UGA’s Jacksonville pinnacle: ‘That was something, wasn’t it?’
Lindsay Scott races to glory against Florida in 1980. (AJC file)
It’s Georgia-Florida week, which for Dogs fans unfortunately means having to put up with constant reminders that the Gators have dominated the series in recent years.
It wasn’t always that way. During the Vince Dooley era, it was UGA that was dominant in the annual Jacksonville fixture, which yielded many fond memories for Georgia fans — none fonder than the game played on Nov. 8, 1980, that catapulted the Dogs into the No. 1 spot in the polls that they would not relinquish the rest of that football season.
The film clip of the famed Buck Belue-to-Lindsay Scott desperation pass that won the game has been shown so many times over the years that most fans can visualize each second in their minds, complete with the memorable Larry Munson call of the play.
”Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott! Lindsay Scott!” indeed.
Now, however, thanks to filmmaker Lenny Daniel, a fellow graduate of UGA’s Grady College, fans can experience that game — and the entire 1980 season — through the eyes of more than two dozen of those playing and coaching for the national championship Bulldogs.
And in connection with the renewal of the Dogs-Gators rivalry, the producers of “1980 Dawgs: The Inside Story of the National Championship Season” have released an excerpt from the Florida game chapter of the DVD release.
Watching the interview segments and game footage puts you back in the old Gator Bowl on that fateful day, with the participants offering detailed reminiscences of the game then known as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Defensive guard Tim Crowe remembers the crowd noise and that the first thing the players smelled when they came out of the locker room was liquor.
Despite coming off a tough game the previous week against South Carolina and soon-to-be Heisman winner George Rogers, Georgia got off to a fast start, with eventual Heisman winner Herschel Walker scoring on one of his patented long runs less than two minutes into the game. The Dogs led 14-10 at halftime but Florida was ahead 21-20 in the fourth quarter thanks to the trouble the Georgia defense had with what rover Chris Welton recalls as offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan’s “cutting edge” short-passing attack with four wideouts, which the Dogs hadn’t seen before. Florida receiver Tyrone Young was practically unstoppable, the old Dogs recall.
Finally, though, when Georgia absolutely had to have a stop to get the ball back, Erk Russell’s defense rose to the occasion, as it did so many times that season, and forced Florida to punt. But the Dogs were backed up deep in their own territory and with just over a minute left it was third-and 12 at Georgia’s own 8-yard line.
The Dogs stuck with their I-formation play-action attack because, defensive end Robert Miles says, “That was our game.” Though Belue notes wryly, “I’m not sure what the play action was about. Florida knew we had to throw the ball.”
It didn’t look good. On the Georgia sideline, Welton and Russell were already talking about what the defense would have to do to get the ball back. Dooley noted that some of the Florida players were already starting to celebrate. But, center Hugh Nall says, “I knew somehow … we were going to win.”
Belue scrambled into the end zone and nearly got sacked, but the unsung hero of the play, right tackle Nat Hudson, peeled off his initial block just in time to deflect a blitzing Gator and allow Belue to find Scott open over the middle.
The plan was just to get a first down and then hopefully get into field goal range so that ever-reliable placekicker Rex Robinson would have a chance to win yet another one for the Dogs. When Scott made the catch, Welton told Russell he was going to get a first down. “Hell no,” Erk said, grabbing Welton in a bear hug and lifting him off the ground, “he’s gonna score!”
Sure enough, Scott turned upfield and hit an “alley” in the Florida coverage and turned on the afterburners. On the sideline, Dooley and other coaches and players, including the injured Nall in a leg cast, raced along with him, mobbing him in the end zone after he scored. The field was pandemonium but Russell summed up the improbable 92-yard play in his inimitable style by saying simply, “That was something, wasn’t it?”
There is, of course, much more on Daniel’s two-DVD set, which runs more than four hours and differs from the 78-minute documentary “1980! UGA National Championship Year Revisited” released on VHS in 1990 in more than just running time. Where the previous film, never issued on DVD, concentrated mostly on game footage supplemented by a few interviews, the new release focuses on the first-hand memories of the players, coaches, sideline reporter Loran Smith and even training assistant (and future TV meteorologist) David Chandley, sportscaster Bill Hartman (whose dad was the volunteer kicking coach) and Ed Legge, who covered the season for the Red & Black student newspaper. Just about the only significant voices missing are Walker and the late Russell.
As a piece of filmmaking, it probably could have benefited from being trimmed by about half, but I doubt many Bulldogs fans will complain about the surplus of anecdotes and memories, which include the fullest telling to date of the infamous “Seagraves initiation” the spring before, in which five Bulldog seniors were punished by Dooley for stealing and barbecuing one of the UGA farm’s prize pigs, an incident cited as a team bonding experience.
