Can the Georgia Bulldogs make it two in a row? We will find out tonight when they take on cinderella TCU for the National Championship in Los Angeles. It's a 12:30AM (Tuesday morning) start time here in London. I imagine your mom will be on it for the entire game, as she was for the semi-finals.
The Stetson Bennett story is one for the ages. I can't help but think about Pop and how much he is enjoying this run from his seat in heaven.
Taylor shared this with me last week from The Athletic article linked above:
Stetson Bennett plans to enjoy the ride, wherever it takes him. He promised himself that after winning the national title last year. “Two weeks after I’m sitting in a math class and I’m like, ‘Oh so it doesn’t change. It’s life. It keeps going on,’” he said. “And I was so grateful to realize that then instead of working at a job for 40 years to reach that goal and reaching that goal when I’m 63 and being like ‘crap.’ Yeah, you’re going to have to work. But it’s not about the championships or the gravy at the end of the journey. It’s about the journey.”
Wise young man,
Dad
P.S. Excerpt from Remembering Pop:
He scours the morning paper. What else happened in the world of sports and in the bigger world of things (perhaps) more important than the Braves or the Georgia Bulldogs? “Did I tell you about the year Hershel Walker brought us the National Championship and Benjamin Franklin “Buck” Belue threw the most beautiful 97 yard touchdown pass to Lindsey Scott and we beat those damn Florida Gators? Things have never been the same between the hedges, but Hershel was a special guy. That was 1980 son, and we took it to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl for a perfect 12 and 0 season.”
RESULTS: DAWGS dominate FROGS 65-7!
