Friday, May 27, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
excerpt from: the year of the wonderdawgs
"well guys, here we are in the tiger's den! baton rogue on a saturday night, a place THEY call DEATH VALLEY! there must be at least a half million raging cajuns jammed into this place. here we are, about 3/4 of a mile from the mighty ole man river and at the half we are trailing the tigers by ten! well, we might just get run right into that mighty river if we can't get something going here as we receive the second half kick-off!
the young freshman Lindsay Scott, from Jesup, is back to receive the kick. Oh my Lord... just listen to these people... so loud... they say this is the scariest place to play on a saturday night, i think they might be right! the crowd is screaming: " goooooo..." so loudly that i just wet myself, with a cola i spilled from a cup! "gooooo..." getting louder still! "goooooo..." there's the kick, high and long...Lindsay takes it at the one or two and here he comes... watch it, watch it... a hole opens up in the middle of the field and young Lindsay has just blown into the open.... 40..he's at the 50... the 45...40...35..30...can he go? 25..20...15...10... a defender with an angle is trying to get him, Lindsay twists away and he scores a touchdown! Lindsay Scott has just gotten the dawgs back into a game we have no reason to be in. Trailing at the half, on the road, in Baton Rouge, on a Saturday night, with half a million Ragin' Cajuns at our throats the dawgs have made it a game!" it was one of the most exciting plays i've ever seen. my buds and i not only spilled cokes, we spilled bourbon! if not for our joy, we might have cried about that!
the young freshman Lindsay Scott, from Jesup, is back to receive the kick. Oh my Lord... just listen to these people... so loud... they say this is the scariest place to play on a saturday night, i think they might be right! the crowd is screaming: " goooooo..." so loudly that i just wet myself, with a cola i spilled from a cup! "gooooo..." getting louder still! "goooooo..." there's the kick, high and long...Lindsay takes it at the one or two and here he comes... watch it, watch it... a hole opens up in the middle of the field and young Lindsay has just blown into the open.... 40..he's at the 50... the 45...40...35..30...can he go? 25..20...15...10... a defender with an angle is trying to get him, Lindsay twists away and he scores a touchdown! Lindsay Scott has just gotten the dawgs back into a game we have no reason to be in. Trailing at the half, on the road, in Baton Rouge, on a Saturday night, with half a million Ragin' Cajuns at our throats the dawgs have made it a game!" it was one of the most exciting plays i've ever seen. my buds and i not only spilled cokes, we spilled bourbon! if not for our joy, we might have cried about that!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
the year 19 and 77: the year the wheels fell off the veer
coming off of a great 2 year run in '75/'76 we uga students were ready to go for it in '77! it did not go exactly as we had hoped for! we lost probably the best option qb of all time (ray goff) and a whole bunch of other great stars from the roster. yet, being the always hopeful dawgs of the 'old days' that we were, we were going up to #1 in 1977! expectations were higher than i had ever experienced in the classic city. the '72-'74 seasons were average, to be very kind! all of the sudden, here come the '75 dudes! what a great season, topped with a trip to the Cotton Bowl where the #hogs kicked our asses (will post about that another time,great road trip)! then along come the 1976 SEC CHAMPION JUNKYARD DAWGS! I was lucky to get to see every game live, in person, that year except one! i could not get out to #oxford for what turned out to be our only regular season loss. i, to this very day believe, if i had gotten out there we would have won! #mybad! Erk's D showed up every game to GATA and the offense, led by Goff, was fairly unstoppable! then came the #sugarbowl v. pitt (that's another post for another time/space). so...here we were standing at the edge of the abyss, do we fall into the pit or do we keep rolling on? well that question was answered in the year 19 and77. that is what i will always remember as: "the year the wheels fell off the veer!"
THE YOUNGLINGS LEARN ABOUT BEING JEDI
THIS IS A POST THAT SHALL TELL THE STORY OF NUMEROUS YOUNG JEDI, ER..BULLDAWGS WHO LEARNED THE TRUE NATURE OF THE FORCE IN THE YEARS 1977-1979! THE TRIALS OF ADVERSITY, FRUSTRATION AND JOY THESE YOUNG ONES LIVED THROUGH LED TO A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR UGA IN 1980! TOLD THROUGH MY OWN EYES AS A PROFESSIONAL STUDENT, THESE TALES WILL SOMETIMES EXCITE, SOMETIMES NOT SO MUCH. THE FACT IS: THESE YOUNG LADS OF "77 GREW INTO NATIONAL CHAMPS IN '80. OF COURSE THE ADDITION OF #34, THE JEDI MASTER OF ALL TIME, LOADED UP OUR I-FORMATION WITH NITRO.THE TEAM AS A WHOLE NEEDED JUST A BIT OF NITRO TO BLOW UP THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL WORLD IN 1980. IT WAS ALL: " GO YOU SILVER BRITCHES," GO YOU HAIRY DAWGS," "HUNKER DOWN YOU GUYS," AND OF COURSE: "GLORY,GLORY!" IF I CAN TRANSMIT A SMALL FRACTION OF THE EXCITEMENT I LIVED THROUGH, WELL THAT WOULD BE AWESOME FOR SURE! #godawgs
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