1967 50 yard line seats at Notre Dame $6.50 each.

Amazing.

Today, if you want to sit on the 50 yard line and watch the Oklahoma State Cowboys impersonate a division I college football team, it will cost you $175 for each seat, face value.

No joke.
okiedomer | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 8:29 am | #

Great story and thanks for including it. What a great game to look forward to-one of those match-ups where you actually root a little for the opponent. Thanks Lt. Motl for sharing your memories (and, of course, for your service). Here's to a great game that allows us to feel nostalgic for those times when there was a little less entertainment and a little more modesty in college football.
Re-Run | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 8:58 am | #

Great story. Sent the link to a Annapolis grad friend of mine. He and I should have been at the game this weekend with our kids but the price for the game is just too high. Hopefully next year.
Eddie | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 9:07 am | #

What a fantastic bit of history. Thanks for sharing it!
Paul | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 9:14 am | #

A little off-topic here but felt I had to share:

I know we all agreed to ignore the DJ GALLO story on espn.com, however I'm a sucker and I read it and blew-up on him via email. It wasnt a pleasant email and here is what he wrote back:

"Hi Steve -

Thanks for your well-reasoned note.

What I wrote wasn't so much about Notre Dame -- I think they are a good
program, and deserve respect because they do it on the up-and-up,
unlike
some others. It was about Charlie Weis and his comments. The head
coach
of Notre Dame complaining about the polls is as ridiculous as the New
York
Yankees complaining about rising payrolls.

- DJ"

What a douche.
Smitty2183 | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 9:17 am | #

The only Notre Dame game I have been to was the 2003 Navy Game. I'll always remember the pure class of the Naval Academy fans around the stadium. This was before I had learned that the Naval Academy basiclly kept ND's doors open during WWII.
UncleSmokeyStank | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 9:43 am | #

5 fumbles?
schwappy | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 11:01 am | #

Very well done. All I have is respect for Navy and their brothers. To all those who want to rip on the academies and put their teams down, I guess they have their excuses for hating America.....
Thundershaker | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 11:36 am | #

I know this has nothing to do with Navy but somebody explain this to me: Tommy Tub Ville every week says his conference cannot produce a BCS champ because its to hard and everyone just nods their head, forgetting how they lost at home as double digit favorite to Arkansas. And how is ND overrated when Auburn has done the exact same things ND has done. Getting dominated at home as a favorite? Check (Not to mention we lost to BCS #2 and they lost to BCS #13, they were double digit favorite, and we at least tied the game at one pt., albeit for mayve 1 minute. ) Getting lucky at home and escaping with a narrow victory? Check. Now granted UF is alot better than UCLA and MSU but no way is Arkansas on the same level as the Maize and Blue. Arkansas will likely finish the season with 3 or 4 losses and UF will finish with two at the most. So based on Auburn's rankings, it apparently is better to lose badly to a worse opponent and barely beat a better opponent than lose to the #2 team in the ocuntry and barely beat second tier bowl teams. Am I alone on this?
Stupidity of youth | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 12:07 pm | #

good point, Im with ya
Smitty2183 | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 12:41 pm | #

You guys must think these pollsters actually reason these things through. I've seen it done. Here's what I saw:

"Hum, what were the rankings last week? OK. Well, I didn't see that game, but they won. Up 1. Hum, I watched that game, their punter sure has a funny name. They stay same. Oklahoma won but lost Peterson, move them down 4. Jez, I got to run. Here. [submit].

I watched a ballot cast in 20 to 30 seconds.

So stop thinking about it.
schwappy | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 1:04 pm | #

I attended the ‘67 Navy Game. I was a lieutenant junior grade stationed at Glenview Naval Air Station (north of Chicago, now extinct) and someone got a bunch of tickets up on the southwest rim (where the visitors sit). I jumped at the chance to go and we all dressed up in our blues, white cover, and great coat with all the brass buttons. It was a raw wintery day and we sat hunched over, breath blowing out like exhaust smoke.

Unthinking, every time ND made a play on the field I would pop up out of this sober mob shaking my fist in the air, “Go, go, go!” Well, my boss, the staff judge advocate, told me later that I had embarrassed him in front of all his friends. We never got along too well after that.

For some dumb reason it’s thought you’re supposed to switch allegiance after joining one of the armed forces. I tried to explain to the boss that I didn’t go to Annapolis and that they’d beaten us when I was an underclassman.

That didn’t matter. So, if I had to do it over again, I would have just sat there and moaned, “Oh, holy crap.”
Judge | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 1:14 pm | #

Judge, don't worry too much about getting in trouble for that. You were only an Ensign Senior Grade, so you would have gotten yourself in trouble anyways. Rule #1: Never let a bunch of officers do anything without at least one blueshirt around.
JohnWA | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 2:53 pm | #

My favorite line: "Navy’s record was 4 and 2 with victories over Penn State, Michigan, Syracuse and Pitt but losses to William & Mary and Rice."
SigmundUrp | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 3:02 pm | #

Noticed the same thing, Sigmund--glad I wasn't the only one with a case of cognitive dissonance on that one.
Nate | Email | Homepage | 10.27.06 - 5:48 pm | #

Well it’s suppose to stop raining, climb up to 65 degrees, but get windy, to around 20 mph. We’re going early to watch the warm-ups and the Midshipmen march in. Got four tickets, the only ones we won this year. Two sons and a grandson flew in for the game. Thank goodness ND has this rotating “away game” with Navy or we would have been shut-out on tickets like last year. See you at the game. Go Irish.
philB | Email | Homepage | 10.28.06 - 6:30 am | #