Did you watch BYU vs. Michigan in 1984 live on TV?

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I'm so grateful that I was able to watch that. Flashing "national champions" I think it was, in a ghetto graphic block-letters. Bosco limping around. So much at stake. All the build up with Bo Schembechler mouthing off. Barry Switzer whining and crying about BYU the whole season.

Thank you God, for making me a Mormon, a BYU fan, and letting me be alive and mentally cogent to take in 1984 and remember it til now.

When I die, I know "1984" will be on my lips before I slip away.

This is impressive. You would have been about 10 years old (or younger) when this happened. Add to that the fact that you were basically the only sports fan in your family and it is all the more impressive. I don't know too many primary kids that follow college football enough all season to note that Barry Switzer was whining and crying and that Bo Schembechler was mouthing off. Most primary kids today probably couldnt name the coach of any football team besides their local one, let alone coaches from around the country.

Again, thanks for sharing this impressive story.

This got me thinking about the time I was in Hershey Pennsylvania and I went to check out Wilt Chamberlain against the Knicks. Something really cool happened that night at the game.....

[yankeecoug]

Hate on me all you want yall but if 1984 was the highlight of your lives then suicide might be the answer...

[ERCougar]

I was 10 and I remember it well. (Sorry DDD, there ARE primary kids who follow football...I remember all the Barry Switzer comments, the Bryant Gumbel "Bo Diddley Tech" comment, etc. I remember Don James suddenly switching from "BYU deserves to be NC" to "No, they don't...we do") I grew up going to all the games, but the first year I really remember was 1983. My first really big BYU memory was the Young-Stinnett-Young pass that won the Holiday Bowl. I also remember the tipped pass ending to the Orange Bowl which won the championship for Miami. I also remember thinking how cool it would be if BYU could someday be national champions. The next year they were.

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by ERCougar

I was 10 and I remember it well. (Sorry DDD, there ARE primary kids who follow football...I remember all the Barry Switzer comments, the Bryant Gumbel "Bo Diddley Tech" comment, etc. I remember Don James suddenly switching from "BYU deserves to be NC" to "No, they don't...we do") I grew up going to all the games, but the first year I really remember was 1983. My first really big BYU memory was the Young-Stinnett-Young pass that won the Holiday Bowl. I also remember the tipped pass ending to the Orange Bowl which won the championship for Miami. I also remember thinking how cool it would be if BYU could someday be national champions. The next year they were.

If I wasn't so cold when Stinnet hit Young I think I would have ejaculated. I was only 11 at the time.

BYU football has been very, very good to us. The great part is that when we, or at least I, thought that the memories were dead and our kids would never understand what it was that addicted us so, along comes Bronco....and it appears to me that great moments and memories may continue to await us!

Allah Akbar!

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by yankeecoug

Hate on me all you want yall but if 1984 was the highlight of your lives then suicide might be the answer...

You deserve to die a horrible death.

[CJF]

Originally Posted by yankeecoug

Hate on me all you want yall but if 1984 was the highlight of your lives then suicide might be the answer...

Well, I was half right. You are a dick, but I guess you're an annoying ass too.

[Clark Addison]

The 1984 Holiday Bowl was only the second time I watched a BYU foootball game in any way. I went to see Jimmy Mac beat Wisconsin live in Madison in 1980, but BYU didn't show up often (ever) on TV in the 80s if you lived East of the Mississippi and didn't have cable (I don't think they showed up on cable either, but it was a moot point for us). For the 1984 game, a bunch of people in the ward rented a conference room at the local Marriott and had the game piped in on whatever channel it was on. I was in high school at the time, and it cemented my fandom. I had seen one game previously; since that time, with the exception of my mission, I've probably seen over 90% (which was a lot harder in the early 90s).

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by yankeecoug

Hate on me all you want yall but if 1984 was the highlight of your lives then suicide might be the answer...

I agree. Just leave a note before you do it.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by ERCougar

I was 10 and I remember it well. (Sorry DDD, there ARE primary kids who follow football...I remember all the Barry Switzer comments, the Bryant Gumbel "Bo Diddley Tech" comment, etc. I remember Don James suddenly switching from "BYU deserves to be NC" to "No, they don't...we do") I grew up going to all the games, but the first year I really remember was 1983. My first really big BYU memory was the Young-Stinnett-Young pass that won the Holiday Bowl. I also remember the tipped pass ending to the Orange Bowl which won the championship for Miami. I also remember thinking how cool it would be if BYU could someday be national champions. The next year they were.

My ten year old has been to the past two Las Vegas Bowl, and watches religiously BYU football. He remembers names of QBs impressively.

While watching every minute of the recent UCLA, which my son recently inquired why I referred to them as fUCLA, he inquired, "Dad, Max Hall was QB against this same team last year right? And Beck was QB when we destroyed the Ducks, right?"

"Right, son."

So not every boy of ten has the IQ of a yankee. If I were a yankee fan, I'd commit suicide too.

[yankeecoug]

Originally Posted by CJF

Well, I was half right. You are a dick, but I guess you're an annoying ass too.

Quit swearing on this board, it aint allowed.