I was 12 at that time. My Daddy was the Financial Director of a large company. He never bought a ticket to any college sports events, but almost every weekend somebody would give him two tickets to Tech and Georgia games. I don't know why I didn't go to that game. Maybe nobody gave my Daddy tickets. Maybe he had something else he had to do. Maybe he took my Mother. Maybe he went with some of his adult friends. Maybe he was out of town. I wish I could remember. I'm sure my Father-In-Law went. He went to Tech and always had season tickets on the 50 yard line in the Upper West stands. I asked him once what it was like to go to Tech games in the early to mid 1950s. He said, "Son, we didn't go to see if Tech would win. We went to see how Tech would win." I'm still mad with myself that I never asked him about that particular 1962 Tech-Alabama game. There are so many questions I wish I had asked people who are now dead. Heck, I had all those chances to ask Stan Gann about it, but I never did. I never thought to do it. We old guys have the advantage of having lived through a time when Tech football ruled the Atlanta sports world, and Tech basketball did, too. I guess that's why I get so upset about how things are now. But, I'll never think of Tech as anything but head and shoulders above every other school and team. Thank you.
