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[QUOTE="OkaForPrez, post: 4853640, member: 997"]
When I was 5 years old in 1987 [USER=3058]@okaforprez sr[/USER] and Mrs. Senior brought the whole family to a Hartford hawks : beach boys concert double header.  You could see the game and a show for $12.50 back then ([URL="https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=EAIM&u=anon~74a0dffb&id=GALE%7CA176206624&v=2.1&it=r&sid=sitemap&asid=2a60f2f8"]COLLEGE BASKETBALL; THE SHOW GOES ON EVEN IF HAWKS LOSE - Document - Gale Academic OneFile Select[/URL]).

I remember the 2nd half of the game more than the concert.

By the time the dream season rolled around it was hard for an 8 year old not to get swept up in husky mania.  I remember the “what I like about UConn” parody playing on the radio and blasting it in the living room.  At our elementary school the classes were theming activities around the tournament run.  I have vague memories of artwork / posters hung around the classroom.

[USER=3058]@okaforprez sr[/USER] missed Tate’s shot live because he was consoling my sister and I on the stairwell well away from the tv.  We all ran in to see the replay after my moms screamed to tell us we had won.

That was it.  Hook baited.  Impossible to not get addicted to that kind of adrenaline rush.

34 years of being completely spoiled and counting.
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