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Something from the Spring Game that we may never see again
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:17 PM
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Kids sledding down the hill on cardboard.
I has the sads.
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That was a staple during my time at Clemson back 1972-76.
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:20 PM
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We would have been shocked NOT to see it. Since, for the most part, we were not very good back then, we needed the extra live entertainment!
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Re: That was a staple during my time at Clemson back 1972-76.
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:30 PM
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If they put the concrete “tiers” on the hill like they are planning to, it will make sledding virtually impossible.
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Lol. When we had that "giant" snowstorm in South Carolina
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:42 PM
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in 1972, I had gone home for the weekend, but one of my classmates from high school had stayed in Clemson. He decided to go sledding down the hill into the Amphitheater. He forgot about the ~8 foot dropoff at the bottom that was hidden under all that snow. He has several permanent screws and plates in his broken ankle to remind him it was there.
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Re: Lol. When we had that "giant" snowstorm in South Carolina
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Apr 16, 2023, 12:30 AM
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Food trays were the best.
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Re: Lol. When we had that "giant" snowstorm in South Carolina
Apr 16, 2023, 10:14 AM
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When there was snow on the hill next to Clemson House you could go all the way across 93 on a cafeteria tray.
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Re: Lol. When we had that "giant" snowstorm in South Carolina
Apr 17, 2023, 7:46 AM
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Food trays were the best.
Oh yeah! The drive between Johnstone F and the quad was a lot of fun in the snow, but slowing down at the bottom was a challenge.
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It's a real shame.***
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:30 PM
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Re: A friend of mine said; he always liked sitting
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:44 PM
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up there. Lots of fun stuff going on up there. He said one game there was a light rain, and the hill was good, wet, and slippery. He was at the very top, and lost his footing, and at a rate of about 125MPH, he slid all the way to the bottom. When he stopped he was looking at a very polished pair of dress shoes. He looked up and said, that he saw a meaner looking Hiway patrolman than any, that had ever stopped him for speeding. All he could say, over and over again was please, please, don't lock me up. I'm not drunk, please don't lock me up. He said the guy kinda half smiled and told him; if you can get up there as fast as you did coming down, I won't lock you up. He said; that he didn't know how long it took him to get back up there, because he was still slipping and sliding trying to get up. When he finally made it to the top, he looked down and the patrolman and one of his buddies were laughing their heads off. They didn't lock him up, so he must have been pretty good entertainment, for them. I've always wanted to see a game from the Hill. Never have, and now I guess I never will.
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Re: Something from the Spring Game that we may never see again
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Apr 15, 2023, 7:53 PM
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My goodness yall. Silly. There is still going to be a sizable strip down the middle.
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My 53 yr old CU Grad Son slid the West corner hill in 1979..
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Apr 15, 2023, 8:01 PM
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with a neighborhood buddy on cardboard and I stood on sidewalk area down where visiting team would go to dressing room to stop them b/4 they went off the 4 foot drop-off onto the concrete.
What fun!!
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In the 50s
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Apr 15, 2023, 9:12 PM
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In the 50s, my dad, a former player for Josh Cody, drove all six of us kids and my mom from Chester to Clemson in our 48 Chevy for every home game. As the youngest I rode the whole way on the back seat “shelf”. Once there I took off for parts unknown within the stadium, most times winding up on the hill with a hundred other other kids laughing, scrapping, chasing and when I could grab a piece of cardboard, sliding down that venerable old slope.
Those truly were the days.
Does my old heart good to see that tradition isn’t quite dead. Yet.
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Re: My 53 yr old CU Grad Son slid the West corner hill in 1979..
Apr 15, 2023, 9:29 PM
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Son.. I can believe that. I have one too at that age.
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Re: My 53 yr old CU Grad Son slid the West corner hill in 1979..
Apr 17, 2023, 7:49 AM
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Did you not see my second reply.?.?
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Re: My 53 yr old CU Grad Son slid the West corner hill in 1979..
Apr 17, 2023, 1:55 PM
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Oops. No. I was laughing about the first one!
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Re: Something from the Spring Game that we may never see again
Apr 16, 2023, 12:58 PM
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Oh god where was the little fire engine. Got to stop that. Kids may be having fun like they have for yrs on the hill
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