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‘Last Dance’ doc has Georgia players thinking national championship

Watching the Last Dance doc has Georgia football players thinking about winning the CFB national championship this year.

Whether it be the older folks reliving the greatest era of NBA basketball or the younger fans finally getting to see how special Michael Jordan really was, ESPN’s ‘The Last Dance’ documentary was exactly what America needed during the coronavirus pandemic.

We may not have experienced the same rush of emotions that we do when watching live sports, but this evoked a different kind of emotion. Seeing how badly Jordan wanted to win and then seeing the passion pour out of him when he did win struck a chord with fans and athletes.

As for Georgia defensive end Malik Herring, a senior, he is longing for that feeling that Jordan had when he won his sixth title in 1998. He also made mention of LeBron James, who is considered to be his generation’s Jordan, and referenced LeBron’s first title in 2012 with the Heat.

“Seeing Jordan get his sixth ring and Lebron get his first ring. Their emotions is everything. I just want that feeling man I swear I do,” Herring wrote on Twitter.

Herring was a member of that 2017 team that came so close to bringing a national championship back home to Athens. He was a freshman at the time, and has had to live with that bitter feeling since that day.

Since, Herring and Georgia have fought and fought but have not been able to return to the College Football Playoff.

And then there’s wide receiver Demetris Robertson, also a senior, who transferred to Georgia after that 2017 season.

As a member of the Dawgs, he’s come close as well, losing to Alabama in that heart-breaking 2018 SEC Championship Game and then making it to Atlanta last year just to lose to LSU in a blowout.

“Time to get ours this year,” Robertson said, in response to Herring’s tweet.

Both Herring and Robertson return for one last dance at UGA in 2020, and they don’t want to leave with anything less than a national championship.

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