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Just got back from my mission, left Jul 3, 2017!

JFFR said:
P.S. It is not like serving a mission back in 89-91. Missionaries around the world go to internet cafes for email on a weekly basis. While they are only supposed to check email... it's hard not to glace at ESPN or NBA.com :)
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Yeah, that's true. Plus weekly phone calls home instead of physical letters. :-)
 
Colton probably doesn't remember this but we entered the MTC on the same day, both going to Germany, but he was a big shot and I was just a plebe. Anyway I was a huge jazz fan back then and I kept up through letters from my dad. Plus in Coburg I believe I met a guy who had served his mission in the states and was a huge jazz fan so we kept up that way too. Still it was weird coming back with only spotty info. Tough to follow.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Colton probably doesn't remember this but we entered the MTC on the same day, both going to Germany, but he was a big shot and I was just a plebe. Anyway I was a huge jazz fan back then and I kept up through letters from my dad. Plus in Coburg I believe I met a guy who had served his mission in the states and was a huge jazz fan so we kept up that way too. Still it was weird coming back with only spotty info. Tough to follow.
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My dad emailed me paper clippings of box scores every week during the season while I was on my mission.

I've changed completely as a person since then, but my love for basketball and the Jazz has only grown.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Colton probably doesn't remember this but we entered the MTC on the same day, both going to Germany, but he was a big shot and I was just a plebe. Anyway I was a huge jazz fan back then and I kept up through letters from my dad. Plus in Coburg I believe I met a guy who had served his mission in the states and was a huge jazz fan so we kept up that way too. Still it was weird coming back with only spotty info. Tough to follow.
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LOL, Like any new missionaries are "big shots". :-)

Anyway, I didn't become a Jazz fan until right after getting home, so start of the 1991-1992 season--though looking at the roster here, https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/UTA/1992.html, I only remember about 10 of the guys.

At the time I was much more of an NFL and BYU college football fan. So the sports things that killed me most at the time were (a) missing the Superbowls (although a member family showed us clips on VHS of the 1990 Superbowl, LOL) and (b) missing Ty Detmer's Heisman season. But got to enjoy his senior year, thankfully, which was just about as good as the Heisman year.
 
I was on my mission February 2004 - February 2006. I attended every home game of our post-Stockton and Malone season before I left. There was an 800 number that we’d call that would give us weather, news, and live sports scorers. I forget what it was, but that’s how I kept up. I’d check the box scores on P-day and though I never posted, pretty sure I lurked here. I remember calling an old ward member to find out that we lost Pavlovic (duh) in the expansion draft when we instead protected Collins (who wouldn’t have been picked). Can back toward the end of DWill’s rookie season and really liked what I saw from him, Boozer, and Okur.

Did see the massive media coverage of the Malice at the Palace.
 
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