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BCEagles06 {l Wrote}:Haven't played LSU since the 50's.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/boston-college/vs/lsu

hansen {l Wrote}:

BCEagles06 {l Wrote}:Haven't played LSU since the 50's.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/boston-college/vs/lsu

Thinking it was the 1983 game against Alabama. Can someone confirm the weather on that day was freezing rain or snow?

hansen {l Wrote}:

BCEagles06 {l Wrote}:Haven't played LSU since the 50's.

http://www.winsipedia.com/games/boston-college/vs/lsu

Thinking it was the 1983 game against Alabama. Can someone confirm the weather on that day was freezing rain or snow?

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:It was Alabama and it was at Schaeffer stadium. It had snowed, then rained, then frozen in the cold, then iced, then snowed again. The Alabama fans came up in Winnebagos and several ran off the road all along the access roads from the highway to the stadium. Several shitty little passenger cars (baby poop orange Datsuns and such) accustomed to paved roads in Boston full of local Sullys also had gone off the road; a lot of the Sullys left them and walked in wearing things like sweatshirts and hats as the sky spewed frozen awfulness at everything.

The Alabama people thought they had traveled to the brink of the abyss.

Steve DeOssie was playing shirtless - just pads and jersey - and at one point, either after a play or maybe after halftime, he stopped in front of the Alabama bench, full of players wearing huge overcoats, and rubbed a bunch of frozen dirt and slop all over his belly while pointing at the Bama players. New England uncorked everything it had on the game. BC won but I dont remember the score.

The following year, BC played Alabama in Alabama. Bama had a running back named Kerry Goode, who was untouchable, stupid good. He scored five TDs in the first half, then broke his leg on the second half kickoff (WHY was that guy on kick coverage), didn't play again, and Alabama didn't score again. We beat them by a TD.

Good times. Transfer my AdSense dollars, hansen.

The subject was mistakes, and Ricky Moore, Alabama's junior fullback, could speak with authority, for he made the fumble that led to the winning touchdown by Boston College in a 20-13 victory today at Sullivan Stadium.

''We made critical errors at crucial times,'' said Moore, after the game in which Alabama fumbled six times and was intercepted once. ''We kept giving them the ball in places where you can't do it - near the goal line - and you can't do that against a good team.''

Alabama made a pair of crucial fumbles in the fourth quarter, twice setting up the Eagles for touchdown drives. Doug Flutie, the Boston College junior quarterback, followed the first of those errors with a 5-yard touchdown pass to Bob Biestek with 6 minutes 29 seconds to play, which tied the score at 13-13. Less than two minutes later, after Moore fumbled a handoff and Boston College recovered, Biestek crashed over from the 2-yard line for the winning touchdown.

''It's just a dream to play my last regular-season game against Alabama,'' said Biestek, a senior fullback from Meriden, Conn. ''I've always worshiped them.'' Will Play Notre Dame

Boston College, which finished its regular season with a 9-2 record, will wrap up its year Dec. 29 against Notre Dame in the Liberty Bowl at Memphis. It will be Boston College's second straight bowl appearance.

The Crimson Tide, 7-3 with a game left against Auburn, will face Southern Methodist in the Sun Bowl at El Paso Dec. 24. It will be Alabama's 25th straight bowl appearance.

But today, in a harsh wind, driving rain and raw temperatures, the Eagles appeared more bowl-fit than the Crimson Tide, losing only one of three fumbles and being intercepted once. Alabama lost four of its six fumbles.

''We made too many mistakes and turned the ball over too many times to beat anybody,'' said Ray Perkins, the former head coach of the Giants, in his rookie season at Alabama. ''That's not taking anything away from B.C. But it's tough when you turn the ball over like that, especially late in the game. That was the whole key right there.'' Alabama Takes Early Lead

Alabama took a 6-0 lead in the first half on Van Tiffin's field goals of 20 and 28 yards. The Eagles, unlike the Crimson Tide, chose to ignore the fierce weather and let Flutie, their dynamic passer, carry on as if sunshine enveloped the stadium.

But Flutie, even with respectable first-half statistics of 7 completions in 14 attempts for 114 yards, could never generate an intimdating passing game. Nonetheless, the Eagles were able to pull even by halftime when Steve Strachan smashed in on a 1-yard run with 22 seconds to go.

Walter Lewis, the Alabama senior quarterback, threw only twice in the first half. He underthrew his receiver the first time and was intercepted the next time.

