North Campus pigs have ruined tailgating at UGA
The trashing of campus has ruined tailgating at UGA. (Tom Ritch / Special)
As many fans had feared, the pigs who continued to trash UGA’s North Campus on football Saturdays despite warnings from the school’s administration have pretty much killed off tailgating as it’s traditionally known in that area.
UGA announced new tailgating guidelines today that limit access to the traditional quads on North Campus to four hours before kickoff and ban tents, kegs, generators, televisions, amplified music, grills or cookers of any type, tables larger than 4 feet long and household furniture (folding chairs not included).
If you can imagine tailgating without any of that — spreading a tablecloth on the ground like an old-fashioned picnic — then you’ll be alright. Otherwise, the search will be on for new places to party before a home game.
The tailgaters who abused the campus and those who stood by and watched them have no one to blame but themselves. The tons of trash left on the university grounds and the urinating in inappropriate places (which already had caused the locking of buildings on game days to keep the idiots from using stairwells as toilets) could not be allowed to continue.
In a statement on its Gameday Gameplan Web site, UGA said a committee that was convened to deal with the problem “sought solutions that would maintain the long tradition of tailgating at UGA, but at a level more compatible with the historic buildings and grounds on North Campus. The consistently high traffic and negative impact to this historic area on game days led many in the public to call for a complete ban on tailgating in the area, while others called for increased regulations. The committee took into account the multitude of letters and e-mails from fans and alumni, the wealth of media coverage from the 2009 season and the physical costs involved in protecting this historic and treasured University of Georgia landmark.”
Those planning on moving their parties to the nearest UGA parking lot should think again. In order to accommodate the increased fan traffic that will hit those lots, UGA says, it also is instituting a few changes in parking regulations throughout the campus. Those include: no pull-behind items (trailers, cookers, etc.) on game days, no golf carts or ATVs and no parking on sidewalks (expanded to include Carlton Street). Additionally, the ban on setting up tailgates (tents, tables, etc.) in parking spaces controlled by the athletic association will be re-emphasized.
Congratulations, morons. You’ve ruined it for everyone.
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227 comments Add your comment
Peadawg
March 18th, 2010
12:54 pm
“Congratulations, morons. You’ve ruined it for everyone.”
Well said!
Reality
March 18th, 2010
12:56 pm
Another way to solve this tailgating problem…. continue with the ol’ 7 or 8 wins a season ending with a trip to Shreveport!
Peadawg
March 18th, 2010
12:58 pm
How’d the Ga/Ga Tech game go the last 5 or 6 seasons, Reality? 1 win for Tech?
Denver Dawg
March 18th, 2010
1:00 pm
why didn’t everyone just walk over to the Mayflower and use their facilities?
96Dawg
March 18th, 2010
1:00 pm
Pretty soon we’ll all be tailgating out at the 10 loop. Super.
justin
March 18th, 2010
1:01 pm
they should have used a system that allows us to rent spaces out in the area. they could have then used that money for cleanup and preservation
justin
March 18th, 2010
1:02 pm
Enter your comments here
Beter than Tech
March 18th, 2010
1:03 pm
That’s OK, we still rool this state!
How do you tailgate without those items...
March 18th, 2010
1:03 pm
…listed in the article that are banned?
Donald
March 18th, 2010
1:04 pm
Bravo. Soon, NO DRINKING AND NO TALKING.
If you eliminate tents, TVs, tables, music, generators, and grills, then you have eliminated tailgating. I understand your point that the morons ruined this for everyone, but that seems to presume that Adams and the Administration had no other option than the nuclear option of completely neutering tailgating altogether. Was this really necessary? Is everyone aware that even at its worst, the garbage was collected and gone by class on Monday? Complete overreaction is not leadership.
Junk Yard Dawg
March 18th, 2010
1:04 pm
I tried to tell you rednecks you can’t treat other people’s property like you do your own trailer park, but you just wouldn’t listen.
DawgNation
March 18th, 2010
1:10 pm
Oh boy here we go again with all the Bulldog haters comments.
Will Dawg
March 18th, 2010
1:10 pm
No pull behinds. Everyone go pull behind Dr. Adams house and take a deuce. haha!!
GATA!!
Thirty Points to your Twenty-Four Points
March 18th, 2010
1:11 pm
30-24
Thirty Points to your Twenty-Four Points
March 18th, 2010
1:15 pm
The Varsity on North Ave has expressed disgust in the wine cooler bottles and asthma inhalers left in their parking lot on Saturdays in the Fall.
Cousin Eddie
March 18th, 2010
1:22 pm
Dang, now where am I gonna park my RV on game days?
i hate slobs
March 18th, 2010
1:22 pm
nothing worse than a drunken lazy litter bug
dawggrl
March 18th, 2010
1:22 pm
No tents – seriously? And eliminating kegs is just going to bring more bottles and cans.
Gen Neyland
March 18th, 2010
1:23 pm
Donald : You overlooked the part regarding urinating in places like an urban outdoorsman would…Just maybe, if the Dawg Obedience Training works, little by little the new rules and regs may be relaxed.
baddog
March 18th, 2010
1:25 pm
This makes me sick! Why can’t these people follow rules and not ruin it for everyone? Not that I am a environmentalist but people who litter and who don’t give a rip are nothing but trash themselves.
30-24
March 18th, 2010
1:25 pm
I heard they were gonna teach a class on snappy comebacks so that we don’t have to post “30-24″ all the time.
