Okay, kids, who you got as the scaredy cat (scaredy dawg?) there?
Interesting comment from Kirby Smart on radio show on coaches debating whether to use flea-flicker to Terry Godwin on 1st offensive snap vs. Mississippi State in 2017. "We had somebody on the staff that was scared, didn't want to do it." Play went for a TD. pic.twitter.com/MBPMRq8ykm
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) November 11, 2022
Okay, kids, who you got as the scaredy cat (scaredy dawg?) there?
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
Jim Chaney, because most of his offensive calls appeared to be made while scared.
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Coley. Had to be.
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Was Coley on that staff?
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And here’s some more of that, along with the rest of the season for an excellent review of that season …
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That fumble recovery at ND announced Kirby to the world.
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Damn that was fun.
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UGA GET AFTER IT!!
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Had to be Chaney, he was very conservative.
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Or maybe Kirby.
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Dude was probably told my his doctor to minimize stress levels with his blood pressure level being what it was.
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That’s probably one of my five favorite moments in Sanford Stadium. It was so much fun when all 92,000 realized at the same time what the play was and how wide open it was.
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It is the only game my Dad has ever been to. He is not a football fan but I made him go. He understood why I like it so much after being able to tailgate and hang out in Athens.
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Man, that’s really cool. What a great memory for y’all. Way back 21 years ago when I was a senior at UGA my late parents came and watched the Kentucky game with me in the student section, stood on the bleachers and the whole bit. It was a really special experience to get to share with them. That was the only Georgia game either of them ever came to in person but they became Dawgs when I enrolled and they cheered for UGA the rest of their lives. Sometimes I get a little choked up when I look over at that part of the stadium when I remember it.
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I have great memories of going to a few games with my Dad. He came to the South Carolina game (Herschel vs George Rogers) and we stood in the student section. I believe we shared some bourbon to go in our Poss’s Cokes.
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Reminds me of my dad. I got him to go to one game when I was in school at UGA— the Gator Bowl when Andre Arizona was at Michigan State. I think it was Dooley’s last game? He’s old school-no hobbies, works all the time. Started a plumbing company in the 70’s.
But he still talks about that game!
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I was very fortunate to go to several games with my Dad – my favorite was the season opener against Boise.
He passed 12 years ago on the Saturday we lost to MSU in Starkville.
I would give most anything to go to just one more game with him so he could see the CKS version of UGA.
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What’s the odds they do that again to open the game, just because they can?
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Kirby
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Run the damn ball, Bobo.
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Kirby.
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Chaney…he only liked to run it up the middle on 1st downs
Frigging stupid but true
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Alex, what is the “Hook and lateral vs alabamia” for $1 million dollars please…(it coulda’ beeen a flea flicker, but whose counting)…GO DAWGS!
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“…he only liked to run it up the middle on 1st downs.”
Might as well have been on first date! Either way, you JUST don’t do that!!
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Ah yes, glory days…but now as I understand it, if you don’t get 2 signed letters of consent, notarized, your goose could be cooked
Best now to keep them guessing with fakes and bean flickers…I mean Flea Flickers
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And I’m sure we all remember the next year’s Florida game, Mullen’s first after having moved over from MSU, when they opened their first possession with…a flea-flicker, which resulted in…Wah-waaaaahhh…incompletion. Thanks for playing!
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RC…yep. Felipe Franks missed a wide open receiver.
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We interrupt this post to say Happy Veterans Day to Ranger Russ, Spur, Ghurka, Corch and all the other Vets who land here!
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All DGDs!
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You too Illini!
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I’ll second that, DieselDawg.
I celebrated by sleeping in. As I recall there were four things I couldn’t get enough of back in those days. Sleep, alcohol, food and…
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Georgia Football!
😉
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It was my birthday yesterday and it was also 56 years to the day I went in. I celebrated by waking up at 4:30am! Go Dawgs!
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Shiiiiiit, I84, I’m normally eating breakfast at 0430. Got to man the perimeter by BMNT. Dawn’s when the French and Indians attack (feather not dot).
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Thanks to all you veterans!
My Dad was an Air Force man 1951-55.
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No more inspections for you…1 year! Next….
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It’s that 4th thing, RR, that has started bar fights (Uncle Got), wars, and feuds that lasted generations…face that launched a thousand ships my hillbilly ass…give me an Asian ping-pong markswoman any day of the week…(THIS coming from a dude who has long been shackled/married to Italian mafioso hit woman) but a man can dream, dammit
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I do understand, FD. I suggested adoption to my wife, who seemed interested until my choice of a 17 year old Vietnamese girl stifled all conversations on that subject.
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I’ve been thinking about this song all day
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LBFM
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The Machine!
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Every once in a while one of us older guys at work will drop that and no one knows what we are talking about.
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Wasn’t this the play where Kirby said “they [MSU] had an eye violator” in the secondary? Kirby usually keeps things like that close to the vest but I thought it was pretty amazing that we saw that on film and attacked it.
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I always wear sunglasses to the beach so my girlfriend won’t catch me being an eye violator.
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Legend.
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Cocoa Beach, 1982. Brand new Nikon FE2. Girl in a red and white swimsuit. 😳my buddy asked me to take her pic and of course, the girl starts “showing off”. I took about 5-6 pics and forgot about it. Until. Seems my bride of some six months chose triple copies of each pic and was, shall I say, ready when I got home..
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One of Joe Teesitore’s finer calls. I find him very obnoxious and annoying but that actually sounded good a few years later.
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He’s way too over-the-top on a random first down conversion play in the second quarter, but I mostly enjoy his calls. He was terrrrrrible on College Football Final, though. I was so happy they got him off of that show and back in the booth, he almost ruined one of the best parts of college football Saturdays.
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Tess really shines near the end of blow outs when you can tell he just doesn’t give a shit and is liable to say anything. Sort of like drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.
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Have we had one work since then?
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We’ve had a few go for big gains and first downs, but I don’t think we’ve had one go to the house since this play.
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I vote for Pittman.
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I would love to see them run that as the first offensive play just for old times’ sake.
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Coley no doubt.
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Kirby is talking about himself.
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My guess is that the coach was not Chaney since, as OC, it was his job to present a game plan to the head coach and I figure, if he didn’t want to try it, it would not have been other table for Smart to decide.
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Late February 1995 one of my favorite vendors paid me a visit. It was cold so we sat in his truck and talked. Mr Clarence Yeargin had recently turned 74 years old and was set to retire. We’d never talked about anything except business until that day.
He told me that 50 years before he was a Marine Corporal on Iwo Jima. When they left the island he was the Company Commander and one of twelve Marines still standing from his company. He talked for awhile and I just listened. That was the last time I saw Mr Clarence as he died about a year later, a week after his 75th birthday. I reckon retirement didn’t suit him too well.
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Pretty sure his daughter was my 5th grade teacher.
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