Alabama-Georgia: agony and ecstacy (and to be discussed forever)

(This has been sitting for about a day or two, finally have it up).

   If walls and chairs and blades of fake turf could talk, the ones at the Georgia Dome would be yakking for days about the fun they had.

    As it is, plenty of humans can't stop talking about the remarkable event that took place Saturday afternoon and evening, between those walls on the turf and with chairs filled.

    The SEC championship - and championship almost understates it - will live on, to be replayed and relived and maybe repressed for awhile.

    You do everything but win the game, and it'll leave a mark. We tend to save the "shame somebody had to lose" for high school athletes and younger, but it fits. It was pretty glorious to watch if you didn't care who won.

Is it finally Georgia's time?

            As Georgia players gather on the Georgia Dome turf for the first time on Saturday, they should stop and look around, and think about something:
            "Ah, so this is what it feels like to be on the inside looking out."
            For a long time - seemingly back to the leather-helmet days, to some - Georgia has been on the outside looking in whenever the discussion was about national title contenders.
            The Bulldogs were in the conversation, but it was almost perfunctory. They were a nice team, they're good, but not quite on that next level.
            Georgia has had one unscheduled but regular opponent for so many years: a hump.
            That hump has been better than Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama and everybody else. Georgia could beat those other teams, but the hump always seemed to prevail.