Bill Lucas
Assistant Coach
What a glorious day that day was. One of the loudest cheers I've ever heard in Ohio Stadium was when that score went final.
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You got to the stadium before I did. I was watching BTN’s first game in Eddie George’s restaurant and didn’t leave until it ended. I did hustle and make it in time for kickoff.What a glorious day that day was. One of the loudest cheers I've ever heard in Ohio Stadium was when that score went final.
You got to the stadium before I did. I was watching BTN’s first game in Eddie George’s restaurant and didn’t leave until it ended. I did hustle and make it in time for kickoff.
Our game and their game were on at the same time. I hurried to the Alumni House and was checking updates at tailgates along the way. Made it in time for the last drive. You wouldn't have been watching App St and then gone to the stadium.
Oh, the humanity!
"It's finally here now. The 2007 season. They've brought Appalachian State onto the Big House field to be run over by a number of maize and blue men. Michigan's offense is starting with a touchdown; it's--the offense has started to slack up. Now the defense is barely holding, just enough to--
It's burst into flames! The 2007 season burst into flames! And it's falling! It's crashing! Watch it! Watch it! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Michigan's national championship dreams are on fire-- and they're crashing! They're crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! The season is burning and bursting into flames! And Michigan is falling-- falling out of the polls! This is terrible. This is the worst or the worst catastrophes in the college football world! It's in flames...crashing! Four or five in both polls and it's-- it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now! And Henne's Heisman chances are crashing to the ground, probably bringing Hart's with it. Oh, the humanity! And all the fans in the stadium are screaming for Lloyd's head around here. It-- I can't even talk to people. Ah- it's- it's a - ah, I- I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen! Honest, the season, it's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage. Ah. And everybody in the stands, the Michigan fans, can hardly breathe and talk, and the screaming. Honest; I can hardly breathe. I'm going to step out of the stadium for I dare not see it. Losing to a 1-AA team, that's terrible. I can't watch. Folks, I'm going to have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed."
Let's put this into context. Those were not just good times. Those were great, glorious, spectacular, wonderful, magnificent times.There was a YouTube at one time in the south concourse in which I located my wife and I watching one of the tv's as the game ended. Good times.
I do miss MZone. Benny & Yost were hilarious.
The scene from the south concourse:
OSU marching band on the east concourse mockingly plays Hail to the Victors when the score went final: