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- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
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Nice! I love SD just by going to the Sturgis Bike Rally a few times back in the early 2000's. Really neat state and super nice people.
I was born into it.
Bumping this oldie but a goodie up.... figured we needed some levity on the board!
My story: born and raised in Athens. Parents went to different SEC schools, including Auburn and Tennessee (I just threw up in my mouth a little). In Athens, UGA football is in your blood at birth, and I learned the rules of the game when my brothers did, as did most of my female friends. I came of age during the Ray Goff years, so it was a rough time to be a fan... and it made tasting the glory of the CMR and Kirby eras so much sweeter. I grew up hating Tennessee almost as much as Florida, as we lost to them every year of my childhood that I was old enough to pay attention to football. We started to reverse the trend in 2000, and man! It was something to behold. I will never forget when we finally conquered that mountain... ol Rocky Top. I will also never forget playing Florida at home in Sanford Stadium.... I was sitting in the endzone seats, and Spurrier was Spurrier-ing... running up the score. I hated him with the fire of 10,000 suns, and I will never not hate UF because of that game. I lived away from Georgia for 15 yrs, living in both NY and CA for a time. I'm now happily back in Georgia, but I can tell you... our contingency out west is something special. We used to have about 100 people gather for the cocktail party in a bar in Orange County, and I met some wonderful folks out there. It's great to be a Georgia Bulldog!
I was born and raised in Ringgold, GA right across the Tennessee state line. My Mom and several other family members indoctrinated me when I was a kid. My first game was in the early 90's against Kentucky with Zeier and Hearst on the team. We ended up moving and I went to high school and college on the other side of the state line where I really found my hatred for the Vols (this was in the late 90's and the turn of the century when they were on top). I didn't become obsessed with the team until Mark Richt came along in 2001 and I haven't missed a game since.
I grew up in Atlanta but none of my family went to UGA nor were big fans. In fact, my brother and sister went to Auburn along with several neighborhood friends (except my best friend who was a wrestler at Tennessee). My uncle Ed went to GaTech to play for Bobby Dodd but hated it (wasn’t any fun).
I think watching the 1978 “WonderDawgs” team in their amazing comeback 29-28 win over Tech was where I first became a fan. I liked the idea of attending the flagship university of my home state so I attended and graduated in 1986.
True story: my roommate as a freshman on his UGA application under ‘why do you want to attend UGA?’ answered “See Herschel run for TDs.” He graduated early with a journalism degree!
My dad is an alumni. My grandparents moved to Athens his freshman year of high school, and he has loved that town ever since. When I was 2, my parents moved to northern Indiana where I spent most of my life. I went to Purdue, so I have loyalties there, but other than basketball and putting people in space or just being at the cutting edge of human achievement, they don't give me much hope on Saturday's, so i focus my energy on Georgia. Plus our online community is WAAAAAY better.
I grew up in Savannah and would go to games whenever I had an off weekend from football/baseball. I went to a few games when I was young but couldn't fully appreciate game day until I was in high school. Unfortunately UGA never gave me a shot (hands were too small) so I ended up going to another university on athletic scholarship. Never held it against them though. I have always bled red in black even though my family is all OSU fans.
'Cause I @#&[!% wasn't going to be a Tech fan and those were the choices growing up near Atlanta.
4H day tickets when I was little...
Have always been a football fan, and my husband played college ball, but started following the Dawgs in 2000 when our daughter enrolled at UGA. Loved the games, the tailgates, etc, and was rabid by the time our son enrolled. Every year was “THE” year to win it all. So much angst, so much disappointment, but since Kirby my hopes are really up. I check “next to commit to the G” at stoplights. Have to watch games by myself because I pace and curse throughout. Stomach in knots about Smael and Mims. Pitiful actually, but a distraction from everything else we’re dealing with now. Go Dawgs!
Am I the only graduate of UGA on here ? Yes Anotherdog is too but I am amazed that greater than 90% did not go to school in Athens ...wow we must be an attractive team
Go Dawgs !
Growing up in So. Cal I was exposed to SC and UCLA. At my house SC was verboten, as my Father's all about Notre Dame. By sheer force of will my Dad made me a Fighting Irish fan, but honestly I was more into pro sports like the Lakers, Rams and Dodgers.
I didn't become a Georgia football fan until after I went to UGA for school in the 80's. By the time I graduated college football was in my blood and there was no escaping it. After graduation from UGA I moved to NYC. Back in those days there was no Internet and the local New York papers didn't cover college football much, so I was starved for news of the Dawgs. Later on I moved back to Los Angeles and the only way to see non-nationally televised Georgia games was on Pay-Per-View, so that how I watched the Dawgs.
In 1996 my fandom turned to obsession when I became one of the original DawgVent members, which was the first and only Georgia message board at the time. Back in those Internet days it was truly the wild west... no Mods and no rules. You think we argue here on this site??? LOL, these spats are 1/10th of what went on back in those days. Anyway, during that mid-to-late 90's era was the time when High School recruiting exploded. And the rest they say is history...
So , Cas, Another and ole Skid ....are UGA alumni...could have missed someone .... things I remember ;
monday $1 pitchers TK Hartys
O’Malley’s Tuesday drink and drown
B&L Warehouse Wed night -$5 all the beer , wine and liquor you can drink
Thurdsay - 5th Quarter or Coopers - Redneck night
Friday - house party
Great list!
I remember countless shows at Georgia Theatre and 40-Watt, late night meals at The Grill, 25 cent beers at Allen's, the chicken salad sandwich at Five Points Deli, and everything about Wuxtry and Barnett's Newsstand.
When I was in law school I graduated to martinis at Harry Bissett's. Enjoyed too many too often and was once politely escorted to the door while it was still daylight. Not one of my better moments.
I’m also a UGA alumni (‘86) so I’ll add to the memories:
@AnotherDawg "politely escorted to the door" - reminds me of Ron White's comedy sketch about getting thrown out of a bar in NYC. Then the police arrest him for being "Drunk in Public" and he replies, "No officer, I was drunk in a bar until those guys THREW ME INTO PUBLIC, why don't you arrest THEM?!"
I grew up in GA listening to games on the radio with my dad and attended UGA from 2009 - 2013. Didn’t become a diehard fan until 2010, when I helped my buddy start the Spike Squad. He made the pads, I came up with the Group name and did all of the face paint the first few years.
Attending the game against the barn in 1983 after moving to Atlanta from Texas. It was my first UGA game, and although I had attended SMU games at the Cotton Bowl and Texas Stadium, UT games in Austin, A&M games in College Station, and played at SFA, experiencing 80k plus chanting "Go Dawgs, Sic 'Em" and then BARKING after the ball was kicked absolutely mesmerized me! I looked around the crowd, and realized that although the diversity of the attending UGA fans outside of Sanford Stadium was tremendous, for that 3 hour stretch, all of them were coming together for a common cause. It epitomized to me on that day, and ever since, what I feel is (for a fan) the best part of college football, and made me a Dawg 'til I die! Go Dawgs!
No it an alum. My sister is ('93). Grew up just south of Athens. Wanted to play basketball. Hugh offered a PWO. I chose to play elsewhere. Still a huge fan, always will be.
“I check Commit to the G at stoplights” gets my vote for quote of the month!