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[Vernon]

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[mtneer8]

Back in 2012, I attended the WVU vs UT game when we were #8 and they were #11. The atmosphere was electric, and the horns fans sure were loud, but you could still here the "Lets Go...Mountaineers" echo throughout the stadium. And when Tavon caught that pass on 4th and 4 and took it to the house, running past what seemed like the entire longhorn defense...Mountaineer Nation was rocking! Living in Houston, I've been to a few other games (Baylor 2013, Yikes) but I'm extremely excited to be able to attend my first home game when I enroll there this fall! [WVU]

 

[wvuengr05]

best WVU sports experience would have been being at the Elite Eight game when we beat Kentucky. The fun of walking from Daisy Dukes bar to the game talking trash to Kentucky fans was great. Although the Fiesta Bowl and Sugar Bowl were great b/c like the Elite Eight game, no one picked us to win except our fans.

 

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[Florida Ron]

In 1980 I was stationed at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. New Mountaineer head football coach, Don Nehlen, brought his team to play University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. The base recreation office was able to procure tickets for the game and several buddies and I got seats on the thirty yard line about twenty rows back. Aloha Stadium was rocking with Mountaineer military fans from Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Kanahoe Marine Corps base, Schofield Barracks Army Base, etal. I did not realize just how many WVians were on the Island. Even with the loss, this remains one of my fondest memories of all that I have experienced regarding Mountaineer sporting events.

 

[dave]

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In 2003 we beat Virginia Tech. At the wvsports.com tailgate we tailgated all day with many of the board members. I met my wife that day at the tailgate. We fried a turkey, tasted some moonshine, sat through some rain, beat the crap out of the arrogant hokies and i got to rush the field, carry a girl student who broke her ankle up to the concourse and watch a hs buddy hit the loudmouth sportsguy from wdbj roanoke with a beer. It was quite a day and the beginning of a new chapter of my life and all thanks to vernon and the eersfan family for making that tailgate happen.

 

[wvpack]

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Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia!

 

[ParrotheadEER]

My biggest moment as a fan is probably the 2006 Sugar Bowl win over UGA. Living in Chattanooga, TN at the time and basically living in sec country with constant berating about cheering for a team in a real conference..We win. @MontainMammal and I went down to GA looking for a good showing and knowing we could win. We were harassed by the UGA fans going into the dome. Outside of a LOT of "Let's Gooooooo Mountaineers!!!" throughout the concourse and the city late into the morning. BTW, a close second is going to the Music City Bowl and seeing Don Nehlen get his final win and a bowl game victory.

 

[Vernon]

Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia!

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[Die HardEER]

...so, it's 2005, Louisville at The House. My wife & I make it a point to hang 'til the end, bitter or otherwise, and have for years. So, we're down 18 with about 9 minutes to go, the place is emptying out pretty quick, and we're just sitting there watching people leave. I look at her and say, prophetically it would turn out, "It's possible, but not probable" in reference to pulling this one out. We score, kick off, Huge defensive stand, score quickly, recover onside kick ( with the help of a bad non-call...only time all season a call went our way), score again, get to overtime, and the rest is Mountaineer history.
I live in Cincinnati, and always drive back after the game, no matter start time. All the way home, about every 15 minutes, my wife & I would look at each other, and sya, "I can't believe we pulled that one out". I still remember that night occasionally out on I-70 at 3AM on the way home, and it still wakes me up.
Anyway, that's one for ya.

 

[MntnEERinSC]

'93 Miami game!! Me and my best friend were dying to go to the game but it was sold out. The mayor of Nitro, Rusty Casto offered us a ride up and back on the Moose bus, but he didn't have any tickets. We gratefully accepted the ride, in hopes of getting tickets when we got to MoTown. We eventually found 2 separate tickets that we could combine our money and afford!! We met up at halftime and crammed in the same row!! No one was sitting so it didn't matter!! We ended up being one of the first ones on the field, and headed straight for the tv cameras!! On the way back, the other bus riders bought us food since we were broke!! It was by far the greatest time I've ever had at any sporting event!!

 

[MntnEERinSC]

In 2003 we beat Virginia Tech. At the wvsports.com tailgate we tailgated all day with many of the board members. I met my wife that day at the tailgate. We fried a turkey, tasted some moonshine, sat through some rain, beat the crap out of the arrogant hokies and i got to rush the field, carry a girl student who broke her ankle up to the concourse and watch a hs buddy hit the loudmouth sportsguy from wdbj roanoke with a beer. It was quite a day and the beginning of a new chapter of my life and all thanks to vernon and the eersfan family for making that tailgate happen.

