Did you watch BYU vs. Michigan in 1984 live on TV? - cougarguard.com — unofficial BYU Cougars / LDS sports, football, basketball forum and message board

MikeWaters · 09-24-2008, 10:09 PM

I'm so grateful that I was able to watch that. Flashing "national champions" I think it was, in a ghetto graphic block-letters. Bosco limping around. So much at stake. All the build up with Bo Schembechler mouthing off. Barry Switzer whining and crying about BYU the whole season.

Thank you God, for making me a Mormon, a BYU fan, and letting me be alive and mentally cogent to take in 1984 and remember it til now.

When I die, I know "1984" will be on my lips before I slip away.

MikeWaters · 09-24-2008, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I'm so grateful that I was able to watch that. Flashing "national champions" I think it was, in a ghetto graphic block-letters. Bosco limping around. So much at stake. All the build up with Bo Schembechler mouthing off. Barry Switzer whining and crying about BYU the whole season.

Thank you God, for making me a Mormon, a BYU fan, and letting me be alive and mentally cogent to take in 1984 and remember it til now.

When I die, I know "1984" will be on my lips before I slip away.

I should add that I am really the only sports fan in my family. My two brothers never cared much for sports. My dad liked track and field and that's about it.

But for a time, when I was young, my dad liked watching BYU football. We would go to the church and get the games on Satellite. When we had cable we watched the televised games. And when we didn't have cable, we would go to a LDS neighbor's house.

I don't know why he had that time in his life where he cared about it somewhat (he was never even a big fan then), but I think a strong argument could be made it changed my life dramatically. Without that, I don't know that I attend BYU later in life.

Kilgore Trout · 09-24-2008, 10:15 PM

Yep. At a party member's house on my mission.

MikeWaters · 09-24-2008, 10:19 PM

After the New Year's Bowl, after OU had lost to Washington in the Orange Bowl, I broke open the paper, the Bryan College-Station Eagle, tore to the sports section to see the announcement that BYU had won the national championship! I scanned quickly. Nothing. And there on page B1, at the far bottom right was a 2-inch article saying BYU had been voted #1. I was indignant, and a bit letdown.

At this young tender age, I felt this national championship had established BYU as a power that would be reckoned with...forever. That we would get better and better players. It was not to be, and that 2-inch article presaged the nation's reaction.

cougjunkie · 09-24-2008, 10:21 PM

I was 3 years old and have similar recollection to the rest of the nation.

Goatnapper'96 · 09-24-2008, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by cougjunkie

I was 3 years old and have similar recollection to the rest of the nation.

Chupa tu madre, maricon.

cougjunkie · 09-24-2008, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

Chupa tu madre, maricon.

Suck your mother, Queer.

BarbaraGordon · 09-24-2008, 11:07 PM

I watched it. That season was the first one where I began to understand the power that an oddly shaped leather ball held over my parents.

MikeWaters · 09-24-2008, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

I watched it. That season was the first one where I began to understand the power that an oddly shaped leather ball held over my parents.

The idea of OU fans watching that game, desperately privately hoping the Wolverines would win, while publicly exclaiming that they game didn't matter because BYU didn't deserve it even if they did win, wow, that brings a smile to my lips.

BarbaraGordon · 09-24-2008, 11:17 PM

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The idea of OU fans watching that game brings a smile to my lips.

how about the thought that your national title came on account of a penalty on a goddammed covered wagon? I bet the ref was a Mormon.

09-24-2008, 10:21 PM	#5
cougjunkie Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 5,741	I was 3 years old and have similar recollection to the rest of the nation. __________________ LINCECUM!

09-24-2008, 10:09 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Did you watch BYU vs. Michigan in 1984 live on TV? I'm so grateful that I was able to watch that. Flashing "national champions" I think it was, in a ghetto graphic block-letters. Bosco limping around. So much at stake. All the build up with Bo Schembechler mouthing off. Barry Switzer whining and crying about BYU the whole season. Thank you God, for making me a Mormon, a BYU fan, and letting me be alive and mentally cogent to take in 1984 and remember it til now. When I die, I know "1984" will be on my lips before I slip away.

09-24-2008, 10:15 PM	#3
Kilgore Trout Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: location, location. Posts: 54	Yep. At a party member's house on my mission.

09-24-2008, 10:19 PM	#4
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	After the New Year's Bowl, after OU had lost to Washington in the Orange Bowl, I broke open the paper, the Bryan College-Station Eagle, tore to the sports section to see the announcement that BYU had won the national championship! I scanned quickly. Nothing. And there on page B1, at the far bottom right was a 2-inch article saying BYU had been voted #1. I was indignant, and a bit letdown. At this young tender age, I felt this national championship had established BYU as a power that would be reckoned with...forever. That we would get better and better players. It was not to be, and that 2-inch article presaged the nation's reaction.

09-24-2008, 11:07 PM	#8
BarbaraGordon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gotham City Posts: 7,157	I watched it. That season was the first one where I began to understand the power that an oddly shaped leather ball held over my parents.