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Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 8:39 PM
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"Probably our biggest home win in history, considering what we accomplished afterwards adds to that game too.
But I dont think the pregame fanfare could have equaled this game against Notre Dame. Surely you didn't think that season was going to be that magical." - unidentified Clemson football illiterate
get behind me young'un and learn something....
you're partly right - it weren't going to be nothing dern "magical" about it all. Snot slinging brawls never look magical and that's what Ford and Dooley always had back in them days.
so you're mighty dern wrong the rest of they way - cause if you don't understand that back in the 80's the Dawgs were hated just as much as the Coots, then you just don't understand Clemson football history and you've been spending way too much time with an Xbox in your hands. It wasn't an ESPN world back then ruled by talking heads and pre-packaged highlights. To get any National credibility we had to win the neighborhood first, and that meant cleaning up matters with the local family first. And dang sure them Hedge Trimmers sure looked down their noses at us.
What you obviously don't understand is that in the previous year (1980) Clemson had kicked UGA all over Athens and half-way down I85 to Atlanta but had somehow lost the game on a couple of return game and short-field scores. It was as sad a result as Clemson has ever had. So UGA's National Championship "Horseshoe-up-their-pattotie" went through us in 1980 long before it had a chance to go all Hail Mary with Lindsay Scott on Florida. And unfortunately after we choked it up to them so they could stay unbeaten, we drifted our way to 6-5 even though we'd had 3 great 8+ win seasons starting in 1977. That loss in 1980 at UGA - even as we left tire marks all over their mangy behinds - was what started the difficulties of that season, and their National Championship only made it that much more infuriating.
So if you don't think there weren't a bunch of hoppin' mad, howlin' rednecks ready for their Golden Heisman boy to come to town in 1981 then you don't understand football or family at all. Quite frankly I think most of the crowd would have been satisfied to have just given the ball to UGA's offense all day and let us play defense. It was William Perry's coming out party, and the only thing louder than the crowd was the pops our front 7 was laying on Herschel and Buck Belue. 9 turnovers dude - 3 fumbles and 6 INT's, with Herschel coughing the bit on a hit like he'd never had before (them was his words afterwards). In the end, holding the champs to 3 measly points was like knocking both Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier out of the ring.
They still talk about George Rogers not scoring on the defenses of the early 80's, but they first have to talk about Herschel Walker not doing it either. That's because he got his butt ever-loving' pasted that day, and only lived to talk about it because the Judge was ready to leave and play the posers up at UNCheat.
So yeah, that game in 1981 meant more to us than any game against a bunch of flaming Leprechauns could ever mean, even before we knew what a special season it was gong to be.
And if you don't think so, well then trot your #### on down to the West End Zone and talk to the Judge about that day. I'm sure he'd love to show you just how he popped ol' Herschel several times... iff'n of course you think you got the stuffin' for it....
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 8:53 PM
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 9:11 PM
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For Tigers that were there in 1980 and 1981 they know the anguish in Athens in 1980 (Scott Worner sp.), and the Triumph in the Valley in 1981 - They know the close Victory at Kennan in the middle of Tobacco road.
Beating the DAWGS and the Tarhores was massive in our march to the National Championship!!! Both were top 10 teams that year.
Tigers prevailed and had defense that kicked butt!!!
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Pretty danged accurate
Sep 25, 2015, 9:25 PM
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and I was in attendance at both UGa games and at the unc game.
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Scott Woerner was Calvin Johnson before Bowden ever thought about choking a game
Sep 25, 2015, 9:45 PM
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I know Danny Ford still talks about losing to UGA in 1980, I've heard him do it. The ones that you win everywhere but the scoreboard are the worst.
Ford had a couple of those: Duke in 89, and losing to Mike Hold and Joe Morrison in what 84?
And of course there was Danny yelling at the refs on National TV after choking against Maryland - hahahaha!
Well, I guess that that sort of "intimacy" meant that some of them games made for good theater...
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Well that settles that
Sep 25, 2015, 9:35 PM
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We're going to stomp the Irish
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### right if the Judge is playing'...
