No Bones About It

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I saw from the comments earlier this morning that some of you miss the bones…some the stars.

What about the numbers on every five yard line? The small scoreboard in the endzone?

But hey, we have blue helmet caps now, amirite?

22 thoughts on “No Bones About It”

  1. I prefer the bones to the stars, but I’m a newer fan than most of the crowd here (became a fan in 1985.) I liked the numbers every 5 yards because it seemed like only UGA was doing it. I especially like seeing old pics of Sanford before I knew it.

  2. I understand the desire for consistency and not turning into Oregon with a different uni every game. But I’ve never understood why UGA is so resistant to any throwbacks, whether it’s the uniforms or the helmet stars or even the design on the field. Fans love that stuff.

    And while I’m on it, why can’t we even get a statue of some of our famous players? Hell, Auburn is probably building a friggin’ statue of each team captain from all of their new mythical championship teams, yet we can’t even get Herschel or Sinkwich?

  3. I prefer the bones to the stars, but I’m a newer fan than most of the crowd here (became a fan in 1985.) I liked the numbers every 5 yards because it seemed like only UGA was doing it. I especially like seeing old pics of Sanford before I knew it.

    (Repeating the post from above. Didn’t mean to post anonymously.)

  4. I loved the old scoreboard with Uga holding a board with a nail in it. Numbers every 5 yards also. Much better than a Hellman’s Mayo logo or some such crap.

    And while I’m at it, turn down that damned music and let the band play!

    Not a fan of alternate uniforms. I can maybe go with black jerseys every 5 years or so.

    • That UGA with a nail in the board is what I think of when I hear the term “Junkyard Dawg”. IIRC the scoreboard said something about Bulldog Terrortory. I may be misremembering. i smoked a lot of weed in the 70s and played pee wee football with suspension helmets. Not much padding in them.

      • Bulldog Territory for the win, whether it’s a bone or a star…if you’re in the UGA football family, you are a Star, “You’re a shining star,
        No matter who you are,
        Shining bright to see,
        What you could truly be”….GO DAWGS!!

      • You’re right, it was “Terror”tory. Woof, and I hope your other flashbacks are as pleasant as this one. 😀

  5. Ran into Munson out in Dallas before the Cotton Bowl (it’s still 8:50 in Dallas) and asked him about the team. Hoage had been battling knee injuries most of the season. I can still hear Larry saying “Hoage, with those MISERABLE knees, is going to try to go!”

    • Hoage can barely make it to the bathroom and back on those knees!! But he’s gonna strap it up for what may be 85 plays against a longhorn team no one has come close to all season! There haven’t been odds this bad in the state of texas since the alamo and we know how that turned out.

  6. Still wish we had the every five yard markers. LSU has also always had that. Scrooge McEars probably thought we were spending too much money on field paint and cut that because it wasn’t done at Florida.

    Definitely prefer the bones over the stars. Kirby got rid of them because it wasn’t done at Alabama.

    • And the red outline that got thicker closer to the goal line.

      I like stars and bones on the front for season changing plays. Think Lindsey Scott or Kelee Ringo.

      • With all due respect, I’d call those two plays life changing, not merely season changing. With Lindsay’s, I believed we were going to win after all. With Ringo’s, I felt like the curse was gone, we had slayed the dragon, reached the zenith, vanquished Satan, and whatever other orgasmic feeling you can imagine. I still get emotional watching a replay of it.

  7. Like Alcovy said in the previous post, bring back the Silver Britches. I know, Nike contract and all that, and they say they can’t for some dumb reason, but some company out there can would love to handle that for us. Put some fukn pressure on their ass and git-r-done damnit!!

  8. How ’bout pipeing in Munson saying “Hunker down one more time” when we need a crucial stop on defense?
    Everyone would love it.

      • Would never want to sully Munson’s name in any way, but it would be awesome if used very judiciously. Nothing like the Gumps and Cocks all game long. You would have to have the correct person controlling that. Maybe at most once or twice a game, and not at all in others, but I say what you’re seeing. 😉

  10. Stars and Bones were mostly for individual achievements. Kirby wants no part of someone being a me/individual.
    Definition of Me/individual: See Brenton Cox , Bear Alexander… It’s all TEAM achievements for Kirby.

  11. White cleats and neck rolls were always what made you a real football player back in the day.

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