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Your first FSU Game Memory?

Season opener in 1964 at the OB. We lost 14-0 on two Steve Tensi to Fred Biletnikoff pass plays of roughly 15 yds each. Fred B caught 9 balls for 165 in that game, including the 2 TDs. A consensus AA that season. FSU had 353 yds total offense, we managed 180. Attendance was 51,600 (capacity was 70,000). Those 51,000+ were, however, real people, actually in the stadium. No daytime games at all back then.

We started Fred's bro, Bob, at QB. His first game ever and he was 6-26 for 79 yds with an Int. Future Raider great Pete Banaszak and the often-injured, future Charger Russell Smith were in the backfield with him, running Charlie Tate's "Sprint Option." It was Tate's first game as HC as well.

Thanks to ex-Coach Gustafson's Pitt ties, we had more players from Western Pa than from South Fla. Not a bad area to draw so heavily from! He missed on Joe Namath though.

Not one African-American on the field for either team. That would be another 4 seasons for UM before Ray Bellamy took the field in green, white and gold (no orange on UM uni's back then).
 
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Don’t know why but I always have in memory the Jacory Harris game I think in 08 or 09 where they drove down the field on us to try to win the game but the QB threw low and their WR couldn’t hang on. Was a good win and was watching with a mixed crowd in high school so it was a lot of fun.
 
I vaguely recall 86 game but the 87 game was the first one that was seared into my memory banks as a kid.
 
Wide Right I was probably my oldest Miami - FSU memory.

The most memorable game was 2003 Sean Taylor vs FSU in the rain. He could've had 5 interceptions that game.
 
1998 was my first one but I don't remember it. 2000 is the first one I remember - mainly how crazy the place got when Shockey caught the TD pass. That was my first experience where I thought the OB was going to fall to the ground.

First time in Doak was 2003 - Sean Taylor had 2 picks and a pick 6.
 
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d--1 said:
first one I remember watching was wide right 1.
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Ditto… I was just a kid watching the game by myself on our crappy tv with the old analog *****. For some reason I was super nervous and doing some superstitious **** to get the juju going. Super happy after the field goal went wide right (although even on tv I thought it might have been good).

My first game in attendance was after graduating college and going to wide left in 2000. When Shockey caught the game winner that good ol OB … that place was rockin! Awesome experience
 
Since I'm so old, the one that stands out to me was the Jim Burt block in the 1980 game. I was at a party at someone from Miramar's house somewhere west of Flamingo when there was nothing out there. We were all drinking and watching the game, and we all went nuts when Burt blocked the pass on a two point conversion. Everyone except for the Noles fans there, we just celebrated in their faces.

Good times.
 
cf3000 said:
Since I'm so old, the one that stands out to me was the Jim Burt block in the 1980 game. I was at a party at someone from Miramar's house somewhere west of Flamingo when there was nothing out there. We were all drinking and watching the game, and we all went nuts when Burt blocked the pass on a two point conversion. Everyone except for the Noles fans there, we just celebrated in their faces.

Good times.
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There wasn’t much west of University Dr back then. Flamingo was in the boonies.
 
The very first Miami v FSU game that I can vividly remember is the 2000 Wide Right III game with Shockey's TD catch and Munyon missing the FG, I was 10 yrs old. Before that the very first Hurricanes game I can really remember is when Edgerrin James ran wild on UCLA and we upset them.
 
423Hurricane said:
There wasn’t much west of University Dr back then. Flamingo was in the boonies.
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We had to use Pembroke Rd to get there, Miramar Pkwy ended at the bowling alley on 37th. Those lanes aren't there anymore. Pembroke Rd, left on Flamingo, look for the dirt road on the right, cross a canal, find their driveway, drive a ways to a big house. Parties there all the time. You could drive fast out there in those days, there was never any traffic.
 
Firesite said:
First time watching FSU vs miami was 2002 I was in 5th grade.

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That's a good one. I was in college and we call that the fainting game. WEZers passing out every-cot****-where. People were buying lemon icees just to melt them and try to stay hydrated. Mcgahee screen, of course. But, Maddox and Jones (especially) ran an unexpected train on us that scorching *** day.
 
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Wide Right 2. I was a little kid and my neighbor was a store manager at Publix who always was given a bunch of tickets. He took my brother and me along with his kids and it was awesome.
 
The 1989 game. Even though I’d been watching and going to games since the end of the 1987 NC season, I didn’t know who FSU was. In the 1989 preseason I remember watching an FSU pre game show and noticing how ugly their jerseys were.
 
hotshot said:
Season opener in 1964 at the OB. We lost 14-0 on two Steve Tensi to Fred Biletnikoff pass plays of roughly 15 yds each. Fred B caught 9 balls for 165 in that game, including the 2 TDs. A consensus AA that season. FSU had 353 yds total offense, we managed 180. Attendance was 51,600 (capacity was 70,000). Those 51,000+ were, however, real people, actually in the stadium. No daytime games at all back then.

We started Fred's bro, Bob, at QB. His first game ever and he was 6-26 for 79 yds with an Int. Future Raider great Pete Banaszak and the often-injured, future Charger Russell Smith were in the backfield with him, running Charlie Tate's "Sprint Option." It was Tate's first game as HC as well.

Thanks to ex-Coach Gustafson's Pitt ties, we had more players from Western Pa than from South Fla. Not a bad area to draw so heavily from! He missed on Joe Namath though.

Not one African-American on the field for either team. That would be another 4 seasons for UM before Ray Bellamy took the field in green, white and gold (no orange on UM uni's back then).
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Learned more from reading this post than I have on here all week. Thanks.
 
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