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DawgInThe256

DawgInThe256

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First TV game I remember was a win against Florida (1979 I think). If I recall correctly, this was our first televised game since coming off probation.

First game in person was the 1980 Egg Bowl.
 
DawgsOnTheWing

DawgsOnTheWing

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Think it was Rob Fesmire on the muffed punt. Gave USM the ball deep in our territory and Reggie Collier scored a couple plays later. Collier was very good, and particularly very tuff in 1981.....
 
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fedxdog

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Nov 28, 1959 Egg Bowl in Starkville. My parents and other friends from Laurel took me (age 12) to see Charlie Flowers from Laurel. He was a sr fullback at UMAA and his dad worked for my grandfather’s funeral home in Laurel. UMAA 42-State 0.
I got a white STATE hoodie and was a Bulldog for life.
 
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fedxdog

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Great story...Meridan air guard 4 ship of F-4’s flew N to S and they were so low that nobody saw them until they dropped into the horseshoe.
They were also faster than 250 (limit is 250). FAA tried to punish them but Sonny Montgomery quashed their attempt.
 
bolddogge

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1978 Egg Bowl in Jackson as a 3rd grader. Good year or bad, wherever it was played, I haven't missed an Egg Bowl since.
 
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rowdy53103

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An Egg Bowl sometime in the late 80's in Jackson...
I was 8 or younger. All I remember is the drunk UM fan sitting in front of us yelling, cursing and waving a huge Rebel flag that blocked our view of the field. I don't recall if anything had been said to the guy earlier in the game but I know pops was getting annoyed about it. A some point the flag whipped dad in the face, at which point he grabbed the flag and pulled it to the ground. The UM fan stood up, pops followed suit, and they got in each others faces. I don't know what was said but I remember not seeing that flag wave for the rest of the game. One of the two times I have ever seen the old man get red face and forehead vein popping angry and the event played a major role in shaping my view of UM fans into the trash I know them as today.
 
dawgman42

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I was at that one. We stayed until the end, gluttons for punishment that my family was ("maximizing" the value of $5 Jitney Jungle tickets, and such). That is the most number of fights I've ever seen staggering coon asses try to start in my life, being up 48-0, 100-0, whatever it was. I only remember my straight-laced mother telling me that, in a nutshell, is why she hated LSU above and beyond any other team. I've come to find that a very prevalent opinion among late 60's - early 70's State graduates.
 
NWADog

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1999 Peach Bowl- State vs Clemson. I was 9 and remember finishing that 4th quarter to win it 17-7. That was my first legit memory of a State game.
 
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The Usual Suspect

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dawgstudent said:
The only thing I remember was the flyover from the Navy game and me crying.
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I was at the Navy game as well. Loud was an understatement, and Bond took it to the house on the first play for about 60 yds. I believe Napoleon McCallum was playing for Navy, but that may not be true.
 
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RocketCityDawg

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Arky State VS MSU, 1959 I think...

The ASU QB in that game went on to OM med school, and was my urologist in Huntsville until he retired a few years ago...
 
JacksonCPAdawg

JacksonCPAdawg

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first significant game i remember was the 2000 independence bowl against aTm in the snow. Been hooked ever since.
 
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chem1970

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Although I attended games as an infant when my parents were students at State, the first game I remember was the Ole Miss win over State at State College in 1959. I remember Dad and I sat in the car before the game listening on the radio to Joe Bellino and his Navy team romp over Army.
 
josebrown

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cowbell88 said:
Listening was 83 EB. Damn wind.

Wanting to attend was either 82 or 88 Georgia game. I remember we had been on vacation, and was coming through Starkville on way back home. We cut through campus and I remember begging Dad to stop. He said it probably wasn’t any tickets available anyway and kept on going. (Dad didn’t like crowds then, but enjoys going to games now that he’s in his mid 70’s and has bad knees.) Go figure. Probably was 88, but I do remember Hershel winning Heisman, so I don’t know.

Attended: strangely enough I don’t remember actually, but very possibly Memphis State in late 80’s early 90’s.
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Yea, I was at the wind game. That sucked. Went from cheering to losing in seconds by the wind.

And the '82 UGA game I was there and I swear Herschel dove from the five and landed two yards deep in the end zone. Dude was amazing!!

