Game of the past you'd most like to attend [Poll UPDATE!]
by WPIALkid22 on Aug 17, 2009 1:31 PM EDT
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Got this idea from behindthesteelcurtain, but I thought it would be an interesting topic considering PSU's rich football history.
If you could attend only 1 Penn State football game from any year, which one would you choose?
I could already think of some common answers, but let's see what we could come up with. Pick a game and give a brief summary of why you chose that one (for some of the younger guys, we don't remember everything surrounding some of the bigger games in PSU's past, so this could also serve as a PSU history lesson). If we get a couple good answers, I'll throw up a poll, because we know that no BSD FanPost is complete without one
UPDATE! UPDATE! Poll added based on people's comments:
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1983 Sugar Bowl
Gets the nod over the 1987 Fiesta Bowl because I don’t think I could watch that game on a first run basis again, and 1981 Pitt because it was for the National Title.
That and it’s in New Orleans. Partying after the National Title on Bourban Street would kick six different kinds of ass.
"far less knowledgeable than the average poster here"
by jesse. on Aug 17, 2009 1:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
1962 Regular Season game against Syracuse
If I had the chance I’d love to see the game as it once was-with platoon football, rah-rah cheerleading, and single bar helmets. This game-which everyone can read a summary in the 2009 edition of We Are Penn State magazine-sounds like it was an amazing game to boot.
by Cairo on Aug 17, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Others by decade
-2005 Regular Season Game vs Ohio State
-1994 Regular Season Game vs Ohio State
-1986 Regular Season Game at Alabama
-1974 Orange Bowl
-1959 Liberty Bowl
-A game from the 1947 season. Maybe the 75-0 win against Fordham in New York City. Hey, at least it’s NYC in the late ’40s.
by Cairo on Aug 17, 2009 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Was that the one
Where Jim Brown and Lenny Moore went toe-to-toe for four quarters on offense and defense? That would have been a monster game to witness.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 17, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you should get yourself a copy of the 2009 edition of "We Are Penn State"
I hear it is a good magazine, and has your answer inside ;-)
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 17, 2009 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My bad, it was the 1955 game.
I don’t know where I got my sources. Bad me.
In that case, I’ll go with the 1955 Syracuse game and the 1969 Orange Bowl.
by Cairo on Aug 17, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's why I asked
The year didn’t sound right.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 17, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was at the 69 Orange Bowl
while the ending was great…a big let down, then the flag and a new play and Bobby Campbell running in the two point conversion, going down onto the field…that was great. It wasn’t that much of a game. We dominated but couldn’t put Kansas away. It was 58 minutes of dull, mistake filled, frustrating football….then two minutes of fantastic individual and team efforts by both the offense and defense.
Just a side note, two of our most hated FB programs tOSU (then #1) and USC (#2) played for the “MNC” in the 1969 Rose Bowl that was over before the Orange Bowl started.
by PaJoe on Aug 17, 2009 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, but when the game was over you were in South Florida in 1969.
I’ve never experienced that.
by Cairo on Aug 17, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
2005 whiteout
It was the perfect storm rolling through Happy Valley. OSU had national title hopes and a roster that included players like Troy Smith, Ted Ginn Jr, and Santonio Holmes. PSU was equally matched and featured MikeRob, Dwill, and everyone’s favorite, Poz. I think the atmosphere around this game would never be matched, from the student section whiteout, to the 108+ thousand fans, to the zombie nation playing every other play, everything I heard about this game made me want to be there instead of watching it on TV. The game delivered too, a tough, nail-biting 17-10 Penn State win. But I think the most important thing about this game was that it served as a segway from the tough years of the early 2000s, to what we have now
by WPIALkid22 on Aug 17, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Agreed
I totally agree with you on this one. It was a great game and the atmosphere was electric. Downtown State College was nuts and was one of the most thrilling times I had up at Dear Old State. When Tamba put Troy on his head I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest. I also liked the guerilla White-Out that went on, it just seemed so spontaneous and you could tell that there was something in the air that weekend. Aside from the excitement that this game provided, it also served as a symbolic purpose in letting the nation (and us, really) know that Penn State was back as a serious threat.
by Bob Sacamano on Aug 17, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i still get goosebumps
remembering that game. came back from a month in new orleans cleaning up katrina and rita that friday night, made it to the game just beside myself that the dark years seemed over. and you’re right about the electricity—the whole game. crazy time, probably one of my fondest memories. one of those games that i’ll eventually see on espn classic or something and say, yeah, i was there. i was part of that. and it was great.
