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Mar 27, 2025
8:27:15am

StarMan All-American

I do! But I did not participate in the wandering herd of jubilant students.....

who ended up at Pres. Holland's residence.

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StarMan

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Messages

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Time

Old Guy Check - Who remembers actually watching the Danny Ainge coast to coast?

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:13am

I do. And if I remember correctly it was just months after Miracle Bowl

fulano

Mar 27, 8:14am

It was. Although as noted above, with no TV, I had to listen to the Miracle Bowl

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:15am

Yep. That was another golden age for BYU sports

TLCougar

Mar 27, 8:15am

Mr. Indy Coug does. He has stats from that game in an old trapper keeper.

gangbusters

Mar 27, 8:15am

I was in Italy on my mission. I heard about it several weeks later.

Y_Mountain_Magic

Mar 27, 8:16am

Well, my grandpa videotaped it for us, sent it in the mail and a month later we got to see it in Saudi Arabia

Indy Coug

Mar 27, 8:16am

I love everything about this.

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:18am

Yes. It was beautiful and especially because it was against Notre Dame and

BlueKarma

Mar 27, 8:16am

The campus went wild. Great days.

snowcat

Mar 27, 8:17am

Provo went crazy. Horns honking, storming the library running around outside.

BandW

Mar 27, 8:19am

Yes. It was GLORIOUS!

LV Mike

Mar 27, 8:19am

I was a senior in HS. I watched it at a friend's house--a Catholic 🙂 I tempered

Mar 27, 8:19am

I was just back from mission for 5 months and watched it on TV

Mar 27, 8:20am

KSL replayed the audio from PJ over and over. He had Al McGuire on as a guest

fulano

Mar 27, 8:21am

I had forgotten this.

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:22am

I don't think I would remember except my mom ALWAYS had ksl on the radio in

fulano

Mar 27, 8:24am

I do. A great day and era for BYU

WallaX2

Mar 27, 8:23am

Yep. On my 19th birthday, 1981!

jsaskew

Mar 27, 8:23am

I watched but have no memory of it. I probably cried, from the cheering. I was 4 months old.

Bert609

Mar 27, 8:24am

You and Kelly Tripucka

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:25am

I didn't see it on TV, but I listened to the game with my dad on the radio

Belboz

Mar 27, 8:25am

I love this. Paul James was the soundtrack of my youth.

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:26am

If it was on TV, we were apparently unaware of it.

Belboz

Mar 27, 8:50am

I listened to it on the car radio in North Dakota

fan_byu

Mar 27, 9:53am

I do! But I did not participate in the wandering herd of jubilant students.....

StarMan

Mar 27, 8:27am

Miracle plus Ainge coast-to-coast created high expectations for me about BYU

5thGenCoug

Mar 27, 8:34am

Same!

Mar 27, 8:36am

Straight facts

StealingHome

Mar 27, 8:41am

After 1981 I knew I wanted to go to BYU. I just turned 11 with Ainge and I

5thGenCoug

Mar 27, 9:09am

Same school year as the Miracle Bowl with Jimmy Mac. We all knew where we were when it happened

CLCougar

Mar 27, 8:34am

Momentus day in my 9-year old life

Mar 27, 8:35am

I was in the MTC.

ecp

Mar 27, 9:06am

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