This post is long. I’m going to talk about a whole bunch of different stuff. I start with the return of professional sports and my pessimism about college sports happening before 2021. Then I talk about all the sports I’ve been watching for more than four months without live sports. And I finish with a running diary of the most important game in the history of the Dodgers. So read whatever parts you want to read.
Professional sports are back. Baseball is back with silly rules, basketball is coming back in pretty much the worst state for the coronavirus per capita (it’s the worst of the big states anyway), and hockey is coming back in Canada. At the same time, the idea of college sports in the fall is dying.
I have missed baseball greatly. It’s my favorite sport and the Dodgers were once again one of the favorites to win the World Series. The new rules are terrible, but I already covered that in my last post. I can’t say that I’m optimistic about the season being completed, but I hope it is completed. It would have been terrible to trade for Mookie Betts and then never see him play for the Dodgers before becoming a free agent (I was working on this before he signed his new contract with the Dodgers). And I was so looking forward to the Astros getting booed everywhere (they weren’t originally going to play at Dodger Stadium, but they were coming to Citi Field and I was going to go boo them there). I wish they were playing more than 60 games, but I’ll take what I can get. If the season is completed, the Dodgers have a good chance this year. They would win the World Series in the year with 60 games and then everybody would say that it didn’t count. But my attitude is that there’s still only going to be one champion (hopefully, it won’t be more than that, but it could be less than that) so it counts. The last time that there was a significantly shortened season that was completed was 1981 and the Dodgers won the World Series that year (I’m not counting 1995 as significantly shortened). Sadly, it looks like the only sporting event that I’ll attend in 2020 was the NBA G-League game I went to in January. I’ve been going to baseball games since 1989. I’m not sure, but I think I’ve been to at least one game every year since then. That would mean that the last time I didn’t get to a game was 1988 and we know who won the World Series that year. The 2021 schedule has already been released. The Astros are coming to Dodger Stadium in August so hopefully there will be fans. The Dodgers come to Citi Field later that month so hopefully I’ll be able to see them in person by then.
I’m not as excited about the NBA coming back. The good thing about baseball is that there’s no way the Giants are winning the World Series this year. But in basketball, my least favorite team is one of the favorites. But the Lakers won’t have Avery Bradley. They signed J.R. Smith, but that doesn’t scare me as somebody who hates the Lakers. As for the Celtics, they were struggling a little bit with injuries when the season stopped so hopefully everybody will be healthy and they’ll be ready to go. I’m not expecting the Celtics to make it to the Finals or anything, but it’s not out of the question if they’re healthy. I think they’re good enough to beat anybody (they played two great games against the Clippers and won one of them and they had a blowout win against the Lakers this year), but I don’t think they’re good enough to win four straight series against four good teams or against the 76ers (who aren’t good, but they’re a terrible matchup for the Celtics) and then three good teams. Right now they’d be facing the 76ers in the first round, but that could easily change. I think the team that’s helped the most by what’s going on is the Clippers. If they played the Lakers in the playoffs under normal circumstances, every game would be a home game for the Lakers. Now they would get to play in a neutral setting. So obviously I want the Celtics to win the championship, but I could live with anybody other than the Lakers. My next choice after the Celtics would be the Bucks because of Pat Connaughton.
The sport that has the best chance of finishing their season is hockey since it’s all going to be in Canada. I probably haven’t watched a full hockey game this season, but I’ll be into it when it comes back. The Rangers have made the playoffs because of extra teams making it this year so I’m looking forward to seeing them take on the Hurricanes. Their season could be over very quickly, but I’ll still watch hockey even if they’re eliminated right away. By September, hockey could be the only sport that’s still standing.
