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Just so I get this right we were silent against ND
Oct 7, 2014, 2:15 PM
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it was awesome and we lost
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Barely, to the eventual national champions with Joe Montana
Oct 7, 2014, 2:20 PM
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at QB. Tigers were leading in the 4th quarter.
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Leading 17-7 I belive going into 4th
Oct 7, 2014, 2:24 PM
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It was actually Vagas Ferguson running roughshod in the 4th for 2 td's that beat us...
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Re: Leading 17-7 I belive going into 4th
Oct 7, 2014, 2:26 PM
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Yep. My dad was the free safety that year. That game still haunts him, he's told me once or twice about it playing against Montana but that's all.
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Ok, ok, we get it. You don't understand. No point in
Oct 7, 2014, 3:53 PM
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discussing any further.
You have to understand Tiger football history to appreciate the difference between ND in 1977 and FSU in 2014. 1977 was the beginning of a re-birth of Tiger fooball after a long bad run (1959 to 1977 with no bowl game) for Tiger football. We were not expected to be close to Notre Dame. Notre Dame beat a good Ga Tech team 69-14 the week before. Notre Dame beat a previously undefeated Texas team 38-10 in Cotton Bowl in Texas to win the National Championship. No comparison to the FSU game this year.
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We were silent all through the pregame. People were
Oct 7, 2014, 3:00 PM
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whispering to each other in the stands. It worked well because there were very few obvious ND fans (dressed in green, their home color in those days with Dan Devine as head coach).
Our fans, and students (I was a freshman at Clemson) were so amped up that when the Tigers ran down The Hill the place exploded. It was literally the loudest single moment I have experienced at DV, even with the then capacity of 55K (no upper decks).
The crowd was so in tuned to the head cheerleader in those days. The crowd would stop and start cheering on demand from the head cheerleader. The head cheerleaders mic could be heard in both the north and south stands. We would explode with noise when ND would break the huddle and then on occasion, we would stop in the middle of the QB calls, making ND OL jump and create an illegal procedure penalty. Other times the noise wouldn't start until the QB got under center and continued to the snap, often creating delay of game penalties.
Clemson led 17-7 going to the 4th quarter. We lost 21-17 following a ND touchdown after Steve Fuller fumbled near midfield late in the 4th.
A couple of things to remember, ND had beaten a good Ga Tech 69-14 the week before. They went on to win the National Championship that year beating Texas 38-10 in their bowl game.
Oh, and they had this guy named Joe Montana playing QB.
Next to the January 1 1982 Orange Bowl game against Nebraska for the National title, the ND loss in DV is my second favorite memory at a Clemson game. Part of that was where Clemson had come from after 18 years (no bowl since 1959) of wandering in the wilderness. To almost beating ND in one of their National Chmapionship seasons.
Having said all that, pulling off a similar silent treatment today would be a lot more difficult than 1977. The lack of coordination through a head cheerleader to the now 80K+ in the stands, and the greater number of opposing teams fans will water down the silent treatment a great deal.
That said, all Tiger fans yelling their butts off before each Louisville offensive play will be enough to let those players and coaches know there is NO PLACE ON EARTH LIKE DEATH VALLEY IN CLEMSON, S.C.!!!
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Re: And what does being silent before the game have to do
Oct 7, 2014, 3:12 PM
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with any of this?
Stupid
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Orange Blooded [4745]
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Wow, you really don't understand silent treatments. They
Oct 7, 2014, 3:34 PM
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aren't done as often nationally was they were a few decades ago, but the point of all of them was being silent from the time you got in the stadium/coliseum until kickoff or tip off.
Actually, silent treatments were more common for basketball games. Common in a lot of big ACC basketball games in the 70's and 80's.
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