Griz Fan Since...

[mtgrizzly]

Since 1976, born a GRIZ fan as my dad was an alum. First live GRIZ game was in 93 at the litter box. Greatest game I have attended:
1. The SDST comeback
2. The APP ST game
3. The first night game against UNH
4. The playoff game against Sam Houston what sweet revenge that was in 04.

Go GRIZ!!

 

[GrizzlyEdd]

Since 1963... Saw Terry Dillon play...

 

[Proud Griz Man]

 

[hokeyfine]

Sprint draws to rocky klever.

 

[citygriz]

2012. i wander into a sports bar, where a small knot of people are watching a game. i glance at the game on my way to the bathroom, casually ask who they're playing. they all sing out hellos, say they are watching the montana grizzlies, and offer to buy me a beer. i'm thinking, these are the friendliest people i've ever met. i join them, and the beers keep appearing. one guy's got a trumpet, and plays the school fight song--something about a bear and a stomach. but by this time i've had so many beers i can't tell what the hell they're talking about. only thing i know is, their team loses in the last minute, and apparently this has happened several times to them, and now they're all in the dumps. i immediately feel desperately sorry for these people. they've been so nice to me, i decided to adopt their team as my team. after all, i've always been for the underdog.

 

[Gametime]

1968. Best memories: Cub Club, watching Brian Salonen make circus catches, Marty Morningwig, fights after Cat/Griz games, less than 100 fans at a snowy end of the year game against Non-conference Portland State, Brent Pease, JC Campbell tip to Nygren for the ride, Matt Clark and Mike Trevathan, early playoff games, Washington Griz stadium with grass end zones, Dickenson led comeback in 1993 (?), killing Boise in their last Game in WA-Griz, 1995 and 1996 absolute domination in 6 home playoff games, mud bowl game against the Cats - Griz seal win late, hook and ladder play to get into field goal position to win game, U Mass loss in the semis (fun game except the loss), semi final win against Northern Iowa, biggest comeback ever vs South Dakota State, App State night game and so many more.

 

[PlayerRep]

Attended first game in the mid-50's. Best memories are Dickenson years and '01 national championship game.

Holy S#*t, Grandpa! Are we going to see your 100th happy birthday on Griz Vision soon.

(and don't get all defensive just having fun with ya.)

Grandpa? Nope. Have 5 kids, and am still not a grandpa. Have a sophomore in high school, and a hot wife (described by some egrizzers as smokin hot). Let me know if you'd like me to teach you how to play football. Saw that you said you'd never played it.

 

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

I cant believe there is any room on that list..................... :roll:

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[MrTitleist]

Some of you guys are really old.... :lol:

 

[GrizLA]

Some of you guys are really old.... :lol:

Sure beats the hell out of the alternative.

 

[lil_miss_griz]

I was 9 years old when I went to my first game and have been hooked ever since. My dad and I were able to go to about one or two games a year, and watched the rest of the games on the tv. When I was 16 I finally convinced my parents to let me buy my own season tickets, and drive back and forth from Butte to Missoula each game. Now as a junior at the University I continue buying the season tickets every year so I can be guaranteed a ticket to every game, and so I don't have to fight for a seat in the student section.
Best memory: App St game of course and my first cat/griz game in 2008

 

['68griz]

LA, you took the words off my keyboard.

 

[GrizLA]

LA, you took the words off my keyboard.

oops, sorry...

 

[Grizo406]

1991.

 

[grizfan95]

I was 9 years old when I went to my first game and have been hooked ever since. My dad and I were able to go to about one or two games a year, and watched the rest of the games on the tv. When I was 16 I finally convinced my parents to let me buy my own season tickets, and drive back and forth from Butte to Missoula each game. Now as a junior at the University I continue buying the season tickets every year so I can be guaranteed a ticket to every game, and so I don't have to fight for a seat in the student section.
Best memory: App St game of course and my first cat/griz game in 2008

Awesome story! :thumb:

 

[kurtismichael]

Attended first game in the mid-50's. Best memories are Dickenson years and '01 national championship game.

Holy S#*t, Grandpa! Are we going to see your 100th happy birthday on Griz Vision soon.

(and don't get all defensive just having fun with ya.)

Grandpa? Nope. Have 5 kids, and am still not a grandpa. Have a sophomore in high school, and a hot wife (described by some egrizzers as smokin hot). Let me know if you'd like me to teach you how to play football. Saw that you said you'd never played it.

