re: What is your first memory of college football?

The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band marching into the stadium for the 1987 Cotton Bowl v. Ohio State.

I had been to a couple earlier that I don't remember, but I remember very well the '65 Cotton Bowl. We were there visiting my Grandparents in Dallas for the Holidays and my Grandfather took all the males in the family who were there, (nine of us), to the game. I just remember it being packed and crazy. I remember Bobby somebody taking a pitch in for the winning TD. I remember the ride home in my Granddad's Caddy listening to the post game on AM radio and how pissed everyone was about the polls and how they "might" end, which indeed they did the next day.

1996 UF over FSU in the sugar bowl
1999 Purdue/Michigan (Tom Brady vs. Drew Brees, my first ever live game)

I remember listening to the games on the radio.

Gusty Yearout and Gary Sanders were AU broadcast team.

Punt Bama Punt in 72 was radio only.

Any bowl game ws a pretty big deal and the big 4 were Orange, Sugar, Cotton, and Rose. Gator was the next best.
What later evolved to the Capitol 1 bowl was the Tangerine Bowl and Miami Ohio ws in it a bunch.

The big bowls were on network TV; the smaller bowls like the Tangerine, Liberty, Peach were on Mislou or Raycom.

I also remember Oklahoma and Nebraska destroying Bama and AU in bowl games after 1971 season.

Lawrence Wright

I can remember games as from when I was real young but few specifics other than the stadium and the general feel. Plus my grandparents typically took me to the shitty OOC games early on when I was a youngin. The first real specific memory I have was in 97 when Georgia beat Florida and how excited everyone was after the game in the motorhome area. People were honking horns and yellin all night, helluva party. I was 7 then.

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When I die I'm having 2 Georgia players, 2 Falcon players, and 2 Braves players lower me in the ground so they can let me down one last time.

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Long ago, in an era far far away, in backwater barefoot Alabama, I was about four years old and I remember my older cousins listening to Alabama play one of the Mississippi schools on a transistor radio one Saturday night. Alabama scored and my cousins were excited. I knew baseball, but had never seen a football game (Didn't have a TV), so I couldn't even imagine what was happening. But it was enough. I became a lifelong Bama fan that night.

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Long ago, in an era far far away, in backwater barefoot Alabama, I was about four years old and I remember my older cousins listening to Alabama play one of the Mississippi schools on a transistor radio one Saturday night. Alabama scored and my cousins were excited. I knew baseball, but had never seen a football game (Didn't have a TV), so I couldn't even imagine what was happening. But it was enough. I became a lifelong Bama fan that night.

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Me and you. We're friends.