Countdown to Georgia Bulldogs Football, 46 Days

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Good morning! Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars! And the countdown rolls on, 46 days until it’s teed up ‘tween the hedges! Here’s card #146:

Go Dawgs!

12 thoughts on “Countdown to Georgia Bulldogs Football, 46 Days”

  1. Did a little volunteer committee work too. Got a membership at a nice country club.

    • Not to mention, the beginning of the old ball sack and his distain for UGA football due to the WLOCP 1966 outcome of the 60 minute beat down the UGA football”D” front 7 laid on that “candy ass”…#FTMF!!

  2. Otis, I love your countdown theme. I also like the cards. I bought them in 1989 when they came out.
    That said, the writer of the biographies was not a student of college football. Today’s example is the reference to Payne making the 1966 SEC All-Freshman team and playing in the Cotton Bowl the 1966 season.
    Freshmen were not eligible in 1966. He could not have starred on the1966 freshman team and played in the Cotton Bowl the same season.

    • Yeah, it’s certainly not well researched and even the cards aren’t high quality. Very thin card-stock for this set. Nothing like the thicker card-stock sets that Topps, et al. would produce. But, at least they’ve generated some discussion!

      • Yeah, using the cards for the countdown is a great idea despite the flaws.

  3. Payne … DGD. You could make the case he and Andrew Young brought the city together in a way it had never been before with the pursuit of the Olympics. He took the legacy of Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts and elevated the Masters to (IMO) the best spectator event in sports. Now his (and his father’s) name sits on the symbol of Georgia football resurgence.

    • Mr. Ridley was at the 2025 Wimbledon event this past weekend, learning more on running a world class event, The Masters, Wimbledon plus indy 500 are must be events…GO DAWGS!!

  4. Billy did so much for UGA and Atlanta…I tip my hat to him for me being able to see Team USA beat China for the gold in Women’s Soccer at Sanford…one of many wonderful memories of Athens

    • Ditto. I’ve been to a lot of great games in that stadium, but I don’t know that I ever heard it louder than I did that for that gold medal match. Amazing experience!

  5. BTW, Boom is still on staff. Apparently Muschamp was just accidently left out of the media guide. This is per Kirby.

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