I watched the game while visiting my cousin in California. My best friend was there in the student section, and he said he's never been colder in his entire life.
PSA- PSU/ND 1987 tonight at 8 on BTN
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I was at that game also, and I am still shivering from it. It was a cold that went straight through to your bones.
I have not seen this game on BTN before - think they edit out Joe?
I have not seen this game on BTN before - think they edit out Joe?
Probably why we haven't seen it.... takes time to edit Joe out
On Sirius BTN radio, they do promos for each school and for Penn State they mention Peachy Paterno, so maybe some small step forward in the slander done against Joe.
Final count
14 shots of Lou Holtz -featured
1 shot of Joe -in the background of the line of scrimmage.
14 shots of Lou Holtz -featured
1 shot of Joe -in the background of the line of scrimmage.
The Blue Band stuck it out for the entire game, even though we could not play any of our instruments because they were literally frozen shut. Twenty-three band members were treated for frostbite or hypothermia that day and thankfully, the instruments thawed out for Bandorama later that evening in Eisenhower Auditorium. The only time that we were allowed to wear non-regulation head coverings, face masks and other clothing over and under the uniform.
I remember going to the bathroom under North stands...froze my nuts off! It was my first experience with shrinkage!!
I hope they don't edit him out; he uttered one of his better one-liners to a sideline reporter after the game. He was asked what was going through his mind when Penn State stopped ND's 2-point conversion attempt to win the game, and he said something like "I don't know, but I guess we had a couple of Catholics praying for US!"
All you saw at the end was Holtz walking off the field. They cut the postgame coach’s handshake. ******* rotten bastards.
I was 14 when this game was played, but I was at a high school game about an hour east of State College that day. Coldest event (sporting or otherwise) I've ever attended. One of the players on my team took a hit that pushed a couple of his teeth through his cheek, but he didn't even know he was hurt because his face was so numb.
If I remember correctly, the day before was not that cold. We sat in the top row of EJ. There were some college age nd fans near us. They were not dressed for the weather. Penn State fans were lending them blankets.
In game-time temperatures of 18 degrees, with a wind chill that made it colder and a wind that made passing and kicking hazardous, the Nittany Lions warmed up for their 1988 vacation to Disney World by pushing the Fighting Irish all over the field. They opened holes for Thomas that Dumbo the elephant could have run through. They helped him become the first Penn State back to gain 200 yards since Curt Warner got 256 against Syracuse in 1981.
In game-time temperatures of 18 degrees, with a wind chill that made it colder and a wind that made passing and kicking hazardous, the Nittany Lions warmed up for their 1988 vacation to Disney World by pushing the Fighting Irish all over the field. They opened holes for Thomas that Dumbo the elephant could have run through. They helped him become the first Penn State back to gain 200 yards since Curt Warner got 256 against Syracuse in 1981.
The 1968 Syracuse game was pretty cold, too. It was rescheduled from mid-October to accommodate TV. The game was played on December 7. That year there was a tradition of erecting crosses near the end zone, one for each team we beat, and that was all of them. I was one of the volunteers who did that, which meant we were on the field three hours before kick off. The ground was so frozen that we could barely get the crosses in the ground. To my memory, we failed. In what was supposed to be a tough game, we prevailed rather easily, 30-12.