When did you become a Pitt fan?
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I would have LOVED to have seen Marino, Dorsett, Hugh Green and all. I was too far away from Pittsburgh to attend any games back then. I'll bet it was GREAT!
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Yeah, it was those uniforms I fell in love with. Like I said, I was in Indiana at the time surrounded by Notre Dame fans. I was really homesick and just seeing that "Pitt" script on the helmet made me feel like I was home. Pitt crushed ND that day and I was hooked ever since.
If college football were set up then as it is now, Pitt would have won easily!
I remember those Cambria Heights vs Northern Cambria football games. Great time for football.
I was away in the military when they made the change, not really keeping up. When I got back home I saw that dinocat and just could not believe my eyes. No offense to those who like the dinocat, but when I think of great Pitt football, I think Pitt script.
It was sometime before first grade. My mom found out during parent-teacher conferences from my 1st grade teacher, a former Penn State cheerleader, that I didn't like Penn State very much as I had been leading my class in "Penn State Stinks" cheers at recess. Now mind you, this was in Altoona, essentially ground zero of Nitter country, and no one in my family was really a Pitt fan, per se, nor were any of them alumni. My immediate family wasn't necessarily Penn State fans either, so I guess I just wasn't brainwashed. I just never saw the logic, even when I was that young, of being a fan of all the other Pittsburgh teams but not Pitt. And if you are a fan of Pitt, well, then...
I became a fan of Pittsburgh teams because my favorite color of helmet in my Dairy Queen Sunday-in-a-Helmet collection was the bright yellow Pirate one. I actually remember going back and forth one day over which team to cheer for...the bright yellow Pirates or the bright orange Padres. I wonder how different my life would have been if I had picked orange.
I became a fan of Pittsburgh teams because my favorite color of helmet in my Dairy Queen Sunday-in-a-Helmet collection was the bright yellow Pirate one. I actually remember going back and forth one day over which team to cheer for...the bright yellow Pirates or the bright orange Padres. I wonder how different my life would have been if I had picked orange.
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Bruce Murphy & Clair Wilson scored late for our lone win.
I left a GP receiving line that day....it was homecoming....when Depasqua's lovely wife declared that it was good to be at home playing against a team IN OUR CLASS!!! I was too pissed to stay inside Schenley Hall....just stomped around outside for a while. That defined the horrible attitude.
My seats were in Sec. 18, Row 41, right below the Chancellors shack. Early in the game. I turned around and yelled for Cas to fire the bum. He just stared at me.
I became a Pitt fan in 1968, after arriving from Philly.
No, that would have been the year before Majors. The last season of the Carl DePasqua era, which followed the Dave Hart era. (Very similar to Temple under Ron Dickerson and Bobby /Wallace, but not as prolonged).
When I matriculated at Pitt in the fall of 1970. Our team my freshman year had high hopes until all-American candidate LB Ralph Cindrich went down with an injury. IIRC, the team went 5-1 to start the season and then lost the last 4 games. Soph year season was worse and Junior year was terrible (1 win). Saw TD and Majors for two seasons, as I moved from the 'Burgh in 1975, and haven't lived there since. Like others, I grew up in Penn State "country" but never was a fan of theirs. Been a loyal Pitt and Steelers fan for what, 47 years now? Am I that %#*!^ old???!
Now that IS DIE HARD!!
Yeah, it made for interesting nights out when all knew I was a huge Pitt fan. As that said, Heinz Field is just about as far away from Oakland as the Evansdale Campus, where Mtneer Field is located, is from WVUs main campus. It is not an easy trek for students who live down in the main dorms/campus to get to their home games, FB or basketball.
It can take three hours to go from Mountaineer Field to the main campus after a game. They do have whats called the PRT (rail transit), to take from downtown to the field, but it is much easier for the Pitt students to hop on the bus and ride back to campus, IMO. Can only fit like 8 people in the PRT at one time. Not many students leave at the end of the 3rd quarter unlike the sweet caroline flood that occurs at Heinz Field. I had hooked up with a chick and went to see her down on the main campus, and i left right as a WVU game ended and it took literally three hours to get back to my apartment. and that was traveling back towards the stadium
I remember that, I was 11-12 then, it's odd now to think about it? Why did Grambling of all places have that show? ND did too, but that makes sense? Was it because they where popular with black viewers?
