Live from the Dome: Favored Bama meets hungry Dogs!
That famous jokester Nick Saban leaves Mark Richt in stitches Friday. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
At the SEC Coaches’ Luncheon at the Hyatt on Friday, emcee Dave Neal asked Nick Saban if it was easier to keep a team motivated as a favorite, or if being an underdog was preferable. Whereupon Mark Richt said, “What does he know about being an underdog?”
Saban’s Crimson Tide is favored today by eight points over Richt’s Bulldogs, but an awful lot of folks — this correspondent included — are picking Georgia. Still, this matchup couldn’t have caught Saban unaware.
“Last summer I was at the lake (Burton, where every big-name college football coach has a summer house) and I was fooling around in the yard, and two guys rode up on JetSkis,” Saban told Richt at the luncheon. “One of them was your quarterback Aaron Murray and the other was your center (David Andrews). And they said, ‘We’ll see you in the SEC championship game.’ ”
And here both teams are, Alabama ranked No. 2 to Georgia’s No. 2, Alabama favored but not nearly a lock, Georgia trying to seize its biggest football moment in three decades. But you knew all that already. So enough of me talking.
I’ll be here until someone is the 2012 SEC champ, and I’d appreciate it if you’d join the fun and frolic. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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phil
December 1st, 2012
4:57 pm
That’s right, Tide Falling…..luck..
Much like what A & M put on your dumbas*.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
4:57 pm
Enter your comments here
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
Marshall for one yard
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
Our announcers are idiots…
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
Where’s Gurley?
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
Touchdown
Michael
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
Fire Mark Richt!
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
Touchdown!
Dawgify
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
TOUCHDOWN!
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:58 pm
More luck!
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Ahem. GA just made the bookies nervous
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
UGA draws first blood!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Jay Rome. Wide open.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Jay Rome!!! Part of the dream team.
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Kirby who?
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Reminds me of when the dawgs went up 10-0 last year. Nothing like the optimism of the dogs shortly before we squash it.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
That’s the Murray we love.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Let’s go defense.
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Great Call!
Put in Timeout by Ken Sugiura,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
I told you UGa would take the early lead…………..and then the real MURRAY throws INT’s.
BRADLEY………..C’mon man let me post LIVE.
sonofadawg
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Okay! TD, UGA will blow them out
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Rome around the world!!!
Strat Cat Dawg
December 1st, 2012
4:59 pm
Danielson: “It was a great read by Murray.” Take that, haters
Jimmy Crack
December 1st, 2012
5:00 pm
WOOFWOOFWOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:00 pm
If there’s no further scoring, Georgia wins.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:00 pm
ga learned how to be men after the lost ot SC and braves, falcons and ugs and the american flag, God it feels good
Buckhead Bulldog
December 1st, 2012
5:00 pm
Sic’ ‘em DOOOOOOGGGGGSSS!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
5:00 pm
Game not over..baby.
Knockahoma
December 1st, 2012
5:00 pm
I love it. Bradley posts touchdown and the nest post is “fire mark Richt” hahaha
Michael
December 1st, 2012
5:01 pm
End the game immediately! Dawgs Win, Dawgs Win!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
5:01 pm
There’s the Mark Bradley we love.
dean
December 1st, 2012
5:01 pm
Tide…we knew those 2 dropped TD passes, the ones that would have made it 24-0, would come back to hurt.
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:01 pm
The Braves got Upton, the Falcons got Smith and oh my oh my UGA got our back, i love it
falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
5:01 pm
Rome burns Tide while fiddlin John plays Fire on the mountain run boys run
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
5:02 pm
Beware the early Mo, dogs.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:02 pm
Actually, the game is over. The SEC just announced the coaches had agreed to call it after 16:01.
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
5:02 pm
All you losers can doubt all you want. Bama is going down today and UGA will earn respect…
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:02 pm
Fire someone anyway!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
McCarron misses Norwood on first down.
bigdawg88
December 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
We ain’t losing to no Aunt Flo!
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
Love Braves Country til we die SI call us loserville, who the loser now??????????????
Brownies for everyone
December 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
Big players in big games make big plays.. Come on dawgs
phil
December 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
This isn’t last year, Tide Falling…..
bravesilove
December 1st, 2012
5:04 pm
we are bad UGA RISE UP
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:04 pm
Third and 12 for Alabama. Big down for UGA
Put in Timeout by Ken Sugiura,Filtered by Mark Bradley, Banned by Bill King, Chip Towers & only slightly loved by Jeff Schultz.
December 1st, 2012
5:04 pm
BRADLEY………..C’mon man let me post LIVE………………………………………!
dWags D is pinning it’s EARS………….
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
5:04 pm
Bama playing on their heels. In big trouble. Soon to be down 14-0. Poor game plan.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
5:04 pm
Jenkins!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
5:04 pm
Sack. Jenkins.