Favorite game that you DID NOT attend...

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bugboy

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Maybe a game that you had tickets for, but due to unforeseen circumstances you missed, and now you hate that you missed it...

I've got 3:
1998 Tech-Clemson - Had tickets. Mother in law died a few days before the game and we were dealing with funeral arrangements and such. Tech's first win in DV since 1989, but I missed it.

1988 Tech-USC - Was a student. Decided not to go because I was sure that undefeated, #7 ranked USC would kill us. Went to Helen for Octoberfest instead. When I heard that we beat them, I started kicking myself...and I'm still kicking myself 14 years later.

1998 Tech-UVA - My Clemson grad wife really wanted to go see FSU-Clemson, so we went down to Tally instead to see Clemson lose 48-0. I should have given her a car, a full tank of gas and 150 bucks and waved bye-bye as she head south and I headed north. Oh well. Live and learn.
 
Only one I know I could have gone to but voluntarily didn't was the 2000 Clemson game, with Watkins making the Catch. My friends went, wanted me to go, but I declined because I had a date with my girlfriend.

I watched the game at home and my roommates came to see what I was screaming about when we won.
 
I would say UVA in '90. I remember the furious second half comeback and just knowing the Shawn Jones and Co. would find a way to score points. When Sisson lined up for the kick, it seemed as if time had slowed down and I had such complete and udder joy as it went through the uprights.

Same season--the Citrus Bowl against Nebraska. I have never been so confident that we were going to win as I was that day. The multiple TD's early on made it easy to really enjoy the rest of the game.

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Same two games for me, GT98.

I was dating a girl the fall of 1990, and we planned to go up to UVa together. Wouldn't you know it, we broke up about a week before the game and she had the tickets! I ended up watching on TV and remember Lesley Visser at halftime saying that UVa was going to extend the lead and blow us out. Oops!

I watched the Citrus Bowl from the room I rented in Detroit during my co-op quarter. I had to start work the day after the game, so I couldn't make it down and back in time.

GO JACKETS!!!
 
Well, add me to the 1990 UVa list. I choose to go to UVa, and we lose 39-38 to a crappy team
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And believe it or not, I missed the 1985 Uga game, because I had to work. We stayed open late that Saturday night, and I had no choice. One of the greatest games at BDS@HGF. Maybe not "great" game, but a "great" win.

Worst feeling after a game you've attended? Well, though the following three losses were "tough" and the most difficult:

1987 vs Auburn
1992 vs FSU
1997 vs Uga

.....the worst "feeling" was the 1989 Home Opener vs UVa. We lost after fumbling down around the UVa 5 yard line with a chance to tie with a TD late in the 4th quarter. It extended our ACC winless streak to something like 17, and I honestly did not think we'd ever win an ACC game again. We were just done. Things really turned around quickly though
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Wow, bugboy, you missed some great games in Tech history. Hopefully you'll make all the ones that are yet to come!!
 
1990 UVA

and .. going back a ways...

1974 UGA game... Tech dominated in the mud... I listened to this game on a car radio... needless to say, I didnt leave the car... I sat in that thing for 3 hours enjoying every minute of it... (I would have driven around but wasnt old enough to drive !!)
 
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