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It is well documented that approximately 4,100 fans were in attendance to watch Wilt drop 100 on the Knicks in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Bombaata himself would later chuckle at the fact that tens of thousands of people would later claim to have been at the game.
Perhaps it is the pull of wanting to belong, to be a part of something big, that causes people to lie about silly things like that.
Today I am convinced that the Utah/TCU game has entered into "100 point game" territory. I have spoken to no fewer than 15 people yesterday and today that claim to have been at the game. This in and of itself is not unbelievable. In fact, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables..."who would claim that who was not?"
The strange coincidence is that every single person I speak with happened to be sitting in the North End Zone and every also happened to be sitting within a few feet from the now-notorious topless woman. No cell phone pics have surfaced, no ticket stubs have been produced. But everyone was sitting right there in the North End Zone next to Topless Woman.
I am trying to think of other "100-point games" in my lifetime and a few come to mind that have caused me to raise my eyebrow a bit:
1. Kobe drops 81 on the Raptors
2. SC v Notre Dame - Bush Push
3. SC v Texas - Vince Young's knee was down
4. BYU beats #1 Miami
5. Dodgers v A's - Gibson's Game 1 HR
6. Lakers Celtics - McHale clotheslines Rambis
7. Lakers Blazers - Game 7
8. BYU v Notre Dame - Danny Ainge goes coast to coast
These are often geographical in nature. In other words, if you grew up on the East Coast, perhaps many people love to claim to have been at Doug Flutie's game winning hail mary or something of that nature.
In fact, if we were to include televised "100 point games," I would have to add to this specious list:
1. Doug Flutie's Hail Mary
2. Magic v Bird at the Huntsman Center
3. Tyson v Buster Douglas
Everyone's gotta belong, I suppose.
Perhaps it is the pull of wanting to belong, to be a part of something big, that causes people to lie about silly things like that.
Today I am convinced that the Utah/TCU game has entered into "100 point game" territory. I have spoken to no fewer than 15 people yesterday and today that claim to have been at the game. This in and of itself is not unbelievable. In fact, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables..."who would claim that who was not?"
The strange coincidence is that every single person I speak with happened to be sitting in the North End Zone and every also happened to be sitting within a few feet from the now-notorious topless woman. No cell phone pics have surfaced, no ticket stubs have been produced. But everyone was sitting right there in the North End Zone next to Topless Woman.
I am trying to think of other "100-point games" in my lifetime and a few come to mind that have caused me to raise my eyebrow a bit:
1. Kobe drops 81 on the Raptors
2. SC v Notre Dame - Bush Push
3. SC v Texas - Vince Young's knee was down
4. BYU beats #1 Miami
5. Dodgers v A's - Gibson's Game 1 HR
6. Lakers Celtics - McHale clotheslines Rambis
7. Lakers Blazers - Game 7
8. BYU v Notre Dame - Danny Ainge goes coast to coast
These are often geographical in nature. In other words, if you grew up on the East Coast, perhaps many people love to claim to have been at Doug Flutie's game winning hail mary or something of that nature.
In fact, if we were to include televised "100 point games," I would have to add to this specious list:
1. Doug Flutie's Hail Mary
2. Magic v Bird at the Huntsman Center
3. Tyson v Buster Douglas
Everyone's gotta belong, I suppose.
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