There's a ton of memories in all these.
1985 - the game was played on Labor Day - Monday night - as a prime-time treat, which was something we didn't get back in those days (the morning to midnight college football was NOT in existence back then like it is now). Hurricane Elena hit the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, so there were updates on that. That game was - well - boring. Until the final minute when suddenly fourteen points were scored, seven each way. When UGA blocked the punt, I had 1984 flashbacks going on (although we were 5-6 that year, only two teams - UGA and Ga Tech - beat us by double digits and we blew games against BC, Tennessee, and LSU in the final quarter).
That game made me believe Shula was capable of pulling off what he did in the Iron Bowl that same year.
1994 - this was a gunfight at the OK Corral. Alabama plodded along for nearly three quarters looking like they'd all donated blood that afternoon. Suddenly BOOM! The game was on. That year was the most fun year I ever had as a Tide fan that did not end with a title. Eight times we trailed in the fourth and won.
2008 - that was a terrible day at work. All our instruments crashed due to mechanical failures, and we were having to send ER labs out to other hospitals while trying to fix the broken instruments. You know how hard that is? By the time I got home, we were up something like 17-0 and my soon-to-be-ex said she had never seen Alabama play like that in the nearly 20 years we'd known each other. "This is a different team" she said. That's when we gained national respect.
2012 - I just watched this last week, and it is everything a college football game should be. When UGA blocked the field goal to go up, 21-10, that was the first time all year I had doubts about us. But then I saw Fluker when we came back from the TV break, and I turned to my co-worker and said, "We're going to run and run and run and break them - and then we'll kill them with a bomb in the fourth quarter."
The most important play of that entire game I must confess I was screaming at Saban. When we got the TD to make it 21-16 in the third and he went for two, I nearly lost it. When we made it, I breathed a sigh of relief and figured it was Saban sending UGA a message - "We're running, and you can't stop it. You know it and we know it."
Without that conversion, UGA lines up for a field goal to force overtime and then who knows? I did, however, think that that non-interception was a bad call and so did the non-partisan co-workers of mine. I nearly went on myself when UGA got close enough for a winning shot.