Adding to comment below - What's your first real "ND Memory". Mine - '73 Sugar Bowl
I remember bits and pieces of other games on Sundays with Lindsey Nelson prior to the '73 Sugar Bowl, but thats the game that I remember vividly from start to finish.
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Listening to a 1964 Thanksgiving Day radio broadcast of ND's last minute loss to USC to lose the NC.
I was in high school and confidant I'd be accepted for admission in 1965. It broke my heart.
Link: https://vault.si.com/vault/1964/12/07/a-catchand-crash-goes-notre-dame
Me too, as a ninth grader returning from my sister's wedding, I became a diehard ND fan that day.
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What a New Year's Eve ('73) that was ! Whew!
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71 Cotton Bowl and the rain game before it in Cali. That 70 team was good. Done in by an SC team
with several losses.
SC got every break that game. Guys for them were making diving catches even in the bad weather.
Theismann was absolutely amazing throwing for 526 yards, unheard of in those days in a thick heavy rain.
My dad taking me to the 1960 ND / Purdue game at the stadium.
We went on the field after the game . Try that now. He took me to the hot and overly crowded bookstore where he bought me a Notre Dame bobblehead and a felt Notre Dame pennant. The bobblehead is in bobblehead Heaven but the pennant is still with us.
Perfect story book beginning. I was at the old bookstore before the 88 Miami game with my dad.
Was making some coin by then so flew him to the game and put him up. He still had his ticket connection though, obviously EZ (south) for that game. The Terrell pass break up was right there. Saw a few peeps outside the stadium wearing the Catholics/Convicts shirts but they had long sold out. Dad has been gone for more than 20 years, but one of our best times ever and remember it like it was yesterday.
I was at that game and it was amazing. I also saw the Harry Oliver field goal from 51 yards, not
even many pros kicked that long in those days. I remember we got lucky on a piss poor call of pass interference when Tony Hunter had no chance for a lame duck thrown by Blair Kiel. I then remember him almost trying for more yardage on a sideline route to stop the clock and thank God the Michigan guy knocked him out of bounds. I then remember seeing Oliver striking the ball thinking no chance, but then noticing the ref running up to watch it closer and by God it got over the goal post and the field was covered with people as if they were all Olympic sprinters. I got a piece of dirt that day and put in in my program after going out on the field. And I was 30 years old and still a kid and I am 74 and still a kid now because I cried after last Saturday's incredibly disturbing failure against a team we should have mangled.
Thanks for the Oliver story. Watched that one on the tube. The Ufer radio call of it is a classic.
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