02Dawg
March 18th, 2010
1:27 pm
We will see how long this lasts, once donors start pulling money back
Jeff
March 18th, 2010
1:28 pm
No Stupid- Mr. Adams has ruined the tailgating- along with all the other restrictions in place. No more of my money to UGA Football. I am over it!
RFP
March 18th, 2010
1:28 pm
Well said Reality. Another 8 win season and further tailgating restrictions and I will start watching from home. I think UGA can get along just fine without my ticket money and contribution.
Craig
March 18th, 2010
1:30 pm
Hey Billy- why dont you call it what it is…another dumb move by the “Doctor of evil”. Write about that!!!!!!Agree- no more of my money will be spent on UGA
Dawg Fud
March 18th, 2010
1:31 pm
Will Dawg,
your comment is totally juvenile but i am laughing out loud. good stuff.
lastgrad
March 18th, 2010
1:33 pm
We have been entering the commercialization of UGA tailgating period for many years now. We have been losing so many of our favorite traditions since the late Sixtes by my memory. I loved it when the seniors dressed up and paraded around the field back before 1970. Wish we could have found a way to have kept our railroad seating section. I loved it when a train actually came through and everyone had to scramble out of the way for a couple of minutes only to return to their original seats once the train had passed. And how about just ten years ago, when the big winnebagos were parked all along Lumpkin and Baxter. Now aren’t they banned to a distant parking lot? Tailgating will never be the same. Oh for the good ofd days. Head full of hair, half the belly size and energy to make the walk to the game.
Just Noticed
March 18th, 2010
1:34 pm
Bill King looks like Jerry Garcia, sans a neck.
JimBob Billy Goat
March 18th, 2010
1:37 pm
What iffin I got a turtle head pokin?
#2 BAMA FAN
March 18th, 2010
1:40 pm
Well you can stay home and watch on TV or wait for the rerun on CSS with Matt and Buck!!
The D
March 18th, 2010
1:40 pm
No crap Craig, has anyone been to Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn, or anywhere in the SEC. Trash is everywhere you go. Athens has plenty of bums begging for my money every game day. Hire their butts to clean up the mess. Adams is a tyrant!
Otto
March 18th, 2010
1:44 pm
lastgrad, As a former 80s/90s Lumpkin st. tailgater agreed. Sad to see morons ruin it, that includes the pigs and the admin. They both have blame in this.
The tiniest violin playing...
March 18th, 2010
1:47 pm
“If you eliminate tents, TVs, tables, music, generators, and grills, then you have eliminated tailgating.”
Geeez what a bunch of spoiled snots. Your butt ain’t so special it can’t sit on the ground on a blanket. And if you’re worried about your clothes–UR doing it wrong. Cook before you leave home, throw it in the cooler–no need for a grill. Carry a radio–they have batteries–there’s your music. Generator? You need a generator to tailgate? Honestly you folks care more about tailgating than the actually game. Just stay home and throw a party in your back yard.
Tracey
March 18th, 2010
1:48 pm
Tailgating died and now has to be regulated because of many things, but the predominant reason is that people no longer just view it as a chance to get together and have a meal together and a couple of drinks. They view it as a chance to get together and eat a little and drink way to much.
There were always drinkers in every era of college sports. Unfortunately what we see today is binge drinking, irresponsible drunks who don’t care if they are smashed beyond belief, and people who are so drunk that they don’t care if they trash someone else’s property.
I’m not opposed to drinking, but if you feel that your gameday experience isn’t complete unless you are completely trashed, you got bigger problems than tailgating regulations!
And to the guy that said, “The trash was gone by Monday”, that’s not the point. Whoever taught you that you could throw crap on someone else’s property and not clean it up???
The D
March 18th, 2010
1:49 pm
sit on a poolstick violin
Jacket Backer
March 18th, 2010
1:51 pm
hilarious!
THWG
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
March 18th, 2010
1:52 pm
HEY D YOU’VE LOST YOUR COTTON NO PICKIN UP TRASH MIND IF YOU THINK UA LOOKS LIKE THAT AFTER A BAMA GAME.WE HAVE PRIDE BUT I DO UNDERSTAND YOU THROWING TRASH ON THE SEPTIC TANK.SORRY FOR YELLIN, JUST SAYING
Marcos
March 18th, 2010
1:54 pm
Love these comments blaming the administration… If you use the stairwell as a urinal and leave tons of trash for someone else to deal with, then you are the problem, not the administration. How lazy and self-important are you that you demand others clean up after you? Seriously… what is this state coming to when personal responsibility is seen as a bad thing?
Thirty Points to your Twenty-Four Points
March 18th, 2010
1:54 pm
at least we don’t get mugged leaving the game.
Hendu
March 18th, 2010
1:58 pm
Enter your comments here
JimBob Billy Goat
March 18th, 2010
2:01 pm
Whera Ima goings to empta ma mellow yellow filled bladder?
Will Dawg
March 18th, 2010
2:05 pm
You have pride alright….in dating your sister!
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Nick
March 18th, 2010
2:08 pm
Look…this was UGA’s fault. Instead of increasing the # of trash cans and portable toilets, they did nothing. People are still coming to tailgate. This did nothing to solve the problem. Only overcrowding for tailgates EVERYWHERE else.
Cash Option
March 18th, 2010
2:10 pm
I am shocked, shocked I tell you to see this announcement come out after the donation deadlines! I am sure this was only decided after Feb. 15. Mikey at his best!
