What does Florida-Georgia have in store one year after the stomp?

Following a Knowshon Moreno touchdown last season, the entire Georgia team ran onto the field to celebrate. AP Andy Staples's Mailbag Have questions or feedback? E-mail Andy Staples. Name: Email: Hometown: Question: SEND Follow Andy Staples on Twitter

Everyone zipped their lips. But why?

Why, on the eve of the Florida-Georgia game with the highest stakes in years, did the Gators and Bulldogs stop talking about the stomp? Seventy Georgia players stormed the field in Jacksonville to celebrate the team's first touchdown last year. The officials ran out of things to throw. The act inspired debate on talk radio, television and bar stools across the nation.

Yet all of a sudden, the Gators and Bulldogs are mum.

In his authorized biography, Urban's Way, Florida coach Urban Meyer swore vengeance, Bob Dole-style: "That wasn't right. It was a bad deal," Meyer wrote. "And it will forever be in the mind of Urban Meyer and in the mind of our football team. ... So we'll handle it. And it's going to be a big deal." This week, Meyer called the stomp "old news."

Georgia coach Mark Richt offered a lengthy explanation of the circumstances surrounding the stomp in July at SEC media days. Short version: He ordered his players to draw an excessive celebration penalty, but he never imagined the whole team would charge the field; he apologized and said he'd never do anything like it again. And Richt has referred everyone back to those comments this week.

So the biggest subplot in one of the biggest games in the rivalry's history is off-limits. That could only mean one thing. Something huge is about to happen.

With no one talking, I sent word through the college football grapevine that I was searching for clues as to what the two teams had in store for the Planet's Biggest Solar-Powered Libation Celebration (we can't call it the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party anymore, you know). Sure enough, I got some answers ...

The first envelope arrived with a Tallahassee, Fla., postmark. So much for subterfuge. Inside was a single sheet of paper with a yellow Post-It note attached. Here's what the note said:

Andy,

Dadgummit, I just don't see the point in all these celebrations. What's wrong with just running a good, old-fashioned fumblerooski?

B.B.

I plucked the note from the paper and read on:

Memorandum

From: Head Coach Urban Meyer

To: Gators players and coaches

Re: Operation Cocktail Party

Gentlemen,

I promised in my biography that we would respond to Georgia's stomp with extreme prejudice. I do not want to let down all those readers who paid $24.95 instead of waiting a few months to grab the thing for $4.99 in the discount bin at Barnes & Noble. I have a few ideas.

1) After our first touchdown, a stage rises from the end zone. On it are the remaining members of hard-working Jacksonville band Lynyrd Skynyrd, playing Gimme Three Steps while our cheerleaders, wearing jean shorts and tube tops, dance around them. Since quarterback Tim Tebow has some stage experience, he will then take the mic and sing Free Bird. A capella. After that, we'll lay waste to any Bulldogs who didn't run from the field with their ears bleeding.

2) We offer to settle things like the ancient Greeks. They pick a champion, and we pick a champion. But since I'm an enlightened despot, I'll let Richt spin the Wheel of Tasks to decide how our champions will compete. Of course, 11 of the 12 spaces on the Wheel of Tasks will read "100-meter dash," and freshman tailback Jeff Demps -- who barely missed making the Olympic team -- will be good and limber. Note to the walk-ons who must construct the Wheel of Tasks: Do not, under any circumstances, make the 12th space a Soulja Boy dance contest. If Richt picks Knowshon Moreno as his champion and the wheel lands there, we're sunk.

3) Gators go Broadway. I'm thinking Pirates of Penzance, because, well, I am the very model of a modern major general. But we could go with something else. Maybe give linebacker Brandon Spikes a white mask and do Phantom of the Cocktail Party. I'm pretty open to suggestions here.