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I grew up playing organized football and thoroughly enjoyed it. As many of you know, football in the South is a cultural thing, especially college football. Even if you've never played, it's a huge part of life growing up here. College football in the South comes perhaps as close as anything...

The UGA boards are in full meltdown mode right now, worse than after we lost to the Citadel. Some are expecting another two losses on the year. Coach Richt was fired because he wasn't winning national championships; Coach Smart was hired to remedy that, and he has arguably better players than...

As a TV sport I like college football the most, especially ACC games and some of the more important SEC games. I used to watch the NFL when I was younger and was once a fan of the league as a whole, but the teams have become almost interchangeable over the years, lacking the distinct...

A few games could legitimately be called "signature games" for Paul Johnson as coach. I'm not thinking here of a signature game for Paul Johnson the coach, but rather, a signature game for "Paul Johnson" the era, the signature game of his tenure. I keep going back in my mind to the '15 game...

If you're ever in Charleston for an extended period, make it a point to go out and watch the Stingrays at the Coliseum in North Charleston. They are one of the more dominant teams in the ECHL and are so popular here, you almost forget the NHL even exists. They were fairly popular before the...

I would love to see a video of a Johnson-coached Navy team playing Tech, but they never played against us while he was coaching Navy, at least not when he was HC. But he was OC there in '95 and '96. I think they came into Grant Field and beat us that year. Is there any film of the game out there?

There have been a couple games against UGA where bad calls by the refs helped them win. However, UGA fans always talk about how the '98 & '99 contests were basically handed to us by the refs and that the Bulldogs should have won both games. Quite a few of us thought Tech got away with a fumble...

UGA undeniably has a good team this year and is loaded with talent. They've got good depth and a pretty stout defense. The AJC has said in recent days (paraphrasing) that we'll learn more about Tech in the coming weeks as it enters the meat grinder of its schedule, but to date they really...

I never knew this game was even played... Two days prior to blowing out Team USA in the exhibition game at Madison Square Garden, the 1980 Soviet team travelled to Erie, PA to play a tune-up game against the Erie Blades of the EHL. That must have been a real thrill for those guys... minor...

Was just shy of 13 y.o. when these Olympics happened. Was old enough to be aware of the Soviets' prowess, but too young to understand just how much of a long shot it really was for the US team. For anyone who doesn't remember these games or wasn't yet born, it's still easy to relate to this...

#1. 1980 Olympic Hockey Victory... Watched the games against Sweden, Czechoslovakia, West Germany and the Soviet Union. Don't remember watching the gold medal game because time seemed to freeze in place after we beat the Soviets. The game was simply insane, gut-wrenching... no other words to...

With the Pitt win over Clemson (FG to win game), does Louisville get a shot at entering the playoff? Louisville's only loss so far is to Clemson, but Pitt was unranked heading into today, which made Clemson's loss the worse of the two.

This is more of an offseason-type question, but I was purusing the UGA blog on the AJC, and the pass Buck Belue made to Lindsey Scott to beat Florida in 1980 was being heralded as the best play in the entire history of UGA football -- presumably more important than the play that ended The...

A decent VCR recording of the game in Athens between the Yellow Jackets and the Bulldogs, complete with commercials. The audio is from the Tech radio broadcast and features Al Ciraldo and Kim King. This was still the era of the star running back who carried the ball most of the game -- unlike...

A commentary that appeared recently in MyAJC about Coach Brian Gregory. Personally, I think he earned the opportunity to come back and coach another year... The personal qualities Coach Gregory brought to Tech will be missed, and I think his absence will be felt for a number of seasons to...

The final game played in Grant Field's old horseshoe configuration, against UGA. In 1984, Tech hadn't won over UGA in 7 straight seasons but finally got a big blowout victory over the Dawgs in Athens -- perhaps one of the biggest wins in Tech program history and the game that started the...

Per the Mark Richt firing, I was thinking about a quote Bobby Dodd made about student athletes, winning and losing, and fans being upset when their team loses (in a nutshell, he basically said to chill out). One of the posters here had it in their signature for awhile. Can't find it out on the...

Saw the Vad Lee ESPN video yesterday on Youtube... Looks like he's a great fit at JMU. A number of months ago I was wondering, what would have happened if Reggie Ball had played under Paul Johnson? Or what if Vad Lee had been old enough to play for Chan Gailey? Vad very well could have...

Not related to today's game, but mentioned to Butler22 that I'd post some old pics of Grant Field as it existed in the '80s. This site used to have a place to put photo albums (?) I think, but I didn't see where it was... These were from my Freshman year in '87, sitting in the student section...

Pretty dismissive of Tech's effort... The Jackets nearly went up 14-7 at the beginning of the 3rd and had the game all but wrapped up, about to score again (a FG at least) with under 3:00 to go -- points missed by the article. Tech came close to giving this game away every bit as much as...