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"Sal" the movie!

I still get choked up when I see those clips. I remember those days on campus so vividly.

Thanks for the post Matty.
 
I was very young when it happened but i remember crying when I heard he passed. I didn't go to the funeral but my father did. I remember a news anchor for channel four (i think) bill something, made a pretty cool eulogy for sal.

[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=MKg7E0tLFU0"]YouTube - C.U.'s first Samoan quarterback Sal Aunese died at age 21[/ame]
It starts at 3:52.
 
Yeah that looks like a really good base for a movie. I will definately watch it. The nese was awesome.

I'd like to see a Brook B movie too...thoughts?
 
Was Sal diagnosed with his cancer before or after his son was born?

The timing was really close. I think Sal got diagnosed during spring ball and was gone by late Sept early Oct so that's about 5 months (the age of his son when he died).

I remember telling my dad (an oncologist) about what Sal had and he said "Oh dear, he's dead...He's going to go pretty quickly too." Pretty scary to see someone go from a tip top conditioned young man to dead in 5 months. :sad1:
 
The timing was really close. I think Sal got diagnosed during spring ball and was gone by late Sept early Oct so that's about 5 months (the age of his son when he died).

I remember telling my dad (an oncologist) about what Sal had and he said "Oh dear, he's dead...He's going to go pretty quickly too." Pretty scary to see someone go from a tip top conditioned young man to dead in 5 months. :sad1:

Thanks, I was just curious.

Very sad how nasty a disease it is to strike someone down that quickly.
 
I think the timing was more along the lines of: he had stomach pains at or near the end of the season and went to Wardenburg to have it checked out. They didn't find anything and released him. The problem got worse so he saw a different set of doctors who found the cancer in (around) December. By the time Spring ball rolled around, he was nearly gone. I went to the Spring game where he was up in the press box. A few weeks later, he died.
 
I started at CU in 86 and lived in Nichols Hall, where Sal was (Kristy McCartney lived there as well). It was very sobering to see someone my age stricken like that.

If the film focuses on Sal, his illness and what he meant to the team, I'll gladly watch it. If, however, it focuses on the birth of TC, I will probably pass.
 
Yeah that looks like a really good base for a movie. I will definately watch it. The nese was awesome.

I'd like to see a Brook B movie too...thoughts?

All I remember about Brook B is his reputation as a class guy and that he died in a plane crash. It might be an interesting story if you mix in how he stepped up when the All American went down.
 
I started at CU in 86 and lived in Nichols Hall, where Sal was (Kristy McCartney lived there as well).

I started in 86 as well. I lived in Sewall. :thumbsup:

It was a good time to be going to CU.
 
His last game was watching the buffs play top 10 Illinois from the press box with his brother Joe. the week later he died, then the buffs traveled to Seattle to play Washington.
 
His last game was watching the buffs play top 10 Illinois from the press box with his brother Joe. the week later he died, then the buffs traveled to Seattle to play Washington.

That picture of the team kneeling inWashington pointing to the sky is a picture that I will never forget.
 
All I remember about Brook B is his reputation as a class guy and that he died in a plane crash. It might be an interesting story if you mix in how he stepped up when the All American went down.

Yeah...freaking plane crash...what crap. Sal's story is just as sad...if not worse. Both were awesome players. I was younger and just getting into college ball when Sal died but I remember my dad telling me one day when I was jumping on the Trampoline in the back yard and I thought he was talking about a Husker player. I learned it was a Buff later on. Brook was (from everything I heard) a great guy...stepped up and led the team to a national championship after we lost Frazier for awhile in 94...the year we beat the Gators in the NC Orange Bowl.

Awesome year...I used to have this poster that had him in the clouds taking a snap over a corn field...it was really cool and only like 5000 were made...don't know what happened to it.

R.I.P. Sal & Brook

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Awesome year...I used to have this poster that had him in the clouds taking a snap over a corn field...it was really cool and only like 5000 were made...don't know what happened to it.

R.I.P. Sal & Brook

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There has to be someone who could print one since you have the pic.
I remember when Brook passed. That was really sad. But i am sure they are in a better place now.
 
Sports mimics life in many ways, I suppose. Its very difficult when a person dies, but especially so when the person is young with so much to look forward to. The other tragedy that comes to mind for me is Eddie Reinhardt. That was a really tough deal as well.

Eddie
 
Yeah...freaking plane crash...what crap. Sal's story is just as sad...if not worse. Both were awesome players. I was younger and just getting into college ball when Sal died but I remember my dad telling me one day when I was jumping on the Trampoline in the back yard and I thought he was talking about a Husker player. I learned it was a Buff later on. Brook was (from everything I heard) a great guy...stepped up and led the team to a national championship after we lost Frazier for awhile in 94...the year we beat the Gators in the NC Orange Bowl.

Awesome year...I used to have this poster that had him in the clouds taking a snap over a corn field...it was really cool and only like 5000 were made...don't know what happened to it.

R.I.P. Sal & Brook

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actually...it was the year you guys beat the canes in the orange bowl....you beat the gators in the fiesta bowl. don't let a buff school you on husker history! :wink2::lol:

but still a good post. RIP Sal and Brook indeed!
 
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actually...it was the year you guys beat the canes in the orange bowl....you beat the gators in the fiesta bowl. don't let a buff school you on husker history! :wink2::lol:

but still a good post. RIP Sal and Brook indeed!


My bad...so many national championships i get them confused!:smile2::lol:
 
after the Freedom Bowl, Sal went though spring conditioning just like the rest of the team, but his times and ability got worse rather than better.

We were running in the Balch fieldhouse and he struggled though sessions. We started spring ball after spring break. I went home to Orlando for the week and got a call that Sal was sick, and that it was cancer.

started treatment immediately and when he came to practice he already had a gaunt appearance. He fought it all summer, then made it to our first three games, Texas, CSU and Jeff George's Illini.

He passed away during the off week. I think it was a Tues. or a wed. The Memorial service was incredibly emotional, we had one for just the team. Then one for the public.

I can still hear Sal's sister and cousins singing "love like an ocean" when ever I think about it. It is strange what you remember. I also recall Dee Dowis, the quarterback from Air Force, in full dress blues paying respects to a fellow qb.

I don't think we could have played a game that week. The bye week could not have come at a better time.
 
after the Freedom Bowl, Sal went though spring conditioning just like the rest of the team, but his times and ability got worse rather than better.

We were running in the Balch fieldhouse and he struggled though sessions. We started spring ball after spring break. I went home to Orlando for the week and got a call that Sal was sick, and that it was cancer.

started treatment immediately and when he came to practice he already had a gaunt appearance. He fought it all summer, then made it to our first three games, Texas, CSU and Jeff George's Illini.

He passed away during the off week. I think it was a Tues. or a wed. The Memorial service was incredibly emotional, we had one for just the team. Then one for the public.

I can still hear Sal's sister and cousins singing "love like an ocean" when ever I think about it. It is strange what you remember. I also recall Dee Dowis, the quarterback from Air Force, in full dress blues paying respects to a fellow qb.

I don't think we could have played a game that week. The bye week could not have come at a better time.

thanks, fla. when you guys went up to uw the next week, i thought for sure the team would have a difficult time keeping its head in the game. i basically wondered if the season was over. instead, you guys went out and kicked the **** out of a washington team that was a top 10 program, talent-wise, at that time. i'll never forget the end of that game and how it propelled the team forward thru the rest of the year. amazing story...
 
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