It’s all there, including special segments on Munson, Russell, the late Wayne McDuffie, “Mad Dog” Bill Lewis, the late Jimmy Payne, Dooley’s flirtation with his alma mater Auburn between the end of the regular season and the national championship Sugar Bowl game, and what it was like to play for Dooley. (He was the one the players were scared of, not “heart of gold” Russell.) You hear the players talking about how little Walker impressed them in preseason practice — at least, until he dented Jeff Hipp’s facemask in a goal line drill — and how much they loved the fans sitting around the railroad track.
There were a lot of heroes that season besides Belue, Scott and Walker — most notably defender and kick returner extraordinaire Scott Woerner, who just about single-handedly beat Clemson despite not even starting that game. And you’ll find out how scout teamer Terry Hoage came to make the trip to New Orleans and have a chance to block a Notre Dame field goal attempt.
Yes, it’s pure Dawgporn. And never more so than in those on-the-field and sideline memories of the win over the hated Gators. As Scott puts it, “It was magical.”
For more information on the “1980 Dawgs” video, go here.
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138 comments Add your comment
piermontdawgny
October 26th, 2011
10:31 am
first
as in winning the SEC East
GT Joe
October 26th, 2011
10:39 am
Mutts sure love history. Makes them forget the present.
trupert
October 26th, 2011
10:43 am
This is the year we’ll see the long overdue shift in the Time space Continuum as it relates to the Ga- Fla rilvery. As a result, Ga will win by 14 and five years from now Muschamp will be let go because he can’t beat the Dawgs. Go dawgs!!!
Buckhead Dawg
October 26th, 2011
10:44 am
Come this Sunday, I’d like to be reminiscing about the 2011 GA / FLA game.
ramguy68
October 26th, 2011
10:47 am
Everybody including myself remembers the run Lindsey run play but can anyone remember what Fla did after UGA kicked off? There was still time left on the clock.
Charlie
October 26th, 2011
10:48 am
Yeah, I too remember when Georgia was relevant.
ramguy68
October 26th, 2011
10:49 am
GT Joe you shouldn’t be worrying about the Dawgs. You worry about the beating Clemson is going to dish out to Tech.
WDE
October 26th, 2011
10:50 am
That was great beat the Gators this year would be great too ! Go Dogs !
Buckhead Dawg
October 26th, 2011
10:51 am
Tech has the worst football graduation rates in the ACC?? They suck, they’re stupid and they’re nerds…there’s your triple option.
WDE
October 26th, 2011
10:53 am
@Charlie we own the series and we always will remember that!
not so fast my friend
October 26th, 2011
10:54 am
JT Joe do you have a life?
McDawg
October 26th, 2011
10:56 am
its time to live in the present-time to create own memories, legends, myths
class of 86
October 26th, 2011
10:59 am
GT Joe you must be pretty darn stupid to come on this blog and post that. At least we HAVE good history to remember…NOBODY gives a damn what Tech does. Talk about irrelevant!
frank
October 26th, 2011
11:02 am
look for another pinncale this weekend where a Loss is a good thing.
Gets rid of the high diver so we can bring in a real coach that actually wants to win.
Devil's Advocate
October 26th, 2011
11:09 am
Tech still living through Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and anyone else who can beat UGA more than once every 10 or so years?
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:10 am
class of 86,
You have to be corrected on Tech not having any history. They were a real force back in the 40’s.
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:13 am
I made a post last night about most of the “GATOR” fans on here being FRAUDS or a.k.a Georgia Tech fans.
speaking of memories...
October 26th, 2011
11:13 am
Which year was it…81 or 82 when we stomped the gators 44-0 and Hershel was literally flying over the line into the end-zone?
Gatorboy62
October 26th, 2011
11:15 am
The DAWGS continue to live in the past…..GO GATORS!
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:15 am
I bet at least have the Tech fans would trade a Tech win over Clemson for a UGA loss this weekend.
……………………….PATHETIC.
bart
October 26th, 2011
11:15 am
There was a time when Dawg football was relevant and our fans would not settle for medioccity. Unfortunately, that’s not the case anymore.
BG
October 26th, 2011
11:17 am
GO DAWGS!
Devil's Advocate
October 26th, 2011
11:18 am
When Tech fans say they hate UGA more than they love Tech, that really shows why that program has fallen from their glory days. I wonder how long Paul Johnson will stay if that attitude doesn’t change. A program can’t reach prime time if its fanbase is more concerned with their rival than their own program.
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:19 am
Clemson 35 Tech 20
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:20 am
Georgia 35 Florida 20
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:22 am
It woulb be really wierd if it happened just like that. Just saying.
Bama in Atlanta
October 26th, 2011
11:26 am
According to the headline news it looks like the majority of GT students have plenty of time on their hands since they don’t end up graduating.
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:27 am
Have a nice week bulldogs.
Hairy Perry
October 26th, 2011
11:28 am
That’s why they spend all their time on a UGA BLOG!
Had It
October 26th, 2011
11:29 am
Lose to this crippled, weak UF and it’s goodbye CMR!!!