''They didn't throw because of the conditions,'' said Jack Bicknell, the Boston College coach, who watched Flutie finish with 14 completions in 29 attempts for 198 yards, bringing his total this year to 2,724 yards and 17 touchdowns. ''The conditions for both teams were awful. We couldn't throw as much as possible, but we didn't want to go into a shell and say we couldn't throw the ball because of the weather.'' Key Fumble by Freshman

The Crimson Tide took a 13-6 lead with 4:20 to play in the third quarter, a period in which the national television audience lost its picture due to a 42 1/2-minute local power failure, when Anthony Smiley romped 58 yards with a blocked punt.

Then the Crimson Tide began a drive on its 18-yard line with 8:57 to play. But, on the second play from scrimmage, the freshman halfback Kerry Goode fumbled after a 10-yard run. Boston College's Dave Thomas recovered, and six plays later Flutie threw the 5-yard scoring strike to Biestek.

The Eagles then received the ball back on the Alabama 34-yard line only one play after the ensuing kickoff. Lewis and Moore, looking to keep running the ball up the middle, where Moore struck for most of his 109 yards, muffed their handoff. Steve Lubischer recovered for Boston College, and only 69 seconds later Biestek went in for the victory.

Los {l Wrote}:Not for nothing, but WTF was Alabama doing playing BC in Foxboro on the last weekend of November? I guess scheduling philosophies were much different back then.

eagle33 {l Wrote}:

Los {l Wrote}:Not for nothing, but WTF was Alabama doing playing BC in Foxboro on the last weekend of November? I guess scheduling philosophies were much different back then.

the philosophy at bc was way different.

back then we were independent with a coach, ad, and president who all had a anyone, anywhere, anytime attitude about sports. They wanted to get bc into the national limelight and they were successful. we scheduled the top teams of the time like ped st, usc, bama, unc, tamu, pitt, tosu, etc. and we beat most of them.

b0mberMan {l Wrote}:I 100% love hearing these stories.

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:The unhappy version of this story is a 42-7 home loss to Army in a biblical deluge.

DomingoOrtiz {l Wrote}:

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:The unhappy version of this story is a 42-7 home loss to Army in a biblical deluge.

it was actually 7-49 and luckily, I stayed home.
The 2005 Butler cheap-shot game was one of the rainiest games I have attended. It poured the next week for the Wake game but I skipped that.

hansen {l Wrote}:

DomingoOrtiz {l Wrote}:

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:The unhappy version of this story is a 42-7 home loss to Army in a biblical deluge.

it was actually 7-49 and luckily, I stayed home.
The 2005 Butler cheap-shot game was one of the rainiest games I have attended. It poured the next week for the Wake game but I skipped that.

what was the blowout game where the student section dudes stripped down to boxers and the chicks down to bras/tanktops in the upper deck? it was cold as fuck, maybe snowing; the stadium was pretty empty. im thinking it was somewhere around 1996 or 1997? anyone else remember this? I was predictably pretty drunk so my memory may be hazy here. I may have also brought this up before so if I did I blame the alcohol for not remembering.

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:

hansen {l Wrote}:

DomingoOrtiz {l Wrote}:

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:The unhappy version of this story is a 42-7 home loss to Army in a biblical deluge.

it was actually 7-49 and luckily, I stayed home.
The 2005 Butler cheap-shot game was one of the rainiest games I have attended. It poured the next week for the Wake game but I skipped that.

what was the blowout game where the student section dudes stripped down to boxers and the chicks down to bras/tanktops in the upper deck? it was cold as fuck, maybe snowing; the stadium was pretty empty. im thinking it was somewhere around 1996 or 1997? anyone else remember this? I was predictably pretty drunk so my memory may be hazy here. I may have also brought this up before so if I did I blame the alcohol for not remembering.

Last game of the season in 1997 vs Army. We won, finished the season 4-8, but it was a hopeful and optimistic 4-8. The Hen's first season.

That was the year Mike Cloud ran for a stupid amount of yards on one of Nehlen's last WVU teams to open the season, and Cirino murderated a WVU player on a reverse and took the ball in for 6.

hansen {l Wrote}:Apparently, it wasn't a blowout. BC 24-20. Maybe I am misremembering key details here.

TontoKowalski {l Wrote}:

hansen {l Wrote}:Apparently, it wasn't a blowout. BC 24-20. Maybe I am misremembering key details here.

Maybe there was a blowout, Blyhope style, but it had nothing to do with the game?

Los {l Wrote}:Not for nothing, but WTF was Alabama doing playing BC in Foxboro on the last weekend of November? I guess scheduling philosophies were much different back then.