And then there’s college sports. Sigh. Notre Dame has had three games cancelled already (Wisconsin, USC, Stanford). I had been looking forward to that Wisconsin game at Lambeau Field. I had my hotel room, but fortunately I had free cancellation and I hadn’t booked flights. I am fairly certain that the whole season will be cancelled (or at least possibly played in the spring, they’re not playing in the fall). I missed the game I was supposed to go to last year because my flight was cancelled. The only game I went to in 2018 was at Yankee Stadium (which was awesome other than the fact that we wore the worst uniforms we’ve ever worn). I didn’t get to any games in 2017. I went to one game in 2016, but we don’t speak of anything that happened with Notre Dame football in 2016. The only game I went to in 2015 was at Fenway Park (that was a fun weekend, but we wore really bad uniforms for that game also and it was a not very impressive win). The last football win I saw at Notre Dame was in 2014 against Stanford. So I was hoping to get back to campus for a game this year, but that’s not going to happen. At this point, I wish Notre Dame would just show some leadership and announce that we’re not playing football in 2020 (because that’s what’s going to end up happening anyway). We are also supposed to be playing basketball at Barclays Center in November. I remember seeing in March or April that I could buy tickets and I just didn’t want to. Now I’m glad that I didn’t. There has been some talk of spring football. That might still not be possible, but let’s assume that it is (it’s certainly more likely than playing in the fall). You’re not going to believe this, but I have an idea for spring football that is not likely to happen at all:
You do conference games only and play eight games. I’m assuming that it is safe to play so the issue isn’t travel. I’m trying to shorten the season in order to lengthen the offseason with the next season presumably coming in the fall. So what happens with Notre Dame? I’m as big of a proponent of Notre Dame’s independence as anybody. Due to extraordinary circumstances, I’d be fine with Notre Dame being in the ACC for one season. You add us to Clemson’s division (since we were supposed to play Clemson this year anyway). The ACC teams play every team in their division and one team in the other division. Adding Notre Dame would give you 15 teams in the ACC so what about the other division? You add Army for one season. Here are your cross divisional matchups:
Notre Dame-Army
North Carolina-NC State
Duke-Wake Forest
Pittsburgh-Syracuse
Florida State-Miami
Louisville-Georgia Tech
Clemson-Virginia
Boston College-Virginia Tech
Here’s a more realistic set up for the ACC. You have the 14 teams plus Notre Dame playing eight games. That means that you would need at least nine weeks for the regular season because at least one team would need to have a bye each week. You have three divisions: the North (Notre Dame, Boston College, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and Louisville), the Carolinas (Clemson, North Carolina, Duke, NC State, and Wake Forest), and whatever you want to call the other division (Virginia, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Florida State, and Miami). You play everybody in your division plus four other games. Then you have a four-team playoff with the division winners and one wild card for the ACC Championship. So you would need two more weeks to decide the ACC Champion than you would if you did my Army in the ACC plan.
But really, I don’t think these conference only schedules make much sense. Iowa isn’t going to play Iowa State, but they’re going to play Big 10 East teams? I know the idea is that all the schools in a conference will be following the same health and safety protocols (at least you hope they are), but I have an idea that makes more sense. Everybody is independent for the year. Groups of teams would agree to play each other and agree on the health and safety protocols that they’re going to follow. Like you could have Notre Dame, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Cincinnati, Illinois, and Northwestern all agree to play (you could throw Penn State and Pittsburgh in there instead of the Illinois and Northwestern, but I don’t want anything to do with Penn State). That would be eight games with minimal travel. If you got groups of 7-10 teams, everybody could play at least six games (if you only had 7, you could have a couple of teams play each other twice to get to eight games if you want).
By the way, Notre Dame’s football history does include two spring games. The second and third games we ever played were against Michigan on April 20 and 21, 1888. If spring football happens, it should be an eight game season, with as short of a postseason as possible to make the offseason as long as possible. It should be like two and a half months for the whole season instead of a three-month regular season followed by bowl season a month later.
I don’t know when we’ll see college sports again, but I can’t wait for whenever that is. Like how awesome would it be Labor Day weekend in 2021 if college football is back for the first time in 20 months? Notre Dame’s opener for 2021 got moved up by a day from Labor Day to Sunday night. I would greatly prefer a Saturday game (or an opening Thursday game), but at least my wait will be one day shorter. We opened this past season against Louisville on Labor Day and I was not a fan. This year we were supposed to have the first game of the college football season because we were supposed to be playing Navy in Ireland during Week 0 (as opposed to 2012 when we played them in Ireland, but it was Week 1). That would have been awesome, but it was not to be. Even if we do end up playing Navy, they pushed it back to Week 1 in Annapolis (we’ve never played there before so that would be cool, but I wish it was the first game of the season, maybe it will be in February 2021). I have no idea when college sports are coming back, but hopefully it’s no later than the fall of 2021 (the Spanish Flu lasted for 15 months in the US, we’ll see how long this pandemic lasts). Professional sports certainly seem like they’re coming back. Will they finish? We’ll see.
