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Fun fact for me, I was at that Pitt game. In pregame warmups I threw a ball to Marino.

Posted by ibdoc

on June 18, 2025, 15:50:13, in reply to "Memories."

Edited by ibdoc on June 18, 2025, 15:50:41

It was a JFL team trip and we sat in the endzone bleachers on the field. A ball rolled my way, I picked it up and threw it to the closest player....which was Dan Marino. He thanked me.
Didn't realize at the time who he was but looked him up afterwards.
That was the highlight of the game for me as it pretty much sucked after that

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Also explains the 59-0 beatdown at Iowa the next week. Classic dead man walking game.

I was in the end zone for that game: suffering through a rainstorm too. Trust me, those garbage bag "ponchos" don't work very well at all. And if you're with a young lady... well, when she wants to leave, you do too.

Also a memory: Illini-Pitt, 1982 (had to look it up). Pitt DT just rumblin, stumblin, bumblin, down the field with an INT: one hand under the ball, other hand on top. And we couldn't do a dam thing about it. This writer says "wheezed": I'd say that was quite generous.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-pitt-intercepts/166130590/

Those were the days!! (Even the losses.)

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        Fun fact for me, I was at that Pitt game. In pregame warmups I threw a ball to Marino. - ibdoc June 18, 2025, 15:50:13
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