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
March 18th, 2010
2:10 pm
tell your sister to pick up her trash
Peche de Georgie
March 18th, 2010
2:14 pm
What do you expect from a bunch of dawgs
how2fish
March 18th, 2010
2:17 pm
Peche de Georgie
March 18th, 2010
2:14 pm
What do you expect from a bunch of dawgs
We expect to stomp a mudhole in the Bugs…
jay
March 18th, 2010
2:17 pm
The AJC loves their Dawg bashing. I work right across from the AJC
and the entire building is an eyesore.
Iceman
March 18th, 2010
2:18 pm
Thanks a lot, ya trashing dopes.
Athdog
March 18th, 2010
2:19 pm
Nick, you are the dumbest SOB in the entire state. It’s NOT the University’s fault that slobs throw their trash on the ground and don’t pick it up. It’s the slobs fault for not picking it up and either finding a trash can or bringing their own. It’s what many of us do that want to continue to have the opportunity to tailgate before the game, you ignorant snot eater. Bring your own bags, for crying out loud.
Dewi
March 18th, 2010
2:20 pm
+1 to Donald for the Eddie Izzard reference.
Long Time Tailgater
March 18th, 2010
2:23 pm
This can’t be a surprise to anyone! Tailgating has changed as students have become alumni and continue to want to act like students. But most of the problems come from those who view a game as simply a reason/place to get plastered. And most of them could care less about the game, especially since they never have tickets anyway!
We’ve had the same seats since early 70’s, just inside the old G on the south side, now my dad can’t go to the game because everyone thinks that you have to stand up to watch a game. Some are going to say that after paying 1K for a seat, you’ve earned the right to do whatever you want. I say that having a bit of courtesy to the people around you would be even better.
It’s one thing to stand when it’s a crucial play or situation, but is it really necessary to stand on 1st and 10 on your own 20 yard line?
JSD
March 18th, 2010
2:23 pm
The owners of bars in downtown must be happy to hear this. CHA-CHING $$$
athens resident but no bulldog fan
March 18th, 2010
2:26 pm
finally…and in regards to them not increasing the number of trash cans, pack it in, PACK IT OUT.
JimBob Billy Goat
March 18th, 2010
2:26 pm
What am I goings to use to wipe myself iffen there ain’t no trash on da ground?
Too Easy
March 18th, 2010
2:27 pm
jacket backer: you guys wish you had some of this problem.
violin: Part of the problem is the people who party on the lawn who don’t have any way to attend the game (too few tickets for the demand). They ARE there just for the party. They need the generators to watch the games on the satellite TVs.
AJC Reader
March 18th, 2010
2:33 pm
As an alumni I totally support this decision. UGA is an academic institution first and an athletic venue second.
Thirty Points to your Twenty-Four Points
March 18th, 2010
2:34 pm
Any asthma inhaler left in the upper parking lot of The Varsity on North Ave will result in banishment from Dragon*Con.
RealDawg
March 18th, 2010
2:39 pm
No pull behind grills???…that is BS.
Junior Samples
March 18th, 2010
2:42 pm
A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
Viewing that picture, you’ve got more than a few.
If you love your school, leave it the way you found it.
You stool this state
NewnanDawg
March 18th, 2010
2:44 pm
I can’t stand Adams and agree that this was the best solution for HIM only, but it never should have come to this. I guess people just aren’t brought up the way I was. We were taught to take care of ourselves and take responsibility for ourselves. When I used to tailgate in an area without a lot of facilities, we packed trashbags, and brought extras in case someone nearby forgot. If we had a group of 10 or so, we rented our own port a potty. It’s $80 – $100. You split that up amongst the group and it is very reasonable. There never would have been a problem with the volume of garbage if they had just bothered to bag it up to make for an easier pick up and less eyesore. If you’re too lazy or drunk to throw your cups/cans/bottles and other trash in a bag, I’m glad you won’t be able to come back.
Go Dawgs!
BiLL McKinney dawg
March 18th, 2010
2:45 pm
Now jus whar th hail am Ah spose ta dew ma cornholin at??
Roger D Smart
March 18th, 2010
2:45 pm
They had a good thing and couldn’t keep it clean. It should be off limits until they can see what they are really doing, besides look at the manhours it takes to clean that ship up
Bremen Dawg
March 18th, 2010
2:45 pm
Oh well, I have great HD at home and I have kids now so not much tailgating anymore anyway. At least it will be a nice family area now.
WE TRASH THIS STATE
March 18th, 2010
2:50 pm
nuff said
Nick Saban
March 18th, 2010
2:54 pm
Bunch of white trash redneck UGA fans.
Budget Cuts
March 18th, 2010
3:02 pm
Speeking of budget cuts, I know the way that the Legislature can save some money- Bye bye Adams!
gt
March 18th, 2010
3:03 pm
tracey- great comment. its ashamed people are out of control and disrespectful way beyond the past.it is not a joke where this society has gone. no one dares “getting involved”- saying something to the offenders. might get sued, or killed. the powers that be- sit idly by.and the band played on.
BammerFromChelesa
March 18th, 2010
3:04 pm
Thought all Dawg fans enjoyed noseing around in the trash? Bunch of Dawgers
Way Too Easy
March 18th, 2010
3:04 pm
GEORGIA IS IRRLEVANT!
The D
March 18th, 2010
3:05 pm
I love you guys bashing us DAWGS, that is why your favorite road game is in Athens!!! You like to stare at our beautiful women, drink your butts off, and eat our great food. There is no place like it. Jealousy and Envy coming from our enemies!
We beat Vandy-- yeah!
March 18th, 2010
3:06 pm
GA fans = pigs!
