New book looks back on “Belue to Scott!” Has it really been 30 years?
It was 30 years ago this month–yes you read that right–that Georgia’s football team began preparations for a season full of magic, surprises, and ultimately triumph as the Bulldogs went 12-0 and won the national championship.
In an unforgettable season filled with highlights thanks to the efforts of freshman running back Herschel Walker and so many others, one play will live forever: Buck Belue’s short third-down pass that Lindsay Scott turned into a 93-yard touchdown to give Georgia a stunning 26-21 win over Florida in Jacksonville.
It is, without question, the single most significant play in the history of Georgia football. That’s because the victory, thanks to an assist from Georgia Tech (which tied No. 1 Notre Dame 3-3 in Atlanta), moved Georgia into the No. 1 ranking in the next round of polls. Georgia would never leave that position as it closed out the season with wins over Auburn, Georgia Tech, and ultimately Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.
Macon author Robbie Burns celebrates the 30th anniversary of the play with his new book “Belue to Scott! The greatest moment in Georgia football history.” The book is set to be on the shelves in early September.
Burns, a former public relations director at the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, used contacts developed over a decade to interview over 50 people with some connection to the game. In the process he gives it a fresh outlook while uncovering some different angles to the game and to that play.
“This has really been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done,” said Burns, a graduate of Mercer. “I thought I knew a lot about the 1980 Georgia-Florida game when I started. But I learned so much.”
Burns interviewed a bunch of the Georgia people who played and coached in the game: Scott, Coach Vince Dooley, wide receivers coach Charlie Whittemore, captain Frank Ros, Jeff Harper and UGA owner Sonny Seiler, just to name a few. But he also took great pains to get the Florida side of this story. The agony that Florida felt by letting that game slip away has been an under reported part of the story–until now. For example: Did you know that NFL analyst Cris Collinsworth played in the game and caught a nine-yard touchdown pass?
“I have a lot more respect for those guys from Florida now because they were willing to talk about a game and a play that still troubles them a lot,” said Burns.
Burns talked to Mike Shanahan, who you know best as the former coach of the Denver Broncos and the current head coach of the Washington Redskins. But back in 1980 Shanahan was the offensive coordinator at Florida and had installed one of the first versions of the run and shoot offense with Wayne Peace at quarterback.
He spoke to Joe Delaney, the back judge in the game whose job it was to run with Scott down the Georgia sideline and signal the winning touchdown. He talked to Bobby Gaston, the lead SEC official, whose job it was to explain to Dooley why there was going to be an excessive celebration penalty after the historic play. Of course the mob scene that descended on Lindsay Scott in the end zone ranks with the biggest on-field celebrations of all time. If you’re a Georgia fan it was certainly worth a 15-yard penalty.
But Dooley, of course, was worried about the penalty giving Florida field position on the ensuing kickoff because there was still 1:03 left.
Gaston, who went on to become the SEC supervisor of officials, told me that after the touchdown the conversation with Dooley went something like this:
Dooley: What’s the penalty, Bobby?
Gaston: That’s going to be 15 yards, coach.
Dooley: Seems harsh.
Gaston: Yes sir.
Burns charts the flow of the game in Jacksonville but at the same time he keeps going back to the Georgia Tech-Notre Dame game in Atlanta, which played such a huge role in the events of the day. Georgia Tech’s 3-3 tie with No. 1 Notre Dame knocked the Irish out of the top spot and opened the door for the Bulldogs.
“It is one of the great historical ironies that Georgia got Georgia Tech’s help that day,” said Burns. “So as we’re telling the story in Jacksonville, every now and then we just pause and inject a segment we call ”Meanwhile, back in Atlanta.” People forget that the week before the Georgia-Florida game, Georgia Tech had lost at Duke (17-12). Nobody gave Georgia Tech a chance against Notre Dame.”
Burns is especially proud of the fact that he was able to get a host of pictures from the game that have never been published.
“We have the 4 or 5 pictures that everybody has seen,” said Burns. “But 90 percent of the photos only a few people have ever seen.”
It’s a quick, fun read of 128 pages with a lot of memories on each page. And if that is not enough, Burns was able to convince Larry Munson, who called this Georgia-Florida game and 41 others, to write the Foreword to the book. Munson’s immortal call of the play, where he screams “Run Lindsay!” ranks among the greatest radio calls of all time. And Munson tops off the emotion of the moment, which was considerable, by saying what was on the minds of every Georgia fan at the game: “Man, is there gonna be some property destroyed tonight!”
“I couldn’t imagine anyone else writing the foreword,” said Burns. “Larry’s call captured the feeling of that moment better than any story ever could.”
Burns’ publisher, H&H Publishing Company, is now taking pre-orders for the book at:
If you want to contact Burns directly about the book he can be reached at:
rdburns00@aol.com or at (478) 737-6011.
I only have one question: Where did those 30 years go?
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rduck
August 12th, 2010
8:03 am
Get off the SEC book bandwagon Tony and talk about today’s football!
Atlanta Jackets
August 12th, 2010
8:03 am
First! Stuff mutts!! LOL!
rduck
August 12th, 2010
8:04 am
Oh, and 1st… suckas
Dink
August 12th, 2010
8:05 am
Great read and great memories from that game Tony, thanks!
Go Dawgs!
Chipper Jones would've graduated magna cum laude had he chosen to matriculate at Florida
August 12th, 2010
8:06 am
It’ll be interesting to get the Florida players’ perspective; otherwise, this story’s been told and told.
Alex
August 12th, 2010
8:14 am
Yes it has. But you wouldn’t know it with the way you uga morons act. You’d think you had done something recently. Like my gators.
18/21 coming.
Greg
August 12th, 2010
8:16 am
What a waste of time. And you call yourself mr college football. I call you mr ga bulldog who masquerades as some college football guy. Blowhard.
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:19 am
remember that time you guys had herschel walker and won a title?
awesome.
most football programs: book on history of program and all its accomplishments
uga: book about one game and one stroke of luck that led to one title.
Alex
August 12th, 2010
8:20 am
I forgot though, my gators have never even had a perfect season. I forgot we’re just a bunch of johnny-come-latelys who have only been relevant for maybe 20 years.
Go Gator!
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:21 am
id rather be relevant for the past 20 years than for one year. thirty years ago.
jumbeauxtiger
August 12th, 2010
8:24 am
Every champion has some luck along the way.
Geaux Tigers
Go SEC
Toe Meets Leather
August 12th, 2010
8:25 am
Only 128 pages and lots of pictures – appropriate for the University (sic) of GAGA.
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August 12th, 2010
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Carolina Dawg
August 12th, 2010
8:29 am
UGA is the school. Uga is the dog. Sony Seiler owns the dog, not the school. Tony, you should know the difference by now!
lucky21
August 12th, 2010
8:30 am
UGA owes Tech it national title thats hilarious
Call IT
August 12th, 2010
8:30 am
Who cares about 30 years ago since that is the last time that lack luster progam has done anything?
Always over-rated and always given too much street cred.
Gators are the elite program in the East!
Enough Said!
Unfortunately
August 12th, 2010
8:30 am
Enter your comments here
jyy
August 12th, 2010
8:32 am
I hope he did not leave out the story about Belue’s mom leaving the game and was under the stands when the play happened….Well, I guess she has seen the play since.
3 decades
August 12th, 2010
8:33 am
Georgia has not gone undefeated in Thirty Years.
If Bama and Boise State can do it,
……… why not the Dawgs ?
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:33 am
Oh look it’s the Tech maggots and their bitterness of getting owned by UGA for 2 decades all over the blogs again. How normal.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:34 am
Oh I almost forgot: 30-24
hammerhead
August 12th, 2010
8:35 am
Ten of the first 12 comments from non-uga posters. Wow. Why are our rivals so obsessed with us?
Athens, Georgia
August 12th, 2010
8:35 am
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Nesbitt for Heisman
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lucky21
August 12th, 2010
8:36 am
although GT really does just love to screw over notre dame
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:36 am
oh look its the [dawg rednecks] and their bitterness of getting owned by [florida] for 2 decades all over the blogs again. how normal.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:36 am
It’s also obvious that the Florida fans are still bitter – aided by the fact that their program has peaked now that Tebow is gone and Urban Cryer is quickly losing his mind.
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:37 am
oh almost forgot: 41-17
Dandy Don
August 12th, 2010
8:37 am
I remember where I was in this game. I was in the USAF and assigned to Patrick AFB, Fla. Needless to say I was watching the game and being “ragged” pretty hard by my friends. When that play happened I screamed while I ran up and down the dorm halls. My friends, locked their doors while the celebration continued… AW fond memories of days gone by.
P.S. There was no damaged property, but WOW what a hang-over GO DAWGS
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:38 am
Hammerhead, there are some fans who obsess more about UGA than their own teams. Just ask any Tech fan and most Florida fans (like “guy”)
Mikey in SAV
August 12th, 2010
8:38 am
Oh my goodness. when I read the title of Tony’s blog today I cringed.
He just brought his gas can to the fire…
Let the gates open and the UGA haters have their day.
See you all tomorrow.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:39 am
Hey “guy,” how many pairs of jean shorts do you have in store for this season? Don’t forget to trim your mullet at the beginnin of the season. That way by the end it’s got that nice “flowing” look.
Dooley the Vol
August 12th, 2010
8:39 am
ahhhh. the UGA glory days. When do we stop reliving a NC from 30 yrs ago?
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:40 am
Oh I almost forgot: 47-39-2. Do you know what that is guy?
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:41 am
paul: its the mr college football blog. on the ajc. in atlanta. a city of 4ish million people from all over who may happen to be fans of programs other than uga. get over it. this isnt the bill king ‘blawg’ [sic]. it’s a college football blog, and this topic happens to be about uga and that one time 30 years ago when they won a national title.
David
August 12th, 2010
8:41 am
UGA’s one championship is cute. Gators will have a 4th shortly.
Lane Kiffin
August 12th, 2010
8:41 am
Take away H Walker, the Lindsay Scott play, and uga has nothing to talk about as a football program.
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:45 am
paul. feel free to keep throwing the overall record out there. that string of victories back in the 1910s and 20s must feel pretty sweet. florida owns it since ww2, and i can tell you personally that the record over the past 30ish years ive been alive feels pretty sweet. but have fun with that overall record if that’s all you have.
