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Navy - ND

Lanisem

Lanisem

wnna jam.
Amazing.. 44 years.. and the day of victory..no.. the TIME of victory happens to be in... the middle of my interview with a LtCDR. Who played for Navy back in 91'! 3 OT's made for one looong interview. Good Omen for him to give aspiring Naval Officer good marks? Yes? :D
 
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Junior

Registered User
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VFA-203 Forever said:
Didn't get to see the start of the game, But did NBC show the flyby of the four Hobo's (VFA-94) over the stadium (Or for anyone in attendance, How was it)? Found out from a guy I know in the Shrikes on Friday they were doing it (He was one of the four) but didn't get a chance to see if they actually showed it or not on TV.

Definitely a sweet,sweet victory. What a year it'll be if we can beat Army in a few weeks. AF,ND AND Army all in one year doesn't happen often ;)
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Yes, they showed it a couple times at the beginning. Diamond, very nicely flown. Props to -94.
 
TheBubba

TheBubba

I Can Has Leadership!
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Got this article regarding the Navy victory ad Notre Dame in an email. Have a good read.

(article by John Feinstein, Author of A Civil War: A Year Inside Army vs. Navy)

When the U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the seemingly unbeatable SovietUnion in Lake Placid in 1980 en route to the gold medal, it was hailed asthe most stunning upset in sports history.It may be difficult for an outsider to understand, but the Navy footballteam's 46-44 triple-overtime victory over Notre Dame on Saturday may rank,at the very least, a close second to that storied miracle on ice. This was amiracle on turf. Notre Dame had beaten Navy 43 straight times, dating backto 1963 when Roger Staubach was Navy's quarterback and officers in themilitary made salaries comparable to those of players in the NationalFootball League.It was before Vietnam, before Iraq, before any high school athlete who hadany notion that he could play in the NFL someday ran screaming from the roomat the thought of attending a college with a five-year post-graduatemilitary commitment. It was, in short, a very different world.Skeptics will point out that this is a bad (now 1-8) Notre Dame team. Itdoesn't matter. Every Notre Dame team should dominate Navy on the footballfield. At one point during the game, NBC -- also known as the Notre DameBroadcasting Co. because it pays the school millions of dollars a year totelevise all its home games -- did a promo for a high school All-Star gameit televises in January. Only the country's top-rated high school seniorsare invited to play."Twenty-one of the current Irish players have played in that game in pastyears," NBC play-by-play announcer Tom Hammond said.That would be exactly 21 more than are currently playing at Navy. Or, asHammond's partner Pat Haden pointed out: "With all due respect, Navy doesn'tget to recruit blue-chip football players."Just blue-chip people.Navy's first touchdown on Saturday was scored by Zerbin Singleton, anaerospace engineering major with a 3.14 grade point average who hopes to bean astronaut. As an 11-year-old, Singleton watched as a bounty hunter shotand arrested his mother. He was accepted at the Naval Academy as a highschool senior, but he could not report for plebe summer after he was injuredwhen a car he was in was hit by a drunk driver. He tried to join thefootball team at Georgia Tech but was told, "Don't waste our time, kid,you're too small." He re-applied to Navy, was accepted, then had to dealwith the suicide of his father during his freshman year.Of course at 5-foot-8 and 174 pounds, Singleton is bigger than ReggieCampbell, the 5-foot-6-inch, 168-pound offensive captain who scored thewinning points on Saturday.Notre Dame has every advantage a football power can possibly have: an80,000-seat stadium; its own TV network; arguably the greatest tradition incollege football history ("win one for the Gipper," Knute Rockne, TouchdownJesus, the fight song); more money than it knows what to do with; and agreat academic reputation.ad_iconWhat does Navy sell to recruits? The chance to play against Notre Dame.Or maybe it's the chance to wake up at 6 o'clock every morning; the chanceto be screamed at by upperclassmen; the chance to lose your weekend libertyfor carrying a book-bag improperly or for being 30 seconds late to class.Not to mention the chance to get shot at when you graduate.The players Coach Paul Johnson recruits are frequently like Campbell andSingleton: too small for big-time programs like Notre Dame to bother with;tough kids who love a challenge and love proving they can do things that"can't" be done.Like beating Notre Dame in Notre Dame Stadium.The best description I ever heard of what it is like to play football atNavy, Army and Air Force came from Fred Goldsmith, who coached at Air Force:"At a civilian school the hardest part of a football player's day isfootball practice," he said. "At an academy, the easiest part of a footballplayer's day is football practice."Navy can't possibly beat Notre Dame. Except on Saturday a group ofyoungsters who were too small or too slow (or both) to play big-time collegefootball did just that.With all due respect to Notre Dame and all its blue-chip players, Navy'scelebration should be our celebration.John Feinstein is the author of "A Civil War: A Year Inside Army vs. Navy,College Football's Purest Rivalry." He has been a commentator for the Navyfootball radio network for 11 years.
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FrankTheTank

FrankTheTank

Professional Pot Stirrer
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Watched the game in Montreal, Quebec and was wondering... Who is the Midget that made the 2 point conversion... That dude should be getting tail from Now till Commission! Oh wait.. You guys don't do that at Boat School.. Maybe a handjob from a Plebe?? Good Job! :D
 
ChuckMK23

ChuckMK23

FERS and TSP contributor!
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Perhaps the best football game I have ever watched - period.

And how sweet for Reggie Campbell - the guy Georgia Tech's head coach labeled as "never amount to much"... shame on that guy and BZ to MIDN Campbell :)
 
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a_m

Still learning how much I don't know.
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Maybe I misheard them but it sounded like they said F-15's to me.
 
smittyrunr

smittyrunr

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Either way, they don't say "NORTE DAME" on the side.

I was there.... best football game ever, even better than beating Army.
 
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