UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Jake Scott’s homecoming
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There is an absolutely fantastic story about Jake Scott, one of Georgia’s all-time greats, in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/football/pro/dolphins/sfl-spjakescott19nov19,0,3570478.story).
If you haven’t read it, do. It’s long, but worth your while.
Scott, a safety who was a Georgia All-American in 1968 and a Super Bowl MVP with the Miami Dolphins, has lived most of his post-football life in relative obscurity. But Sun-Sentinel writer Dave Hyde tracked down the “reckless recluse” in Hanalei, Hawaii, and got the first extensive interview with him since 1979.
This is particularly timely considering Scott will be making a rare return to Athens this week. He is serving as honorary captain for the Bulldogs for the coin toss before Saturday’s game against Georgia Tech. This is noteworthy considering Scott has turned down invitations to Dolphins’ Super Bowl team reunions and Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. Carter Strickland’s trying to find out how and when Georgia tracked down Scott, and how it talked him into coming back for this huge game.
Reading about Scott got me to thinking about Georgia’s great players over the years. Vince Dooley once said Scott was the best overall athlete who ever played for him, the incomparable Herschel Walker included. That’s a pretty strong statement considering some of the incredible athletes that have come through Athens.
I could see a good argument being made for Champ Bailey, from more recent years, being Georgia’s greatest all-time athlete, or perhaps Hines Ward. From days gone by, maybe it’d be Billy Henderson or Charley Trippi or Zippy Morrocco. I’m talking about guys who were obviously good in football but would be good at any sport they focused on.
So what do you think? Is Jake the greatest of them all? Do you expect him to get a warm reception despite the relative cool with which he left Georgia for the Canadian Football League after his junior season? And, of course, will his presence catapult the Dogs to victory over Tech?