Larry
August 12th, 2010
8:46 am
A helpful author would have included a link of the play to punctuate the impetus of his story!
Here, please allow me to help!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhWVvsrq5k
I know Sonny Seiler has a lot of money...
August 12th, 2010
8:50 am
…but I seriously doubt he has enough money to “own” UGA – another great example of how much, or how little, Tony knows about writing or UGA. “UGA” is the university; “Uga” is the dog.
Psychologist
August 12th, 2010
8:51 am
I can understand Tech fans getting in some good-natured shots at the Dogs, but what is up with the Gator fans obsession with UGA? I cannot imagine many Georgia fans going on Gator sites in Florida like this.
Its one thing to discuss the topic of the blog, but I sense some big time insecurity among the above mentioned Florida fans that constantly show up on here- my professional psychological opinion is that being relative newcomers to the college elite, they fear a revitalized UGA will knock them from their lofty perch. No charge for the psych analysis. Hope this has been helpful to those harboring doubts and fears.
FlaDawg
August 12th, 2010
8:52 am
HOw old do I feel? It seems like only yesterday. Thanks for the memories!
Lou
August 12th, 2010
8:53 am
Georgia Tech’s victory over Notre Dame was helpful on that day…but it had nothing to do with deciding the ultimate national champion. It simply made Georgia number one the final few weeks of the season and going into the Sugar Bowl. Had Tech lost to Notre Dame, the Irish would have been number one going into the Sugar Bowl and Georgia number two. The rankings going INTO that game didn’t matter. It was the ranking coming OUT of the Sugar Bowl that mattered. The Dogs beat the Irish head to head for the national title. Tech’s win over them in late November was nice. It moved Georgia to number one the same weekend as the magical Belue to Scott play..but with or without Tech’s help that day, the Dogs still win the national title because they beat the Irish January 1.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:53 am
Guy: You’re right. It is a college football blog about a game from 30 years ago. So don’t lead off talking some junk (like all the Tech nerds) and then come back with a lecture about what the intent of the column was. You sound like a Tech fan, and believe me that’s not what you want to sound like.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
8:55 am
What do Tech fans and UGA fans (and some Fla fans apparently) all have in common? They all obsess over UGA a WHOLE lot more than that nerd school on North Ave.
How2fish
August 12th, 2010
8:56 am
lucky21 hey you tied the Irish that year and then UGA stomped a mudhole in your Azzes, funny after 30 years how somethings remain the same…..lmao.
NameRequired
August 12th, 2010
8:57 am
Ah – I remember those years in Sanford Stadium, the scent of Seagrams 7 heavy in the air Between The Hedges. Now everyone sing (to the tune of “I Feel Like Busting Loose”) “I feel like Buck Belue, Buck Belue, give me the ball, y’all”.
guy
August 12th, 2010
8:57 am
my original comment was about the topic at hand. and how long it’s been since uga won a title.
Why does everyone say Tech's tie with ND...
August 12th, 2010
8:57 am
…paved the way? If ND had won that game they still would have played UGA in the MNC so the Tech tie had nothing to do with the overall scheme of things. A 2nd ranked UGA would have played #1 ranked ND, vs a #1 ranked UGA playing a #2 ranked ND…
Mike
August 12th, 2010
9:01 am
That 1980 UGa team along with the 1984 BYU and 1998 Tennessee teams are the three worst National Title teams of the last 50 years. UGa was basically handed the title in the Sugar Bowl by ND who outgained the Bulldogs in yards by a staggering 3 to 1 margin, missed 4 FGs, fumbled twice inside it’s redzone setting up both UGa TDs (one inside the 3) and still only lost by 7 points.
NESBITT ............ for ......... HEISMAN
August 12th, 2010
9:01 am
.
… Go Georgia Tech
.
WonderDawg
August 12th, 2010
9:03 am
Okay, nerds, name me a national champ that didn’t have some good fortune during it’s season . . .
Mike
August 12th, 2010
9:03 am
BTW, ND was not #2 going into the Sugar Bowl. They had lost their final game of the season at USC and entered the game ranked #7 with a 9-1-1 record.
WonderDawg
August 12th, 2010
9:05 am
3 decades, when last did your team have a perfect record? Waiting . . . .
Lane Kiffin... nail
August 12th, 2010
9:05 am
head, hammer.
30 years of woulda shoulda coulda.
their only claim to fame now is…
no 1 partay school
numerous preseason no 1’s
no 1 in arrests
top 5 in recruiting year in an year out
level of urine an stink on their library carpet
weekly fan arrests due to drunk an disorderly
the amount of litter and trash left on their campus weekly
an ad that likes to sniff the panties of transvestites while driving drunk
oh and of course they like to try an explain all that away by pointing to their current record against gt. bragging if you will.
hey mcfly …. uga is 3-4 times larger than gt. uga is the state flagship university. uga has the curriculum to accommodate athletes with questionable intelligence.
with all those advantages uga SHOULD be even more dominant over gt than it is. doh.
the bottom line these days is…. in the 10 years since richt has been doing the tanning salon’s in athens ugay has peaked. the only thing ugagers can argue over these days are recruiting rankings and arrests.
as much as ugag fans whine an cry etc they have been passed by. they are irrelevant in the sec. on par with usc kentucky ol miss an vandy.
when they have the sec meetings now 3-4 teams are mentioned as possible sec champs… none of which are ugag.
toooo funny.
shreveport here they come…. again.
30 YEAR'S SINCE WE'VE WON...ANYTHING & COUNTING!!!
August 12th, 2010
9:05 am
ALL WE HAVE IS HOPE & DELUSION TO GET US THRU(SIGH)!!!!
Mike
August 12th, 2010
9:06 am
Waaaaaaaaaaaa! Waaaaaaaaaa! Mommy, I messed my pants again!
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
9:07 am
Hey Mike, if “if’s and buts were candy and nuts,” right? What was the final score again? I don’t know who your team is (probably Tech because that would make sense) but I see you apparently like to obsess over UGA like all the other haters.
Guess any publicity is good publicity, as they say…
Dawg
August 12th, 2010
9:08 am
I want a title now. I get tired of remembering what happened 30 years ago, when I was just a kid. He11, I couldn’t even have a celebratory beer the last time we won a title.
Joey
August 12th, 2010
9:09 am
Yeah, fool, we basically were handed the National Championship by the AP and UPI.
12-0-0. THAT’S why UGA won the title.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
9:09 am
If UGA truly did suck, there wouldn’t be so many haters on this blog because no one would care one way or the other. It’s kind of comforting to know so many non-UGA fans obsess over UGA.
GO DAWGS!
Alan
August 12th, 2010
9:10 am
9. Option offense: Ready for a comeback?
The future won’t belong solely to the pro/spread hybrid. As the spread flourished this past decade, defenses adjusted. More teams adopted a 3-4, allowing more flexibility to spy a quarterback who might double as a fullback.
That shift in defensive philosophy means it’s time for a new-old offensive fad. And since bell-bottoms and platform shoes have already enjoyed minor renaissances, it seems only fair that coaches bring back that staple of the ’70s football experience: the option. We’re not talking about the occasional pitch play. We’re talking about the holy trinity of the dive back, quarterback keeper or pitch.
Paul Johnson, who probably has leisure suits and tearaway jerseys in his closet, has proven at Navy and Georgia Tech that the option still works. How well? In Johnson’s second season at Tech, he won the ACC title.
Most people think the option is a boring, grind-it-out scheme. Not true, said Tom Osborne, an option aficionado who coached Nebraska to national titles in 1994, 1995 and 1997. “Most of the zone plays you see now, if you block things perfectly, you may make seven, eight, nine yards,” Osborne said. “If somebody misses a tackle, you might go a long way. In option football, if you execute correctly, you’ve got enough people to block everybody and theoretically score a touchdown on most every option play.”
The option could be the answer for teams that recruit great defenses but struggle to assemble great offenses — we’re looking at you, Nebraska and North Carolina. Had Nebraska run the option last year, the Cornhuskers probably would have won the Big 12 title.
The three rarest specimens on the recruiting trail are, in order, elite defensive tackles, strong-armed quarterbacks and large, athletic offensive linemen. Nebraska already recruits elite defensive tackles, so that’s not an issue. Running the option eliminates the need for the other two. Teams wanted former Cornhuskers quarterback Tommie Frazier as a safety, and he won two national titles running the option. Meanwhile, there is an ample supply of athletic, 6-foot-3, 280-pound linemen — ideal for the trapping and cutting required by the option — being ignored by most big-time programs. So what’s the holdup? Johnson already has proven the option can work in a BCS conference. It’s time to bring it back on a grand scale.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/08/10/new-era/2.html#ixzz0wOfD8cXt
Gen Neyland
August 12th, 2010
9:10 am
Dooley the Vol : When that ol’ saying, ” Back in the day…” becomes passe, which will be never. Time tested, like Lennon/McCartney music, that day will live on for generations to come…Now, back to the unknown : The present and the future.
oakwood dawg
August 12th, 2010
9:11 am
Enter your comments here
RxDawg
August 12th, 2010
9:11 am
“The greatest moment in Georgia football history”
Eh…that’s subjective. I was 3 years old when that play happend. So to me, the Greene to Johnson catch at Auburn 02 (that happend about 30 feet from me) has more meaning than the “run Lyndsey” play. I’d also bet there are some old timers out there that hang onto earlier plays over that one. But, I can certainly understand why a lot of people would say that about 1980 though.
Nevertheless, great read! The conversation with Doley was hillarious.
“Dooley: What’s the penalty, Bobby?
Gaston: That’s going to be 15 yards, coach.
Dooley: Seems harsh.
Gaston: Yes sir.”
Love it!
Now, all that said, It’s nice to relive the past and all but I think it’s time we came up with some new “greatest play” in the history of Georgia Football. Looking foward to a run at the championship this year, Go Dawgs!
LOL...
August 12th, 2010
9:11 am
Sounds like a real humdinger of a book… certainly a story that hasnt been told … while we are at it, lets celebrate Reagan’s inauguration again too.. . or maybe watch “Everybody’s All American” with Dennis Quaid (The Grey Ghost !)
#2 BAMA FAN
August 12th, 2010
9:12 am
I was 16 years old and remember watching the game with my dad and OMG when the play happened!!
Thanks larry for the youtube link and GO DAWGS!!
WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!
