Post your most memorable GT plays

Tie---the 2 Plays In The Fog--85 Gary Lee And The Winning Fg At Vir In 90--out Of The Mists Came Victory!
 
1) Roddy Jones marching down the sidelines for the game-winning TD against UGAg.

2) The clinching fumble against Florida State this past year.

3) Jasper Sanks fumble and Manget kick soon thereafter.

4) Calvin's game-winner against Clemson in 04.
 
JWE37 said:
It was great. I ran around section 104 for about 15 minutes high 5-ing everybody while screaming "holy ****" and "we will rock you" at the top of my lungs. Man....that was a great day to be a Jacket!
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Things like this are why this play is #2 on my list. I've never seen such an electricity take over Bobby Dodd Stadium in one instant, even in some of the better plays we've had against UGAg in recent years.
 
Agreed. I thought FSU was marching in for a TD when all of a sudden I see the ball floating in the air. It seemed like the play took forever then I looked and seen rashad reid had recovered the ball. BDS erupted like never before.
 
gt23eric said:
Agreed. I thought FSU was marching in for a TD when all of a sudden I see the ball floating in the air. It seemed like the play took forever then I looked and seen rashad reid had recovered the ball. BDS erupted like never before.
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With all the circumstances taken into account, that's gotta be an all-time great play in Tech history.

Deciding play, No time left, Improbable play, Beat our 2nd biggest ACC rival, Broke the streak against them, A lot of close loses in our history with them, They were ranked 15th.
 
I was thinking about that one too, Lyman

My memory is that a tall, lanky lineman tipped a pass and an extremely stout -- shall we say -- lineman caught it and started lumbering toward the end zone. I have forgotten both names, but was one called "Bam Bam"? It took several Bulldogs to drag the big fella down. It happened right in front of the student section and they were going nuts. We pretty much had the game in hand, but that play closed the door on 'em.

It was a sweet, sweet win and one of my all times favorites. The Dogs had been invited to the Peach Bowl the week before and we were shut out of the bowls. A sensible idea would have been to award the winner of the game with the bowl bid, since they had the same records. But the bowls were even less sensible then, if such a thing is possible.


Lyman Hall said:
I wish I could remember the name of the player . . . in the 1989 game vs. UGA at Grant Field, a huge Tech DL picked up a fumble and lumbered back for a TD.

Georgia scored a late TD and 2-point conversion, and every Tech person there was chanting "So what! So what!".

Tech won 33-22. I have always considered that game to be the true start of the 1990 championship season.
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Re: the '89 UGA game

Was it Bobby Hodge? Al Ciraldo used to refer to Hodge as "Big Bubba".
 
"Lothridge led Tech to a 7-6 victory over No. 1 ranked and unbeaten Alabama in 1962 – a win that Coach Bobby Dodd later said was his greatest ever. Lothridge, a quarterback, kicked the second-half extra point that gave Alabama its first loss in 27 games."

I hitchhiked home from school in SC to listen to this game on the radio.
 
One of my personal favorites was '90 GT vs UGA. I was 13 so my memory may be a little cloudy, but Bobby Rodriguez dove catching a deep ball from Shawn Jones deep inside mutts territory. That sparked the route. I'll never forget the Tech fans beside me (boozing on beam and coke) jumping up and down. It was a great day.
 
My memory is godawful too, I'm afraid, but what I remember is that we were heavy favorites coming into the game but couldn't seem to get untracked, The game remained close for a while, much longer than I liked or expected. But we started to get a streak of good running plays going, and being the brilliant play caller he was, Big Ralph took advantage of it. Called a play action bomb when it wasn't expected and Rodriquez ran past everybody for the six.

CPJ= Master Yoda said:
One of my personal favorites was '90 GT vs UGA. I was 13 so my memory may be a little cloudy, but Bobby Rodriguez dove catching a deep ball from Shawn Jones deep inside mutts territory. That sparked the route. I'll never forget the Tech fans beside me (boozing on beam and coke) jumping up and down. It was a great day.
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bellyseries said:
"Lothridge led Tech to a 7-6 victory over No. 1 ranked and unbeaten Alabama in 1962 – a win that Coach Bobby Dodd later said was his greatest ever. Lothridge, a quarterback, kicked the second-half extra point that gave Alabama its first loss in 27 games."

I hitchhiked home from school in SC to listen to this game on the radio.
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I was away at school also--the PE instructor for the frosh class had a prediction contest for the game--the winner did not have to take the PE finals and got an A for winning--I pred 7-6 TECH and was the only one sitting back and laughing at the others during PE test--wish I had bet money on the score--I played against Lothridge in HS, he was truly one of TECH's all time greats.
 
CPJ= Master Yoda said:
One of my personal favorites was '90 GT vs UGA. I was 13 so my memory may be a little cloudy, but Bobby Rodriguez dove catching a deep ball from Shawn Jones deep inside mutts territory. That sparked the route. I'll never forget the Tech fans beside me (boozing on beam and coke) jumping up and down. It was a great day.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1BVIdZaMQ
Brilliant play actually. Shawn Jones fakes the triple option then pulls back and throws it deep.
 
Best experience at a game I was actually at: third quarter of last year's game against UGA. The fumble and then the Dwyer TD. Chaos in the upper deck. People taking chainsaws out of clown suits. That game will be remembered for a long time, like 1999 and 1985.

Unfortunately I'm just a bit too young to have seen 1999. My first game I remember watching as a true Tech fan was GOL's last game versus the mutts in 2001. Before then I was an FSU fan (shudder).

So the best moment I've seen on TV live was probably Miami 2005. They were #2 or #3 in the country IIRC, coming off a loss to UVA (again) and nobody gave us a snowball's chance in hell. After the game, Miami began their slide in earnest after getting destroyed by LSU in the Peach Bowl and has never sniffed where they were before they played us in 2005. Clemson in '04 is a close second, of course.
 
Re: I was thinking about that one too, Lyman

Yaller Jacket said:
It was a sweet, sweet win and one of my all times favorites. The Dogs had been invited to the Peach Bowl the week before and we were shut out of the bowls. A sensible idea would have been to award the winner of the game with the bowl bid, since they had the same records. But the bowls were even less sensible then, if such a thing is possible.
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89 - awesome win. Mutt fans were talking "No Bowl Jackets" trash before the game. And we were chanting "Peach Bowl Champs!" as they filed out of BDS.
 
The850 said:
Someone needs to upload the Gary Lee play to Youtube. Surely somebody has got that on tape! (Wish I did.)

BTW, what about the Dez White catch in the '98 UVA game where he caught a pass over the middle, crossed the field, and outran everyone to the endzone. I always thought that one was underrated. That '98 game is still one of my favorites ever...
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Great game--17 down in the fourth, homecoming, my 25th class reunion.
 
samsgt02 said:
As a boy, William Bell's run against Nebraska. At that moment I knew.

While at Tech, it was Jasper "Thanks" Sanks for fumbling at the goal line.

Post-grad, it would be Calvin's catch agianst Clemons.
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That Citrus Bowl game remains the most complete and dominating game against a really good team I have ever seen Tech play--and I have been watching for almost 50 years. If you play some YouTube of our win against UVA that year, the post game comments at the time were that Nebraska would be vying with Notre Dame for #1. We kicked a mighty good team's butt that day. Convincingly.
 
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