RENO - The Nevada Wolf Pack is going to honor its 1990 football team this season.
The 1990 team, which advanced to the championship game of Division I-AA, will hold a reunion this season in Reno to honor the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest teams in school history. The team will also be honored at halftime of a game at Mackay Stadium this year.
"I just got an e-mail from (1990 linebacker) Matt Clafton," former Wolf Pack offensive lineman Shahriar Pourdanesh said Friday. "They want us to come back for the game on Oct. 9 (against San Jose State). I wouldn't miss it for anything."
The 1990 team finished 13-2 and lost to Georgia Southern in the I-AA championship game in Statesboro, Ga., 36-13. The Pack had to beat Furman and Boise State, each in three-overtime, memorable thrillers at Mackay Stadium, to get to the title game.
"That team was a bunch of overachievers," said Pack head coach Chris Ault, who also coached the 1990 team. "They really set the tone for all of our great teams in the 1990s."
"I love all those guys," Pourdanesh said. "I started for two teams (Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins) and played in the Canadian Football League and I have forgotten a lot of my teammates from those teams. But I'll never forget the guys I played with at Nevada.
"Most of the defining moments of my life came when I played at Nevada and many of them happened during that 1990 season. "