August 12th, 2010
9:12 am
@hammerhead,that’s an excellent question!! WHY ARE U GAY’S SO OBSESSED WITH YOURSELVE’S??!!
Big Dawg
August 12th, 2010
9:12 am
Dang, I’ve never seen such size envy. Little nerds, just get in the line for the stall. No one will see . . .
What dawg?
August 12th, 2010
9:12 am
Living in the past. Bama does it. I guess Georgia can do it too.
WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!
August 12th, 2010
9:15 am
@ paul h.,OH YOU ABSOLUTELY SUCK THAT’S WHAT FUEL’S THE FIRE,YA BIG DUMMY!!!!
joe
August 12th, 2010
9:15 am
wow…30 years of zero relevance since 80…and the clock keeps on ticking.
Ka-Ching Ka-Ching
August 12th, 2010
9:18 am
Would anyone be surprised…if Barnahrt was getting royalties off the sale of the book?
Barnhart is just a shill for UGA and SEC, masquerading as a sports journalist.
oakwood dawg
August 12th, 2010
9:18 am
Mike, don’t you know that stats are for losers? Who but you would remember the stats. A win is a win and that is and thats the way it recorded for history. You must be an agitated gaytor or a remember the once great fighting irish teams that no longer exist.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
9:18 am
“Wait till next year,” appropriate title given that’s what Tech fans have been saying for basically 2 decades of getting owned by the Dawgs.
Pulpwood
August 12th, 2010
9:20 am
Didn’t Georgia finish 2nd in the Nation two years ago? That’s lousy I guess.
CONFEDERATE DAWG
August 12th, 2010
9:21 am
WHO CARES WE WON!
GO DAWGS!!!
OH AND THE UGA Uga THING, IT AINT THAT SERIOUS
17 of 20
August 12th, 2010
9:22 am
1980 was Georgia’s good old days. The Gator’s good old days have lasted for the last 20 years. Three National Championships and eight SEC Championships.
5IML
August 12th, 2010
9:23 am
What,
Yes, UGA and BAMA (and many others) do live in the past. The difference is that BAMA can also live in the present. When we revisit the past, its for fun, not out of necessity.
WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR
August 12th, 2010
9:23 am
@ paul h.,thank’s you proved my point “LOVER OF FLEA BAG U”!!!
hello
August 12th, 2010
9:26 am
Thank you for reminding them Tony. Its been 30 years….its also the 20th anniversary of the Scott Sisson kick that beat #1 UVA and propelled GT to its last national championship as they finished the 1990 season as the only undefeated team. They didn’t need 5 downs or a phantom clipping call to win the championship that year.
Paul H
August 12th, 2010
9:27 am
“Wait till,” since you’re probably in high school and don’t know much about football (like most Tech fans), let me shed some light on you. If a team genuinely sucks, no one obsesses over them. Take most ACC teams for example. Or Miss State. Or whatever. If a column is written about a great game that one of those teams played, people read the column and move on. They don’t immediately jump on the blogs to bash that team unless there is some deeply fueled jealousy/bitterness towards that team’s success. Hope that helps.
alpharettadawg
August 12th, 2010
9:28 am
didn’t talk to Belue or Scott? Why?
Not A UGA Fan
August 12th, 2010
9:30 am
Hey Tony, how much did you get for endorsing the book? Man, you’re supposed to be a sports journalist not a book previewer. Go to work and dig up some real sports stories…..some that are relevant.
Jason
August 12th, 2010
9:33 am
Staples and Mandel are Mr college football. Not this buffoon tony.
TML
August 12th, 2010
9:34 am
@hello – you’re absolutely right about Sisson’s kick. I wonder if UGA alum Tony will write a gushing article about that equally important play in another national championship season for a local school, hmmm?
http://www.stinGTees.com
POAD
August 12th, 2010
9:35 am
And 30 years ago I was dreaming of getting my 66 mustang finished and in mom and dad’s garage for my 14th birthday on the 29th of August. Boy arn’t memories great. Now, can we talk about a football and season in the here and now?
Tony has one afternoon getting drunk and smoking Cigars with Munson and now we have to relive a 30 year old football season.
CC
August 12th, 2010
9:38 am
I’ve always wanted to know who was the guy in the red pants dancing around in the endzone. He’s had a few. Every time I see that play, I wonder what he’s up to now.
free steven slater
August 12th, 2010
9:39 am
urban lost his mind because he met a coach who’s better then him in saban, I admire urban for his insanity, that’s a dedication to task most of the bloggers represented here should consider while wiping their collective arses…
David
August 12th, 2010
9:40 am
Don’t you think it is a little pathetic to still be beating this drum? 30 years ago and you are still reliving the experience? That doesn’t say a whole lot for the program’s history does it? It is sad that the fans have so little to hang their hat on. Let’s go back a relive Charley Trippi’s experience. Meanwhile Buck Bulue takes another bow.
BJohnDawg
August 12th, 2010
9:42 am
I was working at the paper mill in St. Mary’s on old #3 paper machine between quarters in college. I remember the supervisor had an old small black and white and we watched that game, it was a wonder we did not have a paper break that afternoon.
One of the few teams in the SEC to go undefeated and winning the NC. Yes Florida has had recent ones, give them their due, but not undefeated.1996 12-1 as I recall. and the two in this decade had losses as well. I think that is what makes 1980 special.
And I have to concur with some others on this board. Sure seems to be a ton of Georgia haters on this board from Florida and Tech.And they Always wanting to put a qualifier on it like ” the last 20 years”, as if the rest of time did not happen. To 17 of 20;Georgia leads in the overall series against Florida.
Deal with that.
bad brad
August 12th, 2010
9:43 am
Hey Mike,
If you want to talk about the worst National championships won in the last 50 years, please don’t leave out the one that Tech claimed in 1990 when they won the CITRUS BOWL. How do you win the Citrus Bowl and win a championship is beyond me.
hate to say it...
August 12th, 2010
9:45 am
Tony, you have become th e Oprah of the sports world. Selling your sole to the highest bidder to peddle books…three days in a row
You do know that your average UGA fan is 1) not going to buy it until it comes out in paper back and 2) will never actually read it becasue it is more than 6 pages
For God Sakes Man stick to the college sports
juvenal
August 12th, 2010
9:49 am
what % of uga’s current fans even saw this?
5IML
August 12th, 2010
9:52 am
brad,
Everyone complains about the BCS but it’s given us one thing–a better matchup to determine the national champion. UGA beat #7 ND to win the NC. GT beat #19 Nebraska in the Citrus Bowl to win their share of the NC.
1eyedJack
August 12th, 2010
9:53 am
30 years ago UGA led by a true freshman “shocked” the college football world after a subpar season the year before.
Flash forward to 2010 and UGA led by a redshirt freshman is poised to “shock” the college football world after a subpar season the year before.
I was at the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1980, but couldn’t get in because I was an ignorant college senior who though I could just traipse down there and get a ticket outside the Super Dome.
30 year anniversary season?
Bob
August 12th, 2010
9:54 am
As a former Dawg lover I am ashamed that there has been no new significant event for GA Football in 30 years.
johnny fontane
August 12th, 2010
9:55 am
Buck is still making a living off of that one play.
Barry
August 12th, 2010
9:57 am
Tom Osborne himself said the toughest team he played against in 1990 was Gt, not Colorado. If the BCS existed in 1990, GT would have played for and won the Nat champ. They proved it on the field. The only team with no loss and the joke that is colorado had a 5th down to beat Missouri on the final drive, had a LOSS AND a TIE AND got a bogus phantom clipping call against ND which would have and should have given them 2 losses. Either way we are the co nat champs for 1990. 1990 is more recent than 190 when Magnum PI first aired.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 12th, 2010
9:57 am
With a 1:03 left on the clock Dooley better thank himself for not having Willie The Great Martinez as his defensive coordinator.
It reminds of last years LSU game
Martinez could not even coach last years Alabama defense to stop Valdosta State from scoring with a minute left if he needed too
Ryan
August 12th, 2010
10:01 am
HAHA, this is too funny. A book about a play from 30 years ago. UGA is pathetic. Kepp living the dream Bulldogs.
Melody
August 12th, 2010
10:02 am
Although Buck may be making a living off of that one play, this author should not be doing so. He wrote about one of our greatest plays without going to THE source, Buck Belue, at all. That just screams “No Class!” The only thing he did was use Buck’s name and image for profit. If I were Buck, I would feel violated. Me, I am waiting for Buck to pen his version of events.
Tide4u2c
August 12th, 2010
10:03 am
Would’nt it be nice Georgia fans to turn things around again and have a 12-0 season and win a NC today? It’s time to get to work to make it happen again today no more excuses,etc for why you can’t.Maybe you should study up and find out what has made Bama so successful through the years instead of just shirking Bama’s past as the past.There is a formula for not only winning but winning NC’s too that ya’ll need to learn about. You just might find that winning formula oneday so you can be playing Bama for the SEC championship.
Spike
August 12th, 2010
10:04 am
Those were good times. Spike, UGA ‘80.
SOGADOG
August 12th, 2010
10:05 am
The reason we Dawg fans hold onto Georgia’s 1980 season and Lindsey’s miracle play is the fact we have not won a national championship since.
Since 1980, Georgia Tech, Florida, and Notre Dame have all won national championships. Georgia has not.
Since 1980, the SEC has won eight national championships, Alabama 2 Florida 3 LSU 2 Tenn.1. Georgia has won zero. (check my numbers, I am relying on memory.)
Since 1980 border rivals FSU, Clemson, and Miami have won national championships. We have not.
Since 1980, Auburn should have won the national championship in 2004 and may yet.
I am ready to close the book on 1980 Buck Belue, Lindsey Scott and Herschel Walker and look towards the future. I belive CMR will bring home another National Championship, probably not in 2010, but soon. He has brought us close three times, (2002, 2005, and 2007) Georgia is due and it is time to once again “kick the lid off the program” and “finish the drill”. It is time for the Dawgs to win another National Championship.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
10:06 am
If this book were about Miami, USC, Bama, or Notre Dame it would be just one chapter of many MNC plays.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 12th, 2010
10:07 am
I think Bucky has talked about this event so many times the author didnt need to go to him
Belue was a better baseball player than a QB
Johny Fortunate is right
By the way Belue would not start for UGA today
5IML
August 12th, 2010
10:11 am
Buck probably wanted too much money, and the author couldn’t afford him. I don’t blame Buck. I’d live off that one play (and one season) as long as I could, too.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 12th, 2010
10:12 am
Sogadog
I will agree with your point. Ive heard enough about 1980
Im also tired of watching Herschel run over Tennessee’s Bill Bates 5 million times
Herschel had much better highlights than that particular play
I will say Richt needs to sit down with Dooley and ask him how to beat FL because the way I see it we aren’t going anywhere until we do. 2002, 2005 are proof of that
Trucker
August 12th, 2010
10:13 am
SOGA
You forgot FSU. You know that school where richt won 2 NC’s. I wonder if he still wears his FSU nat champ rings. Probably when he’s at home.
