Official UGA Pre-Game Videos

This site has all the Scoreboard videos from Sanford Stadium including

Tunnel Video "It's Saturday"
Baba O'Riley
4th Quarter "Boom"
Lose Yourself
Let's Get it Started (the obnoxious commercial)

All video versions appear to be from Game 1. They don't include the updates from the Florida and Auburn games. Also, when you click on the link, it will open to an Auburn video. Just skip past that. Direct linking to individual videos didn't work for me.

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While I'm cleaning up my "draft" folder

I heard about the Transformers Movie (opens July 4th) from my brother a while back. My reaction was "Are you kidding me? Someone was that desperate for a movie idea? What sort of Georgia Tech grad would fork over $10 to see such a pile of poo? My indignation and condescension were both boisterous and overbearing.

Then I saw the teaser trailer and the follow-up trailer. Complete. Opinion. 180.


Here's a movie by Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg that showcases everything right with American Cinema. A movie that shows signs Man Law level awesomenesses. To wit, it contains:

Guns
Chicks
Fire trucks
Robots
Stuff that blows up
Stuff that almost blows up
Lots of loud noises and shiny objects

Yeah. So I'm definitely going to see it. But that's not why I posted this. I posted this because Optimus Prime has been selected by the Newspapers Association of America (NAA) to endorse their campaign to get people to read more newspapers. A combo so random and ironic as to justify comment on a very slow news day like this one.



Obviously....I've got nothing today. Clearly. Just totally nothing.

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Georgia Sports Blog at the Movies: Rocky Balboa

I recently saw Rocky Balboa. On my Rocky Scale (One = Best picture and Five = horsesh*t), this one is a Two. If you loved the first one, but you thought Rocky V = Phantom Menace, this movie is for you. It's been out for a little while now, but you if you haven't seen it yet, it's worth a trip to the theater. Others reviewed the film here.

I have to mention that one of the previews was for a Nicholas Cage movie called Ghost Rider, in which his head catches on fire and he rides a motorcycle and stuff. What is up with Nick Cage? He's a great actor. He's an Oscar winner for crying out loud...and he can't pick a script lately to save his life. The gawd-awful trailer prompted me to make the following observation to PWD: "I think Brian Van Gorder must be Nick Cage's career coach."

Rocky Balboa dramatically exceeded my expectations, which is more of a comment on my expectations than anything. The film is a throwback to the grittier first and second films, rather than the over-the-top cheese fests of the third and fourth flicks [sidebar: even to this day Rocky IV is a sublime guilty pleasure. RIP, James Brown. No political system could withstand an assault by Ronald Reagan and Rocky].

To its credit, the movie confronts the age issue head on, instead of pretending a mid-fifties Rock hadn't lost a step. In fact, one of my favorite scenes is when Apollo's former corner man Duke tells Rock his only chance is "blunt force trauma...heavy duty punches that will rattle his ancestors," followed by classic training montage (c'mon you know you love the training montage...flying high now!).

I defy you to visit the Philly Art Museum and NOT run the steps. It CANNOT be done I tell you!

I hope people will give it a chance because Stallone, who wrote and directed, put together a well-paced, often quiet film that includes many knowingly self-referential moments as a treat to franchise fans. The fight sequence is almost beside the point because the movie is the most character driven since the first. The fight is handled realistically, Rocky once again an underdog from the streets of Philly whom no one gives a chance.

Rocky Balboa is the movie the fighter deserves to retire with. Check it out.

Other Georgia Sports Blog at the Movies reviewed here.

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Georgia Sports Blog at the Movies: We are Marshall

Matthew McConaughey gives a pep talk in "We are Marshall"

I saw We Are Marshall tonight. In a word.....Excellence. This isn't a cheesy sports movie. It's a well written, well produced story of human triumph. As you probably already know, the movie tells the story of how Marshall University, The City of Huntington and the football team rebuilt from the ashes of the Nov. 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people.

On board the plane were all but 4 varsity football players, all but one coach and many of the school and town's most prominent citizens/boosters. I had concerns about Matthew McConaughey being the lead character, but he does a solid job.

My advice. Take a box of tissue you with you. The "paint fumes factor" in this one is off the charts. A real tear jerker / feel good story. It gets the Georgia Sports Blog's full endorsement. The movie trailer (2:30 minutes) and other links of interest are below.

Links of interest:

• Marshall University's FAQ About the Movie
  
• Marshall University's Movie Timeline
  
• Official Movie Web Site
  
• 1999 Chicago Sun-Times Article on the Plane Crash
  
• Listing of the 75 plane victims
  
• UGA Kicker Billy Bennett's role in the Film
  
• (WARNING SPOILER)About the Kicker that Billy plays in the Movie

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