re: Go Army, Beat Navy

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Prob one of those dudes that you'd hear crying in his rack at night.

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Don't judge. It hurt to have my Charger repoed.

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annoying than a bunch of people with no ties to Army or Navy acting like this is a big game to them.

If you didn’t attend one of those two institutions, this game should be nothing but some entertainment.

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My dad went to the Naval Academy, and the game was important to him, so it’s important to me.

Go Navy; Beat Army.

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Hope to go one day. It’s the only sporting event I get choked up before and after.

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I went to one in 2021. Absolutely unbelievable experience.

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cubsfan5150

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You should have been given a blanket party and teabagged at Basic.

frick you

Go Army.

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You really are stupid aren’t you. If you had ever worn the uniform of our country’s military, you’d understand why regular soldiers, sailors, and marines all care very much about this game.

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From my experience the only active duty soldier, sailors, or marines that give a shite about the Army navy game are grads from USMA and USNA. The enlisted and ROTC crowd doesn't really care about this game until they have been out of service for several years and begin to feel nostalgia about their service.

Geaux Army beat navy!

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SteelerBravesDawg

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Your loser arse either never served or handed out basketballs at the gym

My Sooners have to play Navy next, and we're losing a bunch of guys to the portal before the game (12/27).

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Your loser arse either never served

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Army Reserve 99-05

OIF in West Baghdad May '03-March-'04 w/the 1014th QM Co.attached to the 541st CSB.

GGF

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Just curious when did you serve? This was not my experience at Camp Dobol, Bosnia for the 1997 game. Only people watching or cared about the game was USMA Grads. I'm genuinely curious if there was a cultural shift post 2001.

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70s, 80s, 90s.

I think a cultural shift did occur, not just in the military but throughout our society, at the beginning of this century.

Coach Paul Dietzel and I talked about it on my show one time. He was at Army after he left LSU and before he came to SC. His were the last real glory days of the Army-Navy game in his opinion. He lost three straight years to Navy which he explained by saying, "well, Navy had a pretty good QB those three years."

Roger Staubach was the last service academy member to win the Heisman. (I saw him signing game balls yesterday on TV.)

The reason it changed somewhat, in Coach's eyes was because of the Vietnam War ... it became less fashionable for the best athletes to attend service academies.

Also, TV changed the way fans viewed the game. The first college football game that was televised was in 1939 but few people owned TVs at that time. But in 1945 when the first Army-Navy game was televised, and you had grown men coming home from the war and playing, some even in their 30s, it was much watch TV and there were many more TVs in homes.

It's an iconic game. However, I do agree with you that it all depends upon the duty station and the branch of service. My units, always Airborne units, had a ton of West Point grads and even a couple of former players in our ranks.

One of my buddies is a Naval Academy grad who served with Napoleon McCallum.

When you had those guys in your units you watched the games.

Crippled Air Force wrench turner lashing out

Sad