Kirby Smart is on the sideline running beside him, screaming like, go down, go down.

And then at some point he sees, he looks up there's open field.

And he's like, okay.

Georgia Bulldogs first the Alabama Crimson Tide for the college football natty.

This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey

and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.

I'm your host Thomas Emerick, and my guest is Jeremiah Johnson,

creator of the Infinite Scroll newsletter on Substack on the politics and dynamics of the social internet.

Also creator of the Center for New Liberalism and corresponding show The New Liberal Podcast.

Folks may have come across his annual worst tweets bracket that comes out every December.

We'll flip over to January of 2022, the title game.

Jeremiah, as a millennial Georgia bulldog, who else could you find standing in the way than

Bama?

I mean, most of the SEC, most of college football, I was born in the 80s, the late 80s,

and most of my childhood being a Georgia football fan was an exercise and frustration.

Georgia was this team that everybody thought should be good and just was always kind of always the bridesmaid, never the bride, got close a bunch of times, had a bunch of good teams, but had not been able to win a national championship since 1980, when they had Herschel Walker,

and that was the magical year.

But since 1980, it had been 40 years of having good football teams while never really

having one that was great, never having one that was good enough to really get over the

hump. And it was, you know, one heartbreak after another. So being a Georgia fan was an interesting

experience growing up in that we were always good, but never quite good enough. And Alabama, for a long

time, was really the boogeyman. Bama had won six of the

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