1988 was my freshman year, Tech and ten, but the games were fun nonetheless. Shell airing it out, we had plenty alcohol in the student section and I remember the campus turning Crimson the entire week of the Bama game. It was my first experience of a Crimson takeover. I didn't like that.
 
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MSUDC11

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First game I remember watching on TV was the 98-99 Cotton Bowl against Texas. First game I remember attending was the 99 LSU game.
 
karlchilders.sixpack

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I had somewhat of an advantage, just did not know it at the time

When I was a young kid, we lived in the Jackson area, and my mom worked for a company that provided tech services for sports reporters.(teletype).
I got to read copies of several of the scripts (that went out on wire services)
She typed up the play by play stuff, that I on occasion got to see. I was just a young kid.

So, she worked most college games played in Jackson Memorial, and my family received escort tickets to most games.

Games I'm very certain that I saw:

MSU vs Fla, 1962
MSU vs LSU 1962
Getting chin straps from players after the game was big.
And yes the Liberty Bowl game on TV. 1963.
Saw most games in Jackson, thru 1965, not only MSU. And yes several after that.

Listened to Jack on the radio, with my dad, a bunch before that.

Brainwashed by a family that had never attended MSU, but my sister and I both graduated there.
 
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GhostOfJackie

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91 Liberty Bowl. For some reason I remember slices of cheese being thrown after the opponent scored. Most likely frozen slices of cheese that day.
 
jakldawg

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vs. Memphis State back in the mid to late 80's in the Liberty Bowl. Might have been at the beginning of Tech-and-ten?
 
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fieldcorporal

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1969 went to Houston to visit my dads brother, the year before my enrollment at MSU.

Uncle got us tickets for the game at the Astrodome, vs UofH.

74-0.

I almost changed my mind and went somewhere else.

The next year I had high hopes for a little payback. Nope, 30something to not-much (I think) at Scott field.
 
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ShawSawTheMoor

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dawgstudent said:
State vs Navy. 1983.
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Old timer here. The first game of Miss State I followed was on November 16, 1963, when JFK was still alive! I was 10 years old and my dad was a HUGE LSU fan and listed to all the games on the radio broadcast (KWKH out of Shreveport, with John Ferguson announcing).

He called the Bulldogs "the Maroons" throughout the broadcast. A fun game until the bitter end. I remember it being tied 0-0 until about 2 minutes left in the game, when Justin Canale ran the ball in from a few yards out. Labruzzo for LSU returned the kickoff to about midfield, and then about 3 plays later LSU scored a touchdown to trail 7-6! LSU for some reason decided to go for two and failed. I remember crying at the conclusion of the game.
 
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archdog

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Since I was conceived at the 6-3 bama game, i don't remember that one, but I believe I remember a game in the 90s where we beat UT.
 
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HammerOfTheDogs

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NWADog said:
1999 Peach Bowl- State vs Clemson. I was 9 and remember finishing that 4th quarter to win it 17-7. That was my first legit memory of a State game.
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Took my whole family to that game. My then-5 year old son was wearing a toy Mississippi State football uniform. I kept on telling him that Coach Sherrill might pull him out of the crowd and make him play. After Josh Morgan blew up a Clemson receiver (you could hear it), I told my son, "Coach Sherrill needs you NOW!"

My son grabbed on to Mom for dear life.....
 
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Go Budaw

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First MSU sporting event ever attended was a baseball game in 1989 or 1990. Was 5-6 years old and remember climbing the old cedar trees in the outfield. No clue who we were playing, but there were 2-3 trips around this same time frame.

First football game attended was the last Egg Bowl in Jackson, 1990 I believe. We lost, but I was too young to remember anything about the game.

First MSU game I remember watching in any capacity where I actually knew what was going on and could actually invest emotionally was the 1994 Tennessee football game, which I watched on TV. I think that is the one that hooked me for life. I also remember watching the Bama game on ABC that same year with Keith Jackson calling it. Thought for sure we had it in the bag until we blew a double digit lead in the 4th quarter. I cried afterwards while playing with Legos for 2-3 hours, trying to reconcile this new emotional feeling. That’s when I KNEW I was hooked for life. First football game attended in Starkville was that same year against Arkansas State.
 
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