The icing on the cake

Georgia wins on blocked pass by linebacker on 4th and four on the eight yard line with 27 seconds on the clock. That was sweet. After all, W&L won against Sewanee in Lexington, 31-13, then Georgia and South Carolina play one of the best games I've seen, other than Georgia vs. South Carolina 1980 and the game a couple of years ago, when David Pollack jumped up and took the ball away from SC's quarterback, simultaneously scoring the winning touchdown. This game had everything: 100 yard kickoff return for touchdown, 60 yard end around for touchdown, plenty of interceptions to stop drives, a blocked extra point to preserve what became a four point lead after a field goal, and then the suspicion hanging over my head the entire evening that SC just might score a touchdown one of these times rather than being forced to settle for field goals. But the best moment ended up being a side show to the actual play on the field. As Rene Curran, linebacker for Georgia was blocking the pass from Garcia to his giant tight end in the end zone, thus ending South Carolina's chances to win the game, one of the ESPN cameras was focused on Steve Spurrier on the sideline. As the ball fell awry, Spurrier jumped up, spun around and fell to his knees. As he displayed these histrionics, the Georgia State Troopers who were standing behind him as his security guard were clapping, smiling and doing fist bumps literally in Spurrier's face. If only there had been a fist bump cam to allow us to see Spurrier's face when he spun around and saw his security detail celebrating his team's loss. Very sweet.