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By BirdDawg

August 25, 2006 06:17 PM | Link to this

The Dawg Walk.

The Lone Trumpeter standing on the Southwest upperdeck corner, playing a soulful, spine-tingling, goose-bump raising rendition of Glory before the rest of the Redcoats come in.

The Dawgs running on the field.

Uga and his airconditioned house and his bag of ice.

The Hedges.

The Halftime Show.

Standing up with four fingers thrust defiantly in the air as the Redcoats play that song from the Superman movie at the end of the third quarter to signify the beginning of the fourth.

Watching the Dawgs demolish the Bugs in Athens this year…

PRICELESS

When you’re looking for real college football in the state of Georgia, you better head on up to Athens and spend a Saturday with almost 93,000 of your closest friends, because real college football cannot be found at the NATS and 20,000 of their “fans” in a half-empty stadium.

For crappy football, watch Reggie Ball.

For everything else… there’s Georgia Bulldog Football!

By Ralph

August 25, 2006 08:47 PM | Link to this

Tweetie Pie Mutt Brain,

Reggie Ball is a 21-year old who has more college football victories under his belt than you do.

And by the way, it’s not the quantity of the fans, it’s the quality. And in that case, Tech has Muttland beat by a country mile.

I wonder what the Florida fans say about your ilk and you?

You people never cease to amaze me.

By gatech87

August 25, 2006 09:19 PM | Link to this

Can you say 93,000 REDNECK trailer trash fans?

I’d rather have 55,000 quality fans anyday…

By Jasper Sanks

August 25, 2006 09:20 PM | Link to this

4 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

to your … 1.

over-hyped and under-performed: thou art “u” Ga. football

By swampdawg

August 25, 2006 10:33 PM | Link to this

Hey techie - you ain’t got 55,000 quality fans. Half of the people in the stands at any tech game are from the visiting team. Then, after you deduct the tech drug dealers and the winos, you may be lucky to have 5,000 quality fans. So, just keep on dreaming about the 55,000. IT WILL NEVER COME TRUE.

By Chris

August 25, 2006 11:13 PM | Link to this

Wow…. You won national titles before running water, slavery, the telephone and every other modern marvel.. CONGRATS!!! Demoloshing the bugs every year is what I LOVE about college football… Gotta love it when they speak quality or quantity in terms a fans.. Or when they take an athletic argument and change into a academic one… Choke you in Athens this year.. I mean, see you in Athens this year!

By GaFan

August 25, 2006 11:21 PM | Link to this

Thank God Reggie Ball has one more year!!!

By Ft Worth Dawg

August 26, 2006 12:47 AM | Link to this

Best games: Kevin Butler helping gut 3rd-ranked Clempson. Lastinger pulling off a miracle over Texas in the 1984 Cotton Bowl. Shockley devastating a supposedly superior LSU in last year’s SEC title game. Belue to Scott - and yes it is the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party, despite what Mike Adams thinks.

Larry Munson calling any play, any time. “Get the picture!”

All the UGA songs the local radio stations play on gameday. Tailgating in Athens. Recruiting on a national basis really for the first time. Grown men barking.

Picking on Techies because they’re pencil-necked geeks who are on probation, play drug dealers, can’t sell out a tiny stadium without multiple gimmicks, have Gailey as a coach and Ball as a quarterback, and lose to Duke. Did I mention date-less dorks and some scary looking coeds?

Gameday in Athens - it doesn’t get any better.

By BirdDawg

August 26, 2006 01:26 AM | Link to this

55,000? Umm, didn’t your Institute downsize your pop warner stadium to about 45,000?

And even then, you can’t fill it. And that’s with 20,000 visiting fans in the stands.

Who wants to bet when Notre Dame comes a callin’, it’ll seem like a home game for them, with all of Irish fans in the stands.

You Bugs and your endlessly creative with your witty putdowns about rednecks and whatnot.

Once again, 93,000 fans packed in, who actually CARE about the home team, with another 6 million people around the state who wish they could be there.

Doesn’t get any better than that.

But going to your little pop warner stadium, and having more of us in there than y’all, that’s almost as good.

