April 19, 2018 · 6:05 AM

Alex, I’ll take “This Never Gets Old” for $200.

I could watch this a thousand times.  Hell, I may already have.

This is why, even though the national title game ended in disappointment, I never get too down about last season… and never will.

Thanks, Sony.

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41 responses to “Alex, I’ll take “This Never Gets Old” for $200.”

  1. illini84
    April 19, 2018 at 6:27 AM

    Damn right, we were in that end zone 18 rows up. I got the DVD of the game a couple of weeks ago and it’s great but, if you haven’t seen this, spend 3+ hours with 6 coaches commenting on the game as it is played.

    2017-18 Rose Bowl (Coaches Film Room) – #3 Georgia vs. #2 Oklahoma (HD)

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  2. sniffer
    April 19, 2018 at 7:32 AM

    Preparing to watch the CFPCH seemed anticlimactic. What a high that Rose Bowl week was. Then to turn on and see an empty MB stadium pregame and realize the college football watching world was about to tune in and see our Dawg’s was surreal. I was a bit detached, honestly, getting neither too excited or down during the game. Out of body sort of thing. I have no emotional ties to the championship game at all. Weird, I know.

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    • illini84
      April 19, 2018 at 7:51 AM

      I agree. It may be because I was so sick that I didn’t go to the Natty but I think it’s more than that. The Rose Bowl was so spectacular and so unexpected the NC seemed anti-climactic.

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    • Comin' Down The Track
      April 19, 2018 at 9:58 AM

      This describes my state of mine both then and now precisely, sniff.

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    • Tony Barnfart
      April 19, 2018 at 10:59 AM

      Yes and yes. I’m in this camp. It didn’t help that the Natty was on a workday with business more or less back in full grind mode. That dampers it. I didn’t make it to the Pasadena, but my wife and I sent our 2 and 5 yr olds to their grandparents for the afternoon and watched the whole thing in glorious peace and comfort just the two of us on a beautiful sunny new years day. Just having that ability to fully focus was special, if simple.

      I watch rose bowl replays every now and then at night and it’s still surreal to me that we played in that game. Not so much making a semi-final, but THE Rose Bowl……we were technically the first SEC team to play in the Rose Bowl “Game” since 1946. I know Alabama and Auburn played in title games “at the rose bowl” but, I’m sorry, if you’re not watching your schools band march in the rose parade while drinking a little new years day hair-of-the-dawg, then you’re not in the Rose Bowl. We were in THE.ROSE.BOWL………a place where SEC teams have been deliberately excluded since the end of WW2. Think about that.

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      • illini84
        April 19, 2018 at 12:18 PM

        Thinks about what? You realize that until 1975 no Big Ten team could play in any other bowl except the Rose Bowl? This effectively shut out the rest of the conference while everyone else sent multiple teams to multiple bowls.

        “Both conferences had a “no repeat” rule in force for a number of years. Under this rule, any team that had appeared in the Rose Bowl game the previous season could not go, even if they were the conference champion. The notable exceptions to this rule were Washington playing in the 1960 and 1961 games and Minnesota playing in the 1961 and 1962 games during the period when the conference agreements were in a state of flux. The Big Ten abolished this rule in 1972. The AAWU/Pac-8 had abandoned its no-repeat rule by the time Southern California played in four consecutive Rose Bowl games from 1967 to 1970.

        Both conferences also had “exclusive agreements” with the Rose Bowl game, in the sense that member schools were not allowed to play in any other bowl game. Both conferences abolished this rule before the 1975 college football season. As a result, Michigan and USC were allowed to play in the 1976 Orange Bowl and the 1975 Liberty Bowl, respectively.”

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        • Tony Barnfart
          April 19, 2018 at 2:30 PM

          I didn’t realize all that, but it still is a fact that the Grandaddy (and the powers that be) did not like southern teams for a variety of reasons. Interestingly, one of them centered around the Pro/Amateur debate…. southern (or maybe SEC) wanted to move towards a semi pro model while the others did not. Couple that with the fact that many thought we were all uncultured racist hicks (not hyperbole) and you end up with a very deliberate move to never have another Alabama or their like in Pasadena after the 1946 rose bowl.

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          • illini84
            April 20, 2018 at 9:02 AM

            I would suggest you to read “Strong Inside” abut Perry Wallace who was the first African- American basketball player in the SEC.

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    • Russ
      April 19, 2018 at 1:55 PM

      I’m the same. The NC game has turned into Superbowl Lite, which doesn’t really interest me. The contrast with “The Granddaddy if the All” is stark.

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  3. WordJared S.
    April 19, 2018 at 7:42 AM

    Word! I love the 14min condensed version on YouTube! Thank you for the memories!

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  4. eethomaswfnc
    April 19, 2018 at 7:50 AM

    Although an alumna, my wife is pretty reserved about Georgia football (probably because she’s the balancing influence to me with our kids). When Sony scored, she went into the backyard and yelled at the top of her lungs. I knew it was special when it happened, but I also knew it was very special when she reacted as she did.

