Florida State "Oranges" game was 40 years ago tonight

What a night. I was there. Grocery stores were calling the athletic department to give them a heads up about all the oranges being bought,

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Was a 9 year old kid at that game. Loved it

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I was there a a Boy Scout usher. Forever burned into my memory.

I was there in the SEZ. The smell of oranges and the dense fog hanging heavy in the air.

QB Alan Risher, RBs Dalton Hilliard and Garry James, WR Eric Martin, and TE Malcolm Scott.

DL Leonard Marshall and Ramsey Dardar, LBs Rydell Melancon and Al Richardson, DBs Liffert Hobley and Jeffrey Dale.

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I was 11 and listened on the radio with my brother, grandparents and cousin. Our parents must have gone out.

My brother and I would've killed to be there - no TV but had Hawthorn describing the thick fog and oranges raining down.
I thought I wanted to be a journalist or sports reporter and typed up notes real-time on grandma's manual typewriter. Wish I had that "story."

Also wish I could forget the following two games.

I consider that game as the high point of my time in the student section.

That was the last game when they rented out the stadium chairs with the metal frames and canvas covering. I spent a lot of the fourth quarter watching behind me from my seat in the first few rows of the west lower bowl. People were throwing oranges from the west upper and not all of them made the field. A couple of the seat cushions got thrown too but none came close to me. The students who rushed the field after the game and went to the goal posts got beat down by police for their trouble.

Also 40th anniversary of “The Play”