I'm pretty sure I met you at that tailgate!!

 

[shortgapwvu]

I am having trouble deciding, so I will break it down into categories :

Uneventful, yet awesome:

2014 Towson . My stepdaughter, who was 11 at the time, had never really got to go to any heavily populated events until she met me. I had taken her to the 2014 Royal Rumble a few months prior because she was a wrestling fan, and it went fairly well considering her being uneasy with tens of thousands of people all congregating in one area. She said that she wanted to go to a WVU game with me this year (after two or three years of trying to convince her), so I decided to take her to the Towson game. The look on her face for the entire game was priceless. It was complete and utter amazement. She really came out of her shell once she saw all the cheering that we do during games. It also earned me some "cool points" with her mother.

Going through every emotion possible:
Marshall, 2010

Not too much of a story, but the Marshall game in 2010 was too much. A Marshall coworker of mine talked about that game for months leading up to it. He texted me all day leading up to it. He texted me during the game, repeatedly. Then, the texts magically stopped after their FG kicker miss wide right (despite the goalposts actually leaning that way). I stayed up most of the night harassing him continuously via cell phone. It was one of the most down and up games I have ever witnessed with one of the moat improbable comebacks I have ever seen. We only needed to play about seven minutes of actual football to drive Huntington to the insanity they still suffer from today. They had the homefield, the playbook, and the cadences, but couldn't win their Super Bowl.

Best game I ever saw

Fiesta Bowl 2008. Nuff said. Eat $#!t Rich Rod.

 

[WVU93PE]

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I'll go a different route, though I could easily agree with most of the moments mentioned above. In 2009, my father had been in the hospital at Ruby for several months leading into football season (he's good now). There was an early season game that wasn't going to be televised on a channel the hospital got (or maybe not at all). Dad was in okay enough shape that his doctors would allow him some time outside under some controlled conditions. I contacted the MAC, and they worked with me to provide box seat tickets for Dad and Mom as well as a van to take them from the hospital entrance to the gate. It was an otherwise relatively meaningless game, but I'll always have a fond memory of being able to help Dad see a game he'd have otherwise missed while being so close.

 

[High St. 4 life]

Pretty easy for me when we won the Sugar Bowl against Georgia!

 

[ghumphre11]

There are a lot to choose from, but I will go with November 15, 2003 against sPitt. I was a freshman in high school, and I had been to several games before but none of this magnitude. It probably didn't hurt that I attended the game with the most fun, vocal, and downright funniest WVU fan I've ever known, and we heckled several sPitt fans who had a little too much that night and were escorted out of the stadium by the popo. The stadium, as many here probably remember, absolutely erupted when John Pennington came down with a TD on 4th down at the end of the second qtr. I had never experienced anything like that at the time, and I still haven't quite gotten over it. It gives me chills just thinking about it. Larry Fitgerald is still one the best receivers I've ever seen and was fantastic that day, but thankfully fumble Rutherford was his his usual underachieving self that day, and helped lead us to 52 points. Quincy was unstoppable that day, and it wouldn't be right for me to not mention how good Grant Wiley was. It seemed like he had a tackle on every play and he had a big INT in that game.

 

[Vernon]

Pretty easy for me when we won the Sugar Bowl against Georgia!

Come on now, you gotta give us some details.

 

[SteelHeadEer]

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Wow, This really must be a football school.

How can no one yet mention the Big East tournament basketball win and singing Country Roads in Madison Square Garden?

 

[racinrc]

It has to be 2009 vs Marquette, Da'Sean hits a jumper with two seconds left to win the game, my son at the time was 12 years old and was with me and looked up at me and said that was the most exciting thing he had ever seen in his life. Of course two years later he said the same thing after Casey hit a pair of 3's and Truck sealed it from the free throw line. I could have picked either one but the Marquette game was one of his first games and to see how excited he was after that win, it had to be that one.

 

[rockeywvu]

93' Robert Walkers Winning Touchdown, We finally beat them sons a guns.
I was working for lowes at the time, an I turned on all the TV's in the building on to the game. Were talking 50 to 80 sets of Tv. And I had it so loud you could hear it from one end of the store to the other. And I was cheering so loud that after that play that the manager had to come an tell me to be quiet.

 

[ynalak]

My favorite moment was the VA Tech win in 2003. It didn't mean as much as the Sugar Bowl or Fiesta Bowl wins, but it was the most electric crowd I have ever seen at Mountaineer Field.

 

[High St. 4 life]

Come on now, you gotta give us some details.

