Photo of the Original Dinosaur Barbecue in Syracuse, started in 1983.So here I am a twenty year old African American junior at Syracuse in November of 1983 and I meet this fine looking sister who knew all the cool black folk on campus. This was the first time I was around a lot of sophisticated and beautiful black women like the one I would later marry. Now my older brother Marshall attended Howard University in DC, a school like Spelman in Atlanta, known for gorgeous black women. Herkimer County Community College had few black students back in the 1980s, and an even smaller array of sisters. But Syracuse had bushel baskets full including at that time Vanessa Williams! But I didn’t dance or have a silver tongue like most of the basketball or football players who had the lock on black cool and the best catch of SU’s female students. Lacrosse players, despite winning their first national championship in 1983, had very little star power on campus because the sport of lacrosse then did not have any of the national exposure that it does today. ESPN televised the championship games back then, several days after it was over and the champion already crowned and quarter and semi-final games never came on national television. In short, black folks on campus didn’t know what to make of me and that strange sport I played. When attended SU, the city of Syracuse was known for its college football and basketball teams and the Dinosaur Barbecue recently started by three bikers in 1983. Today the city is known for both the barbecue joint and a hot lacrosse program with many national championships, All Americans, and Hall of Famers. Here's a link to the Dinosaur Barbecue http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/syrIndex.php.
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