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Coming up next on Columbus connection, Columbus Georgia is the epicenter of college football and we're going to talk about a certain team.

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Welcome to Columbus connections: I am your host David Britt, and if you are watching this show after January the 8th, hopefully you are watching under Georgia being the national champions for the 2017 season. If not, we don't still have fun today, because we are talking to two other people who were on Georgia's, who played now we're just honor. They were, they played on the field in George's last victorious national championship. Now, if you don't realize how big Columbus is in college football, think about this now we're in Georgia.

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So of course a bunch of Georgia fans we're on the border of Alabama and we're 30 miles away from Auburn. So when you talk college football, you have to talk SEC and when you talk SEC, you have to talk Columbus Georgia, they are. Where else does it get any better Columbus and Alabama's first game they ever played was I'm. Excuse me, Georgia and Alabama was first game they played was in Columbus.

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The Auburn and Georgia game was played in clubs, so we're big we're huge, and we need to recognize that and what better way to recognize that than again to talk to people who were on the national championship team have play have had shows on ESPN every year they bring down college coaches from the best college teams. They do so much and they are responsible for so many great young people from Columbus being on great teams. None other than Dale Williams and DJ Jones. Welcome to the show.

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Now you guys, let's just you guys, are legendary for what you doing. We see you on TV and we and we see on the on the sidelines, but what you do for the community as far as getting young men and young people who have aspirations of attending a college and playing for they mean getting them there and and not just that, but make it seemed attainable if no one else does ever touch out. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. Thank.

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You so much very big thing she ate it, but what you got to understand is that we word them at one point in time. In this community we played youth. Ball played high school ball here we, you know this was our village and we had a lot of people that had their hands on us. Yeah.

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What made you like again, you all played together, 1980 team. When did you decide to do the show in in and do the things that you all are doing now? Well,.

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You know that took that came about right in 2004 with you know, when we started sports vision and really it was an easy thing. You know you know long story short DJ was the sports anchor at WR video challenge. 3 I was working in a church on the TV ministry and I got a sign to give a TV show for the pastor the church. So you know with all my homework and my due diligence or found out all I, think I can pull this off right here.

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You know, go get some sponsorships, you know, and we can do this. So I asked DJ a DJ. I said you know. If I go get some sponsors, would you be the co-host of the show and just say yeah, you know. Rest is history. You know when that when you start with the show, when you didn't even have a camera, you know it's a lot of vision. Well, vision has gotten me and DJ where we've gotten to the day for the Georgia piece, all the way to sports visit.

C

It has always been the stuff that we were exposed to and the things that we saw and we always spoke to it and we kind of stayed general. You know we grew up as little boys, basically talking about sports yeah and that's what we're doing.

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It that comes the second nature. That's right now, having played on that team in 1980. What is it like playing in a national championship? Well,.

B

Excuse me, I can I could reference back to it. Wasn't our first rodeo we came up in an outstanding youth program and college would I, don't know if you heard it.

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We played in you know, at a young age, we went down to the Walt Disney World Bowl and we basically were national champs at that point. So we were get. We got a taste of it but to have opportunity to make make it to national champions. On the kaliya on the collegiate level, I mean it's it's. What everything you think about I mean it's! What we about his young people that of course aspire to play college football and but what what I remember and what I can talk about?

B

You know with some strong feelings: it's just the connection that we had as a team. We we really care for each other you're hearing about the Brotherhood now in sports in the process. Well, it wasn't called that then, but you know what we had it back then, and now we appreciate it into this day, our teammates on those teams. You know when we see each other, it's almost like. You know it went 37 years ago, but that we won it's almost like.

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We would just saw each other last week and that's the love and that's the care that we have each other. That's.

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What you need to be victorious that Brotherhood? That's what keeps you going when you and you fall short when you throw.

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Thing that they kick us somebody up and whether you put them down you're.

B

Absolutely right- and you know you know what I'm most proud of as well- is that we did start this business sports visions and obviously we're able to travel throughout the southeast throughout the country, and we see many of our teammates. We see many of our old coaches, a lot of the administrators and they you know they remember that you know it was just something special with these two guys from Columbus, because we were always a little bit ahead of the curve.

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If you will, and the fact of the matter is that you know they expect to see us in business together on you know in the media, in the entertainment and events company as we are with sports vision, you know any time we try or have a reunion or help. We can find a reason to get together, yeah we're calling guys and trying to get them together, because you know it's just a wonderful time to get together with guys that you want a national championship with oh yeah.

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Let's talk about how big this area is as far as talent in college football I mean what are the reason that you all can get these these big, huge coaches. These are just know. You are getting the coaches every year coming down talking to these kids. How important is that, and why does that happen? I.

