As a Rutgers football fan, you know you're old when.....

[knight82]

... you remember that when you were a student at RU, every Rutgers home football game kicked off at 1:00 on Saturday

 

[Zimm80]

When you remember the TE was part of the offense.

 

[knight82]

When you remember the TE was part of the offense.

and the fullback

 

[WasatRutgers]

You could go out for a couple beers at halftime and come back into the game.

 

[Source]

No waiting for TV time outs.

And you could actually talk to your friends without shouting at them over blaring speaker music.

 

[DJ Spanky]

You could go out for a couple beers at halftime and come back into the game.

 

[e5fdny]

Park at ASB for free.

 

[Scarlet16E]

Park as ASB for free.

Park in yellow lot for 2 bucks

 

[rcube1994]

Got splinters in your arse

 

[phs73rc77gsm83]

Pissed on the troughs, and no wait.

 

[rutger80]

You were lucky to find a game on New Jersey Public Broadcasting

 

[knight82]

You were lucky to find a game on New Jersey Public Broadcasting

and for football that was always on tape delay

 

[RUSJ73]

You were at the RU vs Princeton, 100 year anniversary game.

 

[NickRU714]

You attended a home conference game against Miami

 

[bac2therac]

you remember when Harvey Hauptman was the PA Announcer

 

[Mr_Twister]

PA native Scott Erney led Rutgers to a win in State College PA, 21-16. Dick Anderson’s graduate assistant defensive backfield coach Greg Schiano was on the sideline.

 

[knight82]

you remember when Harvey Hauptman was the PA Announcer

I knew Harvey personally. One of the nicest people you will ever meet. God rest his soul

 

[RuSnp]

You could say "meet me in the endzone" and you didn't need to specify which one.

 

[jOmega]

... you remember that when you were a student at RU, every Rutgers home football game kicked off at 1:00 on Saturday

In the 60's, at the beginning of the football season, games would start at 2:00.

 

[Plum Street]

You were at Pitt night game

 

[bac2therac]

You were at Pitt night game

you were dancing on tables at the Knight Club after the Pitt game....what a long warm day of debauchery

 

[hoquat63]

Park in yellow lot for 2 bucks

I remember when the yellow lot was $1 and the red was $2.

 

[Scarlet16E]

I remember when the yellow lot was $1 and the red was $2.

And yellow was what’s now yellow, blue, yurczak, etc.

 

[ScarletNut]

Every campus had a student bar and you could drink beers with your student ID if you were 18 or older

 

[Scarlet Jerry]

You would drive to the store every Friday to buy the Star Ledger to read the weekly fact-based well written story about the football team and the prediction for the upcoming game in Saturday.

 

[BigRnj]

You were there when we gave The Bear a Hell of a Scare.

 

[famousbill19]

You remember sitting in the grass in the corner of the end zone on Homecoming.

 

[thegock]

You were there when we gave The Bear a Hell of a Scare.

True story:

Bryant came into the Rutgers post game locker room and said:

"Boys, we were luckier than a dog with three (eggplant emojis) today."

 

[nutfromSEC117]

Sunday mornings with Pat Scanlan on the play by for NJN along with Mike Mayock as the sideline reporter

 

[NickKnight 1]

You remember the first ever football game between Rutgers
and Princeton.

 

[Arizona Knight]

Got splinters in your arse

Yup. You can’t be an OG if you never experienced the rotted wooden bleachers.

 

[LETSGORU91]

... you remember that when you were a student at RU, every Rutgers home football game kicked off at 1:00 on Saturday

Umm...now we are mostly 12 noon...not much difference

Edit: last year was better but we have been doing TAYLOR HAM, egg and cheese for what seems like forever.

PA native Scott Erney led Rutgers to a win in State College PA, 21-16. Dick Anderson’s graduate assistant defensive backfield coach Greg Schiano was on the sideline.

Yeah, we got that win but he was a little self righteous prick on campus...at least the one interaction I had with him.

 

[G- RUnit]

You remember sitting in the grass in the corner of the end zone on Homecoming.

Getting poison ivy!

 

[LETSGORU91]

.....I tailgate and listen to a certain DJ speak of his heyday revelry in the marching band.

 

[newell138]

You could go out at halftime and drink more beer and come back in to see the rest of the game

 

[e5fdny]

You were lucky to find a game on New Jersey Public Broadcasting

and for football that was always on tape delay

Sunday mornings with *Pat Scanlon on the play by for NJN along with Mike Mayock as the sideline reporter

And you watched the NJN sign off video (🎵New Jersey...🎼) just so you could see the clip of a Rutgers pass TD.

* Very nice guy. An outsider who really wanted Rutgers to do well.

 

[RUBigJ]

Having brunch on the Presidents lawn before the home coming game.

 

[JCin128]

You attended RU first ever bowl game and also attended RU most recent bowl game 45 years later.

 

[rubaseball78]

When you were at the Princeton game where the fans tore down not only both goal posts on the but the nearby practice goal posts so Princeton couldn’t kick the game winning xpoint. Game ended 6-6.

 

[willisneverrana43]

You first started going to games and you could only walk down to your seats..