Georgia – Tennessee week: what Munson would've worried about
Georgia – Tennessee gave Larry Munson a couple of career moments. But this year’s matchup would’ve scared him silly, you guys.
Since I wrote last week’s installment, another Georgia legend passed away.
Larry Munson and Vince Dooley’s careers have some overlap.
Munson became the voice of the Dawgs in 1966, three years after Dooley took over for the Dawgs.
After many great moments, Dooley’s Dawgs gave Munson some championship-season calls in 1980.
Everyone remembers ‘Run, Lindsay!’, but Munson set the tone during Georgia’s game at Tennessee.
(My God!) A freshman out of Wrightsville, Ga., and those big thighs drove and ran right through two men.
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I don’t think College Football has the Larry Munson that we know without Vince Dooley’s Dawgs
Of course, he didn’t just stick linchpin moments in Dooley’s teams.
Verron Haynes’s Hobnail Boot may be his most famous call across the generations of Bulldogs everywhere, in Mark Richt’s first signature win.
I was sad when Larry’s voice left us, but it lives on.
So, too, does Vince Dooley’s legacy.
What a weekend awaits the Bulldog Nation, on the field that bears Dooley’s name.
With that, let’s get into which facets of this Georgia – Tennessee game that would have unnerved Munson the most.
Did you know that Georgia went 4-2 during Vince Dooley’s head coaching career?
Won four straight to end his rivalry, which at the time was not an annual deal you know.
Now Kirby’s gone 5-1 against them. That matches our longest streak against them, spanning the matchups between 1909-1924.
But we’ve never won six straight, no matter how you slice this thing up.
And now these Vols are setting all kinds of records and scoring in bunches.
They are a real tough out no matter how good your defense is.
Alabama and Kentucky found that out.
Coach Dooley and I will have ‘a real fine picture show’ up here, as he calls all those films that he likes whenever I can get him to see a movie with me.
Now. If Hendon Hooker was a movie, I think he’d be ‘The Terminator’
He’s just a big, bad machine who refuses to stop.
And after we got him benched last year, guess what?
He’s back.
We’re like a broke, old bum at a potato market. We just can’t get a sack right now.
And now Nolan Smith is out of the game?
My God Almighty.
If Old Lady Luck decides to go pull for Tennessee or one of the teams in Baton Rouge this weekend instead…
I just can’t help but think that this might get ugly, you guys.
If one player gives me hope, it’s Little Stetson Bennett.
If three players give me hope, it’s Little Stetson Bennett, Big Brock Bowers and even Bigger Darnell Washington.
Speaking of Old Lady Luck, we need to send her a thank-you note for that Bowers touchdown against the Gators down there in Jacksonville last week.
Maybe we’ve done enough for her to still like us in this one.
Maybe Verron Haynes’s son being in the building will be a good omen. I just don’t know.
All of our guys have played in big moments. Won a championship that made Coach Dooley real proud.
Stetson’s doing the best he can, because we just can’t get separation with our other receivers.
What if we get in a shootout?
What’s gonna keep us from this Tennessee team knockin’ us back on our Whatchamacallits?
These are the games that decide seasons, you guys. And I’m just about to chew through this microphone waiting for it to kick off.
LORRANWHADDYAGOT??!?!??!?!?
