Let the Big Dawg speak
I was driving over to visit with my Dad Sunday and pulled up behind an SUV sporting a nice shiny “Let the Big Dawg Eat” bumper sticker, and that got me to thinking about favorite Bulldogs slogans of that sort over the years.
Loading ...A slogan harking back to the 1950s is “Go, You Silver Britches,” which reappeared on a bumper sticker in 1980 after Vince Dooley revived that part of the game uniform. I remember buying one of the new “Silver Britches” stickers at the old Barnett’s Newsstand in Athens just prior to that season and posting it on the wall above my desk at work.
The most popular slogan back in the ’60s, and one you still see from time to time, is “Go, You Hairy Dogs” (or “Dawgs” in later years), from which the taller of our two mascots, Hairy Dawg, got his name. (I’ve always figured Hairy was actually inspired by the old “Harry Dog” cartoon character the late Don Smith used to draw for the game day fronts of the now defunct Athens Daily News.)
Another slogan that still shows up on stickers and magnets gained its greatest prominence during that remarkable early 1980s run — “You Can’t Spell Sugar Without UGA.”
The not very original but nevertheless appropriate “I Bleed Red … and Black” has its fans, too.
And while I don’t think I’ve actually seen this one on a bumper sticker (too many words), a beloved and oft-quoted slogan after a fall win is “It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog on Saturday night.”
So which slogan is your favorite? Feel free to comment, vote in the poll or do both.
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coachdawg 2000
June 29th, 2009
7:23 am
GATA
dawgfan
June 29th, 2009
7:33 am
I think it is, “There is nothing better than being a Georgia Bulldawg on Saturday night”.
Browncoat
June 29th, 2009
7:33 am
THWG
Boss Hogg
June 29th, 2009
7:41 am
Let the Big Dawg Cheat
Cuz
June 29th, 2009
7:53 am
Go Dawgs.
I still like my idea of favortie Athens restaurants. When is that going to come up in the rotation?
athensdawg
June 29th, 2009
7:55 am
one
too
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fo
five
dem gators don’t take no jive.
go gator.
TommyP
June 29th, 2009
7:55 am
I think the “rotation” needs to end here.
What does GATA mean?
June 29th, 2009
8:04 am
Sorry for not being a “real” fan.
dd
June 29th, 2009
8:09 am
GATA means “get after their ass”
P
June 29th, 2009
8:11 am
What a bunch of freakin redneck idiots!
Corrine Brown (D-FL)
June 29th, 2009
8:14 am
No, it’s GATA as in “go GATA”.
Sanjaya and Rosie O'Donell Love Georgia Tech
June 29th, 2009
8:15 am
What’s that comin down the track!
fwheel
June 29th, 2009
8:19 am
How Bout’ them DAWGS
dawgfanatic24-7
June 29th, 2009
8:21 am
I Bleed red & black!
Saint Simons
June 29th, 2009
8:22 am
45-42!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
Cuz
June 29th, 2009
8:26 am
Erk Russell’s family version of GATA was “GET AFTER THEM AGGRESIVELY”.
P, I resemble that remark.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 29th, 2009
8:26 am
“That was a terrible call”, or,” yeah, but we had a bunch of injuries”
BigBen
June 29th, 2009
8:29 am
Open up a can of whoop ass and feed that dawg! Sic’em……
Rick
June 29th, 2009
8:30 am
You can tell when Bill writes his own blogs and when someone else does.
godawg
June 29th, 2009
8:35 am
“There’s gonna be some property destroyed tonight!” – Larry Munson
Mark Twain
June 29th, 2009
8:37 am
I prefer my ignorance over another man’s knowledge because I have so much more of it.
Spurlock
June 29th, 2009
8:38 am
My favotite was when UGA was playing Penn ST. in the ‘83 Sugar Bowl and you could see ‘Lion Meat Gives Herschel The Runs’ stickers everywhere.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 29th, 2009
8:39 am
“Wait till next year”
Good Dawg
June 29th, 2009
8:42 am
How about “HUH!!! It’s a Dawg’s World”
Mikey
June 29th, 2009
8:51 am
Hunker down
TS7
June 29th, 2009
8:55 am
“It’s not a neutral site. That’s why we’ve lost 14 of the last 16.”
Gen Neyland
June 29th, 2009
8:55 am
‘REMEMBER THE DOOLEY’…ok, I just made that up…
some sense
June 29th, 2009
9:01 am
Another, uh, “family” version of GATA is “Give all to academics”.
MattDawg
June 29th, 2009
9:04 am
I say “How bout them Dawgs!!”
Calvin
June 29th, 2009
9:04 am
Hunker down you Hairy Dawgs!
