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<blockquote data-quote="TheChief4Life" data-source="post: 1938794" data-attributes="member: 747708"><p>November 6, 2004 - Indiana at Illinois - Dad’s Day</p><p></p><p>I married into Illinois fandom. My entire wife’s side (except my wife) attended Illinois. My then <em>future</em> father-in-law bought all of the family tickets to the game. It was my first visit to campus, and we spent the morning walking around campus town and my in-laws were very excited to show me around. It was a great morning. But, we dragged our asses too long and wound up getting to the stadium late.</p><p></p><p>As we were getting there, there was a lot of cheering, and I was upset we missed the beginning of the game. It turned out it was a returned kickoff for a TD by Indiana, or a long passing play, or something where Indiana scored immediately, so I didn’t miss anything “good”, but I was frustrated that we showed up late and missed that excitement.</p><p></p><p>anyway, Indiana scored on their first four possessions, and Illinois looked like garbage. But I will always remember Illinois’ 4th quarter was awesome. We scored a TD with about a minute left, and got an interception to seal the deal. We won 26-22.</p><p></p><p>I had such a blast, when my wife and I got married that following July, we got season tickets for the 2006 season.. and haven’t missed a home game since.</p><p></p><p>The beginning of the 2005 season was interesting, too. We won the first games of the season. And the reason I bring that up is my home record for the first three home games of my Illini fandom was 3-0.</p><p></p><p>By the way, if you’re curious, I have never been late to another start of an Illinois football game.</p><p></p><p>I-L-L</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheChief4Life, post: 1938794, member: 747708"] November 6, 2004 - Indiana at Illinois - Dad’s Day I married into Illinois fandom. My entire wife’s side (except my wife) attended Illinois. My then [I]future[/I] father-in-law bought all of the family tickets to the game. It was my first visit to campus, and we spent the morning walking around campus town and my in-laws were very excited to show me around. It was a great morning. But, we dragged our asses too long and wound up getting to the stadium late. As we were getting there, there was a lot of cheering, and I was upset we missed the beginning of the game. It turned out it was a returned kickoff for a TD by Indiana, or a long passing play, or something where Indiana scored immediately, so I didn’t miss anything “good”, but I was frustrated that we showed up late and missed that excitement. anyway, Indiana scored on their first four possessions, and Illinois looked like garbage. But I will always remember Illinois’ 4th quarter was awesome. We scored a TD with about a minute left, and got an interception to seal the deal. We won 26-22. I had such a blast, when my wife and I got married that following July, we got season tickets for the 2006 season.. and haven’t missed a home game since. The beginning of the 2005 season was interesting, too. We won the first games of the season. And the reason I bring that up is my home record for the first three home games of my Illini fandom was 3-0. By the way, if you’re curious, I have never been late to another start of an Illinois football game. I-L-L [/QUOTE]
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