"They stalk their prey to within two or three great leaps and then launch a lightning-fast charge, striking their prey. Victims are most often killed by suffocation with a prolonged bite..."--Hinterland Who's Who
by afields16 on Aug 21, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
1982 Nebraska game
Penn State as normal not ranked what they deserved, played Big Red in Happy Valley, got a lead — let it go, and with with 1:18 left drove down the field and after the sideline call (known as “McClosky’s Corner”) where the tight end caught the ball around the end zone and very close to out of bounds [on the wrong side] … Kirk Bowman (known as Stone Hands) caught his second touchdown pass of the game to snatch victory. Downtown State College was such a buzz that night, even a better feeling than the 2005 OSU game… We Are….
by dgals79 on Aug 17, 2009 2:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
+2
This game, and the 1997 OSU game.
by InScoresOfOtherGames on Aug 17, 2009 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A nebraska fan
cited that game as the reason they wouldn’t “let” us share the title in 1994, saying it cost them a national championship since they would have been undefeated without that game. Glad we got a national championship out of that year. Oh, and since no one else did it. PENN STATE
by PSUisMyHeart on Aug 17, 2009 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Whatever
At least we didn’t have to start some thug like Lawrence Phillips to get our titles.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 17, 2009 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When is downtown State College not buzzed after a football game?
j/k I know what you meant
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 17, 2009 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was pretty quiet after Minnesota
1999
by PSU Mudder on Aug 26, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
But were you buzzed is the question
I have a feeling there was a lot of buzzing going on after that game, but it was being done while crying into your shot glass.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 26, 2009 8:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Trivial Fact
Bob Dylan played a concert with Phil Lesch (of the Grateful Dead) that night at the BJC. Not even Dylan and the Dead could save that night.
That was set up to be one of the greatest days I ever had at Penn State, and it wound up being one of the most disappointing days of my entire life.
"far less knowledgeable than the average poster here"
by jesse. on Aug 27, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The deep sadness of this
Made me chuckle a little.
The chuckling a little made feel guilty a little.
The guilty a little feeling made me regret posting this a little
not sure how I’m gonna react to the guilt….
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
by jtothep on Aug 27, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Dude, it was awful.
I really don’t like to talk about it. We made reservations in New Orleans after the Miami game, and had to cancel them….
I am sitting here shaking my head about the whole thing as I type this now, finding absolutely no humor in that day.
I am going to go get drunk.
"far less knowledgeable than the average poster here"
by jesse. on Aug 27, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
count me in on the drinking
that was probably the most depressing sports day in my entire life
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 27, 2009 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I never had any Dead plans
But the New Orleans thing was heavy on my heart. At that time I was still a Nawlins virgin, and leaving the Orange Bowl after Chafie’s catch, I was high-fiving other PSU fans with chants of ‘see you in Nawlins, see you in Nawlins.’
I never saw them in Nawlins.
One day, our MNC Sugar Bowl karma will come together, and even if my kids are 20 years old, I’ll be getting my Nittany Lion on on Bourbon Street.
And it will be glorious.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
by jtothep on Aug 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love Nawlins
great food, great music, great people
"If you let the men in you've got to let the women in. I don't want a bunch of women walking around in my locker room when guys take showers". Joe Paterno
by letsgopsu on Aug 28, 2009 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lol, I just noticed your new signature
love it (even if it DID come from an OSU troll)
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 27, 2009 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i was at this game
first PSU night game…. i was 11 yrs old so i don’t remember a ton of detail? just the place going berserk when blackledge hit bowman, everyone hugging, screaming, crying you name it. it was an amazing night.
by mbailey71 on Aug 18, 2009 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was at this game as a student
and also don’t remember a ton of detail. Not sure how something like that could happen.
"the secret to loving your job is having a hobby that you really despise"
by nitwit86 on Aug 25, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
More 82 Nebraska recollections
Found here on BSD.
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
by jtothep on Aug 18, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
1912 Ohio State.
Shorty Miller for the win.
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 17, 2009 2:35 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
+1
Here it comes, cocky.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 17, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Also, 1994 Ohio State.
They actually thought they had a chance, didn’t they?