Dog Power
August 12th, 2010
10:14 am
1. Tony Barnhart is “Mr. College Football” by merit. He has forgotten more college football than you envious posters know.
2. Belue to Scott is relevant today because it was one of the greatest plays in the history of college football. How many plays decades ago are played annually by television networks?
3. Why are there so many Georgia looking helmets in Wisconsin?
Trucker
August 12th, 2010
10:15 am
Whoops I see where you wrote FSU. My mal.
Snidley Whiplash
August 12th, 2010
10:16 am
When does Jan Kemp’s book hit the street?
Gary
August 12th, 2010
10:16 am
The G as seen on the Green Bay helmet originated for Green Bay, not Georgia. Georgia copied it loser.
south eastern chumps
August 12th, 2010
10:17 am
hahahaha, well I guess this is all you got, ugay that is, you do realize those 45 and under probably do not have a memory of this, we just have to take your word for it, by the way, has anything happened since or do we have to hear about this for another 30 years?
Buck
August 12th, 2010
10:19 am
Thanks 5IML, but I asked the head cheerleader out in high school. She let me get to 3rd base. I have been living off that play my whole life really. See every thing changed for me after that. I got to go to UGA to play baseball. They let this short option QB run the UGA Offence. None of this would have happened if not for the confidence I had after dating the Head Cheereleader.
Gary
August 12th, 2010
10:21 am
The oval “G” logo was created in 1961 by Packers equipment manager George “Dad” Braisher. To most people’s minds, the “G” stands for “Green Bay”. However, when the logo was designed and adopted, it was determined the “G” would stand for “Greatness”. The team actually used a number of different logos prior to 1961, but the “G” is the only logo that has ever appeared on the helmet.[32] Although the Packers have granted limited permission to other organizations to utilize a similar logo, notably the University of Georgia and Grambling State University, the Packers hold the trademark for it.[33] Adopted in 1964, the Georgia “G”, though different in design and color, was similar to the Packers’ “G”. Then-Georgia head coach Vince Dooley thought it best to clear the use of Georgia’s new emblem with the Packers.
long time sec fan
August 12th, 2010
10:22 am
Enter your comments here
5IML
August 12th, 2010
10:26 am
Buck,
Unless you married that cheerleader, I think she should receive royalties from you. If you did marry her, she already has her hand in the pot.
Jake
August 12th, 2010
10:31 am
Larry’s play by play,,,Lindsay Scott, Lindsay Scott,, Lindsay Scott!
athensdawg
August 12th, 2010
10:33 am
Lets be realistic people….
we have two MNC in over 100 years of football.
we are 3rd in SEC football titles.
While we rank in the top ten in attendance and overall winning percentage, we are NOT considered one of the elite teams or programs. Why? Lack of championships….that’s all. Winning championships will take care of that.
Sometimes georgia fans remind me of the fans of the Cubs, Anna Kournakova, Dale Jr, Natalie Gulbis, or Lebron James. Livin in the past or dreamin of the future……
To twist an old phrase around….For all that sizzlin, thats a mighty small steak.
Shankit
August 12th, 2010
10:36 am
My fondest remembrance of this day was Lewis Grizzard’s article
the next day. A load of Dawgs left Athens on Thursday for Jax,
stopped in Folkston and loaded up with turnip greens, cause they
knew after that the Jack would be flowing. Got to the stadium early,
Ga. took the lead, Fla. came back and with less than three minutes
left the stadium On the way to their car, heard a loud roar, looked
back and saw Red and Black Pom Poms, rushed to their car to
find out what happened, first station was Al Ceraldo celebrating cause
Tech had tied No. 1 Notre Dame, finally found out Ga. had come back
and won the game. Left Athens on Thursday and missed the whole game.
Gary
August 12th, 2010
10:37 am
athensdawg
too bad more of your fans don’t think like you. all they do is brag about beating gt, which they should do when you look at the programs and recruits each school gets.
Jim Grey
August 12th, 2010
10:43 am
You Dawg fans have no class.
Envy breeds hate
August 12th, 2010
10:47 am
Who goes on an opposing team’s blog that they don’t envy? No one…. that is why tek and gator fans can’t wait to get on a Uga blog….. pea green with envy….
Anyone not from Athens
August 12th, 2010
10:51 am
YAWN ….. Tony you have lost your fastball this column sucks as of late
juvenal
August 12th, 2010
10:57 am
UGA is at least in the 10,& beating them a difficult & worthy season goal-i’m glad we play every year, & home & home is a priviledge-i enjoy the away games, the rudeness is more good-natured than folks think, if you go with a sense of just enjoying a game…these things run in cycles, with the media having too much input, i would hate to see the Dawg’s in my bracket in a play-off….(meant top or second 10)
hello
August 12th, 2010
10:58 am
This is not a UGA blog “envy breeds hate”…this is Mr. College Footballs blog.
Buck
August 12th, 2010
10:58 am
Envy breeds? I thought this was a college football blog? I didn’t Tony Works for UGA. Tony is all up the Butt of the SEC yes, but this is not a DAWG BLOG.
shankit
August 12th, 2010
11:00 am
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
Your comment “Buck could not start as QB for Georgia today”?
Overall record 27-3, ranked ninth in country
Won two SEC championships 80 and 81.
All SEC QB 80 and 81
SEC Athlete of the Year 81
Won NC 1980
Should have won NC 1981, cept for Ga defense
allowing Marino pass at end of game.
Played in E/W Shrine game.
Yep, you’re right, Dooley saw a winner,
today he probably wouldn’t fit in the scheme of things.
By the way, Buck’s receiver at Valdosta High, Lastinger,
had a similar record, winning SEC, MVP in Cotton Bowl
in 82 and 83. Neither got any credit from you Dawg
fans, just won that’s all. The had heart, which is lacking
in today’s Dawg World.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
11:06 am
Damn, I am so glad the Hostages are back. See I told you Electing Reagan would make Iran back down. That was a great war flashback on Magnium P.I. last night.
Tide4u2c
August 12th, 2010
11:12 am
POAD,
And I’m glad to see the star wars missile defense that makes the Soviet Union go broke trying to keep up with America’s technology and production.
Hmmmmm!
August 12th, 2010
11:14 am
And before you know it 30 will have become 50.
Tide4u2c
August 12th, 2010
11:14 am
Mr Gorbachev TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!!!!!!!
Hal Combo
August 12th, 2010
11:15 am
Just thought I’d mention that Auburn has gone undefeated twice since 1980: 1993 & 2004.
shankit
August 12th, 2010
11:16 am
Reagan, Belue, Scott, what great winners.
It’s all Obama’s fault Georgia can’t produce
winners any more.
Gatorzip74
August 12th, 2010
11:16 am
I bet it’s going to top the AJC bestseller list!
I would buy the book if I were a Georgia fan. Your team has mediocre since and it’s the only thing you guys can celebrate. In fact every other UGA fan I encounter wears a trucker cap that says 1980 National Champs! Congratulations on a job well done, 30 years ago.
Tide4u2c
August 12th, 2010
11:17 am
Auburn went undefeated? I don’t remember what about crystal? Even bronze? Where is your bronze trophy?
shankit
August 12th, 2010
11:18 am
Hal Combo
You forgot to mention ya’ll also beat
the Gaters last two times before they
dropped ya’ll and Miami.
Yellow Jacket
August 12th, 2010
11:19 am
You hear that Dawgs?
“That’s because the victory, thanks to an assist from Georgia Tech (which tied No. 1 Notre Dame 3-3 in Atlanta), moved Georgia into the No. 1 ranking in the next round of polls.”
Us Techies are the reason you Dawgs ever made it to the National Championship LOL
Darrow
August 12th, 2010
11:24 am
As long as we’re living in the past, how about remembering the Jan Kemp trial, which exposed UGA and Vince Dooley for the jokes that they were. My favorite quote from the trial was this one:
O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Nothing has changed in the almost three decades since the trial. If anything, the abuses are even worse. Exhibit #1: Jim Harrick and son.
Today the players are even more illiterate and felonious and, well, just plain stupid, as evidenced by their arrest records and record number of penalties. Even Vince Dooley couldn’t have controlled this mob, much less Mark Richt. And now even the AD is a drunk debaucherer.
There’s a reason why UGA is known as The Cesspool of the South.
The General Feeling
August 12th, 2010
11:25 am
Buck Belue. Now there is a guy who wakes-up every morning, gets on his knees, and thanks Herschel Walker and Lindsay Scott. Otherwise, he’s just another forgotten mediocre UGA QB.
But, good memories.
shankit
August 12th, 2010
11:25 am
Notre Dame was No. 1, but Georgia was No. 2.
Your tie just switched the ratings, and the outcome
would have been the same with or without your “upset”
tie, but we do thank you anyways.
gatorman770
August 12th, 2010
11:29 am
Psychologist 8:51AM – Florida fans that live in Georgia get on this site, which, by-the-way is the Tony Barnhart “Mr College Football” site and not the “Mr. GA Bulldog” site, for the same reason that UGA and GT fans that live in Florida get on Florida regional papers sites and blog.
Go back to school…No license for you!
POAD
August 12th, 2010
11:31 am
Yellow Jacket come on you know you will never get a Dawg fan to admit without TECH UGA would have been #3 and watching Notre Dame play Pitt for the title.
Ka-Ching Ka-Ching
August 12th, 2010
11:34 am
Uh, gatorman770
Barnhart IS Mr. GA Bulldog, in case you hadnt noticed.
He’s a TOTAL Ugag homer.
So much CFB news out there today, and whats he doing?
Stumping for a book about something…30 years ago.
Truly pathetic.
74 Dawg
August 12th, 2010
11:37 am
Thanks for the article , Tony. Sounds like a good read. And it sure ground a few yaller (and arnge) PANTIES.
