in the corner of the endzone for the winning touchdown. Illinois 24, Michigan 21

    THE ENDZONE I WAS IN!!! I have a pic of it I'll scan in sometime.



    Until the Cubs debacle in Game 6 of the NLCS this year, I'd ever heard a more deafening silence.
     
  5. Oct 30, 2003 at 11:57 PM #5
    LarryD

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    THAT is what it's all about, man.
     
  6. Oct 31, 2003 at 2:09 PM #6
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    dude

    we marched out with our band at the horseshoe in Columbus in 1994. the big O student section just stood their in disbelief as we danced our way out of the stadium. it was a blast.

    the following year, we stuck it to the hoosiers, the hawkeyes and the Wildcats (tho that last one's not saying much).

    5-0 on Illinois road trips.

    Hoping to make it 6-0 when UI comes to Greensboro in December against UNC. However, that one looks shaky right now. No matter, we still spanked them last season. I mean, SPANKED.
     

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