History is written by winners. Losers beg for rewrites and deleted scenes.
It was January 11, 1981 and I was seven. Every memory from prior to that afternoon is in foggy bits and pieces. Jumbled like the plot of a movie on TV while you're napping on the couch.
in a little residential neighborhood not far from what was then called Jack Murphy Stadium. This was a simpler time, when NFL Pro Bowlers lived in humble bungalows across the street from tiny immigrant grandmothers., as one does. This was significant in my football indoctrination. He was on television and I had been inside his house . That season, the Chargers were forced to win the NFL's final regular season game to make the playoffs.
Oakland looked better than usual, while Dan Fouts threw interceptions and Chuck Muncie fumbled. The best version of the Chargers did not show up, and the evil visitors won to advance to the Super Bowl, which they would also win - against the Eagles, a team Fouts had torched already. That just made it hurt more.
It's nearly impossible to be self-aware at seven, except that my uncle, who was there to see us off to the airport was openly laughing at me and I remember being both furious and too breathless from crying to defend myself or attack him. That's all they are. The joy is in the adventure. I have the right to disagree with the final destination.
That was the start of Michigan week. Teenagers are the center of their own universe, and that morning at school I felt guilty for ever having rooted again Earle, despite having an unimpeachable Iowa excuse to do so, at least that Saturday. They become foggy bits and pieces. I'm sure I've seen the Buckeyes beat Toledo, San Diego State and Akron more than a few times but I cannot tell you the exact number or too many details about them.
National titles were sort of mythical back in 1987; they were typically"shared" and generally undefined. Four programs claimed national titles in 1990, when I was in high school - Colorado, Georgia Tech, Miami and Washington.That same season four teams claimed the Big Ten title - Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State and Illinois. The Hawkeyes beat the other three head-to-head so they got to see the San Gabriel mountains at the Rose Bowl.
No one gave a shit about the Cotton Bowl. Everyone was salty about it. The Buckeyes kicked no.8 Texas A&M's ass. I don't think I had ever seen a Texas A&M football game prior to that Cotton Bowl. Couldn't name a single player. Still can't.
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