project

Instead of writing, I decided to work on a project today: a highlight video to get you started on football season.  No, nothing from this football season.  Our wins haven't been where I can get my claws on them.  Two on ESPN3 and one on the Big Ten Network, and yes I have BTN but the powers that be decided that despite the fact that both Indiana and Virginia are closer to this town than Nebraska is, this town would be more interested in Nebraska anyway.  I hate the powers that be.  So no IU highlights.

I digress.  I had this video sent to me by an interested viewer and hope to get more in the future; it is, even as I type, undergoing its final processing into the usual highlight video.  You can find it in the video library, but just to be nice and not a total pageviews whore (it ain't like I'm ca$hing check$ off it, after all) I'll link it right here, the new highlight video I've spent today working on:

1995 UVA vs. Georgia (Peach Bowl)

Yesssssssssss more Welsh era stuff yessssssssss.  It's an ESPN Classic broadcast so it's a little strange-ish because they've already taken out what they see fit to, so the highlight flow is a touch different from what I'd like.  But you'll watch anyway because you want that good-times remembrance of when we could expect to win games.

Astute readers will do a little math in their heads and recall that this game was almost 16 years ago, and I've only been a UVA fan for 11 years, so a little subtraction will tell you this predates my affiliation.  In fact, I'd never seen this game.  So that made it kind of a fun experience, actually, in a different way than you may approach this.  Or maybe you're a newer fan than I, in which case, rock on and enjoy.  I can't help a little editorializing about the game, though, namely:

- Astroturf underneath a badly-lit sanitized NFL dome is and always has been a poor way to play college football.  I must say it takes something away from the experience.

- UGA coach Ray Goff was coaching his final game, having been fired midway through the season but allowed to finish it out.  The loss dropped Georgia to 6-6.  It's kind of quaint seeing signs in the stands supporting the fired coach and wishing him well.  This is, you see, from before the Webz took hold of college football fandom and consequently, before the days of firethatfuckingshitbag.com.

- You'll see a lot of Goff in the highlights.  This may be before the days of burning coach hatred, but it is not before the days of disgustingly biased announcers.  They talk about the time they spent with Ray Goff prior to the game and it clearly gave them a rooting interest - the play by play guy could not be less enthused about watching [really exciting and decisive Virginia play redacted in case you haven't seen this or don't remember] if it was instead a word-for-word recitation of the Unabomber manifesto.  (You like my period reference, by the way?  That was slick.)

Anyway, enjoy the highlights.  With a little luck, more history may be on the way.