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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 466526" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>For me, it was sometime in the 1969-70 seasons. I started at GT as a frosh in the Fall of 1969 with absolutely no knowledge of the traditions or history of the school and its football team. I had grown up in Louisiana listening to LSU football games on the radio on Saturday nights (in those days, very few games were televised).</p><p></p><p>All I can recall of the 1969 season was that I was mostly bewildered by the enthusiasm around me and that we weren't very good. We played 7 homes games in a 10 game schedule, went 4-6 (but beat UGa).</p><p></p><p>But by the 1970 season, I was hooked and a true blue GT fan. That year we had Rock Perdoni and a defense that was solid, Eddie McAshan and lil Brent Cunningham, and we had a very successful year. We led #1 ranked Notre Dame (Joe Theisman at QB) 7-3 until late in the 4th quarter in South Bend, and the announcers were all talking about how good we were. Mostly, they kept thinking they could run at Rock. he kept beating them. They must have failed on 3 or 4 3rd and 1 runs before they finally started to pass their way downfield for the winning score. I was devastated. That clinched my GT fandom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 466526, member: 944"] For me, it was sometime in the 1969-70 seasons. I started at GT as a frosh in the Fall of 1969 with absolutely no knowledge of the traditions or history of the school and its football team. I had grown up in Louisiana listening to LSU football games on the radio on Saturday nights (in those days, very few games were televised). All I can recall of the 1969 season was that I was mostly bewildered by the enthusiasm around me and that we weren't very good. We played 7 homes games in a 10 game schedule, went 4-6 (but beat UGa). But by the 1970 season, I was hooked and a true blue GT fan. That year we had Rock Perdoni and a defense that was solid, Eddie McAshan and lil Brent Cunningham, and we had a very successful year. We led #1 ranked Notre Dame (Joe Theisman at QB) 7-3 until late in the 4th quarter in South Bend, and the announcers were all talking about how good we were. Mostly, they kept thinking they could run at Rock. he kept beating them. They must have failed on 3 or 4 3rd and 1 runs before they finally started to pass their way downfield for the winning score. I was devastated. That clinched my GT fandom. [/QUOTE]
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