Eisendawg
October 26th, 2011
11:30 am
I bet GT Joe would like to forget the present also. I guess he has his ring for winning the first handful of games this year on order. lol
Slayer
October 26th, 2011
11:32 am
Dawgs win by 17 then whip Bama in SEC Title Game.
DAWG with two bags over head
October 26th, 2011
11:33 am
Talking about that play literally brings tears to my eyes–remembering the hysteria of the play and how far we’ve fallen.
Kim
October 26th, 2011
11:39 am
FINALLY, something to commemorate your 30 year old national championship!!!
kevin
October 26th, 2011
11:41 am
GT Joe
October 26th, 2011
10:39 am,
Speaking of remembering, do you remember 9 out of 10?
bjohndawg
October 26th, 2011
11:42 am
Bill,
We have to move forward. I love 1980 as much as the next Dawg fan, but it is time for this program to be back in the thick of the SEC title and National Championship hunt.
And not romancing Lindsay Scott’s magic moment.
The fans deserve it, the school deserves it.
Go Dawgs!
JL
October 26th, 2011
11:48 am
Lets See, I predict UF 28 UGA 26 Its a Mental Thing.
G'Vegas Dawg
October 26th, 2011
11:48 am
GT Joe (a.k.a pot) – meet kettle.
Dawgs 73
October 26th, 2011
12:00 pm
Back in 1902′, there was this player named Bucky pillow and he could throw the plastic football like nobodies business. They used the under water basket weaving play that made them unstoppable…blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Columbus Dawg
October 26th, 2011
12:03 pm
Bama ain’t going to the SEC Title game.
sprouse27
October 26th, 2011
12:07 pm
We have to go back 30 years for UGA glory against Florida? Should win this one, but the puppies have to get over their fear of Gators to do it. Course if winning the game means we keep CMR, I’m not sure we’ve really won anything. The SEC East is pitiful this year, and the Dawgs’ schedule is the only thing giving them a shot at getting stomped in the SEC Championship by either LSU or Tide.
Richt`s Hammer
October 26th, 2011
12:13 pm
We are going to lose by 50 and Muschamp is going to eat choakdawg after he chows down on the Florida kicker.
athdog
October 26th, 2011
12:15 pm
Bill,
Great story. Good remembrances. I have to agree with bjohn, the time for having our tailgate and other get together stories revolve around a season that is over thirty years past is over…I realize UGA football history is not as rich as that of Alabama, Notre Dame, etc…it just simply isn’t. BUT, the fact that we still cling to 1980 is, well, a tad of an embarrassment. It was a great year. Half of our fans weren’t born yet. Let’s concentrate on starting new memories.
H B T D
4Real
October 26th, 2011
12:18 pm
1980…………1980………..1980, man I wasn’t born until 1982. Why is that picture in Black & White. 1980’s, yes, Black was running from whites by then. I’m from Chicago, who is Linday Scott????
sprouse27
October 26th, 2011
12:20 pm
4Real..- That’s hilarious.
athdog
October 26th, 2011
12:20 pm
Had it…you may be right. I, too, am tired of watching us come out of time outs, only to call a time out….come out of time outs, only to watch us penalized for ’substitution infractions’ (too many on the field) use two time outs before we are five minutes into a game, and enter the second quarter with none left….or even worse, enter the FOURTH quarter with none left. Clock mismanagement, not to mention playcalling (Samuel, with a hurt ankle, trying to get to the corner in the waning minutes against Vandy, only to be hit behind the line…..MORE THAN ONCE……Thomas between the tackles for the last three years…and he’s 170 pounds) We just don’t have much ’sense’ it appears.
Afan
October 26th, 2011
12:24 pm
Thanks to Coach Norris the Defensive coordinator who went and talked to Lindsey after he was trying to join the bad. Of course those that were there at the time know that Lindsey had played ball his whole life and was just trying to scare the yellow jacket faithful in Jesup.
Coach Donaldson likes to try and get the glory for pulling him from the band.
But in actuality it was coach Norris that went and talked to the kid.
PLEASE STOP...
October 26th, 2011
12:25 pm
MY GOD, LET IT GO…1980 WAS 31 YEARS AGO…AND YOU BEAT NOBODY TO WIN THE TITLE…WHAT A JOKE…OPPONENTS WIN PCT. WAS .377…WOW…
swimdawg68
October 26th, 2011
12:27 pm
I was sitting in the Gator Bowl that great day with my brother. He wanted to leave when it was 3rd down (Many dawg fans were leaving). I told him maybe we could get close enough for Robinson to kick a FG, so we stayed. WOW! when Scott went by us (we were on the 25 GA side about 50 rows up I though like Munson the Gator Bowl would collapse.
