re: 1997 Independence Bowl

Yeah....because of course they came to my hometown the very year I finally got out of this dump. I had joined the military a few months earlier, so I had to watch the game from Orlando, FL. And, thankfully, they are too good now to have to come back and play here.

Fun fact....20 years later, I find myself living back in Shreveport, and LSU plays Notre Dame again in a bowl game. Where? Orlando! So, I took my wife (a confused young woman raised Catholic and roots for Notre Dame as a result) to Orlando, thinking it will be great to be in warm weather and watch LSU beat up on ND. Well, it didn't go my way at all. Cold, rainy, windy weather made for it miserable to sit through the game, and that was compounded by ND beating our arse.

It was a sort of full circle moment for me. Glad that guy coaching ND in the Citrus Bowl found a better team to coach for!