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skyIdub
BWBW said:
FOTN(M): you don't need to warn us about long posts, only short ones. :cool:
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How I imagine FOTNM at work.....if you replaced the cigarette with Loyalty elite info posts...

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altgeld88
Dan said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1963619317251035193

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Illinois vs. USC Tickets Sold Out - University of Illinois Athletics

Illinois has sold out of three games for the first time since 2008.
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An assignment for @Fighter of the Nightman : have we played USC since the home-and-home games in the mid-'80s and then the Glasnost Bowl scheduled for Moscow in '89, which was relocated to the LA Coliseum and ended up being a nationally-televised epic Illini comeback under Jeff George on Labor Day evening?
 
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Curbelo Fanboy
altgeld88 said:
An assignment for @Fighter of the Nightman : have we played USC since the home-and-home games in the mid-'80s and then the Glasnost Bowl scheduled for Moscow in '89, which was relocated to the LA Coliseum and ended up being a nationally-televised epic Illini comeback under Jeff George on Labor Day evening?
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We played them at home in 1996. A 55-3 drubbing that marked the beginning of the end for the Tepper coach death penalty era. Worst part is USC brought their band & I woke up in a cold sweat hearing that dang fight song for 3 weeks after the game.

On a side note, I remember leaving this game early & listening to the broadcast in the car of the 4th quarter. The Jim Turpin led radio crew was being openly critical of the playcalling (for good reason). After another failed wide receiver screen, I think Grabowski made the comment to the effect they've run that play 25 times today and haven't gained 25 yards with it. I knew then that the broadcast crew had got the high sign from the Guenther that Tepper was not long for the job. It provided some comic relief in an otherwise disasterous performance.
 
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altgeld88
altgeld88 said:
An assignment for @Fighter of the Nightman : have we played USC since the home-and-home games in the mid-'80s and then the Glasnost Bowl scheduled for Moscow in '89, which was relocated to the LA Coliseum and ended up being a nationally-televised epic Illini comeback under Jeff George on Labor Day evening?
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TGB said:
2008 Rose Bowl. I was there.
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Curbelo Fanboy said:
We played them at home in 1996. A 55-3 drubbing that marked the beginning of the end for the Tepper coach death penalty era. Worst part is USC brought their band & I woke up in a cold sweat hearing that dang fight song for 3 weeks after the game.

On a side note, I remember leaving this game early & listening to the broadcast in the car of the 4th quarter. The Jim Turpin led radio crew was being openly critical of the playcalling (for good reason). After another failed wide receiver screen, I think Grabowski made the comment to the effect they've run that play 25 times today and haven't gained 25 yards with it. I knew then that the broadcast crew had got the high sign from the Guenther that Tepper was not long for the job. It provided some comic relief in an otherwise disasterous performance.
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In retrospect, I'm really sorry I asked this question :ROFLMAO:

[EDIT: I'm also glad I wasn't able to follow Illini football from 1992 until 1999. I missed the entire Tepper era and Turner's janitorial work after he arrived.]
 
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Mr. Tibbs
Curbelo Fanboy said:
We played them at home in 1996. A 55-3 drubbing that marked the beginning of the end for the Tepper coach death penalty era. Worst part is USC brought their band & I woke up in a cold sweat hearing that dang fight song for 3 weeks after the game.
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was that before or after they played Tusk with Fleetwood Mac at the Forum ?

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WeWillWhen
Curbelo Fanboy said:
We played them at home in 1996. A 55-3 drubbing that marked the beginning of the end for the Tepper coach death penalty era. Worst part is USC brought their band & I woke up in a cold sweat hearing that dang fight song for 3 weeks after the game.
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Better steel yourself for Homecoming, because USC is sending a pep band. Hopefully the Illini defense will shut them up by giving up few first downs and scores.
 
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altgeld88
TwinCityBreaker said:
As a dyed in the wool band dork, USC band is solid for what they do, in the stands. They had a trumpet player (my instrument) the past couple years who could really get up there. But Marching Illini >> USC all day long as a real Marching band
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I mean... how many stratospherically successful rock bands have hired a university marching band director and his band to score and perform backing music on what was a Top 10 track following on the heels of one of the best-selling albums in popular music history?

For the young'uns here, the background to the making of the album Tusk and this song are a real education in the wretched excess of late-'70s rock and roll. God bless Mick Fleetwood's kids for enduring their father's endless adolescence.

But, yeah: pretty cool to have a marching band on a track like that. I still remember it from the radio in 7th / 8th grade.
 
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Mr. Tibbs
altgeld88 said:
I mean... how many stratospherically successful rock bands have hired a university marching band director and his band to score and perform backing music on what was a Top 10 track following on the heels of one of the best-selling albums in popular music history?

For the young'uns here, the background to the making of the album Tusk and this song are a real education in the wretched excess of late-'70s rock and roll. God bless Mick Fleetwood's kids for enduring their father's endless adolescence.

But, yeah: pretty cool to have a marching band on a track like that. I still remember it from the radio in 7th / 8th grade.
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in the words of Christine McVie on stage that night “ ladies & gentlemen , give it up for the USC Marching Band !!!”

it had to be the ultimate kick for the select members of that band to get the invite for that gig .
 
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SuperMetroid
Curbelo Fanboy said:
We played them at home in 1996. A 55-3 drubbing that marked the beginning of the end for the Tepper coach death penalty era. Worst part is USC brought their band & I woke up in a cold sweat hearing that dang fight song for 3 weeks after the game.

On a side note, I remember leaving this game early & listening to the broadcast in the car of the 4th quarter. The Jim Turpin led radio crew was being openly critical of the playcalling (for good reason). After another failed wide receiver screen, I think Grabowski made the comment to the effect they've run that play 25 times today and haven't gained 25 yards with it. I knew then that the broadcast crew had got the high sign from the Guenther that Tepper was not long for the job. It provided some comic relief in an otherwise disasterous performance.
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This game was on my birthday the year after I graduated but was still living in C-U. My sister was a student and bought us tickets. We actually led 3-0 :ROFLMAO:
 
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Illini2010-11
Fighter of the Nightman said:
I actually get W-A-Y more done on days I get to work from home due to not having to waste so much time sitting in traffic to and from the suburbs, haha. The main value of going in each week is to print a bunch of crap!
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Exactly this. I also work remotely 3 days a week. Only downside is that my organization offers free coffee and I end up consuming too much caffeine on those days.
 
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