Friday OT #2 - Missing the Magic

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Eons ago I went with my brother, his wife and my wife to the UNI game. It was probably 1987. My brother drove us all. We were watching the game and at the start of the 4th quarter Iowa State is getting beat and isn't showing any signs of life. Both wives are griping and want to leave. So it is decided we are going to leave. We start to leave the stadium and brother says that he has to go to the bathroom so he will meet us at the car. The three of us left the stadium and we no more than get out of the gates and huge roar goes up from the stadium. Obviously Iowa State has done something. We got to the car and waited...no brother. Another roar from the crowd. We wait somemore not able to even get in the car and listen to the radio. More roars from the stadium until the game is over. Brother finally shows up and tells us that after going to the bathroom Iowa State scored so he went back in to watch Iowa State stage a huge comeback. I was so mad at him because I didn't want to leave early to begin with but I was stuck out there not even able to listen on the radio.

I vowed to never, ever leave a game early again.
I think you've told me this story before...it never gets old! :D
 
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I missed the KSU comeback game because of work. Thought I could just get books done and be outta there and drive up to Ames and get a ticket. Nooo. I had to do two days worth of books, and it was for Thanksgiving and Black Friday. I couldn't get anything to balance, and I was at work for 10.5 hours. I sat in my car and cried I was so frustrated with just that job. (Just finishing up my 2nd month) I fell asleep before the game was over on TV, so I was scrolling through Twitter the next morning to see if we won.
 
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Thanks Angie!

For me, I am missing this weekends opening football game of the season to take my sister in law and niece, who are visiting us for 10 days in New Jersey, to drive to Rhode Island in order to experience the exciting action of England and the USA battling it out on the pitch in the exciting and thrilling posh sport of... Polo.

Gates open at noon, but my wife wants to get their at 1:00 pm so we can get a good spot on the lawn (it's open seating), for a game that starts at 4:00 pm.

Well that's pretty hoity toity maybe Julia Roberts will be there.
 

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Whatever Iowa game it was we won on a Cole Netten FG, I was on the 7th hole of the golf course because my dad couldn't stand to watch another half of bad football and "knew we were going to lose"
 

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I literally did not miss a game in-person from about 1978-1992. Then came the apathy and complete hopelessness of the end of the Walden era. Dad woke me up to leave for a game and I just couldn't do it. Had an opportunity to get some hours in at work and just couldn't justify in my mind a four hour round trip to see the Cyclones get pounded. It was the Marv Seiler game.
 

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I got to go to the Marv game in 92 because my uncle thought like many that we would get trounced and stayed home to do stuff on his farm and I went in his place.
 

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The Nebraska 1992 upset with marvelous Marvin Seiler...

Buddy's dad came down and bought tix and offered to us roommates. I said no, didn't want to watch a 70 point beatdown. Went to Marston, did some programming on the old Vax machines for some class or another. Took my radio & headphones but couldn't get reception up there for some reason - probably massive amounts of radiation from the Vax machines lol.

I got back to the house and wouldn't believe them that we had won until the dad confirmed it. Even then, I thought it might be a put on, but then there it was on WOI news.

So yeah, missed out on that one...
What is a "Vax machine?"
 

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Not exactly sure.
I missed the 2003 loss that ended the 5 year streak to Iowa because I negotiated half price lasik surgery but it had to be done that weekend.
 

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Thanks Angie!

For me, I am missing this weekends opening football game of the season to take my sister in law and niece, who are visiting us for 10 days in New Jersey, to drive to Rhode Island in order to experience the exciting action of England and the USA battling it out on the pitch in the exciting and thrilling posh sport of... Polo.

Gates open at noon, but my wife wants to get their at 1:00 pm so we can get a good spot on the lawn (it's open seating), for a game that starts at 4:00 pm.

So how was the polo match? Did you help push the divots back in? If you got there 3 hours early is it high class tailgating? I picked up a little sunburn at Jack Trice but it never got hot and tanned by today.
 

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I can't describe it. Here's a primer.

(Warning: The summary almost makes it less understandable :p)

Yeah it was essentially just old slaved terminals with the mainframe in the basement, or at least thats how i remember it. It was considered kinda old in 1992. Iirc, it was a monitor and keyboard combined unit, monochrome screen. Like something from WarGames.

The 5 ounce phone i type this msg on prob has 10,000 times more power. Crazy.
 

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So how was the polo match? Did you help push the divots back in? If you got there 3 hours early is it high class tailgating? I picked up a little sunburn at Jack Trice but it never got hot and tanned by today.

It was good, I would definitely do it again. England won the match as they had a really good fourth chukker, scoring 4-6 points I think. We ended up only arriving one and a half hour before the match as we weren't sure if our three year old niece would be occupied long enough for three hours. It was busy when we arrived and were lucky to get good seats. We did do the divot stomp, the niece loved that.

Regarding tailgating, yes, people do high class tailgating. One side of the field is dedicated solely to cars/tents right up again the field for tailgating (they have lines that define a box of like 10-15 feet for a reserved space). People dress up; think Kentucky derby as women were in sun/summer dresses and men in casual suit coats, pants, while wearing Sperry type shoes. Food was to the tune of charcuterie boards and similar type of affair. But this description is for the people who were more in to it. There were plenty of people who brought a cooler with sandwiches and stuff, which is what we did.

Also, regarding food, every game, there is a theme for a contest for tailgating. This games theme 'Go full English.' So who ever had the best tailgate setup based on the theme won 5 bottles of wine.

Overall, I would do it again, but not during a Cyclones game.
 
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Yeah it was essentially just old slaved terminals with the mainframe in the basement, or at least thats how i remember it. It was considered kinda old in 1992. Iirc, it was a monitor and keyboard combined unit, monochrome screen. Like something from WarGames.

The 5 ounce phone i type this msg on prob has 10,000 times more power. Crazy.

This is the terminal I used at my job at Wazzu back in the late 70s. It was slaved to the campus mainframe via hardwire. No monitor...just reading what you typed on that wide green-striped paper that was fed through it on a tractor roll.
Three years later at a job in San Francisco, I handed my hand written data to the data entry operators who were enclosed in a glass walled room with a computer that used tapes. The computer was the size of a couple of cargo vans placed end to end.
In 1984 I started working at ISU, and used a "data recorder" - a second gen keypunch that allowed you to verify your entry before it punched the holes. Then the cards had to be schlepped across campus to Durham and later in the afternoon a return trip to pick up a gigantor stack of papers.
And y'all mock me for my on-line skills...!

(sorry for the mini thread derail, @Angie !)
 
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This is the terminal I used at my job at Wazzu back in the late 70s. It was slaved to the campus mainframe via hardwire. No monitor...just reading what you typed on that wide green-striped paper that was fed through it on a tractor roll.
Three years later at a job in San Francisco, I handed my hand written data to the data entry operators who were enclosed in a glass walled room with a computer that used tapes. The computer was the size of a couple of cargo vans placed end to end.
In 1984 I started working at ISU, and used a "data recorder" - a second gen keypunch that allowed you to verify your entry before it punched the holes. Then the cards had to be schlepped across campus to Durham and later in the afternoon a return trip to pick up a gigantor stack of papers.
And y'all mock me for my on-line skills...!

(sorry for the mini thread derail, @Angie !)
KC with her "data recorder"

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Missed the epic K-State come back game a few years back. We were there tailgating and then my son had massive mud butt right before the game so we had to go home.