Once upon a time, a Prince from a land far, far away joined the Godfather of Soul to watch a spectacle that defied natural law when a couple of Cats forced Dogs to surrender in their own yard.
Saturday’s game between No. 11 Kentucky and No. 1 Georgia will have an enormous audience with ESPN’s College GameDay and CBS in the house. The big-game atmosphere cannot compare to the celebrities in the Sanford Stadium stands for the 1977 matchup between these two teams.
“Boy, that place was packed,” Joe Bryant recalls. “But I can tell you this, by halfway through the third quarter it was about four-fifths empty.