Some game day traditions never lose their thrill
Another UGA fan and I were talking recently about how much we were looking forward to the start of another football season (51 days and 19 hours away as I write this) and we got onto the subject of our favorite game day traditions.
His favorite was the Dawg Walk, with the Redcoats playing and the team walking past the fans gathered in the Tate Center parking lot. I admit that’s a good way to get pumped up for a game if you’ve got a good vantage point, but it’s kind of difficult to see unless you snag a front row spot, so that’s never been a must for me. Even with the Dawg Walk Overlook that’s planned for between the new Tate II and the Alumni Development Center to be built next to Lumpkin, it’s still going to be tough to get a good view.
For kids, seeing the parade of UGA buses carrying the players down Lumpkin Street with their police escort is pretty exciting and I admit that even now I still wave as they go by, but that’s just like a teaser as I start walking to the stadium from the church where I park.
Watching the Redcoats march into the stadium with their chant is one of my favorite game day traditions (I like to get to my seat at least an hour before kickoff). Ain’t nothing finer in the land!
Loading ...I still think the Redcoats scrambling onto the field for their pregame show is fun, and another popular and thrilling moment is the pregame Larry Munson recording and the footage of Dawgs past and present on the big video screen. I love how the fans never tire of cheering Herschel running over Bill Bates. The countdown to the kickoff is another great bit, though I liked it better when they used “Baba O’Riley” to back the video montage, and the excitement really hits a fever pitch there, especially for a big game. (I’ve never understood folks who don’t get to the game in time for the kickoff … or, for that matter, those who leave a game early when the Dawgs are winning!)
During the game, the crowd holding up four fingers at beginning of the fourth quarter may be a common tradition shared by a lot of schools, but it can be a special moment in a close game, especially if you really sense the Dawgs have victory within reach. And when my son was young and we parked downtown, I always got a kick out of taking him by the Chapel to ring the bell. We don’t go that way any more, though, and while the video screen footage of Hairy Dawg ringing the bell was kind of fun to start with, the fact that he’s not actually at the Chapel ringing the bell makes it ring a little hollow, so to speak.
No, my two favorite bits of game day tradition both come before the game. One is after the team has finished its initial warm-up, gathers at midfield and walks deliberately toward the east end zone while the Redcoats play the “Krypton Fanfare” and the crowd gets on its feet and roars. That gets me every time.
And then there’s the solo trumpeter kicking off what they now call the “Battle Hymn of the Bulldog Nation” (still a slowed down “Glory to Old Georgia” to me) from the southwest corner of the upper level of the stands. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, you’re definitely not of the Red and Black persuasion!
What’s your favorite game day tradition? Tell us in the comments, vote in the poll or do both. Go Dogs!
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Cuz
July 16th, 2009
7:07 am
Calling the Dawgs.
Goo Dawggs, Sic em. Woof, Woof, Woof, Wooof!!!!!!!!!
Cuz
July 16th, 2009
7:08 am
WOOOFFFF!!!!
Bob
July 16th, 2009
7:34 am
The solo trumpeter coupled with the Larry Munson hi-lite reel. That really gets my blood flowing.
45-42=haha
July 16th, 2009
7:51 am
My favorite is tearing off a big piece of hedge after we whip you at sanford and son. A close second is counting the passed out sorority girls.
Big G
July 16th, 2009
7:58 am
I think I gonna puke!!!!
Big G
July 16th, 2009
7:59 am
Restated: I think I’m gonna puke!!!!
MADDAWG55
July 16th, 2009
8:00 am
My favorite is during the game…After the defense makes a big play or gets a three and out!!! Then the Bands starts playing “Leroy Brown”!!! Gives me goose bumps every time!!
Beans
July 16th, 2009
8:00 am
Far and away the ringing of the bell. If for no other reason, it means we won. I can’t stand the four fingers. It will always be something started by Charlie Pell and that cannot be erased from my mind.
Beans
July 16th, 2009
8:01 am
Oh, and 4542, I think we’re talking about traditions that occur more than once or twice in a generation.
Long Dawg
July 16th, 2009
8:04 am
Please, can we talk about special teams… this subject is for the ladies.
rocksteadyfreddie
July 16th, 2009
8:05 am
watching the Gator Bowl be half empty by the start of the 4Q in Jax for the WLOCP. You’d think that UGAs colors were really Red, Black, and Teal.
cpdawg
July 16th, 2009
8:11 am
My favorite is now a long forgotten tradition by many. Some true dawgs never got to enjoy it. THE TRACKS!!!! God bless the memory of those wild dawgs yelling at the opposing team as they departed their buses.
lakerat
July 16th, 2009
8:12 am
39,000 seats “unavailable” for sale due to comps and student/faculty and visitor tickets – seems like a lot, but then at least 15,000 of those go to students/faculty, so 24,000 to sponsors and visitors is still a lot. I guess those 14,000 to sponsors really do make a difference.
I wish the athletic department would tell us how much money those 14,000 bring in from those sponsors – is it more than the approx. $7mil(donations to the Hartmann Fund of at least $250 per seat, plus the cost of the tickets – $240 each) they could get from selling them to the public – if it is not at least $14mil from the sponsors then they should be selling them to the public!
OrlG8r
July 16th, 2009
8:17 am
Seeing the Gators chomp another piece of puppy tail…..
Pulpwood
July 16th, 2009
8:19 am
My favorite game day tradition takes place early Saturday morning –which is when we line up in front of the Clarke County jail and welcome the boys out of lock-up in time for kickoff.
cffreak
July 16th, 2009
8:20 am
AU fans laugh at you puppies talking about your doggie walk. Since you don’t have any real traditions of your own you plagarize one of the great pregame traditions in college football from Auburn and start acting like its some unique, special georgia thing.
