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Topic: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

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suhlmann12
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Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/17/2012 7:27:14 PM

Bobcat fans,

My name is Steve Uhlmann and I am a writer for The Athens News. I'm doing a story about Peden Stadium and I was looking for input from Bobcat fans about what their favorite memories, games and quirks of our beloved football field are.

If you are interested in sharing, shoot me an email at su232409@ohio.edu. Thanks!

Ohio69
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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/17/2012 8:43:18 PM

The alumni band vs. Miami football team.

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/17/2012 10:37:54 PM

Running 40's under the home seats and being timed by Coach Hefflefinger who was holding the stop watch 40 yards away from the starting line and being clocked at 4.7 when there was no way in heck that I was a shade under 5.2.

A couple of seasons ago after a poor start to the season, I was early to a game and walking with a guest through the very same tunnel and who should be walking solo, deep in thought but our Coach FS--I'd never seen a coach walking out there before and was surprised to see him by himself. Knowing the locker room was close at hand I said, "Hey coach, what did they do, lock you out?" His face turned into a big smile, he let out a loud chuckle and exclaimed, "Did they lock me out!--apparently amused by the thought. Or of course he could have just been polite to a dumb axe fan who caused him to take his mind away from the game plan. The team came out fired up and rolled so at least I cannot be blamed for a major distraction.

Having the stands go right down to the field before removing the track and lowering the field so you could just step onto the field after games to dance among the 110 Marching Men of Ohio playing Ely's Coming!

Last Edited: 9/17/2012 10:40:42 PM by MonroeClassmate

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 12:58:29 AM

Ohio69 wrote:

The alumni band vs. Miami football team.

This.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 1:13:01 AM

Us breaking several fire codes (possibly?) fitting nearly 26,000 fans in a 24,000 seating capacity stadium.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 7:06:48 AM

Ohio69 wrote:

The alumni band vs. Miami football team.

Bobcat Grad 86
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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 7:49:14 AM

http://www.ohio.edu/armyrotc/history.html

In May 1937 a group of thirty-four ROTC students, having formed a temporary organization called the "Kaydets," petitioned the Campus Affairs Committee for authority of organize a chapter of the Pershing Rifles for the Basic Course students. The application was approved and a charter was granted by the National Society of Pershing Rifles to this organization as of 27 May 1937, under the title of Company F, First Regiment of Pershing Rifles. The ROTC Armory with an indoor rifle range was completed under the east wing of Peden Football Stadium in December 1937.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 7:55:07 AM

Ike landed in Peden Stadium in 1965.

Page 32: http://issuu.com/ohiotoday/docs/ot11?mode=window&pageNumber=2

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 8:22:38 AM

1. ) Students grabbing the Toledo mascot in early 1980, passing him up through the stands and dangling him over the top.

2.) Two students pulling up a rope or chain just as BGSU team began to run on the field, also 1980ish, causing a huge pileup and some fisticuffs

3.) The student side catching on fire on Halloween night in 1984.

4.) Me and the "Big M" (a beauty from Jefferson Hall) having a midnight picnic on the 50 yard line. Wait, that was just a dream.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 8:23:37 AM

Tearing the goalpost down in the south endzone after beating Kent State to stop longest losing streak in country, I believe it was fall of 93'.

Last Edited: 9/18/2012 8:26:22 AM by Bobcat Mac

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 8:47:29 AM

Bobcat Mac wrote:

Tearing the goalpost down in the south endzone after beating Kent State to stop longest losing streak in country, I believe it was fall of 93'.

I was at that game and stormed the field with the 200 or so others remaining in the stands at the end. In my memory, it was 6-3, but I looked it up and it was a 15-10 win. I do remember that the two teams involved were ranked dead last and second-to-last in all of Division 1A. Remarkably, we won a few more games that year.

It was the 5-0 loss to a hapless Utah State team during the following year's zero-win campaign that put me off Bobcat football for a while. What a putrid display that was. Thank goodness for the 110, and thank Frank that it's a distant memory.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 8:48:49 AM

Bobcat Mac wrote:

Tearing the goalpost down in the south endzone after beating Kent State to stop longest losing streak in country, I believe it was fall of 93'.

Sadly the same thing happened against Toledo a few years earlier except it was only one guy who tried to do it and he got arrested.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 8:57:01 AM

My Freshman Year (1981) the Ritz restaurant used rolls of paper to create a sign on the hill across the highway that said “Ribs at Ritz”. Some students climbed the hill and changed it to “Tits at Ritz”. I remember everybody laughing watching the overweight cops trying to climb hill.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 9:01:16 AM

Friends of mine with a bedsheet walking around the track (when we had a track) during a Miami game when they were the Redskins and the winner would be in a bowl game (Tangerine).

On the bedsheet an artist friend of mine had drawn a picture of a native american crawling out of a toilet with the caption at the top of the bedsheet saying "THE ONLY BOWL FOR MIAMI".

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 9:50:41 AM

Chip wins - I forgot that episode. It was Homecoming, as I recall, and the entire student side of the stadium was going crazy. I can imagine President Ping dispatching those campus police!

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 10:24:33 AM

Telling Buffalo's backup quarterback "Gill" that he smoked weed before the game due to his bloodshot eyes, prompting throat-slash gestures, then storming the field after winning ESPN's pillow fight of the week in 2002 has to be the highlight

Knorr era was dark times

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 10:25:14 AM

Ohio69 wrote:

The alumni band vs. Miami football team.

Does anyone have a full story on this? I've heard this one-sentence description a lot, but never all the details.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 10:27:56 AM

SDBobcat wrote:

Ohio69 wrote:

The alumni band vs. Miami football team.

Does anyone have a full story on this? I've heard this one-sentence description a lot, but never all the details.

Well, it went a little something like this...

The players tried to take the field, but the marching band refused to yield.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 10:30:58 AM

Here's the video:

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 10:58:10 AM

Not sure if you can see it in this particular video, but the best part is when 110 director Sylvester Young goes out and rips the Miami coach a new one for interrupting his show. Absolutely hysterical, haha.

B.S. Journalism, 2012.

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 11:33:47 AM

I think that's the best video I've ever seen! Muck Fiami!!

Ohio69
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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 11:54:59 AM

What you don't see on the video is how close it was to complete and utter mayhem. Many of us up in the stands were running down to jump on the field and help kick some Miami arse. I mostly regret we didn't do so.

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 12:08:32 PM

Maybe Frank can use this as the Motivational Tape for Miami?

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 1:49:38 PM

Those were the days... when the Fiami rivalry MEANT SOMETHING.

I remember when the Miami band visited Peden... heheheheheh... I don't believe the Marching 110 and the Fiami High School Band are allowed in the same stadium anymore.

GO BOBCATS!

-john

Go Bobcats!

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RE: Fan input on story about Peden Stadium

Posted: 9/18/2012 2:40:20 PM

Ohio69 wrote:

'69....you went down to the field and ignored that staid and stoic Connecticut poise? Love it!!!

My favorite Peden moment was the clad in white wienie man selling his wares when OU's Laurie Lea Schaefer was in attendance by chanting "you can't cheer Miss America without your wienie in your hand".

"All my inside sources tell me I have no inside sources." Salvatore "money bucks" Mafiosiano.

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