THE LAST GAME

8 SEPT 1984 

ATTENED MY FIRST FOOTBALL GAME AT SAM BOYD STADIUM

REPORTER FOR NBC SPORTS

19 DEC 2020

ATTENED THE LAST FOOTBALL GAME  AT THIS STADIUM

REPORTER FOR LVEN

MOUNTAIN WEST CHAMPIONSHIP SAN JOSE STATE 34 BOISE 20

VIRUS..NO FANS

LOVED THIS FACILITY SINCE DAY ONE....ITS OLD PRESS BOX...

MOUNTAINS....BLUE SKY....PLANES LANDING EVERY MINUTE

FOLLOWING RANDOM THOUGHTS AND REACTIONS

SAN JOSE AND BOISE ...PLAYED 14 TEAMS ..BOISE WON ALL 14

NOT THIS TRIP.....WORST BOISE COACHED TEAM IN HISTORY

NOT A GREAT GAME....3 HOURS 51 MINUTES WITH AN INFINITE

AMOUNT OF TIMEOUTS AND REPLAY STOPS 

EACH TEAM HAD 21 COACHES...DIDNT SEEM LIKE ENOUGH

WITH THEIR BLUE TURF AND BEAUTIFUL ORANGE UNIFORMS

BOISE WORE WHITE....?

TEAMS CONTINUE TO NOT FAIR CATCH PUNTS AND THEN FUMBLE

LOMBARDI OF THE PACKER HAD WILLIE WOOD FAIR CATCH

EACH PUNT....THEY TOOK THE BALL AND THEN RAMED IT DOWN

THE FIELD SEEMED LIKE A GREAT IDEA..

FIRST SERIES SJS HAD A THIRD AND ONE AND COULDNT MAKE IT

SEEMED LIKE A PROTOTYPE OF THE DAY...IT WAS

TOUGH GAME TO REFEREE...HAD 8 AND A REPLAY AND SIDE JUDGE

WAS INJURED IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND DID NOT RETURN

EARLY ON BOISE QB THREW A PASS WHEN HE WAS 3 YARDS PASS

THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE...WHY DID I SEE IT AND NOT THE REFS

EARLY SJS THREW A SHORT OUT...A MISSED TACKLE AND A 70 YARD

TD...PROTOTYPE OF THE DAY....SJS QB THREW FOR ALMOST  500 YARDS

BOISE ON FOR A FIELD GOAL...SJS HAD 8 PLAYERS ON THE FIELD

WASTED TIME OUT

PRETTY MUCH 2 AVERAGE TEAMS....SJS 7-0 BOISE 6-2...TWO BEST

TEAMS IN A CONFERENCE UNLV WENT 0-6

FOX TV HAS AN OVERHEAD CAMERA ON WIRE THAT RUNS UP AND

DOWN FIELD.....DISTRACTING AND AT SOME POINT A BALL MUST HIT

THIS WIRE

HOW ABOUT SOME MORE TIMEOUTS

BOISE GOT A ROUGHING THE PASSER WITH SJS FIRST AND GOAL AT THE FIVE

SAN JOSE STILL TRYING TO FIELD BOUNCING PUNTS

STILL TRYING TO RUN BACKWARDS AND CATCH A PUNT OVER YOUER

SHOUDER

SJS FOUR FIELD GOALS IN SECOND QUARTER 19-6

THEN LATE IN GAME WITH SCORE 22-9 SJS REFUSE A FIELD GOAL TRY

FROM THE 3 THAT WOULD PUT THEM UP 16....TWO EIGHTS.....THEY FAILED

AND THE SCORE CAME 27-20...LATE  WITH A CHANCE TO LOSE....?

THIS WONDERFUL OLD FIELD HAS THE WORST SCOREBOARD IN HISTORY

WHICH NEVER GOT BETTER....NEVER GOT REPLAYS AND USED THE

ASSHOLES AND ELBOWS CAMERA WORK WITH UNLV USES ON THEIR

COACHES SHOW....CANT SEE ANYTHING...?   NEVER CHANGED

GAMER HARDLY LOOKED LIKE TWO WELL TONED PLAYOFF TEAMS

A READ A TOTAL ISSUE OF ....OLD NEWS.....12 PAGES.....5 STORIES

DURING THE STOPPAGE OF PLAY....NEVER MISSED A THINE....WATCHING

THIS CAN BE TORTUE

LAWRENCE FAN THE SJS SID DID A HEORIC JOB OF ADMISTIRING

MEDIA COVERAGE....HELP TOO FROM MARK WALLINGTONG OF UNLV

SO LONG SAM BOYD STADIUM LOVED 36 YEARS THERE