Cry harder, Shorthorns

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I’m going to just leave this here.

Poor Texas fans abused in Athens … just like your team was.

So soft.

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I've been a Dawg my entire life. UGA was always my dream school where I received 2 Terry College degrees and met my DGD wife. I've been a season ticket holder for over 30 years and love the in-stadium experience over anything from Section HD. My first game in Sanford Stadium was the 1981 Auburn game where we clinched the SEC championship. The best game I've attended in person was the Midnight Miss against Ohio State (nite, nite!). The best home games I've attended were the 1984 Clemson game (the Butler did it) and the 2013 LSU game (that 4th down is still the loudest single moment I've experienced between the hedges). The game I love to win is against the Handbags (FTMF), and the game I hate to lose is the NATS (Tuck Fech).

44 thoughts on “Cry harder, Shorthorns”

  2. Anyone can have a good or bad experience created by just a few but social media seemed to show more Texass fans posting on the great environment and crowd.

    If they want to leave the SEC though….

    • Good idea on Texas out of the SEC, conferences are too big now. They would be happier dominating a Big 12 or ACC. With their money, maybe they could buy all home games. I can’t wait until their schedule reverses and they get to travel to such welcoming places as Knoxville and Baton Rouge.

      • Barbeydawg, I was going to say something similar. Wait until they go to LSU for a night game. And by the way, they probably instigated the whole thing and our fans barked back.

      • I forgot their home and home was derailed by Covid so the Horns never got to go back to Baton Rouge after that great 2019 game here. Yeah, that won’t be pretty.

    • Texa$ is all bark and no bite (or is it all moo and no cud?). They got so used to owning the Big 12 that they can’t handle the tough competition. Their players are exactly who Kirby was talking about when he said they want a check but no physicality.

      The Texa$ AD and boosters should have talked to Lincoln Riley and James Franklin about the SEC before agreeing to join. Both of those coaches are too skeered of the stiff competition to want to go anywhere near it. That’s why they’re in conferences where you might have to play two top-15 teams in an unlucky scheduling year.

  3. I hope that these stories are false. It’s one thing to be hyped for the game, get and remain extremely loud for 4 quarters, and to celebrate post game. It’s simply rude and unacceptable to taunt opposing fans. Like many of you, I have been fortunate enough to travel to lots of road games over the years, and I can honestly say that I have been welcomed to tailgates at almost every SEC campus, Alabama and Tennessee are the exceptions.

    • A large and vocal crowd of 5,000-6,000 Georgia fans created a distinctly intimidating home-court atmosphere, which is uncommon in college tennis. In addition to general cheering, fans specifically targeted USC players with chants of “Choke!”…..not here to apologize, we are, who we are….GO DAWGS!!

    • I’m sure there is some truth in some of those, but also, people see what they want to see. 90k plus, there’s going to be more than a few assholes.

      If I look for it, I can find a bad interaction at any stadium I visit. Or, I can have a good time. As I’ve gotten older, I find there are less bad interactions. Hmmm…

  4. I was watching from section HD. I couldn’t believe all the water bottles that were thrown on the field.
    Wait…

  6. My tendency is to think a lot of these folks are bandwagoners. I don’t think folks who have been going to games for 50 years and have been going to out of town games, act this way.

    I think its best to be hospitable. No need to be physically or verbally aggressive towards a visiting fan.

    A little malicious humor (see, NERDS!!!) is fine but thats about it.

    I do think that some of this can be well exaggerated too. Even at the worst places I’ve been the assholes were a very small tho unfortunate contingent who are as annoying to their fellow fans as anyone else.

    But that one guy or gal can leave a negative impression. Best course is to apologize to the affected fan and hope that they note that most of us are able to act right.

    You can be the finest thing in the land- a drunk obnoxious Georgia fan without being a bully or an asshole.

    • I would also note that you do tend to have fewer of these issues in places where:

      – they ain’t ever winning
      – they just started winning.

      The places that have never/always won seem to be the best. Hopefully, Kirby has us on a trajectory to the latter.

      Tuscaloosa and Columbia are the only places I have been more than once where I have not had a negative experience.

      On the other hand, Auburn, Knoxville, Jax, BR, even Starkville when we lost have had a few notable unfortunates.

      I have had zero interest in going back to Knoxville since Hob Nail Boot.

