Georgia's decision to celebrate 40 years since 1980 title results in predictable reponses
It’s a round number anniversary, so Georgia has put together a project this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its 1980 national championship.
Herschel Walker and his dumptruck run over Tennessee’s Bill Bates, then Buck Belue’s famous pass to Lindsay Scott are among the all-time highlights listed in a clip distributed by the athletics department. The 1980 Championship Central which will launch on Tuesday.
Georgia broadcaster Jeff Dantzler will host a podcast series entitled “40 for 80 -The Sweetest Season” where he will chronicle the Bulldogs’ march towards the Championship, and be joined by players and coaches who were there to take you behind the scenes on each week’s game. It will be available as part of the Georgia Bulldogs Pawdcast platform, on other podcast platforms, or on georgiadogs.com
Dantzler will also author a weekly article for The 1980 Championship Central on georgiadogs.com and in each home football game program that will chronicle unique backstories and memories from the magical 1980 season.
The project will also showcase nine episodes of “The Vince Dooley Show” from the 1980 season. A new one will drop each week, with Dooley himself taking you through each week’s game.
With Georgia’s history, there were predictable replies to the tweet.
— Suspicious Cat (@McMillanSam) September 2, 2020
40th???? Lol 😂
— John Chap (@Wingtee9) September 3, 2020
40 years of failure. 40 years of all the talent, yet none of the results. Yes I am salty.
— Mailed in Ballot (@FarkingBastage) September 2, 2020
We’re excited to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the 1980 football season with a content series that follows the weekly progression of the unbeaten, untied and undisputed 1980 National Champions.
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📃: https://t.co/MJHgXQTwYf pic.twitter.com/lXCdZvoHyB— Georgia Bulldogs (@UGAAthletics) September 2, 2020
Surprised SDS left the comments up for this one! This should be fun….
This should be good. Need to go get my popcorn first though.
I will never forget that Walker run over Bates. Think he probably still has an imprint of herschels shoe on his chest.
I enjoyed those highlights. Celebrating a title on the 40 year anniversary is fine. No one thought they would still be looking for their next one.
I’ll nominate above as the most sincere opposing fan comment we’ll see for this article
I second this motion
Awwww….
Yeah, but let’s count how many preseason national championships they own. That’s right, 40.
Other teams claim fake post-season championships as well. Preseason is just optimism, postseason is just stupid.
Hey man don’t sell the puppies short, in addition to all the spring championships they are also collecting recruiting national championships, that has to count for something
At least we’ve got one.
Several SEC teams do not.
the uga national title drought is certainly an easy jab, but only two fan bases in the sec can claim to be better than uga head to head.
We proudly claim that accomplishment – and an accomplishment it is!
I’m pretty sure there is more than two that lead the head to head against UGA…
UA and LSU are the only two teams in the SEC who have a winning record against UGA. TAMU is 3-3 against UGA and hasn’t beaten them since 1954. So, in terms of strict head to head results, UA and LSU are the only teams ahead of UGA.
If only we had just won 2016 and 2017 (SECCG) we would be tied too.. smh. Great rivalry nonetheless. UGA will win one soon IMO.
All time? Just LSU and Alabama. They are an even 3-3 with Tamu.
Ah good deal.. I was thinking TAMU had one up on ya..
We are 1-0 since TAMU became an SEC team if we wanna get technical.
I appreciate the UGA athletic department’s tweet, but surely they see that this is just fodder for all the rivals that love to remind us about the drought.
Slow football year….
Or in your case, slow all years *der duh der”.
1980
I just want to say thank you for that wonderful Gloria Stewart gif. Even at that age she was fantastic in front of the camera. I love the really old thriller films such as The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man (1933) which she was stellar in among others.
Herschel for President
When the World knows you by your first name – you are somebody.
Nothing wrong with celebrating the title. If I recall correctly, UF had 20 year celebrations for the 96, 06, and 08 titles.
20 year celebrations for the 06 and 08 titles? Did I just wake up from a Coma? What year is it?
Ooops – I meant 10 year celebrations on those. I’m an idiot today.
Lol
Kind of speaks for itself, no trolling needed.
For Gator fans, it’s just the 40th anniversary of “Run, Lindsay, run!”
I hate that term. “run Lindsey run” because really it was a missed assignment.
Watched some of that replay last week. Still hurts when you realize how close we came to making it a lot more than 40 years. Several players on defense screwed up on that one play.
It does seem strange that Georgia has not won a National Championship in 40 years. Lots of elite athletes have worn a Dawg uniform during those four(4) decades. Kirby almost had one, until Tua came in and the Dawg secondary was in confusion-mode.
It wasn’t UGA was confused as much as UGA CB Quincey Mauger gotten taken to the cleaners by the Bama WR.
UGA safety Sanders knew at least one BAMA WR would be open, he was just trying to read Tau but Tau knew what he had on the left side of UGA’s defense.
It was great presence of mind on Tau’s part.