Well, here goes nothing:
1. Dads weekend - I was funding a night of dinner and beer drinking per my usual Dad's weekend routine. We made it to the CI at the end of the evening. My son blew chunks. I'm a bad, bad father.
2. During my Bobcat days - We were living in Atkinson on "new" south. My buddies and I decided to have a keg party on my birthday (yes, you could have them then...). We drove to Nelsonville to buy a keg of Rolling Rock...it was during a shift change there...they forgot to charge me. We drove back to Athens (with keg), gave the money we had collected to 3 other buddies, who then drove to Nelsonville and bought a keg of Rolling Rock. Epic party...still feel the least bit bad about that one.
3. 1983 NCAA Tournament - Ohio wins first round game against Illinois State on St. Patrick's Day, in their green uniforms, on a last second prayer by Tatum. My room mate and I had an exam earlier that day. Lots of celebratory Guinness followed by a bad decision...tequila shots. Confirmed report that I went down the CI stairs head-first. Friends thought I was dead. I got up laughing with beer in hand.
That #2 is fantastic!
I had to wait until we got all the way back to South Green before I told my buddies. Knowing those guys, they would have wanted to turn around and get another keg right then, but I knew that would blow our cover!
You sure we were in green unis in that NCAA game?
Yep -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u41taGZcCA Actually surprised that's out there...
The first time I ever saw highlights from the '83 game was on a random "Amazing Sports Highlights" VHS tape that a friend of mine had (I assume still does). It was a hodge podge of all different sports but somehow Tatum's shot made the cut. Is anyone else familiar with this tape? I first saw it in like 2001 and I am guessing it was from the late 80s.
A big confessional I have is that I had what I thought was a great idea that I never had the stones to bring to life as I was too afraid of getting into a legal mess. It's probably dumb now but at the time I thought it would have been hilarious.
I was a frequent visitor to Bong Hill-mainly just to chill and watch the world go by-nothing too wild.
I had the idea to cut white letters out of plywood and install them on the side of the hill where 32/50 and 33 come together to spell Hollywood, all jagged like in LA. I even had planned buying the materials and doing all of the work here in my dad's shop in Cincinnati so that the cops couldn't go to Carter Lumber trying to find out more info. It all would have been installed under the cover of darkness, for everyone to wake up to the next morning.
Did anyone else on here ever drive out to The Mountaineer Family Restaurant in Parkersburg? I had a group of friends that we would go out at least once a quarter just to get out of town for a few hours.