Greatest player you watched from the Sun Bowl stands?
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I like the blue paint on the south end zone. When did they paint it white?
I remember Brian Urlacher being a different type of athlete when I saw him play UTEP in the Sun Bowl. UTEP won that low scoring game, but Urlacher was really good on defense and he also scored UNM's only TD on offense, when they played him both ways at the end of the game.
As far as great performances go, didn't that guy Casey from Rice: Throw a TD, Catch a TD, and Rush for a TD in the same game against UTEP in the Sun Bowl?
As far as great performances go, didn't that guy Casey from Rice: Throw a TD, Catch a TD, and Rush for a TD in the same game against UTEP in the Sun Bowl?
Thurman Thomas and Barry Sanders from Oklahoma State and Tony Dorsett from Pitt.
Around the 1998 or 1999 season because Stull felt it made the Sun Bowl look minor league. Also the yard marks on the sidelines were taken out.
I remember he returned punts in that game and Miners were bouncing off of him. He was a man amongst boys.
He's my son's position coach at UH. Great guy. Didn't know he pulled that trifecta off in the Sun Bowl.
One game that always stood out for me was the game vs. NMSU in 2006. UTEP didn’t put The Aggies away in the 2nd half and thankfully Johnnie Lee Higgins went off for over 200 yards receiving and three touchdowns. That game along with the Tech game earlier in the year really reinforced the fact that Higgins was an all time great. It really is a shame that one hit derailed his NFL career.
It looks like I was wrong, Casey did have a monster 3 TD game against UTEP and he did pull off the trifecta twice in his career(throwing, catching, and receiving a TD in the same game), but those two trifecta’s were against Houston and Tulsa:
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/james_casey_291443.html
Ty Detmer played against UTEP here in the Sun Bowl in the same year that he won the Heisman Trophy(1990).
UTEP actually played somewhat well in that game, holding BYU and the Heisman Trophy winner to only 9 total points in the 2nd half. We lost 30-10, but we were only down 11 at half time and we were only down 14 in the 4th quarter of that game. The week after playing us BYU beat Miami.
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Hell I was in my twenties and thought what the hell??? And than I figured it out, pretty cool!Derrick Thomas; Alabama. 1988
I was a young lad trying to figure out why in the hell do all the Alabama fans have a toilet paper roll and and a box of Tide on a stick? LOL!
Very easy -- Emmitt Smith, when Dallas played a scrimmage in the Sun Bowl in 1998 or so. Aikman and Irvin also played and they were reaching retirement but all three became Hall of Famers
Off the top of my head (some have already answered):
Tony Dorsett in 1975
Barry Sanders in 1987 (he was backing up Thurman Thomas, but did play a little)
Ty Detmer in 1990 (I remember that stupid game)
Carson Palmer in 1998 (people complained that the match up with TCU was insulting to the Sun Bowl. .. TCU went on to beat USC. Some RB named LaDainian Tomlinson was with TCU. A year later UTEP would make him famous)
Sam Bradford was on the OU team that came to the Sun Bowl, but was injured early in the season and Landry Jones played
#OTD in 1987:
Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. West Virginia Mountaineers
Musburger and Haden
Game time temperature:
35°, Wind Chill: 12°
Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. West Virginia Mountaineers
Musburger and Haden
Game time temperature:
35°, Wind Chill: 12°
Stanford 24 LSU 14
http://www.sunbowl.org/the_sun_bowl_game/recap/44
Edit: I forgot one more picture.
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Joe Greene. UTEP played North Texas State in 1968. He was their left defensive tackle and I was playing right guard for the Miners. It was a long night. I think we lost by 3 points. The clock ran out before we could get the ball in the end zone.
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