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My mom was born and raised in Bogart. My granddad later moved to Athens. I was really young and it was early 80’s so this is me kind of piecing it all together now. He and a couple of his buddies took turns working a parking lot on Baldwin street just past the trestle. Don’t know if they owned it, had rights to it, or just picked up extra coin doing it. He had 5 grandsons, and would take each of us to a game every year. So twice a year (I have a brother) we would drive down to Athens from northwest Georgia. Get to Baldwin street really early and either take money from people to park or hang out with his buddy while he took money. Then head to his seats for the game. I remember a fair amount about those days in the 80’s but not a lot about the football. The whole spectacle was mesmerizing for 5ish year old boy from a cross roads in the middle of no where. I still get chills every time I set foot in that stadium.
The first UGA game I remember is when we beat LSU in the SEC championship game. Didn't know what I was watching but I've been a huge fan ever since
Beating Ramstein and Heidi ass in baseball and football was the next best thing to watching the dawgs on AFN. I still get the feels thinking about watching how many times Colt Brennan got sacked somewhere around 3 in the morning. Stuttgart represent.
Been a Dawgs fan since 80
My dad played at Georgia in the forties I was born into Georgia fandom and if you went to a ball game on my dad's tickets you better not root for anybody else or you'd never get another ticket
Came to Atlanta in 1988 as a transfer from an English company. I had taken the Monday off after the Super Bowl for the previous 5 years (5hr time difference) as a big fan of American Football. A guy that worked for me was a huge UGA fan and invited me and the family to attend a game and I fell in love with the atmosphere surrounding the game. For a few years we went to the first and last home game each season until my wife and daughter no longer wanted to go so the following season my son and I got season tickets for about 10 years including after transferring to Greensboro NC. This continued until UGA won the SEC in 2002 and the following season the guy that was getting the season tickets for us could no longer get 2 additional tickets per game as demand grew.
I'm from a town called Leamington in the UK. Was at university in England and had my third year as an exchange in the US. Had to apply for a bunch of schools and went for the one where it would be warmer than home, there would be girls who liked my accent, and there was a huge American football stadium (no one in the UK can understand how big college sports are).
First game was UGA vs Western Kentucky. I think Asher Allen took the first KO to the house, but fumbled the ball over the goal line and it was called back? From that moment on.. hooked.
My brother and I were the first in our family to attend UGA but my dad, who attended undergrad and graduate school at Mercer, still embedded the love for all things Dawg for as far back as I can remember. I was only 4 when Georgia beat ND in the Sugar Bowl for the Natty but I grew up with that commemorative Coke bottle on my shelf and still have it to this day.
My earliest memories of all things Georgia football were of him telling us about going to the Georgia-florida game when Spurrier was getting faceplanted by Bill Stanfill and getting into a skirmish in the stands with a bunch of rowdy gator fans.
Grew up in Decatur Georgia and attended Georgia State for Undergrad. We didn’t get a football team till my Jr year. UGA football filled that void for me. I like Georgia State Football but it ain’t the same.
My Dad got his PhD at UGA, so he was a fan. Being 9 when HW was a freshman sealed the deal.
I was raised in Cedartown Ga. We're Bulldogs, our colors are red and black, our field has been surrounded by hedges at least since the 1960s. At the time I was in HS our former HC Doc Ayers was Georgia's freshmen coach. It was a natural broadening of my world to adopt UGA well before I packed my bags for school in Athens.
You're not allowed to change your answer WC. I'm sticking with your first story.
By the grace of God.
I went to Georgia and played in The Redcoat Band
I graduated from Kennesaw State U, back when it was about the size of a highschool. My brother went to grad school at UGA. So I went up there to all the home games.