Happy Hour: Missing ‘Run, Lindsay’ and fantasy opponents
A couple of quick hits before everyone hits the road for home …
UGA kicking great Rex Robinson has moved and revamped his blog, changing the name from Dawg-Leg Write to Roughing the Kicker. He has a great story about how despite being on the sideline he missed the end of Lindsay Scott’s famous touchdown play against the Gators in 1980:
“As the play began, I could see the ball in the air, Lindsay caught it and turned up field. …I thought, ‘He’s going to get in field goal range, I have to get my tee!’ So as I turned to go get it, everyone else was jumping up and down cheering, but I had my back turned and missed it.”
ESPN.com’s Chris Low writes about his fantasy nonconference regular-season matchups for SEC teams. He’d like to see Georgia playing Ohio State again:
“These two ultra-successful, football-crazy schools were born to play each other. Yet, they’ve only met one time. The Bulldogs prevailed 21-14 in the 1993 Citrus Bowl. Granted, when Ohio State has seen an SEC team coming lately, it hasn’t been pretty.”
I’d enjoy that matchup. Or Michigan. Or, especially, Texas.
But as Mark Richt would remind: Just so we don’t get another BCS school besides Tech in the same season.
Who’s your fantasy nonconference regular-season opponent for the Dogs?
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28 comments Add your comment
Hunk Erdown
June 11th, 2009
4:21 pm
USC
I think OSU has been one of the most over-rated, over-hyped teams in history. At least the last several years.
K-Town Dawg
June 11th, 2009
4:42 pm
After their recent beatings, I am suprised Ohio State still plays football. HAHAHAHA!
GeoffDawg
June 11th, 2009
4:43 pm
Pretty much any school which gets far too much credit in the national press. Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State come to mind.
uga_b
June 11th, 2009
4:51 pm
USC would be fun to see, but if it’s an away game that stadium stinks. I like OU, Texas, OSU, and Michigan. I think Miami would have been a good game a few years ago. Pretty much everyone else in all the remaining conferences are average or we play them (Clemson, Tech). Oregon’s stadium is supposed to be a great venue too.
Dink
June 11th, 2009
5:09 pm
Some games with the Longhorns would be great.
Bill, What time is it in Texas?
Otto
June 11th, 2009
5:56 pm
I don’t want to see USC unless it is a BCS title game. USC has not gained favor in the rankings since falling to Texas and I see no reason to give them the chance. USC has scheduled creampuffs thru 2013 anyways.
The next USC open date is 2014 and who is to say UGA (or any other SEC team) isn’t in a rebuilding year by that time. The pollsters are not rewarding their easy schedule as they should.
I would love to see Michigan or Texas. Texas in the New Orleans Superdome for the Chik Fil A kick off would be great more money, take some LSU/Texas recruits, and as an added bonus VT or Clemson and Bama aren’t getting more exposure with Georgia recruits.
Jackson
June 11th, 2009
6:19 pm
I would love to see a matchup with Nebraska…. Lincoln is a great college atmosphere that is reminiscent to me of Athens. (After all, Lincoln becomes the biggest city in the state on game day). Other revenge matchups I would like to see would included Marino-less Pittsburgh, Penn State, (would agree on a cotton bowl rematch with Texas), and I would love to see some service academy matchups. Down south we really love the military and I think the fan base would actually love having the cadets of West Point down south. I think that would be a rocking atmoshere… you would have a great draw of fans from Ft Jackson, Benning, Gordon, and Stewart… how cool would that be?
Knox Culpepper would hit you
June 11th, 2009
6:29 pm
Has UGA ever beaten Boston College or West Virginia..?? I would love to avenge those 2 loses…..
Jackson
June 11th, 2009
6:41 pm
good call… BC and UWV would be great rematches
Ringleader
June 11th, 2009
7:18 pm
Dink, I think Bill did not hear you.
It will always be 10 to 9 in Texas
I was there, it got up to 28 degrees that day, what a game.
superDawg
June 11th, 2009
7:24 pm
tin fo
Jon P
June 11th, 2009
7:52 pm
Any games against some traditional football powers would be great:
Notre Dame, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, Miami, Florida State, USC and Nebraska
I also like the idea of the “revenge” games against Boston College and West Virginia too!
Knox Culpepper would hit you
June 11th, 2009
8:56 pm
Ringleader…..I don’t know any Longhorn fans personally…but I’m thinking they cried that day…Lastinger on a sweep..we broke their hearts that Jan 1st….we gave Texas their only loss that year….good memory dude
GT.....Seriously, WTF????
June 11th, 2009
9:50 pm
Texas, Oklahoma, or one of the punk a$$ big 10 schools.
Herschel Talker
June 11th, 2009
9:55 pm
How I wait for the day when we don’t have to talk about 1980 ever again.
Mikey
June 11th, 2009
10:10 pm
How about Charleston Southern ?
Maybe Troy?
Just jerking with the crocs….trying to lighten the mood…they are getting some un love from “the worldwide leader” for their 24 arrests since 2005….
Go Gator?
Bill King
June 11th, 2009
10:47 pm
It’s still 10 to 9 in Texas!
Billy Bennett's Right Leg
June 12th, 2009
12:04 am
I look at it from a stadium standpoint. I love going to see other school’s stadiums, and I have been to (non-SEC) OSU, Washington, UCLA, Duke(he he he…most highschool football stadiums are bigger!), TCU, SMU, Arizona State and Michigan’s, will hit Wisconsin in July, and hope to hit Oklahoma State this year. I would love to see a game in Notre Dame, Michigan, OSU, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, etc. Just to experience them, not as much as the matchup.
If it were just matchup, I’d rather have many of those teams on nuetral sites.
kissell
June 12th, 2009
7:15 am
I wanna see em play the Brooklyn Dodgers. You think a guy could pitch like Van Lingo Mungo NOW?? They got BUMS now.
Cuz
June 12th, 2009
8:21 am
East Pennslyvannia State Fighting Amish. We could party like it’s 1899.
UGA
June 12th, 2009
8:40 am
I would like to see a game with UNC, Miami, ECU, VT, USF, BC or WV on the east coast, so traveling wouldn’t be such a concern. But I would go with a Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas, Cal, Washington, OSU or go get the Zooker in Illinois so we get some revenge.
UGA
June 12th, 2009
8:43 am
I would also love to go to Happy Valley to play PSU, pay back for ‘83.
Saint Simons
June 12th, 2009
9:09 am
UGA love those cupcakes!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahhaahhahaahhaha
RxDawg
June 12th, 2009
11:20 am
USC’s stadium stinks?? It’s the rose bowl! It’s gorgous over there. Now their campus is kinda shady. They are in the middle of a not-so-great part of LA. But the Rose Bowl is up in Passadena(sp?) and it’s one of the prettiest stadiums in the country.
Ben
June 12th, 2009
12:05 pm
I’d like to see us play Nebraska. They’ll have a better program in a couple of years….
Saint Simons
June 12th, 2009
1:20 pm
over 400 yards rushing!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaha
Cuz
June 12th, 2009
2:47 pm
RxDawg, maybe uga_b meant the chickencoop at the fairgrounds in Columbia.
olddawg
June 12th, 2009
3:59 pm
RxDawgf, USC plays in the LA Coliseum, not the Rose Bowl. UCLA plays home games at the Rose Bowl and I would love to see the Red & Black on that field!