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October 17, 1959. Auburn at Georgia Tech. I was four and memories are blurred. It was likely my parents took me to even earlier games. As an Atlanta City Schools Coach Dad got passes for two games a year. I have vivid memories of Tech beating LSU in ‘60, 6 to 2. It was a rainy day. I was a disappointed five year old that Paul Dietzel’s Chinese Bandits did not look Chinese, although they did have a lot of French names.
 
BravoWhiskey said:
Freshman year. 2003. Home opener against Auburn. Won 17-3 and tore down the goal posts.
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Tough to top that one as a first game. I was at that game in my junior year and I still say it was one of the best (if not the best) games I’ve been to.

-Beat AU who was heavily favored and were national title contenders
-Sellout home opener in the new stadium with lots of sad people wearing orange
-Perfect fall weather even though it was still early September (just looked and it was a high of 73 that day and cloudy - can’t top that for a game in my book).
 
Was half drunk and some girl gave me **** in the east concourse bathroom. Thats all I remember. I think it was wake forest
 
2006 #2 Notre Dame coming into Bobby Dodd. Was a freshman on campus. I did not care about sports at all prior to that. I remember being utterly captivated by the pageantry and the electric atmosphere. We lost 14-10, but it was the game that made me a big fan of Tech football.
 
Too young to remember....late 70's or early 80's
 
Akinji07 said:
2002 - Freshman year at Tech. Loss to Wake Forest at home. I was like wtf is this öööö we just lost to a team whose mascot looks like a crazy monopoly man.
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Shame you didn’t go to the opener and missed Hollings in person. That was my freshman year as well and that Vandy opener was glorious. Cutler made Suggs look like Montana too
 
jdubjacket said:
2001 Citadel - the home opener my freshman year. Memory of it is foggy but I remember sitting in the east stands behind the columns, before they renovated the stadium a couple years later.
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Same here. I think we won 30 or 33-0. That 2001 year was a bit of a öööö show. Found creative ways to lose some games
 
Beez and Hustlas said:
Shame you didn’t go to the opener and missed Hollings in person. That was my freshman year as well and that Vandy opener was glorious. Cutler made Suggs look like Montana too
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I grew up watching mostly soccer but I also liked baseball. It was my first time being exposed to football and Glenn hall wasn’t exactly swimming with football fans. Definitely anime fans. I started hanging out with PKT in October and those guys liked football.
 
33jacket said:
Was half drunk and some girl gave me **** in the east concourse bathroom. Thats all I remember. I think it was wake forest
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Aren't human brains weird like that, the things we remember and which details stay with us? Some kind of self-preservation thing maybe. Like here, to this day, you're still telling yourself it was a girl.
 
1994, freshman year against Arizona. Bad year to start watching GT football as we went 1-10 that year.
 
I would’ve been too young to remember. My dad (also an alum) started taking me to games in the early 90s.
 
midatlantech said:
1969 I believe we played Baylor for my first game at GF. My sister was a cheerleader and had a date id which she used for me. I had to sit on the bench next to the fence. They dressed me up like the male cheerleaders.
Later in the year I wandered more and a big Auburn RB got knocked out of bounds right next to me (10 years old). It scared the crap out of my sister. So I think that was my last game of three.

The next year she “promoted” me into selling peanuts, cokes in Grant Field. I liked it and learned a lot but she really wanted to have a real date on the field with her!
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Your sister was a cheerleader in 69? Gonna need to see some pics of that. Rules and all.
 
Man, you guys have some good memories. Went to a couple of games when I was very young in the mid to late 70s, but wasn’t cheering for Tech in those days, my dad was an Auburn grad. First games as a fan were in 1986. Don’t remember the specific games other than being in Athens for my first COFH. I think I’ve only missed four COFH’s since then, home and away.
 
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