Best elevator ride of my life down from the Press/Coaches Box to the field that day. We all headed down after the game clinching INT & were standing inside the elevator waiting for the doors to close when the GT Staff from the box appeared, without knowing all the FU Box Coaches were standing inside. Had to be one of the toughest decisions of their lives - don’t get in, even though there was plenty of room..and know that not only were they just punked on the field, they were also afraid to get into the elevator with their Coaching Betters/Vanquishers OR get in & ride down the 5 stories or so in extremely close quarters with a group of grinning, laughing, excited Coaching Betters/Vanquishers. They hesitated, looked at each other, hesitated again, then manned up (sorta), got on the elevator in front of us without saying a word & all kept ‘eyes front’ the entire, what must’ve seemed to them 3 hour, ride. It was GLORIOUS!din23 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:42 am1983 was neither embarrassing nor frustrating for Furman. I can guarantee that.affirm wrote: ↑Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:03 amTRIVIA:Saturday, 9/7/2019, will be the 12th time Furman has played a football game in Atlanta.
1901, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1946, 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1995, 2019.Furman is 0-10-1.
The cumulative score of all 11 games is 72-485.
All the games have been with Georgia Tech.
(Furman has played at Oglethorpe 5 times, but Oglethorpe is in Brookhaven, and it is assumed all 5 of those games were on the Oglethorpe campus.)Furman's best outcome when playing those 11 games in Atlanta was a 17-17 tie in 1986, 33 years ago.
I guess that 17-19 score in 1991 was not overly embarrassing, although frustrating.
The 2 most recent games, 1993 and 1995 were not close, but at least we scored, 3-37 and 7-51.
We were shut out the first 5 times we played in Atlanta: 0-17, 0-25, 0-118, 0-74, and 0-69. Thank goodness Furman did not choose to discontinue football after any of those scores.
The next 2 games, 1946 and 1983, the results were 7-41 and 14-17. As with 1991, I guess 1983 was not overly embarrassing, but frustrating.Atlanta is apparently the largest city in which Furman has ever played a football game. (There have been 5 games in Washington, DC, 1 game in Orlando, and 3 games in Miami; but I am guessing that Atlanta has been larger than each of those 3 in the years each of the games were played.)
It is hoped that playing in such a big city will not cause undue intimidation or nervousness for Furman. Of course, that certainly should not be the case for our players and coaches.
It is hoped also that the above historical outcomes from the 11 games previously played in Atlanta will cause not cause undue intimidation or nervousness for Furman. That also should of course certainly not be the case for our players and coaches.
This will be our first and possibly our only opportunity to play football against Georgia State University.
BTW - Oglethorpe was not in Brookhaven until the area generally known as Brookhaven became a ‘real’ city in, like 2012. It was in the city of North Atlanta from the early 30’s (I think) until 1965, when North Atlanta ‘disincorporated,’ and then in unincorporated DeKalb County from 1965 to 2012. So, those Oglethorpe games were not, technically, in the City of Atlanta...but Oglethorpe did...and still does have an Atlanta address. So...you sort that all out for the purposes of having your trivia post be accurate.
FUBeAR has a final score to conjure up...35-21 Dins...45-31 Dins...24-10 Dins...just not sure yet.
