BE VERY THANKFUL that we didn't win in '99. If so, Jerry Tepper Dinardo would have still been our coach the next year.
Don't forget about the 98 game where we were winning 16-7 with 2:50 on the clock. Bama won. That was the game that Abram Booty let the bama DB intercept the ball in the endzone without even trying for the ball. That is the game where two of Bama's TD passes were tipped by our defender and landed in their receivers hands in stride (ala the Bluegrass miracle). TWO. Add the on-side kick they recovered, and us kicking FGs from inside the 5 yard line... THAT game SUCKED!!!
Yeah! What he said... Give them two TDs and their Defense still lays down at the end of the game. They were BEATEN!!! Period!!! More stats for Joe. Thats all it would have been.
Ouch! I was at that game and had consiously blocked it from my selective memory. That's probably the worst game in Tiger stadium that I've ever been to.
Booty was 15-for-36 for 176 yards and four interceptions. I hated Booty!:angry: LSU (2-7, 0-7), which has lost seven straight games :nope:
Bama fans love to feel sorry for themselves. They're still bitching about getting put on probation 5 years ago. Nothing is ever their fault and they are never to blame for anything. It's all part of the conspiracy against Alabama. LOL
they shoulda been given the death penalty in all fairness yet they still cry foul. Phat Phil is eating a case of donuts celebrating at this very moment.
The play was an AMAB punt. Their gunner and our blocker (Erin Damond, I think) were running down the field side by side, bumping into each other--incidental contact by both. As they approached the returner, the LSU guy holds up. The AMAB player plows into the returner before the catch--in fact, the ball hit the AMAB player in the middle of the numbers on his back. The LSU blocker jumps over the pile and lands on the ball 3-5 yards behind the play. The refs threw a flag, but it was waived off saying that the AMAB player had been blocked into the returner--bad call. Then the ref calls for the AMAB offense, even though the LSU player was the only one near the ball on the recovery. The refs then huddle with the LSU defense pointing out the posession on the Jumbo-Tron. The no call on the returner interference was bad enough (remember, this was in the day of the 2 yard halo), but to award the ball to AMAB when the only place it touched a Tide player was in the middle of the back would have made that play the worst blown call in the history of college football. Worse than the infamous Colorado 5th down, worse than the pass interference in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, and worse than the one Saturday night. I have never heard boos come through the TV set so loud. GEAUX TIGERS (Go to Hell, Ole Miss)
