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Who are you "allowed" to root for?
BiffLowman
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I have had this discussion with many people and want to know what y'all think. I moved to Georgia when I was 6 and UGA won a National Championship. I was hooked. I have been a die hard DAWG ever since. I am now 46. I LOVE MY DAWGS. However, though I was accepted to UGA, I stayed in Atlanta and went to GSU. I have a Tennessee fan who told me that I am not a "real" fan because I did not go there. I bleed red and black, been to many games, have taught my kids about all of the boys who have lined up on Saturdays. Heck, I have even been fortunate enough to have coached 3 kids who have played at UGA. However, there are many who feel that I am not a real fan because I never went there. I say that it a bunch of horse s**t.
If you want to root for dang Wyoming University, you should be able to...whether you went there or not.
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My great grandmother went to UGA and my mom had a scholarship there but she had a full ride to UTC and she didn’t have the money so she went to UTC. We bleed red and black and always will.
First, there is no way all those toothless hillbillies you see on TV at UT games, went/graduated from there. Secondly, if that were true UT's 100,000 capacity stadium would be about 1/3 full every Saturday. Lastly, only Alumni would be able to coach at a school, because obviously a school's coach pulls for his own team.
Never went to UGA, but was born and raised in GA and will always be a Dawg fan.
What if your a Falcons or Braves fan? Can you not be a true fan of them cause you didn't play for them? Tennessee hillbillies make no sense at all. Keep doing you, @BiffLowman . I went to the Citadel and I've been a Dawg fan since I was in middle school. Hate Florida and Georgia Tech. You do you, my friend.
I had been accepted to school there, but went to play ball elsewhere.
I’d venture to say, I’m more passionate than a majority of fans.
@DawgsofWar, you are a double Dawg. Good on ya.
UGA rejected my application. GT accepted me. I didn't go to either. I also don't let other people tell me what Im allowed to think or feel. Root for who you love
Sounds like your typical Tennessee fan, clueless as always. I have lived in Georgia my entire life but never attended the university and I am a long time UGA fan. It reminds me that the color orange is not the only thing Tennessee and Clemson has in common, their tractor driving, cousin kissing fans are two of a kind.
I went to UGA and I root for in some order:
1) Georgia
2) whoever benefits UGa
2b) whoever is playing bama
3) whoever I bet on
4) underdogs
5) Mike Leach
6) Georgia schools other than UGA
7) whoever is playing Florida
8) whoever is playing Ohio state
9) the team with the best uniforms
10) the over
This is close to my list also.
And I always say my college didn’t have a football team so I’m allowed
I happened to go to graduate from Georgia, but I have friends that are also alumni who couldn't care less about what happens on Saturdays in the fall. I also have friends who didn't go to Georgia who are just as die hard as I am. If you see a someone on the street wearing the power G do you ask him/her if they when to school there? Or do you say "Go Dawgs"? If you get a "Go Dawgs!" back, then thats a DGD.
After last weekend I think that 7 and 9 are duplicates
How awesome is it that that's the best thing Tennessee can come up with to complain about to Georgia fans!
It is indeed a good time to be a DAWG!!!!
Well be fair, even the UT fans think that the other UT fans are obnoxious and don't want to talk to them
Kasey,,,where the heck did you go to school? It seems like more and more schools are adding football these days.
Went to Augusta State Univeristy for a bit and then finished at city college in New York.