Georgia vs Florida
1980 Football
Footage from the ABC National Broadcast of the GA / FL Game
where Lynch and Furr ended up on the sideline and on National Television during one of the greatest plays in the history of the University of Georgia football program.
Click the arrow to start the video. Furr and Lynch ... Lynch and Furr, life long friends ... best friends at Idlewood Elementary, Shamrock High School, and the University of Georgia. We both joined the same fraternity (CHI PSI) and were in each others weddings. We have remained great friends to this very day and reminisce from time to time about our 10 minutes of fame. Though... the fame has stayed with us for the past 24 years. Every televised GA/FL game is promoted with a clip of the Belue to Scott touchdown which always highlights the Lynch/Furr cameo.
Go Dogs...
1981 or 1982 - I can not remember... Somewhere between
Athens, GA and Jacksonville, FL.
Road trip to the Worlds Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party - The University of Georgia vs. The Florida Gators... Of course GA won!!! Pictured in the Middle is my all time number one college buddy from Lakeside High School... Joan F Kicklighter! (Joan married Gary F Burger who played for the University of South Carolina. Gary got us in the game and on the sidelines for the sold out USC / GA game in Columbia, SC. We did not have tickets - so Gary got the defensive backfield football coach to open the gate for us prior to the team running onto the field. As luck would have it we ran in with the USC team to the cheers of over 80,000 people... It was awesome to take the field with the players, though it might have raised a few eyebrows with their fans as we were dressed in our full Georgia Red and Black garb)
Scott’s Improbable Touchdown Keeps
Bulldogs Title Hopes Alive
November 8, 1980: Undefeated and #2 Georgia entered their 1980 rivalry game against Florida with high hopes for capturing the school’s first consensus national championship since 1942. But the vastly underrated Florida Gators came into Jacksonville with other plans, having lost only once and clinging to an outside shot at the SEC title. Georgia struck early and often, building leads of 14-3 and then 20-10 behind the running of freshman sensation Herschel Walker. But the Gators would not back down, and with a 40-yard field goal from Brian Clark late in the fourth, they looked poised for an upset leading 21-20.
After the teams traded possessions, Georgia took over at their own eight-yard-line with 1:35 left on the clock. Two plays gained nothing, and faced with a third-and-ten situation, Bulldogs quarterback Buck Belue dumped the ball over the middle to WR Lindsay Scott. Scott had enough for the first down, but shook two tackles, sprinted down the sideline, and shocked the sold-out crowd with a 93-yard catch-and-run to give Georgia a 26-21 victory. The Bulldogs rode the improbable comeback to the Sugar Bowl and beat Notre Dame, capping a 12-0 season and completing their national championship quest.
Hear Larry Munson, the greatest college broadcaster of all time, call the Greatest Play in Georgia Football History.
University of South Carolina
Williams-Brice Stadium
Columbia, SC
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