Re: Loudest environment you've ever been in?

AC/DC, Flick Of The Switch your, Carolina Coliseum I think about 1983.

…….Oh you meant sports environment. I think it was 4th and Four for the Tigers in Williams-Brice at the end of the 2007 game. There’s like 1:12 left on the clock, we’re trailing by two and we’ve got it at our own 48.

They had beaten us the year before in Death Valley but hadn’t had anything more than a one-game win streak since ‘71. They could taste that streak ending and it was unbelievably electric in there.

I had my youngest daughter at the game, we’re on our feet and she took that moment to ask if she could be home-schooled instead of facing the music at school on Monday. In that moment I remember thinking if the streak had to end at least I could say I was there to see both ends of it. I was there in ‘71. I was six years old then. I was dressed in garnet back then because, well……I was six and didn’t get a choice.

I remember thinking that I really didn’t recall much about being six. I remember my first grade teacher but not much else. My God that was a long time ago ! I just can’t I just can’t imagine how awful it must be to be to be a Gamecock !

But here’s the snap and Cullen Harper finds Aaron Kelly over the middle for five yards and new life. They hustle back to the LOS and on first down he finds Aaron Kelly again. This time down inside the five ! He hustled down the field and he’s got the Head Referee by the sleeve as he watches the clock tick down. He calls time with three seconds left.

During the time out I looked down at my daughter and asked, “ Jackie what do you hear ? “. She said, “ Tiger Rag ! “

I said, “ No, what DON’T you hear ? “

She looked around the stadium and said “ Wow, it’s really quiet in here ! “

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Jun 11, 2022, 9:43 PM

The year the west endzone project t was being completed was also the first year of video review in college football. Coaches had to have time out available and they had to burn it in order to exercise their only challenge.

Five days before the FSU game Clemson decided to open up the west endzone for general admission seating even though there was only concrete tiers there. I got a couple of tickets and I took my daughter.

FSU had been accustomed to beating us going away but that afternoon it was a different story. Wes ores early and often on them and our defense was shutting them down. Somewhere in the third quarter ( I think ) it was Aaron Kelly who caught a touchdown pass in the back of the endzone but the official had ruled him out o bounds when he caught it.

That was a third down play so TB sent his field goal unit out there. In the mean time he delayed calling the time out, waiting for a booth review……that never came. Meanwhile we’re watching the replay on the big board over and over. You see him catch the ball, get a foot down in the endzone, get the other foot down in the endzone as well as his hip. How in the hell could they blow this call ?

So just before the clock ticked down TB calls his timeout then heads out onto the field to have a very heated discussion with the head referee. The crowd is watching all of this and going nuts. TB gets his review.

I don’t understand what took so long but it was an extremely long review. It wasn’t even disputable and the whole stadium knew it. Matter of fact everyone in the entire stadium was on their feet signaling touchdown. I had an earbud in and I was listening to the radio broadcast. I heard Will Merritt comment, “ Well, Coach Howard said he wanted to hear the crowds on Saturdays and he’s about to hear them now. When that white hat walks back out onto the field and overturns this call the roof is going to come off this place ! “

And it did !!! That put FSU down by 3 touchdowns and we had fun taunting them with car keys and their chop as they headed up the aisles.

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