And yes, Auburn’s “Tiger Walk” is the first, the original, the grandest of pre-game team walks in college football.
I’ll be laughing the rest of the day at all the ignoramuses who post on here that georgia invented the dog walk!! LOL!!
Oh and by the way, there wasn’t one “pre game tradition” I read in this blog that anyone outside of doggieville would even know about. Pretty lame.
OrlG8r
July 16th, 2009
8:21 am
…That’s funny right there
Miami grad
July 16th, 2009
8:27 am
My favorite is the player introductions: “Now, Out on bail, Defensive End _______ ______. On work release: _________ _______. Back from his 4 game suspension for Asassault _________ ______.” etc, etc. It always makes the faithful proud.
BugKiller
July 16th, 2009
8:31 am
Bill, “Glory,” has always been called “The Battle Hymn,” as in, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
I think it’s cheesy when they call it “The Battle Hymn of the Bulldog Nation” or even “Glory, Glory.”
Just call it “Glory” or “The Battle Hymn.”
There’s something to be said about non-redundant succinctness.
As it is, when the lone trumpeter starts up “The Battle Hymn,” or even just before, when the Redcoats play that low, soft note to preface the solo, it gets chills running up and down my spine.
The best pre-game moment before every game, if you ask me.
Redcoat Sousaphone
July 16th, 2009
8:33 am
Thanks for all the Redcoat memories. Being on the inside of the band, it is hard to tell what gets the fans going most.
I tell ya, my first game I had goosebumps on the field from the run-on til we chanted off. Battle Hymn gets me every time even when we are in practice. But my favorite is Krypton during pregame. With the banner up, the team around the statue in the east endzone, we start playing, we hear “If your blood runs red and black…”, the team runs on and we play Glory. That’s my favorite part of every game day besides the football.
My mom a Redcoat back in the 80’s would probably say her favorite thing is morning Redcoat practice at Woodruff. It’s the best place to hear us because it is so quiet in the mornings.
Thanks again Bill. Keep up the good work.
David
July 16th, 2009
8:41 am
Isn’t this the same thing Auburn does? I have never understood why they have the same fight songs and similar traditions. I.E. Glory, Glory….
Give me a break.
historydawg
July 16th, 2009
8:42 am
Reading an auburn fan discuss plagiarism is quite amusing, given that the mascots are still undecided, the fight songs are all from other schools, and the decent players are all Georgians who couldn’t make the grade in Athens..
Tiger224
July 16th, 2009
8:46 am
Although Clemson hasn’t been relevant in college football in quite some time…the buses bringing the players around to the east end zone and the top of The Hill to rub the rock is pretty exciting, especially in a big game atmosphere. And then the players running down The Hill into Death Valley is pretty cool.
I wouldn’t expect any Dawg to really agree with me, since the last time UGA visited Death Valley was for a 135 degree day game…that didnt have a great atmosphere and ended in a UGA romp. That was just about miserable.
JACKET3322
July 16th, 2009
8:50 am
My favorite uga game day tradition is when we ride over to the clarke county jail and watch the guards unlock the cell doors and then the players step out of thier cells as they are cheered on by the army of red, it is a very emotional scene as some of the player/thugs hug the jailer with tears in thier eyes-promising they will be back soon
UGAy fratboy
July 16th, 2009
8:54 am
I think that cooking up sum good ‘ol possum an taters (plenty o dead ones ‘roung th stadium) at th frathouse for th tailgaten is my favrite.
Then we wave our recrootin rankin’s at the other teams fans an thet reely intimidates em
b
July 16th, 2009
8:57 am
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JayRoot
July 16th, 2009
9:02 am
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I, personally, love the game-day tradition at Ugag of the kissing booths run by families for their own family. Ha! Ha!
Uncle & Aunt kisses HALF PRICE!
Sharing the same DNA is like having a coupon!
Also, the binge drinking by inbred, hill billy redneck alumni that are ssooo happy to have a degree, or pursuing a degree, from an inferior state institution that isn’t even in the top-ten of PUBLIC state universities. Maybe they are just trying to drown their own self-loathing insecurities in the cheapest beer and fattest redneck company they can find.
Yeah … gotta love those incestual game-day traditions at Ugag!
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Voice of Reason
July 16th, 2009
9:02 am
funny cffreak- I never saw a single post stating that UGA invented the “walk” whether it be dawg or tiger, yet obviously, the Bulldog fans won’t have the Tiger Walk be one of their favorite traditions. I didn’t invent Christmas, but my family all coming together every year to celebrate is still a tradition. Why would other schools be familiar with UGA traditions anyway? I am not familiar with AU traditions. Does that make them “pretty lame” as well??
Ed E
July 16th, 2009
9:03 am
That trumpet gives me chills every single time!!!!! Go Dawgs
yeah right
July 16th, 2009
9:04 am
Hey 42-45=haha…. 45-42 is not a whipping. 31-17, 34-17, and 51-7 like Georgia beat you are whippings. I think it’s hilarious that Tech finally gets a win and you guys it’s great enough to put on a ring. Really, we’re flattered it means that much, considering we’d never put a Tech win on a ring.
Voice of Reason
July 16th, 2009
9:04 am
Miami grad- wow. have you ever heard of the term “irony”? A Miami grad talking about UGA players getting arrested? Now that is irony.
gatordowneast
July 16th, 2009
9:05 am
Actually 2 and both have occurred regularly at FL-GA game in Jax over last 20 years. 1. Listening and watching drunk UGA fans (before kickoff) talk about kicking the Gators butts this year. 2. Listening to excuses about why the poods got beat again but rationalizing about how much more class Mark Richt has.