Unforgiving
March 18th, 2010
3:07 pm
Well, I guess I will not be going to any more UGA games. The golfers can have it. Will the decrease costs of cleaning up drop tuition fees or book costs? How can you call them morons? They are college graduates are they not?
season tix
March 18th, 2010
3:07 pm
Why would anyone buy season tickets now? I am surprised a lot of folks aren’t asking for a refund on their Hartman donation.
SHERA
March 18th, 2010
3:08 pm
That photo looks a lot like the national mall after the Obama inauguration!
AJC Reader
March 18th, 2010
3:08 pm
For all of you posters who are blaming this on Adams, what was he supposed to do? Sit idle and watch the situation continue to get worse? Doing nothing equals a horrible PR issue and more and more damage to University property. Historical University property at that.
Ben
March 18th, 2010
3:09 pm
Enter your comments here
Unforgiving
March 18th, 2010
3:11 pm
You know these UGA administrators sure do not want to work for their huge paychecks. Oh well, there is always Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. I do not have to attend UGA home games. I paid for my classes and I do not owe UGA anything.
Unforgiving
March 18th, 2010
3:13 pm
AJC Reader
March 18th, 2010
3:08 pm
You know there is another avenue besides the death penalty. If only he could lead instead of being in charge.
AJC Reader
March 18th, 2010
3:16 pm
They have already made attempts to clean it up, and the problem continued. Real UGA football fans will continue to support the team, and if they don’t then it is obvious that supporting the team was not their main reason for coming to the games.
1eyedJack
March 18th, 2010
3:17 pm
Last year we said, ‘Things can’t go on like this’, and they didn’t, they got worse.
Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.
Back in my day we couldn’t afford as much trash to throw away.
jacars11
March 18th, 2010
3:21 pm
tailgaters should respect the property and clean up after their mess, however uga brought this on themselves when they decided to cash in and let tv tell them to have more night games, they share some of the responsibility of this problem, they should take the increased tv revenue and provide more trash cans and people to clean
Unforgiving
March 18th, 2010
3:24 pm
Well you REAL UGA fans can have it! This will give each of you aristocrats a lot more space and you can quietly swap UGA memories. After all the pansy rules that apply to golfers began applying to football players, I do not want to be around it any how..! Now maybe Adams will deem you appropriate to come visit during the game.
Otto
March 18th, 2010
3:29 pm
Adams could have supplied more trash cans and going over board only makes Alumni further dislike him.
Techie
March 18th, 2010
3:35 pm
Proves that UGA has white “trash” as a fan base.
JimBob Billy's Goat Gruff
March 18th, 2010
3:36 pm
Now, I isa axin’ how in the hail em I goings to keep ma strainth up iffin I cant cook me no food?
georgiadawg70
March 18th, 2010
3:36 pm
Otto, that is bulls—. I was there every home game and more cans was not the problem
JimBob Billy's Goat Gruff
March 18th, 2010
3:37 pm
Danger, Danger, Dork Alert! @ Techie.
Will
March 18th, 2010
3:44 pm
Isn’t everyone getting tired of some bureaucrat telling us what we can and can’t do??? Mike Adams sux as bad as Barry Obama. Do this, don’t do that…..when does it ever stop? I wish I could live my life in freedom as you do Jerry Garcia. Sorry Jerry, I forgot to call you by your alias Bill King.
Sanford Drive
March 18th, 2010
3:44 pm
I actually totally agree with Otto. Before this year, trash recepticles were few and far between…at least where I was, anway.
Delbert D.
March 18th, 2010
3:45 pm
I’ve always been mystified by the need to cook outdoors at a football game site. Eating and partying the night before a game at a bar or somebody’s house and the night after the game makes a lot more sense.
Sanford Drive
March 18th, 2010
3:45 pm
Techie
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
UGA student that likes to party
March 18th, 2010
3:45 pm
I would happily pay $1 more per year in student fees for my right to get drunk and throw a bud light can on the ground.
messin with sasquatch
March 18th, 2010
3:45 pm
Can you squeal like a pig?
Bobby Bowden
March 18th, 2010
3:46 pm
Things like this are the reason that South Ga kids come to FSU. We still tailgate here, because we teach our kids in South Ga and North Fla to pick up after themselves, dadgummit!!
MBWillson
March 18th, 2010
3:47 pm
Being a tailgater of over 30 years, never before last year did the university do anything about putting out trash bins and bags, or even to make dumpsters accessible. Being a person who picks up after herself, they did not make it easy to dispose of tailgating trash. If I couldn’t put it in a dumpster, I put it in the trunk of the car and disposed of it when I got home. Duh! With a new generation that makes more trash than it knows what to do with, the new “green” generation thinks of itself as privileged and I guess that someone will come along and clean up after them. It has been getting nastier and nastier as the years go along but the university never stepped up and did anything before now. Now, of course, they overreact! Why don’t they try to make it easier for people who now have to drive, park their cars away from their tailgating spot, to dispose of their trash. Yes, you put out the bins and bags, but you didn’t come & empty them when they were full. Every bin on the streets overflowed and when you came back after the game, there was no place to put the new trash. Yes, some were emptied during the game but not all. Why don’t you put some mini dumpsters outside the parking decks so people could throw away those cute trash bags you give out. Empty the cardboard boxes of the beer & soda & water bottles or put out new ones for after the game.
If you take away the fun of tailgating, you are going to be stuck with “virtual” fans and the skybox fans who pull up just before the game (because they have those “special” parking spots in lots which are usually 1/2 full) and then they just whiz away and do not spend any money at the bookstore or in town after the game. So UGA, you can’t have it both ways. Do you want more money — then spend some bucks to pay to have the trash hauled away a couple times during gameday! Your lack of forethought once again bites the fans with the bucks…….
killerJ
March 18th, 2010
3:55 pm
Dam, tell us something new,its just they can,t afford to pick up the trash with the peoples tax money anymore.