My freshman year at UGA was Vince’s first year. Many people out there may not remember, but in Vince’s 25 years as HC he NEVER lost to the “water lizards” 2 years in a row. A trend I would like to see happen again in Athens starting with the game on Sat. By the way, I’ll be in attendance as I have been every year since 1964 except for the year was in Vietnam.
UGAKev from Columbus GA
October 26th, 2011
12:27 pm
No offense but I am only 25 years old and was not even alive when the Dawgs won their last National Championship in football. It’s way past time to move on from those days. We should of won 3 national titles during that period. I will never have that feeling of enjoying that run with Hershel Walker. I want us to have new traditions and memories to look back on. We have got to move forward or 1980 will keep us mediocre forever. GO DAWGS!!!
Palm City Dawg
October 26th, 2011
12:31 pm
JUNKYARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARdawg
October 26th, 2011
12:33 pm
Bill
It is getting more and more difficult to get a post on your blog because of the filters. Tone it down please.
Comparing those greats with this situation this week is a disservice to those greats. At 2-8 Richt has not given us any positive memories from this game. Hopefully, he can accomplish that this week with a drubbing of the Gators. I however, am not holding my breath
Mark Kozee
October 26th, 2011
12:35 pm
Said it before: we’ll beat the Gators but lose to Auburn. Not enough consistency under CMR. His last year.
Fleming Island Dawg
October 26th, 2011
12:46 pm
GT Joe is right. Let’s talk th epresent and how we beat tech every year.
DawgNation
October 26th, 2011
12:53 pm
22 years since the last SHARED National Championship by the Bugs. How long ago was it for your last unanimous NC? Hummmm GTJoe? Yes 1980 was a long time ago. Those of us who have very fond memories of it will continue to relive it and speak of it with pride, even after the next one. Just like you guys like to brag about your shared one. If you, or any other fan of another school, doesn’t like reading or hearing about it then stay the Heck of the Bulldog blogs.
Keith
October 26th, 2011
12:53 pm
Don’t they call it the Georgia-Florida game because G comes before F in the alphabet?
DawgInaTruck
October 26th, 2011
12:59 pm
Great post swimdawg, sorry you missed the one but glad you made it back to attend many more.
Red Panties
October 26th, 2011
1:00 pm
Keith,
You’ve got to kidding, you really don’t know the alphabet————-UGA grad?
Crowell's Posse
October 26th, 2011
1:03 pm
The undoing of the Georgia program also came in a Florida game when Richt sent the team on the field to gangsta dance. It has been downhill since then. We will see if Richt and Adams have muzzled Mad Dog Grantham or will we get to see more bad sportsmanship on national TV.
sic'em
October 26th, 2011
1:09 pm
It does my heart good when tech/fla/ala fans are in the top 1-5 blawgers on a UGA article. Particularly one re; history that takes longer than 1 minute to read. “Obsessed with all things UGA” is a well known syndrome and nothing to be embarassed about. GATA!
DawgInaTruck
October 26th, 2011
1:11 pm
Get over it Crowell Pansy, its over. The Dawg has turned!
Fools Gold
October 26th, 2011
1:13 pm
Blah blah,,,,,,, dawgs always talking about the past of some 30 plus years ago. What have the dawgs done lately? Nuthin! Zilch and Zero.
GatorBait 18-3
October 26th, 2011
1:16 pm
After the 81 miracle, the series record was 37-20-2 in the dawgs favor. Now the record is 46-40-2, so the dawgs have only averaged 3 win per decade against the Gators. Both have excellent athletes, so it comes done to COACHING. Georgia is favored and should win in Jax, but as usual, Richt gets out coached and loses
DawgInaTruck
October 26th, 2011
1:17 pm
Dead on sic’em! It takes a fool t pull for that gold wreck downtown in the ghetto.
Rip Van Winkle
October 26th, 2011
1:18 pm
Are they playing that crap again?
Gary
October 26th, 2011
1:22 pm
No offence, but todays Fresman class were born in 1992. The cannot remember a time when Florida did not dominate the Dawgs. That is a sad reality. One that must be fixed. Mark acts like it is just another game. He is wrong. You build a team to beat Florida and focus on stopping Florida and scoring against Florida and you are going to win the east every year. If you can beat Florida you have already beaten Tennessee. If you can beat Florida check off SC as a win. There is only one school that matters in the East. We need to start acting like it. This needs to be our make or break game every year. Loosing to Florida is an acceptance with this staff, this school, and this generation. It should be the only goal of the year for us.
UGA Insider
October 26th, 2011
1:55 pm
Buckhead Dawg @10:51,
You had me rolling on the floor with that one. Hilarious.
sogadog
October 26th, 2011
2:05 pm
1980 was a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg time ago.
4Real
October 26th, 2011
2:12 pm
My co-worker told me that if UGA wins, he will kiss his sister. I told him, you do that anyway…………
P_The_Ricker
October 26th, 2011
2:40 pm
4real,
your co-worker’s sister sounds like fun.
kidding aside, all excuses have run dry as to why UGA shouldn’t beat UF. no recent UF team has been as prime as this one for a loss. Regardless of how richt finishes this season, if he can’t beat them this year, he’s no longer any good for UGA. can’t keep a coach that can’t beat one of your biggest rivals.