JayRoot
July 16th, 2009
9:05 am
HEY JACKET3322!
That’s hilarious!
I forgot about how the ankle-monitoring braclet is now part of the OFFICIAL uniform of Ugag!
Red,Black, & and two AA batteries.
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Pago Flyer
July 16th, 2009
9:07 am
Last year I was the second oldest Redcoat Alumni Band member, so I got to hear the “solo trumpeter” twice. 7:30am practice and “pre-game”.
Can’t get any better than this!
hey, tiger224...
July 16th, 2009
9:09 am
…I’m with you re: “the most exciting 25 seconds in sports” as the Tigers run down the hill – doesn’t matter whether they are relevant or not!
And, I know this is heresy on this site, but the ‘ol Model T driving onto that high school field is pretty cool, too.
Finally, I believe Pat Dye started the Tiger Walk, that has not evolved into just about every major team now doing that as part of the pre-game ceremony. Even Clemson started doing it after Dabo took over last year!
DawginLex
July 16th, 2009
9:09 am
For all the classless gator posters(not all gator posters included):
You brag about an empty stadium? That happened last year 2008. You act like it is always the case. Look up the scores of the previous 7 games. See any scores like 49-10? Didn’t think so.
I was there in 1982 at the WLOCP. Almost froze to death. What was the score that day?
Things go in cycles.
lakerat
July 16th, 2009
9:13 am
I like the waving of the hats during kickoffs while bellowing GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS, SIC ‘EM, WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
9:13 am
To 45-42=haha
Tech educated Reggie Ball stopped counting at 4. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
DawginLex
July 16th, 2009
9:13 am
All the aubie people just need to shutup. Kid graduates high school in the state of GA. Kid can’t get into UGA? ACT score not high enough?
Auburn will take them.
auburn=Fort valley state
AthensGA
July 16th, 2009
9:13 am
Gameday traditions of no place to park, walking to the stadium watching Athens police dept giving out open container violations, towing cars, drinking liquor in the skybox. Ahh..Football Saturday.
stoopid
July 16th, 2009
9:17 am
umm.. Jack Daniels and 50,000 beautiful ladies in red and black game day dresses! Oh, and the G tattoo on the cheek. I fall in love every saturday!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
9:18 am
To all tech fans
I just love how you make up jokes about UGA athletes being criminals yet you just inducted Joe “hit and run” Hamilton into your hall of fame. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ringleader
July 16th, 2009
9:19 am
The walk to the stadium was started by Ole Miss, then carried to Auburn. The first for the Dogs was under Goff
The four fingers was started under Dooley, usually when we were behind by fourteen points going into the fourth quarter. The condition the Dogs were in, you knew we would overpower anyone in the fourth quarter and win.
dogdayafternoons
July 16th, 2009
9:19 am
a ring! are you freaken kidding me!?
B
July 16th, 2009
9:20 am
gatordowneast UGA owns Florida. Look at the series record baby. UGA has whipped floridas a** more times than not.
MattDawg
July 16th, 2009
9:21 am
David, Georgia is documented as playing Glory, Glory first. Auburn did not start playing it till after we did. I think the solo trumpeter is my favorite. It sends a shiver up my spine. If you are not a Dawg fan get off our blog. This one in no way relates to you.
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
9:21 am
Joe Hamilton
aka Joe “DUI” Hamilton
aka Joe “open container” Hamilton
aka Joe “marijuana possession” Hamilton
aka Joe “hit-and-run” Hamilton
aka Joe “recent georgia tech hall of fame inductee” Hamilton
And UGA athletes are the criminals? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
AlphaDog
July 16th, 2009
9:29 am
The tuba player dotting the “i” in Script OHIO by TBDBITL
jacketbacker
July 16th, 2009
9:43 am
ugag is a joke….what traditions???….choking on your big BlackOut Day!!!….the only game day tradition in athens is trying not to puke before you get back to your car…..
45-42!!!!
THWG
Rob
July 16th, 2009
9:46 am
Hey Miami Grad: You know all about work release and bail don’t you? Pot meet kettle. Miami Thug-a-Canes. Enjoy another losing year.
OrlG8R: Tradition doesn’t mean the just the last few years. We still own your slimy butts all-time. Even with your recent success we still own you. Talk about tradition.
MA Merrill
July 16th, 2009
9:47 am
A Bulldawg Lady /Alumni here…..I LOVE getting there early and listening to Phil Collin’s “In The Air Tonight” as the players warm up…. they blast it and the big drum part gives me chills while I watch the Dawgs on the field! Can’t wait till football season
dawgblast
July 16th, 2009
9:52 am
Favorite tradition? Definitely drinking, and drinking, and drinking with my bulldawg buddies and classmates from a decade back. There isn’t a better time to get drunk and harass the visiting teams fans (can’t believe they even have the guts to walk in our stadium.)
Old Dawg
July 16th, 2009
9:53 am
It is impractical now, but I liked it when the seniors would march around the field during halftime.
DawginLex
July 16th, 2009
9:53 am
a jacket backer slamming UGA for saying they have football traditions?
WOW! Can you say delusional?
Let’s talk about some Tech game day traditions:
1.) Watching the homecoming queen eat 20 varsity chili dogs and wiping the chili off of her sleeve before having the crown placed on her head.
2.) Watching all the engiqueers come to the game holding hands with their boyfriends.
3.) Watching Joe Hamilton out in the parking lot hitting on 18 year old coeds while waiting on Reuben houston to bring him some stash.
It is just too easy. I gotta stop.
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
9:55 am
To DawginLex
You omitted the spectacle of watching 300 lb linemen beating up on 100 lb pizza delivery girls. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
9:57 am
To DawginLex
Point of clarity, that was a 300 lb TECH lineman beating up on the little pizza delivery girl. BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!