PTC DAWG
March 18th, 2010
3:56 pm
A bucket of chicken, with a cooler full of beverages…that’s all you need to have a proper tailgate. You don’t need to bring every thing you’ve ever owned in life.
Tracey
March 18th, 2010
3:57 pm
More trash cans won’t make a difference because again, the people who left the mess in the picture above most likely were smashed out of their mind and don’t give a darn about making a mess that someone else has to clean up.
If you get smashed and make a mess and are obnoxious in the process, the last thing you are gonna do is find a trash can to dispose of your trash, or find a bathroom where you can pee. NO, you will think, “Ha ha, I’ll just pee out here.”
I particularly love the people who say, hire more people to clean up. Yes yes, hire more people to clean up your mess.
Wake up!! Life isn’t fair and lots of times you have to clean up your own mess.
Stop accepting that being totally smashed is acceptable behavior and be “responsible drinkers”.
Alabama Jack
March 18th, 2010
4:00 pm
i quite going to Athens after seeing “fans” urinating off the cross walks into the crowd below.
PTC DAWG
March 18th, 2010
4:01 pm
1 more thing needed for a proper tailgate…enough trashbags to haul out ALL your own trash.
Otto
March 18th, 2010
4:02 pm
georgiadawg70, I was there for several home games as well. It was a problem.
bbdawg
March 18th, 2010
4:09 pm
If we had a capable President we would not be in this situation. Thanks to AJC for failure to investigate the problems brought out in “Behind the Hedges” by Rich Whitt. This book is required reading for every true Dawg. When, oh when, will we get rid of Adams so that I can again contribute to my University.
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
March 18th, 2010
4:15 pm
so some of you georgia fans are to good to pick up your own trash? social issue ,and you talk about the state of alabama ,sounds like a educational problem or non-educated. you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas..
collegeballfan
March 18th, 2010
4:19 pm
Adams ain’t the problem. The problem is some of the UGA fans are pigs just as Bill King called them.
Suggestion: do not sell season tickets to anyone who is not a UGA graduate. This is a big part of the problem, trust me on this one.
Question: I go to a football game to watch a football game. I do not go to grill out. When I want to grill out I do it at home. Please explain the need to “tailgate”.
alumni donor
March 18th, 2010
4:20 pm
the donors wont be holding back money. UGA gives us parking passes with plenty of room for tailgating. new rules wont mess me up at all.
76-Dawg
March 18th, 2010
4:22 pm
UGA could have handled this a little better than banning such a tradition. Before it got as far as banning tailgating I would have divided the areas into sections and made you sign up for an area giving a credit card number and pay $100 for it’s use . You have to provide your, name,address and phone number and it is your responsibility to police the people in your area. When you get ready to go someone walks through the area with the person responsible and clears it . If you just trash the area and leave without picking up your mess UGA debits your card for $500 to pay for the clean up. If the card is not good then the sheriff comes to your house and arrest your sorry ass for littering and fines you $1000 for acting like a immature irresponsible jerk. There has to be consequences for your actions and that will get rid of the idiots that are there just to show there butts and get drunk and disrespect the integrity of a great college.
school my but
March 18th, 2010
4:30 pm
we fans are entitled. They can pick up the trash,we pay for tickets. These tickets cost a lot of cash. So they should just let us be and pay to pick the mess. GO DOGS
Game Worker
March 18th, 2010
4:32 pm
I have a job that requires me to be around the Ga Tech stadium at the start of Game time….most games the trash is OK…but when the UGA fans come to town, its a DISASTER> there are bottles, cans everywhere! the trash cans overflow and there is litter everywhere. I do not get it! Not even those Hokie fans are so messy!
Dawg in Breman
March 18th, 2010
4:35 pm
Breaking News!
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/7/l_f11f63decc514f8cae39aecd439d8e30.jpg
Stinger
March 18th, 2010
4:41 pm
You bunch of stinking pig losers!! 6-5 we walk this state!!!
Ron Mexico
March 18th, 2010
4:41 pm
Been to Bama for a game Once, and I will never go back to that trailer park. There may not be litter there, but the litter would probably be an improvement.
Greg
March 18th, 2010
4:42 pm
AJC reader 2:33; it figures that a UGA graduate would call himself an “alumni” instead of an “alumnus”. Are you more than one person? Look it up. Thanks for proving your point about it being an “academic institution first”.
Stinger
March 18th, 2010
4:43 pm
Excuse me ! What time does your guys basketball game start tonight?
Stinger
March 18th, 2010
4:45 pm
OH, you mean to tell me that you didn’t make the tourney?? What a shame.
Oh well, you haven’t won anything since 1980.
Dawghater
March 18th, 2010
4:48 pm
Not even a surprise. These are Dawg fans, they bark like Dawgs, act like Dawgs and treat everyone in Athens like Dawgs. Then the go on a building just like a Dawg. Look at the bright side Shreveport will let you tailgate any where you want to when you vist them every year!
Pete F
March 18th, 2010
4:50 pm
The Shreveport bowl no longer has SEC ties. Give it a rest.
Dawghater
March 18th, 2010
4:51 pm
Hey “school my but” I bet you think you deserve a job too when you grad u ate in 10 years from Athens with that recreational science degree too. Sorry, buying a ticket does not entitle you to free garbage pickup. You get a seat in a stadium for that game and that is it!
