I still remember this one, being the Redcoats and having a front row seat to the melee at the end.
It was a decent ending to a shitty season, but set the tone for what I could expect in the tone of the series (as a live spectator) and further deepen my hate for the Nerds.
Today’s question – what’s your most impactful COFH memory?
For that 93 game, my wife (at the time) and I went to a movie in Marietta the night before. The Dawgs team was sharing our theater for a showing of Perfect World (Costner). Afterward, Ray Goff was next to me in the bathroom, and I resisted the urge to say good luck, because I don’t talk to dudes when I’m standing at the pisser.
I’d say the 78 game where Buck and Amp saved us was the most impactful, but sealing my hate in eternity was the Jasper Sanks game.
51-7 under Richt. And it wasn’t enough… Also thoughroughly enjoyed 52-7 and 45-0 under Kirby.
thoroughly – dammit
So many…. The negative ones come to mind the most. I saw the 1990, the 2000 and 2008 losses in person.
All brutal in their own way.
On the other hand, I also saw CPJ’s last game where Kirby turned Tech into a middling middle school football team.
My favorite has to be the “we run this state” game that no one gave us a chance in, except me.
I KNEW we were winning that night.
If we take that same mentality into the dome tomorrow, we’ll win by 3 tds.
Impactful or enjoyable, any of the games reggie ball participated in, especially the one where he throws out of bounds on 4 down to avoid a sack.
I hope everyone here and throughout Dawgnation has a great Thanksgiving day and enjoys the company of family and friends.
Very thankful everyday for the GTP Refugee page keeping this out of state Dawg up to date, informed and entertained.
Go Dawgs and to hell with tech.
1981 & 1997 vs nerdfootball….GO DAWGS!!
Got Sr. flattening a drunk tech fan that spit on my uncle, 1978ish. POW! I learned a very good lesson that day…
Last year is fresh in my mind. Took the family and watched a group of four Techies sitting close by, all dudes of course, go through every emotion known to man during the game. The last emotion being total and utter defeat. They really thought they were going to win. The end was bedlam. My kids were celebrating with strangers like we won the natty. Go Dawgs!
I wasnt there. I was at the Auburn game that year. Ive seen the clip of course. Who was that announcer? Good Lord. I recognize Keith Jackson’s voice. Who was the other one? Was it Blackledge? I hope not. “This is what’s gonna happen! This is what’s gonna happen! You can’t run the score up on people!” Where were you with Spurrier, dip shit?
What always comes to my mind with this game isnt from the rivalry itself. In 2006 before the Tennessee game we were tailgating near the continuation ed center and I had finally rented enough Coors Lights that I had to go make room for some more. When I got to the bathroom there was a kid in his early twenties wearing Tech gear for no apparent reason. A bunch of old men in there were giving him hell. I remember one saying, “Yella! It’s the color of piss!” To which we all belly laughed. Except Tech kid. He just left.
I think the color announcer was Frank Broyles, former Arkansas caoch and I believe a Tech alum (or somehow attached to Tech). Screw him. If the nerds didn’t like us scoring, they should’ve stopped it.
Just checked. Broyles played at Tech and was their starting QB. Screw him.
Color guy I believe is Bob Grieses
Pretty sure that was Griese also – he and Keith and Lynn Swann were together most of the ’90s; I don’t remember Broyles doing games in the ’90s….
Sadly, I’ve suffered multiple defeats Between the Hedges. At the game in 1997, though, 1997, BABY!
Bobo to Allen at the end!!!
Didn’t hear: “Our heart that was torn out and bleeding, we picked it up and we stuck it back inside. I can’t believe this”! live but I had that beautiful Munson call on one of my last cassettes and played it constantly whenever I got homesick when I was living in Chico, CA lol
TUCK FECH!!!!!!!!!
1997. The nerds scored late in the 4th and I knew we were beat. Then bobo hit Allen right in front of me for a TD to pull it out 27-24.
The 2019 game is a close 2nd. I had 3rd row seats in the end zone for George’s wallbanger.
Any year we might have lost to Feck between the Hedges and those sorry a**holes ripping off pieces of the Hedge as a prize.
Pickens slamming that yella bee into the wall is has been forever etched into my tech psyche. It replaced any pissy memory I have ever had of those idiotic fukers. Tuck Fech
I have two really bad memories. On the plus side there are too many good memories to recount, so the bad ones stick out.
The first was 1974 between the hedges. My Tech bro wanted to go to the game and drove over from Atlanta. We didn’t have tickets, but rain was in the forecast so we figured we could get some. Walked to the Arch and got a couple of tickets for $5.00 each, went to the Varsity where it used to be near the Arch and got some lunch (may have been the first mistake) and then walked to Sanford armed with a couple of trash bags to use as ponchos. I thought we were smart. Hah! Rain? No, deluge! And cold. I thought it might snow, but it never did. Still, I think Tech was up 34-0 at half time. I wanted to leave but my brother didn’t want to. The trash bags were useless, we were both soaked, but he was happy. I was sick, and not just because we lost – I was physically ill for at least a week.
The other one involved Jasper Sanks’ ‘fumble’. I wasn’t at the game. I was at a concert in Covington, but I was checking the score for much of the game. I felt confident when I quit checking and later found out about the ‘fumble’. I was pissed! Even more so when I saw the replay., To this day when I think they are taking too long to review a play, I remember that it is better than the alternative because of Jasper Sanks.
Note to sel
I looked around and found a Skycast for tomorrow’s game on Hulu. Tried ESPN app which I think should have it but didn’t see it. If you can find ESPN Unlimited that’s where it will be.
The thing I remember and hated in real time was not more than five minutes earlier in this game they were laughing it up about tech beating Cumberland 220-0 in 1916. Then whoever the color guy starts whining about “This is what’s gonna happen.” and “This team has pride too.” I was screaming at the tv.
Seriously, if we finally get our eighth in a row and hang half a hundred on them it still won’t satisfy me.
Spurrier understood how rivalries work. It’s our way of life against theirs.
Tuck Fech.
I would say the 1998 and 1999 games were the most impactful to me due to the egregious “non-fumble” and “fumble” calls. I was at the 1998 game and it was obvious that the QB fumbled and that we recovered it, but there was no replay to overturn it back then. If not for that bad call, we would have matched “the drought” with consecutive win #8 in this series and THEN if you add the 1999 “fumble” call to that, we would have won 9 in a row to set the series record.