Brock
August 12th, 2010
11:38 am
Tony- why write this? We all here it from every UGA fan every day on every blog.
Brock
August 12th, 2010
11:39 am
hear
hammerhead
August 12th, 2010
11:40 am
I am now 100% convinced that all the “haters” on here are Tech fans (many posing as Florida fans). I can’t imagine why a Florida fan or Bama fan would blog about Georgia football. The Tech fan base’s obsession with Georgia football is understandable, but sad. I have never blogged on a Florida board because I have no business there and no room to talk smack. I wish the Techies had the same introspection.
help, I live in Ga
August 12th, 2010
11:42 am
I would have to put Hushell running over Bill Bates up there with the most significant plays because it signalled the beginning of the Hushell years. I’m a Bill Bates fan but I still like to do my Bill Bates impression at parties. You know, the one where his head hits Hushell, his but hits the ground, his heels go over his head and Hushell kind of tries not to step on him as he runs over him.
That’s got to be in the top 5. But alas, it was 30 years ago.
Bulldogs need to do something this year. I’ll even pull for them against Florida.
Hushell, yeah that was somethin…..back in the day….way way back.
CalGatorBrotha
August 12th, 2010
11:42 am
the same day I became a Gator fan …….
POAD
August 12th, 2010
11:47 am
Hammerhead you really need to read some of the florida papers online and see dawgs posting on “Gator” blogs. Atlanta has Grads from every major college in the south for sure and all over the country too. It is fun to post on the dawg blogs because you are high all summer and wait till fall. Bill Kings blog is so funny to hear the dawgs cry from week to week that Richt is God to FIRE Richt now. It is just to fun poking the possum that is UGA football. Wait that ain’t no Possum that is a real dead UGA VII.
1eyedJack
August 12th, 2010
11:53 am
You nerds really need to get some new material.
WHINE GATORS WHINE
August 12th, 2010
11:57 am
To all of the Gators whining like 12 year old girls about this post… this is a Georgia newspaper written by a UGA grad. Go read Bianchi if you want to hear about how great Florida is and Urban’s latest cramps.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
12:16 pm
Dawgs don’t worry be happy Georgia will beat florida this year. Well, it will happen this Saturday in Warner Robbins, Ga when the Little League Baseball teams from Ga Play Florida. GEORGIA will WIN. The best part none of the fans at the game will be stupid drunk.
Dawg Grad
August 12th, 2010
12:28 pm
Mr. Football – Is it a picture book? I sure hope so!
The Tick
August 12th, 2010
12:33 pm
correcting the exchange after the play:
dooley: what’s the penalty for?
ref: excessive celebration.
dooley: how many yards is that?
ref: fifteen.
dooley: that sure sounds excessive alright!
POAD
August 12th, 2010
12:35 pm
Dawg Grad you will still need to get one of the neighborhood kids to read the captions under the photos.
Jeff
August 12th, 2010
12:36 pm
you never know…….i am just sayin…..you never know…..
Lunchtime links: Powell’s great expectations | Hog Country Online
August 12th, 2010
12:41 pm
[...] Has it really been 30 years since “Belue to Scott?” A new book looks back on what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tony Barnhart says is the single most significant play in Georgia history. [...]
POAD the CHODE
August 12th, 2010
12:47 pm
“Atlanta has Grads from every major college in the south for sure and all over the country too”
And we also have complete losers like POAD who could not get into a major college because they were too stupid and had to settle for chump state university.
Big Jim
August 12th, 2010
12:47 pm
30 years ago? I like Buck Belue, but eventually, DawgNation will be celebrating the National
Championship at Shady Pines!
This years team will bring heartache and sorrow for the nation of dawgs. Overhyped=Mark Richt.
The SC players don’t seem to want to be there anymore. I don’t include Green because he’s a
bumpkin that chose athens over COLUMBIA.
G8R GRAD
August 12th, 2010
12:53 pm
I was there at that game in Jacksonville in 1980.
And it was a very long ride back to Gainesville!
hammerhead
August 12th, 2010
12:54 pm
POAD – very interesting – and, Lord knows, we give our adversaries plenty of material… from scooters to AD’s Gone Wild. I still don’t get it, but I guess it does provide something for the Techsters to do in the summertime. I’m not sure I’ve even visited a Florida blog, but I do not doubt that we have our fair share of morons picking on the “Gaytors” LOL. Btw, what the hell’s a POAD?
The facts
August 12th, 2010
12:56 pm
30 years later, Buck Belue is still as dumb as stump and as getting by solely on the fact that he had one big pass and was lucky enough to hand it off to Hershel.
observor
August 12th, 2010
1:01 pm
Only a complete LOSER would continuously troll everyday on any UGA related blog for the sole purpose of trying to to provoke and instigate arguments with idiotic and banal insults. What a truly sad and pathetic existence. Wow.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
1:03 pm
Sorry CHODE I just couldn’t drink enough to want to “Date Love” UGA girls to get in UGA. 8 “Reported” acquaintance unwanted love attacks in the last 2 months. Poor Tech students have to be careful in a big city like everybody else or they could get mugged. UGA girls like to underage drink and they have to worry that their classmates will take illegal sexual advantage of them. Girls at UGA need to self apply Chasity belts when they leave their rooms just to be safe in the septic tank of the south.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
1:05 pm
Hammer they made me drop my full name. It is Pi$$ on a Dawg. CUZ on the uga blog started calling me that and so it stuck when the ajc blog police made me drop it. Go figure that Tuck Fech and Mike Litirus are still allowed.
Big Jim
August 12th, 2010
1:08 pm
observor?
Only a complete loser would look any UGA situation and see the “positive”. Even when it’s blatantly
bad. Learn to laugh at yourself, as well as others. Learn that your Dawgs are capable of the same
faults and mistakes as any other kid!
DawginLex
August 12th, 2010
1:09 pm
tide4u2c,
What was that magic formula Bama was using from 1994 to 2007 when you won nothing?
You had what, 4 coaches in 6 years.
Was that a magical time?
2 years of winning and now everything since the beginning of time was magical?
DawginLex
August 12th, 2010
1:11 pm
darrow or vance duly or whatever your name is now,
cut and paste, cut and paste
Use that Tech brain of yours and come up with something original.
G8R GRAD
August 12th, 2010
1:14 pm
athensdawg:
“For all that sizzlin, thats a mighty small steak.”
That’s great!
May I have your permission to hang onto and reuse that phrase?
hammerhead
August 12th, 2010
1:15 pm
Oh, I remember you now, POAD… You’re a complete jackass.
Blackberry Cobbler
August 12th, 2010
1:17 pm
I’m a huge UGA fan. I’m an alum and fan…………………
BUT, 30 years is a LOOOOOOONG time. UGA students of the past 8-10 years weren’t even born when UGA won the NC.
Until UGA once again becomes competitive even within the SEC, UGA fans don’t have much to brag about and I’m about ready for CMR to actually accomplish something with all this talent they recruit or pack up and move on!
Tide4u2c
August 12th, 2010
1:28 pm
DawginLex,
Everybody knows about Bama’s down years but given the circumstances Bama was still competitive which is why Bama still won a SEC chmpionship the same as Auburn yet Auburn was’nt on probation with reduced scholorships and no chance for the NC.What did Georgia do when Bama was down too? They allowed Florida to take over the east and was’nt on probation with reduced scholorships and no chance to play for the crystal and look that all of that depth and talent and yet still excuses.
Big time?? Not
August 12th, 2010
1:36 pm
Four tickets, four hot dogs, four cokes
Lunchtime links: Powell’s expectations | SportsTalk South
August 12th, 2010
1:38 pm
[...] Has it really been 30 years since “Belue to Scott?” A new book looks back on what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tony Barnhart says is the single most significant play in Georgia history. [...]
John Harrison
August 12th, 2010
1:40 pm
I’m glad to see the literary skills of my Mercer classmate recognized.
G8R GRAD
August 12th, 2010
1:42 pm
FYI:
Read on today’s AJC.com:
“The next Tebow?
The similarities are remarkable.
At 6 feet 3 and 225 pounds, Florida freshman quarterback Trey Burton is built like Tim Tebow.
Like Tebow, Burton went to a Florida high school. Burton graduated from Venice. Tebow went to Nease in Ponte Vedra.
Like Tebow, Burton entered Florida early, arriving on campus in January.
Like Tebow, his running skills are his strength. Burton rushed for 123 yards and two TDs on 10 carries in the Gators’ spring game.
Like Tebow, he’s spending his freshman year as a backup.
And like Tebow, Burton has a strong Christian faith.
“I just want to do whatever I possibly can to get this team to [the SEC Championship game],” Burton told the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune. “I don’t care if it is washing people’s shoes or carrying water bottles. I am not really trying to prove anything to anyone. I am just going to go out there and try to make plays.”
An embarrassment of riches.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
1:51 pm
Hammerhead THANKS, I love being remembered. It is all fun and games. See when you thought I was somebody else you actuall saw something you could relate to. It does happen Even DawginLex has found some commom ground on a few issues. It can happen because it if can’t then our government will never work. We can have differing ideas from both side and still find some humor and insight in those differences. I do make some BAD joke but I have to write then to see the responce. What you complain about me saying here about you would laught it it were said about another team. It is all good.
npgator
August 12th, 2010
1:52 pm
Keep the memory of that play alive because it will never happen again. By the way – Buck Belue is the worst announcer in college football.
Lunchtime links: Powell’s expectations | GameDay Weekly
August 12th, 2010
1:57 pm
[...] Has it really been 30 years since “Belue to Scott?” A new book looks back on what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tony Barnhart says is the single most significant play in Georgia history. [...]
POAD
August 12th, 2010
1:57 pm
Tide4u damn that smack across the face of reality hurt. Becareful you might wake the other dawgs from their Richt/Bobo haze. Many Fans want Bobo gone and a few are still on the Richt can’t get us any better so fire attitude. All teams want UGA to keep Bobo and Richt. I was so happy when Miami hired Pat NIX. I hated when they let him go and got don’t squeeze the Charmin Mr Whipple.
David
August 12th, 2010
1:58 pm
It’s that time Dawgs, August.
NC talk for the last 30 years.
Ga leads the nation in August NC’s.
