UGA vs Alabama - 1965 - The Flea Flicker............

I was at that game and after the game ended I remember seeing Bear Bryant leaning up against the goalpost for several minutes with his famous hat pulled down over his eyes.

It was the best Georgia win that I ever got to see in person.

Dallasga6, Were you at this game? How much did a Coke cost back then? And what's with the White-Out? (Not skin color. I mean, everyone is wearing white)

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I was walking out of the stadium when I noticed Bryant leaning against the goalpost.

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You and your twins San Francisco sea monster story is more believable than this whopper....

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I had a great seat on the 50 yard line.

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Of course you did.

Where else would one view The Bear leaning against the goal post with his famous hat pulled down just over his eyes??...,as the grounds crew was sweeping up...and his team waiting in the locker room wondering where the frick coach was at.

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It was prolly hot as shite

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White Out '65!!!!!!

Wear your long sleeve white collar button down shirts and full length white dresses to beat the heat!

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But, was Pat Hodgson maybe down before the toss to Taylor? LINK......... I didn't see anything.

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They didn't have irrefutable proof....play stodgy as called on the field...frick Bama and bear Bryant too!

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I had a great seat on the 50 yard line.

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Of course you did.

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Back then students could get into home games for free by having their student ID punched.

I went to all the home games.

I'd be crazy not to go to that game.

Of course, back then people could still watch the game from the hillside that was behind the scoreboard side of the stadium.

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Where else would one view The Bear leaning against the goal post with his famous hat pulled down just over his eyes??...,as the grounds crew was sweeping up...and his team waiting in the locker room wondering where the frick coach was at.

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After the game ended all of the Georgia fans ran onto the field and celebrated.

The grounds crew couldn't sweep up because there were so many Georgia fans on the field.

Hell, the grounds crew were probably on the field celebrating with the rest of the Georgia fans.

Like I said, as I left the game I saw Bryant leaning against the goalpost with his head down and his hat over his eyes.

It was only a few minutes after the game ended that I saw him and I was surprised to see him there.

I'm sure he didn't stay there long though.

It may be a legend that Bryant leaned against the goalpost before a game but it is reality that he was leaning against the goalpost closest to the bridge after the game that day.

Yup, you're definitely jealous of me because I was there and you weren't.

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You got me. I wish that I was in my seventies like you!!

That must be so awesome.

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Jeffy, I'm not in my seventies. I'm only 68.

You hope you'll live to be as old as I am.

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adamant about not taking me to a game till I was 10 years old

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Dang the crowds were that rough even back in the good old days?

I will never forget my first.....Dad took me to the 1989 Peach Bowl at AFUCO stadium on 12-30-89. Dawgs gave up the lead in the 4th quarter to Syracuse and lost 19-18. I was 12. And yes Goldberg was my favorite player then.

Prolly the biggest thing I remember was that I'd never seen that many people before in my life...

Bobby Dodd had a horseshoe EZ back then on the N. Avenue end of the stadium & prolly held about 60,000 then. I was like damn...

I vaguely remember my granddad taking me to several Crackers games at Ponce de Leon Park in '62 -'64 but the crowds were nowhere like that...