Scott from Rockmart
July 16th, 2009
9:57 am
I love going to Jax playing golf on friday, the landing on friday night and making excuses about why we lost on saturday night. Anybody got any new ones, I’m kinda running out!
Scott from Rockmart
July 16th, 2009
9:59 am
oh yea Bwahhawahahawa
gotta go my sister needs milking.
howboutdemdogs?
July 16th, 2009
10:02 am
I love all of our originality: the stadium plans we took from UNC, the song that we took called the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the mascot we took from Yale, and the big G on the helmut we took from Green Bay…it’s just darn hard to come up with something original that doesn’t involve ways to consume Natural Light while studying for that Leisure Studies final from a Clarke County cell.
Otto
July 16th, 2009
10:02 am
Growing up, once the Dawg Walk started it was hearing the drum corps for the walk. We used to tailgate on Lumpkin near the outdoor pool so the buses would drop the player across the street from us. Hearing the Drum Corps warm up you knew game time was getting close.
Outside of Athens, Auburn flying the Eagle around the stadium is amazing.
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:02 am
To jacketbacker
And your traditions?
One win in 8 years over your biggest rival.
The tech student body tippy toeing up and down to the Budweiser song.
Calculus.
Peeing against a concrete wall. Nice design, engineers.
Talking about how good you were under Bobby Dodd.
Calculus.
Bragging about your wonderful stadium and campus that, unfortunately, is located in arguably the worst area of Atlanta.
Wishing you had beautiful coeds. In fact, just wishing you had coeds.
Did I mention calculus??
No BCS bowl appearances.
No ACC football championships.
Free hot dogs and cokes with a purchase of a game ticket.
Last, but not least, calculus.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
howboutdemdogs?
July 16th, 2009
10:05 am
DawginLex – those are funny, kind of, the first 10,000 times we’ve heard them, but not true.
Mine are sad, because they are true.
2dawgs
July 16th, 2009
10:05 am
As a 30 year season ticket holder, I certainly bleed red ‘n black. But, a few visits to Gainesville, Fl (before the NC years) opened my eyes. The atmosphere there is something we rarely see in Sanford Stadium.
Mr two Bits, the 4th qtr. sway and chant, etc make that place a happening.
We have added some things; trumpet, Dawg Walk, etc.. But, we do not come close.
This has been mentioned ad-nauseum to Bulldog Club folk who seem to come up short in creativity. More needs to be done.
SE Spectator
July 16th, 2009
10:05 am
For me when I was in school at UGA and on the rare occasion I get back, it’s always the solo trumpeter that sends chills down my spine.
But nearly every school in the SEC has something great. Hell, I’m sure most schools in the country do. I love the splitting of the T at Tennessee; listening to the “Bear” in Tuscaloosa; the 2001 Space Odyssey entrance at South Carolina; the “It’s night time in Death Valley” at LSU. They’re all good.
However, I’ll say this: When the eagle soars around Jordan-Hare Stadium and does and extended flight by circling the field two or three times, there are few better moments. It’s pretty spectacular.
Patrick
July 16th, 2009
10:07 am
I love seeing those red helmets go up in the air in the midfield huddle.
Huh?
July 16th, 2009
10:09 am
So we’ve got Miami and Georgia Tech fans on here slamming our tailgating traditions? That is rich. I have never been to a Miami game (thank God) but I’ve heard its very similar to that Pretty Fly For a White Guy music video and that you can smell the men’s hair gel from miles away. As for Tech, I have been to more Tech football games than any human should ever have to endure and can say with confidence that I have never seen a bigger joke of a football atmosphere in all my life. 2007 Virginia Tech-Georgia Tech: Perhaps the biggest game on the Techies’ schedule not involving Georgia. You could hear a pin drop in that place midway through the 1st quarter. And as for tailgating, what tailgating? It is non-existent, especially on those Thursday night games where they are desperately seeking the nation’s attention. What a joke.
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 16th, 2009
10:11 am
DawginLex, come on, you can do better than that.
That was weak.
RobBob
July 16th, 2009
10:12 am
Ummmm, the GT band playing and the fans signing the Budweiser jingle? I still do not get that one. Hey! What costumes will you Techmites wear to Dragon*Con Sept 04? Bizarre poeple down on N.Ave….very bizarre!
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 16th, 2009
10:16 am
Huh?
Aren’t you afraid of your boss finding out how much you hate GT?
Leisure Studies Larry
July 16th, 2009
10:17 am
I love the time-honored traditions of puking my guts out at my North Campus tailgate before leaving the entire area looking like someone set off a bomb at the landfill next to my Bogart trailer park.
TYPICAL UGA STUDENT
July 16th, 2009
10:20 am
Pi$$ing off the balconey on the fans below is my favorite.
Awwww Yeah
July 16th, 2009
10:21 am
Tech fans posting on this blog is not the saddest part. The saddest part is their pathetic attempt at humor. I picture them alone (of course) in front of their computer snickering. I don’t mind that they post here. I just wish they would be funny. BTW I hate that BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! thing (especially from a fellow dawg)
Favorite Gameday tradition: Alcohol and all the beautiful UGA women!!
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 16th, 2009
10:22 am
RobBob, I had no idea Dragon*Con was on Sept 04.
How is it you know?
JimboDawg
July 16th, 2009
10:23 am
I love grabbing my UGA Hat & t-Shirt I got on sale at Walmart, loading up my SUV that has my ducks unlimited sticker on it, locking up my trailer park, putting in a big ole chaw of Red Man, stopping by the local fast food joint ot pick up my other UGA buddies who are just getting off work and heading on down to Stanford & Son stadium to review the latest recrootin rankings…It’s magical.
