It remains one of those indelible football moments from which Buck Belue can never escape, nor does he want to. Even on a business trip in a remote Caribbean country, it followed the former Georgia and Valdosta High quarterback like an unrelenting pass-rusher.
Forty years later, for Belue and anyone connected with one of the most iconic plays in college football history, there's no running away from "Run, Lindsay, Run."
It's the gift — and a recurring nightmare if you're a Florida Gators fan — that will never stop giving for Georgia coaching legend Vince Dooley and every member of the Bulldogs' 1980 national championship team. It's a play so memorable that it managed to overshadow the 238 rushing yards by legendary Georgia freshman back Herschel Walker.
"I bet you I've talked to several thousand people just to hear their story that goes along with the play," said the 60-year-old Belue, a longtime sports-talk radio host on 680 TheFan in Atlanta. "I've enjoyed that through the years. Someone will come up and say, 'Belue, let me tell you about that Run, Lindsay, Run play. I was at my uncle's house up in Memphis. ... '
"It'll lead you down a road you just don't expect to hear," he said. "It just brought so many people joy. That's a feel-good thing there. You can tell they're excited to tell you their story. That's been a blessing to be associated with something so positive."
