Roll Tide

RamblinWreck09 said:
I think Alabama will let it go to 3rd overtime until Bama's D clamps down and holds UGAg to a field goal, then on the next possession Tua will intentionally make it 4th and 54, then he'll throw a touchdown pass.
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Lol, no. Bama is going to decimate them.
 
Have we forgotten that it was primarily because of a feud with Alabama that Bobby Dodd foolishly (in hindsight, perhaps) exited the SEC? We have to admit that we'd probably be in much better shape in more ways than just football if Tech had never left the SEC.
 
btreynolds said:
Have we forgotten that it was primarily because of a feud with Alabama that Bobby Dodd foolishly (in hindsight, perhaps) exited the SEC? We have to admit that we'd probably be in much better shape in more ways than just football if Tech had never left the SEC.
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I would think having conference title implications would only make COFH more intense. I’m sorry I wasn’t around in those days.
 
btreynolds said:
Have we forgotten that it was primarily because of a feud with Alabama that Bobby Dodd foolishly (in hindsight, perhaps) exited the SEC? We have to admit that we'd probably be in much better shape in more ways than just football if Tech had never left the SEC.
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Yes. We should have never left the SEC. It was a dumb argument and 54 years later Alabama is still doing the same shit and so is the rest of the SEC and other schools. So by making Tech leave the SEC, Dodd only screwed us. Noone else.
 
DressCheeseSideSeaboard said:
I would think having conference title implications would only make COFH more intense. I’m sorry I wasn’t around in those days.
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If GT had remained in the SEC, COFH would be something much more of the country would be aware of.

I wasn't around in those days either, but it's interesting to read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Dodd#Georgia_Tech's_withdrawal_from_SEC
http://www.espn.com/college-football/columns/story?columnist=curry_bill&id=1906479
 
I grew up in Northeast Alabama, and most of my family attended UA. My mother and father (God rest his soul) went there during Bear Bryant's tenure. I grew up a Bama fan in the 90s when it wasn't very popular to be a Bama fan (after 92 at least). My friends during high school (now all die-hard fans somehow) would ask why we were "wasting our weekend" to go to Tuscaloosa. How times have changed.

Some of my best memories are actually traveling to road games with my Dad to see Bama play, even if we got beat. Case in point, we once drove 11 hours to Fayetteville, Arkansas to see Bama lose 42-7. We also stayed in the same hotel as the football team for a bowl game ('95 Outback bowl, I believe), and I got the autograph of a young Dabo Swinney, then a first-year WR coach for the Tide.

Another good tale - In Fall of 2008 I was entering my fourth year at Tech. Alabama played Georgia that year in Athens (the famous blackout game). Dad took the whole family and picked me up in Atlanta on the way. As Bama was stomping them, I taught the entire section the "To Hell with Georgia" chant. They freaking loved it.

I basically converted 5 minutes into my first Tech football game, but it is still easy to cheer for Bama.... especially when they are playing the hated mutts. Roll Damn Tide.
 
https://www.si.com/vault/1962/11/26/592367/a-rough-day-for-the-bear

"Most of the 53,000 spectators who jammed into the 52,000-seat stadium did. Last year an Alabama player, Darwin Holt, had smashed Georgia Tech's Chick Graning in the face with his left elbow and forearm, in an unnecessary block when an Alabama teammate signaled for a fair catch on a punt. After the catch, though possibly before the referee's whistle had sounded. Holt hit Graning, rising off his feet as he drove his arm up under the taller Tech player's face guard. Graning was helped off the field with injuries diagnosed later as 1) fracture of the alveolar process (facial bones), 2) five missing upper front teeth, 3) fracture of the nasal bone, 4) fracture of the right maxillary sinus and the sinus filled with blood, 5) fracture of the right zygomatic process (bone beneath the right eye), 6) cerebral concussion and 7) possible fracture of the base of the skull.

The injury to Graning, an extremely popular boy who has been described as "basically too gentle to be a truly great football player," infuriated Georgia Tech fans, faculty and alumni, who argued that it was the result of a deliberate and brutal foul. More significantly, it was called characteristic of Alabama football—and just about the last straw."

öööö 'Bama.
 
BranMart said:
https://www.si.com/vault/1962/11/26/592367/a-rough-day-for-the-bear

"Most of the 53,000 spectators who jammed into the 52,000-seat stadium did. Last year an Alabama player, Darwin Holt, had smashed Georgia Tech's Chick Graning in the face with his left elbow and forearm, in an unnecessary block when an Alabama teammate signaled for a fair catch on a punt. After the catch, though possibly before the referee's whistle had sounded. Holt hit Graning, rising off his feet as he drove his arm up under the taller Tech player's face guard. Graning was helped off the field with injuries diagnosed later as 1) fracture of the alveolar process (facial bones), 2) five missing upper front teeth, 3) fracture of the nasal bone, 4) fracture of the right maxillary sinus and the sinus filled with blood, 5) fracture of the right zygomatic process (bone beneath the right eye), 6) cerebral concussion and 7) possible fracture of the base of the skull.

The injury to Graning, an extremely popular boy who has been described as "basically too gentle to be a truly great football player," infuriated Georgia Tech fans, faculty and alumni, who argued that it was the result of a deliberate and brutal foul. More significantly, it was called characteristic of Alabama football—and just about the last straw."

öööö 'Bama.
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CSB: I've got a good friend who played in that game. Really bad situation.
 
ClydeBrick said:
Get yo minds rite.

My two favorite teams are Georgia Tech and whoever is playing uGAg.

This week that happens to be Bammer.

Roll Tide.
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No, mind is rite. I'm definitely pulling for maximum Dawg destruction. But I'm not wearing Bama gear or flying a Bama flag. And my avatar ain't changing. Bama does want to sink us in a watery grave, after all.
 
18in32 said:
No, mind is rite. I'm definitely pulling for maximum Dawg destruction. But I'm not wearing Bama gear or flying a Bama flag. And my avatar ain't changing. Bama does want to sink us in a watery grave, after all.
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Watery grave > UGA national championship. Not that it changes anything you've said. Just sayin'.
 
GTROY said:
I grew up in Northeast Alabama, and most of my family attended UA. My mother and father (God rest his soul) went there during Bear Bryant's tenure. I grew up a Bama fan in the 90s when it wasn't very popular to be a Bama fan (after 92 at least). My friends during high school (now all die-hard fans somehow) would ask why we were "wasting our weekend" to go to Tuscaloosa. How times have changed.

Some of my best memories are actually traveling to road games with my Dad to see Bama play, even if we got beat. Case in point, we once drove 11 hours to Fayetteville, Arkansas to see Bama lose 42-7. We also stayed in the same hotel as the football team for a bowl game ('95 Outback bowl, I believe), and I got the autograph of a young Dabo Swinney, then a first-year WR coach for the Tide.

Another good tale - In Fall of 2008 I was entering my fourth year at Tech. Alabama played Georgia that year in Athens (the famous blackout game). Dad took the whole family and picked me up in Atlanta on the way. As Bama was stomping them, I taught the entire section the "To Hell with Georgia" chant. They freaking loved it.

I basically converted 5 minutes into my first Tech football game, but it is still easy to cheer for Bama.... especially when they are playing the hated mutts. Roll Damn Tide.
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Jackson County?
 
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