Here’s Coach Hartley setting up today’s Fodder:
What he’s referring to:
Hard to see from this angle, but if Luckie doesn’t make the tackle, it’s a possible pick six.
Sometimes it’s the little things, or the big things. Like Bowers matrixing across the first down line against Ohio State, Kirby’s critical timeout that foiled a fake punt against the same, or a one-handed catch against Notre Dame in 2017.
Big plays, big players. What’s your most memorable critical play or moment from a Georgia game that had a massive impact on either the game, or a season/era for Georgia?
Roquan making that stop on 4th down against Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl. DGD. Still one of my all time favorite Dawgs.
Kirby’s players make plays like this all the time, but at Mizzou two years ago when their guy broke the big run and Starks hawked him down short of the goal and we held them to 3. Probably lose otherwise and spoil the perfect season.
Dude – Great post. That one play encapsulated “no quit in this dawg” more than just about any other .
Has to be the Bennet toss up on, with Cook’s block, and the amazing catch by Mitchell vs Alabama. That’s when I knew the good guys would win.
Belue to Scott.
I cam here to post about the same play, but not about Belue’s pass or Scott’s catch and run. I was going to mention the block made by Chuck Jones to allow Scott to run after the catch and score.
As Frank Broyles exclaimed, “Jones was the man!”
Or the block Buck got to allow him to get out of the pocket to make the throw to Lindsay. 12-13 years later, I named my first dog (a lab mix) Lindsay as a result.
I wonder how may dogs in this state are named, Dooley, Walker, Buck, Lindsay, Chubb, Stet, etc….
I know a few named Champ, Boss and Herschel.
I have a KIrby. Had a Dooley. And a Sugar ben Herschel.
We had an Old English Sheepdog named Dooley when I was a kid. I’ve had a chocolate lab named Munson and currently have a black lab named Vince.
That was Nate Hudson. I’ve used him as an example to my kids and even to folks at work. Just doing your job/responsibility can make all the difference.
That’s right. I could not remember and was too lazy to look it up! Thanks!
Actually Nat, not Nate. Proofreading can be your friend. (That was my original “anonymous” post).
Those named above are great. Som other obscure ones, Murray to Mitchell in Jax and Jarvis Jones creating gator fumble
Ringo. Period.
Like Kirby, I was jumping up and down yelling at the TV for him to get down so there wasn’t a fumble, Bama-privilege penalty, or some other Munson-level plague of locusts that would negate the play. But Kelee didn’t listen, and gave us the greatest highlight of the last 40 years.
Shit. I might just go watch it again right now.
Hobnail boot.
If you don’t say Belue to Scott, you either weren’t alive or have a recency bias. There is no national title in 1980 without it. We would have been on a 80 year drought (think Texas 8&4 type of drought) in 2021.
It’s the most important play in Georgia football history. I’ll hold that opinion until the day I pass on to the other side.
Yep. Just about any Dawg fan alive when it happened can tell you where they were, who they were with, and what they were doing when it happened. Ringo’s pick six is 2nd.
I agree wholeheartedly, but it’s fun to remember the little ones that many forget but had a huge impact at the time. Like Travon Walker saving that touchdown when he sprinted 20 yards from the LOS and tackled Hall from behind in the ’21 natty.
No joke. My story is fun for me to tell even now because my father was a Gator alum, my uncle was also a Gator alum, and most of my Florida cousins were Gator fans. The fun part about me going to UGA in the fall of 1969 was that I could gig my father almost every year during the 70s, and in 1980 I think we were on a 4 or 5 year run so in 1980 when it looked like the game was over my father calls me and starts gloating. “We got ya this year!” Me: “um well, the game’s not over yet”, because at the time that was all I could say. So when Lindsay scores, I of course had to call him to do my gloating. All I got was a busy signal. For two solid hours. Finally, when I could get through my mother picked up the phone and only said, “it’s still too soon”, and hung up.
Meanwhile, my cousins tell me that at about the same time my uncle went out to his pool where he had some custom Gator deck chairs. He lit a cigarette, paced around and finally threw the chairs into the pool.
Ha! Great story.
Mine is from Spurrier’s first year. We pull into the lot knowing we’re going to get our asses beat. Folks from Valdosta pull up next to us in an 80s conversion van. The Handbags are talking trash. The guy from Valdosta says, “I’ll shut them up.” He pops in a cassette of Larry’s call. The Handbags go silent as it plays. After it runs, one of them comes up us and says, “Can’t y’all let us have fun for 1 year?”
2002 Greene to Johnson vs Auburn
If we had beaten Florida earlier in the season and won a title, this would be up there with Bennett to Mitchell and Sony around left end.
Any and every stalk block I saw Ladd make
Jacob Eason hurting his knee in the 2017 opener.
That is sooo wrong, but I must admit I laughed pretty hard.
I didn’t really mean it in a demeaning way toward Eason, just that it was one of those moments that changed the course of history IMO.
We’ll never know what would have happened has Eason not gotten hurt, but ’17 and ’18 was one heck of a ride with Fromm and company.
not the greatest but definitely top 10…
2007 Stafford to Mikey Henderson OT bama walkoff
Dan Jackson’s tackle on Haynes King last year. Everyone needs to watch the play again and again. Slow it down and appreciate the effort that Dan gave. No greater play by a Dawg in my opinion. Go Dawgs!!!
Another great Jax play for those of us old enough was Appleby to Washington. In those days it wasn’t so much if Georgia would win, it was how they would figure out how they would win this time.
I love that one but I think of it more for Larry’s call.
Everything mentioned so far is great (including my handle’s inspiration).
2 more for the pile:
– David Pollack with the strip/sack/TD in Columbia, 2002.
– Lorenzo Carter blocking the Oklahoma FG, 2017.
Ringo’s pick six was the nail in the coffin but you could argue that a decisive play in the 2021 game was a third down conversion by Zamir White in the drive for the Bowers TD pass. We just pushed the whole Bama defense ten yards downfield. It was a big crowd pleaser too.
Has anybody really taken the time to look at Dan Jackson’s block on the Ringo Pick-6? I think he totally blew the guy up. YMMV.
Hershel running over people to turn the game and the season. UGA 16- Bowels 15