I was at a friends house in charleston having a few drinks during the game and after the fake punt that won the game for us, as the scores were scrolling across the bottom of the screen I kept yelling we're better than you and you and you. It was a fun night plus it brought us out of 10 or so years of mediocrity that I lived through as a student. It kinda erased some of the bad memories the from the late 90's and early 2000's.

 

[Hamptoneer]

November 20, 1993

It was a seriously cold day, so before the game a couple of friends and I decided it would be a good day for our old buddy Jack Daniels. We got to the store and one of my buddies decided it was a tequila type evening, the other got vodka which left me, myself, and I with the handle of Jack. I know I poured a few for some friends but in general, with about an hour to kickoff, I had consumed the entire bottle. Well I'm pretty sure most of you are aware of the game. We beat #4 Miami in a 4th quarter comeback thanks to Robert Walker. Well at the end we decided tlthe goalposts was coming down. There were many of us shoving it and it wouldn't come down. So I had the "brilliant" idea of jumping and grabbing on to one side to use its weight to bring it down. A couple of more people hopped on and it was done. So then what, it's down, we were not leaving without It. And the po po had sealed off the the gates on the ends of the stadium where you would be able to get it out. So to the stands we went. We carried it up and out and over the fence. We rolled down jones, down university Ave until we got to the lair where the police had a "checkpoint" set up for us. Well, low and behold we had collected what seemed to be half of the people in Sunnyside to walk with us. The police got on the horn and told us "put down the goal post and walk away." We got a good laugh at that, there were hundreds of us. So I walked over to the officer and explained that all we want is the goalpost, and he reluctantly agreed. So the deal was, you take the goal post and give it back to us tomorrow. I admit I was leary, was concerned and a bit embarrassed to show up sober the next day and admit that was me. But the cops were true to their word and hooked it up. Was a great day, to be a Mountaineer.

 

[mtneerinraleigh]

There are so many great experiences over the years, but I think sitting in the middle of all the Georgia fans in Atlanta at the Sugar bowl and celebrating the big win afterwards has to be at the top of the list for me!

 

[armyscot490]

When we played Marshall at Marshall and ending up winning in OT. Being a Mountaineer fan while growing up in Huntington and also being a Marshall Alum is hard. I had left the Joan and went across the street to finish watching the game. We were down late in the 4th and Geno hadn't started the comeback drive yet. All the Marshall fans were celebrating and I calmly just kept saying it is not over yet. When we kicked the field goal to win was awesome!!! I did not say a word just had the biggest $hit eating grin on my face. I thought some of the Herd fans were going to go throw themselves off the Chesapeake bridge.

 

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No doubt about it, 2005 WVU vs Louisville Triple OT thriller. It was my sophomore year -- basically saw the Pat White/Steve Slaton coming out party in thrilling fashion. Best part is ... my gf at the time (and future wife) was at a bar across town trying to drunkenly guilt me into leaving the game right before OT and I told her to "piss off." : )

 

[smitty_cregger]

In 2004, I was underway on the USS Heron in the Persian Gulf, I was utilizing Inmarsat to get a data signal, we didn't have a lot of bandwidth on my little ship, so luckily it was the middle of the night out there and I was on watch. Well, I managed to do a live stream of the game's audio and listened to the entire thing. Maryland had our number back then and even destroyed us twice the year before in the Scotty McBrien years, and when we won the game in overtime and finally got the Terps off our back I was ecstatic, jumping up and down in radio...making a fool of myself...then...I heard it, I heard the crowd singing Country Roads, and my eyes filled up...I missed home, badly....but I was proud.

 

[fastdrivEER]

10/27/1984 and 10/29/1988 vs Penn State

As a senior in High school I came up for a visit, as my sister was already enrolled at WVU and one of my former classmates was a drummer on the Prides front line. That win was monumental and the aftermath was the craziest time I ever experienced to date in my short life. Sunnyside was pouring over and as a young looking 17 year old I could not believe how easy it was for me to get into those places. It solidified me coming to WVU as I was probably just as interested in the social scene as I was the schooling.

Then in '88 as a Junior in college I got to do it all over again. Major's run was epic and I just remember him sitting that guy down with his juke and Sunnyside once again was in the streets. I don't think Sunnyside, or any other part of town, will ever be like that again. I graduated from WVU and have been back at least 2-3 times a year ever since to catch a football and basketball game.

Competing with the later RR years, those must of been the best 5 or so years of football and the fanaticism of being a Mountaineer that there has ever been.