G8R GRAD
August 12th, 2010
1:59 pm
Oh, and also, nota bene:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/94/best-colleges-10_Americas-Best-Colleges_Rank.html
Lunchtime links: Powell’s expectations | Hog Country Online
August 12th, 2010
2:13 pm
[...] Has it really been 30 years since “Belue to Scott?” A new book looks back on what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tony Barnhart says is the single most significant play in Georgia history. [...]
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:14 pm
Tech folks biggest problem….. well, it’s stuck being Tech Folk…….Hasn’t really done anything in Football since 1990 ( And rib us for doing nothing)……Stuck with that ugly campus, stuck in the ACC,
Have watched their school taken over by Indians, Crime out of control on campus, playing a ACC schedule with a bunch of lightweights playing at noon on regional TV. reading the AJC, their home town paper, and the UGA stories are 5 to 1 over Tech…..Have lost 8 of 9 to their hated rival, well, used to be rival, it’s pulling down our strength of schedule…..and you could go on and on…….Living here, peering over the fence, is their joy…………What they would do to come to Athens on a beautiful fall afternoon, a 3:30 nationally televised hyped game, and experience that atmosphere just once……………….Or suck exhaust fumes sitting under some viaduct off north Ave. wearing a yellow wig with 30 nerds……hummmmm….
Call IT
August 12th, 2010
2:25 pm
Hey BJohnDawg,
Gators only live in the present not the past like GA fans since that is all GA fans have is the past.
Over all record who gives a Sh#$? All I know is this year will be the same as the last, another beatdown in Jax.
Florida wins the East and SC will come in second not third.
Enough Said!
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:29 pm
Call IT…………………..ironic…………We can’t live in the past but you have the ability to live in the future…….If you only knew how Dumb that post made you look……
bamafan
August 12th, 2010
2:31 pm
17 of 20 – Yes, Florida has had a remarkable 20 years but never once have they gone undefeated.
And remember, before 1991, Florida was basically irrelevant in football.
Big Al
August 12th, 2010
2:34 pm
Tony could not find anything current to write about? Just saying— besides Belue and his side kick are the most arrogant folks on radio.
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:34 pm
Right Bama fan…….. Dooley had a little farm outside Athens with a pond with a little 3 foot Gator in it…….Named it …” Rented Mule”……….LOL
True Old Gold
August 12th, 2010
2:35 pm
I remember the good old days, sipping toddies at the Piedmont Driving Club and marveling at that “Dodd Luck”. Now, I don’t get out much. I mainly sit on my front porch and marvel at my bug zapper. It is similar to what happens to the Yellow Jackets every season now when they play Georgia.
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:36 pm
But…… I do take my hat off to Spurrier While at Florida……..They were fun to watch….couldn’t stand him…..but respected him…..
POAD
August 12th, 2010
2:36 pm
JB you need to the Athens Banner Herold to see UGA crime. Go to the Athens-Clarke County Sheriff’s site and see how many UGA students get arrested every day. Atlanta is a CITY and Athens is a lil town. 8 UGA girls have been “R” in the last 2 months by other UGA students. Yea I want my daughter to go to UGA without a CHASITY BELT on. Like they said in Animal House-FAT, DRUNK, and STUPID is noway to go through life.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
2:38 pm
JB and now Vince Dooley wears ORANGE panties with Somkey’s B across the butt cheeks.
Fools Old Gold
August 12th, 2010
2:41 pm
Where ya been true ?
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:45 pm
POAD……. Spin Athens anyway you want…..or any College campus with 30,000 students…………There will be crime everywhere, including Mayberry………Your Campus sadly sits in a war zone…… I know where I wouldn’t want my kid, and that’s walking North Ave.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
2:49 pm
Fools old gold: True old gold was in the Masters Program this summer. Athens-Clarke County Jail just GRADUATED him with a MBA in DRUNK & STUPID. He was the Salutatorian. Well, how could he beat Damon Evans for the Valedictorian?
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:51 pm
Poad, Derek is his Son, What was ya’ll’s pride and joy Bill Curry’s Excuse for bailing on his Alma Mater. Humm……..I’ll leave this place the first chance I get…….And he did………
POAD
August 12th, 2010
2:52 pm
JB you kid wouldn’t get money for a Varsity dog and a PC walking North Ave. Now, he could go closer to Piedmont Park and bet he could afford a stake and a beer with some free crack on the slide.
Tide4u2c
August 12th, 2010
2:52 pm
POAD,
Sorry for the reality check but why was it the Florida Gators that arose in the east to the top of the SEC?Would’nt you have rathered it had been Georgia instead?, I would’ve SHH!.If Bama can’t do well and it won’t effect Bama I usually pull for the Bulldogs mainly because ya’ll can’t stand Auburn and Tennessee too.I remember going through Bama’s down years and thinking well if Bama can’t be on top for now why can’t Georgia and yet it was Florida? Florida? I mean they use to be easy to beat Bama did it twice in 99 by the way to win the SEC championship.
Greg
August 12th, 2010
2:53 pm
The Tech angle is a little over-hyped since Georgia beat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.
UGAY in the Papa Johns Bowl
August 12th, 2010
2:55 pm
hahaha…this is too funny
POAD
August 12th, 2010
2:55 pm
Tide4u POAD stands for Pi$$ on a Dawg. I don’t want UGA to do a damn thing. Now that you know I dislike the dawgs read my post to you again and you will get it better.
JB
August 12th, 2010
2:55 pm
Hell POAD, I’ll answer it for you……Curry Said to himself, ” I’ll never be able to win here.Bobby Dodd is long gone, and we can’t sell tickets, recruit, or hardly make a showing………….Hell, Fulcher, Pepper couldn’t do it, I’ll let them hire Bill Lewis, A Georgia guy, yea, that’s the ticket……
POAD
August 12th, 2010
2:59 pm
GREG with Notre Dame undefeated they would not have played UGA. UGA was not that respected. Penn St. Oklahoma and Pitt were more respected. They all had loses but better/harder schedules.
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
3:00 pm
I still remember that play. I was a kid and wasn’t a UGA or UF fan but I watched that game just cause it was a great game. And it was the first game that truly taught me that it aint really over till its over. Anything can happen.
People can say the Belue to Lindsay play was just pure luck. Maybe so. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another play like that where both safetys completely overrun the play. But ya know what. It counts. And for that matter if you go back and look at the last 30 national champions you would be extremely hard pressed to find any champion that didn’t have a close call, a little good fortune, or some just dumb luck to win a game.
That play should go down as one of the alltime greatest plays ever by any team and certainly for the dawgs because that one play was so instrumental in the 1980 drive for the title. Not to mention that later listening to Munson’s replay of “run Lindsey run” gives you a real feel for the play.
When I think about past Bama glory I still think about the goal line stand against Penn State in 79, the George Teague theft of Lamar Thomas in the 92 title game, Nothing wrong with the dawg fans reminiscing about the play and the dawgs fans should always relish,enjoy it, and be proud of it and the 1980 season in particular.
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:00 pm
POAD, Why is an elitist Tech guy like yourself trolling with Georgia Trash in the Middle of the day on a UGA story….Unemployed? Thought you guys were highly educated and successful and you’re getting flea’s lying with Dawgs
POAD
August 12th, 2010
3:02 pm
JB now you are just making things up. Bill never said anything close to that, but Dooley did say that his player were going to class and making the grades. Dooley just didn’t say a 4th grader could pass those classes without a tutor.
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:04 pm
POAD…ya think……90 % of the stuff on this blog is made up……maybe 95% for me….LOL
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:07 pm
POAD, I will give you Tech guys your due…..Your hate is like Islamic Terrorist, you’re committed to it.
Never seen anything like it.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
3:07 pm
RISING TIDE: TEAGUE “RAPED” the Miami player on National TV with everybody watching for a National Championship on the 100th year of SEC football. That would be like having a video of Bill and Monica playing behind Bill when he ran his mouth. I really felt bad for the Miami player for about 5 seconds.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
3:10 pm
JB I run a small business and I crushed a few fingers a few month back. I don’t go on jobs as much right now. the Doc. says the typing is goo therapy for my fingers. It is helping my fingers but not my spelliing.
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
3:11 pm
POAD,
Teague ‘raped’ the Miami player? I have to admit I laughed out loud when I read that. Teague went to my high school (Jeff Davis in Montgomery) so that play was super extra special for me. Also, now that I know what POAD means I’m surprised that you didn’t make it SOAD given your disdain for all things UGA.
CaptainDave
August 12th, 2010
3:14 pm
I wonder if the book includes the perspective of someone speaking for the late Jan Kemp? The perspective that “student” athletes like Lindsay Scott were playing years without taking college level courses? That the “proudest” moment of the football program was earned by players that never earned a single college credit?
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
3:19 pm
CaptainDave,
That seems like a pretty serious charge. Where to you get your info that Lindsay Scott wasn’t taking college level courses or that he never earned a single college credit? You can’t really believe the guy went to UGA for 4 years and never earned a college credit? That sounds a little over the top to say the least.
CaptainDave
August 12th, 2010
3:27 pm
You must not remember the Jan Kemp story. I did not say players went there for four years without earning a college credit. It was well documented, however, that some played two full seasons without taking a single college level course. Look it up.
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:28 pm
Sorry to hear that POAD……
POAD
August 12th, 2010
3:31 pm
Rising I have an Ex Bro-in-law UGA grad his daughter/my neice is a dawg fan that goes to TECH Volleyball camp. I don’t hate all things UGA. I hate that most not all of my friends that call themselves DAWG FANS have never gone to a game or have ever sat in a UGA classroom. NOW, they all have a UGA MBA in drinking and acting the BUTT but that is all. 2 great friends are longtime Bama fans. They never went to UGA but like me one of their dads is a grad and they piggyback on him to get Bama season tickets since 88. My Step dad is a 60 GT grad and we go to the games. I have been going since 74 so I am no sidewalk fan. I went to Pepper Rogers Football camp too. Some Dawgs give me crap for my North Georgia College and Kennesaw State degrees, but I know I have been to more TECH games in 2 years than most of them have actually had their butts in a seat for a DAWG GAME in their lives. From 74 to 89 I went to GT v UGA games in Athens and all the home GT v UGA games. Hell I went to A Bama v UGA game when E Zeire came in the game and won the starting position after that loss. I went to UGA games when my friends were at UGA. I don’t hate all things DAWG just many of them.
