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Posted on: January 25, 2024 at 18:00:02 CT
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My late father began taking the family, wife and four kids, to CoMo for football games in 1961 when I was 8. We stayed at the Travelier Motel that first year but switched to the new Howard Johnson's next door the next year. Preceding that, we all flew to Miami for the adults to go to the Orange Bowl in 1960. We stayed at the Shamrock Hilton on the beach and I remember seeing and putting our feet in the ocean for the first time.
Dad ended up going from 6 to 4 season tickets and eventually it was just he and I that would make the trip from Springfield for the 1:00 or 1:30 games and home via a martini & nice steak or prime rib dinner at Bentley's. Great memories.
I gave up my two season tickets this year. Obviously my absence gave the entire program a boost...