One the morning of the last BC home game of the season I thought I'd take a look back at my 10 favorite BC football memories (not necessarily involving the games). Obviously this is just from my BC era so forget about Flutie.
10. Baylor v. BC, opening game 1999. This is where it all began, my first game as a student. The game itself was awesome, an overtime thriller with BC winning on a field goal. Other highlights, passing a bottle of Rubinoff (Vermont's finest spirit) around with 10 guys from Keyes 3rd floor in a tiny dorm room and chasing it down with potato chips (nothing else available). Of course we got to the game about an hour early, as freshman are known to do and got awesome seats on the field side of the student section in the second row. Things changed quick.
9. ALMOST beating Miami in 1999 when they were undefeated and ranked number 1. This actually turned into a crushing defeat but it was pretty awesome for 3 quarters thinking we were going to bring down the goal posts. A 31 point 4th quarter by the Hurricanes ended that but the energy in the stadium that day was incredible.
8. Virginia Tech v. BC 2000. Sure they lost this one too but this was the Michael Vick experience. V-Tech went up 14 nothing, but BC rallied to tie with two quick TD's. Then for the next 3 quarters Vick single handedly demolished the Eagles. Over 200 yards rushing, he was just totally unstopable, one of the best athletic perfomances I've ever seen live.
7. The Matthias wine incident. I don't remember what game it was, I think it might have been one of the first of our senior year. I remember being in the mod but that's it. He went to cater a pre-season event, afterwards he was aware that he was going to come home to a shit show so he decided to try to catch up...by drinking 2 bottles of wine. When he arrived at the mod he looked like he was made of jello, limbs and goonishness flopping everywhere. Classic. Later in the day he was so passed out that his sketchball roomate thought it was okay to fool around with a girl with him in the room. The girl was not as psyched.
6. 8:00 AM, speakers outside blaring "Move Bitch" and "For Boston". A cop drives by, stops, and in a completely shocked voice says, "Are you guys serious right now? All of Edmonds and Walsh just called to complain about you. Just stop."
5. The "SuperDrunk" t-shirt incident. We made up shirts spoofing the BC student "Superfan" shirts with an Eagle tapping a keg on the front and "Get Wasted" written on the back. We were selling them, at cost in our mod during the first game of senior year. Apparently this was a rather large mistake. The slip and slide in the backyard initially drew the attention of the police, the alleged, "copyright infringment" kept it for the remainder of the afternoon. Come for the slip and slide, stay for the arrest.
4. Notre Dame pilrgimage 1. 8 morons pile into a Chey Blazer sport that comfortably holds 4. 16 hours later they arrive in South Bend, tired, smelly, and hating each other. Madness ensues including a trip to a bar with a $6 cover charge and dollar pitchers. BC loses the game but it's one of those classic trips that I'll always remember.
The top 3 later, M.A.'s calls.
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