:( this is not right, i feel dirty now having voted against the hop……

Sorry GMAC

I remember seeing this play and saying to myself, “There’s no one on this team who isn’t putting everything out on the field tonight”.

Damn, I love both of these plays.

b/c before tha the game was scoreless and this TD started Bama’s momentum. Greg’s bunny hop, although getting the first down, resulted in a field goal which translates to a stop for the gators (12-3 rather than 16-3).

my man crush on the “hop” is well-documented. Now is no time to walk away.

gmac’s bunny hop made me go HELL YEAH! but richardson’s run made me shiver in silent delight in anticipation for the next couple of years. we knew greg could reach deep down and produce greatness but this was the first time we got a real good look at the greatness promised us when richardson chose to come to the capstone.

besides, the block mcelroy threw in that game is even more awesome.

But since it was a true freshman, I had to vote for Trent. These are two of my favorite plays. They both demonstrate the will of the type of players who refuse to be denied.
As much as I respect the effort and athleticism of McElroy’s play, I had to go with the Trent’s defining moment.

Trent’s run was great, and makes me very, very excited to see what he does this year and next, but as for what made me happiest at that exact moment . . . had to vote for GMac

When that happened, I was just sitting there like, “Shit, nothing can stop us today.”

I agree with M. Johnson Defender, that was the single most impressive individual performance of the year. The ballet run down the sidelines illustrated perfectly how hard every player on the team wanted to win the SECCG… but TR took on the entire Arkansas team, it seemed like, and just DOMINATED them. Ran ’em over, ran through ’em, and then outran ’em to the endzone. Like Prothro making that impossible catch against Southern Miss, like Shaun Alexander taking his separated shoulder and just WILLING himself through the Florida defense in overtime of the SECCG, like George Teague running down the fastest player in college football… TR showed what it means to refuse to be denied. Yes, I put that play in that league. Spectacular individual accomplishment, and I think Arkansas was broken in that moment.

a baaaarrrrnnnn burner.

but i keep watching the trent td for a several of reasons: 1) the leaping block on arky’s #10 by #85 (after he & #79 opened up the corner) absolutely cracks me up. that should qualify for ‘happiest’ but since i didn’t notice it till the replay on tv, i’m trying to stick with what made me happiest at the moment it happened. 2) watching #22 ‘scold’ him (not positive that’s what the conversation was when he grabbed #3 by the facemask after the play but am pretty sure, as trent was doing a bit of celebrating with the crowd) and 3) all the love trent got from the rest of the players – in particular #5. what a special group of guys…

But being at the stadium and realizing the crowd reaction going from “oh, they stopped him in the backfield” to “OMG HEIZMAN WINNNURZ!” in less than 10 seconds was amazing.

makes me flex.

. . . . .but champions were made on GMac’s run. His fighting words (“Let’s go be champions!”) just before running on to the field in the SECCG vs. Florida gave me the chills. Even though I found out “after the fact”, that under-rated m-fer walked (er. . . .hopped) the walk, and didn’t just talk the talk.

That play defined him, in my estimation. He wasn’t gonna let that vaunted Gator-D beat him. He had a game for the ages, the stuff of legend. If form holds true, I’ll be telling my nieces and nephews, children and grandchildren, or any other little person that I love in my life about that play, that insane team, and that championship season in the years to come. . . . . as my uncles, aunts, and family-folk had done for me.

Seriously, . . . . . .I got obnoxiously rowdy after that play and I knew, deep down inside, that we’d win on that day. First time, in a long time, that I cried after having watched a football game. The tears of joy are simply, the essence of sweet pleasure.

GMac it is!

Hardest one yet for me, by far. Ended up going with Trent’s run, just because he broke about 5 tackles behind the LOS and ended up with a TD, but the hop was a thing of beauty, and on a much bigger stage. Very close.

My dad was in the critical care unit and his nurses let me, my mom, my brother and my husband stay back there and watch the game with him. Despite the circumstances, we all cheered, Daddy included, when McElroy picked up the first down. We were so glad we got to watch that ass-kicking together, so I had to go with McElroy.