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bobcatsquared
12/7/2024 3:07 PM
Where were you?

I was 7, living in the shadows of the horseshoe. The only Bobcats I was aware of (Grandview Heights) wore Blue and White.
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Casper71
12/7/2024 3:17 PM
I was there for that championship and for the tangerine bowl. It’s good to be back again!
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GoCats105
12/7/2024 3:26 PM
My mom was 8 years old.
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cbarber357
12/7/2024 3:27 PM
My dad wasn’t born yet (I’m 31)
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El Gato Roberto
12/7/2024 3:33 PM
I was 10 in 1968!!!
I wasn’t a Bobcat, yet, but my first exposure was to watch Ohio lose to Richmond on a last second FG in the 1968 Tangerine Bowl on my grandparents’ fuzzy black and white TV in Point Pleasant, WVa
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BBHacker
12/7/2024 3:40 PM
El Gato Roberto wrote:expand_more
I was 10 in 1968!!!
I wasn’t a Bobcat, yet, but my first exposure was to watch Ohio lose to Richmond on a last second FG in the 1968 Tangerine Bowl on my grandparents’ fuzzy black and white TV in Point Pleasant, WVa
We lost that game 49-42; there was no last second field goal!
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El Gato Roberto
12/7/2024 3:41 PM
It was a fuzzier picture than I recall, I guess. 😂 I do recall watching it…
Last Edited: 12/7/2024 3:47:15 PM by El Gato Roberto
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Victory
12/7/2024 3:43 PM
I was still several years from being born. My Dad was an alum. Several uncles were in school at OU.

Yesterday only a small fraction of alums could remember. Today we all can.
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Doc Bobcat
12/7/2024 3:47 PM
I was at the game where we beat Fiami….artist roommate had drawn on a sheet an Indian (they were Redskins then) crawling out of a toilet….the only bowl for Fiami….then watched at Gunther’s Bar in Portsmouth future pro Walker Gillette have a career day as Richmond beat us in the Tangerine Bowl.
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bobcatsquared
12/7/2024 3:54 PM
Oh yeah, "1968" by Turnpike Troubadours just might be my new favorite song of this century, if wasn't already before today. Give it a try.
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72 Bobcat
12/7/2024 3:54 PM
My Freshman Year! I was a first year engineering student at Ohio Eastern Branch in Belmont County, Ohio. Obviously no broadcasts as today.
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1stInConvo
12/7/2024 3:59 PM
I was there for most games. Best game was at BG. We were behind and won 28-27. We could have scored again but Hess said take a knee.
It was an amazing year.

I never thought I'd see us win a MAC again, but this year is special!
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joefromperry
12/7/2024 4:07 PM
My wife and I were students then and went to EVERY regular season game. Glad they're finally back on top.
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Mike Johnson
12/7/2024 4:17 PM
I was soldiering in Korea. Got to listen to the Tangerine Bowl shootout on Armed Forces Radio.
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1stInConvo
12/7/2024 4:24 PM
Hello, Mike. Sure been a long time, former Gam Hall-ite and Whippet!
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1stInConvo
12/7/2024 4:35 PM
We knew what we were up against in the Tangerine Bowl. We had gone the season with three DB's, Mike Schott, Billy Mitchell and Craig Radar. Bill even tried Snyder at DB but Walker Gillette and UR were a very good team. We always felt we just ran out of time in the game. When it happened it felt really bad, but looking back it was quite an accomplishment to go 10-0 then. We won our OOC games pretty easy that year, over Wm&Mary and Dayton. We had to go on the road for 3 of the last 4 games. Western and BG were close. Toledo was close early in the year and you could see they would be the team to challenge us in the next years.

We averaged 34 points a game, which was a lot for that era. I looked up Cleve's QB rasting and it was 131 that year. He set the stage for the dual action QB that guys like Chuck Ealey of Toledo carried on.
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ou79
12/7/2024 4:55 PM
I listened to the BGSU game which sealed our MAC title on WOUB-AM with Joe Tait doing the call.
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Mike Johnson
12/7/2024 5:10 PM
1stInConvo wrote:expand_more
Hello, Mike. Sure been a long time, former Gam Hall-ite and Whippet!
Whippets had another good season - 12-1. School ranks 15th in state in all-time wins.

Care to give me a clue to your ID?
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OhioCatFan
12/7/2024 5:16 PM

I was working on a master's degree in journalism at the Evil Empire in Cowtown.  I listened to almost every game on the radio.  In fact, many times we would be at an O$U game with our cheap student season tickets, and I'd have my transistor radio and be listening to OHIO and somewhat oblivious to watching A&M win a game on the way to its zillionth national championship. I remember that I actually sold my tickets to the Michigan game for the price I paid for the whole season.  I did see OHIO play BG in person at BG in the coldest game that I can ever remember.  It was a come from behind victory.  I posted the schedule below.  Note that OHIO played five ranked teams that year.  I suspect that that's an all time OHIO record.  

Certainly glad to get that monkey off our back and win another MAC Champtionship.  And, beating Miami makes it doubly delicious. 

 

 

 

 

 

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GroverBall
12/7/2024 7:03 PM
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Pataskala
12/7/2024 7:24 PM
I was a senior in HS in Ohio's Great Northwest. The only MAC schools we ever heard about were Toledo and BGSUCKS, so I didn't know about it until a few years later. I do remember reading about the Tangerine Bowl game in one of the newspapers up there.
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OhioCatFan
12/8/2024 8:51 PM
Pataskala wrote:expand_more
I was a senior in HS in Ohio's Great Northwest. The only MAC schools we ever heard about were Toledo and BGSUCKS, so I didn't know about it until a few years later. I do remember reading about the Tangerine Bowl game in one of the newspapers up there.
My linguist sister says that NW Ohio is the only part of the state in which people speak without any kind of a slur. She says that in NW Ohio people talk so that each syllable is clearly enunciated, not so in any other part of the state.
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TWT
12/8/2024 11:26 PM
cbarber357 wrote:expand_more
My dad wasn’t born yet (I’m 31)
My dad was born the night of the Pitt game in 2005.
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OhioCatFan
12/8/2024 11:44 PM
TWT wrote:expand_more
My dad wasn’t born yet (I’m 31)
My dad was born the night of the Pitt game in 2005.
So you are now about three years old?
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TWT
12/9/2024 2:21 AM
OhioCatFan wrote:expand_more
My dad wasn’t born yet (I’m 31)
My dad was born the night of the Pitt game in 2005.
So you are now about three years old?
28 in cat years.
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