By bigdawg

August 26, 2006 12:38 PM | Link to this

Tech has quality fans?! Last time I was there there were more Tech students reading their Quantum physics books than watching the game!

By Eddy

August 26, 2006 12:43 PM | Link to this

BEST QOUTE FROM HEAD COACH - January, 1988. Bill Curry has been hired at Alabama and Bobby Ross hired to replace him at Tech. “Two bad things have happened in the ACC. Bill Curry has left and Bobby Ross has returned. Bobby Ross is best coach I have ever coached against.”

By Eddy

August 26, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

That qoute was made by Danny Ford. The best coach in Clemson history.

By shane

August 26, 2006 01:55 PM | Link to this

Who cares about Georgia or Georgia Tech…Let’s Go Mountaineers!

By Hunk Erdown

August 26, 2006 01:58 PM | Link to this

Tad Miller was a lineman playing for Boise State. Before the game, Some Dawg fans found out that his father wanted to attend the game. Tad’s father was a retired Police Captain who had gone to Iraq to help train Iraqi citizens to become Policemen in Baghdad. The Dawg fans raised money to make sure Capt. Miller could come home and watch his son play football ‘tween the hedges, only to find out that NCAA rules prohibited such an act of kindness.

Three lessons to be learned 1) Dawg fans are some of the nicest, caring fans in the Country. 2)College football in the South is the best. 3)The stupidity of the NCAA Rules Committee never cease to amaze.

By happy gator

August 26, 2006 02:07 PM | Link to this

Eating a cupcake at Jax and watching Turddog suffer!

By BirdDawg

August 26, 2006 03:14 PM | Link to this

Happy GAYtor…

Like I’ve told gator the STD catcher many, many times…

I’d be happy to lose in Jax every year, as long as we’re still winning the East.

You can count on many things, and the Gators choking against teams like SC, Miss St, and the like when a trip to Atlanta on the line is No. 1 amongst them.

Like I’ve asked gator the STD catcher, Happt Gaytor:

How many SEC Titles have you won since Darth Visor left?

How many SEC Titles have you won overall?

What was the history of your program before 1990?

Answer me those questions, Happy GAYtor (probably yet another bangwagon jumping fan from the 90’s).

By To Hell with Georgia

August 26, 2006 04:43 PM | Link to this

UGA sucks. Most of their 93,000 fans have never set foot in any of UGA’s academic buildings (or any academic building post high school).

Most of GT’s 55,000 quality fans are cheering for a reason (b/c its their alma mater). UGA’s 93,000 fans are cheering for a team b/c its less “nerdy” (less smart/sophisticated) school.

The last time I checked, our last national championship was a lot earlier than yours.

GT’s fight song is WAY better. GT has WAY more tradition (Bobby Dodd stadium at Historic Grant Field, the Rambin’ Wreck, Budweiser song, fight songs, etc). Our logo is cooler than yours.

All this hatred from UGA fans stems from the fact that they either 1) got rejected from GT, or 2) would not have been able to stay at GT. Ok, I’ll go ahead and include the other reason that I know some hero is going to include in his response to my blog. Fine, the other reason that they went to UGA is b/c of the girls.

I’m a Tech fan, and I don’t care what any UGA fan has to throw at me…I snub ‘em like we snub all UGA fans.

Go get a life, you hairy dogs.

By BirdDawg

August 26, 2006 07:47 PM | Link to this

Wow… Hell…

And your basis for any of your rant is?

Quality fans?

ONce again, I’d like to point out that you have none.

Quality fans would fill your pop warner stadium, and cheer on you team, instead of finding excuses not to go: “I don’t want to fight the traffic,” being the one most heard.

You don’t sell out your games.

You have no tradition left, because not one of your quality fans cares about it.

As for your National Championship, ummm, you had 1/2 a National Championship in 1990. When’s the last time you won your conference, Bug?

As far as your logo or colors being better? You have to be kidding me, right? I mean, talk to me when you decide what your colors are. I mean, you’ve had yellow, gold, black, and navy.

Georgia has had red and black. The only thing we’ve changed over the years is our pants. And the black stripe never happened.