 

[Vernon]

10/27/1984 and 10/29/1988 vs Penn State

As a senior in High school I came up for a visit, as my sister was already enrolled at WVU and one of my former classmates was a drummer on the Prides front line. That win was monumental and the aftermath was the craziest time I ever experienced to date in my short life. Sunnyside was pouring over and as a young looking 17 year old I could not believe how easy it was for me to get into those places. It solidified me coming to WVU as I was probably just as interested in the social scene as I was the schooling.

Then in '88 as a Junior in college I got to do it all over again. Major's run was epic and I just remember him sitting that guy down with his juke and Sunnyside once again was in the streets. I don't think Sunnyside, or any other part of town, will ever be like that again. I graduated from WVU and have been back at least 2-3 times a year ever since to catch a football and basketball game.

Competing with the later RR years, those must of been the best 5 or so years of football and the fanaticism of being a Mountaineer that there has ever been.

Good stories fastdrivEER and nice to have you on the board!

 

[Tyler6125]

My favorite moment was definitely the 2005 WVU vs Louisville triple overtime football game. I was wrestling in college and our team worked on field security for all home games. I remember watching that game from the end zone until the fourth quarter rally. At that point I got "removed" from my position on the field for turning away from the crowd to watch the fireworks. Luckily for me I was moved to suite security and watched the remainder of the game in style! Steve Slaton 6TDs baby! Awesome! Also, was pretty cool watching Tavon Austin break records shredding Oklahoma with my kids.

 

[IMPACT EER]

I was a mountaineer fan all my life as a kid I used to listen to games on the radio every Saturday. I was drawn in because my neighbor was Woody O'Hara - but loved listening to him and Jack Fleming even though it seemed like we were getting crushed in most of the big games. Just thinking about it - my fandom began with Don Nehlens arrival. For todays young folks - very few games were on TV then. My first home game I attended I sold the game day dominion post papers before the game at the "new stadium" Then then first bowl victory I can remember watching on TV was the 1981 Peach bowl where Dennis Foukles and Daryl Talley dominated the gators. But at the age of 15 my fandom grew from what a Pitt fan has to what we WVU fanatics share; my dad and I went to the closed circuit showing of WVU vs Oklahoma game being show at the coliseum, every touchdown people were thrown in the air - the atmosphere in there and on Beechurst Ave on the way homeward amazing. I was hooked as a WVU fanatic the rest of my life.

 

[WVU76Grad]

As a lifelong fan, it is tough to narrow it down to the one most memorable. To mention a few, being at Mountaineer Field in 1984 for the wins over Boston College and Penn State rank near the top, as does the annihilation of Penn State in 1988, and the final game that year against Syracuse. The comeback win against Louisville, and watching Pat White, Steve Slaton, Owen Schmitt, and others have brought so much joy.
However, I am going with the 1975 Pitt game at old Mountaineer Field. I was a senior, and working my way through college. I had told the manager of the store I worked for in Fairmont that I really wanted to go to the game, and would come in as soon as I could get there after the game. ABC was in town, and it was a rarity to have a game on TV back then. Dan Kendra completed a 26 yard pass to Randy Swinson, who went out of bounds at the 22 with four seconds left. I still sometimes replay Jack Fleming's call---" four seconds remaining on a stopped clock. Holy Mackerel do you believe this?........from the 28 it will be a 38 yard attempt. The snap, McKenzie kicks it, it is long enough, McKenzie kicks it, it is GOOD! The ballgame is over." Fans rushing the field. A memory for all time. I student taught the following spring with Greg Dorn, who was the long snapper on the field goal. He was a great guy, and we talked a good bit of football. I grew up listening to Jack, and feel as he did....."If there's one team I hate, it's Pitt."
Here is the URL to Jack's call--
http://www.wvusports.com/jackfleming/mp3/Fleming-7.mp3

 

[mneilmont]

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September 1959 freshman at WVU saw my first college football game. Maryland beat WVU. 1969 realized study was required and graduated WVU. Dec 1988 Daughter graduated WVU. Jan 1989, celebrated her graduation with a family trip to Arizona for festivities at the Fiesta Bowl. Dislike turtles and Catholics through today.

