Anyone else remember when we beat bama (Sherrill days) and post game they put the locker room on the templetron and Dorsett (I think), said "we got some love up in here". That was a great game. They gave out white towels that everyone who did not have a cowbell waved the entire game (great effect) and then after we won, it was like no one left the stadium. Then the locker room came on and the team was going crazy. Good times. What year was that?</p>
"We got some love up in here"
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The day I realized the power of the internet. It was rumored Jackie was leaving for Tuscaloosa. There was an effort by those on Gene's Page to get everyone to wave a white towel at the game in support of Jackie. At the end of the game, there were a good number of white towels all over the stadium.
The video board thing was awesome. They showed Templeton presenting Jackie an award for all time wins as a MSU head coach. My wife said I showed more emotion watching that than at our wedding. It was a special moment in MSU football for sure. To bad it was the end of an era as well.
The video board thing was awesome. They showed Templeton presenting Jackie an award for all time wins as a MSU head coach. My wife said I showed more emotion watching that than at our wedding. It was a special moment in MSU football for sure. To bad it was the end of an era as well.
My theory is that he was showing interest in Alabama, and they did not reciprocate, thus basically crushing his dream of coaching there. It was then that the fire went out. Looking back, how different things might've been had Alabama hired him instead of Dennis Franchione. We could've attracted a pretty good candidate because we would've been left in really good shape in 2000. Bama wouldn't have suffered through the Mike Price/Mike Shula debacles either.
That was my theory as well. There was a lot of smoke then that he had informal interviews or meetings with Alabama. That had to be his dream job. It had to hurt him not to get it. But I am glad he did not. He was one of Bear's Boys. He understand the culture over there with the history. His style of play was a fit for the historical style of that program. He would have been hell over there. They screwed that one up for sure looking back on what they got instead.
The Kang was carried off the field on the players shoulders and it was hyped all week about the interest, which ever direction it was going, in the Alabama job.
I don't remember the words but I seem to remember The Kang putting an end to all the rumors right there in the locker room as he pronounced that Starkville was his home for life and that is when the crowed when nuts.
Correct me if I am wrong but that is how I seem to remember it.
Edited to correct my grammar, I was talking on the phone in Spanish trying to write this message in English
I don't remember the words but I seem to remember The Kang putting an end to all the rumors right there in the locker room as he pronounced that Starkville was his home for life and that is when the crowed when nuts.
Correct me if I am wrong but that is how I seem to remember it.
Edited to correct my grammar, I was talking on the phone in Spanish trying to write this message in English
615dawg said:
2000. What a great game and day that was. The win was capped off with a 4 play goal line stand after we botched a punt. Somehow
I knew Bama was not going to score. A great, great day.