You Bugs have nothing on us. The only thing you throw at us is you’re rednecks, and oh yeah, my favorite, you didn’t go to the school,(which by the way, is mostly false. Almost every single one of the 93,000 people in the stsnds has gone or will go to UGA. Try getting season tickets if you’re not a student or an alumnus. It’s hard as hell.

Once again, Bugs, you have nothing on UGA. Nothing. Your team is an afterthought. You downsized your stadium to get rid of the empty seats, yet they still show up every game. An 8 win season for you would be the best you’ve done in almost 10 years, and those O’Leary years don’t even count anymore.

You have nothing. Nothing.

By Buckeye Mom

August 26, 2006 09:23 PM | Link to this

To all you GT and Georgia fans (I’ll be excoriated for this!): I’ve been to games both between the hedges and on on the flats but neither can ever compare to a game at Ohio Stadium in THE SHOE. 105K fans all in red is an amazing sight to behold. GO BUCKS!

By S.E. Dawg

August 26, 2006 09:54 PM | Link to this

What I like about this hatred thing is that GT people hate the very school in which they came from UGA. If history serves me correctly UGA moved it’s engineering school to Atlanta Which became (Georgia) Tech. So, if you hate UGA, in one sense you hate yourselves. GO DAWGS!!!

By Jason Chitwood

August 27, 2006 12:28 AM | Link to this

I worked at camp this past summer that was staffed mostly by people from Florida. Most were Gator fans. I have always been curious who Gator fans would say is their biggest rival since Georgia fans always in a condescending manner say “Tech isn’t even our 2nd biggest rival”. I probably asked 50 Gator fans that question and not one said Georgia. They all said they would rather beat Florida State to a person. How many Auburn fans would say Georgia is their biggest rival? Auburn fans would take wins over Alabama and LSU long before one over the dogs. Tennessee fans would rather beat Alabama and Florida. If Tech’s not your biggest rival who is? Your third fiddle for Tennessee and Auburn and number two at best for Florida. They certainly don’t share the Georgia fan notion that they are the top rival for the dogs.

By Brian, Atlanta

August 27, 2006 12:41 AM | Link to this

I am a Louisville fan and the disrespect that GA TECH is gets from UGA fans is remarkably similar to that of the “blue blooded” idiots in Lexington give to U of L. Both Georgia and Kentucky have not won anything in 26 years, but the fans believe that they should NOT even be mentioned in the same sentance with their rivals. Heck, at Kentucky, winning 6 games against D1-AA teams this decade is something to be proud of…?

Louisville will be playing for the National Championship this year and the expert fans will still not give them the respect they have earned…Remember West Virginia? They were the BIG EAST Champions. All the SEC experts and Georgia fans said that playing such a weak team from a weak conference would lead to a bowl vistory in the Georgia Dome…well!

Summary, if you can’t say something positive, say nothing at all.

By BirdDawg

August 27, 2006 12:52 AM | Link to this

Hey Bri,

Last I looked, hillbilly, the Dawgs have won the SEC 2 times in 4 years, and been the the Dome three times,and have 12 SEC Titles over all, 2 outright Nat’l Titles, and 4 more shared Titles.

What’s Louisville done? Not just lately, but ever?

And the Bugs get the abuse because they call it on themselves.

By Stumpy Thomason

August 27, 2006 07:49 AM | Link to this

S.E. Dog,

As usual, another UGA fan that doesn’t know anything past 1980.

Tech was incorporated in 1885 as its own Institution.

It was governed by a Board of Trustees until the creation of the Univ. System of Georgia in 1930.

The Legislation suggests that the “Technological School” was under the Auspices of the State Agricultural College in Athens, but it was NEVER governed from Athens.

BTW, the State Agricultural School did not join Franklin College until 1930 either. By the time today’s UGA was created, John Heisman had already dazzled the Country at the Technological School.

Though we do have to thank y’all for the nickname North Avenue Trade School, it’s perfect for place where you learn to do something other than sit on Broad and smoke weed.

By Bayou Brian

August 27, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

Saturday nights on de Bayou watching LSU football. There is nothing like it in the country, PERIOD! It is more than a game, it’s an experience. And to all who may disagree and think uga or tech is it, until you guys move the earth, don’t even try to speak.

