Anybody remember the Hurricane Bowl? Bama vs A&M

I don't remember the game, but I remember looking at past schedules and wondering why the hell Alabama closed out the season with Texas A&M. Wasn't A&M pissed about the game being pushed back so late?

I remember it clearly. The hurricane weakened and became a non issue, and Curry caught a lot of flack for postponing the game.

When he made the decision four days before gametime, though, it was the most intense hurricane ever recorded. Can't really fault him.

They awarded a pretty nifty carved hurricane trophy after the game, if I recall correctly.

wasn't that hurricane gilbert?

I believe this was Jackie Sherrill's last game as the coach for Texas A&M. Jackie had a hard time keeping the Aggies off probation.

I don't remember that, but I do remember the "Hurricane Bowl" we played vs Virginia Tech in Blacksburg in 2002. The game was played during a tropical storm/borderline hurricane 1, and the winds were so strong that punts basically went straight up and down. I think one might have actually gone backwards.

Derrick Thomas, third and long.....

Remember it well. Curry caught alot of crap over it and Derrick Thomas went off with 5 sacks.

I do remember that year. I was a student at A&M then, and this was the year Jackie set the schedule up to win it all or crash and burn. We crashed and burned.

1988 record: 7-5

We started the season with the kick off classic versus Nebraska in the Meadowlands. The only bright spot was when the cannon went off, when the team ran on the field for pregame ceremonies, it formed a perfect smoke ring that stayed intact until it rose out the Meadowlands Stadium and broke up. We lost. I thought it was a blow out, but I guess not. Felt like one.

We visited LSU the next game. The fans welcomed us the right way. Wow are they into it. I'm impressed. We lost.

We then went to Oklahoma State. Barry Sanders had around 200 yards against us, but Darren Lewis had more. How does that happen and the score ends up being 52-15? 0-3 to start the season.

The only other bright spot was we went to Austin and won. Jackie was 7-3 vs the other in state school. Not too bad.

After the hurricane stuff Alabama came calling and we lost. What could have been.... I hope 2012 isn't a repeat with LSU & Alabama, but I'm not putting real money on A&M this year.

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I remember it well. The storm was in the Gulf and I think it finally landed in Florida.

It was a beautiful day in College Station...in fact it never rained weeks before or after the game.

It also should be noted that Alabama had several players on the injured list during that period.

Curry and his team were chicken.

Hurricanes don't do that much damage 150 miles from the coast.

By the time we played in December the Alabama players were healthy and the Aggies had several that were injured.

I think I remember Finebaum saying something about the cancelled game on his radio program several months ago. I believed he traveled to College Station before he found out the came was postponed.

Are you guys actually defending Curry? Really? He was wrong to cancel it on his own and yes Alabama had a lot of injuries. TAMU wanted to play the game.