I'll always remember those first two years of the Kang, for multiple reasons:
- My first memories of MSU football were 1987. So between then and 1990 you know exactly how that had shaped me......losing 18-14 to USM, Tech and 10, couple 5-6 years that ended with an Ole Miss beating in Jackson, etc. As a kid I remember asking my grandad, does Mississippi State ever get beyond the 50 yard line? So essentially I thought State football was just an exercise in futility.
- 1991 we come in and just beat down CSF and beat Texas. Then we beat Auburn which I thought wasn't possible. It was shocking to see us be good at football.
- We watched the Texas game on the cable box PPV....channel 31. IYKYK. Just beat the crap out of them. Remember thinking it wasn't normal for us to take care of business like that.
- Was reminded the next week that we are still Mississippi State, as the first of the two consecutive Baton Rouge beatdowns to a crappy LSU team in week 2 commenced.
- Beat Flarrda, but Sleepy goes down. Shlt.
- Do some good things, but lose to Bama and lose horrifically to Ole Miss on that goal line stand and start to feel the first sting of true fan despair, that really only an MSU fan can experience. Then the Peach Bowl choke, after hearing all these State and UNC fans talking smack on MARTA and getting fired up thinking that we were actually gonna back it up. NOPE.
But overall two pretty solid years. Then 1993 I discover how bad MSU fans love the backup QB and how toxic we can really be.
