Mr_Ash

Fan of Marshall University, Wahama High School, Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Bengals

[The Herd’s Headset @TheHerdsHeadset]

Ok.
You can’t just grant someone eligibility, and 3 days before the first game take it back.

The NCAA is one of the worst ranked organizations in the entire world. Not just America.

This is a joke. I hope that state courts correct this.

[Buster McNamara @BusterMcnamara1]

Rough slate tonight for non -power teams. UMass(MAC)/Rutgers, Akron(MAC)/Wake Forest, UAB(AAC)/ Illinois https://t.co/EVhtthlwqC

[OldStuffFan @FCIty24604]

@TheSports_Shift I’ll give you three of them (L-R): Wally Post, Ted Kluszewski & Gus Bell.

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Just go ahead and send Sal the ROTY award tonight

@stewart_sal

[Mr_Ash @RobertAsh9]

@Brad64549130 @sagevmussop Looks good @Brad64549130 ...just eat some protein with it to help "some" of the sugar issues. Go Herd!!

[Mr_Ash @RobertAsh9]

@BusterMcnamara1 Not sure that would be the right thing to do. What would the EU bring to the table for Iceland? Sure don't provide any type of defense for them. They contract that out! 😏

[The B.C. ✝️ 🦬 🍀 🌪️ 🏁 @THEBC43]

8 DAYS UNTIL MARSHALL FOOTBALL 🦬

Had to go with @RealTroyBrown80 for No. 8.

1992 National Championship. Youngstown State had come all the way back from 28-0 down to tie it before Marshall drove the field and kicked a 22-yard field goal with seven seconds left to take a 31-28 lead.

The Penguins had one last shot.

So Marshall put Troy Brown — who already had 10 catches for 115 yards that day — on defense as an extra defensive back.

And who else would come down with it?

Brown intercepted the final desperation pass, the game ended with the ball in No. 8’s hands, and @HerdFB had its first National Championship.

Before the Super Bowls, the Pro Bowl and everything he would become for the @Patriots , Troy Brown was already doing a little bit of everything in @DowntownHWV .

One of the greatest football players to ever wear Kelly Green.

[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ @baseballhall]

No player had ever paired 200 homers with 500 steals – that is, until Joe Morgan came along.

The @Reds legend, who possessed an electric combination of both power and speed, became the founding member of the 200/500 club on this date in 1978. https://t.co/wztX75jp66

[Mr_Ash @RobertAsh9]

@OleTimeHardball @BusterMcnamara1 👀

[Mr_Ash @RobertAsh9]

@sunbelt_sports I like it! Go Herd!

[Fun Belt Sports @sunbelt_sports]

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[Mr_Ash @RobertAsh9]

@THEBC43 @UNIFootball @HerdFB @KeithMorehouse @murrayhighFB @RandyMoss @EricKresser @CoachBobPruett @ClassicsCFB @DowntownHWV @marshallu @TheHerdLinePod Great times!!! Still the best I-AA team ever...GO HERD!

[The B.C. ✝️ 🦬 🍀 🌪️ 🏁 @THEBC43]

September 25, 1971 — Huntington, West Virginia.

We all know the scene from We Are Marshall.

@XavierU comes to Fairfield Stadium.

Marshall is playing its first home game after November 14, 1970.

A team carrying the grief of a university.
A city carrying the grief of the 75.
A community trying to move forward without leaving those they lost behind.

And somehow, the Herd wins.

Marshall 15, Xavier 13.

The latter half of today’s highlight is real footage from that afternoon, ( Credits to @HerdThoughts via YouTube.)

Young men in Kelly green.
A packed Fairfield Stadium.
People who had endured the unimaginable allowing themselves, if only for a few hours, to believe again.

But the fourth quarter is missing.

The film was lost.

No surviving footage of the comeback.
No film of the winning score.
No final seconds.
No celebration when Marshall had finally done it.

And maybe there is something beautiful about that.

As if those final minutes were never meant for us.

They belonged to the people who were there.

The mothers and fathers.
The students.
The faculty.
The people of Huntington who walked into Fairfield Stadium carrying a grief most of us will never understand.

They got to see it.
They got to hear it.
They got to feel Marshall win again.

And they carried that memory home.

More than half a century later, that same spirit still lives here.

Marshall has never just been a football team.

It is Huntington.
It is West Virginia.
It is family.
It is home.

And every young man who puts on that helmet inherits something he can’t completely understand until he becomes part of it.

The hopes of hundreds of thousands of people.

