September 19, 1987

Nov 9, 2005, 2:15 PM

I was there sitting in the North Upper Deck, Section M row O watching the Tigers trailing the Dawgs by 4 points. Things were getting dire as the seconds kept ticking away and the crowd started to give up. Never will I forget the fellow on the row in front on me stood and started yelling what the #### is wrong with you people, this game isn't over and the Tigers need our help. One by one the crowd started coming back from the dead. I remember looking down and thinking we need a sefety and an FG. With a good punt here we just might be able to pull this one out. By that time the crowd was in full force and the rest is history.

As I was walking down the ramp I heard a UGA fan muttering to herself, "I can't believe they did it two years in a rwo".

November 19, 1977 Steve Fuller and company took the field Columbia late in the fourth quarter trailing 27-24. The TV cameras were focused on the T-Shirts the USC players had hidden under their jereseys that day that they were so proudly displaying. But Fuller and company marched out on to the field with a determination and knowledge that the game was not over. The rest is history.

November 8, 2003 Tommy Bowden is coaching his last game as far as most are concerned and an interim coach is to take over for the last two games of the season. Coming off a whipping at Wake Forest there is no doubt about his future. The only question is how badly the Tigers wil lose that night. The rest is history.

Sometimes it is the players, sometimes the coaches and sometimes the fans but they need to feed off of each other. One component alone is not enough and we can't sit back and wait to make something happen. For well over 40 years I have followed football both college and High School and it takes all three, players, fans and coaches. It will always take luck and skill but it also take believing.

I graduated from East Clarendon High School. In 1964 we won one game. In 1965 Shad Hall looked at us and said, "This year we are going to do better. This is my 12th year here and you are my class. You started the same year I did and this year is going to be special". Our motto that year was the Dave Clark Five song Catch Us If You Can. Every player walked to class and to practice humming that song. We won the state championship that year in the most incredible season I have ever been a part of. In April of 1966 Shad Hall was killed in a car wreck. I cried like a baby.

You have to believe that something special is going to happen no matter if you are a player, a coach or a fan. FSU is coming to town and we are going to whip them up and down the field and there ain't a #### thing they can do about it. You just remember that. This year you have seen no better example of the game not being over till all the fat ladies are through singing. Tune up those vocal chords because something special is in store for the rest of this season. We have three more game to play and the fat ladies aren't singing yet. In 1987 it was the fans, in 1977 it was the players, 2003 the coaches. It's time for all three to join together at opening kickoff for a butt cutting.

Wear Orange.