re: Your favorite moment as a fan

FG going through in AZ. Biggest exhale of my life.

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Mine is kind of a weird one because it is a game we lost. In 96 and 97 I was deployed and our mail got xrayed so nobody could send us video tapes. So my Dad went to all the games and wrote down every play and would send me the notebooks. In 97 we played Florida in Jordan-Hare and one of the guys sitting near Dad asked him what he was doing. He was like, "We always see you writing everything down." and Dad explained it was for his son overseas in the army. So the guy asked if he could write the next play. He did and put a little note on it wishing me well. That notebook got passed around the whole section and each play was written by a different person with a note. I think some of the people were even Florida fans. When you're deployed you feel like the whole world has forgotten about you and I can't put into words what it felt like to receive that notebook.

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I need a bigger upvote button.

Wow, I'm really surprised by all the responses. Thanks everyone. My father is still with us. He's an 82 year old Vietnam Vet redneck that graduated from Auburn with his masters after the war in 72. The notebooks (a few games from the 96 season and all of 97) along with most of my army memorabilia (signed flags from various countries, etc) were lost when I got in a car wreck while I was moving a long time ago.

My youngest nephew and I actually moved a couch to my parent's house Saturday and I showed him all the responses to my post. Neither he or I had thought about it in years. He might have gotten a little misty and it gave us a reason to tell the nephew that story. For real everyone, thanks for the responses. It was a good day.