In reply to: His 99 yard pick six vs Purdue (75?) wasn’t bad either. * posted by Tpm81
Week at Notre Dame and featured Rick Slager on the cover. My original copy still hangs on my paneled wall in my bedroom in New Jersey. I got a replacement issue which is framed and hangs on my rec room in our basement.
I was listening to the game in my bedroom, and either ND turned the ball over or allowed a big Purdue play. In a fit of rage I jumped in the air flailing my arms over my head. My left hand crashed into the light fixture and it shattered, spraying broken glass all over the bedroom floor and opening a nasty gash on the knuckle over my left pinkie finger. I still have the scar.
Fortunately my roommates - who I had met only a couple weeks earlier - were there and I restrained myself from kicking something. One of them was an international student watching only his second American football game. The other was also from Chicago and almost kicked something too.
I think he and I hugged each other for the first time - and maybe only time - when Luther ran it back.
with much trepidation that the Irish could somehow lose to the Spoilermakers (as they did in 1974). The radio signal wasn't great, and occasionally my Dad had to run outside to use the car radio for an update.
Criqui may have been the radio announcer back in 1975. I distinctly remember him from the Navy '74 game, as he made the Navy punts sound more dramatic than Tom Demsey's 63-yard field goal (which he called in 1970)
"where has Joe Montana been?" and "as legend after legend has been born at quarterback, one has here today!'
Become the greatest of all time and the Irish would have started the 1977 season 1-2.