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re: Do you remember the first football game you ever saw?
Posted on 9/26/23 at 8:40 am to JayAg
Posted on 9/26/23 at 8:40 am to JayAg
1972 Clemson / GT at Grant Field. I had watched some games kind of half assed on TV prior to this but this was the first time I ever saw a game in person. My mom and dad were getting a divorce at the time and my dad got the tickets from an uncle who sold souvenirs at Tech and UGA games (this was back in the day when you could do that sort of thing). I was STOKED! Spending the day with my dad was good enough but going to see a game live? Forget about it. We got there early, of course, and went to the Varsity and it was ALIVE with football fans in Yellow and Orange. We walked to the stadium through the folks tailgating and I knew we were doing something special. We found my uncle's stand and he gave me a GT penant (penants were required back in the day) and we entered the stadium...I as amped up. We made our way to our seats...mid-field, lower level about halfway up the stands. Perfect seats. Went to our seats...and both of the seats we had were dead center of an i-beam about a foot in front of us...could not see anything on the field except for the back of the end zone at both ends. Bobby Dodd Stadium, as it is called today, was a shite hole then...even at 7 years of age I knew that an engineer who could not build a stadium without I-beams blocking the view of the field was an engineer who had gone to a shitty school. About 2 weeks later my Dad and I listened to Larry Munson call the UGA / UK game from Lexington KY, which seemed like the most exotic place on earth to me LOL, while crappie fishing....UGA won that game and Munson was in typical form and I have been a UGA fan ever since. I think my Dad kicked the GT habit that same weekend.
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