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Your Biggest Vol Heartbreak
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I go back and forth on my worst heartbreak.
1. 2001 Uga.
I wanted this win more then anything. I had been hating uga since the early 90s. I had an awful time in Athens the year before...the rudest fans I could have seen. I went to high school in Atlanta, so I had a lot of uga friends and I was sick of them talking.
So when Stephens scored late, that was probably the most exciting experience Ive ever had in the stands of any sport, maybe even better then going to a world series game. I was in the student section and the place just ERUPTED with cheering. The student section was a madhouse, people falling all over the place, high fives, people hugging random people...it was like we all won the lottery at once.
And then came the short kickoff to midfield and I thought "...sh*t". When Greene hit Veron Hayes, I just wanted to die. I sat in the stands after almost every student had left, my face buried in my hands. I couldnt move. The uga fight song was like an execution. I walked back to my apartment like a zombie.
To go from my highest high (the stephens score) to my lowest low (uga winning) in a period of minutes, and the loss coming to my absolute most hated team...it was devastating. It still hurts thinking about it.
1a. 2001 sec cg.
I was so excited for this game. After the uf win, there was a bonfire in the apartment complex that I watched the game with my friends (college park). We all knew we had a shot at the nc. We got tickets six rows from the field for barely over 30 bucks each...I mean, come on. And we were staying at my parent's house in Atlanta and going out to Buckhead after the game. Everything seemed perfect.
Driving down from k-ville, it felt like we were on our way to a coronation. Lots of cars had roses painted on it or actual roses in their windshield wipers. A couple of my friends had roses tucked behind their ears. We were 100% confident that we'd beat Lsu...we were definately more talented and beat them earlier in the year (the first game after 9/11).
The Stallworth td drop and Clausen's grounding began a bad feeling for me...we werent delivering the knockout punch. And at halftime, I have a picture of some of my friends...and the look at their faces is one of "eh, this game is over", like we had already won. I think thats the attitude that might have taken over the team for the 2nd half.
When the game ended, Lsu fans erupted and the band sounded so loud even though they were 100 yards away. UT fans werent making a noise. I felt destroyed...I told my friends I wasnt going to go out that night, I just didnt want to anymore.
They eventually talked me into it. And when the dj at a buckhead club that night played rocky top and the lsu fans started cheering...I regretted it.
They both felt rock bottom at the time. Sometimes the uga game hurts worse because of my hate for uga and all my friends ragging me about it, sometimes the sec cg hurts worse because of, well, everything...we had the better team, we were winning most of the game, we would have played for the nc, etc. And then consider how we havent been close to playing for a nc since and the two seasons that people thought we had a chance ('02 and '05) we lost 5 and 6 games, that '01 game looks like the defining game of this decade...because we havent been the same ever since.
So yeah, the peach bowl losses were bad, so was '02 Miami, '02 Bama, '03 uga, '04 sec cg. But none of those caused me the pain the '01 uga and sec cg games did.
1. 2001 Uga.
I wanted this win more then anything. I had been hating uga since the early 90s. I had an awful time in Athens the year before...the rudest fans I could have seen. I went to high school in Atlanta, so I had a lot of uga friends and I was sick of them talking.
So when Stephens scored late, that was probably the most exciting experience Ive ever had in the stands of any sport, maybe even better then going to a world series game. I was in the student section and the place just ERUPTED with cheering. The student section was a madhouse, people falling all over the place, high fives, people hugging random people...it was like we all won the lottery at once.
And then came the short kickoff to midfield and I thought "...sh*t". When Greene hit Veron Hayes, I just wanted to die. I sat in the stands after almost every student had left, my face buried in my hands. I couldnt move. The uga fight song was like an execution. I walked back to my apartment like a zombie.
To go from my highest high (the stephens score) to my lowest low (uga winning) in a period of minutes, and the loss coming to my absolute most hated team...it was devastating. It still hurts thinking about it.
1a. 2001 sec cg.
I was so excited for this game. After the uf win, there was a bonfire in the apartment complex that I watched the game with my friends (college park). We all knew we had a shot at the nc. We got tickets six rows from the field for barely over 30 bucks each...I mean, come on. And we were staying at my parent's house in Atlanta and going out to Buckhead after the game. Everything seemed perfect.
Driving down from k-ville, it felt like we were on our way to a coronation. Lots of cars had roses painted on it or actual roses in their windshield wipers. A couple of my friends had roses tucked behind their ears. We were 100% confident that we'd beat Lsu...we were definately more talented and beat them earlier in the year (the first game after 9/11).
The Stallworth td drop and Clausen's grounding began a bad feeling for me...we werent delivering the knockout punch. And at halftime, I have a picture of some of my friends...and the look at their faces is one of "eh, this game is over", like we had already won. I think thats the attitude that might have taken over the team for the 2nd half.
When the game ended, Lsu fans erupted and the band sounded so loud even though they were 100 yards away. UT fans werent making a noise. I felt destroyed...I told my friends I wasnt going to go out that night, I just didnt want to anymore.
They eventually talked me into it. And when the dj at a buckhead club that night played rocky top and the lsu fans started cheering...I regretted it.
They both felt rock bottom at the time. Sometimes the uga game hurts worse because of my hate for uga and all my friends ragging me about it, sometimes the sec cg hurts worse because of, well, everything...we had the better team, we were winning most of the game, we would have played for the nc, etc. And then consider how we havent been close to playing for a nc since and the two seasons that people thought we had a chance ('02 and '05) we lost 5 and 6 games, that '01 game looks like the defining game of this decade...because we havent been the same ever since.
So yeah, the peach bowl losses were bad, so was '02 Miami, '02 Bama, '03 uga, '04 sec cg. But none of those caused me the pain the '01 uga and sec cg games did.
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