Memory Lane - 1st State Game Attended/Memories

1992 Thursday night Florida. I was 8. My family had moved relatively close to Starkville that fall (B'ham) and I've never looked back.

First time - 1970 - Texas Tech in Jackson win 20-16 QB Joe Reed picked them apart
First time as a student (freshmen) - 1971 - Florida in Jackson win 13-10.
First loss (many to come) - 1971 - Vandy big time loss 19 - 49. Coming from a successful High School program on the coast this loss was a shocker to this young grasshopper

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Originally Posted by BeastMan

1992 Thursday night Florida. I was 8. My family had moved relatively close to Starkville that fall (B'ham) and I've never looked back.

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Damn, you make me feel old! That was my Sophomore year. That was a wild night!

94 vs Bama. Went with some high school friends & family. Sat on the west side behind some bammers that brought in boxes of tide detergent with toilet paper on top of them. Hated seeing them cheer "roll tide" and wave those things around.

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Originally Posted by oldtrickdawg

1962,school trip...Memphis State beat us fairly soundly with their Italian Stallion fullback just making a freeway up our interior line...Believe that was the first SEC victory ever in football...That part is a little cloudy...Goodly amount of vandalism associated after the game ; think at least one car overturned...Back when men were men and women were proud of it...

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Also my first game. The fullback gave me his chin strap. Hell of a fight when Memphis a State tried to tear down the goal post.

1997 egg bowl it was brutal I was 6....

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Originally Posted by oldtrickdawg

1962,school trip...Memphis State beat us fairly soundly with their Italian Stallion fullback just making a freeway up our interior line...Believe that was the first SEC victory ever in football...That part is a little cloudy...Goodly amount of vandalism associated after the game ; think at least one car overturned...Back when men were men and women were proud of it...

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Also my first game. The fullback gave me his chin strap. Hell of a fight when Memphis a State tried to tear down the goal post.

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Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg

Damn, you make me feel old! That was my Sophomore year. That was a wild night!

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About 2 years ago I told Sleepy that my first game as a kid, I saw him get hurt and has to fight back crying. He said, "If you don't stop, you're going to make me cry". I'll always feel like how we didn't promote Sleepy hurt us bad in that cycle and I'll wish him the best at JSU. Not often you can meet a childhood hero and he be cool as hell in real life.

1998. Jackie Beat Bama 3 years in a row. Dad and I drove over from Tuscaloosa. Got tickets on the east side right next to or in the student section.. a few rows from the top. Loved it.

Steve Grogan was the QB for KSU that day and we won
First Egg Bowl was the same year and beat the Rebs 31-13 in Jackosn

Yes,Dog70, I completely forgot the fight...They did not get the post, though...That emotion spilled into the streets which might explain the vandalism..We were given tickets ,I imagine, as a school group in the cheap seats and most of the section had cleared by the goal post raid, some into the fray...That was a pretty exciting day even for a wide-eyed teenager....

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Originally Posted by SaintDawg

It was 1980 or 1981. We played Navy at Memorial Stadium in Jackson. First time I ever saw fighter jets fly over a stadium for the National Anthem. Scared me to death. I can't remember if we won or lost, but that was my first game, for sure.

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1983

I was at that one! Dawgs won 38-10.

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Originally Posted by Mutt the Hoople

1973- vs. Auburn at Jordan Hare. I was 11, just moved back to Mississippi from North Carolina, and didn't even know there was such a thing as a "Mississippi State". My dad's buddy was going to grad school at Auburn and he had some tickets for us, so we went over.

They said we were playing Mississippi Something or other, I thought they were playing olemiss. That was the game where Rockey Felker broke his leg, and the season went down the shitter from there.

Several things I remember from that game:
-Originally we sat in the South end zone, where it was very cold. At halftime, we walked over to the North End Zone where it was about 30 degrees warmer.
- When Auburn scored a TD and kicked the extra point, some guy wearing an Alabama #20 jersey caught the ball and ran out of the stadium.
-When we moved to the South Side, we sat around a group of students. You could smell the weed.

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I sure though Rocky broke his leg at the LSU game in BR in 1973, I was a freshman at that game.

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Originally Posted by TaleofTwoDogs

First time - 1970 - Texas Tech in Jackson win 20-16 QB Joe Reed picked them apart
First time as a student (freshmen) - 1971 - Florida in Jackson win 13-10.
First loss (many to come) - 1971 - Vandy big time loss 19 - 49. Coming from a successful High School program on the coast this loss was a shocker to this young grasshopper

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1971 MSU vs. Fla in Jackson was my first game, I was a soph. in HS. My buddy in HS's brother an alum. got us tickets. My buddy and I were pissed because we left the game early, because State was getting beat and we had seen a lot of good looking girls at Shakey's Pizza right down the street and we were going back to see if we could meet 'em. We could hear State coming back as we walked outside the stadium.

@Brunswick

That was a helluva night. Partied all night in College Station apartments. I don't think I slept an hour and had to be at work at 8am. Fun night, long Friday. Ha!

Oh and.....La Tech 1980