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...The old Gotham Bowl...Dec 4, 1962...We lost 36-34 to Nebraska, a wild one. The great George Mira threw for 321 yards and a couple of touchdowns.
The weather: 14 degrees.
The crowd: 6,600. (A newspaper strike killed any chance of publicity in NYC.)
I was supposed to go but pops said we couldn’t go because of the weather. (Years later, I found out he went without me.)
Funny: The Bowl couldn’t find an opponent for us until Nebraska agreed to play — IF it got a big chunk of the money up front right away.
That was the last Gotham Bowl...
 
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This will be our first time in the new Yankee stadium, the old stadium was torn down in 08-09.
 
We’ve had great qbs but Mira was the most exciting. He was one of the original scramblers. It was always an adventure.
Though he hailed from Key West, the cold didn’t affect him...
A quarter century later, his son, George Jr., played a mean MLB for us in our glory years.
 
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Martycane said:
...The old Gotham Bowl...Dec 4, 1962...We lost 36-34 to Nebraska, a wild one. The great George Mira threw for 321 yards and a couple of touchdowns.
The weather: 14 degrees.
The crowd: 6,600. (A newspaper strike killed any chance of publicity in NYC.)
I was supposed to go but pops said we couldn’t go because of the weather. (Years later, I found out he went without me.)
Funny: The Bowl couldn’t find an opponent for us until Nebraska agreed to play — IF it got a big chunk of the money up front right away.
That was the last Gotham Bowl...
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Funny I was born the next day.
 
Martycane said:
We’ve had great qbs but Mira was the most exciting. He was one of the original scramblers. It was always an adventure.
Though he hailed from Key West, the cold didn’t affect him...
A quarter century later, his son, George Jr., played a mean MLB for us in our glory years.
Click to expand...

Do you remember the great Craig Cogsden???
 
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We would have won the game, but Hoyt Sparks was wide open on a pass that would have scored for UM only to slip on a patch of ice. I remember the game well, it was a heartbreaker to lose.
 
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