Sep 25, 2015, 9:45 PM
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So true, you can't judge the importance of a game prior to
Sep 25, 2015, 9:38 PM
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the game, or even prior to the remainder of the season. Around the second week of December, we will know how important this game was.
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I can name plenty bigger than this one
Sep 25, 2015, 10:34 PM
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at least more important......a good many UGA games (through the 80's when we were both top 10 fixtures, and even 2013), a bunch of FSU games (Puntrooskie, Bowden Bowl I, the Labor Day opener), a few late-season Maryland games that decided the ACC, and even a couple Clucker games.
Even the last time ND came may have been bigger than this one - Joe Montana coming to little old Clemson? Are you kidding? Nobody had ever even heard of Clemson in the mid-70's. We were two decades deep in losing seasons prior to 1977. That game helped put us on the map, even though we lost. At least served as a springboard to MUCH better days ahead.
This one is pretty meaningless in the grand scheme of things, win or lose - at this moment.
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Joe Montana - now there's "magical" even in college
Sep 25, 2015, 11:07 PM
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course say "Herschel" to people back then and it had the same effect that "Montana" did later
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Re: I can name plenty bigger than this one
Sep 25, 2015, 11:12 PM
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and that last ND game is the reason for noise rule. Even though we lost, I will never forget the pregame....when that cannon went off.......WOW
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 10:13 PM
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Nice read, right on. But I think it was 4 fumbles and 5 interceptions.
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yeah, you may be right: I took a couple of hits that day too ;)***
Sep 25, 2015, 11:04 PM
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Nasty***
Sep 25, 2015, 10:55 PM
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 11:06 PM
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Did you read the original poster that said there were 82,000 at that Georgia game?
Sorry for thinking his memory might be a little off.
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added note: UGA was riding a 15-game win streak coming in that day too***
Sep 25, 2015, 11:10 PM
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Read my words...
Sep 25, 2015, 11:25 PM
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1).1981 Georgia was the most important win in school history
2) No one could have predicted that a 2-0 u ranked Clemson team could have beaten defending national champ Georgia, on route to an undefeated season.
3) The anticipation of this game with notre dame, with the hope of a win, could rival the anticipation prior to any home game in history.
Which statement do you disagree with such disgust?
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Re: Read my words...
Sep 26, 2015, 12:46 AM
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#1 The most important win in school history occurred in the 1st month of 1982.
The UGA win was a notch along the way, albeit a very large, monumental notch, just like UNC.
Most important win #2 has occurred 66 times. 67 in November this year.
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 11:34 PM
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lol... hail naw...***
Sep 25, 2015, 11:35 PM
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I was there with my dad and and brother!
Sep 25, 2015, 11:34 PM
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Thank you Robert Reid!
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Re: I was there with my dad and and brother!
Sep 25, 2015, 11:35 PM
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Class of 65
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I was there with my mom, dad and & brother! ;-)
Sep 26, 2015, 1:08 AM
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I was 6, but remember it well, especially the Fridge...what a juggernaut! :-D
Pops was also class of '65 Clemson Forestry (Donald Brown)
Go Tigers!
Beat the Lepracan'ts & let's go undefeated again!!!
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Read my words...
Sep 25, 2015, 11:45 PM
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1).1981 Georgia was the most important win in school history
2) No one could have predicted that a 2-0 u ranked Clemson team could have beaten defending national champ Georgia, on route to an undefeated season.
3) The anticipation of this game with notre dame, with the hope of a win, could rival the anticipation prior to any home game in history.
Which statement do you disagree with such disgust?
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Respectfully disagree. 9-17-1977 was the conception ....
Sep 25, 2015, 11:49 PM
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Of the second great generation of Clemson football.
What happened four years later was born on that day in Athens Ga.
I was there for both games. Both were monumemental wins.
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 25, 2015, 11:56 PM
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My first game. Been a tiger ever since!
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100% correct. It was VERY important to beat the reigning nat
Sep 26, 2015, 12:00 AM
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champion. That was not hard to realize, even before the game. Add to that the previous year's game with UGA, and the intense rivalry.
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Re: Young'un don't understand how UGA 1981 meant more than Notre Dame
Sep 26, 2015, 12:41 AM
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