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1979 Miami vs Notre Dame in Tokyo
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:19 pm
I had no clue.
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Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:37 pm to dstone12
It paved the way for cfb's widespread expansion into Asia that we have today.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:45 pm to dstone12
Why though?
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:59 pm to dstone12
Mark Richt was a freshman at the U.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 11:18 pm to dstone12
At the 2:32 mark true freshman QB #12 Jim Kelly gets fricking killed, next frame no Jim Kelly.
TY, dstone12, I’m 9 in 1979 & those ND uniforms were exact replicas of the Visitation Shamrocks uniforms when we took the field.
TY, dstone12, I’m 9 in 1979 & those ND uniforms were exact replicas of the Visitation Shamrocks uniforms when we took the field.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 1:21 am to dstone12
quote:
I had no clue.
It was the "Mirage Bowl"...so we still do.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 1:34 am to dstone12
That field looks as pristine as the Rose Bowl's.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 3:42 am to shutterspeed
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It paved the way for cfb's widespread expansion into Asia that we have today.
Is Dat Nguyen dat happened?
Posted on 9/1/25 at 7:27 am to dstone12
Was Roger Goodell an AD at one of the schools?
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 7:28 am
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:03 am to dstone12
It was a series called the Coca-Cola Classic. They would play a game on the final weekend of every year in Tokyo between 1977 - 1993. It was supposed to be a bookend to the Kickoff Classic in Giants Stadium. Games would usually start very late in the states so not many people watched, with a few exceptions.
One of them was 1988 - Barry Sanders caps off a record breaking season by going over 300 yards again. Not many of his games were televised that year so kids begged their parents to stay up until the wee hours to see the phenom. He wins the Heisman going away the next day and accepts the award via video feed from his Tokyo hotel. Because he had the most dominant Heisman season ever a lot of people experience the "Mandela effect" and remember him accepting the trophy and giving a speech at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York but it never happened.
Also of note, David Klingler of Houston (Andre Ware's successor) shattered the NCAA record for passing yards by air raiding Arizona State to the tune of 715 yards and that record stood for 25 years. A lot of people remember hearing about that mind boggling stat but they don't remember that it happened in Tokyo in front of 30,000 Japanese who had no clue what they were watching.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:20 am to dstone12
That field is treacherous
Posted on 9/1/25 at 10:32 am to dstone12
Grambling played the first ever regular season game in Japan. Beat Morgan State I believe
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