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:37 pm
Trash talk Captain Dave is all that is……..You’re a Tech guy I’m guessing and you and your ilk will throw anything against the wall about UGA to see if it sticks. We are not without sin, and neither is Tech…….We hear a lot of the Football players are farmed out to Atlanta University, Clark and Morris Brown for Core classes….Is that true….I don’t know….. I hear it……..But the University of Georgia has a ton of smart students who will graduate and do very well……….and a lot of very successful alumni.
Tech students are taught from day one to HATE anything UGA…….And mostly academic type lies.
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
3:43 pm
CaptainDave,
Interesting. I don’t see how that can happen but I guess its probably true. I read the Jan Kemp thing and I do remember reading that some players were graduating who were functionally illiterate and that was one of the things she was upset about so I guess what you’re saying could very well be true. I’m certainly not saying you’re lying by any means. AU and Okay State also had some players graduate who were functionally illiterate- Dexter Manley at OSU and I can’t remember the AU player except that it was an rb I think. Anyway, seems that kind of craziness was going on at a few schools back in the 80s.
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:50 pm
Tide, And you think it’s never happen at Bama……….??????
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
3:51 pm
JB,
I gotta feeling that kinda stuff was going on at a lot of different places in the 70s and 80s and still occurs today at some b-ball programs from what I understand. Today much harder to graduate guys not doing the actual classwork. Much more oversight. I know at UGA they have professors report when players miss a class. Same thing at Bama and Saban recently dismissed a former 4 star safety competing for the other starting safety spot- reason was either behavioral or academic and the word from Bama is that he wasn’t doing his classroom work so Saban asked him to move on.
The most recent academic abuse that I’ve seen was at UT when professors gave passing grades to 21 players to keep them eligible for the title game in 98 and then changed their grades back to failing grades after the bowl game. The NCAA looked into it but determined that the NCAA has no authority to go into a classroom and tell a professor what grade a student deserves or how he should be graded which makes sense. Other than that I’ve not seen any massive academic shenanigans by anynone.
JB
August 12th, 2010
3:53 pm
Oh , and by the way, The last school in Georgia to go on NCAA probation for academic problems would be our own little sweethearts at Georgia Tech…………..Look it up…..only been 3 years or so ago……Yes, probation……as in lost Scholarships……..How bout it Capt. Dave ?
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
3:55 pm
JB,
As we all know no one is without sin including Bama obviously. Our problems haven’t been with preferential grading towards football players. Its been more trying to keep the boosters out of the program, keeping agents away from players-Antonio Langham and Andre Smith and now Dareus. But would it surprise me if there has been historical easy grading in the past to help out players? Nope. Not at all.
JB
August 12th, 2010
4:00 pm
Tide, I have a feeling if the NCAA knew it all, it would shut down college ball…..and they may know….
It’s a multi Billion dollar business and also part of the American Feel good treasuries we have left.
JB
August 12th, 2010
4:03 pm
Boy, mention Tech, NCAA and probation, it’ll clear a room,……..LOL
JB
August 12th, 2010
4:06 pm
Crickets
Lindsey
August 12th, 2010
4:08 pm
Thanks for the article Tony, I just placed my order!! My Mom was pregnant with me in October 1980, my Dad loves to tell this story about how there were sitting in the top corner of the stadium and the magic happened. He said how everyone went crazy, his new gold watch he got for graduation flew off and all the UGA fans were rubbing my Mom’s belly…4 months later they named me Lindsey!
POAD
August 12th, 2010
4:12 pm
JB it was not intentional cheating. The Compliance officer did a bad job by not getting the players to take enough qualiflying classes towards graduation during the football season. He thought the players could take more class hours in other semesters and stay elidgable. They were wrong and lost their job. The TECH player were not taking “Learning to read and evaulate DICK & JANE Watch Spot Run” like UGA players.
Riga
August 12th, 2010
4:13 pm
Since dawgtards seem to love living in the past, how about remembering the Jan Kemp trial, which exposed UGA and Vince Dooley for the jokes that they were. My favorite quote from the trial was this one:
O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
The best thing about the trial was that it completely killed Vince Dooley’s shot at Congress, since he was exposed as a fraud and a cheat during the trial. Make no mistake – Dooley knew everything that was going on.
Nothing has changed in the almost three decades since the trial. If anything, the abuses are even worse. Exhibit #1: Jim Harrick and son.
Today the players are even more illiterate and felonious and, well, just plain stupid, as evidenced by their arrest records and record number of penalties. Even Vince Dooley couldn’t have controlled this mob, much less Mark Richt. And now even the AD is a drunk debaucherer.
There’s a reason why UGA is known as The Cesspool of the South.
Beast from the East
August 12th, 2010
4:14 pm
I remember that game like it was yesterday. I was 13 years old and I just about came unglued when our DB fell down and Lindsay was off to the races. Oh well, can’t win ‘em all. Enjoy the memory, Dagws. It’s one of the biggest plays in the history of college football and probably the biggest for UGA.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
4:16 pm
Lindsey not being mean, but are you a boy or girl. The name works for both. I played football with Lindsey Marshall at NYO at Chastain Park in the 70’s. I do say the rubbing the belly by strangers is still a lil creapy. There were a few UGA football players back about a year or 2 that got in trouble a lil for doing that to a girl in the dorms.
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
4:17 pm
JB,
You may well be right that maybe they would shut down everything. I don’t remember the specifics of the Tech case except that it was unintentional. I think what happened was that an academic advisor made a mistake and thought a course counted toward credits and it didn’t or something like that. Not sure except that it was just a mistake and I thought they hammered Tech a little hard for what was just a mistake.
Beast from the East
August 12th, 2010
4:18 pm
POAD and Riga,
Those type of things went on at most universities that fielded a decent football team back then. I cannot say all or even which ones, but back then the mindest was basically “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying”. UF had some serious issues in the 80’s, as well. It took the hiring of Spurrier to get the program cleaned up and competetive. Remember the old saying….let he without sin cast the first stone. There will be no stone throwing from this Gator.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
4:24 pm
BEAST the “IF you ain’t cheat’n. You ain’t try’n” phrase is still ver much alive today. Look at Ga schools, Politics, NASCAR, Drugs in SPORTS, amd Marriages. HAHAHAHA. I love me some deer hunt’n widows when I don’t travel to the away Tech games. This year I may have to pass on those ladies at the bar. I think I am going to go to Ga. State games when Tech is on the road.
Tide Rising
August 12th, 2010
4:24 pm
Beast,
“If you aint cheatin ya aint trying”- A great friend of mine an AU fan greets me with that saying every time he sees me in reference to our recent NCAA troubles. Its become somewhat of a running joke between us.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
4:28 pm
Back to some FOOTBALL in this year. Do you think the SEC refs will call the “Horse collar” Tackle more this year? The SEC seem to let it go a lot last year. It is not a judgement call, but SEC refs seemed to make it one. Like if you tackled the guy, but didn’t drag the runner down backwards it was ok.
AGTfan
August 12th, 2010
4:30 pm
I don’t understand the need of some Tech Fans and FLA fans to rain on UGAs parade about this book. It was one of the most electrifying moments in college football history. Larry Munson’s call of the play was incredible. I’ve spent most of my life (good naturedly) hating the DAWGs, but when I hear that call replayed, I still get chills. Good story Tony. Sounds like a good book.
POAD
August 12th, 2010
4:30 pm
Rising do you know Bo and Otis in Duluth?
Beast from the East
August 12th, 2010
4:31 pm
POAD,
I think it was ok to grab the collar, but not bring the player down by the collar. At least that was my understanding.
Too many rules. I mean, IT’S FOOTBALL!!!!!!
POAD
August 12th, 2010
4:36 pm
I have the old WAX Single of Run Hershel Run song they made back then. I think that is the name of the song. It is somewhere in my VINYL ALBUM Collection. For you kids: an ALBUM is what music used to come on. You played it on a turn table with a needle. It was not a CD you play on your computer or a file you download on an Ipod. It had linernotes and great artwork or photos that came with the ALBUM.
Salparadise
August 12th, 2010
4:54 pm
Did the dogs wear their cute little black jerseys?
POAD
August 12th, 2010
5:04 pm
Salparadise they were in their white jock straps with red panties in their laps and it was up to the other team to bring the any color HELMETS.
DAWGSRule
August 12th, 2010
5:19 pm
Great article but an Auburn Fan in my office constantly reminds me that we likely were the weakest National Champion ever. I argue he’s insane but he mentions we only beat two teams that finished with winning records (UF finished 8-4; South Carolina finished 7-5) up to the Bowl game against ND that only lost once. But the War Eagle argues that ND couldn’t have been nearly as good as the record since they did tie a team that did not win a single game all year. Georgia Tech (he argues) finished 0-10-1 that year. Someone please give me some firepower to retort this reasoning. He also brings up how weak of a QB Belue was and said he finished 1 for 11 passes in the NC game and without one player we would have lost multiple games (UT, UF, ND, etc.). He states that Walker was simply the second best collegian ever behind Jackson! LOL I know that is a myth and have given data to back this idiotic assertion but the weakest Champion ever based on schedule strength is more difficult. I need help UGA statisticians!!!
POAD
August 12th, 2010
5:29 pm
Dawgsrule you can’t be a DAWG for sure. ND would have played a team with a loss or UGA if ND had not tied TECH. ND would have played I think it was PITT, PENN ST or OKLAHOMA. UGA didn’t have a schedule for crap. Like this Year UGA could go 12-0 and play in the SECCG, but they play a joke schedule. 78-74 is the record of the teams UGA plays this year. UGA’s OOC teames were 21-28 and Tech had 11 of those wins. 1980=2010? So easy even Bobo could get a title with the lil option qb Belue running the show.
A. N. Flash
August 12th, 2010
5:32 pm
It was 30 years ago I had sex with my ex-wife. Still a nightmare.
Techwreck
August 12th, 2010
5:47 pm
POAD….You have no class….in fact your an a$$hole…You show your stupidity everytime you post…you’re an embarressment to Tech fans everywhere. …I laugh when you try to justify your comments as being “all in fun”. I’ll bet you never even went to Tech…there’s no way you could have gotten in school there….no way.I’ll bet your a college drop out living somewhere around Warner Robins and most likely can’t hold onto a job longer than a year because people can’t stand to be around your pompous a$$. You spout your bullsh_t on this blog like your an authority on college football…but everyone on here knows you wouldn’t know a 4-3 defense from a 3-4 defense.Even your blog name shows everyone what an inmature little boy you are. If your married I feel sorry for your wife…but then again anyone that marries you is most likely dumb as a rock and uglier than a bowling shoe.Go play with your GI Joes and pick your nose in the corner…isn’t that what little boys like you do?
