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YellowSnow
YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,348 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: 37,348 Founders Club
    YouKnowIt said:

    But what about your other dad?

    Rose Bowl
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,239 Founders Club
    Husky football
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,141 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: 37,348 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: 11,687 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: 37,348 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: 2,642
    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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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,328 Founders Club
    Old man Nacho is a euro trash soccer enthusiast who loves any of the euro league tournaments but the World Cup probably takes the cake for him.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,574 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.

    I was born on a Saturday morning at 10:08a.m., Swedish Hospital.

    At 11:30a.m., my dad said goodbye and went to Husky Stadium to watch UW beat Navy.

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,574 Founders Club
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    Old man Nacho is a euro trash soccer enthusiast who loves any of the euro league tournaments but the World Cup probably takes the cake for him.

    I'm sorry. What a dreadful childhood it must have been for you.
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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,327 Standard Supporter
    I've heard many stories about the unlimited hydroplanes being the best party of the year back in the day.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,574 Founders Club
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    I've heard many stories about the unlimited hydroplanes being the best party of the year back in the day.

    I never felt that way but the region would be gripped with Seafair fever. The Blue Angels would run test patterns right over my childhood home on W Lake Sammamish Pkwy, which was a thrill
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    YellowSnow said:

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

    I also recommend the documentary "Tour de Pharmacy."

    My ol' man was into any sporting event on TV. Didn't really matter. Sports was life.
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  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,328 Founders Club
    DerekJohnson said:

    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    Old man Nacho is a euro trash soccer enthusiast who loves any of the euro league tournaments but the World Cup probably takes the cake for him.

    I'm sorry. What a dreadful childhood it must have been for you.
    Trust me, I watched very little of it.
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  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,280
    The Rose Bowl.

    Since his old man played in it.
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  • Ice_Holmvik
    Ice_Holmvik Member Posts: 2,912
    Closing bars and chasing skirts.
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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,045 Standard Supporter
    Husky Football, no contest. My dad grew up a Husky fan in Tacoma. Later played D2 ball after serving in the Pacific, but remained loyal to UW, loved Don James and Jim Lambright and used to call me during games to make sure I was watching, well into his 70s. Boxing was always a close 2nd.
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  • StLouisDawg
    StLouisDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 553 Founders Club
    As a man who grew up in the barrios of Texas during the depression and WwII, boxing was king. As a mild racist for the time, he rarely bet on the white guy. He enjoyed the Mexican bouts, but anytime he could see some large black men beat the shit out of each other in a boxing ring, it was heaven.

    Man loved Muhammad Ali. And OJ Simpson, but that’s another story.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 114,239 Founders Club
    My dad liked the games in Saigon


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