Whether Delayed

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If’n you’re tuned in to ABC for the SEC Championship Game, you already know there’s a weather delay. Given the forecast, I’d be slightly surprised if we get this one in today. There’s currently standing water in the outfield in Hoover, so maybe we’ll get a bonus game on the long Memorial Day weekend tomorrow.

In the meantime, entertain yourself with the greatest monsoon game I ever attended, the 1996 tilt with Texas Tech in Sanford Stadium. If you want to see magic, dial it up to the 34 minute mark and watch Georgia march down the field 98 yards. Torin Kirtsey, Juan Daniels, Mike Bobo (the QB), and Hines Ward, especially when Hines goes ass over tea kettle and knocks out Chris Terry for a two point conversion around the 37 minute mark.

Enjoy, Refugees. And, yes, that says Georgia (0-2). We had already lost to Southern Miss and South Carolina, so to even be there as a fan was a testament to your dedication as a Dawg fan. It was Donnan’s first year as a head coach, to be fair, and, as a reminder, Smart lost to Vanderbilt and Tech in 2016.

Happy Weather Delay.

14 thoughts on “Whether Delayed”

  1. Horrible weather, horrible offense. The Kentucky game was bad weather and really bad football that year. Throw in the Macarena for the cherry on top of some really bad football. I think bobos brain is warped from that season.

    • I think the injury he sustained in 1995 against Ole Miss, getting his knee and leg completely destroyed, put a bit of a bug in his head, for sure. I’m surprised he came back from that at all.

  2. My monsoon game was Fla 1968. Was definitely worth it. 35-0 at half, my crowd wanted to leave. I told them we are not going anywhere cause l had the keys! Ended up 51-0. Soaked but didn’t even care!!

  3. I was at that game with my radio headset. Remember Munson saying, “he missed it by the skin of a toothbrush.”

    • Watched the first half of the Fla-UTK game (Peyton v Spurrier, also in heavy rain) from the deck at Sons of Italy with my dad, then we walked to Sanford. Never been so wet for so long, but will never forget seeing Hines flip into the endzone

  4. 10 plays. 97 yards. 112 seconds. FIRE Bobo! I normally fast forward through these clips but this one I watch the entire time through and oh my goodness what an amazing bit of history. The other team, TT, had Heisman hopefuls and Jim Donnan’s team was nothing but a bunch of junkyard dogs. When a DAWG is in the fight the outcome is never determined until time runs out. While I don’t really remember this game (alcohol) thanks for the flashback. Fire Bobo! SMH.

  5. Just turned the game on. After 6 it’s 11-1 Dawgs over Hawgs. At least two of those runs were because of judicious helmet tap and the reversal of a called strike three. The ‘strike’ was about 2” outside. Hope this comment doesn’t jinx them. It would be embarrassing to lose now.

  7. At least we won that one.

    My monsoon game was 74 at home versus the pencil necks. Pepper Rodgers first year. We were comfortable favorites. At game time, it was 32.5 degrees and raining sideways. The pencil necks did not attempt a single forward pass, possibly because they didn’t need to. I’ve been cold at games. I’ve been rained on at games. I’ve never had a double whammy like that day. And I went to a bunch of Peach Bowl games at Atlanta Stadium, where the weather was usually awful.

    1986 Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa had monsoon rain AND a lightning show; we lost, but at least I got to eat at Bern’s. 2008 pencil necks sucked. 2015 Alabama sucked, too. Losing sucks.

    • Was there. Not just wet but cold. Could hardly get car unlocked. No key fobs back then. Pepper Rodgers ran us to death between the hashes. tech SUX!!!

  8. I remember being soaked at the TT game and looking up at the pricks in the sky boxes with extreme enmity.

  9. I was at that game. I was wearing my Patagonia rain jacket, and it failed. I called them the next week, and they said I should treat it with Nikwax. I did, and it was once again waterproof.

  10. That was my freshman year at UGA. I drove up for the Southern Miss abortion BEFORE the dorms opened, so I had to drive my ass back to Atlanta postgame. I *think* I went to this game. Can’t remember though.

    My *TWO* soakers were probably in 2002, UGA-FU in Jacksonville, where I got soaked watching us piss away the game, and then COFH, where we won 51-7 in a freezing rain. That COFH has been the last COFH I’ve attended, as I determined after that game that I wasn’t going to freeze my ass off to watch us beat the hell out of Yech.

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