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Originally Posted by tonyg
As I've been over before with Ol' Sparty over there,  I'm a Michigan fan, have been since birth. Actually, maybe shortly after that, since Woody Hayes punching that kid from Clemson in the '78 (or was it '77) Gator Bowl was my dad's last straw of any kind of respect for Ohio State. After that, it was all Big Blue!!!
I graduated from Bowling Green State University, who has finally brought their football program back from the depths and have had VERY good teams the past 3 or 4 years, including an 8-1 record vs. BCS schools (and had the ball in OSU's territory with a minute left, down 7 last September) since a 2001 win over Northwestern.
And since we brought up the college hoops thing, does anyone know who won the very first game in MSU's Breslin Center?  |
Ok, I'm going to fall for this bait....I think BGSU beat MSU one year in hoops, but I don't think it was the first game in the Bres, which opened in 1990. Maybe UM won in the first game, as we might have opened it after the preconference schedule was over. I do know for a fact we won the Big 10 that year and was a No. 1 seed for the NCAA b4 we lost the controversial game against Georgia Tech. I tried to do quick search for who won the first game in the Breslin, but didn't find the info. So go ahead tony, fill me in. And like I said, we ended up winning the conference that year and went fairly deep in the big dance, so the old saying that 'it's not how you started, it's how you finish' applies here!!!
One last bit of trivia - Woody punched the guy in the '78 Gator bowl. I remember watching it and saw Hayes punch the guy. Even after the replays, Keith Jackson pretended to not to have seen it as he never commented on Hayes's behavior. But the rest of the country saw it and my mouth dropped to floor in disbelief. And I hated Woody too because he was personally responsible for putting State on probation in 1975 after we beat his greatest team ever in '74. In some ways, we never have totally recovered from that probation.