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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Turgidson" data-source="post: 1199489" data-attributes="member: 174344"><p>Sept 6, 1980 vs. NU my sophomore year. My older brother was a Northwestern grad and came down from Chicago. It was the first game of the Mike White era. We won 35-9. I think that equaled the number of points scored in all of 1979 (kidding...sort of).</p><p></p><p>And just to jump on the 1983 bandwagon...my buddies talked me into Block I that year. We road tripped to Miznoz...and lost. It felt like 'here we go again'. But then we ran the table. I helped tear down the south goal posts after beating OSU (I was hanging onto one of the uprights). It seemed like the greatest thing in the world...until they started coming down. Then I realized I was holding onto a giant aluminum tube that picked up a lot of momentum, right up until the point we landed on the people below. The poor guy underneath me. I also stormed the field after Michigan, when Bo had a couple of his linemen clearing a path and mowing down fans on his way off the field. Sadly, we had to end it on a sour note in Pasadena, but what a year</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Turgidson, post: 1199489, member: 174344"] Sept 6, 1980 vs. NU my sophomore year. My older brother was a Northwestern grad and came down from Chicago. It was the first game of the Mike White era. We won 35-9. I think that equaled the number of points scored in all of 1979 (kidding...sort of). And just to jump on the 1983 bandwagon...my buddies talked me into Block I that year. We road tripped to Miznoz...and lost. It felt like 'here we go again'. But then we ran the table. I helped tear down the south goal posts after beating OSU (I was hanging onto one of the uprights). It seemed like the greatest thing in the world...until they started coming down. Then I realized I was holding onto a giant aluminum tube that picked up a lot of momentum, right up until the point we landed on the people below. The poor guy underneath me. I also stormed the field after Michigan, when Bo had a couple of his linemen clearing a path and mowing down fans on his way off the field. Sadly, we had to end it on a sour note in Pasadena, but what a year [/QUOTE]
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