Article - It Was No Picnic In The Big Apple

[Mr_Twister]

Recently received an email from a friend whose brother-in-law is named after Bear Bryant. The brother-in-law's Dad (Darrell Brown) was one of the Junction Boys. The email got me thinking back to the Alabama/Rutgers game at the Meadowlands in 1980. Here is a wonderful Sports Illustrated article on the game, which includes Rutgers coach Frank Burns frank admission that he made a mistake not going for a two-point conversion after an Albert Ray TD.

http://www.si.com/vault/1980/10/20/...-pesky-rutgers-nearly-spoiled-the-tides-party

 

[BoroKnight]

I remember reading that story and feeling stupid that I didn't think about going for two at the time. I mean, I was 14, but still ...

Three things I remember about SI in those days: the report on RU winning the Holiday Festival in -- what? -- 1978, the story about the loss to Alabama, and a brief exerpt they printed from my letter bitching about Rutgers not being projected to make the NCAAs in 1982-83.

 

[shields]

Boroknight, is your name Tom?

 

[brodo]

Three things I remember about SI in those days: ..

The one thing I remember reading in SI in the 80s was a quick blurb about the current college football season. They said "This year Team A defeated Team B and Team B defeated Team C, etc all the way down the line for about 10 - 15 teams. At the end they said Team M defeated team A. Rutgers was Team A.

 

[beaced]

There was electricity in the air that day at the Meadowlands.RU played a great team and gave them more than they expected. Much more. I had talked a bunch of guys, that I lifted with,into coming to the game. All of them thanked me for a great FB experience.I wasn't at the 'Ville game in '06 so for me this had to be the highest voltage of my ,live game, watching experience.

 

[Friend of 112]

Ironically, I found this same article over the weekend while trying to find "the sleeping giant" quotes from that era.
I attended this game after the morning Pop Warner practice, and recall the pouring rain on the ride up and throughout the first half.
Dang, if Tim Odell had longer fingers.
And the next week I was in Piscataway for the William and Mary debacle...

 

[shields]

Can't believe we lost to William and mary.

 

[RUinBoston]

Recently received an email from a friend whose brother-in-law is named after Bear Bryant. The brother-in-law's Dad (Darrell Brown) was one of the Junction Boys. The email got me thinking back to the Alabama/Rutgers game at the Meadowlands in 1980. Here is a wonderful Sports Illustrated article on the game, which includes Rutgers coach Frank Burns frank admission that he made a mistake not going for a two-point conversion after an Albert Ray TD.

http://www.si.com/vault/1980/10/20/...-pesky-rutgers-nearly-spoiled-the-tides-party

Wow...players spoke in very articulate, complicated sentences back then.