A Tasty, Incredible Thread !
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roywhite
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Judging NC barbecue on his experiences in SC and their admittedly "weird" mustard sauce??
Weak
When I first saw the thread title this morning, I was ready to dive into a fullfledged Devils vs. Wildcats dogfight ... but then, ahhhhhhhhhhh, I discovered the real gist of this !!! haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I SO miss the great North Carolina Barbeque, way out here in California -- in my day (before most of you were born), the place was STAMEY's in Greensboro and several other surrounding cities. Seems they were just taking off in the 60's ... I am sure they have been ECLIPSED by all these great locations in and around Durham !
But before I go, I have to give a shout out for three of the greatest Duke-Kentucky games of all time. The '66 National SemiFinal in College Park (as I remember, the term "Final Four" wasn't used until much later). DUKE put one of the great starting fives of that decade on the floor : Verga / Marin / Vacendak / Lewis / Reidy. We took on the 'Cats with Bob Verga all but incapacitated with stomach flu. The other four played their guts out but we fell just shy, 83-79. It's hard to say this, but ultimately I am almost glad we didn't win (can't say the L word), because the next evening TEXAS WESTERN made college basketball history -- if you don't know about this, just rent out GLORY ROAD and see the remarkable story.
Then we go to '92, with Laettner's perfect 10-10 from the floor, and 10-10 from the line being barely enough to nip them 104-103 in OT in the East Regional, in the game that most still say is the greatest NCAA Tournament game of all time. Later, go forward to the game in the South Regional at Tampa (a veritable airplane hanger with bleachers), where our guys had them on the ropes by double digits before falling late. I know one of the officials who worked the game, and he told me that DUKE blew all its energy in the first 30 minutes of the game, and had absolutely nothing left at the end.
Some great memories, of BALL & BARBEQUE !!!