Dave and I had a neat opportunity to go to SuperBowl XXV down in Tampa, FL with our college roommates the Olsen brothers. Their dad worked for the Buffalo Bills at the time, and they were very generous to offer us tickets to the game. Being creative and poor college students we found some crazy deal on NW airlines that was pretty cheap but routed us from SLC to Minneapolis to Detriot, then to Memphis and then to Tampa. In fact, I believe Jeff and I landed in Tampa and Dave and James landed in Orlando and we drove our fancy rental car (see below) over to pick them up.
We rooted hard for the Bills but they came up a little short as the infamous kick went wide right. Despite the loss we had a great trip. The game was played in the midst of the gulf war and we all sang the National Anthem with a little more spirit that day. This was one of many fun things we did with the Olsen brothers during our BYU days.
After the bitter loss, Dave and I hopped on the UNLV bandwagon quickly as you can see from the tee shirts. They ended that season with a bitter loss as well.
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Man I was so jealous of you guys when you went down to that. I remember asking how many autographs he got at the post game party, but he just said everyone was so depressed he didn;t get any. jim kelly, bruce smith, steve tasker, thurman thomas, james lofton, andre reed, daryle talley, will wolford, the team was a pro bowl team and he got zero autographs. what were you guys thinking. thanks for posting those pics, you guys look like teenages inm em. I do not remember seeing many pictures from the trip. thanks steve,
I can verify the aftergame party was a downer. Great food, but the players that did show up were bummed and didn't want to be bother by the likes of Dave, me, etc...I somehow did squeak out a Jim Kelly autographed picture...got that before the game..darned if I can find it now. We do look young in those pix, pretty funny. Had a lot of fun those few days down there.
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