We haven’t had any live sports since March, but I’ve been watching at least one old game per day since the end of April or so. It’s been cool doing that. I’ve rewatched some games that I’ve seen before and I’ve watched plenty of games that I’ve never seen before. I’ve watched a Notre Dame football game every Saturday. I’ve watched NFL games mostly on Sundays (but I mixed in the Monday Night Miracle on a Monday and the Leon Lett Thanksgiving game on a Thursday). During the week, it’s been mostly Dodgers and Celtics, but I’ve mixed in some other things as well (such as the Miracle on Ice, the men’s curling Gold Medal Game in 2018, some Dream Team games, and four of the last five Rangers wins in 1994). I’ll break down some of the things I’ve watched in each sport:
Baseball- I went through Clayton Kershaw’s game logs and made a YouTube playlist of most of his best games (it’s over 120 games that I was able to find on YouTube). I’ve watched Opening Day in 2013, his dominating performance against the Mets on my father’s birthday in 2015, many of his wins from his first Cy Young year in 2011 (including his five wins against the Giants), his no-hitter, Game 1 of the 2017 World Series (when he dominated the Astros because they were at Dodger Stadium and the Astros couldn’t cheat), etc. Kershaw has four wins against the Astros in his career. I definitely watched all of those (one came against a pitcher that I tutored at Notre Dame). I also watched every playoff win from 1988. I had seen Game 1 of the World Series before, but it was cool watching all those other games. Game 4 against the Mets was a classic. The last game of the World Series was Game 5 and the Dodgers took a 2-0 lead in the first and a 4-1 lead after four and pretty much cruised to a victory, but I got emotional seeing the end of that game. Clayton Kershaw deserves to celebrate like that. I also watched every win in the 1981 World Series. I hadn’t seen any of those games before. I watched Sandy Koufax’s shutouts against the Twins in Games 5 and 7 of the 1965 World Series. I wish I could watch Game 7 of the 1955 World Series (I found an article that said that the TV broadcast was not preserved). You can get the radio call, but Vin Scully was doing TV. I recently finished watching 11 Dodger wins from the playoffs:
NLDS:
2013 Game 1- Kershaw dominated the Braves.
2015 Game 4- Kershaw dominated the Mets (sadly the Mets won Game 5).
2016 Game 5- The Dodgers beat the Nationals in Washington and Kershaw got the save after a terrific effort by Kenley Jansen (51 pitches in two and a third).
NLCS:
2017 Game 2- Justin Turner ended the game with a home run.
2018 Game 4- The Dodgers beat the Brewers in 13 innings to even the series.
2017 Game 5- Kershaw pitched six very good innings, but the story of this game was Kike Hernandez hitting three home runs.
2018 Game 7- Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig hit home runs and Kershaw pitched the final inning.
World Series:
1988 Game 1- Kirk Gibson hit a two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to win it 5-4
2017 Game 1- Clayton Kershaw allowed one run on three hits and no walks in seven innings with 11 strikeouts because he dominated the Astros in Dodger Stadium when they weren’t cheating.