 

[Mountain Mammal]

The bowl win over Georgia was a great game made sweeter due to living on the Tennessee/Georgia border, the last bowl game under Don Nehlen was another amazing night, but for me it probably is still the frigid night in 1993 when we beat the Hurricanes. This was the first time I was able to actually go to a Mountaineer game and what a special night jammed in with 70 or so thousand friends -- I am pretty certain I was sharing my seat with three other fans -- and cheering on the Mountaineers. My mom still has a picture from the paper of a section of the stadium and still thinks she has found me in that picture. It truly was a great night to be a Mountaineer. Thanks to Parrot and his family for accommodations on that and many other Mountaineer football nights. Hoping to bring my oldest daughter to her first game in 2015 -- she might have been born in Tennessee, but she is a Mountaineer.

 

[SummersCounty101]

To me.... it was the fun of 2005 NCAA Tournament run. That was probably my favorite WVU team of all time, in either sport. I just remember how much some of my friends and I were imploring Beilein to use Pittsnogle more during the season. IIRC, he was coming off the bench and D'or was starting for a good part of that season. Then it seemed like Beilein answered our prayers, Pittsnogle was in the starting lineup, got hot, and the whole team took off. I'll never forget how exciting watching the Wake Forest upset was, and then the win over Texas Tech that we celebrated on High Street afterwards with a dose of pepper spray from the cops who were spraying indiscriminately all up and down the street (probably deserved). Then we run over to Grant to catch the tail end of the mini riot there. That's what college was all about.

Then we go up big against Louisville and I can almost taste the Final 4. Crazy season, Pittsnogle is my favorite WVU basketball player of all time, and a lot of good memories there.

 

[mtneerjim]

My wife of 10 yrs at the time, could not understand why I got so excited over a football game. The year 1975 I took her to the pitt game. Thru the game she just looked at me as I was crazy. She did get up and yell a few times to please me. When McKenzie kicked the winning field goal thru and the stands erupted and people stormed the field, she went crazy and was a fan of WV ever since

 

[LowFatMilk]

Before the end of the months blows by me and I forget to post in this thread....

(The following is a copy and paste of a previous post I wrote)

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...I don't really have a single greatest WVU sports experience. ....at least not directly related to the team, coaches, or either of their successes. For me it's more about the impact off the court/field.

----Should I write about my battle with cancer in the early 90's and the six months of intense rounds of chemo that kept me tethered to the hospital ? A time when family and friends were a GREAT support network but WVU basketball was my 'escape' ? I don't even recall if that Atlantic 10 team was all that good (I think they were decent though). Doctors, nurses, friends, and family knew that during the games, if actually televised, I was not to be bothered. No sympathy...no treatments...no nothing. Just 2 hours of me/WVU time.

----In better days...should I write about the time attending a game against Colorado that I along with several friends who also had too much to drink before a game and after leaving the bar could see the stadium ? It only seemed reasonable to walk the 'as the crow flies' route. A stadium that from the bar the path went directly thru a student pep rally/march. Guess what...many of them were more intoxicated than us. It was an 'insightful' experience. .....and I should thank the few students who 'saved' us. Leaving the game after a horrific loss wasn't the best experience either.

----Maybe it's all about the times I would sell plasma in downtown Morgantown to get enough money to bribe people at the (back) gates to allow me to attend games.... ....or the times I would volunteer to work a half at a concession stand so I could watch a half of WVU football ?

I don't know.

WVU sports are AWESOME.... ...I'm here right ? How many people, even many great WVU fans, are into discussion of WVU sports at this time of the year ?

Anyway...my best WVU experiences have little to do with actual WVU teams. .....I mean, I even have a great story about attending a Temple football game. I mean...TEMPLE !!!!

 

[GoWVU]

Then we go up big against Louisville and I can almost taste the Final 4.

If any of you remember the old "What If?" comic books from years ago, I think the 2005 Elite Eight game would make my top 3 WVU "What If?" moments. Considering their shooting abilities, I certainly feel like WVU had the ability to give Illinois a game in the Final Four.

Your top WVU "What If?" moments might be a good companion thread of its own at some point. Of course everybody will have the 2007 Brawl at or near the top of their list, but it'd be interesting to read others. I'd definitely have "What if Miami hadn't blocked the punt in 1996?" on mine as well.

 

[LowFatMilk]

Your top WVU "What If?" moments might be a good companion thread of its own at some point. Of course everybody will have the 2007 Brawl at or near the top of their list, but it'd be interesting to read others. I'd definitely have "What if Miami hadn't blocked the punt in 1996?" on mine as well.

What if...Major doesn't get injured...would be up there too.

 

[rainmaker1944]

My two favorite was when we played Penn State with Major Harris juking around the Penn State defenders for the winning touchdown.
Second was the Louisville game when we came back and won in overtime.I remember a lot of fans had left beleving WV had lost,what they missed is something a lot will never forget.I was there to the end.