Champ
July 16th, 2009
10:29 am
Dawg-friendly Charlton County grand juries are one of MY favorites!
ORANGE & BLUE
July 16th, 2009
10:30 am
My favorite “Bulldog tradition” is the annual trek to Jacksonville where they face the mighty Gators and typically lose in recent years. 18 out of 21, in fact…..that an 86% losing percentage the last 21 years. This year should be a route. Go Dawgs!
DawginLex
July 16th, 2009
10:30 am
sorry Rambler,
Creative juices are in summer doldrums. You going to the Joe Hamilton HOF ceremony?
I hear the Doobie Brothers are the entertainment.
sorry, gotta go back to work.
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:35 am
To Leisure Studies Larry
I doubt you are a tech grad, but just in case, did you major in one of the following “engineering” disciplines?
The School of History, Technology, and Society
The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
The School of Modern Languages
The School of Public Policy
Academically superior, engineering majoring, student-athletes at tech? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:37 am
To ORANGE & BLUE
You said “This year should be a route.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yes, like every year this will also be a “route”. I go “the route” of 75S then 10E to get to Jacksonville. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
RambleOff!!!!
July 16th, 2009
10:37 am
Like you didn’t know the DragonCon date Ramble…..You gonna be Darth or Yoda?
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:38 am
To ORANGE & BLUE
The University of Florida – a proud football tradition dating all the way back to 1991. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:39 am
To RambleOff!!!
Give RAMBLE ON a break. Darth and Yoda are sooooo last year. Based on the success of the new movie, I think he’ll dress up as Harry Potter. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Comin' Down The Track
July 16th, 2009
10:43 am
I picked the solo trumpeter, but Krypton Fanfare is probably a close second… for the record.
Also, for the record…
Thy beatdown cometh, bugs.
tech sucks
July 16th, 2009
10:43 am
i guess since tech fans put last years score in every post uga fans should include all the previous scores in their post and we can compare
fladawg
July 16th, 2009
10:44 am
AU fan. Don’t get your panties in a wad! I think we all know the UGA is not the only team in college football that has a pregame walk for the fans. If you guys were the first, congrats! It’s going to be OK.
don't be a hater
July 16th, 2009
10:44 am
Pregame – listining to the pregame barking from GA rednecks about why GA is going to beat FL this year and how gators wear jeans shorts (no irony there).
Postgame (actually end of 3rd quarter) – watching GA fans run back to St Simons with their tail between their legs and then heading to the landing to celebrate another victory.
RxDawg
July 16th, 2009
10:46 am
It’s the trumpet solo for me. I’m getting goosebumps right now just thinking about it.
Also the 4th quarter song..although that’s not really pregame.
RxDawg
July 16th, 2009
10:49 am
Ha!, I actually read the article after I commented about the goosebumps.
don't be a hater
July 16th, 2009
10:50 am
The Grinch
The University of GA- a proud football tradition from 1980 – 1982. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
DawginLex
July 16th, 2009
10:52 am
don’t be a hater,
End of 3rd quarter? Really?
You watched any UGA/FLA games other than 2008?
The
July 16th, 2009
10:53 am
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don't be a hater
July 16th, 2009
10:54 am
DawginLex – yes, I especially enjoyed the one in Athens where everyone left at halftime.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:54 am
To don’t be a hater
Since we’re talking about football “tradition”, why stop at 1980? Look at the entire history of the Georgia-Florida rivalry. No contest. You’ve been measured and found to be deficient. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
10:56 am
To don’t be a hater
Don’t forget, the UF football “tradition” dates all the way back to when the latest recruiting class was born. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
RxDawg
July 16th, 2009
10:57 am
“However, I’ll say this: When the eagle soars around Jordan-Hare Stadium and does and extended flight by circling the field two or three times, there are few better moments. It’s pretty spectacular.”
I agree. Was about to say something till I saw another blogger beat me to it. I gota give the teagles credit here.
don't be a hater
July 16th, 2009
10:59 am
The Grinch – I am sure your granddaddy can tell you all about they days when GA used to have a competitive football team and they used to be able to actually beat FL. Too bad you haven’t been able to experience them since the 1990’s, while FL has dominated.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
RAMBLE ON!!!
July 16th, 2009
11:00 am
much better DawginLex…especially the Dobbie Brothers reference.
dawgstephen
July 16th, 2009
11:02 am
Its gettin on campus, walking up Lumpkin Street, goin to Little Italy for football on the earlier games, eating and then going to bookstore to shop, then outside to stand at gate, get inside for dawg walk in my normal spot, giving a high 5 to the dawgs as they enter, then to my seat for peanuts, hot dog, a coke and all pre-game warmups, the battle hymn, “ITS SATURDAY IN ATHENS”….then as my blood runs red & black, gettin on my fee to make some Sanford Stadium Noise for the BEST TEAM IN ALL THE LAND…the Georgia Bulldogs…..is it time yet???
http://www.dawgstephen.blogspot.com
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The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
11:08 am
To don’t be a hater
Nice try. No need to talk with my granddaddy. I’ve been in the stadiums not only to see UGA beat FLA, but I’ve seen them be “a competitive football team” going back to the time when UF wasn’t. If it’s the history of the program you are measuring, then you’re a measuring cup short in the discussion. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
If your idea of “tradition” only goes back to 1991, then the Atlanta Braves are the greatest baseball franchise of all time.
Trouper
July 16th, 2009
11:11 am
My favorite gameday tradition is winning! That will “wipe the smiles off of the Tech fans’ faces”. Right Bill!
ih8uga
July 16th, 2009
11:13 am
I kind of liked Blackout 2008.