2018 Game 3- The Dodgers won 3-2 on Max Muncy’s home run in the 18th in the longest World Series game ever.
1965 Game 7- The Dodgers won 2-0 in Minnesota on Sandy Koufax’s second shutout in four days.
Basketball- I’ve watched every Celtics Finals win from their last four championships and a few other Finals or playoff games (going all the way back to Bill Russell’s teams). Their last four championships have come against the Lakers and the Rockets. I watched the 1984 and 2008 Finals first because those were against the Lakers. Of course, my favorite basketball games of all time are Games 4 and 6 of the 2008 Finals. It was pretty cool seeing the 1986 Celtics because that was Larry Bird’s best team (and maybe the best Celtics team ever). They blew out the Rockets in Game 6 and they sent the starters back to the locker room to start celebrating before the game was over. Danny Ainge had a can of orange soda during the celebration because he’s a Mormon. I watched the game from the first round of the 1986 playoffs where the Celtics beat the Bulls even though Michael Jordan scored 63 (I knew about that game, but I didn’t realize that 63 was the playoff record). I watched the game where Bird set the Celtics’ record with 60 points. It was in New Orleans because the Hawks played a handful of games in New Orleans that year. YouTube has the Hawks’ broadcast with John Sterling doing play by play. I watched Kevin Garnett’s first game with the Celtics, which I hadn’t seen before because I was out at Notre Dame for a football game (the 2007 season is another Notre Dame season that we never speak of again). I’ve got a few more games to watch from the 80s and the 2007-2008 regular season before basketball comes back. I watched a couple of Dream Team games. Larry Bird’s best game came against Germany so I watched that one. Magic Johnson and John Stockton didn’t play so our point guards were pretty much Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Chris Mullin. They played some lineups of five forwards or four forwards and a center. You would never see a lineup like that today. Of course, it didn’t matter back then because we were so much better than everybody else.
College Football- I had one day where I relived October 15, 1988. I watched Notre Dame-Miami in the afternoon and Game 1 of the World Series at night (I’ve watched Game 1 in 1988 and 2017 multiple times). So that day was awesome. The Sugar Bowl against Alabama on New Year’s Eve 1973 was one of the best football games I’ve ever watched. Alabama had zero yards of offense in the first quarter, but Notre Dame only led 6-0 and it was back and forth after that. The play calling was very creative. Notre Dame ended up winning 24-23. Tom Clements completed a long pass from his own end zone to seal the victory. The Green Jersey Game against USC in 1977 was fun. USC was ranked 5th and we blew them out 49-19 on our way to a National Championship. Besides the Miami win, I watched the 1988 team beat Michigan, USC, and West Virginia (who was undefeated until we beat them to finish off the National Championship in the Fiesta Bowl). I got a little emotional watching the celebration after the West Virginia victory. Hopefully I’ll get to experience that someday. I watched the Florida State game from 1993 when we won 31-24 (it was not nearly as close as that score makes it sound). Somehow they got voted national champions over us. I think my favorite game that I’ve rewatched from my time as a fan was the Oklahoma game in 2012. It was a really competitive game for much of the game. After it was tied at 13 in the fourth quarter, we dominated the rest of the way and won 30-13. I still have more games to watch. I might watch them on Saturdays during the rest of the summer, but maybe I’ll save them for fall Saturdays when football isn’t happening.
NFL- I’ve watched some old Super Bowls and some other NFL games. I watched Super Bowl III, which I had never seen before. The Jets won pretty easily. The Colts had some chances to score, but it never seemed like they were going to win the game. I had forgotten how crazy the Monday Night Miracle was. The Jets scored 23 points in the fourth quarter to tie the game. And then the Dolphins quickly took the lead again. Of course, the Jets tied it and then won in overtime. I watched the Giants win Super Bowl XLII, which is my favorite NFL game ever. Super Bowl XLVI was not on YouTube, but it appears that the NFL just uploaded it a month ago. That’s an underappreciated game, probably because of Super Bowl XLII. Super Bowl XXXIV was another classic that I watched (“One Yard Short”). I watched some Joe Montana games, which was cool because my memories of Joe Montana come from after his prime. The first Super Bowl I ever watched was Super Bowl XXV (I rewatched that one also) so I never saw Montana win a Super Bowl. Remember, no quarterback has won more Super Bowls than Joe Montana without cheating.
Other Stuff- It was cool watching the Miracle on Ice. I got emotional when Al Michaels said, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” All Michaels also called the 1981 World Series games in Los Angeles (Keith Jackson did the games in New York) and a couple of the Super Bowls I’ve watched. It’s been cool listening to old Vin Scully (besides all the baseball, Vin also called “the Catch” game, which was one of the Joe Montana games I watched) and Al Michaels games. They might be the two greatest ever to do it. I relived our 2018 gold medal in curling, which is probably my favorite Olympic moment of my lifetime. I watched the Rangers beat the Devils in Game 7 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals and the three Stanley Cup Finals wins that were on YouTube (that included Game 7). I probably didn’t watch any of those live except for Game 7. Of course, I remember that Stephane Matthau scored to beat the Devils in overtime in Game 7. I didn’t realize that the Devils had tied it so late in regulation to send it to overtime (eight seconds left).
