Someone asked Matt to start the thread so I thought I would beat him to the punch.
This was my favorite game of many. This one sticks out because of my distain for Baylor and intense loathing of Grant Teaff.
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October 16, 1965. I can visualize half that game still today.
Arkansas 27 sad Horns 24.
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Ah yes, the flying teeth game. Darryl Mason’s specifically. When you played Baylor under Grant the Hypocrite, the whistle at the end of the play didn’t end the hitting, nosirree.
As fun as Austin 2003 was, I still think the '79 Texas game tops them all. With Al Michaels on the call, which I didn’t see until later. Four months later he called a game in Lake Placid that is remembered a lot more widely.
Tomorrow I might decide it was something else.
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Oct. 17, 1981 ut/Arkansas at Razorback Stadium 42-11 win for Arkansas
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- Miracle on Markham
- Around 2004, when Matt Jones, Cedric Cobbs, etc blasted the Horns in Austin.
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That would be 2003
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Put this on the other thread but…
Favorite match up / game in person… #1 would have to be USC in 74…
I’m sure there are others but I think a solid #2 would be the Ole Miss game last year at RRS… man that was fun game! Maybe just because it was Ole Piss and after the previous years it was SO fun to see us just win… took my grandkids to that game… it was their first so it was special already.
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Miracle on Markham 1
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Cotton Bowl against KState. My first bowl game and KState fans were classy.
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77 Orange bowl against OU
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I wasn’t at that Cotton Bowl, but I was at the Liberty Bowl game with KSU a few years later. I don’t know if their fans were classy or not. I didn’t see enough of them to judge. At our hotel in Memphis the next morning, there were about four people at breakfast wearing purple and 200 wearing cardinal.
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No Contest; 1965 Texas in Fayetteville! Bobby Slept here signs were everywhere after that game. Opened this thread. I was right in front of the texas band
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It seems like most of the games I remember fondly were out of state. I’ll break down the ones that stand out to me by sport. I only attended a handful of games in any sport prior to my start covering the program in 2005, so these are all going to relatively recent.
Football: The 2007 game at LSU is the one I come back to whenever a thread like this appears. That was my first game in Death Valley and I’ll never forget how quiet it was in Baton Rouge after the game. They thought they had lost out on the national championship. They eventually still won it, but it took a crazy sequence of events for that occur…I also have fond memories of the Georgia game in 2010. That was my first week in this role and Greg Childs ran right by me. I have vivid memories of that bell Petrino took to all the games and how loud it was reverberating underneath the concrete at Sanford Stadium…The absurdity of the Henry Heave game stands out, and that Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe was sitting behind me in the press box for some reason.
Basketball: The 2008 SEC Tournament in Atlanta was memorable, in particular the semifinal game against Tennessee because I was one of just a few hundred people in the building and because of the way it ended with Steven Hill’s game winner. I was in the Georgia Dome the night before when the tornado hit, which was one of the scariest moments I’ve experienced. My photographer, Chris, and I ran on adrenaline the rest of the weekend. I had Kentucky fans offering me hundreds of dollars for my credential outside of Georgia Tech’s arena that Saturday morning…There have been a lot of entertaining games at Bud Walton through the years, maybe none more than the Qualls dunk. I woke up my wife when I got home and she asked if the game was any good.
Baseball: There are so many to choose from, but Game 3 of the Waco Super Regional in 2012 was probably the most nail-biting game I can remember. Arkansas got out of two or three bases-loaded jams and the game was scoreless going to the 10th inning. By the late innings the crowd was hanging on to every single pitch. Baylor was a national seed and those were the three hottest games I’ve ever attended. It gave me appreciation for what they mean when they talk about Texas heat…Others that stand out were the James McCann walk-off HR to beat LSU, the Colin Kuhn walk-off grand slam to beat Kentucky and numerous postseason games…At the risk of having recency bias, I’d also add a couple of games from this year — the Florida game to clinch the SEC title and the regional championship game against Nebraska. The atmosphere for both of those games was outstanding, especially after so long of seeing games with crowds at limited capacity. Charlie Welch was the hero both nights.
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77 orange bowl stomping of Oklahoma 31-6
Think we were the best team in the nation late in that season
Lou Holtz was a master motivator
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I was trying tto remember if this was the one where the big back scored 5 tds! I was there too!
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79 Texas game…the buildup;the victory on Dickson Street…was working at the Swinging Door/White Water Tavern that weekend…Zorro and the Blue Footballs had played and i made about $100.00 in tips…we shut the place down and sat on the sidewalk watching the celebration…it was a great weekend!
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Beating Ga in Athens I believe in 2010.
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I was a student then, went down to LR for the game, drove back to Fayetteville that night. Drove down Dickson Street and the gutters of the street were filled with empty beer cans for blocks!
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Football: Tennessee redemption.
Baseball: there are so many. Toops HR vs. Wichita, McCann’s
HR vs. LSU, beating the future wallets to win the SEC this year…
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2010
Georgia game @ Athens—
The crowd was silent as Greg Childs sprinted down the sideline with the winning TD…
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