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Imagine:
December 12 1969: a caravan of about 300 Huskies heading to Amherst to watch the team play UMASS and the great sophomore Julius Erving - at time when that school actually got some media attention. weather, lousy bleacher seats, nasty looking cheerleaders with way too much hairspray, fans looking like a Woodstock outtake, No UCONN band.... But UCONN played like men possessed.Bob Boyd and Ron Hrubala (still in the double-double record books) shutting down superstar Erving. Final score UCONN 88-71. Talk about going out of your mind nuts..no Husky could speak for days after the game because we were all too horse from screaming for 2 solid hours and another hour after the game. No cell phones, no internet, no media, no nothin', just a WHUS broadcast in Storrs. Headlines 2 days later!
Now the scene at the Garden and on this Monday and Tuesday. All UCONN all the time. Crazy media coverage, selfies with former Husky stars and Presidents, National (and International press), first-round draft picks, Uconn bands and cheerleaders in two cities at once, Vegas odds, Banners, the Garden rockin', message boards lighting up all over the country, The Boneyard !
Do you know how absolutely surreal this is? Can you imagine the heights that have been scaled? Can you imagine how f* *kin proud old alums like me are to be even alive to witness all of this? Savor the moments, my dear Husky friends....for this truly is the promised land.....and the stuff that memories and eventually dreams are made of! Love to all of you!
December 12 1969: a caravan of about 300 Huskies heading to Amherst to watch the team play UMASS and the great sophomore Julius Erving - at time when that school actually got some media attention. weather, lousy bleacher seats, nasty looking cheerleaders with way too much hairspray, fans looking like a Woodstock outtake, No UCONN band.... But UCONN played like men possessed.Bob Boyd and Ron Hrubala (still in the double-double record books) shutting down superstar Erving. Final score UCONN 88-71. Talk about going out of your mind nuts..no Husky could speak for days after the game because we were all too horse from screaming for 2 solid hours and another hour after the game. No cell phones, no internet, no media, no nothin', just a WHUS broadcast in Storrs. Headlines 2 days later!
Now the scene at the Garden and on this Monday and Tuesday. All UCONN all the time. Crazy media coverage, selfies with former Husky stars and Presidents, National (and International press), first-round draft picks, Uconn bands and cheerleaders in two cities at once, Vegas odds, Banners, the Garden rockin', message boards lighting up all over the country, The Boneyard !
Do you know how absolutely surreal this is? Can you imagine the heights that have been scaled? Can you imagine how f* *kin proud old alums like me are to be even alive to witness all of this? Savor the moments, my dear Husky friends....for this truly is the promised land.....and the stuff that memories and eventually dreams are made of! Love to all of you!
