Georgia Football: Adding Up Greyson Lambert, Steve Spurrier, and Rudy
For Georgia football fans Saturday night, the day’s numbers harmonized to create the music of the spheres.
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Numbers, sometimes they add to interesting sums.
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On Saturday, during the fortieth season since the Rudy Game, Notre Dame defeated Georgia Tech 30 -22. Divide 40 years by two. Twenty seasons ago, Steve Spurrier used a trick play to score 52 points against Georgia in Sanford Stadium, and Saturday, the Bulldogs finally avenged the deed.
Break the divisor into its whole number addends and align the numerals adjacently. Saturday, number 11 not only led the Bulldog’s 52-20 rout of Spurrier’s team, Greyson Lambert wrote his own obituary.
“ . . . at the time of his passing, Mr. Lambert still held the NCAA football record for passing efficiency set at Georgia in 2015 while competing against Steve Spurrier’s South Carolina Gamecocks . . . “
Well it wasn’t very pretty
Glory, glory.
Greyson Lambert: quite the singular addition to the Bulldog Nation.
Making the Saturday chicken roast even more delectable is the notion whispered throughout Bulldog Country that Georgia hung half a hundred on Steve Spurrier during his last visit to Athens as the Head Ball Coach.
Spurrier begs to differ, when asked if this was his last game in Sanford Stadium, he responded to Kaci B of garnetandblackattack.com, “No, I hope to come back many times.”
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It seems unlikely, but the Dawg faithful would not protest.
Georgia fans have never so enjoyed a villain such as Steve Spurrier – his searing wit, his visor flinging, his team deprecating comments in defeat – always spiced with just a pinch of dismissal – are the stuff of a silent movie scoundrel.
“Well it wasn’t very pretty. Maybe Georgia’s that good, we’ll find out.”
Dawgs may love to hate the Head Ball Coach, but deep down, we know we’ll miss him.
Sure, Spurrier’s beaten the Dawgs plenty, but we had fun.
“I don’t know. I sort of always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.” – from Chris Fuhrmeister of sbnation.com.
Sep 19, 2015; Athens, GA, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier leaves the field after the game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium. Georgia defeated South Carolina 52-20. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports
It’s fun because beating Spurrier is so completely satisfying, both because he’s a splendid coach and because he says the things that, after he says them, usually you wish you had said them.
“You know what FSU stands for, don’t you? Free Shoes University.”
And for Bulldogs of the back-in-the-day generation, there is always the ultimate revenge for losing, a revenge exacted during Spurrier’s youth for his later day antics.
In 1966 Georgia hounded Steve Spurrier up and down, in and out, all around the old Gator Bowl, denying the Heisman Trophy winner an SEC Championship, what would have been Florida’s first conference crown.
Spurrier will never forget and we won’t either.