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 17, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
1994 PSU vs Nebraska
PSU for the MNC, yes I am still a little bitter.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
by psu on Aug 17, 2009 2:43 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
My thinking
exactly.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Aug 17, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
While we're at it...
I wish we would’ve played Ohio State in 2005 and 2008, that way we wouldn’t have to share the Big Ten Championships with them. Wait, we did? Both years?! Oh man, I’m gonna have to run back and tell all the OSU fans I know that have been talking about their 4 consecutive titles. They’ll LOVE this!
by jimbo2psu on Aug 17, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
2002 Nebraska Game
Record Beaver stadium crowd still unbroken. Richard Gardner interception return for a touchdown. Makes me mad everytime I think about it.
"Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things." -Joe Paterno
by pslion on Aug 17, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i was at that game
in the blue band at the time. it was absolutely the craziest! we could barely hear the band to do our routines. it was at that moment i realized i was at Penn State and understood what it meant to go to school there!!!
We Are...
by amandakt on Aug 17, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
02 NU / PSU game
Was there w. RUTS and my old room-mate from PSU…it was AWESOME. I was unable to attend the Troy Smith OSU game but could not imagine the Beaver any louder than the Nebraska game.
This was our first big win after the dark years and revenge for 94…settle the score for 94!
There was a real sense of hate/anger in the crowd…RUTS…you remember this quote “Go back to Nebraska and take your rapist with you!!!!” My boy DB is insane and screamed this at the payers/fans of NU
by SweepTheLeg on Aug 20, 2009 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
1987 Fiesta Bowl
Conlan, Giftopolous, Bauer? Agaist Thug U? What more could you ask for?
by Spats on Aug 17, 2009 2:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
andddddd...
it snowed that night in state college, after the game there was this massive snowball fight at pugh and college. People hanging off the street lights.. good times!
by mbailey71 on Aug 18, 2009 5:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I personally
rode down to college ave from southgate drive on the hood of a buddy’s car. We were going to have a big party, but people said they didn’t want to come out because of all of that snow. Called my roomates from work and told them maybe we shouldn’t get a keg. They picked up several cases instead . . . it was all gone by halftime. Three of us rode out to Home Delivery Pizza and did the “PA-buy-4-cases-of-beer-one-12pack-at-a-time” purchase.
"the secret to loving your job is having a hobby that you really despise"
by nitwit86 on Aug 25, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
1982 National Championship game
I was only 8 years old and my parents made me go to bed.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 17, 2009 2:58 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I will be quite the opposite type of parent
and will make my kids not go to bed during such games (I really hope it doesn’t backfire on me, though, and make my kids hate sports/football/Penn State)
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 17, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"You will NOT go to bed, young man/lady! You will sit here and you will ENJOY IT!"
PS, assuming I ever have kids I will be the same parent. I’ll just tell them, “You’ll thank me some day for making you stay up to watch this.”
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 17, 2009 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My Dad went to this game with his PSU roommate (still his best friend, and it sounded like a great time
He told me a story about being somewhere in New Orleans (probably a bar before the game, but I don’t remember the details), and this older perfect southerner Georgia couple comes up to my dad and his best friend and asks, “We’ve been wonderin’, what exactly does Nittany mean?”, and my Dad’s roommate without missing a beat says, “It’s an old Indian word that means ‘well hung’.” (Clearly they must have had a few drinks by this point) And the Georgia guy completely buys it, and smiles and says, “Well, I guess we’re all a little Nittany then, aren’t we?” I laughed so hard the first time I heard this story.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 18, 2009 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
yeah i’d like to say i was awake when this one was over but the parents tell me otherwise… i sacked out sometime in the middle of the 3rd quarter
by mbailey71 on Aug 18, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmm, this is a hard one
the “obvious” one would be the 1987 Fiesta Bowl (or 83 Sugar Bowl), but I’m assuming that I would be who I am NOW going to that game, and would be able to fully appreciate them. At the time of the game I probably didn’t even know what Penn State was, let alone care about college football, though, so I don’t really feel that bad not having been there.
The one game I regret most not going to was the 2005 OSU game. I’ve been to pretty much every “big game” for Penn State (both good and bad, mostly home, but a few of the away ones as well) since 98, and this one I still really regret not getting to (in my defense it was the first big home game since I moved to Michigan, and couldn’t get away for the weekend). This one seems to be one of the most “exciting” games in (at least recent) PSU history, on par, or better than the 2002 Nebraska game.
