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“Strong Legs Will Run That Weak Legs May Walk”
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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 977374" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>My childhood memories from Atlanta are magical and have, no doubt, been imbued with mythical status as I’ve grown older. If you are reading this it is probably because you remember the Shriner’s tag line printed on the tickets for the Georgia Tech / Georgia Thanksgiving Day freshman football game. A very worthy charity game that used to pack Grant Field.</p><p></p><p>My memories of those Thanksgivings includes so many elements I’m not sure today how we possibly squeezed so much in. There was a morning Thanksgiving service at the Temple, a typical Thanksgiving feast at home, the big game, and the lighting of the great tree on the Rich’s bridge.</p><p></p><p>The game itself involved some of my earliest uses of binoculars as I strained to see the Tech stars of the future. I remember Tech wearing gold helmets and Georgia wearing silver, almost pewter colored helmets. The half time involved Shriners, presumably from different lodges, marching onto the field in increasingly more garish costumes, the climax being a big fat guy with a jewel in his navel swinging a big sword.</p><p></p><p>What are your thoughts and memories of that great Atlanta tradition that has faded into history? One final thought is that Tech had a winning record in this series now permanently frozen in the history books.</p><p></p><p>Happy Thanksgiving!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 977374, member: 1640"] My childhood memories from Atlanta are magical and have, no doubt, been imbued with mythical status as I’ve grown older. If you are reading this it is probably because you remember the Shriner’s tag line printed on the tickets for the Georgia Tech / Georgia Thanksgiving Day freshman football game. A very worthy charity game that used to pack Grant Field. My memories of those Thanksgivings includes so many elements I’m not sure today how we possibly squeezed so much in. There was a morning Thanksgiving service at the Temple, a typical Thanksgiving feast at home, the big game, and the lighting of the great tree on the Rich’s bridge. The game itself involved some of my earliest uses of binoculars as I strained to see the Tech stars of the future. I remember Tech wearing gold helmets and Georgia wearing silver, almost pewter colored helmets. The half time involved Shriners, presumably from different lodges, marching onto the field in increasingly more garish costumes, the climax being a big fat guy with a jewel in his navel swinging a big sword. What are your thoughts and memories of that great Atlanta tradition that has faded into history? One final thought is that Tech had a winning record in this series now permanently frozen in the history books. Happy Thanksgiving! [/QUOTE]
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