FLA DAWG
October 26th, 2011
2:43 pm
I had just graduated in ‘79 and was living in Jax in 1980. I was at the game with family and friends.
What a game! The momentum swung back and forth.
Just before Belue threw to Scott I told my wife, “Watch! Something great is about to happen!”
And happen it did – one of the greatest plays in UGA history during an historic season.
Coming out of the stands at the end of the game someone with a radio said GT had just tied ND – so we knew we were going to New Orleans.
aaron in arizona
October 26th, 2011
2:56 pm
speaking of memories………….it was ‘82 when uga beat fla 44-0, and i think h. walker did not play in the entire or most of second half. go dawgs.
TampaDawg
October 26th, 2011
3:01 pm
GT Joe
October 26th, 2011
10:39 am
Mutts sure love history. Makes them forget the present.
———————–
I know, of all people a tech fan, didn’t just go there. You see, I go on the Tech blogs and have cordial conversation with the tech fans because I honestly love to talk football. Then we see a maggot come over to our blogs to talk smack when his own team can’t even beat a lowly UVA.
TampaDawg
October 26th, 2011
3:03 pm
Fools Gold
October 26th, 2011
1:13 pm
Blah blah,,,,,,, dawgs always talking about the past of some 30 plus years ago. What have the dawgs done lately? Nuthin! Zilch and Zero.
——————————–
Two conference championships in THE toughest conference in all of college football is a lot more than nuthin there tech fan.
Old Dawg
October 26th, 2011
3:17 pm
What a great day and memory. The game the following year was equally impressive, with Herschel adding to his legendary with a second half performance I’ll never forget. After the game Gator head coach Charley Pell said it best: “in the first half we hurt Herschel, in the second half he killed us!”
Hopefully, UGA can turned the tide in the future. At best, it’d be nice to break even with Florida.
funny...
October 26th, 2011
3:24 pm
I’m not even reading this.
31 years ago.
Florida started playing football after that, Georgia stopped.
Marc Klempf
October 26th, 2011
3:24 pm
Folks did anyone see the 100 minute DVD : The WAR: Belue to Scott and other incredible games.
It included the 1976, 1980, 1982, 1989, and 2004 victories…all told from the player and coaches perspective. It was narrated by Chuck Dowdle and included a ton of Munson calls. It is still on sale in many Athens stores. Bill love your column keep up the good work!
funny...
October 26th, 2011
3:26 pm
I started at UGA in the quarter system. That’s how long ago I was a freshman. 1997. Graduated in 2001.
I was ONE when this happened. I’m celebrating my 10 year reunion from UGA this year and you’re still writing about a game that almost 2 decades of alumni don’t even remember.
This is why Florida has won 18 of 21.
Just beat Tech. Keep it up old guard. Just beat Tech.
St Simons - we're on Island time
October 26th, 2011
3:41 pm
I was up in the stands just above and to the left of Lindsay. I was the one who threw the cup at Collinsworth when he was taunting us while Lindsay ran right by. Every time I watch Sunday Night Football on NBC you see a bad broadcaster, I see that what? ohno look on his face. heheheh
Don’t forget the middle aged and the oldtimers, we’re 47-40 and its gonna turn back our way, but I agree let’s move on.
4Real
October 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
A DVD about UGA’s football season in 1976, 1980, 1981…………That long ago. The only car that had an airbag was a benz. While you’re at it, “Remember the Alamo”, “I cannot lie, I did chop down that cherry tree”, “Rosebud”……………
Seriously, this is why people laugh at UGA fans because of stories like this. Being from Chicago, I was 3yrs old when the Bears won the Superbowl. I don’t brag about it because I don’t remember it. But I do remember a Great Man by the name of “Air Jordan”. But that is the past, Elite programs are great in the past, present, and future. Just my opinion.
Captain Allen Waters
October 26th, 2011
3:50 pm
Wonderful memories! Where can it be bought? Our 2 players get a half game suspension for on the field issues at VU and UF and AU players do not get any time outs for their on-field transgressions. LSU players get a 1 game suspension for smoking grass and UT brawlers get no time out either! Go figure the absurdity of the SEC. I hope GEORGIA plays a smart and hard game this weekend and will be watching the 1am start of the game here in India. Go Dawgs!
Burma Shave
October 26th, 2011
4:10 pm
Florida wins again
Too bad for UGA
For a new coach
Dawgs need to pray
BURMA SHAVE
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 26th, 2011
4:12 pm
I think I will have to order 2 of these DVD’s and a lifetime round of Kool-aid because I will end up wearing one of the DVD’s out after watching it for many more years
The reason?
