Back in 1996 - when Drew was at Duke and Keith was at FSU - Tim Havel the shop teacher at my school - called the football game that year between Florida State and Duke - "The Everhart Bowl." For the past 10 years - we have had mixed emotions when these teams played each other. Football has been lopsided toward the Noles - but in basketball - Duke is still king.
Now that Nancy works at FSU - we love cheering for the Noles - even against Duke. We figure that Duke has had so much success - 6 straight ACC championships - we feel the luck should be spread around a little. Drew loves FSU football - but he bleeds Duke blue for Coach K and his Cameron Crazies.
Yesterday - the worm turned a bit. FSU went into Cameron Arena and beat Duke - 68-67. Since FSU has lost 15 games there - never winning - few folks predicted an upset. Then Duke jumped out to a lead 7-0 and when the smoke cleared FSU was down 27-10 after about a quarter. It looked like another miserable Sunday afternoon in Cameron. The Crazies were not showing any mercy on this national television matinee day.
Ironically - Drew was on the way home from San Francisco and Keith was stuck in JFK Airport after a weekend in New York City following his Hoyas to the Garden. So both boys were calling us to get the play by play over the telephone. With 2 minutes left Drew was sitting on the plane getting ready for takeoff. He was hoping they would not close the door making him turn off his cell phone. With 7 seconds to go he said "it looks like I will not know the end for 5 hours." Luckily or unluckily - in those 7 seconds - Duke had 3 tries at the basket - and all missed. The Seminoles had their first victory in Duke's famed Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Duke's team is really young - they have a lot of victories ahead of them. FSU has All-American Al Thornton playing his last season. So their future is not now.
So after this exciting game - the real Super Bowl was a rainy encore for us. Go Duke! Go Noles!
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