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How did you become a Georgia fan?
I know we have a lot of DAWG fans here from around the country. How did you become a fan of the team? I'd love to hear everyone's stories.
Me? Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia. Grew up drying off with a 1980 national championship beach towel after my baths when I was a kid. My grandfather used to have the same beach towel tacked on the wall. My mother was a Clemson fan, and tried as she might, it just never stuck. Orange never was for me I guess. I've been long gone from Georgia since 2000, but the pride still goes with me
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Well back in 1980 my dad was watching a game and he wouldnt let me watch what i wanted to watch and back then most household's only had one tv. I had no choice and watched that game (Clemson) and fell in love and watched us win the the Natty later that year... I was only 8 years old then....
my dad took me to the LSU in 2009 for my first game when i was 6 and I drank the kool-aid.
Dad went to UGA I went to UGA but I was indoctrinated from birth
As a kid, I was born & raised in Atlanta, Georgia. My Daddy first introduced me to Georgia against Clemson. Georgia won that game 38-0. I hardly knew what football was back then, but the excitement that I felt was a feeling that I still get to this day. That was back in 1970. Fast forward to today? The Georgia Bulldogs takes me back to memorable games & all were a shared memory of my late father & me. In 1976, I was 13 then... Georgia dismantled Alabama 21-0!! What a thrilling game that was. I still miss my father, & I always will. The DAWGS & cheering them on has a deep meaning for me, & I’m passing this on to my kids now!
In June 1978 my father moved us to Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, GA where he got stationed. That fall I was in seventh grade and working on one of dozens of chores (e.g., raking pine straw and picking up pine cones, washing cars inside and out every weekend) I was saddled with. To help pass the time I'd turn on the radio and listen to Larry Munson call UGA Football games. Since UGA's freshman QB Buck Belue was from Valdosta (followed by QB John Lastinger), I found it easy to root for the Dawgs as a local player was starring for them. Since then I've been an ardent UGA fan, esp. football (living in "Titletown USA" for 7 years helped nurture my love for the sport).
Moved to Augusta in 93 Fort Gordon, as a 12 year old. was born on Army base in Heidelberg Germany. When we got to Augusta our new church Youth Pastor was a huge dawg fan. Used to make analogies about the team and tie them in to biblical messages. Don’t ask. Next thing I know I was watching games with him and his family and a few friends from church. Stuck with me.
I honestly don't know how I became a dawg fan. Born and raised just outside of Columbia SC, all of my family are chicken fans and somewhere around 10 years old I started asking for UGA hats and shirts. I cant remember ever pulling for any other team except Georgia....maybe it was the site of UGA, or the silver britches....but one thing is certain. After 35 years of heckling from gamecocks I have always loved my Dawgs. I converted my wife and now we are raising 2 little Dawgs of our own who love Saturdays in Athens just as much as I do.
I was born in Athens and raised in Newnan, which is the same hometown Alec Ogletree came from and my family & I knew him personally growing up. My dad is a UGA alumni of 1989, and he became a UGA fan well before he started college and even high school too.
I became a UGA fan in 2002 which was the perfect time because Mark Richt was in year 2 and we went 13-1, won our first SEC title in 20 years, and we won the BCS Sugar Bowl. 2002 was one of the biggest seasons in the state of Georgia not only for the Dawgs but even the Falcons too when Arthur Blank became owner and Michael Vick got popular when he pulled that upset at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Years later after I started getting on the internet regularly, I learn that 2002 got UGA out of the dark age of the 90's and 2002 got the Falcons on this unbelievable run we've been on since Arthur Blank became our owner. I became a fan of Georgia sports at the perfect time. 2002 was an exciting year for football in the state of Georgia but also a fun year for me as a little kid too in elementary school when life was still very simple.
@Kasey this is a great thread. Great stories in this one
As a 12yr old kid born and raised in north Ga that loved football it was Hershel and that 1980 season that done it for me. Been a huge Dawg fan ever since.
My mom gave birth to me. So by default.
Best friend growing up in Pennsylvania was a Gators fan so I had to find a way to be competitive. I’ve loved and been following the Dawgs ever since. It’s been 17 years or so and I now make the trip annually to Sanford Stadium.
My older brother took me to the Pittsburgh and Georgia game in 1973. We tied them 7 all that game but some guy #33 ran all over us that day and he was only afreshman. We all wondered who that guy was at the time. My next game was when we beat the Bear 21\0.
My older brother went to UGA and was in the Redcoats, and I got hooked the first time I went to a ballgame to watch him play.
Thru my dad who was tightly connected to Georgia. My dad and Dan McGill where roomates on the Georgia tennis team and he was a close friend and financial advisor to the Dooleys and so many more at Georgia. So we have had 6 tickets longer then my 52 years on this earth.
The only place that is a constant in my life has been those seats at Sanford .My father brought me to my first game ineith 69' or 70' .
Every game is new, but there are 48 years of connected memories and I am excited for what is about to come.
My dad has been gone for 10 years, but there is not a game he is not with me that I watch and appreciate Georgia football.