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 29th, 2009
9:06 am
As a Tech undergraduate, my favorite t-shirt in my dresser reads “I trained (I mean “studied”) in Pakistan and all I got was this cruddy t-shirt”
Mr. Skynyrd
June 29th, 2009
9:14 am
Let’s save ourselves a bunch of trouble. We get it guys.
All Georgia fans are toothless rednecks. All Tech fans are nerd terrorists. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over. You’re out of middle school now. (Well, maybe).
Let’s move on.
Dawgs
June 29th, 2009
9:15 am
2001 31-17
2002 51-7
2003 34-17
2004 19-13
2005 14-7
2006 15-12
2007 31-17
Talk to us in 2014 Bees.
Old Buzz
June 29th, 2009
9:16 am
We just got Munsoned!!
Hugo Chavez
June 29th, 2009
9:19 am
Que’ tal los perros!
Orlando_Dawg
June 29th, 2009
9:21 am
My favorite was “Junkyard Dawgs” … We need to get back to that defensive mindset!
Zoomie
June 29th, 2009
9:28 am
Don’t know if it’s my favorite, but @#$%&! (expletives deleted) is the one I was screaming during all the games last year . . .
Dawgdays
June 29th, 2009
9:32 am
North Avenue Terrorist School
some guy
June 29th, 2009
9:41 am
dont forget the mother of all uga slogans:
“Next year is totally THE year”
Chip
June 29th, 2009
9:48 am
“Gator Bait”
Will
June 29th, 2009
9:48 am
“GATORS EAT BOOGER’S” Was a clasic bumper sticker in the mid 90’s. Right about the time they started kicking our ass every year. So I took it off my ride.
gtfanfrom1951
June 29th, 2009
9:52 am
north georgia agricultural college or uga Unemployable Georgia Agricultural
woodee
June 29th, 2009
9:54 am
we were #1… for a whole week!
woodee
June 29th, 2009
9:56 am
I’m a uga fan, but please God let me have kids who are smart enough to get a degree from TECH!
Tom
June 29th, 2009
9:56 am
“Georgia fans are passionate, but let’s face it – they’re not the brightest fans. Passionate, but not bright.” – Eric Zeier, Novemeber 21, 2001
Admittedly, it makes for a rather verbose bumper sticker.
woodee
June 29th, 2009
9:59 am
Mark Richt – 2009 and still sportin’ the butt cut
Scott
June 29th, 2009
10:00 am
“THE DOGS LOSE ANOTHER BIG GAME” !
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:02 am
stay out of JAIL in ‘09
Scott
June 29th, 2009
10:03 am
Since I know you can’t count higher than 7, Dawgs.
The consecutive winning streak in the Tech – Ga. series is 8, held by….TECH !
GO BEES !
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:05 am
UGA = split hoofed, cousin Fkers
stoopid
June 29th, 2009
10:06 am
Im Bulldawg born and Bulldawg bred, and when I die, Ill be Bulldawg dead
DawgFan24
June 29th, 2009
10:07 am
“Blue Shirts, Orange Britches, GO TO HELL you sons of bitches!”
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:07 am
UGA – where having sex with your cousin makes the whole state look bad!
Tom
June 29th, 2009
10:07 am
Scott, I never used to think there was a big difference between a 7-game winning streak and an 8-game winning streak. Apparently, however, breaking an 8-game streak is worthy of a retired jersey.
UGAGirl
June 29th, 2009
10:08 am
I had a bumper sticker in college that read: Georgian by birth, Bulldog by the Grace of God. I also had Gators Eat Boogers!
superDawg
June 29th, 2009
10:09 am
corral the nerd herd and shoot’em.
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:10 am
” I didn’t know she was my cousin “
timthebrave
June 29th, 2009
10:10 am
I said “It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog”
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:12 am
some nerd engineered that little device you are using to blawg about the dawgs
Me
June 29th, 2009
10:16 am
I understand the history of GATA with Erk, but this day and time, that slogan needs to be retired.
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:16 am
I bought an English bulldog just so I could dress him up in White & Gold then shoot him and toss him in the garbage after the novelty wore off
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:17 am
” hey look there goes Dwyer for 6 “
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:18 am
” hey look there he goes again “
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:20 am
” um … there goes that Dwyer kid for 6 … AGAIN!
Tom
June 29th, 2009
10:21 am
“Willie M’s Bait & Tackle. Ok, maybe just bait.”
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:29 am
The G stands for GOMER
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:30 am
Willie M’s school of not so hard knocks
Legacy Speaks Louder Then Slogans
June 29th, 2009
10:32 am
Jan Kemp, professor who protested UGA athlete treatment, dies
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD December 12, 2009
Jan Kemp, the University of Georgia professor who publicly criticized the school for allowing athletes to continue playing sports and stay in school after they failed remedial classes, has died. She was 59.
Kemp died of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease on Friday at an Athens nursing home. She was buried Sunday in a private ceremony in Griffin.
