9/14/2023 0 Comments Tangerine bowl semi proLegend has it that one of the Sun Bowl Committee members was a Tech alum and got the Hokies the bid after the prior rejections. The Blacksburg boys were third pick to oppose an 8-2 Cincinnati Bearcat team, the first two, Hardin-Simmons and Texas Tech, turning down the chance to spend New Year’s 1947 in freezing, blustery El Paso. Amazing for its symmetry, not it’s excellence. The Gobblers, as they were then known, were coming off an amazing regular season with a record of 3-3-3. Historic because it was Virginia Tech’s first ever bowl. So I am going to do a list of the most memorable (to me) bowl games of my lifetime (or before). Given the time of the year, this is my “bowl game column”. So every now and then I like to do a sports piece in his honor. Dan died a couple of years ago, but his legacy lives on through his daughter Sally Jenkins, an accomplished sportswriter in her own right for the Washington Post.ĭan lived the life I would have liked to have had, covering America’s great sporting events with humor and passion and enjoying life to the fullest while laughing at it. His books are must reading for sports fans of my generation. Most recently he wrote his autobiography, Life its Ownself. Dan also wrote about a dozen raunchy and irreverent sports novels, the best known of which is Semi-Tough, published while I was in college. My first ambition was to become the next Dan Jenkins, an iconic Sports Illustrated writer who covered college football and professional golf for SI for a quarter century.
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