MTA56
March 18th, 2010
4:52 pm
They should have extra police to check the tailgating areas & 45 minutes before kick-off start writing tickets to everyone in the areas they have trashed. Fine everyone in the group. The fines should start at $200 & go up in $50 incriments according to the seriousness of the trash!
Richard Hamilton
March 18th, 2010
4:54 pm
It’s about time the school did something about this. Good for them. These people will just move
somewhere else and trash that place.
GaDawg
March 18th, 2010
4:57 pm
Tracey March 18th, 2010…1:48 pm
Marcos March 18th, 2010…1:54 pm
Excellent observations!
The tiniest violin playing…March 18th, 2010 1:47 pm
If they stay home and throw a party in their back yard, then they’ll have to clean up their own mess, or just add to the mess they left there the previous week.
Don’t blame the administration; personal accountability doesn’t take a vacation on game day. Tailgating was a privilege not a right. To all of those responsible for our loss of privilege, I hope that you do get angry enough to pull back your money and stay at home. If you have exhibited such disrespect for the UGA campus, you don’t possess the quality of character necessary to be a member of the UGA family. The University doesn’t want you, or need your money! It’s too late to “shape up,” so just “SHIP OUT!”
WeeWilly
March 18th, 2010
5:06 pm
Bill,
What are we talking about here, maybe 6 home games a year? The best of my recollection is that there weren’t enough trash receptacles and certainly not enough (if any) port-o-lets for a crowd the size to fit the expanded stadium. That should be a fixable problem. Seems to me that the football program generates an enormous amount of cash to the university and they should be able to provide sanitary facilities for those that they conunt on to buy tickets. Tailgating is part of the gameday experience and while personal responsibility is not be ignored, the nuclear option is an inhospitable reaction to 6 clean-up days per year.
HDTV is starting to look like a better bet. I can always tailgate at home and I don’t mind cleaning up after the drunks afterward (including self).
GaDawg
March 18th, 2010
5:07 pm
Tracey March 18th, 2010…1:48 pm
Marcos March 18th, 2010…1:54 pm
Excellent observations!
The tiniest violin playing…March 18th, 2010 1:47 pm
If they stay home and throw a party in their back yard, then they’ll have to clean up their own mess, or just add to the mess they left there the previous week.
Don’t blame the administration; personal accountability doesn’t take a vacation on game day. Tailgating was a privilege not a right. To all of those responsible for our loss of privilege, I hope that you do get angry enough to pull back your money and stay at home. If you have exhibited such disrespect for the UGA campus, you don’t possess the quality of character necessary to be a member of the UGA family. The University doesn’t want you, or need your money! It’s too late to “shape up,” so just “SHIP OUT!”
11-3 GT
March 18th, 2010
5:14 pm
………Josh Nesbitt for Heisman……….
Paddy
March 18th, 2010
5:14 pm
Thats not tailgating! Thats your rec time in the general populace courtyard at the local prison. You were warned to behave and you could not act like adults. Too bad you have ruined it for many of us.
SJ Pennypacker
March 18th, 2010
5:16 pm
They took er JOBS!!!
Casey
March 18th, 2010
5:17 pm
All I know is that anyone who claims to love the University of Georgia and then leaves it totally trashed is not a true fan of the University of Georgia. You’re a complete waste of space and the University would be better off if you didn’t show up at all.
kauai dawg
March 18th, 2010
5:19 pm
“Congratulations, morons. You’ve ruined it for everyone.”
I agree…. Well said! Where is the responsibility? There is no excuse. Clean up your mess, don’t and everyone suffers. Sad day!
Dave In Tampa
March 18th, 2010
5:19 pm
Absolutely ruined it for us! What an embarrassment? Use to not be like that when I attended back in the early 80’s. If I were a Techie or any other school I’d be unloading as well. That just gave the entire football country plenty to rip us about. After looking at that picture again, I’d be doing the same thing if I were from another college
GDAWG65
March 18th, 2010
5:21 pm
Mike Adams was a loser before he came to UGA and has been a disgrace as president since he’s been here. Why did he get involved – isn’t some one over a buildings and grounds department that should have nipped this in the bud.
UGA wisely got rid of Martinez – it would be much more wise to get rid of Mike Adams
Dave In Tampa
March 18th, 2010
5:23 pm
GDAWG65
Adams is a moron, I agree, but it’s hard to blame this one on a bunch of slobs. This is embarrassing. Those were suppose to be so-called adults that did this. What a shame!
Dave In Tampa
March 18th, 2010
5:23 pm
Meant hard to blame this on Adams. Blame it on the slobs
Techie
March 18th, 2010
5:26 pm
Warning welfare recipient @ JimBob
do we expect anything less from uga fans?
Huh?
March 18th, 2010
5:33 pm
Night games force people to drink too much??
Last I checked, it was a choice – same as cleaning up after oneself.
And tickets to sporting events now come with porta potties and clean up crews? Since when? They have toilets inside the stadium – trash cans too – included in the ticket price.
The excuse makers need to look in the mirror – you are more than likely part of the problem.
Results – not excuses.
OldFan
March 18th, 2010
5:46 pm
Come on now. These aren’t pigs. They’re UGA fans. And if they’re loud, rude, littering, profane drunks, then we’ve got the fans we deserve. They act that way ouside the stadium, because that’s how they act inside the stadium—and we love the hometeam fanatics. If the University is foolish enough to try to enforce civility, it first needs to decide it doesn’t want big time college football and will opt instead for real student/athletes playing in leather helmets. So, give up the outrage. There’s already enough hypocrisy in college football.