      I mean, it ain’t getting better is it? Plus, fuck those guys.

      • Which Columbia? In SC? I had a guy try to start a fight with me in my car driving to the stadium. My neighbor was on UGA staff. His wife told me that their official UGA bus parked (where directed) in the parking lot at the stadium and the USC rednecks there got mad because the bus blocked their view of the stadium. They got onto the bus threatening to whip ass (a bunch of wives, mind you). The bus driver couldn’t leave to get help because he didn’t want to leave the women alone. Piss on USC. I’ve never been back.

        I’ve been to almost every other stadium in the league and never had a similar experience.

        • Yes. That’s the Columbia. Haven’t been out to Missouri.

          I think that just confirms what I said above.

          The asshole few make the rest look bad.

          For example, I had so many bad experiences in Knoxville that I forgot that one sympathetic fan gave me a poncho on a cold night up there in 1999.

    • This was my thought as well, unfortunately. It’s possible (probable?) that those same fans would have been gracious had it been a nooner. Sucks, but there it is.

  8. Sometimes it’s just who you run into at each game. I’ve been treated great and really bad at the same campus in different seasons. Pro tip for those new members of the league. It’s best to avoid lonely wandering near drunken students.

    • You are correct that an opposing fan walking alone past a frat house will be yelled at and taunted but I disagree that such opposing fan will bethe victim of unprovoked physical assault. Just ignore the home team drunks and keep walking.

      • In all the years I’ve attended games I don’t remember anyone who as you recommend just keeps walking getting assaulted. I totally agree with your advice just keep walking.

  9. Alcohol and football fans who love Ole Alma Mater? What could go wrong?

    Unfortunately, our drunks are no better after an exciting night game than their drunks.

  10. A time tested way to detect exaggeration or outright lying are opposing fans reporting things that those of us who have been going to Sanford for years have never seen. I have seen or drunk frat guys; I have walked by drunk Florida frat guys and drunk Tennessee frat guys and drunk Tech frat guys and I have never seen any of those groups become roving marauders physically assaulting girls. Never. Home or away. Also note all those complaints include self-aggrandizing reports of the poster (old enough to have kids) single handedly repulsing a squad of frat thugs. Bullshit.

  11. Saw some boorish behavior (particularly some 20-somethings taunting some 8-12yo Texas fans behind us), but not a whole, whole lot where we were; bitching about barking and horns down is pretty weak sauce….
    Not sure if it was the orange blending with all the red, but it did not look like there were a lot of Texas people in the stadium (could not see the 600 level) and the visitors section was pretty quiet….

    • That’s amazing. I was one of those that walked over right before kickoff. Granted, that was in the early 90s and Ray Goff wasn’t challenging the students to show up and be loud. He could hardly challenge his team to play like they cared every game.

      • I have been going to games since 1991. I went to this one with a Texas fan and we got to the stadium at 7:20ish. I was shocked at how empty gate 8 was entering the stadium.
        I am from the “one more beer, just one more and then another” era and getting there roughly 30 minutes before kickoff is/was early for me.
        If anyone listens to podcasts listen to the College Football Enquirer from yesterday. Steven Godfrey (formerly Split Zone Duo/ SB Nation) was at the game Saturday and was very complementary of the atmosphere in contrast to our former (pre-Kirby) reputation as a “golf crowd.”

  13. I apologise Refugees, walking towards the downtown after the game I saw some Texican Fan towering over some students yelling “to shut up and act like they’ve won before.” I suggested he suffer his loss in silence, with according to my friends wives a menacing disposition. I prefer to let the Bulldogs talk with their pads and really keep to myself but that cuk’s behavior seemed bullying. I mean get a winning record vs Vandy before lecturing others. As a whole, I’ve been a little surprised by classlessness of their bottle chucking fan base (going back to the 2019 sUGAr Bowl), as most of my contacts in Tejas are in the Veteran Community and has always been positive.

  15. I wish they could have found old Helmet Hair from last year. I wonder what the expression on his face looked like Saturday?

  16. I personally threw a wheelchair bound 90 year old women off the top deck…then proceeded to pee in a cup while barking and dump it on Texas fans small children…punched out their dad and kissed their moms!

  19. I mean, we all did laugh at a picture of a guy giving the horns down to a baby.

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