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<blockquote data-quote="chiefini" data-source="post: 1938812" data-attributes="member: 11271"><p>I went to my first game in Memorial Stadium as a junior in high school with my dad to visit my brother who was a sophomore at Illinois. It was the fall of 1968, and Notre Dame absolutely poured it on to kill a hapless Illini team 58-8. That’s one of the reasons I hate Notre Dame. I fell in love with the Chief, the Illinois campus, and the Greek life (my brother was a Phi Psi) that day, and I never even applied anywhere else. I ended up trying out for and making the woman‘s basketball team my freshman year, but I tore all the ligaments in my ankle and was unable to finish the season. I bought season football and basketball tickets during new student week my freshman year and then the next three years as well. I met my future husband (whose dad was a very, very good Illini basketball player) at Second Chance our senior year; that meeting will be 50 years ago on September 25. My love for Illinois only grew. We again have season football tickets (after having them for 35 years, we gave them up 2019-2022 but still went to 3-4 games a year), and we get to as many basketball games as we can. I am officially a fanatic, and gosh, I’m old…</p><p><img src="/inc/illinois.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":illinois:" title="Illinois :illinois:" data-shortname=":illinois:" /> <img src="/inc/alma-mater-1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":alma-mater:" title="Alma Mater :alma-mater:" data-shortname=":alma-mater:" /><img src="/inc/chief.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":chief:" title="Chief :chief:" data-shortname=":chief:" /><img src="/inc/memorial-stadium.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ms:" title="Memorial Stadium :ms:" data-shortname=":ms:" /><img src="/inc/hailtotheorange-1.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hailtotheorange:" title="Hail to the Orange :hailtotheorange:" data-shortname=":hailtotheorange:" /><img src="/inc/the-assembly-hall.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":ah:" title="The Assembly Hall :ah:" data-shortname=":ah:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chiefini, post: 1938812, member: 11271"] I went to my first game in Memorial Stadium as a junior in high school with my dad to visit my brother who was a sophomore at Illinois. It was the fall of 1968, and Notre Dame absolutely poured it on to kill a hapless Illini team 58-8. That’s one of the reasons I hate Notre Dame. I fell in love with the Chief, the Illinois campus, and the Greek life (my brother was a Phi Psi) that day, and I never even applied anywhere else. I ended up trying out for and making the woman‘s basketball team my freshman year, but I tore all the ligaments in my ankle and was unable to finish the season. I bought season football and basketball tickets during new student week my freshman year and then the next three years as well. I met my future husband (whose dad was a very, very good Illini basketball player) at Second Chance our senior year; that meeting will be 50 years ago on September 25. My love for Illinois only grew. We again have season football tickets (after having them for 35 years, we gave them up 2019-2022 but still went to 3-4 games a year), and we get to as many basketball games as we can. I am officially a fanatic, and gosh, I’m old… :illinois: :alma-mater::chief::ms::hailtotheorange::ah: [/QUOTE]
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