Sanford Drive
March 18th, 2010
6:01 pm
Let’s just all plan to drop off our post-tailgating trash in Mike Adam’s driveway. He lives right on Prince. Giant mansion. You can’t miss it.
This is only going to displace the problem to a different area. Mike Adams is such an idiot.
Pig Dawg
March 18th, 2010
6:07 pm
Surprise, surprise.
You piggies got what you deserve! I love it! Oink! Oink! Oink!
BS Patrol
March 18th, 2010
7:22 pm
I live in what might be called a poor man’s paradise where people like to come and camp. Thankfully, most visitors use the same simple rule I have gone by for years: IF YOU BRING IT IN, YOU TAKE IT OUT. As simple as being able to use a napkin. The posted picture looks like the aftermath of Woodstock. These people should be ashamed.
Dawgs 2010
March 18th, 2010
7:25 pm
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn53/zrdan/richtqo3.jpg
GaDawg
March 18th, 2010
7:41 pm
Something along these lines should accomplish the goal, but could the university formulate a workable plan to achieve the objective? You need to forward your idea to Michael Adams 76-Dawg
76-Dawg March 18th, 2010…4:22 pm
UGA could have handled this a little better than banning such a tradition. Before it got as far as banning tailgating I would have divided the areas into sections and made you sign up for an area giving a credit card number and pay $100 for it’s use . You have to provide your, name, address and phone number and it is your responsibility to police the people in your area. When you get ready to go someone walks through the area with the person responsible and clears it . If you just trash the area and leave without picking up your mess UGA debits your card for $500 to pay for the clean up. If the card is not good then the sheriff comes to your house and arrest your sorry ass for littering and fines you $1000 for acting like a immature irresponsible jerk. There has to be consequences for your actions and that will get rid of the idiots that are there just to show there butts and get drunk and disrespect the integrity of a great college.
icedawg
March 18th, 2010
7:48 pm
Perhaps they’ve earned a new designation, “litterdogs” rather than litterbugs. They should have banned leg hiking while they were at it.
Keep America CLEAN
March 18th, 2010
7:49 pm
You can not even behave for 6 days out of 365 a year.
Shame on you.
GoDOGS1
March 18th, 2010
7:54 pm
Get rid of Adams……NOW!
...........
March 18th, 2010
8:01 pm
Get rid of trashy fans piling up trash…..NOW!
Buckhead Bulldog
March 18th, 2010
8:06 pm
I’ve never experanced a LSU game in Baton Rogue at night….they seem to have some of the most rowdy fans in CFB. How does their Univ. handle it down there?
Good ole M. Adams = broken little toe, cut the whole dang leg off. I loathe Adams!
GoDOGS1
March 18th, 2010
8:08 pm
Get rid of trashy fans piling up trash and Adams….NOW!
Better?
Buckhead Bulldog
March 18th, 2010
8:10 pm
correction: experienced
The Truth
March 18th, 2010
8:51 pm
GA Tech Lies & Cheats & Everyone knows it. Tech fans are the scum of the earth.
But we do have an idiot for a President (Michael Adams).
Iraq Dawg.... Hooah!
March 18th, 2010
9:01 pm
Thanks yon morons for ruining my homecoming from Iraq.
But at least I don’t have to worry about being attacked by a friendly mugger near Tech. I’ll probably blast their azz if they tried.
Guess I’ll be at the Georgia Bar.
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
March 18th, 2010
9:05 pm
hey ron mexico when you went to a bama game did you go to bryant denny or legion field ,legion field is a dump… but no way is bd as you say.i’ve been to most every stadium in the south and bd and the quad is as nice as any . without the trash……..just sayin
Festus
March 18th, 2010
9:30 pm
Yawl shuld haive been burnin thait traish lykes the Waste Virginny folks burn them thare couchees. Them thare Georgee urchins are jist plain stupid a defecating on everthang.
Festus
March 18th, 2010
9:38 pm
BTW Hey thare Cuzzin Beal Kang !
bad apple dawg
March 18th, 2010
9:49 pm
What a bunch of stinkin slobs!
Denver Dawg
March 18th, 2010
9:59 pm
testing… wondering if Bill King and / or the wonderful moderator will let THIS post through…
jimmy
March 18th, 2010
10:06 pm
you have made adams look good
The Dog Wisperer
March 18th, 2010
10:50 pm
If you build it, they will dump their crap all over it…
Q: What’s the difference between a UGA tailgate and the garbage dump? A: The people running the dump have been there more than just a few Saturday afternoons.
AltamahaDawg
March 18th, 2010
11:01 pm
Are we selecting what gets posted tonight, Bill?
Ashamed
March 18th, 2010
11:07 pm
That is the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the pictures of what led to this.
It is funny how so many of you sit on here all year long and beat your chest, trash talk, couch coach, and yada yada freakin yada…
The majority of the fans in Athens are good Dawgs. However, the outright stupid redneck idiots tend to make it miserable.
Do like they do at Augusta. You must have a visable badge with and ID on it. If you get caught being and idiot, your ID number is turned in, you don’t get your badges the next year.
Let some of these idiots loose their season tickets and you will see things straighten up. And before you say, “Yeah, but he got them from someone else.” Well, that person will loose their tickets then. Talk about a vested interest. Let me see, I donate and purchase tickets for 10 years. I have well over 100K invested in seeing the Dawgs. I can’t go to a game due to a family illness. I give my two tickets to a collegue at work and he take his brother. His brother gets drunk, shows his butt, gets in trouble. A plain clothes officer gets his ID # off his badge which must be visible to tailgate. He goes home with nothing more than a headache. I however, loose the ability to purchase tickets anymore.