Kemp is the English teacher whose wrongful termination lawsuit in 1986 uncovered a system of preferential treatment for athletes and those connected to administrators and powerful Georgians. In 1986, after complaining for four years that she was fired for speaking out, a federal judge awarded her $2.8 million – later cut to $1.08 million – in damages.
Before the case faded, it sparked the resignation of powerful UGA President Fred Davison, whose legacy of converting the obscure Southern school into an institution with nationally ranked research programs was forever tarnished by the revelations that illiterate students were being brought in and promoted on his watch at the university.
Davison and Bulldog football coach Vince Dooley never admitted to wielding any improper influence on the academic promotion of revenue-producing athletes.
Through special admits, administrative exits and an athletic department learning lab that held students to even lower standards than remedial courses, however, testimony showed that athletes were ushered through a shadow academic world where the only goal was to retain their playing eligibility.
“I am certain there was never any direct statement from the athletic department,” a development studies professor told a reporter in 1986, explaining how the remedial program was run. “It doesn’t take much to figure out how power and subtleties of the language work and how powerful figures can get involved in things and without making any statements, get things done.”
“They covered it up, even from us,” then-Attorney General Mike Bowers told reporters. When the allegations came out in trial, “it was devastating,” Bowers said.
In the wake of the scandal, Developmental Studies Director Leroy Ervin was demoted and given a cut in pay; Virginia Trotter, vice president for academic affairs, was reassigned to the College of Home Economics. There were other outcomes: SAT and grades standards were upped for athletes; the financial records of the athletic department were opened under court order; a new sense of urgency about academic integrity was born at the university and across the nation.
Kemp’s problems over development studies methods first surfaced in 1981 when her boss, Leroy Ervin, asked her to call an English teacher and get failing grades changed for several athletes who Kemp had passed out of remedial studies.
“I refused,” she testified. “He screamed at me that it would be done. He asked me who did I think was more prominent, me or a prominent basketball player and two prominent track stars.”
This is UGA Pride
June 29th, 2009
10:34 am
UGA attorney Hale Almand, in his opening remarks to the jury, set an unfortunate tone:
“We may not make a university student out of him, but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbage man when he gets through with his athletic career.”
Turn This Into a Slogan
June 29th, 2009
10:35 am
Secretly taped at a faculty meeting, then-remedial studies boss Leroy Ervin told his staff: “I know for a fact that these kids would not be here if it were not for their utility to the institution… . They are used as a kind of raw material in the production of some goods to be sold as whatever product, and they get nothing in return.”
RxDawg
June 29th, 2009
10:35 am
Cuz, did you mean “resent” that remark? Or was that on purpose
woodee
June 29th, 2009
10:37 am
” My degrgee frum uag aint worth the paper it printid on “
Tech= Dungons & Dragons Greatness
June 29th, 2009
10:37 am
Tech…. we do tickle piles
Judge Smails
June 29th, 2009
10:39 am
“Well, the world needs ditch-diggers, too!”
Tech= Dungons & Dragons Greatness
June 29th, 2009
10:43 am
Tech Girls………well Georgia State is always across the street
Let The Big Dawg Cheat
June 29th, 2009
10:44 am
It’s the ONLY slogan that fits.
Dungeon Master
June 29th, 2009
10:47 am
UGA: Where you can find a “major” for every IQ level.
mutt squat
June 29th, 2009
10:52 am
“UGA: where we distribute diplomas in 2-ply rolls.”
Rusty Gunn
June 29th, 2009
11:00 am
Back in the late 70’s and 80’s there were lots of “Bulldog” songs coming out by various known and unknown artists. Most were pretty lame but the exceptions were Clisby Clark’s immortal “Hunker Down Hairy Dawgs” and “It’s Time (to Let the Big Dawg Eat.)”
Part of the reason they were special is that Clark was a UGA graduate. I was always a little surprised no one ever put one out (to my knowledge) called “How ‘Bout Them Dawgs”.
Huh?
June 29th, 2009
11:02 am
It looks like the AJC needs to throw the Techies a bone and write a token blog about their football team. This is getting out of hand.
A Dawg
June 29th, 2009
11:06 am
“You might be a Gator…but your momma’s a DAWG!
Huh?
June 29th, 2009
11:06 am
Jan Kemp: “The Third Rail of UGA Athletics.”
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 29th, 2009
11:08 am
Nice blog there King.
There’s some pretty good ones out here.
How bout, “You’re welcome, Hargrave”
Huh?
June 29th, 2009
11:16 am
New UGA blog up Techies. This one’s about how our athletic programs make more money in two weeks than yours probably does in an entire year. Honestly, we could probably buy Bobby Dodd stadium if we wanted to. That’s not a bad idea considering that we’re the only ones who ever fill the dump up, which reminds of one of my favorite UGA slogans: “Sanford Stadium West.”
Poor poor Techies.