By Bayou Brian

August 27, 2006 09:29 AM | Link to this

Saturday nights on de Bayou watching LSU football. There is nothing like it in the country, PERIOD! It is more than a game, it’s an experience. And to all who may disagree and think uga or tech is it, until you guys move the earth, don’t even try to speak.

By War Eagle

August 27, 2006 10:25 AM | Link to this

The ultimate of college football game day is the Iron Bowl, Auburn- Bammer. Its a decorated rival that controls some peoples lives 365 days. There have been divorces, business separations,and friendships shattered. The 1989, game when the first game was played at Auburn was the magnitude of college football. Words can`t describe the game. The results was good with Auburn beating the # 2 team in the country.Every AU-Bammer game lives infinite.

By Gamblin'wreck

August 28, 2006 12:53 AM | Link to this

Bird Dawg, first off the games under O’leary do count. Maybe your drunk mind is months behind because the NCAA ruled that the games will stand. Also, what’s this crap about downsizing our stadium? Last I heard seats were added making it 55,000. I will admit that 55k is less than 93k but we aren’t UGA and never want to be.

By ANGRY GA PARENT

August 28, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this

I have been a loyal UGA fan for OVER twenty years and this year the football program has gone too far. They have become sooo greedy they are making the students living on campus move out of their parking building (ECV) spaces by 6pm on Friday night so they can sell their parking space to football fans. If the student is living on campus and staying on campus for the weekend, why do THEY have to move? An article today states Georgia’s revenues are 4th, I guess they are trying to to make it to number 1. They are not refunding any of the parking fee they have charged the students already. When did football parking become more important than quality of life on campus?

By GTFan513

August 28, 2006 04:44 PM | Link to this

Wow, this is really rediculous. I have been to all the bigger colleges in GA for a game at this point (UGA, GSU, and GT) and I have to say that UGAy is just too big of an instituion to have “93,000 of your closest friends”…I have watched drunk UGA fans literally fight each other in the stands for no good reason. The percentage of UGA fans with no class and little education is much higher than GT Fans with no class and little education.

UGA is a “powerhouse” in football. However, they underachieve for being such a “powerhouse”. Most of these schools that are as big as UGA and get great recruiting as UGA usually does dont have problems with a I-AA school in an opening game in a year that they win the SEC Championship (See halftime of UGA/GSU in 2004 UGA: 13 GSU: 7)…I never saw Texas or USC have these types of issues.

The lack of class from roughly 15-20 percent of your fans (not including the student body) is rediculous as well. I have seen grown men fight, spit, and cuss at GT fans and even fellow UGA fans at a game. I would think that these so called “grown ups” could learn to behave and act proper at a ball game. In short UGA does not have the fans or tradition that a school like Georgia Tech has.

By GTFan513

August 28, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this

BTW, as one of my colleagues just stated:

Given the storied history, the large alumni base, the huge resources, the fertile recruiting ground, and a whole bunch of other things, I HEREBY NOMINATE UGA AS “THE MOST UNDER-ACHIEVING FOOTBALL SCHOOL OF ALL TIME”!

By Nate

August 29, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this

Hey gtfan513, Funny that you bring GSU up as your coach admitted in the paper that he was scared to play GSU and their wishbone. Tech would probably be losing at half-time against GSU. Don’t make fun of UGA until you beat them. You dorks are going to get destroyed this weekend by ND. Enjoy the humiliation.

By War Eagle

August 29, 2006 08:25 PM | Link to this

The big problem with ajc is NO exposure to Auburn athletics, which are thousand of alumni in the metro area. Auburn games are AP stories and not staff coverage. Karen Rosen has written a couple of Auburn games, her father is the legendary Olympic and track coach at Auburn.War Eagles would appreciate more coverage from the state newspaper where we have thrived on Georgia football players to put Auburn as one of the top SEC schools.

By Techie

September 1, 2006 10:07 AM | Link to this

Thank Dodd Wally’s Butt got kicked every year while I was at Tech (‘49-53). Those were times when fewer than 1 in 40 students at either school had a car. Poor GA students having to move out of their parking garages! My folks then lived on University Drive near five-points and it seemed that half the stadium had to walk past the house on their way to their cars after the games.