I’ve got some other stuff that I still want to watch at some point aside from Notre Dame, the Dodgers, and the Celtics. I want to watch Vince Young beat USC in the Rose Bowl in January 2006. I want to watch Game 6 of the 1986 World Series (called by Vin Scully), Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, and Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.
I have to say, it’s been fun watching all of these old games. The games were better. Baseball wasn’t all home runs and strikeouts. There were stolen bases and hitting and running. Basketball wasn’t all three pointers. I mean in the 80s, threes were very rare. The Bulls didn’t hit any when Jordan scored 63 against the Celtics. You would have lots of times where all ten players were inside the three point line. That’s a little extreme, but they were working to get the easiest shot possible. I liked the 2008 Celtics games where teams shot threes, but it wasn’t all the time. But if I had to pick between today’s basketball and no threes, I’d take no threes (which will never happen). Football was more interesting without teams passing all the time. The play calling was more creative with lots more formations that you don’t see anymore (it’s not like you can be all that creative in the running game when you’re in shotgun with one running back all the time).
Last night was the first night that I didn’t watch a game in a long time (I did watch 26 shutout innings from Clayton Kershaw in three games in the afternoon though). I watched the 7th inning of the Ken Burns Baseball documentary, which focused on New York in the 1950s. It talked about the Dodgers heartbreaking loss against the Giants in the deciding third game of the tie-breaker in 1951. The loss against the Nationals in Game 5 last year is probably the closest thing to that game that I’ve ever experienced. The Dodgers knew heartbreak. And then 1955 happened. Vin Scully’s TV broadcast of Game 7 of the World Series was not preserved, but the radio broadcast still exists. I wanted that to be the last old sporting event I experienced before live sports returned so I listened to it this afternoon and kept a running diary. Here we go:
It’s October 4, 1955. It’s in the high 60s and it’s Johnny Podres against Tommy Byrne. The home team has won every game so far. According to the radio broadcast, they played Take Me Out to the Ballgame as the Yankees took the field. I guess that makes more sense than the middle of the seventh inning when you’re pretty close to leaving the ballgame. Here we go:
2:38- Byrne’s first pitch to Jim Gilliam is a strike.
2:38- Gilliam grounds out to start the game.
2:40- The Dodgers go down in order in the top of the first.
2:41- Phil Rizzuto pops out leading off for the Yankees.
2:45- The Yankees go down in order in the bottom of the first.
2:51- The Yankees are coming up for the bottom of the second. While I wasn’t paying close attention, Gil Hodges walked to give the Dodgers their first baserunner, but they couldn’t do anything.
2:53- Moose Skowron hit a ground rule double for the first hit of the game.
2:55- Podres gets Bob Cerv to ground out to strand Skowron at second.
2:56- I wish I could hear Vin Scully’s call, but you can hear Bob Shepard as the PA guy in the radio broadcast. So that’s pretty cool.
2:57- Johnny Podres is coming up for the Dodgers. It’s nice to have pitchers batting in an American League stadium. I hate the DH so much.
3:03- We’re through two and a half with no score. The Dodgers still don’t have a hit yet.
3:11- The Yankees are threatening with two outs after a walk by Phil Rizzuto and a single by Billy Martin. The Dodgers have activity in the bullpen.
3:15- Phil Rizzuto gets hit by a ground ball to end the inning. Gil McDougald gets credit for a single, but the inning is over and there’s still no score going to the fourth.
3:20- Roy Campanella has the first hit for the Dodgers with a double. The Dodgers have their first runner in scoring position with one out in the top of the fourth.
3:25- Campanella moves to third on a groundout. Casey Stengel is coming out to the mound before Gil Hodges hits.
3:28- Hodges hits a single to left field and the Dodgers lead 1-0.
3:32- Yogi Berra leads off the bottom of the fourth with a double to left center as some confusion between Duke Snider and Jim Gilliam allows the ball to fall for a hit.
3:36- Podres got the next three batters to get out of the inning without any damage.
3:39- The Dodgers are sometimes referred to as the “Brooks.” I didn’t know that.
3:41- We’re halfway through with the Dodgers leading 1-0 and I’m taking a break because my brother is on the phone.
