Revenge 18 Years In The Making.

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I get a headache just thinking about it . . . but the parallels are definitely there.
 
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I'm not sure if I want Lincoln kicking with 4 seconds left, but yeah, it would be the sweetest thing ever.
 
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GAVol said:
I get a headache just thinking about it . . . but the parallels are definitely there.
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I was sitting in the student section lined up directly with Jason Julian when Greg Burke was attempting the field goal. I still hear that sickening thud in my nightmares occasionally.
 
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I've never quite forgiven myself for turning to my friend that was with me at the game and saying right before Greg Burke's FG attempt, "The worst thing that can happen is a tie . . . unless they do something screwy and block the kick 25 yards backwards."
 
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GAVol said:
I've never quite forgiven myself for turning to my friend that was with me at the game and saying right before Greg Burke's FG attempt, "The worst thing that can happen is a tie . . . unless they do something screwy and block the kick 25 yards backwards."
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In fairness to you, it only went 10 yards backwards, the other 15 occured when Julian tried to pick it up and knocked it 15 yards further downfield. So you didn't jinx us.
 
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As soon as the play was over after the blocked field goal, I stated walking out of the stadium on the track in front of the student section. I was lucky enough to be right in front of the Alabama faithful in section A as Doyle knocked through the game winner.
 
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That game was one of many in that era when Tennessee had better personnel and was favored to win the game only to lose. Could it be a long overdue payback tomorrow in that respect?
 
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I was living at the Bel Air Apartments at the time. Threw a 32 ounce glass Gatorade bottle against the cinderblock wall in the kitchen. I was still getting glass shards in my feet when I moved out 2 years later.
 
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There have been "worse" losses over the years, but the only one that I can think of that was as immediately, viscerally sickening was maybe UGA 2001. That blocked kick rolling back downfield was just a punch in the gut.
 
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I was 8 years old, I don't remember that....I've heard about it several times but never actually watched it...I shouldn't have watched it. I'm going to throw up now. That was horrible guys.
 
#19
#19
Hell yeah, I'd like to be on the other side of that nightmare, certainly not the only bad memory I have in this rivalry but probably the worst.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Not really. Tennessee has never blown such a golden opportunity by losing to such a lousy team. The 2001 SEC Championship game collapse pales in comparison.
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I don't know about that. The '96 game I attended in Memphis that was lost on a failed down by contact call on a kick return when the Vols were poised for a huge coalition bowl game was pretty disgusting. That made Peyton a loser in the only game ever lost to Memphis. It was especially sickening to watch the Tiger frat boys jogging down Central Avenue with the goal post on their shoulders.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Not really. Tennessee has never blown such a golden opportunity by losing to such a lousy team. The 2001 SEC Championship game collapse pales in comparison.
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We'd already tied a couple of games before playing Alabama, right? And we lost to the Domers later that year. So it wasn't like that lost cost us a national championship or anything. We still ended up playing in the Sugar Bowl. (And it's worth pointing out that that's the last time we played in New Orleans.)

I'd call the 2001 SECCG a worse loss, but it came nowhere near that Bama game on the visceral, gut-punch level. Mostly because you could see it coming in the first half.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
We'd already tied a couple of games before playing Alabama, right? And we lost to the Domers later that year. So it wasn't like that lost cost us a national championship or anything. We still ended up playing in the Sugar Bowl. (And it's worth pointing out that that's the last time we played in New Orleans.)

I'd call the 2001 SECCG a worse loss, but it came nowhere near that Bama game on the visceral, gut-punch level. Mostly because you could see it coming in the first half.
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Tennessee was number 3 in the country going into the game. Colorado shared the National Title with a loss and a tie on their resume that year. I'd have loved for the Notre Dame game to have been for a shot at the National Title.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Tennessee was number 3 in the country going into the game. Colorado shared the National Title with a loss and a tie on their resume that year. I'd have loved for the Notre Dame game to have been for a shot at the National Title.
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Maybe it's just hindsight, but given that we lost to both Alabama and Notre Dame at home and tied two other games, I don't think back to that 1990 team as having been particularly close to having competed for the championship. The blocked kick sequence in Alabama is just sickening to me in and of itself, just because it was Alabama we lost to. Which is enough.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Maybe it's just hindsight, but given that we lost to both Alabama and Notre Dame at home and tied two other games, I don't think back to that 1990 team as having been particularly close to having competed for the championship. The blocked kick sequence in Alabama is just sickening to me in and of itself, just because it was Alabama we lost to. Which is enough.
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Notre Dame-Tennessee would have been 1 v. 2 if we beat Alabama. Not sure how much more you can "compete" for a championship than playing for the top spot on your home field in November.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Notre Dame-Tennessee would have been 1 v. 2 if we beat Alabama. Not sure how much more you can "compete" for a championship than playing for the top spot on your home field in November.
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As I said, it's hindsight. I remember that we lost both games and tied two others, so in retrospect it just doesn't seem like we were that close.

It should also be pointed out that I spent 1989 and 1990 in the Midwest living with a lovely 6' 2" girl who was into, uh, ropes and stuff. I remember the individual games, but let's just say that the overall continuity of that football season isn't really something that my brain processed very well.
 
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