Of the basketball arena that was even better attended. First time I recall seeing Montana, Theismann, TB and others all in one place. That’s the one where I saw Byron for the first time in years. Joe Yonto and John Ray were there and I shared your line with Ray about the ‘66 defense only giving up feet per carry.

The first similar event during the Kelly regime had Kelly admonishing the attendees for not reacting with enthusiasm to his speech. He ended with “we are going to have to fix this,” assuming there was something wrong with the audience rather than the audience being perplexed by his DMV worthy comments. A later event in the Kelly years was very sparsely attended. So it may have been less about lack of opportunity and more about lack of interest.

Eventually my invites got lost in the Mail, perhaps based on my posting here.