Do You Remember?

 

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Of course you do! How could you forget? Whether you’re a Dawg fan or stupid enough to be a gaytor fan, you haven’t forgetten last year’s Cocktail Party. For Bulldawg Nation it was one of the best games in the Mark Richt era. It was ceratinly one of Matthew Stafford’s best games; a game in which he dominated and stepped out as the leader of an elite Georgia team. That game was also the beginning of an amazing turn-around for the Dawgs’s 2007 season. It fueld our #1 pre-season ranking and our hopes for a National Title again. For the gaytors, that game confirmed what many people around the nation already knew: Tim Tebow isn’t the best qb in the country, nor the SEC. Leading the swamp lizards to a 9-4 record, with zero comeback or big game wins proved that assertion. More importantly, the 2007 Georgia-Floriduh brawl was a day of utter humiliation and degredation for the gaytors. A fantastic day for all mankind! So in homage to such a great day in American history, here’s a look back at some of the best memories from one of the best games in the wlcop series….

 

1. Well obviously you can’t talk about the Cocktail Party of 2007 without mentioning “The Celebration.” That first drive down the field was a thing of beauty! Every play was a run. Every. Single. Play. We inteded to punch ‘em in the mouth from the jump and ram the ball down their defense’s throats. We wanted to not only set the tone that we were there to play, but put them on notice that they were not going to stop us. The icing on the cake was what ensued next: the bench-clearing celebration. What was intended to include only the offense on the field, turned into a full team dance party. But really it was an unleashing of pent-up frustration and a call to arms for Bulldawg Nation! Most importantly, it utterly humiliated, stunned, and infuriated the gayturds. Job well done Dawgs. Job well done!
   

    

    

      

    

    

    

2. The emergence of Knowshon on the National stage was what I will never forget. Before the 2007 WLOCP Knowshon was a well kept secret known mostly to UGA fans alone. He hadn’t captured the national spotlight because he had not yet run the show on the big stage. By the Floriduh game it was obvious to Coach Richt, Coach Bobo and Dawg fans everywhere that Knowshon needed to be the feature back & pound the rock. At the WLOCP, gayturd fans got their first taste of his speed, his elusiveness, and his punishing runs to the endzone. He alone torched their defense for 188  yards on 33 carries with 3 touchdowns. Damn. Just damn. I will never forget the looks on the faces of floriduh fans – shock & awe sums it up quite nicely. Knowshon Moreno made it abundantly clear last October who really wears Superman’s cape.

    

    

3. What came as a shock to Bulldawg Nation in that game was not the epic talent of Knowshon, however, but the unbelievable display of punishing defense by the red & black. Holy shit! I remember wringing my hands all that morning thinking it was going to be another embarrassing day for our defense much like the UT game weeks prior. It was clear we had zero pass rush. Seeing David Pollack at the WLOCP but not dressed out in silver britches just rubbed salt in the wound. But just like everything else that day, the defense started clicking on all cylinders. For the first time that season we saw the reincarnation of Erk Russell’s Junkyard Dawgs! Marcus Howard made a name for himself & jumped into the draft picture. Our ends & linebackers sacked Teblow a record 6 times in that game, 1 more than Floriduh had surrendered all season prior! But the sweetest stat was the -15 yards our defense held him to. Considering he WAS their rushing game, what our defense did to him was demoralizing for their entire offense. Hunker down Dawgs indeed!

    

    

4. For all the talk about how unsportsmanlike “The Celebration” was during last year’s game, it’s funny how memories of the gayturds classless behavior has been pushed under the rug or glossed over. What really pisses me off is the never-ending bitching from the gayturds about how we disrespected them and stomped on their logo. What? I do believe video evidence has shown we did no such thing. For all you illiterate gayturd fans, G-E-O-R-G-I-A does not spell Florida, K? We scored and we celebrated in OUR OWN endzone. We didn’t stomp on the image of the gayturd, we didn’t run over to their sideline & taunt the turds, we didn’t huddle & dance on the 50 yard line either. No, the Dawgs celebrated getting a monkey off their backs & paid the price in the amount of 30 yards in penalties - simple as that. Mark Richt explained it best here: “I don’t see any disrespect in that at all. I see it as a coach trying to get his guys excited to play a big game. The definition of insanity is if you keep doing what you’ve been doing you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting, Richt said. We had to do something different. We gameplanned energy as much as we gameplanned Xs and Os.” What followed from Floriduh though was a series of unsportsmanlike penalties from their bench and this infamous cheap shot on Matt Stafford: 

       

    

5. Stafford to Mo Mass. All I have to write down is that first sentence and you know what I mean. Prior to the Floriduh game Matt Stafford was still growing into his position as starting quarterback for an elite SEC team and fought through some tough losses. He was forced to start as a true freshman and learn a new offense the hard way, baptism by fire. More importantly, as one of the country’s best quarterback coaches Mark Richt wanted Matthew to learn how to RUN an offense, not just manage it (unlike Tim Teblow). He had to not only master a new playbook, but master the nuances of calling audibles, recognizing shifts, motions & coverages from every opponent’s defense, and adapting his laser sharp cannon-like arm to the speed of the SEC. Only someone with the mental toughness and acuity of an elite talent could handle the pressure he was given so early on. It was during the WLOCP when the entire country saw his coming out party. His two longest touchdown passes (at the time) came in that game and they were absolutely jaw-dropping! The first one was the 84 yard rocket to Mohamed Massaquoi in a drive that consisted of just 2 plays in 59 seconds. The second bomb was the 53 yard takeoff to Mickey Henderson in the 4th quarter. But that first hook-up with Mo Mass right after Floriduh scored a td in 3 plays, just took the life out of the swamp lizards, their fans, & especially tim teblow. Outstanding!

    

    

6. But the absolute, hands-down, best memory of the day had to be the sight of Tim Teblow crying as he left Altell Stadium. Remember, this is his hometown. All of his friends and family came out to watch. He was raised going to the Cocktail Party and dreamed of playing for the gayturds (nobody’s perfect) in front of the hometown crowd all his life. Yet it turned out to be the worst game of his collegiate career. Ouch! To lose was bad enough, but to be humiliated, spanked, demoralized and beaten on national tv like that was just too much for the GPOOE™ to take apparently… “Tim Tebow, who last month nearly broke into tears while trying to explain the Gators’ loss to Ole Miss, isn’t so sure that defeat was harder to take than last year’s 42-30 loss to Georgia. “It was tough,” Tebow said. “It’s still tough. Even today, I still have hurt feelings about it.”  Sweet fancy Moses, grow a pair you hairy backed Mary!!!

 

There you go Dawg fans. I’m sure for some of you, I’ve left out some sweet moments from last year’s Cocktail Party, but I hope you agree these were ceratinly the highlights of one of the best games in Georgia-Floriduh history! Enjoy the memories today Bulldawg Nation, but put them to bed starting tomorrow. Last year is just that, last year. As fantastic as that win was, it’s a part of history now. So from here forward get prepared to focus on cheering Georgia through the biggest game of our season on Saturday. Both teams enter the 2008 WLOCP ranked in the top ten and ready to send the other home resigned to their fate of playing a crappy Big 10 team like Wisconsin in the Capitol One Bowl. Oh God, please no.

 

 

Remember, do the world a favor and go SMACK a gaytor!

Go Dawgs!!!

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