Because we have too many fans whose best expectations are Beat Tech and win 10 games
So with that we will be in mediocrity for years to come
Terry
October 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
4Real, So what you’re saying, is that you’re a loser that has no happy memories.
ARdawg
October 26th, 2011
4:18 pm
Flat tire
C’mon guy, pull for your team. You know you want to.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 26th, 2011
4:29 pm
ARdawg
I am pulling for them
Ive been tired of losing to FL since 1993; enough was enough then and something should have been done after that season
I wish Coach Richt would get it together but almost every other game its like we look good then we look like we did the Vandy game
Can we not play a complete game for once thats all Im asking. Hopefully this Sat will be a start
TampaShave
October 26th, 2011
4:32 pm
Burma is dumb
Nothing useful to say
Worst part about this blog
We can’t make him go away
TampaShave
ARdawg
October 26th, 2011
4:34 pm
Flat Tire
We are all praying for Richt to get it together and a complete game. I don’t think we had a complete game even against Coastal Carolina. It bothers me that we don’t see improvement from one week to the next. Usually, that is expected even if the improvement is minute’. I’d really like to see Richt make a statement that he does still have a semblance of that coaching ability with a drubbing of the Gators. I don’t hold out much hope. I am pulling for him but I am pulling for my Dawgs regardless
ARdawg
October 26th, 2011
4:35 pm
TampaShave
October 26th, 2011
4:32 pm
Burma is dumb
Nothing useful to say
Worst part about this blog
We can’t make him go away
TampaShave
Demm funny! I don’t care whop you are
CBS will show for the 100th billion time run lindsy run movie(no video back in those days)
October 26th, 2011
4:53 pm
bet on it.That’s all georgia has….the past.
AJC SUNDAY HEADLINES: GEORGIA BEATS THE GATORS!
October 26th, 2011
5:02 pm
Save Mark Richt job for another 10 years.
Cooper76
October 26th, 2011
5:12 pm
funny
Surely you understand that even though your generation is important the 1980, 1970, and all earlier graduates is where the big money donation’s come from. That’s why what happened 31 years ago is important . Look and see who is on the Board of Directors and Regents.
Bob
October 26th, 2011
5:47 pm
Great memories Bill…”run Lindsey, run”…Appleby to Washington…Herschel. Too bad all the UF fans can say is “fumble Jasper, fumble”…another Murray interception, etc.
Cooper76
October 26th, 2011
6:35 pm
We’re very proud of our generation’s achievements, and we do not intend to allow you young whippersnappers to upstage us. So just get used to mediocrity. That’s all that we intend to pay for.
Return to Glory
October 26th, 2011
6:45 pm
Chill bumps still after all those years…another one bites the dust blaring as 12 foes go down to the dawgs. HBTD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1980 still rocks
Win this Saturday
October 26th, 2011
6:58 pm
In case no one has answered UGA intercepted a pass on the next play or so and we ran out the clock.
Go Dogs!
krazydawg
October 26th, 2011
7:01 pm
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Gravy Train
October 26th, 2011
7:36 pm
Another example of how Bill is stuck in the past. Shocker. It’s passed time to put ole Bill out to pasture.
Gravy Train
October 26th, 2011
7:38 pm
Lweis Grizzard probably wants his glaases back. Jerry Garcia wants his look back too.
Gravy Train
October 26th, 2011
7:38 pm
Lewis that is.
FLA DAWG
October 26th, 2011
8:14 pm
Nothing wrong with waxing on past Dawg Glory.
Frankly I’d rather watch a rerun of any game of that season than a live one of this season.
Probably the greatest defensive college National Championship Game ever played was that very season in New Orleans.
Dooley was masterful in the 17-10 victory over ND.
dbc
October 26th, 2011
8:22 pm
I was wearing a pair of khakis, a white button down shirt and a red tie. After that play, my shirt was soaked in bourbon and coke!
Wavy Gravy
October 26th, 2011
8:34 pm
I’m a Lewis.
Wavy Gravy
October 26th, 2011
8:36 pm
Although I never joined, many of my friends have.
(STILL) 2-10 against ranked teams
October 26th, 2011
8:57 pm
Bingo….that’s the problem with UGA football. While all the other powerhouses of the SEC (see Al, LSU, Fl, Aub) can claim their pinnacle to within the past decade by winning their respective Crystal trophies…….
…..all the “loyal” Dawg fans wearing their “Richt-colored” glasses can point to is some ancient history game 30 years ago as their “pinnacle”…….pathetic
“FIRE RICHT!!!!”
DodgerDAWG
October 26th, 2011
9:01 pm
WOW Bill, you amaze me. Maybe you should give up sports writing and become a movie critic. Or maybe just give up sports writing
cloudy
October 26th, 2011
9:15 pm
The Gators really are a pretty pathetic team this year. If ever they were ripe for the taking, this would be the year. Come on and show us something for once Dawgs.