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 17, 2009 3:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Definitely tough....
I mean the ‘Old School’ 80’s Classics would have been great (no offense), but I don’t think I’d have been old enough to appreciate them so…..
2005 Ohio State at the Beav.
That stadium looked and sounded out of control on T.V.! I was so jealous, although I was at Nebraska in ’02 and that was pretty insane.
"A setback is just a set up for a comeback." -Drew Brees
by kajpsu on Aug 17, 2009 3:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
1981 at Pitt
That’s the 48-14 game.
Growing up in Pittsburgh during a time when this rivalry didn’t exist has made me wish I was able to see just one Pitt-Penn State game. I know all the reasons why we don’t play them now, and I agree with them for the most part, but I still wish I’d been able to experience the rivalry at it’s zenith.
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...
by fugimaster24 on Aug 17, 2009 3:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I almost picked this in the poll
My father (a Pittsburgh native his whole life, but a PSU grad, although he did go to Pitt for grad school) went to this game, and the story he told me about it was always one of my favorites to hear, so I’ll relay the story. He went into the stadium and his seat, unfortunately was behind this old Pitt alum. Game starts, Pitt goes up 14-0, and this old alum being a typical Pitt douche, and knowing there are PSU fans around him and starts screaming, “RUN UP THE SCORE! RUN UP THE SCORE!”. Then PSU ties it up, the guy gets pretty quiet. Then PSU starts to make Marino look like a little girl, and we start dominating. So my dad, knowing full well the douche is still in front of him, counters with, “RUN UP THE SCORE! RUN UP THE SCORE!” If I remember right, the Pitt guy left before the game was even over. I would have loved to have seen the heartbreak of #1 Pitt being completely crushed by us.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 17, 2009 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The real question is
Why was that old Pitt guy and your father screaming for one of our fine Editors in the middle of a football game?
by PSUisMyHeart on Aug 18, 2009 12:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Must be at....
Both National Championships
Nebraska 2002
tOSU 2005
2005(6) Orange Bowl
Entire 68, 69, 73 Seasons
1994…whole season
"I'm not affraid to compete"
~Robert Bolden
Nittany Point of View
by QBsneak12 on Aug 17, 2009 3:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
2002 Nebraska
or 2005 OSU.
NittanyWhiteOut.com. Arguably the second best Penn State blog I know of.
by PSUdevon on Aug 17, 2009 3:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Proud to say
I was at both of those.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 17, 2009 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
As was I
If I had to pick between the 2 I think I would go tOSU in 2005.
How could Nixon know so little about Watergate and so much about football ?
by psupride on Aug 17, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
2002 Nebraska
Was in 10th grade at the time, watching on TV. Knew my college decision after that one was over.
It was all worth it as a sophomore in the 2nd row at OSU 2005. After Tamba’s sack, it wasn’t even cheering, it was a 10-15 row mosh pit.
by PSUtopia on Aug 18, 2009 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And I was too.
I’d pick the ‘05 OSU game over the ’02 Nebraska game. The ’05 OSU game was a fight for four quarters, had Williams leaving AJ Hawk in the dust, Tamba putting Troy Smith on his head (why they reviewed that fumble I still don’t know), and Kirk Herbstreit declaring the PSU student section the best in the country. The ‘02 game wasn’t as much of a fight, and once PSU landed the big uppercut (Gardner’s Pick Six), it was just a PSU party the rest of the way.
I’m surprised the ‘94 PSU/Nebraska game hasn’t gotten more votes.
by dmoney350z on Aug 19, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
1990 Notre Dame or 1994 Michigan
Both road games, late evenings, comeback wins in classic venues. And both games where I was out of town and couldn’t watch the game, but was able to listen to the second half on the car radio, heading home.
by CheeseHeadLion on Aug 17, 2009 4:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
State College was crazy after the 90 ND game
I think it was better than being at the actual game.
A bunch of students broke into the locked Beaver Stadium, ripped out the goal post, carried it up the stands and threw it over the top. Then it was carried through campus to Old Main and eventually to the Paterno house. Most intense Penn State moment of my life!
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
by NJ lion on Aug 18, 2009 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
They never got in the Stadium
Once upon a time being in college was allowed to be fun. Rather than have the kids damage the stadium, they simply left a set of practice goalposts on the outside for the kids to play with.
That was a fun day though. No question about it.