    I still don’t care that I didn’t go to the Dome regardless of the outcome, but I’ve been kicking myself since January 1, 2018 for not breaking the piggy bank to take the family out to Pasadena.

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    • Spike
      April 19, 2018 at 8:04 AM

      You missed a trip of a lifetime ee.. My best to Mrs. ee! Too funny!

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    • Gaskilldawg
      April 19, 2018 at 8:16 AM

      ee, it was a real battle between my logic and emotion in early December as to whether to go. My emotions won. The Rose Bowl game is trul6 the best of them all. If you get a chance to go, GO.
      I cannot say that a UCLA home games does or does not have the atmosphere of the Rose Bowl, but the setting would be just as beautiful.

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      • eethomaswfnc
        April 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM

        I thought about booking the plane ticket when Swift made the long run in the SECCG. When I went to book after the pairings were announced, logic took over when I saw what Delta and Southwest were charging to get anywhere close to SoCal.

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        • MatthewsDawg
          April 19, 2018 at 4:45 PM

          I am glad my wife and I took the family to the Rose Bowl! Yes, it broke our piggy bank, but it was worth every penny! It was the best family vacation we have EVER taken. The game put it over the top. I will never forget going to that game! I wanted us to win the Natty, but it didn’t kill me as bad as I thought because of the Rose Bowl. If the Dawgs go back sometime, it’s a trip you have to go on. Sony and all the Dawgs, thanks for the memories! They will last a lifetime.

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  5. Charlottedawg
    April 19, 2018 at 8:13 AM

    I’m just glad Sony’s last impact on that game wasn’t the scoop and score that allowed Oklahoma to take the lead. Sony had one of the greatest individual performances in Georgia history that night and there wasn’t a more fitting ending than him sending us to Atlanta in overtime after making a huge first down conversion on the scramble pass by Fromm to set up the tying score.

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  6. Chi-town Dawg
    April 19, 2018 at 8:24 AM

    It was great seeing this game and as soon as Sony started running towards us and turned the corner we all knew it was over! Up to this point in time, the first and most exciting UGA game I ever saw in person was from 1984 when Butler’s FG beat Clemson. It took a long, long time but I’m finally glad the 2018 CFP Rose Bowl win moved to the top of my list:-)

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  7. Gene Simmons
    April 19, 2018 at 8:35 AM

    LOVE THIS! I would have loved it even more if it included a cutaway to that jackass Mayfield hanging his pompous head in defeat. GO DAWGS!

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  8. illini84
    April 19, 2018 at 8:48 AM

    Here’s how it looked from our seats!

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    • Twistification
      April 19, 2018 at 9:07 AM

      That dude in front called it “Sony is going to bust one”…wow what a great clip.

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    • Stoopnagle
      April 19, 2018 at 10:37 AM

      I think I was sitting right in front of you. I’m pretty sure that’s my buddy with the cap who looks up at you at :35.

      Yeah, that’s totally him. I had to sit down right before that play and that’s why I’m not in the picture. I stood up in time to watch the whole thing.

      That dude up to our right who was talking $hit the whole game disappeared PDQ, didn’t he?

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  9. Bright Idea
    April 19, 2018 at 9:35 AM

    When we reunited in the parking lot my 33 year old daughter wept in my arms. A moment like that was a long time coming for us old coots.

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  10. Ellis
    April 19, 2018 at 9:35 AM

    What a great angle to watch that play

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  11. Hunkering Hank
    April 19, 2018 at 11:14 AM

    One of the best things ever.

    I was there with my sons.

    Will never forget it.

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  12. AusDawg85
    April 19, 2018 at 11:19 AM

    Man those kids on field at the end were gassed! Could barely celebrate at first until the guys on the bench come running over.

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    • illini84
      April 19, 2018 at 12:04 PM

      Have you seen this one of the band? We went to the parade in the morning and those kids worked their butts off. 5/12 parade, all the game stuff and then for the win. What is cool is how they celebrate but then immediately start to play!

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  13. chuckdawg
    April 19, 2018 at 1:57 PM

    It felt like the NC to me. I really didnt want to play another game. It was perfect right there. And the band is still my fav.

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    • Ozam
      April 19, 2018 at 5:52 PM

      Exactly……I felt the same way. I told my fellow Dawg fans I wished the season was over, not because I feared AL, but having made the cross country trek, Iwas emotionally and physically spent….

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      • illini84
        April 19, 2018 at 7:59 PM

        I guess I feel lucky that I was sick the entire month of January. I was so numb for the Natty that it just didn’t sink in. I did make enough $ on my tix to come close to breaking even on the Rose Bowl (except for the 2 bills I had to spend for seats at the parade)!

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  14. chuckdawg
    April 19, 2018 at 1:58 PM

    Also, completely taking over southbend. Lol.

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  15. Alcoholic Genius
    April 19, 2018 at 2:08 PM

    No words. Only tears. Tears of ecstasy.

    The only possible improvement would have been to hear Larry call it.

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