Huh?
June 29th, 2009
11:36 am
UGA: The Standard of Excellence in Remedial Education
UGA: Where the Athlete is Expendable
UGA: Where Truth Is Unwelcome
UGA: Money Before Integrity
UGA: Where Fraud IS the standard
UGA vs. FL: Our Remedial Atheletes can beat up your Remedial Athletes
Let The Big Dawg Cheat..steal, lie, assault, etc. etc.
UGA: A Diploma Thrown in Every Car Window
UGA: Home of the “Special Admission”
UGA: Denial Has a Home
Cuz
June 29th, 2009
11:38 am
Rusty Gunn, after the 1980 season there were a slew of songs written hopefully for gameday. There was one called, “How Bout Them Dawgs”. It did sound like it was recorded in a garage. The Athens AM station would play it gameday Saturday mornings.
Rxdawg, I do not choose to be relevant on some topics and irrelevant on others. I am irrelevant on them all.
Cuz
June 29th, 2009
11:40 am
David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, that Jackson kid, Jan Kemp; when will it end?
Alabama_Medic
June 29th, 2009
11:40 am
Anybody remember the songs Bulldog Bite or Georgia Cannonball (for Herschel Walker)? I am a proud alumni of Johnson County High in Wrightsville, GA during the Herschel years. Dawgs rule.
NewnanDawg
June 29th, 2009
2:04 pm
Woodee was just your avg. jerk until the comment about shooting a dog and throwing it in the garbage. Can someone please remove that sick bas**rd’s post and then send an investigator to his momma’s house to look for dead bodies? The guy is so obsessive about his hatred he sounds like a sociopath.
By the way, my fav. is Hunker Down!
Go Dawgs!
GaSouthernU
June 29th, 2009
2:39 pm
I rather like, “Barf like a Dog!”
Dawg Squatt
June 29th, 2009
2:58 pm
Link:http://www.bulletin.uga.edu/CoursesHome.aspx
This Horse-sheet passes for…”education.”
Credit hour courses like: “Black Feminism”…”Lesbian and Gay Studies”…”Sex, Politics, Science, and Reproduction”…”Introduction to Feminist Theories.”
WTF? I dont whether to laugh, cty, or throw-up.
Seems we’ll have to define what we actually mean by…”edcuation.”
I guess this explains how UGA keeps their APR on the rise with the NCAA.
ugarabbit
June 29th, 2009
3:13 pm
Seriously, how did a blog about cool UGA slogans turn into a message board for sad Techies and other losers to trash talk us? If you don’t like UGA go start your own blog. And why are you even reading a blog about us? Is D&D getting boring?
ugarabbit
June 29th, 2009
3:22 pm
UGA: Where A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Denver Dog
June 29th, 2009
3:32 pm
Another bad day at North Ave Vo Tech, as the only school in the state that has been charged with acadmeic fraud, terrorism, and paying athletes for play; tries to belittle its big brother by citing contextial writings from a 1980’s scandal. Sorry loser, go solve some crimes. There seems to be plenty on the concrete campus. Maybe get some more recruits from Gitmo!
One of my farorites was “Isn’t it a shame about Tech”. Who Shalll\? “Herschel”. Really dating myself here, but it once was the chant when the other team ran onto the field :”dogfood”
theTruth
June 29th, 2009
3:48 pm
LEGACY is so important, he can reproduce newspaper articles from THE FUTURE. I don’t think it’s December 12, 2009 yet Einstein. Gheesh, what morons on here.
snot bubble
June 29th, 2009
4:24 pm
……………….Is that you Herschel?
woodee
June 29th, 2009
5:14 pm
My favorites – “Willie M’s school of not so hard knocks” & “Stay OUT of JAIL in ‘09″
Discuss
woodee likes woodies
June 29th, 2009
5:51 pm
there is just one nerd blogger on here impersonating 15 others…it’s all the same person. Here’s a recruiting slogan for Yech: “come to Ga Tech where a tudor takes all of your exams and even if they fail it, you will still be eligible!”
Hart co.
June 29th, 2009
6:57 pm
Had a hat that said “Get Your Sugar Dawgy Style” back in ihe 80’s.
JenniferGO Dawgs
June 30th, 2009
11:45 am
DawgFan24 I agree whole heartily!!!!!! GATORS SUCKS, BUT THE MEAT IS GOOD!
Just a few of my faves……GO DAWGS!!!!!!!! SIC ‘EM, WOOOF WOOOF! LET THE BIG DOG EAT! HUNKER DOWN YOU SILVER BRITCHES! I BLEED RED AND BLACK! HOW ‘BOUT THEM DOGS!
Huh?
July 1st, 2009
1:34 pm
“Jail or Bail in 09″
Big Daddy
March 19th, 2010
4:30 pm
You Can’t Spell Vulgar Without UGA.