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  1. TheMatador

    Your story on how you became a can fan

    I used to have that great state championship game for Jessie's senior year. I think Carter beat Odessa Permian Basin. When I went to one of the Sugar Bowls, I think at end of '89 season, spoke to a souvenir vendor from Dallas. He'd seen a lot more of Jesse than I had. I remember he said, "Jessie...
  2. TheMatador

    Your story on how you became a can fan

    I heard a lot of guys from that era never showed. Some years back, I met a guy who was a graduate instructor. Taught an introductory math class. Had two football players who never showed. He ended up flunking them. He never had a football player in his class again. That was from around that...
  3. TheMatador

    Your story on how you became a can fan

    That's the best place to go.
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    Your story on how you became a can fan

    And Miami before that was nice...smaller, less crowded, for people my parents'age there was great entertainment in the '40's and '50's. Weather was great, if you were tired of snow, ice and cold up north. It got bad I guess years after we moved away in '63. That's when violence, drugs and crime...
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    Your story on how you became a can fan

    That makes me love going to Ann Arbor in '88 even more. We were down something like 16 points with 5-1/2 minutes left in game and we came back and won. There were like 104,000 people in the stadium and the **** band was playing that **** Michigan fight song the whole game. I think it's called...
  6. TheMatador

    Your story on how you became a can fan

    Learned it from my father, who went to UM in the forties, I think. He had season tickets in the early '50's. I think my first game was us beating Bama in the OB in '55. Future NFL legend Bart Starr was Alabama back-up QB as a senior. That's how screwed up Alabama coaching was at the time. My...
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