Mrs. Edwards
July 16th, 2009
11:18 am
I always enjoyed having to get an unlisted number after T dropped a pass.
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July 16th, 2009
11:20 am
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db
July 16th, 2009
11:23 am
I didn’t know UGA had their PR man working as a beat reporter working for the AJC.
don't be a hater
July 16th, 2009
11:26 am
The Grinch – some people consider the relevant history of college football post leather helments, some consider it post integration, and some consider it post BCS. So most of the wins you are so proud of are during some portion of the irrelevant history of college footbal. But by any definition UGAY has become irrelevant in recent history, and there is no disputing that (excpet for the #1 pre-season rankings last year). A second place ranking with no SEC title is not relevant.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
ORANGE & BLUE
July 16th, 2009
11:33 am
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ORANGE & BLUE
July 16th, 2009
11:35 am
LOL…..Yuo dogs love to live life in past….and I would too if we were 3-18 against our arch rival the last two decades.
To think….a very real possibilty of 3 national championships in the last four years, and a Heisman Trophy winner in 2 of the last three.
IT’S GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR!
Hunker Down
July 16th, 2009
11:49 am
Getting Drunker than Cooter Brown and then stumbling to the stadium to root for dem Dawgs!
dawgstephen
July 16th, 2009
11:55 am
I think my gameday experience starts the day before when I wash the car, put on the magnets and flags, get my clothes picked out of what I will wear, set the DVR to record the game, make sure the alarm goes off on the IPOD alarm clock playing the 4th quarter song…..yeah…I have a great time.
http://www.dawgstephen.blogspot.com
SickandTired
July 16th, 2009
11:59 am
Now here’s my favorite list of things. Getting the truck loaded down with ice and beer and fried chicken. Getting to the parking lot early and getting the tent set up and start drinking. Drinking all the way up until 1:30 minutes to kick off. Before leaving for the stadium, giving my wallet and cash to my nephew to hold, (he’s 10) so that if I get locked up there will be money to bail me out. Drinking a couple more on the way to the game. Harassing the oposing teams fans and making them feel like they don’t deserve to be in Athens…and if they say anything threating them with a beat down. Once I get in the gate I take the flask out of my boot and start drinking brown liquour. Getting on the other team, cursing and cursing our own players when they mess up. Leaving after the game and getting back to drink. That’s a good day in Athens.
benadawg
July 16th, 2009
12:12 pm
Arriving on friday in the motor home, setting up and visiting with our friends from all over. cold beer, food on the bulldog grille, pretty ladies….i could go on and on
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
12:17 pm
To ORANGE AND BLUE
Speaking of LOL, I just loved your “Enter your comments here” post. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
HBTDinAthens
July 16th, 2009
12:17 pm
One that I really enjoyed has gone by the wayside. I loved watching the little kids in their too big pads getting to scrimmage on Dooley Field in Sanford Stadium before the game.
The Grinch
July 16th, 2009
12:19 pm
To ORANGE AND BLUE
Go ahead, due, admit it. You’re not a UF grad. The most obnoxious and ignorant of all fans are those who never attended/graduated for their favorite college. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Sportsdawg
July 16th, 2009
12:21 pm
Rooster yell!
Chris
July 16th, 2009
12:32 pm
Favorite game day tradition:
Drinking beer with good friends all clad in red, and watching all the beautiful girls walking around in there game day outfits. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Michael Scharff
July 16th, 2009
12:33 pm
When Brook Whitmore comes over the mike – “It’s Saturday in Athens…”
Clempsun Taters Rule
July 16th, 2009
12:39 pm
Rubbin Howards Rock and running down the hill with an ascension of the hordes and multitudes of orange and purple balloons along with cannon fire. Best college entrance by far.So much better than the chickens lame 2001 entrance and also UGAs copycat Krypton deal.
# 1 UGA Fan
July 16th, 2009
12:43 pm
Finding out the next day after a day of drinking and tailgating on who won.
YoungDawg
July 16th, 2009
12:44 pm
Solo trumpeter starting the “Battle Hymn of the Bulldog Nation” it gives me chills every time!
Drew-G-A
July 16th, 2009
12:49 pm
I just got goosebumps thinking about the trumpeter. That song in that setting just evokes emotion and tradition. Even if you’re not a dawg fan I don’t see how that can’t get you pumped to be from the south and be an SEC fan.
# 1 UGA Fan
July 16th, 2009
12:49 pm
Watching my fellow dawg fans look in dibelief after Willies D gives up 30 or more points in a losing effort.
mexdawg
July 16th, 2009
12:51 pm
I think it’s the free hot dog and coke at the tech games in Atlanta they give you for buying a ticket. What a joke…..This just in Tech has decided to reduce the size of their stadium again because they were outnumbered by oppessing fans at 3 of their own home games.The Ga v ga tech game in atlanta will always be a home game for the mighty DAWGS.LET THE BIG DAWG EAT.
mike
July 16th, 2009
12:52 pm
Jealous Tech nerds–My dad went to Tech-wont watch another game w/ me after that 51-7 debaccle. Whats so wrong with a Ga fan having a suv and maybe donating a little money to Ducks Unlimited. Why make fun of him. He probably doesnt mind the fact that you wont leave home w/out yuo calculater ans six mechanical pencils in ypur wrinkles woolworth button down knockoff shirts. Nor does he even cringe when you snort and drool on yourself doing your Horseshack laugh. Good luck this yr. You are going to need it.
MoDawg
July 16th, 2009
1:10 pm
Maybe we can meet somewhere after a win and throw toilet paper in trees like Auburn, or buy a new “Champion of the state” pocket protector (which doubles as a bullet-proof vest) every 8 years after a victory against the Dawgs like Ramble On does.
