2026 UConn Football Spring Game - Saturday, April 11 @2p at Rentschler Field

[ShakyTheMohel]

Pretty much 10%of boneyard threads say, "hold my beer".

at some point someone needs to gather a list of threads that derail the furthest and put it up for a vote for “hardest left thread”.

But…this has to be in contention….it is a thread about the spring game…and we end up talking about Rockville “river rats”. That’s a hard left.

 

[Hamms30]

At least it went quickly. "Hey guys, we have a spring game!" "But what of the people of Rockville? We have fishing that day!" ... "River rats!"

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Thank you Damion😉

I was about to ask this question….but I found the answer and thought I would bump this thread.

Spring practice starts on Tuesday….very cool. gonna be interesting to hear how Candle runs the camp and how the team looks.

I would love to hear what some of the players who have been there think about the difference between a Mora camp and a Candle camp.

 

[Waquoit]

 

[mikedog10]

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Vernonites/Rockvillians getting their finishing in now so they can attend the spring game next month.

 

[Nostical]

It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?

 

[Palatine]

It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?

Gene Pitney.

 

[Windham4th]

Bill Romanowski was from Rockville wasn't he?

 

[CL82]

It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?

 

[RSTuthill]

It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?

Evil Knievel?

 

[ZooCougar]

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Did the Spring Game fall on Opening Day again?

Edit: Why does CT still bother with having an Opening Day?

 

[Palatine]

Anyone else remember the Rockville Rockettes?

 

[Griggs]

It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville. In fact one of its most famous residents was known around the world as "The Rockville Rocket". Do you remember who that was?

Gene Pitney "Only love can break a heart"

 

[FfldCntyFan]

A town without pity

Cara mia

 

[Griggs]

A town without pity

Cara mia

I believe that was Jay Black and the Americans - cara mia

 

[Palatine]

One of the top singers from Somers, Connecticut.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I believe that was Jay Black and the Americans - cara mia

They had a bigger hit with it but Pitney (and quite a few others) also recorded it.

 

[Windham4th]

One of the top singers from Somers, Connecticut.

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"24 hours from Tulsa" was about UConn's time in the AAC.

 

[Waquoit]

Bill Romanowski was from Rockville wasn't he?

I lived in the same housing project as Bill Romanowski back in the day, on Plain Drive in East Hartford. I was 3 and he was 2.

 

[Waquoit]

Did the Spring Game fall on Opening Day again?

Edit: Why does CT still bother with having an Opening Day?

I think because they stock the streams with trout and they don't want anyone getting a head start.

 

[ZooCougar]

I think because they stock the streams with trout and they don't want anyone getting a head start.

I think now you can catch them beforehand but you just can’t keep them.

I used to love opening day, the fish were like Christmas presents.

 

[Palatine]

I think because they stock the streams with trout and they don't want anyone getting a head start.

It is an attempt to keep all the species viable.

 

[Waquoit]

It may now be Vernon but years ago it was referred to as Rockville.

It was two different, adjacent towns that joined forces. Vernon got the town name, Rockville the high school.

 

[Palatine]

Rockville is a historic village and census-designated place located within the town of Vernon, Connecticut. Though it was once an independent city and a world-class center for textile manufacturing, it consolidated with Vernon in 1965.

This is not unusual in Connecticut. Storrs is a village in Mansfield. Hazardville is a village in Enfield.

 

[Waquoit]

I believe that was Jay Black and the Americans - cara mia

And Nikolai Volkoff