"far less knowledgeable than the average poster here"
by jesse. on Aug 18, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought they got the stadium goalposts in 1990.
In 1994 we stopped trying to gain access when the practice goalposts were found.
Rest of the story sounds the same.
by Aaron PSU on Aug 18, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It could be
But I sincerely doubt the attitude of the cops around that ND party would have been nearly as permissive if an angry mob had broken into the stadium a few hours earlier. I think that there was even a game the next weekend.
"far less knowledgeable than the average poster here"
by jesse. on Aug 18, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It was a jubilant mob, I suppose.
According to the Collegian, it was the first time since Jan 17, 1987 that students stole a goalpost.
I had always heard that the 1994 release of the practice goalposts was a plan developed because the actual goalposts going down in 1990.
by Aaron PSU on Aug 18, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks for the good memories, Aaron
“I think it’s really cool — well, kind of destructive, but really cool,” she said. “It proves we can work together as one, even if it’s just to get a goal post down.”
Only a Penn Stater would understand.
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
by NJ lion on Aug 18, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was actually on College Ave when the goalposts arrived at Old Main, so I don’t know where they came from. Your account makes sense, but the story I heard that night was they got them from inside the stadium, and that’s the story I’m sticking with because it makes the whole event even more awesome.
Also, I definitely remember the goal posts being stood upright in front of Old Main, supported by the sea of humanity below, while students climbed them and the crowd sang “Fight on State” and “Hail to the Lion” (long before the days of Zombie Nation).
"The sea was angry that day, my friends." G. Costanza
by NJ lion on Aug 18, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
that was pretty insane
i was working at the short lived and ill fated happy valley brewery then and we were giving out pitchers of beer left and right to people passing by… i’m pretty sure i remember seeing goalposts going down college ave, no?
by mbailey71 on Aug 18, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I worked at the SBS
in the late seventies and early eighties.
I remember the goalposts going down College Ave after a game one time (don’t recall which) and the store manager being concerned about an upright getting poked through one of the big front windows.
by confirmy on Aug 18, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It would have to be a game
that they haven’t shown over and over again on TV, and that I’ve never seen. I think I’d have to go with 1994 OSU. I’d love to see us destroying OSU.
by PSUisMyHeart on Aug 17, 2009 7:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was there
It was glorious.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 17, 2009 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ditto.
63-14 was something to behold.
by Joe 96alum on Aug 18, 2009 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My very first game at PSU...
Suffice it to say, I’ve never been the same since! The best word that I can come up with for that offense is “profound.”
by 94NittanyChamps on Aug 25, 2009 8:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
we were heading out to the parking lot
for halftime of this game and i can still remember the look on the OSU players faces was of utter shock of how badly they were getting hammered.
by mbailey71 on Aug 18, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I vaguely recall that occurring in '97
I think the student tried to get the goal posts hours after the PSU-Ohio State game after Florida lost to LSU and got the Lions back to #1. I also recall that occurring after some random game where they beat Purdue around 1999.
In one instance, they were stopped and didn’t do anything. In the other instance, they grabbed the lacrosse goals and put them on Paterno’s lawn.
by Cairo on Aug 18, 2009 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
PSU vs PITT, 1969 HANDS DOWN, BEST GAME EVER
My first PSU-PITT game, transfered here as a Junior.
Penn State had a 45 point lead at halftime, and the crowd was screaming for an onside kick when PSU kicked off to start the second half.
I did not understand then.
I now know.
PSU 65 PITT 9
We did not score enough.
For The Glory!
Elizabeth, the only person on earth working at the same job longer than JoePa.
by joefromboalsburg on Aug 17, 2009 10:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Sounds like a great game
But it was 1968. Just sayin’, unless cfbdatawarehouse is wrong.
by PSUisMyHeart on Aug 17, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Out of all the games that you've actually been to
That’s the one you picked. Shit.
"far less knowledgeable than the average poster here"
by jesse. on Aug 18, 2009 8:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Suck it, joefromboalsburg
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 18, 2009 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Age Related Mistake
Sorry about the 68/69 dyslexia.
This is an Age-Related problem.
Oh, to be 50 again!
Elizabeth, the only person on earth working at the same job longer than JoePa.
by joefromboalsburg on Aug 17, 2009 10:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I picked 2005 tOSU, and I'll never forgive myself for why I didn't go
My dad had gotten tickets for this game, and I was going to go with him. I was a senior in HS, I hadn’t gotten accepted to PSU yet, but knew when the offer came, there was no way I wasn’t going to be a Lion, I applied to other places simply to appease my parents who wanted me to at least apply to more than one place (side note, I was incredibly depressed when I didn’t get into main campus, but accepted the branch offer anyway).
