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What was your old man's favorite sporting event?

YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,858 Founders Club
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For Papa Yellar, it was (and still is) the Tour de France and it's not close. Rose Bowl (my Dad was there on Jan 1, 1978) was distance 2nd.

I met Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault at the end of stage once at the 1985 Coors Classic. Race ended at Squaw Valley Palisades Tahoe.

The 30 for 30 "Slaying The Badger" is great BTW if you haven't seen it.


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  • YouKnowIt
    YouKnowIt Member Posts: 545
    But what about your other dad?
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,858 Founders Club
    YouKnowIt said:

    But what about your other dad?

    Rose Bowl
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,056 Founders Club
    Husky football
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,813 Standard Supporter
    edited June 2022
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dEAb4KJ-Q

    Nebraska/Oklahoma football game.

    One year mom slipped on the ice.. He made her wait until the game was over before taking her to the hospital. She had a severe concussion.

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,858 Founders Club
    PurpleThrobber said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97dEAb4KJ-Q

    Nebraska/Oklahoma football game.

    One year mom slipped on the ice.. He made her wait until the game was over before taking her to the hospital. She had a severe concussion.

    What the fuck is wrong with America? How do the sodbusters not play each other?
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,842 Swaye's Wigwam
    Dad was a lifelong SF Giants fan and later became an Ms and Giants fan. His favorite individual event probably goes back to the Mays/McCovey era.

    I never saw him so pumped though, aside from some of my games as a teen, as he was in game 5 of the 95 wildcard series with NY.

    When Bonds was in a tear and in the playoffs he'd call me after a Bonds homer to ask (triumphantly) why they ever pitched to him. He was definitely stoked to see the giants make a run toward what turned out to be the end for him.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,858 Founders Club
    chuck said:

    Dad was a lifelong SF Giants fan and later became an Ms and Giants fan. His favorite individual event probably goes back to the Mays/McCovey era.

    I never saw him so pumped though, aside from some of my games as a teen, as he was in game 5 of the 95 wildcard series with NY.

    When Bonds was in a tear and in the playoffs he'd call me after a Bonds homer to ask (triumphantly) why they ever pitched to him. He was definitely stoked to see the giants make a run toward what turned out to be the end for him.

    My Daddy got bullied by Bobby Bonds in High School. FTGs!
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  • Fishpo31
    Fishpo31 Member Posts: 2,682
    Red River Shootout...My Pops hated Okie with the intensity of a thousand suns. I once asked him if the Sooners played Russia, who would he root for? He looked at me and said, "Can ya give me a few minutes to think it over?"...I think that several spinning records at the graveyard are broken every tim Sark leads them out of the tunnel. aTm not much better (Pops went to UT, my uncles both to aTm), he threw me out of the family home (as a 28 yr old college baseball corch) for wearing an aTm baseball shirt.

    2nd place is The Masters
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