Those who were there then.
Those who came after.
Those who moved hundreds of miles away but never really left.
Children and grandchildren being taught the same words and the same stories.

That is the weight of wearing the M.

But it isn’t a burden.

It’s an honor.

Every generation gets its turn to carry it.

To honor those who came before.
To give the people in those stands something to believe in.
To leave behind moments that, decades from now, someone will tell their children about.

Some moments are preserved on film.

The greatest ones are preserved in people.

We are Marshall.

We always have been.

We always will be.

[Mr_Ash @RobertAsh9]

@XtraCoolJohnny Thanks John!

[The B.C. ✝️ 🦬 🍀 🌪️ 🏁 @THEBC43]

Freshman @DougChapman TD 🙌

[Cam Miller 🎥 @cammillerfilms]

And don't you forget it Sox...#ATOBTTR

[Trace Johnson®️ @Trace_Johnson94]

No better example of teamwork you’ll ever find

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Exhale.

#ATOBTTR

[The B.C. ✝️ 🦬 🍀 🌪️ 🏁 @THEBC43]

November 14, 1970 — Greenville, North Carolina.

For a few minutes, don’t remember how their story ended.

Remember how they lived.

This film captures one drive from the final game of the 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd.

Marshall trailed East Carolina 14-7 in the third quarter when Ted Shoebridge took over.

Starting at the Marshall 24, Shoebridge drove the Herd 76 yards in just seven plays.

On 3rd-and-21 from the Marshall 13, he found Bob Harris for 48 yards.

A few plays later, Shoebridge found Harris again to move Marshall inside the 20.

Then he found Jack Repasy in the end zone.

Touchdown, Marshall.

14-14.

Marshall ultimately fell 17-14.

We know what happened after the game.

But for these few minutes of film, that isn’t the story.

Ted Shoebridge is still throwing a football.

Bob Harris is still making a play.

Jack Repasy is still catching a touchdown.

Their teammates are still running onto the field to celebrate.

They’re young men playing the game they loved, wearing Marshall across their helmets and fighting for one another.

When the game was over, they boarded a plane home with their coaches, university staff, family, friends and members of the Marshall community.

There were 75 aboard.

Every one of them had a name.

01 — Jim Adams
02 — Mark Andrews
03 — Michael Blake
04 — Dennis Blevins
05 — Willie Bluford
06 — Larry Brown
07 — Thomas Brown
08 — Roger Childers
09 — Stuart Cottrell
10 — Rick Dardinger
11 — David DeBord
12 — Kevin Gilmore
13 — David Griffith
14 — Arthur “Art” Harris
15 — Robert “Bob” Harris
16 — Bobby Hill
17 — Joe Hood
18 — Tom Howard
19 — Marcelo Lajterman
20 — Richard “Rick” Lech
21 — Barry Nash
22 — Pat Norrell
23 — Bob Patterson
24 — Scotty Reese
25 — Jack Repasy
26 — Larry Sanders
27 — Al Saylor
28 — Art Shannon
29 — Ted Shoebridge
30 — Allen Skeens
31 — Jerry Stainback
32 — Robert VanHorn
33 — Roger Vanover
34 — Fred Wilson
35 — John Young
36 — Tom Zborill
37 — Al Carelli Jr.
38 — Jim “Shorty” Moss
39 — Rick Tolley
40 — Deke Brackett
41 — Frank Loria
42 — Charles E. Kautz
43 — Gene Morehouse
44 — Jim Schroer
45 — Donald Tackett
46 — Gary George
47 — Charles M. Arnold
48 — Rachel Arnold
49 — Donald Booth
50 — Joseph Chambers
51 — Margaret Chambers
52 — Shirley Hagley
53 — Ray Hagley
54 — Arthur L. Harris
55 — Emmett O. Heath
56 — Elaine Lois Heath
57 — Cynthia Jarrell
58 — James Jarrell
59 — Kenneth Jones
60 — Jeff Nathan
61 — Brian R. O’Connor
62 — Michael R. Prestera
63 — Glenn H. Preston
64 — Phyllis Preston
65 — Courtney Proctor
66 — Herbert D. Proctor
67 — Helen Ralsten
68 — Murrill Ralsten
69 — Parker Ward
70 — Norman Weichmann
71 — Frank Abbott
72 — Jerry Smith
73 — Charlene Poat
74 — Patricia Vaught
75 — Danny Deese

More than half a century later, we still say their names.

We still tell their stories.

And as long as there is a Thundering Herd, we will remember them.

We Are Marshall. 🦬💚

[Fun Belt Sports @sunbelt_sports]

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