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RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:18 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
I haven't attended a college football game in person since November of 1980. I've always figured that nothing could beat the experiences I had having my student season tickets as a senior that year, so why bother?
Brad got spoiled by the '80 Georgia Bulldogs,
who featured Herschel Walker, who was very good, but Bo Jackson was in fact the best college football player ever. By November of that year, Brad had seen Hershel run over Tennessee's Bill Bates and around the entire South Carolina defense despite the optimal angles of attack for the whole secondary. Then, to cap it off, he saw Belue to Lindsay Scott, the most exciting single play in the annals of Georgia (and therefore American) college football. I don't blame him for retiring. However, I stuck it out, because I am virile and resolute in a winsome yet modest way, and saw the Dawgs beat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to win the National Championship.
Fixed it for you. You are welcome.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:42 pm
by bradfordkay
Tiger heresy!!!
Dan... i couldn't afford to make the trip to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. I guarantee that I watched it on the tube and still watch the Dawgs religiously (when they are on television out here) but I was unable to come up with the money to head down to the Big Easy...
Hell, after I graduated in March I had to sell my 1862 Remington rifle-musket just to have some cash for living expenses for a couple of months. It wasn't until May or June that I got the library gig.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 1:51 pm
by Canoerebel
Brad, I know what you mean about being poor. I was eating peanut butter every meal of the week during my college years. At one point, I was working three jobs.
I still remember buying the oversized Sugar Bowl ticket. I think it cost $20. A bunch of us carpooled to the game from Miami, so expenses were slim. My biggest expenditure was buying a western omlet at a restaurant in Gulport, Mississippi. We had something like 12 people crammed into the hotel room. When Georgia beat hated, despised, loathed Notre Dame*, it was all worth it.
*Notre Dame was despised for a variety of reasons. First, they were the media darlings of all time (even more than the New York Yankees). Second, I grew up going to Miami Hurricanes football games. Back in the 70s, when Miami was terrible, Notre Dame would beat them 44-0 (or worse) every year. When I matriculated at Georgia in the autumn of 1979, I learned that seemingly everybody hated Notre Dame, which made perfect sense to me.
I can't think of a single school I'd like to see lose to Notre Dame. I'd even pull for Florida and Klempsin to beat the Irish. Maybe not Georgia Tech.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:03 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Brad, I know what you mean about being poor. I was eating peanut butter every meal of the week during my college years. At one point, I was working three jobs.
I still remember buying the oversized Sugar Bowl ticket. I think it cost $20. A bunch of us carpooled to the game from Miami, so expenses were slim. My biggest expenditure was buying a western omlet at a restaurant in Gulport, Mississippi. We had something like 12 people crammed into the hotel room. When Georgia beat hated, despised, loathed Notre Dame*, it was all worth it.
*Notre Dame was despised for a variety of reasons. First, they were the media darlings of all time (even more than the New York Yankees). Second, I grew up going to Miami Hurricanes football games. Back in the 70s, when Miami was terrible, Notre Dame would beat them 44-0 (or worse) every year. When I matriculated at Georgia in the autumn of 1979, I learned that seemingly everybody hated Notre Dame, which made perfect sense to me.
I can't think of a single school I'd like to see lose to Notre Dame. I'd even pull for Florida and Klempsin to beat the Irish. Maybe not Georgia Tech.
I will not very humbly admit that I was a Notre Dame fan for a day early this year. Alas....alas.....
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:23 pm
by Canoerebel
The lineup of teams I would pull for against Notre Dame should be very telling since I'm a Bulldog: Klempsin, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Auburn, and Alabama in particular. Not to mention nearly every other "far away" team like Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, and Wisconsin. Other than Georgia Tech, I think the only team I couldn't pull for against the Irish would be Southern Cal. When those two teams play, I'd pull for an asteroid to strike.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:24 pm
by Canoerebel
If said asteroid took out just Lane Kiffin, that would be a beautiful day.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:29 pm
by bradfordkay
Remember, Tech tied Notre Dame on that wonderful November Saturday - catapulting us into the #1 ranking. IIRC, that score was announced only about ten minutes before "Run, Lindsey, Run!" became a part of Bulldog lore forever...
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:31 pm
by bradfordkay
BTW: I would even cheer for Darth Visor against Notre Dame...
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:09 pm
by crsutton
He was briefly coach of the Washington Redskins where he met with total failure.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:53 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
If said asteroid took out just Lane Kiffin, that would be a beautiful day.
You may want to re-think that. Speaking for myself, I am VERY happy with him being exactly where he is now, although I think he will be sacked right about the time USCw goes off probation.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:59 pm
by Canoerebel
There are two coaches in college football for whom no disaster is too small: Lane Kiffin and Bobby Petrino. I'd pull for the asteroid to hit them even if they were doing a terrible job coaching Notre Dame!
Steve Spurrier is an Evil Genius, but that's said with nothing but grudging admiration. Kiffin and Petrino, on the other hand, are slimy creatures out of the swamp floor.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:06 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
There are two coaches in college football for whom no disaster is too small: Lane Kiffin and Bobby Petrino. I'd pull for the asteroid to hit them even if they were doing a terrible job coaching Notre Dame!
Steve Spurrier is an Evil Genius, but that's said with nothing but grudging admiration. Kiffin and Petrino, on the other hand, are slimy creatures out of the swamp floor.
They may both be bottom dwelling slime suckers but there is a BIG difference between the two. Petrino wins. A lot.
He will wind up at a big program again once he serves his penance and the bruises fade.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:09 pm
by Canoerebel
Perhaps folks will have more respect for Petrino if you also post of picture of his honey![:)]
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:12 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Perhaps folks will have more respect for Petrino if you also post of picture of his honey![:)]
Indeed.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:19 pm
by Canoerebel
Okay, she's a little bit scary, but can anybody blame coach Petrino?
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:20 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Okay, she's a little bit scary, but can anybody blame coach Petrino?
Yes, I believe Mrs. Petrino took a dim view.
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:21 pm
by Canoerebel
[:D]
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:27 pm
by captskillet
Geaux Tigers..............if they can finally learn to pass Lester may finally have something........Canoe watch out the real Tigers are coming this fall!
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:30 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
For a glimpse into the dark recesses of AU Tiger's sense of humor: not long after the news broke about Petrino's mishap, I mailed a Harley-Davidson brochure to a Razorback friend of mine knowing full well that his wife opens all of the mail.
[8D]
RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 4:30 pm
by AU Tiger_MatrixForum
ORIGINAL: captskillet
Geaux Tigers..............if they can finally learn to pass Lester may finally have something........Canoe watch out the real Tigers are coming this fall!
I was wondering when you would show up!