I thought about this yesterday. Do you have a memory of watching a game with a friend or family member of the opposing team playing us that stands out as extremely satisfying for you while being as heartbreaking for him at the same moment.
I have two...The good moment was my best friend,an FSU grad, and I watching the 2006 game at Tallahassee when James Davis ripped off the 47 yard scamper in the final minute to seal our upset of the 9th ranked Noles. He put his hands in his lap and didn't speak for about 10 minutes. Ever since that game he always predicted we would win every game against them, even in the Winston years. It was like that game broke the rivalry for him. I was on Cloud 9 for about a month. That was TB's third victory over his Dad but it felt different like we were finally breaking through to upper echelon status.
The bad.. I took 3 of my friends from Boston to the Clemson-BC game at DV in 2007. They had never been to Clemson, and we were there all day tailgating, hitting up the bars, ESSO, the whole experience. Down by 3 but driving and Aaron Kelly drops the deep ball. They were over the moon as it was the perfect football day and fall afternoon capped off with the ACC division title and win and I was pretty much done with TB that day. I couldn't even drink I was so down. They had ridden with me from Charlotte and had were having such a good time they didn't want the day to end. They convinced me to drop them off at some random dangerous looking bar on the edge of Greenville a bartender at Esso told them about, despite them never being there before and no discernable way of getting back to Charlotte . The next day they showed up at my place looking half dead with a story about hitching rides and sleeping in an abandoned home after trying to pay a stripper at Platinum Plus to sleep with all of them.
I have two...The good moment was my best friend,an FSU grad, and I watching the 2006 game at Tallahassee when James Davis ripped off the 47 yard scamper in the final minute to seal our upset of the 9th ranked Noles. He put his hands in his lap and didn't speak for about 10 minutes. Ever since that game he always predicted we would win every game against them, even in the Winston years. It was like that game broke the rivalry for him. I was on Cloud 9 for about a month. That was TB's third victory over his Dad but it felt different like we were finally breaking through to upper echelon status.
The bad.. I took 3 of my friends from Boston to the Clemson-BC game at DV in 2007. They had never been to Clemson, and we were there all day tailgating, hitting up the bars, ESSO, the whole experience. Down by 3 but driving and Aaron Kelly drops the deep ball. They were over the moon as it was the perfect football day and fall afternoon capped off with the ACC division title and win and I was pretty much done with TB that day. I couldn't even drink I was so down. They had ridden with me from Charlotte and had were having such a good time they didn't want the day to end. They convinced me to drop them off at some random dangerous looking bar on the edge of Greenville a bartender at Esso told them about, despite them never being there before and no discernable way of getting back to Charlotte . The next day they showed up at my place looking half dead with a story about hitching rides and sleeping in an abandoned home after trying to pay a stripper at Platinum Plus to sleep with all of them.