I’ve gotta get back to work, too…I have some performance reviews to do on the Tech, Florida and Auburn grads that work for me. It’s not looking too good for them, right now…
1eyedJack
July 16th, 2009
1:11 pm
My favorite tradition is watching Tech and UF fans eat their boogers.
Brett
July 16th, 2009
1:20 pm
My best friend played the “Battle Hymn” solo my senior year and I remember it to this day. I wouldn’t trade being a Redcoat for anything and I’ll be a Dawg fan forever. Go Dawgs!!
NewnanDawg
July 16th, 2009
1:28 pm
The solo trumpet especially (a TN grad/fan told me that even he got chills), and all the others are awesome, but there are some new ones forming that I’d like to see catch on. First, when the new version of “Saturday Night’s alright” is playing, especially at the night games, it sounds great when everybody starts yelling “Saturday Saturday…..” The students started doing it a lot and the stadium would really rock if everyone caught on.
Also, on “Schoolhouse Rock” (I think) we could make it our own by yelling U then G then A in place of the three Hey!s. Since everyone in the country does the same cheer, it would be nice to customize it for the Dawgs. If someone in the band reads this and they decide to do it, it’s done. Just mho.
Go Dawgs!
1eyedJack
July 16th, 2009
1:35 pm
I meant my favorite thing to do was eat my own boogers.
1eyedJack
July 16th, 2009
1:43 pm
Hey Ahole, post under your own name. Pukes
BankerDawg
July 16th, 2009
1:44 pm
According to wikipedia, Auburn is in fact the first team to inititate some sort of walk:
Auburn is the first known school to conduct an organized procession of players into the stadium. Today the team, led by the coaches, walks down the hill and into the stadium surrounded by fans who pat them on the back and shake their hands as they walk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Tigers
Anyway, for me, the great tailgating tradition of UGA is unmatched. There is nothing like finding your spot, early in the morning, setting up the tents, chairs, tables, etc, and enjoying the morning. Perhaps sipping on some coffee, reading the Banner-Herald, AJC, Red & Black, or just listening to some tunes. Get the food started, be it low country boil, ribs, pork shoulder, brisket, etc….
Then transitioning to some ice cold beer, or some of Kentucky’s finest (depending on early fall versus late fall) and listening to the pregame with Larry, where he would inevitably convince me that the other team was just too tough for us (no matter who it was) to beat that particular Saturday. Of course, Loran would pipe in with absolutely nothing constructive to say, but it was still a voice I instantly recognized.
Then off to the game from North Campus to join 90,000 + of my closest friends to cheer on the Dawgs….man, I’m ready.
That is college football to me.
how2fish
July 16th, 2009
1:51 pm
The Tracks at a time long gone..and the opening kickoff today, watching the Bulldog Nation rise and urge on the Dawgs..I’m sooo ready for the season to begin….and Bugs remember Nov is coming..I know you have a great coach that wins whereever he goes, I know your players are the best on the planet…in your bugish little minds..but your TECH and Georgia OWNS you , always has and always will…
SSI gator
July 16th, 2009
1:52 pm
Being in Sanford Stadium and looking around at “football fans” that sit on their hands during the game. If it was not for the drunken stundents you would not know there was a game being played. Never seen such an unemotional detached crowd in my life.
Spike
July 16th, 2009
1:57 pm
The band playing the theme from “Gone With the Wind.” Any other of you poindexters from Tech or Auburn bozos gonna claim we stole that from antbody?
how2fish
July 16th, 2009
2:01 pm
SSI Gator “drunken stundents ” really ? yeah we can tell your a gator grad…for your imformation we have drunken STUDENTS at Georgia..try and keep up please..
Spike
July 16th, 2009
2:04 pm
Sorry, “anybody”.
Maddog
July 16th, 2009
2:25 pm
Who really gives a rip about who started something first? My family didn’t initiate celebrating Christmas by exchanging gifts – the same with birthdays and watching parades on the 4th of July – but we have a great time with our “tradition”. Personal traditions have to start somewhere. Come on people, get a grip.
Preston
July 16th, 2009
2:50 pm
That was hilarious reading a Miami grad talking about arrests at UGA. I think you guys, as well as the other Florida teams, recruit in prisons.
chuck
July 16th, 2009
3:04 pm
It’s Saturday in Athens, Larry Munson, and the trumpeter.
DawginLex
July 16th, 2009
3:22 pm
Don’t be a hater considers any team that didn’t win the BCS title in 2008 to be irrelevant.
Guess that counts out everybody but Florida Einstein.
Irrelevant in recent history? Winning the SEC in 2002 and 2005. Is that recent enough for you? How old are you, 6?
Moron
Otto
July 16th, 2009
3:29 pm
Sounds like SickandTired is a LSU fan.
gadawg77
July 16th, 2009
3:35 pm
Overall Record Georgia leads, 59-39-5. Georgia vs. the termites. Go make a ring about that Fat boy Johnson!!!!
Cuz
July 16th, 2009
3:51 pm
Bankedawg, before the Dawg Walk there was the walk from buses on East Campus into the bottom of the stadium. There were plenty of fans there in the eighties when I drove one of the team buses. No band but cheering fans. I got to shutdown the bus and walk in with them. One of the highlights of my UGA career. Oh that and when I broke that forty five yard touchdown against Tech in 1982. Okay that one was not true. The other was.
TEchSter
July 16th, 2009
3:54 pm
I like our new tradition of a yellow bellied wiggle down Techwood, just don’t forget to leave yo wallet at home else Tyrone be stealin’ it yo!
That70sGAdawg
July 16th, 2009
4:04 pm
Gettin “Lucky” after a win was the best game day tradition!
