Strange 45 year old who still hangs out in 5 points says this is the best Gamecock era ever!

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Author - Rusty Crankshaft
November 29, 2012

Although he graduated from Carolina in 1991, Thomas “Harden” Boyette has remained a fixture in the 5 points area ever since.  The 45 year old insurance agent has never let go of his college years, and is a walking time capsule to Gamecock football history.  We caught up with Boyette at Sharky’s recently, and interrupted his hitting on a 19 year old to get his take on the Spurrier era.  After letting us know he had also dated the young lady’s Mother when she was at Carolina, he gave us an interesting perspective.  

“It’s never been this good for football here.  When I started here in 1988, Clemson was dominating us.  Me and my boys used to throw on the MC Hammer pants and head over to Pug’s after games to drown our sorrows.  Their kids all at Carolina with me now and it’s a much happier postgame celebration, I’ll tell you that.  We used to be happy winning 6 or 7 in a season.  Now we’re winning 10 and 11 games and landing national titles in baseball?  Wow!  I never thought I would see it!”  

We asked Boyette if the worst era was the 0-21 streak in the late 90s and he said not at all.  “For me the worst era was just after Night Works closed.  That place would always play ‘Rubberband Man’ for me.  You can’t beat that.  When we lost that place, it was just awful.”