Recent content by RocketCityDawg

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    Columbia South Carolina is terrible

    I haven't been back to Columbia since I spent 4 months in Fort Jackson, SC some 50 years ago, but that was enough...
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    I'm an alum class of 1964

    Still work part-time in retirement. I took down the Natty Champ Baseball poster in my office this afternoon. We've had some success in various sports over the decades, but the current season for various sports is waiting to develop.... Still keep a cowbell in my car, if needed!! Hail State...
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    Happy 3-2 Day! 13 Years ago we witnessed two teams that did not want

    I was recognized on Wayne's Auburn Board for being the only one that predicted that exact score! I just had a gut feeling...
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    Memories...

    We still had some great individual players I was acquainted with back then, Sonny Fisher and D D Lewis. Others. And we've had many others since then, until Dak, and now Will. Keep the faith, and ring responsibly!!
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    Memories...

    I got my BS in 1964, and my MBA in '66. In that era, we played our last 4 football games every season against Bama, Auburn, LSU and Ole Miss. We called it the "November Nightmare," since we lost so many of those games. Older folks here will remember that. Younger folks, be thankful for every...
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    Memories...

    I got my BS in 1964, and my MBA in '66. In that era, we played our last 4 football games every season against Bama, Auburn, LSU and Ole Miss. We called it the "November Nightmare," since we lost so many of those games. Older folks here will remember that. Younger folks, be thankful for every...
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    Holy **** - DJ Looney died...

    My former co-worker in HSV, Justin Foscue's mom, posted a touching tribute to him in her Facebook account. I never met him, but it seems a lot of folks loved him...
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    Is it going to be Go or No Go for launch?

    I was in our conference room at my part-time retirement job in HSV. We had it on the big screen. We all agreed it was the right decision to scrub... And I'm the only one old enough to have worked on Apollo, after my 1966 graduation from MSU. One lightning strike will 17 the H out of electronics...
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    đź”’ OT: Just went to Barnes & Noble

    The one in Jones Valley is still closed...
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    I miss Mutt the Hopple...

    He posts several times a day on Wayne's Auburn Board.
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    Lets Do This aGAIN. What MSU sports personality did you have 1 on 1 interaction

    Various ones... Most of the tennis team in the mid-60's (Primrose, Hockey, Cameron, etc.), several on the golf team in that era who lived in Hightower. Others: DD Lewis, Tommy Neville, Babe McCarthy, Paul Davis, Bailey Howell, Jackie Sherrill, Dan Mullen, Red Stroud, several others. Gary Hockey...
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    Two synagogues vandalized in Huntsville

    That totally P'd me into the off position! That's not the HSV I've lived in for the past 5 decades! One of those Synagogues is just a half mile north of my condo, a couple of blocks south of my Willowbrook Baptist church. The first folks who showed up to help clean up were Christians, more of...
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    Babe McCarthy gave me a level of expectation...

    When I was at MSU some 55 yrs ago. That level is long gone..