(STILL) 2-10 against ranked teams
October 26th, 2011
9:21 pm
cloudy……NOOOOO!!!!! don’t say that!!!
Then all these Richt-lovers will demand he be given a guaranteed 10 year extension for beating this unranked “powerhouse” Gator team…..
Mobile Dawg
October 26th, 2011
9:39 pm
Good memories Bill. Larry Munson…..
Mobile Dawg
October 26th, 2011
9:41 pm
And to all the Dawgs that made him what he is….A legend…..Half these kids we got now have now idea what tradition is all about, just a sign of the times.
Alphare
October 26th, 2011
9:48 pm
is this Bill’s way to reveal who is old and who is not?
Mobile Dawg
October 26th, 2011
9:53 pm
Question is Alphare, which are you?
Alphare
October 26th, 2011
9:57 pm
Mobile Dawg, I don’t remember a thing about that 1980’s glory until I read Bill’s blog.
Dawg48
October 26th, 2011
10:02 pm
Just read that mitchell want be playing against fla!
Mobile Dawg
October 26th, 2011
10:03 pm
Lot of great memories as an older Dawg. Not so many lately, maybe part of it was Munson could make anything exciting. Richt’s first few years were good, the last few not so. It really sticks in my craw that he’s lacked the attention to detail and work ethic over the last five years of a “Championship Caliber” Coach. I really don’t think he can take us to the “football” promised land. We can have winning records but no championships.
Old Dog
October 26th, 2011
10:41 pm
That was before Richt came on board, right?
Columbus
October 27th, 2011
12:27 am
It sure looked like UGA was going to lose that game. I remember it so well. The undefeated season over. The whole field to go and UGA forced to throw. We ALL know Dooley was not one to pass the football. I mean a QB having 9 passes in a game was common. Throwing 12 was a LOT!
So UGA had to pass. They were not good at it and they had little experience doing it. They never did it basically. Florida was sitting back waiting on it and they hadnt let us do much of nothing and it sure looked over. The dream season after the losing season the year before was coming to an end. No way UGA was going to pass their way up the field. No way. They could pass when the other team wasnt expecting it, but with Florida waiting on it? No way!
Then it happened. On our last play because UGA would have punted with that field position I am sure. It was a miracle. Against all odds. All odds….A miracle. Still hard to believe to this day. The game was over. A first down looked very slim with them waiting on us to pass and us actually scoring looked impossible because again, they were waiting on us to pass it and we were not a passing team and we had the whole field to go. The 50 yard line looked a mile away, much less field goal range or a TD. It was a miracle. A miracle. That day at that time, magic happened during that one play.
LOL. Like in “The Waterboy” during the last play how everything slowed down and the impossible happened. I know thats corny but you get my point! It was like a power from above blessed that one moment and the impossible, VERY impossible, transpired right before our eyes. And the undefeated season took place.
You knew we would not lose any more games after that happened!
Go Dawgs! Beat Florida. I curse the Florida Gators football team from beating UGA as long as Richt is coach! I reverse the curse! I speak it into the air and into being! LOL. It is time to get abck to beating them on a regular basis. They will never be average as often as they were before Spurrier but..it is time to get the hex broken and winning at least HALF the games plus one, year after year.
Dr. Morpheus
October 27th, 2011
12:31 am
“Run, Isaiah!”
Scranton native
October 27th, 2011
1:03 am
FLA DAWG
October 26th, 2011
8:14 pm
…..
Probably the greatest defensive college National Championship Game ever played was that very season in New Orleans.
Dooley was masterful in the 17-10 victory over ND
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Actually the greatest defensive college National Championship Game occurred in the same stadium exactly 2 years later. Herschel had 107 yards on 28 carries
Thomas Brown
October 27th, 2011
1:32 am
I was on the Railroad Tracks; where we you ?
Thomas Brown
October 27th, 2011
1:32 am
11-13 record all 11 years neutral fields
09-10 record all 11 years neutral fields vs ranked teams at game time
09-10 record all 11 years at Home vs ranked teams at game time
01-03 record all 11 years at Home vs Top 10 teams at game time
03-06 record all 11 years neutral fields vs Top 10 teams at game time
04-09 record all 11 years neutral fields all SEC games
23-26 record all 11 years when opponent scores first
17-25 record all 11 years when trailing at half, lack adjustments
08-30 record all 11 years when trailing 3rd quarter, loser mentality
11-21 record all 11 years when scoring less than 18 points
02-08 record all 11 years vs Florida
33-19 record all 11 years vs SEC East 63 percent win percentage
17-26 record all 11 years vs teams finishing top 25
17 losses all 11 years vs teams who would not have finished top 25
03-10 record all 11 years vs teams finishing top 10
We all know that The SEC was DOWN in 2002, with only 1 other SEC team ending up ranked in the Coaches’ Poll Top 25 and that a 4-Loss Auburn 2002.
We all know that 2005 found that Georgia ended up # 3 of just The SEC teams in the polls.
