what the article had to say about UF and Coach Zook. I know I did. I hope you will also read on to see what it says about Georgia. I don't expect for you to be happy for a moment that Georgia and not Florida is in the SECCG. I do hope, however, that this helps you to look beyond your first and understandable visceral emotions when a fan of my school comes over here to make a lame taunt. I hope it reminds you that the beauty of college football is too vast to glorify only what happens in one place, to the exclusion of all others. Even your bitterest rival can give the enlightened mind a reason for inspiration. I would propose to you that the greatest thing about the Georgia team is that they are not great. They are not the powerhouse that UF and UT were throughout the 90s.Those teams were clearly great in different ways. I was in Auburn Saturday night. I saw how thoroughly Auburn demolished Georgia in the first half. I saw a Georgia team backed up on its 1 yard line next to the Auburn student section, down 11 midway through the 3rd facing 2nd and 19 after a spectacular 1st down sack. I've been to football games for 40 years. Jordan Hare that day was the loudest stadium I've ever seen. The Auburn defense were liked caged animals as they awaited that second down. I then saw a Georgia team drive the ball 99 yards against an opponent that had thoroughly dominated them up to that point. I saw what was required to even get to the play that won the game. It took the heart of a champion to win that game Saturday. Did Lady Luck shine on the Dogs? Absolutely. But I'm also reminded of a forgotten part of the Munson broadcast in Jacksonville in 1980. A minute or so after the play, when the pandemonium had died down just a bit, an exhausted Munson said, "You say luck? Well, yeah! But he caught the ball and he ran. And the other guy threw it." This game was about so much more than the 4th and 15. It was about the 99 yards. It was about stopping Auburn 3 and out on their last five possessions, It was about coming up with the exact number of clutch plays requied to win the game, not one more, or one less. It was about walking into one of the most imposing stadiums in America on a dark, raw, cold and windy day without your A-Game and finding a way to win when the whole world around them seemed to say there was no way to do so. It was played in the finest tradition of the South's Oldest Rivalry. It was played in the finest tradition of college football. If you haven't hurled yet and are still rewading, thank you for indulging me this shaggy dog story. I think Florida and Georgia both have alot to be proud of this year. I can tell you that I'm very proud for Georgia to be the champion of any league that includes UF. You guys did beat everybody in the East and you are going to win 10 games. Do not judge this by past standards and find it wanting. Judge it by present reality, and recognize it for great achievement it truly is. Somewhere that Gator team found something deep inside of them when the whole world around them were telling them it couldn't be done. With apologies to Braveheart, "They fought like warrior-poets. They fought like Gators." Never more so than in Jax two weeks ago, or for that matter with their preformance in the second half against USC. As information, a member of this thread e-mailed me last night to offer his four tickets to the SECCG. At face value. They are going for 250-300 a piece up here. I don't know what to say to him other than to offer my deepest gratitude. I can't afford the scalp. And I'm not even a season ticket holder. Most likely this is the difference between my family attending the game or not being able to go. Since I was a young man the last time the Dogs actually won the SEC and I am clearly young no longer, I'll never forget what this Gator has done for me. So, with all appropriate limitations that must attach whenever a Bulldog uttereth these words, Go Gators.