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What football game got a major monkey off your team's back?
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:14 am
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:14 am
For me it was the 2012 Notre Dame national championship game. I was 11 in 1966 when our undefeated 2 time national championship team beat Nebraska 37-6 in the Orange Bowl and ended up third behind ND and Michigan State who had played for a tie and did not go to a bowl game but I remember waking up the next day and being floored by the poll. Then more misery:
1987 - Notre Dame 37, Alabama 6 (Home)
1986 - Alabama 28, Notre Dame 10 (Birmingham, Ala.)
1980 - Notre Dame 7, Alabama 0 (Birmingham, Ala.)
1976 - Notre Dame 21, Alabama 18 (Home)
1974 - Notre Dame 13, Alabama 11 (Orange Bowl)
1973 - Notre Dame 24, Alabama 23 (Sugar Bowl)
I was 18 for the 1973 bowl loss and got drunk on beer at a friend's house where I watched the game and ran my car into a ditch after the game, just all kinds of bad. In 1977 number one Texas lost to number 5 ND while number 2 Oklahoma lost and number 3 Alabama waxed Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl, ND leapt from 5 to 1 and we were number 2. While I saw us beat them for the first time at Legion Field in 1980, it was a game that really didn't mean anything other than to the fans of the 2 teams..
The 2012 game in Miami finally got the monkey off my back. I certainly don't like ND but I lost the seething hatred I had and now I can actually pull for them if it's advantageous to us, something I could never have done before 2012.
What game got a monkey off your team's back?
1987 - Notre Dame 37, Alabama 6 (Home)
1986 - Alabama 28, Notre Dame 10 (Birmingham, Ala.)
1980 - Notre Dame 7, Alabama 0 (Birmingham, Ala.)
1976 - Notre Dame 21, Alabama 18 (Home)
1974 - Notre Dame 13, Alabama 11 (Orange Bowl)
1973 - Notre Dame 24, Alabama 23 (Sugar Bowl)
I was 18 for the 1973 bowl loss and got drunk on beer at a friend's house where I watched the game and ran my car into a ditch after the game, just all kinds of bad. In 1977 number one Texas lost to number 5 ND while number 2 Oklahoma lost and number 3 Alabama waxed Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl, ND leapt from 5 to 1 and we were number 2. While I saw us beat them for the first time at Legion Field in 1980, it was a game that really didn't mean anything other than to the fans of the 2 teams..
The 2012 game in Miami finally got the monkey off my back. I certainly don't like ND but I lost the seething hatred I had and now I can actually pull for them if it's advantageous to us, something I could never have done before 2012.
What game got a monkey off your team's back?
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Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:17 am to Tideroller
2000 vs UT - first victory over them in over a decade. As far as I know the only time the Goal Posts were torn down in Athens.
2002 vs Auburn. UGA secures its first SEC East championship and trip to Atlanta.
2021 vs Alabama in NC game.
2002 vs Auburn. UGA secures its first SEC East championship and trip to Atlanta.
2021 vs Alabama in NC game.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:19 am to Tideroller
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I was 18 for the 1973 bowl loss and got drunk on beer at a friend's house where I watched the game and ran my car into a ditch after the game, just all kinds of bad.
So you drove drunk could have killed someone else and almost killed yourself because Alabama lost a football game.
Typical updyke.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:23 am to Tideroller
2019 when LSU beat Alabama. I loved Nick Saban and was so sad when he left LSU only to return and rebuild Alabama into a giant again. That 2019 game and season healed a lot of wounds.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:28 am to Tideroller
Which ever one leads to Billy Napier, Scott Stricklin and other prominent uaa members to getting fired in 2024-25
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:29 am to theCAW
So Miami 2024? 
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:46 am to Tideroller
2005 Carolina & Spurrier beat UTK & Fulmer in Steve's first trip back to Neyland in the SEC after leaving the NFL -
USC beat Tennessee in the first ever SEC meeting in 1992 at Williams-Brice and had not beaten the volunteers since - in what was by margin/score the SEC's most closely contested series -
series is now 10 TN 9 SC since that 2005 game -
it also happened to be the night UTK retired Manning's jersey
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:47 am to Tideroller
Lol at any of y'all considering these monkeys on your back in comparison to the streak ending Ws Kentucky had over Tennessee and Florida recently. Nothing on the nation compares to those. That's how bad it was.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:51 am to UKWildcats
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Lol at any of y'all considering these monkeys on your back in comparison to the streak ending Ws Kentucky had over Tennessee and Florida recently. Nothing on the nation compares to those.
It's all relative, Little Sixer.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 11:58 am to Tideroller
Auburn vs Oregon. After winning multiple national championships only to be fricked over by the media and set up by the NCAA to stop us from claiming them, Auburn beats Oregon to win another Championship despite the best efforts of bama, the media and the Ncaa to prevent it.
This post was edited on 5/25/24 at 11:59 am
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:00 pm to bigDgator
quote:depending on how bad we look that could spell the end for Billy but we’d have to go like 1-11/0-12 for the entire uaa to get cleaned lut
So Miami 2024
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:22 pm to Dawgfanman
quote:Put 1980 to bed.
2021 vs Alabama in NC game.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:23 pm to Tideroller
TBD
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:25 pm to Tideroller
Equestrian final for Nattie.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:29 pm to Tideroller
2019 LSU vs Bama
To go into Tuscaloosa to get the win and look good doing it was a big step forward for LSU.
In a more sentimental way was Arizona St in 2005. It was right after Katrina. Players had family who lost everything and were scattered all over the place. Had every reason to give up on that game and blame it on off field distractions. Instead, they won in a big way and went on a tear that year playing 13 straight games losing only 1 regular season game and the SECCG before blowing out Miami in the bowl game.
To go into Tuscaloosa to get the win and look good doing it was a big step forward for LSU.
In a more sentimental way was Arizona St in 2005. It was right after Katrina. Players had family who lost everything and were scattered all over the place. Had every reason to give up on that game and blame it on off field distractions. Instead, they won in a big way and went on a tear that year playing 13 straight games losing only 1 regular season game and the SECCG before blowing out Miami in the bowl game.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:30 pm to Adam Banks
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So you drove drunk could have killed someone else and almost killed yourself because Alabama lost a football game.
You didn’t do dumb shite as at 18? I’m glad social media was only getting started when I was 18.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:33 pm to Dawgfanman
2021 is the biggest obviously but I'll add most of the 2017 season too. That team pounded opponents at a level we hadn't seen under Mark Richt. And the SECCG against Auburn was our first since 2005.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:34 pm to Tideroller
1998 vs Florida
2022 vs Alabama
2022 vs Alabama
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:40 pm to UKWildcats
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Nothing on the nation compares to those. That's how bad it was.
Navy, Kansas, and K-State would disagree.
Posted on 5/25/24 at 12:43 pm to Tideroller
For recent memory, I'd say the 2014 Sugar Bowl vs Bama. We had been getting our arse kicked by SEC teams in bowls games for a while. Trevor Knight comes out and has the game of his life.
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