You probably don’t remember much about November 10, 1983. It was a Thursday, a rainy one in Durham, a typical dreary mid-autumn day.
Except that something happened on the Duke campus that day that had never happened before. The Duke football team hosted a football game. At night. Under lights.
They were temporary lights. Permanent lights weren’t installed until the 1984 opener. But the lights enabled Duke to host a nationally-televised weeknight game for the first time in school history.
For much of that game Duke laid a huge egg. But the egg hatched into something special with one of the great comebacks in program history.