3:59- I’m back. Elston Howard just hit a deep fly ball, but it was caught by Jim Gilliam in left.
4:03- Pee Wee Reese leads off the top of the sixth with a single. It’s their first lead off batter to reach base.
4:06- The Dodgers had their number three hitter and best hitter of all time sacrifice bunt (okay, that’s one way that today’s baseball is better than old baseball, Duke Snider should not be sacrifice bunting), but he reached on an error. The Dodgers are threatening.
4:08- And now cleanup hitter Roy Campanella just laid down a sacrifice bunt. The Dodgers have runners on second and third and Casey Stengel is coming out to the mound again.
4:09- The Yankees intentionally walk Carl Furillo to load the bases.
4:10- The Yankees are making a pitching change. Tommy Byrne is out and Bob Grim is in.
4:14- Gil Hodges drives in Pee Wee Reese with a sacrifice fly. The Dodgers lead 2-0.
4:22- I just had to take a break for a couple of minutes. George Shuba is pinch hitting for Don Zimmer for the Dodgers.
4:23- Shuba grounds out to first and that ends the inning. The Dodgers are 12 outs away from winning their first World Series.
4:26- After a leadoff walk by Billy Martin, Walter Alston comes out to the mound and there’s activity in the bullpen again.
4:28- Gil McDougald reaches on a bunt single. The Yankees are threatening with Yogi Berra coming to the plate.
4:29- Yogi Berra just flied out to left and the Dodgers get McDougald out at first for a double play. The radio guy originally messed up and said it was Gilliam who made the catch, but he moved to second after the Dodgers pinch hit for Don Zimmer. The radio guy corrected himself when he gave kind of a radio replay and noted that it was Sandy Amorose who made the catch.
4:34- Hank Bauer grounds out and the Dodgers get out of trouble in the sixth. They are nine outs away.
4:37- After a single, Jim Gilliam is caught stealing for the second out of the inning.
4:46- I just had to take care of some packages, but I kept listening. A fan ran out on the field and was ejected. Mickey Mantle pinch hit for Bob Grim with Elston Howard on first and popped out. I’m assuming he was hurt. He only played in Games 3, 4, and 7. He was 1 for 10 with a home run in the series. Bob Turkey is in to pitch now for the Yankees. Total attendance for the World Series was 362,310.
4:50- The Dodgers do nothing in the top of the eighth.
4:54- Phil Rizzuto singles to lead off the bottom of the eighth.
4:58- Gil McDougald singles to give the Yankees runners on the corners with one out. Walter Alston comes out to the mound, but Johnny Podres is staying in the game.
4:59- Yogi Berra flies out.
5:01- Podres strikes out Hank Bauer and the Dodgers are three outs away from winning the World Series.
5:04- Don Hoak replaced Jackie Robinson for this game. Apparently this was the only time Jackie Robinson didn’t play in a World Series game when he was on the roster. He only hit .182 in the series. He did steal home in Game 1, but the Yankees won that game.
5:09- Johnny Podres got a good hand as he came to bat with two on for the Dodgers, but he flied out on the first pitch. I wonder how many Dodger fans were at the game in the Bronx. It is highly unlikely that a starting pitcher would be allowed to hit in the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series with only a two-run lead. Of course, no pitchers will be hitting in the World Series this year. I hate the DH so much.
5:11- Jim Gilliam flied out on a deep fly ball. And I timed this poorly so I have to take a break before the bottom of the ninth.
6:15- Okay, let’s finish this. The Dodgers need three more outs. The only team that had ever won the World Series after losing the first two games was the 1921 Giants and that was a best of nine series. It’s Skowron, Cerv, and Howard coming up for the Yankees.
6:19- Skowron grounds out to Johnny Podres.
6:20- Cerv flies out to Sandy Amoros.
6:24- Elston Howard grounds out to short. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Brooklyn Dodgers are the Champions of the World.” That was Vin Scully’s call as the Dodgers did it. Then he was quiet. Sadly, I had to listen to the radio call. The call was fine, but I wish I could hear Vin Scully call it. Brooklyn Dodger fans waited so long for this moment. Any Dodger fan under 40 pretty much knows what the Brooklyn Dodger fans felt. Hopefully this will be our 1955.
