#8 This one is for Stallion

[PK]

Miracle on Mockingbird (1989)

http://smumustangs.collegesports.com/sp ... ts-08.html

[ThadFilms]

Seriously...

Bennett needs to put the photo of the scoreboard on the wall in their dressing room, every game this year.


This is THE year, folks. At least, it better be...

[Mustangs35SMU]

This is THE year, folks. At least, it better be...

Amen to that.

[jtstang]

Hmm...no reference to the opponent's D1-AA status...

[ThadFilms]

This is THE year, folks. At least, it better be...

Amen to that.

The absolute WORST record I will be marginally satisfied with is 5-6.

5-6 with a bunch of near misses. (Not 5-6 with four or five blowout losses.) I really look at this year as year that we need to flirt with and hopefull break .500 ...

That being said, I'm still hoping to be CUSA champs. A boy can dream...

8-3 ...before I wake up...

[Caballo]

Hmm...no reference to the opponent's D1-AA status...

There was some reference in the article though about us fielding a glorified High School football team.

[Sam I Am]

I was at the SMU-UConn game and had about given up on a come back win. As I was walking along the front row to an exit, things begin to happen. I was delirious when we won. A win over even a I-AA team was remarkable with the few scholarship players and walk-ons that the 1989 had in their lineup

[SMU Football Blog]

You knew it would be in the top 10. Not that I would have put it there, but I am a little surprised it isn't in the top five. I think some of the post-DP "90 greatest" are a little suspect, but I don't know how you could really argue with this one being on the list. I suspect even Stallion will only argue over the ranking.

[ThadFilms]

I don't know.... I didn't care that it was 1AA ... really... It was just amazing... I walked on to the field afterwords, in a daze - I must note, that, of course, I was a kid at the time. Anyhow, I garnered the courage to ask the "great and amazing" Mike Romo for his chin strap... he said, "sure kid, I don't need it anymore" and tossed it to me... It is still to this day one of my proundest possesions. It even has a nice little blood spot on it.

Of course, these days, I really wouldn't care about a sweaty chin strap. Even if it was that of the Super Bowl MVP's, regardless of whether it could make me a ton of money... but that item, that chin strap... I don't know, but I wouldn't sell it for the world.

What made it even "cooler" was the fact that I got another of Mike's chin straps a year later - after the first game of the season, when we beat Vandy... the cool thing was (and as a kid I couldn't believe it that) he remembered me. I was down on the field to join the band alumni in their singing of "Shanty" (they invited me down 'cause my "big brother" was the drum major), before it starts I see Romo, he rcognises me! He's about to go into the locker room but stops and says, "Hey kid, how 'bout another one?" I say, "Another chin strap? Heck yeah!!!" ... He tosses it to me and smiles and then walks off, confident, you know, like a gunslinger in those Westerns... I mean, there as so few memories for me like that. SO few... and now that I've been to college, and I know that the players are regular guys and, post college, I've hung out with these so-called "celebrities", and have found that they too are normal people... well, it's just surreal, to remember... Those memories of Mike Romo... I don't know. He just had this glow... just in my memories of course... he might have been "undersized" but to me he was so much larger than life.

[Grider]

I don't know.... I didn't care that it was 1AA ... really... It was just amazing... I walked on to the field afterwords, in a daze - I must note, that, of course, I was a kid at the time. Anyhow, I garnered the courage to ask the "great and amazing" Mike Romo for his chin strap... he said, "sure kid, I don't need it anymore" and tossed it to me... It is still to this day one of my proundest possesions. It even has a nice little blood spot on it.

Of course, these days, I really wouldn't care about a sweaty chin strap. Even if it was that of the Super Bowl MVP's, regardless of whether it could make me a ton of money... but that item, that chin strap... I don't know, but I wouldn't sell it for the world.

What made it even "cooler" was the fact that I got another of Mike's chin straps a year later - after the first game of the season, when we beat Vandy... the cool thing was (and as a kid I couldn't believe it that) he remembered me. I was down on the field to join the band alumni in their singing of "Shanty" (they invited me down 'cause my "big brother" was the drum major), before it starts I see Romo, he rcognises me! He's about to go into the locker room but stops and says, "Hey kid, how 'bout another one?" I say, "Another chin strap? Heck yeah!!!" ... He tosses it to me and smiles and then walks off, confident, you know, like a gunslinger in those Westerns... I mean, there as so few memories for me like that. SO few... and now that I've been to college, and I know that the players are regular guys and, post college, I've hung out with these so-called "celebrities", and have found that they too are normal people... well, it's just surreal, to remember... Those memories of Mike Romo... I don't know. He just had this glow... just in my memories of course... he might have been "undersized" but to me he was so much larger than life.

That's hilarious Thad, it conjures images of the Mean Joe Green commercial. Excelllent story!

[huntnfish]

jtstang,

it was a great win and moment at the time for those freshman and walk-ons, everyone knows it was not SMU's greates team, but it was a great moment for those there.

what position did you play at SMU, I forgot. Oh, that's right, you never did play for the mustangs, heck they wouldn't have even accepted you as a walk-on for this team.

[jtstang]

huntnfish: what position did you play for the mustangs? did you help in a big comback against a Div 1-AA school too? Next time I see you I'll give you a big pat on the back and an "attaboy"

[huntnfish]

i thought you would be in a spelling bee contest or in the NBA by now

[jtstang]

I thought you'd be inducted to the Garland PeeWee Football Assn hall of fame by now.

[huntnfish]

this is way too easy