Bowl Game Trauma....

The Falcon Nation is treading lightly onto the bowl game stage, because, well, our last trip there was pretty painful.  Like, wake up screaming in the night painful.  Granted, not as painful to us as this was....



but emotionally painful.  Which still hurts.

Anyway, I'm talking about the GMAC Bowl, which turned into an ugly rout at the hands of Tulsa, and was the worst bowl defeat in the history of bowls.  63-7.  Not pretty at all, as our team was completely unready to play and was blasted out from the very early minutes of the game.

And for those of us old enough to have survived the Denny Stolz-wrecked Raisin Bowl in Fresno (51-7, a shade closer but still equally humiliating and maybe more so given that team was undefeated), there are actually two bowl traumas in our past.

Yes, in between they are pretty good, and BG has won 4 of its last 5 bowl games.  Still, those humiliations do kind of sting, even years later.

So, let's hope our team erases those memories with a victory in Boise this afternoon.  We don't need any more nightmares.