Game Day @ Grant Field

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From Scott's Blogspot--Hope he doesn't mind me quoting him. :)

http://www.gtsports.blogspot.com/

Perhaps even bigger news was Herbstreit and Cowherd saying that College Gameday was slated to be broadcast from Grant Field and that it would be a night game, which Herbstreit and everyone at ESPN love televising with the cool surrounding ATL environment. Cowherd said that his show would be broadcast from Atlanta and 680TheFan during the end of that week.

That's the way to get the season started with a bang!
 
By "start with a bang" I hope you don't mean something like "Tech Fans Shot in the Heart Again with Gailey Picking up where he left off last December". That would be cruel!!!
 
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By "start with a bang" I hope you don't mean something like "Tech Fans Shot in the Heart Again with Gailey Picking up where he left off last December". That would be cruel!!!

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Yes, I'm sure he was thinking that exact drawn-out thought you had. /sarcasm off
 
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By "start with a bang" I hope you don't mean something like "Tech Fans Shot in the Heart Again with Gailey Picking up where he left off last December". That would be cruel!!!

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Been around the last 4 years I guess? Can't argue with your thought. It's legit.
 
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By "start with a bang" I hope you don't mean something like "Tech Fans Shot in the Heart Again with Gailey Picking up where he left off last December". That would be cruel!!!

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Nope, not what I meant at all. It means that we will have the national spotlight to do with what we will. I'm leaning towards a bang meaning "shocking the nation in prime-time and putting ourselves back on the map" but thats the negativity oozing out.
 
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Last four years? I saw my first Tech game almost FORTY four years ago.

Tom

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I was pissed as hell leaving the game as was virtually everyone else. Silence. After we lost to A&M that day. 1965. We should've won. A&M was ranked as were we and it was a big game nationally. Grant Field was choked with fans. A classic defensive struggle. A&M beat us on a 4th qtr TD pass right in front of our seats. SW endzone. 14-10. Time left but we couldn't mount a drive and their D stiffened for the win. Like I say everybody was cool to the loss. An unspeakable thing.

You win some you lose some. To A&M's credit they pulled off a big win coming into Atlanta and beating us that year with Coach Dodd on the sideline (can't remember off the top of my head who was coaching for A&M but it would have been within a few years of the Bear). Although they were good we should've won that game! I think John David Crow was an all-american for them then. I might be wrong about that. I havn't researched but they did have a tough team and I believe Crow played for them. I may be way off base.

Still pissed.
 
not sure about this but I think Crow played for Texas Tech. Doesn't really matter though. You made a good post however.
 
Big Buck: John David Crow played for Texas A&M and Bear Bryant. He also was Bear's only Heisman Trophy winner. I believe the year was 1957.
 
Thanks Stateline,I stand corrected. Crow was quite a player and he overcame a disability in that he couldn't close one of his eyes. I can't imagine how he could sleep with one eye open. Thanks again.
 
I think youre remembering Donny Anderson who did play at TT and won the Hiesman, I saw him play Tech in the 65 Gator Bowl. Lenny Snow was our great RB, Anderson went onto play for Lombardi at Green Bay.
 
Negativity oozing...Well that's what watching Tech football under Gailey will do to you. But I still love GT.
 
Gene Stallings was A&M's coach. A huge, huge win for him in his first year to beat Dodd. A heart breaking loss for us...I was there also.
 
I stand corrected. The memory banks are vague. Stallings was at A&M in 65? That seems early but we all know it wasn't the Bear.

I remember Donnie Anderson. But didn't he play for Texas Tech? 65 or so Sun Bowl? I'm sure Anderson was TTech. Didn't remember JDCrow was that early. Bad boyhood memory.

Thanks for the insight.
 
Okay, here here is what I am sure of.....and not to step on anyone's toes. Gene Stallings was not at Texas A&M as head coach in '65. In '54 at A&M Gene Stallings was one of the 'Junction Boys'.Bear's first year. Donny Anderson did'nt win the Heisman Trophy. John David Crow DID when the Heisman Trophy for with Bear Bryant as head coach in 1957.

Everything else is open for argument. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugher.gif
 
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