Where were you 28 years ago?

[Chris Stewart]

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November 7th, 2008 03:24 PM

Alabama is the consensus No. 1 college football team during the regular season for the first time since 1980. That's a long time. So long ago, that I was a 10-year old the last time it happened.

I remember vividly the day it came to an end.

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[rolltidescott]

1980: I was at Junior at Bama.

 

[rhYno]

1980: The guy who got my mom pregnant, and my mom hadn't met yet, so I was still an unfertile egg:biggrin:

 

[BamaNation]

I was 9... and remember it vividly.

 

[ROTYDE]

Just graduated high school and headed to the University.:BigA:

 

[JCase]

incubating in me mum's belly

 

[dayhiker]

I remember a prof in college telling about taking the PE exam the day we lost that #1 ranking. 6-3 MSU, if I'm remembering right. He was a prof at UA then. The PE is the engineers equivalent to the CPA exam. He said a proctor wrote the score on the chalk board during the exam and about 1/3 of the test takers groaned out loud.

That would have ....ed me off had I been a test taker. It has a high enough failure rate as it is.

 

[syxxgunn]

I was 15 and was listening on the radio. It killed me.

 

[92tide]

i was 11, and it took a while for me to come to the harsh realization that it was possible for bama to lose a game.

 

[luvthat_TIDE]

I was in the 8th grade. Roll Tide and Go Owls (Ooltewah) tonight.

 

[bamanut_aj]

I was 8. I was oblivious to the world around me.

 

[37bamagrl]

i was a year and a half old...can't really tell you what i was doing...getting into something i suppose...

 

[Bama Lee]

I was in the 7th grade (12 years old). I remember that vividly or at least my Father yelling at the TV!

 

[Tidetwin]

I was in my first year of graduate school at UGA but visiting my folks in Killen for the weekend. I will never forget John Forney counting off the seconds while we fiddled and failed to get a potential game-winning play off within the 5 yard line. I seem to recall that we let almost 30 seconds slip away. Anybody remember the details . . .

 

[Tidetwin]

I was in the 7th grade (12 years old). I remember that vividly or at least my Father yelling at the TV!

I was yelling at the radio.

 

[bamamoss2]

I was in Camden Arkansas and could not get the game on the radio or TV. It was a sad state of affairs as my family was relaying the bad news of the MSU game.

My son was 1 year old and could not understand why his father was screamiong on the telephone.

 

[OreBama]

I was one year old and remember it vividly. :biggrin: It was the best year of my life up until that point.

 

[BamaAllTheWay]

Birmingham, listening to radio...don't recall it being televised...I recall our QB Don Jacobs almost led us down the field for the go ahead touchdown, but he fumbled the ball inside the 5 yard line, and State recovered it. Game over and so was our 28 game win streak.

If you recall, we got revenge on them in '81, 13-10, I recall. I think Terry Sanders came in and kicked the winning FG for an injured Peter Kim.

This has been a real test of my memory...hope it's a good one.

 

[PaulD]

I was in Washington, DC, that weekend, in my first year away from UA. I had the bad fortune to be eating dinner in a fairly ritzy Washington restaurant with a couple from MSU. Right after we got there, one of the TV's had the story of the game on, which is how we all learned about it at the same time. They felt it was the best food they had ever eaten, while I thought it was the most expensive cardboard I'd ever eaten...

 

[TideRollsInVa]

I was in Jacksonville FL (Mayport) onboard the USS Saratoga. I had duty that day but was able to listen to the game on the radio. It had not been that long that we had returned from "Operation Eagle Claw", a failed attempt to rescue the hostages from Iran on April 24th.