SEC Traditions: The Best and Worst- Georgia

by One Man To Beat on Aug 7, 2008 11:15 PM EDT

Georgia has been getting a lot of good press lately, oh wait, shit, they've suspended their ENTIRE first string for the season opener against Georgia Southern? Jeez, the Eagles might fly high that day. When it rains it pours Dawg fans, so let's get into your heralded history and tradition in our latest installment of SEC Traditions.

GEORGIA

Best Tradition: UGA I-VII. Although UGA VII has yet to be introduced to the rest of America, he is already slotted in for the throne. This could be one of the great traditions of college football. Pure bred English bulldogs that are white without any other blemish. They are the unadulterated purity of college athletics. I have seen these majestic beasts and even had my picture taken beside UGA V and VI. My face shone bright for the next week after the picture was taken from the glory of the dog. All silliness aside, Georgia has the greatest mascot tradition in the SEC and the country.

Pretty sure you can find this framed on every wall in Cobb County.

Worst Tradition: Infatuation with Herschel Walker. This is not to say Walker wasn't one of the greatest players in UGA history, but he sold out the team to go to the USFL, not the NFL, the USFL, after his junior season. Plus, he's nucking futs.

Great player, no doubt. He won a Heisman trophy and a National Championship, okay. Well, so did Frank Sinkwich, but you don't see Georgia fans walking around with old skool 42 jerseys in Athens. It's my opinion that every player deserves their due time so move on from Herschel, Dawg fans. Your obsessive love for this one player makes me unable to stand some of your fans.

Honorable mention: Just to spite Florida fans. Here's this jewel of football history. Watch #77.

Then watch one of the greatest plays in football history.

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I think Georgia's worst tradition is copying everyone else's traditons. To wit:

1. They friggin' copied an NFL team's logo for Christ's sake. How bush league is that? Name one other college team that has done that.
2. They have the most common nickname in sports save for Tigers and Wildcats
3. They have the most common fight song in college football (see Colorado and Auburn)
4. They copied their "Dawg Walk" or whatever from you guys (Ole Miss, that is). Haven't y'all been doing that for years and years? Georgia just started a couple of years ago.
5. They are one of about 90% of teams that have landscaped their football field. But only Georgia tries to market it (as in "Between the Hedges"...who cares? Does South Carolina promote a tradition of playing "Between the Shrubs?")
6. Memo to UGA fans: EVERY STUDENT SECTION IN THE COUNTRY holds up four fingers at the start of the 4th quarter.

by Anonymous on Aug 8, 2008 1:21 AM EDT reply actions

This Frank Sinkwich fella won his Heisman and national championship in 1942 and would later be drafted in 1943. He even won the NFL MVP in 1944. My question is "why the fuck wasn't he fighting the Krauts?"

Seriously, this guy was a sissy. Ole Miss didn't have a damned team in 1943, period. You know why? Because we were a bit preoccupied with stomping a mudhole in fascism's ass.

Oh, but not Frank, he was too busy being fast, making money, and eating ice cream stateside to give a rat's ass about negligible things like "freedom" and "humanity." Pathetic, I say.

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Aug 8, 2008 2:48 AM EDT reply actions