C

Think really, you know we, it speaks for you know again our pedigree and we know people. People know we played on Georgia's national championship, but nothing for the last five or six years. We have shown people that what we want to do is sincere and true, got great corporate backing to be able to do those high school football luncheons. From the standpoint of you know, from going from this year, we had Dabo Swinney Kirby, smart Nick, Saban, Gus, Malzahn mantra, and these guys you know you speak to the talent around here.

C

They're not just coming to see me in deejay. They know that it's a wealth of talent around here, it's all sanctioned by the n-c-double-a. If the Clearinghouse clears it, you know it's a day a week, so they'd love to come down here to see these kids and talk to these kids and basically I think with our franchise that we've set up with this high school football lunch and has been so big and impactful, because the corporate community sees it the high school kid sees that you know now we're talking about 10 years. They know we're.

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Gonna have a big time banquet, but we also know that there's a lot of football talent down there and we're not too arrogant to save it. They're not coming to see us. They come to see the players that are here now.

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You all have again, this shows sports fishing has been running since 2004 and.

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Can people watch it? How can people find it? How can people see it I'm.

B

Glad you asked that, because again, you know what what's happened here recently in the last several months. Is that tell we've been shown airing on two different networks: the CW as well as WR BL? And of course you can catch on Saturday mornings, on the CW at 6:30 a.m. and on Sunday mornings. You can catch us on WR BL at 6:00 a.m. and.

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The good thing about it, you know you can go to our website to www, supports visiting us a.com and you can catch us anytime that you want to, and we found out that really our website we visited so about so many people on our website. You know from from 42 states around the country to every military base in the world. Lot of people watch us on our website. So that's been good for us also, and it gets us out of the box. You know some people think you're.

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Just regional East, Alabama, West, Central George, we're all around the world.

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Oh yeah, it's a big that game. Tell me who did you all who was who did Georgia play? We played Notre Dame, they played Notre Dame. You.

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Know today what.

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Is just going into that from from the last game to knowing that you're going to the national championships? Take us through that! Well,.

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My freshman year, coming in my freshman class, a lot of notoriety, a lot of star status in that class, but so.

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You are freshmen coming in, but you had been yeah.

C

I've been that was my junior year, that was my junior year, but but the biggest thing about it. What I, when I, look back to the Georgia to Notre Dame and we're preparing for that game in itself? You know we had just won a couple of great victories against Florida on the Lindsay Scott play. We beat Georgia Tech, we ranked number one in the country and just in the preparation from December to Christmas Eve.

C

You know we were preparing to play: Notre Dame, that's a great Herschel Walker and one thing that we look back and we say now. Why was that team? So good? You know, DJ's freshman class would probably wanted to talk freshman class ever at the University of Georgia thing. They had a record of some like 41 and 3 throughout his career as a freshman class.

C

That piece right there kind of took us over the top, because we had a lot of freshmen that plays some significant minutes and time yeah Herschel Walker, you know, but blue Nancy Scott had a great defense, Kurt Russell defensive coordinator. We had the personality. We were traditional University of Georgia team, junkyard, dog team and really when we got to New Orleans, we felt that no stage was big enough for us.

C

We we knew that we could beat Notre Dame Notre Dame was came off a little arrogant as we did a lot of things together, while we were down there, but uh we were able to UM to win very close game just like I think it's gonna be a very close game this time, but the national championship game will look. I made a picture for us like we look national, we look like you know, force business is concerned. We don't just look at this region. We look at a national picture. Also was.

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Georgia favorite in the game, or were they the underdog of course not.

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We were family.

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That was that's what I was leading to yes, people now. The way it is now is people really don't like to give the SEC their credit, the desert regions being a dominant conference going against the big Notre Dame and just as in today, if no Georgia played or today might go for Georgia under time? Well,.

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Let's back it up a little bit because again, when you know Dell didn't didn't, didn't really tell you that what happened to year prior I mean obviously the couple of years proud of that I mean I. Nobody in the world would have predicted that we would want a national championship in 1980. When you considered the seasons project, it was, it was rocky roads.

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It was hex well.

C

You know my sophomore year at Georgia we were 6 and 5, but we still almost won the SEC during that time, but we were 6 and 5 got beat by Auburn Brooks and creoles probably had 200 yards a piece against us. We lost some get. We lost our homecoming game to Virginia, we lost, we lost some big-time games, but we got worked that summer that summer, that junior class that came in the freshman class that was coming in we got I mean we really worked that summer.

C

You know like I said, and you know you'll hear us say this- all the time championships are made in the summer. The summer before we won the championship, we put the work in and it kind of really just showed itself when we were playing in the national championship game cause. We really worked that summer. That's.

