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Bob M.'s avatar

This was 50 years ago, but my Dad was one of the early landscapers in Eugene. We would work on some of his accounts in the morning and then go to the game in the afternoon. In those days the games always started at 12:30 and so we would quit at 11:00 am and change clothes at a gas station and then go to the stadium when there were still parking spaces. We got to see Dan Fouts beat Sonny Sixkiller at Auzen one year.

Btw, I was Mike Parker's original stat guy in high school when he called games for KNND in Cottage Grove....he's always worn his heart on his sleeve for games. He's a genuine guy...haven't seen him in years but really enjoyed those times.

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SCOTT SMITH's avatar

"Traditions...you tell me," you ask, John. Excellent question. I can predict almost all the responses will center on a game day experience. There's nothing like actually being there to give us that deeper sense of participation. That's where traditions are born. Television will never match it...but that's where CFB is headed. It will become an entertainment commodity and as much as we groan in the loss, we really have only ourselves to blame. We fans asked for this. We begged for more than the simple enjoyment of rooting our team's effort and a good football game--we wanted WINS! We wanted coaches who were perfect, not just good; we wanted 5-star players, not just student-athletes; we wanted National Champions, not just a successful season. We killed the joy of the good for the clamor to be the best.

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