[NU Sports] Rain, rain go away...

[Joe Thiegs]

> I also distinctly remember that Michigan game.  We go drenched just
getting to the game.  
> Each team fumbled the ball like 5 times.  At one point, given the futility
of the passing
> game, and all the fumbles on handoffs, we just snapped the ball directly
to D'Wayne Bates
> and let him try to run outside, I suppose recognizing that he was the best
athlete on the team.
> I think we did that for several downs, but it didn't work.  That was
actually homecoming in
> 1998.  We played at Michigan in 1997.

My wife and I immediately recalled that '98 Michigan game when BTN showed
the pregame shot of Dyche/Ryan with water cascading down the steps Saturday
morning.  That was our pilgrimage to Evanston that year.  Although I had a
windbreaker with a hood and maybe a baseball cap, my jacket wasn't
waterproof (we didn't have the foresight to bring along rain gear that
trip), so we used big garbage bags with arm- and neck-holes cut out.  We
were soaked to the bone too, but it actually was a pretty fun atmosphere,
and certainly very memorable.  We were so close to a big win too over the
defending national champs.  That was a wet walk both to and from campus.
Ten years ago . . . wow, how time flies.

> The last rainy game I can recall was Minnesota in 2001.  That was our last
win that year
> before the "great collapse of 2001."

We were at the Penn State game a couple of weeks later for our five-year
reunion.  That was a pretty painful game, if I remember correctly.

-Joe


On Sep 13, 2008, at 7:31 AM, mlinhardt at netzero.com wrote:

As I sit in my living room(25 miles from Dyche) at 7:25am looking out the
window at heavy rain I think "I hope they built a retractable dome in the
past 14 days...".

Seriously we will wear our waterproof purple attire and stick it out, but
how does the soggy weather and even soggier field change the game?

I remember the 1997 Michigan game where the rain was coming down in
torrents.  We had the lead for long periods of time.  Barnett took a safety
rather than try to put from deep in our own end.  Tailback #3 a freshman
Justin Fargus(later transferred to USC) suddenly came alive and Michigan won
by 4 or 5.

Go Cats!

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