Old Football Letters

[kgilbert78]

I am in the process of weeding our old stuff in my home. One of those things is a stack of old The Football Letter, from ca. my graduation in 1978 to the time they stopped printing them a few years back. It's time to let them go. I'd be happy to donate to a collector, but I ask that postage be paid by the person getting them. I do not promise a complete run, as some may have gotten lost due to moves or just stuck in another pile somewhere. I'd rather not recycle them.....

 

[Big_O]

You kept all those?

I still have mine from the ‘82 and ‘86 seasons. Also a program from the 1978 Penn State-OSU game as I was there to witness it in person.

 

[84lion]

I got rid of the vast majority of mine years ago, along with Penn Stater magazines. My interest in PSU has dropped off precipitously in the past few years. The e-mail Football Letters barely get a glance (one thing I really like are the cartoons of the lion either celebrating or licking wounds) and the Penn Stater magazines get a quick run through to check for class news and obituaries. After that, it goes to my mom for perusal and tossing.

 

[fairgambit]

I got rid of the vast majority of mine years ago, along with Penn Stater magazines. My interest in PSU has dropped off precipitously in the past few years. The e-mail Football Letters barely get a glance (one thing I really like are the cartoons of the lion either celebrating or licking wounds) and the Penn Stater magazines get a quick run through to check for class news and obituaries. After that, it goes to my mom for perusal and tossing.

I held season tickets for 40 years and at every game I bought 2 programs, one for me and one to trade, sell, etc.. Aside from a few I sold a while back, I have hundreds taking up space in boxes in my basement. I haven't looked at them in over a decade. My wife has agreed to start putting the more memorable ones on ebay, along with the tickets to the respective games. I appreciate her taking on this challenge. but suspect the monetary return will not be worth the effort.

 

[kgilbert78]

You kept all those?

I still have mine from the ‘82 and ‘86 seasons. Also a program from the 1978 Penn State-OSU game as I was there to witness it in person.

Yeah--good memories. We were season ticket holders from 1984-2013. But now, it's time.

You kept all those?

I still have mine from the ‘82 and ‘86 seasons. Also a program from the 1978 Penn State-OSU game as I was there to witness it in person.

As was I (as a tOSU grad student--I'd been there all of 2 days)--and ran into a bunch of guys from my old dorm house there.

 

[pendal1]

I held season tickets for 40 years and at every game I bought 2 programs, one for me and one to trade, sell, etc.. Aside from a few I sold a while back, I have hundreds taking up space in boxes in my basement. I haven't looked at them in over a decade. My wife has agreed to start putting the more memorable ones on ebay, along with the tickets to the respective games. I appreciate her taking on this challenge. but suspect the monetary return will not be worth the effort.

What was your favorite season and game during those 40 years? Hard to beat Nebraska 82 or the 86 season for me.

 

[fairgambit]

What was your favorite season and game during those 40 years? Hard to beat Nebraska 82 or the 86 season for me.

Two great seasons for sure, but my favorite season was 1969, when I held a student season ticket, and we finished 11-0, "twice in a row". My favorite game was 1981, at Pitt Stadium.....48-14 (Pitt ranked #1), although just as memorable was the 1990 win at South Bend over #1 Notre Dame on a Craig Fayak field goal with 8 seconds left. Two road upsets, over #1 teams, are about as good as it gets.

 

[kgilbert78]

What was your favorite season and game during those 40 years? Hard to beat Nebraska 82 or the 86 season for me.

63-14 or the win over tOSU in2005. I did not have tickets in 1982.

 

[pendal1]

Two great seasons for sure, but my favorite season was 1969, when I held a student season ticket, and we finished 11-0, "twice in a row". My favorite game was 1981, at Pitt Stadium.....48-14 (Pitt ranked #1), although just as memorable was the 1990 win at South Bend over #1 Notre Dame on a Craig Fayak field goal with 8 seconds left. Two road upsets, over #1 teams, are about as good as it gets.

Yeah, hard to beat those two games. OSU 2005 was special too because of the dark years.
I think about devastating losses too. Minnesota 99 was obviously brutal. And Alabama 89 was a hard one to take as well. Alabama was #2 and Blair Thomas was so good on that last drive and to have a field goal blocked from the one was a real gut punch.
The NC games are obviously up there.

 

[olelion]

Two great seasons for sure, but my favorite season was 1969, when I held a student season ticket, and we finished 11-0, "twice in a row". My favorite game was 1981, at Pitt Stadium.....48-14 (Pitt ranked #1), although just as memorable was the 1990 win at South Bend over #1 Notre Dame on a Craig Fayak field goal with 8 seconds left. Two road upsets, over #1 teams, are about as good as it gets.

My favorite, but only in retrospect was Syracuse 1969. We sat with the Syracuse students at that game as the lions trailed well into the 4th quarter. I always refer to that game as "that Franco Harris game". It was an unholy experience for most of the game. Another was Miami 1968. Two close friends of mine played for Miami

 

[saturdaysarebetter]

I recall keeping one of those football letters only because John Black wrote the longest single sentence I ever read. It took up more lines than most paragraphs.