I've been lucky to have been at most the super loud games. Fright Night was top 3-5 loudest I've heard Autzen. Saturday was the loudest for the longest I've heard. 2002 Michigan, 2014 Michigan St, 2018 Washington were all up there.
you were at Fright Night too then. That was a great game to be my swan song. I have been forever grateful to have been living in Alaska in 1983 which kept me from from attending the Toilet Bowl.....sheeeeeesh. That might have ruined all sports for me forever
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I used to live in Eugene. Went to the UofO then stayed there for a decade after. I was lucky enough to have known some of the Oregon Greats. Was on a '
how's it going' basis with Dan Fouts before he matriculated to the NFL; then many years later I did some work on his house at Black Butte ranch (
he didn't really remember me until I jogged his memory, and maybe not even then). I knew Steve Prefontaine pretty well. His GF and my GF were in the same sorority. I saw him drinking beer after midnight at a party once, and later that day he set an American record in the 10,000M (
or maybe it was the 3-mile). I was on a howdy basis with Mac Wilkins too. I was pretty good friends with Doug Little and Gerald Willett. You'll need to be a pretty big Duck fan to know those names
I was in Mac Court when the Ducks knocked off unbeaten UCLA and Bill Walton. Saw lots of games when the Pit was in it's roof-shaking glory. I saw a lot of great track meets at Hayward Field, especially back in the day when dual meets were a thing
all that shows when my '
going to the game' days were, and for football? Yikes there were some bad Duck teams. Maybe that's why my bias says that the godfather of modern Duck football was as much Mike Bellotti as Phil Knight (
Rich Brooks gets credit for elevating the program from the toilet to semi-credible)
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glad to hear that Autzen reclaimed it's glory and surpassed it. I've been told that the intensity of the crowd, the last few years, hasn't been quite what it used to be. Baby Boomers have low metabolism you know