1eyedJack
August 12th, 2010
6:00 pm
POAD – “I don’t hate all things UGA. I hate that most not all of my friends that call themselves DAWG FANS have never gone to a game or have ever sat in a UGA classroom.”
You are an elitist my friend. What you are saying is that the millions or so Georgia citizens who never attended college have no right to be a fan of the team of their choice?
We’ll my friend, I never had the privelege of sitting in a UGA classroom, not because I didn’t want to (I have the acceptance letter to prove it) but because of finances. However, I was a Dawgs fan before I ever started elementary school and though I attended a local college I was in New Orleans on January 1, 1981 (foolishly expecting to be able to buy a ticket). And I have been to a game and hope to go to more in the future (ya’ll got any tickets still available for the 2011 GA-GT game?).
Delbert D.
August 12th, 2010
7:56 pm
Jack – North Georgia and Kennesaw State are 2 of the eight universities I did time in. And you thought you were a vagabond, wink, nod.
For the record, I actually did sit in a University of Georgia classroom. That’s where I took the SAT.
Yellow Fuzz
August 12th, 2010
7:57 pm
Who was better, Lindale Scott, Hershal Walker or Nosean Mariano?
Cojones
August 12th, 2010
8:15 pm
Thank you for the article and it is 180 from the one Buck Belue wrote yesterday. He took a low-class swipe at the author (would’nt name him) and ranted on that his (Buck’s) planned book had been circumvented. I wrote that he could still publish his own thoughts and experiences and wondered why he hadn’t in 30 yrs.. I also wrote that he could title his book “Aholes I have known ” if he thought that he had been wronged. Buck didn’t post my message.
Thanks for telling us about the author in order that we find out he is a nice guy and Buck is less. I don’t like my heros denigrating others just because his name and Scott’s were used in the title. I wrote to him that I thought that a public game with names published in articles and ensuing stories through the years was public domain. I also shared that I was putting a tome together , but had only myself and my big mouth to blame if anyone published my story before me, but then again, they couldn’t put the perspective in my story that will only come from me. These words didn’t hearten Buck since he didn’t ameliorate any words he thought might offend. Please feel free to do so with these words. Just trying rto share a little perspective.
Tech man
August 12th, 2010
8:24 pm
Good one Yellow Fuzz.
G8TR
August 12th, 2010
9:50 pm
If this isn’t a coloring book, I don’t know how any UGA grads are going to be able to read it.
Winnie
August 12th, 2010
9:56 pm
I wonder if the book includes the perspective of someone speaking for the late Jan Kemp? The perspective that “student” athletes like Lindsay Scott were playing years without taking college level courses? That the “proudest” moment of the football program was earned by players that never earned a single college credit?
That’s a damned good point, and thanks for making it. Dawgtards love to return to 1980, but they their memories are really short when it comes to remembering an earthshaking event that happened a few years later that showed the world what a joke UGA athletes were and what a scam artist their beloved Vince Dooley was (and is). So for all those dawgtards with short memories or who think their athletes are actually taking real courses and trying to graduate, here’s the quote that broke the trial wide open and showed what a sleezebag Dooley is:
O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Nothing has changed at UGA, they just do a slightly better job of keeping things quiet, but that’s hard to do when 42 of your player-thugs have been arrested, isn’t it?
THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH.
Trent
August 12th, 2010
9:58 pm
I wondered where the postal service found all those dummies.
Pure Luck
August 12th, 2010
10:03 pm
That was probably the luckiest play I’ve ever seen in a big time sporting event. 93 yards on a fluke play, when 3/4 of the florida D either fell down or was out of position. A true miracle that gave uga the title. They weren’t the best team that year but got lucky.
Cheaters
August 12th, 2010
10:06 pm
Florida and Georgia both cheated in the 1980s. Florida got caught, Georgia got their cheating covered up by dooley and the uga president with connections.
Old Gold
August 12th, 2010
10:19 pm
Dang its been a long time….RED PANTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KimZ'sPackage
August 12th, 2010
10:58 pm
HAHAHHA football is fun.
KimZ'sPackage
August 12th, 2010
10:59 pm
1eyedjack are you a majyla? jack or dale?
Cletus Dooley Earnhardt SR.
August 12th, 2010
11:31 pm
that was thee bestest day of cletusesss liyfe. I was 4 yeers old. I had jus dusted off a 6-packer of pats blew ribbon. mY mother (who is now my sisster in law), was selebrating thee elecction of the greatt paytriot Ronnyald Wilzon Raygan withh a 5th off jack danneils. and we selbrated the ONLY negro thaat we actually likke Mr lindsay Scoot. I wiish we coold go backk to the days whenn neegros just knnew there placess insteed of tryying to steel my wealth@! Anyhooo Buckk if youur out theree I love you more than jEsus
-GO UGA!
Chuck Uga
August 13th, 2010
12:32 am
Alex:
Take this to the bank. Georgia wins in Jacksonville this October. Book it. Then you can get your bloomers all wadded up because that will give us three wins the past seven, and that is pretty good considering you had Tebow AND two national titles during that span. Things are beginning to even out, and the best part of it is how it upsets all you Gators!
Chuck Uga
August 13th, 2010
12:36 am
Hey Pure Luck, things even out. UGA was not the best team in 1980, but certainly was the best team in 1982 when they blew it against Penn State. Had Walker returned in 1983, UGA would have had the best team in their history other than the ‘42 team. But Dooley forgot to recruit running backs to replace Herschel, and they could not overcome a solid (but not great) Auburn team. UGA with Walker in 1983 would have won the national title after Miami upset Nebraska and UGA easily won the Sugar Bowl over (I believe) a mediocre Michigan team that Auburn beat up.
Chuck Uga
August 13th, 2010
12:44 am
Riga,
You are a moron and probably an Obama suck-up who is a societal loser and cannot stand anyone who has been successful. Your eronious and ignorant post has made all of us dumber for having read it. The worst part of it is the fact that UGA has the SECOND most successful academic record in the SEC with their football program (along with Ole Miss) behind Vandy. Never mind the truth or the facts, just post your liberal version of diarrhea of the mouth.
mark
August 13th, 2010
3:00 am
ahhh…1980 when Pittsburgh was the best team in the country..when Dan Moreno was a backup quaterback…
PAT
August 13th, 2010
7:14 am
Mr. College Football. Don’t care that you seem to be a Georgia fan, but are you going to en acknowledge that there is something new on the college football scene? When will you write something abvout what you might expect out of Ga. State football this year. Obviously Alabama is a mismatch, but can you predict anything for the rest of the season?
Eulogy for Dawgtards
August 13th, 2010
7:32 am
You Dawg fans who keep repeating “30-24″ like a mantra enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.
UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.
Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is practically worthless.
Jan Kemp exposed the crap going on at UGA with athletes being enrolled in courses a ten-year-old kid could pass. That was almost three decades ago, and nothing has changed. If anything, the abuses are more blatant today. Way too many illiterate morons are being recruited, and the very high arrest rate shows clearly that Richt does not care if his players have any morals or self-discipline.
The bottom line is that most Tech fans have very good jobs and productive lives that don’t depend on Tech’s football record for their happiness in life. It would be great to beat UGA more often, but when you put scholar-athletes up against dummy-athletes, it’s usually no contest.
It’s pretty pathetic to see UGA fans who typically have never been within miles of a college classroom and who live or die with UGA’s weekly results on the football field.
So keep on posting your “30-24″ all you want, especially since you’re home with plenty of time on your hands. I wish you well, maybe you’ll get lucky and get your old job back at the Waffle House before your unemployment checks stop coming.
But golly, I’m envious of those red panties you guys wear!
ugablows
August 13th, 2010
8:12 am
F#ck uga…..worst fans in the world
ugablows
August 13th, 2010
8:13 am
if you can’t stop ‘em then hurt ‘em isn’t that your defensive philosophy? that’s the ONLY reason 30-24 happened…..cheaters- go F yourselves
Delbert D.
August 13th, 2010
8:42 am
“Dan Moreno?” Well, it was a 4 a.m. post.
zeeeee Nachos aka the "Living Legend"
August 13th, 2010
11:16 am
can someone please list the National Championships UGAg has won from 1981 – 2009?
Deeeeeyop
Airheadmotorcycle
August 13th, 2010
11:06 pm
Wow! Has it really been 30 years. I feel old. As a Gator I remember how bad it felt. That would have been my senior year if I would have graduated in 4 years, which I certainly did not! For me however, the ‘85 loss to Georgia hurt a lot more. We went in #1 and got our butts whipped. Boy how times have changed. It’s so nice knowing that the Georgia game is almost an auto-win every year.
30 years
August 14th, 2010
10:56 pm
30 years of failure and disappointment. Florida has 3 titles since then, Tech has 1. Ga–no longer relevant on the national scene. But, Richt is nice and he’s a preacher, so he keeps his job.
Fluke Title
August 15th, 2010
11:21 am
The belue to scott miracle—one of the luckiest plays in football history. Ga’s title is not deserved since they should have lost that game to a mediocre florida team.
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10:46 pm
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Chill Dogg
August 25th, 2010
10:20 pm
Let’s get real here. In 1980, UGA didn’t play the other top SEC teams in 1980, 2-time defending NC Alabama, and LSU. The teams on UGA’s schedule averaged about 38% wins, which is slightly better than 4-7. One sports website judged UGA to have had the weakest schedule of any national champion in the past 40 years. Even then, they had to pull out several games by the skin of their teeth. Yeah, Hershel was great and the defense was solid, but you have to get a bit of luck to win a NC; it’s just that it usually doesn’t last a whole season.
Well, at least the minority of Georgia fans who can remember back that far (those old enough who weren’t drunk at every game) and enjoy the fading memories. And they can still dream of winning it all agains some day, if they live long enough.
Chill Dogg
August 25th, 2010
10:22 pm
The 2nd paragraph should read:
Well, at least the minority of Georgia fans who can remember back that far (those old enough who weren’t drunk at every game) can enjoy the fading memories. And they can still dream of winning it all again some day – if they live that long.
(It’s late and I’m tired.)