Illinois vs. Iowa, 1981
The 80s apparently belonged to Illinois, even down to the back cover of their gameday programs, which for the 1981 Iowa game featured an ad for some television hijacking computer board game hybrid thing called The Quest For The Rings for a Magnavox-made video game console called the Odyssey 2. Colecovision, Tandyvision… I thought I’d…
Navy vs. Notre Dame, 1954
The cover features a sailor serenading a leprechaun with a sea shanty or something, which the leprechaun looks like he’s enjoying… appropriately as it’d turn out: The Irish shutout Navy 6-0 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. There’s a Naval Aviators ad on the back cover and a Lucky Strike roster centerfold, our first on the…