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You say: work conditioning yeah, you know preparing I mean getting your body right because again we didn't have the biggest strongest team. Obviously ever getting each week that we played, but we had a well-conditioned team in the fourth quarter is what we prided ourselves on at that time. Asked of course threw out there right now when you see them holding up that number four up those four fingers up during the full quarter, then I write the University of Georgia prides themselves on being in condition and ready to play in the fourth quarter. It's.

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Bigger than that conditioning, how much of that is going on as we speak when I say as we speak, we're recording this on the third, the fourth day of January, so right now we're leading up to the game, probably after the game by the time you watch this but I. Just imagine right now, back conditioning is really going on what happens those weeks month from the time that you know you're going to the national championship to the time that you step onto that field, what type of work and conditioning is happening? Well,.

B

You know I think most of the most of the hard work has been done because obviously they had the month or the two weeks off for Christmas and a hop over the holidays and we're going out to the Rose Bowl. When you consider the turnaround just a week, I mean they're there they have. They have no reason to really concentrate on conditioning at this point. It's just about execution going on for some game planning, because again from from that last game against Oklahoma, now to the national championship, game I mean.

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Realistically you know you just got to make sure that you, you know nurse all the wounds and get everybody healthy and and again conditioning has already been done. You.

C

Know and really like, like dude, they were saying, but from time you just you know what ball game right after the SEC championship game. You know what ball game you're going to. The process is like that you got to take finals. Gotta, get your finals out the way from December to New, Year's, Eve or not New, Year's Eve, but like Christmas Eve, you know, you're gonna practice, you're gonna be conditioned.

C

You're gonna get R and you're gonna do all those things you get: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to be at home and then that next day boom you're going to the ballgame for a whole week. So this week's game it being the game up until the national championship. Again, it's just gonna be like a game preparation a week. You know the week of the game preparation the condition of each year. They can continue to get conditioned or more so than anything they're putting in game plans right now. That's what's going on right now, yeah.

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So what are you all predictions? Well, what's your prediction for the score, Alabama versus Georgia man.

B

Obviously, everybody's gonna know that you know again if they followed sports vision at all. They knew since the SEC championship game I had predicted that George will win and I was pretty close in the score same way with Oklahoma, but with Alabama it's gonna be a little different. Obviously it's gonna be a you know, a heartfelt game but I think they Jake froms gonna, be the difference maker, Alabama's gonna stack the box, absolutely I running game.

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You know, I expect them not to stop it completely, but our freshman quarterback Jake from in my opinion, is after gonna have to use the vertical game to break things open in our predict. 3124 Alabama. Excuse me, 3420.

C

But yeah I think to piggyback what did you say? I think is gonna, be a very close game, very physical game. You know, I just think defensively George has got to turn up a little bit more on defense pressure. Jalen hurts a little bit more I think something the other. The other piece is gonna, be this it's the referees and the officials gonna dictate how tight they can call the game. What I mean by tight Alabama is known that they're gonna smother you on the corners with that with their second there are they gonna?

C

Let me use their hands, we don't let them be a whole lot. Physical, that's gonna, be interesting, so we know they're gonna be on top of jig from they've gonna. Try to make them throw the ball, but I think really one of the biggest and is gonna, be like really real, simple special teams and turnovers, and we have two turnovers who does well on special teams, but I really think they're evenly matched I.

C

Think Alabama plays a little bit more aggressive on defense, but I think this time the curve is going to turn these guys loose to get out to Jaylin hurts and we come out with a win some kind of way. We come out with a win 24:20.

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Masters tell us again: when is sports videos, and where does it here sports.

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Research, you can catch it on Saturdays, on the CW at 6:30 a.m. or you could also catch it on Sunday at on WR BLT b3. You can catch that at 6 o'clock a.m. or anytime on our website. Wlwt's visions, usa.com sports is plural features, disapproval usa.com. There.

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You go DJ, Jones and Dale Williams. Can we get a shot of the ring? Are we able to get a close-up of the gigantic ring that I've been trying to squint every time? The light hits it? Yes, sir, this is the last check. Let me.

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But yeah we're looking to add another one of those to the repertoire of Georgia gonna, be whoever you root for is gonna, be a great game. It's just great to be in the place, who has the best bragging rights that the camaraderie of Georgia and Alabama and Auburn to the point where UCF wants to have a parade just because they beat Auburn but anyway, without a celebrate. All of the SEC teams celebrate the fact that it brings us all together, but yeah we're gonna still root for Georgia all day long go Dawgs!

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We'll see you next time in Oklahoma's connection.