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How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 6:49 PM
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UGA won their National Championship FORTY YEARS AGO NOW?
To hear their faithful here in Atlanta, though, you'd SWEAR they won it just a few years ago. Is sad this week to hear them yet-again trot out Buck Belue and Herschel Walker to relive their "glory days" since they have to other glory days to talk about.
I just turned 65 - can't believe I was only 25 when they won their title!!
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 6:54 PM
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Dawgs are delusional.
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All-In [27366]
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Seems like a million years ago.***
Sep 16, 2020, 6:55 PM
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I will be 62 in a couple of months. I remember that we
Sep 16, 2020, 7:07 PM
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dominated the stats in the 1980 game in Athens. At one point we had 235 yards of offense to UGa's 54 yards, but we were losing 14-10. UGa's Scott Woerner had a 63 yard punt return for a TD, and he intercepted a pass in the end zone and returned it over 90 yards until Chuck McSwain ran him down at the three yard line.
UGa played #10 ND in the Sugar Bowl for the title. In today's playoff system, UGA would have not won the title.
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Re: I will be 62 in a couple of months. I remember that we
Sep 16, 2020, 8:24 PM
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I listened to the game and the only station carrying it in Alabama had the Dawg network. I remember Larry Munson saying late in the game “They’ve got all the yards and we’ve got all the points”. I think he spewed something about hunker down or some such nonsense when we were driving late.
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Sep 17, 2020, 2:02 PM
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Thumbs up for remembering Chuck McSwain's tackle. That and Donnell Woolford's running down Leroy Butler in the "puntrooskie" game are two of my favorite Clemson moments. Complete and selfless efforts in essentially lost causes.
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 7:08 PM
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I was a freshman at Clemson. MAN... has it been that long since UGA won a national championship? I do seem to recall them winning a few recruiting titles since then.
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Don't forget, they never would have had the chance to win
Sep 16, 2020, 7:20 PM
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it without "Lindsay Scott, Lindsay Scott, Lindsay Scott!"
https://youtu.be/qMKzo_5ZIVc
An all time great radio call.
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#16 Scott Woerner INT and Punt return. Minus those 2 plays
Sep 16, 2020, 8:16 PM
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the Tigers win. Also I believe the Tigers were inside the UGA 20 yard line and failed to score on 4th down to end the game. I bet somebody here remembers. Didn’t Mike Gasque throw a pick on the last play? Homer Jordan got hurt.
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Re: #16 Scott Woerner INT and Punt return. Minus those 2 plays
Sep 17, 2020, 1:38 PM
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Yep, Scott Woerner took over that game. Tigers had a chance to win that game, but didn't gt it done.
I was in Sanford Stadium that day. Had a lot of bourbon peeping over the hedges near the flag pole.
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 8:25 PM
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I was at Athens, sitting on those crappy, falling down end zone seats. I tried to warn the officials in the ugly red blazers, and they just waved me off. A pregnant lady fell, and I heard she sued 'em. Yeah, we should have won that one.
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Don't know... Wasn't born yet...***
Sep 16, 2020, 8:47 PM
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 8:53 PM
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I was 27 !
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 9:00 PM
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Absolutely alive and remember well that Herschel never scored in The Valley. Those were great years when we were finally good enough to compete with UGA since we played them every year. Too bad we can't play them now.
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***I remember watching it.******
Sep 16, 2020, 9:06 PM
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 10:12 PM
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Who?
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Seems like it was a century ago...
Sep 16, 2020, 10:19 PM
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...but Clemson's natty in 81 seems like yesterday.
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Re: Seems like it was a century ago...
Sep 17, 2020, 8:20 AM
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It was much closer than UGA last one.
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Re: Seems like it was a century ago...
Sep 17, 2020, 9:20 AM
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Yep one year. A lot more for the Gamecocks.
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 16, 2020, 10:22 PM
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I was 16 y/o, but I can only remember modern era college football which began a year later!
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We've won THREE since then...let the dawgs continue to weep.
Sep 16, 2020, 11:44 PM
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GO TIGERS!!!
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I was 33.......seems like it was, well, 40 years ago!***
Sep 17, 2020, 4:57 AM
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 17, 2020, 7:08 AM
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Not me! I was born 9 months after the 1982 Orange Bowl. ??
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 17, 2020, 7:27 AM
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I was a senior in HS so I remember
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Re: How many of you were alive when.......
Sep 17, 2020, 7:52 AM
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We were kinda in their boat for a long time after our 81 NC, until Dabo became head coach. We are on the mountaintop right now. Go Tigers.
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Aww man your making me feel old
Sep 17, 2020, 1:40 PM
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Haha I remember it as well as our first championship
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I was 14 years old ... and living in Alabama.***
Sep 17, 2020, 3:15 PM
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i was a junior at clemson.***
Sep 17, 2020, 5:57 PM
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CU Medallion [67944]
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Not only was I alive, was already 4 years out into the work
Sep 17, 2020, 6:10 PM
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force. I still say we could have crushed their dreams that year before they ever got started. We had our chances in that 20-16 loss, just as they had theirs the next year when we won it all.
I still wish we played them every year. Unlike the Coots, beating the Dawgs actually took a strong effort year in and year out. They by far had our number until Saint Danniford came on the scene. Then, every game was a slobberknocker. (With apologies to ole JR.)
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