Correct never did play. Played H.S. basketball (in Alaska) had one offer to walk on at Finlay J.C. in Ohio but doesn't really count cause the head coach was my coach's older brother. Couple of my friends tried to get me to go out for football to be a tackling dummy at practice but I was to scranwy and not very fast on top of it. Thanks for the offer but now I'm 40 and even slower. :lol: I've said in other posts I don't really have any advice for the Griz other than to play better this year but I have no specifics on how they should do that, I'll leave that to people who have either coached or played in the past. Congrats on the wife and 5 kids, I stopped at three kids, oldest is only 5.

 

[trouthunter]

Life. Born in Missoula, lived on campus until I was 4.

Best memory--2004 chipper waiting in line for our tickets. A group of JMU students walked by and yelled "jizz on the Griz." I said, "oh yea," turned to the crowd and yelled as loud as I could, "MONTANA..." 250 people yelled back, "GRIZZLIES..."

 

[mega mauler]

I became a fan in 2005 when my daughter started school there. I never really cared one way or another about the bobcat/griz thing before that. My daughter begged me to come to a game and swore I would enjoy it. I finally agreed and had a blast and have been hooked ever since. The App State game in the snow was one of the best times in my life. Bought season tickets this year and plan on keeping them next year regardless of this seasons results. Go Griz

 

[Ducks&Griz]

Long time Egriz reader. Activated an account just so I could post his. Enjoyed reading everyone's stories, and even though I haven't lived in Missoula in over a decade, I follow the Griz religiously. It's been hard to stomach what is happening to our proud program, but reading some of the stories in this topic has brightened my day and my outlook.

My first game was the Griz/Cat game at Dornblaser in 1985, though I don't really remember it. The first game I went to that really made me a fan was the huge win over Idaho in 1988. It was the first time the Griz had beaten Idaho in six years, and seemed to be a real turning point for the program. Went to every home game, including playoffs, from 1989 to 1998. What a ride that was through the 1990s, watching Montana become a burgeoning phoenix in the Big Sky and fulfilling every Griz fan's wildest dreams of success.

Living in Eugene, Oregon now, it's tough to make it back to Missoula for home games, but I've made it up to PSU a couple of times when the Griz have visited. Last Griz home game was the 2004 playoff game against New Hampshire.

I could make a list a mile long of my favorite memories in Wa-Griz in which I was in attendance, but here is a short list...

-1993 playoffs vs Delaware (What a game that was. Crushing loss and I almost froze to death, but one of the most entertaining games I've ever seen)

-1988 vs Idaho (Beating Idaho back then was like winning the national title. The Vandals owned the Griz for so long, and that was a gigantic victory for the program. Missoula was on fire that night.)

-1994 playoffs vs McNeese State (The miracle in the snow...people had already started leaving the stadium when Bert Wilberger engineered one of the most improbable comebacks in Griz history with under a minute left. The place went berserk when Andy Larson nailed that game winning FG in the snow. It was snowing so hard that the only way we could tell it was good was the roar of the crowd in the north end zone.)

-1995 vs Boise State (The ass pasting the Griz laid on BSU was utter sweetness, especially after what they did to the Griz the year before. The perfect farewell gift to the smurf turfers as they departed the Big Sky the next season.)

-1995 playoffs vs Stephen F Austin (70-14! Won't ever forget that day!)

-1991 vs Boise State (Boise was ranked #3 in the 1-AA polls going into this game. The Griz were unranked. We just hoped the Griz could stay competitive after a very rough start to the season. The Griz went on to spank the Broncos 21-7 and go on a big winning streak that brought them within a missed FG by Kirk Duce of upsetting #1 Nevada and winning a most improbable conference title.)


So many memories, and I believe this downward turn is something Montana will overcome. This program is something special, and has gone where many never thought it would. I do believe that the heart of this programs still beats, and the Griz will rise again! GO GRIZ!

 

[NorthEndZoneDan]

Didn't read anything above, but mine is, Nygren's ride. I was about six and a half, but I have the most vivid memory of that play. Mostly because I watched my mother come out of her shoes. She is regularly a very subdued woman. Don't ask what I saw my father do, after that play.

But honestly, that play is ingrained in my feeble little mind. Might be why I love football so much, if one wanted to dabble in some pop psychology..

My first Griz game would have been my freshman year in 1979.

I was telling my son this morning about Nygren's Ride. My buddy and I were elk hunting in the Seeley Lake area, on Richmond Ridge. We hiked back in deep snow to the truck to catch the end of the game and popped a cold beer. When Nygren scored I reached in an laid on the horn. I heard at least a dozen rigs sounding their answer, we all laid on the horns and lit up the Seeley Valley.