So then someone in my family comes to the realization that I’m scheduled to take the Zugging SATs that Saturday, and now I can’t go, and my sister takes my place. So not only am I not going to this game, I’m stuck in a classroom taking the SATs for 6 freaking hours. After it was over, I met up with some friends from HS, we went out for lunch, and then hung out at somebody’s house later that night. The SATs must have drained any logical thought I had left, because I had completely forgotten about the game, and didn’t even get to watch it. I’ve regretted a lot of things so far in my 21 years, but this is way up there on the list. So, I would hands down go to this game, finally healing a deep painful wound that’s plagued me for three years. Zug dammit, I hate the SATs.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 18, 2009 12:08 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I would've just rescheduled the SATs
by The JuggerNitt on Aug 18, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Unfortunately it was already paid for, and the parents would not have let me blow it off.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 18, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
so
has your sister ever rubbed it in? man, what an awful situation! seriously, when your dad got home, did he ask about how you did on the SAT?
man, they owe you BIG. how could your ’rents not know how pivotal that game was gonna be? history will not remember your performance on that damnable test.
"They stalk their prey to within two or three great leaps and then launch a lightning-fast charge, striking their prey. Victims are most often killed by suffocation with a prolonged bite..."--Hinterland Who's Who
by afields16 on Aug 21, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dawson’s sister who likes to rub “it” in sounds hot…
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2009 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Your loss Rambler, I know what she looks like
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 21, 2009 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah?
Well your named after Dawson’s Creek, so whatever.
Rambler always wins.
Be back next monday…
DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2009 9:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Honestly, the SATs drained so much out of me
I can’t even remember if she said anything to me, and probably wouldn’t have cared at that point. Luckily my dad did get tickets for a second game (granted it was Purdue), so I took two friends of mine up with me, so at least I got to be a part of seeing the PSU redemption unfold that season.
Even worse though, I improved my score by all of about ten points, so me taking it a second time and missing that game was totally pointless.
I think I’m squared away with my parents, they’ve graciously allowed me to use one of their four seats for season tickets the past two years when I wasn’t able to get student tickets.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 21, 2009 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great idea for Poll - 1987 Fiesta Bowl wins in my book
This was a great game and unfortunately one I missed. Seeing the Blue and White shut down Vinnie with 5 interceptions in person would have been fantastic!
Go Joe!
by joepa76 on Aug 18, 2009 6:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Just sayin
In the poll, the 83 sugar bowl and 82 championship game are the same thing.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 18, 2009 7:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Unless he meant the Clemson-Nebraska game in the 1982 Orange Bowl
I doubt it though.
by Cairo on Aug 18, 2009 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
good catch
i was just scrolling through the comments and doing a copy/paste and didn’t catch that
by WPIALkid22 on Aug 18, 2009 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Tough choice
between ’81 Pitt, ’87 Fiesta Bowl, ’05 OSU. I would lean toward the Fiesta Bowl.
by Joe 96alum on Aug 18, 2009 1:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Which begs the question:
Do you want to see an epic struggle? Or complete smackdown of a historic titan ala Ohio State, USC in 1994?
by Mr. Rosewater on Aug 22, 2009 6:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
IMO
I’d rather watch a defensive battle for a win, a la 13-6, than a complete beat down on the 1994 tOSU scale.
by dawsonPSU10 on Aug 23, 2009 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The problem with the beatdown
When you beat a team 63-14, rather than being impressed with your dominance, the pundits tend to lean toward pointing out how bad of a pretender your opponent must be. All I remember hearing throughout the 1994 season was how easy Penn State’s schedule was.
Imagine going undefeated and beating USC, Ohio State, and Michigan and not being declared the National Champion. But that’s what happened in 1994.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
by BSD on Aug 24, 2009 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
2001 Ohio State
Joe beat the Bear. Historical Game….Bright spot in the “dark years”……Plus I was able to tip back a few for my 30th birthday….
Those kids could have quit in that game, never gave up.
by jbolt1971 on Aug 26, 2009 2:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Are you Usain's Uncle?
"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69
by jtothep on Aug 27, 2009 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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