Dawgdays
July 16th, 2009
4:10 pm
Yes 70-s Dawg! I was going to say banging the babes!
Chase Cutts
July 16th, 2009
4:44 pm
My favorite game day tradition that get’s me jacked up is when the players are jumping up and down at the entrance of the tunnel about to run onto the field and “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns & Roses is playing!
Milledgeville DAWG
July 16th, 2009
5:08 pm
Hey 45-42 I use to date your mama and this DAWG always won!!
Ed
July 16th, 2009
5:09 pm
Is it true the Urban Meyer just added a defense attorney as a full-time staff member?
snot bubble
July 16th, 2009
5:33 pm
You talking about tradition…Throwing toilet paper into a dead tree at Auburn…What kind of high school crap is that. I guess it’s better than corn cobbs……GO DOGS !!!!
Sick of You
July 16th, 2009
6:00 pm
Solo trumpet, hands down.
Why on God’s green earth are all of you non-Dawg fans even on this site? For the life of me I can’t understand it. Get behind your own teams and stop blog stalking. It’s awkward and I’m honestly embarrassed for you.
JET
July 16th, 2009
7:02 pm
Its great to read all of these comments on everyone’s favorite game day traditions and get excited about the upcoming season. I have to tell you though, its great to see how many of these comments are about an environment created by the Redcoat Band and it’s members either before, during, or after the game. I was a member of the Redcoat Band as one of the drum majors during the Donnan years and I know that each and every member of that group loves gameday and has pride in what the Redcoats mean to the overall tradition of football and gamedays in Athens. I am currently a band director in the ‘burbs of Atlanta and I always encourage my students to continue on playing in a college marching band when they go to a university because the experience is unlike anything else on campus.
Keep on being great Redcoats!
“Nothing Finer in the Land”
GO DAWGS!
raleigh
July 16th, 2009
7:36 pm
the battle hymn of the bulldawg nation, then hearing munsons voice”glory glory to old georgia” run behind it are the best of the many uga traditions, i always get goose bumps during this moment.
rocksteadyfreddie
July 16th, 2009
9:28 pm
hey grinch,
I’m just guessing, but the fact that Urban Meyer has won won more MNCs in 4 years than Dooley did in 25 must really bother you. I know it must be awesome having won a bunch of SEC titles before they integrated and all, but UF has owned UGA for the last 20 years.
joemama
July 16th, 2009
9:47 pm
I like watching the Tech players eating the hedges after 45-42 games!
joemama
July 16th, 2009
9:49 pm
Ed? Ed Tolley? Attorney of the ugag athletic department?
unoriginal
July 16th, 2009
9:58 pm
Honestly,does uga have a “tradition” that isn’t stolen from another? power g, not there’s, battle hymn, old, bulldog, #2 most used mascot in sports started in Yale, hedges, many places. please, what is a tradition in athens????? solo trumpet? just attend a soldiers funeral.
Stinger
July 16th, 2009
9:59 pm
My favorite tradtion is watching the Tech players stomp on the G at midfield after we stop your always overated team. My second is when our players run off with a piece of the hedges between their teeth.
CADAWG
July 16th, 2009
11:40 pm
Auburn claims to have started the tradition of players walking to the stadium??? Whittier College was doing that in the early 70’s and I doubt that they started it.
My favorite tradition is watching the whole town of Athens turn Red and Black on a perfect Autumn day. Nothin’ finer !
vadawg
July 17th, 2009
1:10 am
stinger: thats funny because you havent seen that much in your lifetime have you? i mean once in 8 years, nice try though.
i have never understood why tech/florida/other sec school fans gravitate to this blog, you all must really be interested with whats going in with uga
Hal
July 17th, 2009
8:27 am
gotta be the trumpet. Goose bumps every time. Got it on CD, play it in the car when I need a picker up. In ‘04 the band member who played it in Jacksonville played it right behind my seats in section 101… I could have taken Florida that day!
BruffDawg
July 17th, 2009
11:13 am
The chant back and forth between the stadium always gets me going. GEORGIA…..BULLDAWGS!!!!!
athensdude
July 17th, 2009
11:35 am
Binge drinking, blacking out, stumbling into the stadium, peeing off the top deck, and grilling raccoons.
tradition
July 17th, 2009
11:36 am
I guess the only original tradition Georgia has is the solo trumpet player so I will say that one.
dawgstephen
July 17th, 2009
11:50 am
My favorite gameday tradition is washing my 1963 Ford Pickup, pressing my knee length blue jean shorts, trimming my goatie, charging my 3 cell phones to hang off the end of my shorts, getting my big G hat, putting on my white socks and black shoes, then finally telling my sister (my wife) that I am off to Sanford Stadium to watch the Dogs choke another one.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
July 17th, 2009
11:52 am
Oh goodness…there are just so many..
1. Watching UF beat the hell of UGA every year.
2. Watching ESPN try to make small talk during the Alabama thrashing last year. You know it is bad when Corso is looking for something to do instead of talking football.
3. Watching UGAY drop a homecoming game to Vandy, the weakest team in the SEC.
4. Sitting at Taco Mac at Mall of Georgia during the Florida game, watching Meyer totally destroy the Dogs and watching the fan faces crying in their beer.
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[...] We discussed UGA game-day traditions last summer, and I noted out of the many things I get a kick out of on fall Saturdays in Athens — from the kids waving at the team buses rolling by on Lumpkin to the ringing of the chapel bell after a win — my particular favorites are the Dogs walking toward the east end zone while the Redcoats play “Krypton Fanfare” during the warm-ups, and, most of all, the spine-tingling solo from the trumpeter in the southwest corner of the upper level stands before kickoff. [...]