That was Marino's last home game. Too young for TD & Hugh though, but we were still loaded in 82. Ranked #1 for a lot of the season then got upset by a crappy Notre Dame team. I was only 6 at the time so I assumed we'd be good like that every year. Ooops!!!
My mother (WVU) and father (PSU), was adopted by both different times. Lived part of my life in Notre Dame country, part in PSU country, part in Ohio State country, even five years in Texas, and now live in WVU country.
Me and my sons have been Pitt fans all the way. If it weren't for me missing what I considered home, Pitt being as good as they were at that time, and living amongst all the Notre Dame fans, who know who we would be rooting for today. I believe it were WVU or PSU playing Notre Dame that year and winning the national title, I would have been a fan of theirs. Funny how life can dictate these things.
Me and my sons have been Pitt fans all the way. If it weren't for me missing what I considered home, Pitt being as good as they were at that time, and living amongst all the Notre Dame fans, who know who we would be rooting for today. I believe it were WVU or PSU playing Notre Dame that year and winning the national title, I would have been a fan of theirs. Funny how life can dictate these things.
OK. You and I (initials: KB) worked at Kennywood at the same time. The Dave M. from the class of 73 that I'm thinking of played on the football and basketball teams. If that's the one, he and I were football teammates.
I got hooked in1963 when I was 13. Rooted for the Steelers, but I remember seeing these really exciting Pitt game highlights on the local TV newscasts. There was Paul Martha making 60 yard TD runs; and Freddy Mazurik making dazzling plays.
Then I entered Pitt in 1967 and never missed a home game as a student - even though our teams were awful back then....
Go Pitt
Then I entered Pitt in 1967 and never missed a home game as a student - even though our teams were awful back then....
Go Pitt
Yep!!! Dave was a football player!!! I am still at Kennywood and have been there full time sincev1988,,,In fact, Dave,s daughter also worked for m at KP!!!
I was at that game, Lou Holtz coached ND, was highly ranked and if I remember correctly, we where up 27-0 at half, and held on to win 27-22 with ND throwing Hail Mary's in the last minute, Iron Head was something like 35 carries for maybe 97 yards and a couple TDs. I don't think he broke 100. It was lightly raining throughout.
Went back and found an article....
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-11/sports/sp-13430_1_notre-dame
42 carries for 132 yds and 2 TDs. Sal Genilla was the QB... never heard of him before finding the article.
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-10-11/sports/sp-13430_1_notre-dame
42 carries for 132 yds and 2 TDs. Sal Genilla was the QB... never heard of him before finding the article.
OK, so he did have 100 yards, my bad, I just remember his YPC was barely 3.0. Genilla was a hot shot JC transfer who threw for like 40+ TDs the year before, he was kind of a bust.
It was lightly raining throughout.... If I am not mistaken it was not raining and that was just Holtz spittle. Now if you want to talk 1987 and rain, the Temple abortion set the standard that year.
I vividly remember THAT game (though I really don't recall who won, but I think Pitt did) because of the monsoon and that it seemed like Ironhead's yardage total in that game matched his weight that day. For rather obvious reasons, I made a point of making it to the Temple/Pitt game each year until I moved to the West Coast. (The weekend before I loaded up the U-Haul, I sat through that 53-52 game that neither team seemed to want to win. Worst game I ever saw EITHER school play in person, which on the Temple side of things even surpassed that 76-0 debacle to Pitt my senior year. Now, if you asked my dad when I became a Pitt fan, he'd say THAT game--he used to joke that the reason I chose Pitt for grad school is because I got to learn "Hail to Pitt" by heart by hearing it played over . . . and over . . . and over . . . that afternoon.)
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