Florida has their worst football team in 24 years.
TDawg
October 27th, 2011
6:57 am
For all of you guys who say forget the past, I was not born when UGA won their NC: Guess what? The guys that have been writing the checks to make this a great athletic program and actually appreciate tradition like to reminisce a little. You guys would actually benefit from remembering something that happened more than a week ago.
FLA DAWG
October 27th, 2011
7:32 am
Scranton,
Nope.
ND’s Defensive Front was GIGANTIC.
They were successful in slowing our Offense though our O Line was possibly the best in the country.
It was a D struggle from start to end with Dooley waiting for ND to make a mistake.
And when they did we scored.
An incredible game. A great coaching job requiring patience and insight.
(By the way, what TB wouldn’t want to average 4 yds per carry!?)
Thomas Brown
October 27th, 2011
7:50 am
tell me again October 27th, 2011 7:10 am
“Florida has the same team attitude problems we have had in the past. 10 players have transferred from their top rated class. Something ain’t right there.”
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What is in the past about our problems with players transferring out, flunking out, being kicked off, being suspended for 31 of our players Mark Richt gave Scholarships to for kick-off vs Florida day after tomorrow, whom he will not have ?
Dawg_Mike
October 27th, 2011
8:11 am
I was listening to the 1980 game on my car radio and had to pull over when Lindsey started running…
BUT I agree that was 30 years ago…time to move on Bill !
It seems like 30 years since the 07 win……
Wavy Gravy
October 27th, 2011
8:29 am
31… But who’s counting?
TampaShave
October 27th, 2011
9:01 am
Wavy, he is still counting players who left early for the NFL and got injured in those numbers. Not to mention, if you flunk out, you flunk out. Not the person I want on the team
Joey
October 27th, 2011
9:21 am
Good to read a post by GT Joe. I was concerned that he was in mourning. Have you put your BCSCG tickets on ebay yet?
(STILL) 2-10 against ranked team
October 27th, 2011
9:36 am
Only losers, wannabees, and old farts ruminate over glories of years, no make that decades, gone by…..winners look to the present and the future…….
AltamahaDawg
October 27th, 2011
9:44 am
It’s those Six junior leaving for the NFL last year.
AtlGator
October 27th, 2011
9:49 am
Yay! We were good when we wore leather helmets!
The shame of it... from Dooley to Richt
October 27th, 2011
9:49 am
I wonder if any of the books about UGA football include 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 who never earned a single college credit?
Dawgtards love to return to 1980, but 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 slimeball 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 45 of your player-thugs have been arrested, isn’t it?
UGA: WINNER OF THE FULMER CUP AND THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH.
AltamahaDawg
October 27th, 2011
9:49 am
Yes, we can all tell what a big winner you are.
TampaDawg
October 27th, 2011
9:59 am
Winning at being a loser on a blog. Wonder what size trophy he gets for that?
AltamahaDawg
October 27th, 2011
10:04 am
The appropriate size.
BremanDawgfan
October 27th, 2011
2:20 pm
Bill – I like all the Bulldog history stuff you cover. Great job. I think a healthy football program has a good dose of respecting their history. There are plenty of others who cover every little current thing. I read your stuff to learn and to be reminded of the rich Bulldog history we are all a part of. Keep on doing it!
Some of the negative posters are from other programs – bad karma for your teams.
And for the younger Bulldogs – we will be back. Mark my words on that.
FLA DAWG
October 27th, 2011
9:58 pm
AtlGator,
I hope you are not Atlanta Gator. They guy had class and from what I have just read, my opinion is that you do not when it comes to this annual game.
Remembering the great days before a rematch is only natural – for both teams.
Of course, your alums recall Galen Hall………..yes, it’s not wonder your memory is short-lived. I guess mine would be too.
In truth, if Richt loses this game and is disposed of then my memory of him and his coaches will also be short-lived.
Don’t denegrate the great success an SEC Team had. I am proud of any SEC Team that wins the SECC and then The BCS or whatever bowl they end up in.
It has been a long time since Dawg Nation has had a Championship. No wonder so many are willing to settle for mediocrity when they’ve never tasted glory.
Though Vegas says UGA will win I have a hunch UF will unload on UGA and we will have our future ahead of us with a new, proven, successful and TOUGH HC.
FLA DAWG
October 27th, 2011
10:07 pm
THE SHAME of being a GT Grad,
Shocking that another GT LOSER would post on a Dawg site.
When you find the final answer to E=MCsquared then come back and let us know.
In fairness it must be incredibly difficult to support a team year after year that you must know will only bring you despair.
I mean most GT alums and fans must know since you cannot fill a high school capacity stadium.
Pity that in Inner City Atlanta University such an annual tragedy and joke exists.
Well, good luck in your search for the Theory of Relatity and it’s relationship to college football.
FLA DAWG,
UGA
Class of ‘79