October 14, 2021 5:30 am
Looking around the Carrier Dome this past Saturday as my dear wife Karen and I waited for the Syracuse Orange’s game with Wake Forest to kick off, I took note of the new placement for bowl game banners.
Syracuse has been to half a dome’s worth, yes, some long ago, some not as far in the past.
Then it hit me.
They did not put a banner up for the 1985 Cherry Bowl.
I know it happened. I drove with friends, from Syracuse to Pontiac, Mich., to the Silverdome. I had to see it live. My alma mater Maryland Terrapins would be playing my new hometown team, the Syracuse Orange. I had been working in the sports department of the big daily since August 1983. Got the weekend off. Thoroughly enjoyed Maryland’s 35-18 victory and was back in time for work on Monday.
There were only about 5,000 people in the big dome for this second edition of the Cherry Bowl, I recall. And the game went defunct before the third edition.
Now Syracuse appears to have wiped it from its history books as well.
Posted by markbialczak
Categories: Life
Tags: Carrier Dome, College football, Maryland Terrapins, Syracuse Orange
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By Chatter Master on October 15, 2021 at 7:05 am
Yes sort of the same thing and thank you again and again MBC.
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By markbialczak on October 15, 2021 at 7:26 am
😉 always MBM 🙂
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By Chatter Master on October 16, 2021 at 9:10 pm
Sounds like a good mystery for you to solve, Mark!
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By K.L. Hale on October 14, 2021 at 7:26 am
We shall see, Karla!
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By markbialczak on October 14, 2021 at 7:27 am
hmmm…I wonder why they did this?
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By beth on October 14, 2021 at 5:52 am
Yes I must be missing something somehow, Beth.
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By markbialczak on October 14, 2021 at 7:13 am