Put this in place and the BS will stop.
AltamahaDawg
March 18th, 2010
11:14 pm
let’s give it another shot.
A few bad apples did not ruin it for everybody. A few bad apples ruined it for a few bad apples.
vuduchld
March 18th, 2010
11:57 pm
Nothing new here. We all knew UGA people were pigs all along, so what’s the big deal!?
Big D Dawg
March 19th, 2010
1:27 am
college ball fan, you’re an a hole. I graduated from Kennesaw which doesn’t have a football team. I’ve been donating to the athletic association for 40 yrs and I doubt that you have donated that long. So, selling to only graduates is not even in the cards. you’d lose at least 20% of the ticket holders and believe me a lot of those are big doners, like me.
Yawn
March 19th, 2010
7:30 am
Ashamed,
Idiots like you who think LOSE is spelled as “loose”? Not once but twice.
Loose- My girlfriend is a LOOSE girl.
Lose- I hope I don’t LOSE my girlfriend to my drunk buddy who took her to the game because I had a cold..
merculf
March 19th, 2010
8:24 am
The majority of the problem makers and unruly fans are people who never went to UGA. They have the same problem at most of the larger state schools around the nation. People who didn’t go to the school think they have to prove themselves to those who did. This leads to people bringing their “toys” to the games (Satellite T.V., rolling grills, kegs, furniture and more). If you want to show off how well you have done for yourself (if you graduated form UGA or not), then throw a party at your home. If you have to watch T.V. , stay home…By cooking a whole pig or entertaining 25 people isn’t going to help the team win or lose. The “tailgate” was for those that had to travel great distances to return to support the team, it wasn’t supposed to be a great big weekly party and excuse to drink to excess.
ugaaccountant
March 19th, 2010
8:30 am
#1 culprit – Suprisingly not Mike Adams – It’s the AJC for their yellow journalism constantly making an issue out of a non issue. This was not news and you insisted on running it.
#2 culprit – Yeah, it’s Mike Adams
Future Careers
March 19th, 2010
8:31 am
This surprises no one. It’s what you expect from a UGA fan.
Cuz
March 19th, 2010
8:41 am
I guess I won’t be able to bring my three pig smoker with the wet bar and keg attachment that sleeps four. Darn.
Lennon & McCartney
March 19th, 2010
8:50 am
Have you seen the little piggies
crawling in the dirt?
And for all these little piggies
life is getting worse.
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
in their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
stirring up the dirt.
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing
they don’t care what goes on around.
In their eyes, there’s something lacking,
what they need’s a damn good whacking….
Catchy tune, huh? Thanks for the inspiration, Bill King.
virginia dog
March 19th, 2010
8:56 am
Here is the skinny … due to the hope scholarship and the growth of atlanta the typical UGA student is a kid that grew up outside the south. So the hallowed halls of Georgia mean nothing … i repeat nothing to them. it is just another stop until mom and dad are called back to the home office in Ohio or new Jersey.
georgiadawg70
March 19th, 2010
9:11 am
virginia dog, You could not have said it better. In twenty more years Georgia wll look like Florida. I-95 is nothing but a sewer for all the waste from NY and NJ pouring into the Sunshine State. It will not be long before we look just like them. What a waste.
georgiadawg70
March 19th, 2010
9:13 am
Most of these outsiders anre the ones that tailgate and don’t but a ticket to the game. Thirty percent of tailgaters fall into this catergory
Lakedawg
March 19th, 2010
9:38 am
It’s sad when people act so irresponsibly regarding the property
of others. It’d be great if video cameras could be set up, capture
car tag numbers, and transport the trash back to the front door of
whoever left it. Perhaps that would clarify the situation for them ?
I know that that couldn’t really happen, but it’d be appropriate.
Unfortunately, often, poor upbringing + too much alcohol = poor
behavior. However, the fans of other schools who say that THEIR
fans never do this are not telling the truth. Wrong is wrong,
no matter who does it.
Richie
March 19th, 2010
9:39 am
its about time they crack down on those drunks.
Pig Dawg
March 19th, 2010
9:45 am
Actually, it’s 34.8%.
DDT
March 19th, 2010
9:47 am
Having been invited by friends to attend a couple of tailgate parties at UGA I can tell you one thing for sure, its not about the game its about the party for a lot people. None of the people that I went with went to UGA or had tickets and neither did I. It is about the same as going to a NASCAR race in Alabama and camping out, its all about getting drunk, watching other drunks act stupid, picking up some strange if your lucky and showing off. You know its getting bad when you have to watch ESPN the next day to find out who won the game or race which I have done several times even though I was there. I’m glad those days are over for me. At least we picked up our trash and tried to leave our area as we found it or better but from I saw a lot of people did not care about anybody or anything. Just party on.
cajdawg
March 19th, 2010
9:48 am
Here is the truth:
1)Some young alumni and current students act like uncouth savages. Solution: larger police presence to crack down on underage drinking and unlawful public behavior.
2)Lack of trash recepticles and frequency of pick up DURING PREGAME TAILGATING AND THE GAME. Solution: School and city should be able to easily rectify this with some money and ingenuity.
3)Slowly eliminate the redneck, UGA unaffiliated season ticket fanbase. A third to half of the “Dawg fans” on game have no affinity for the school or Athens and they are bring shame and embarrassment on the school.
The last game I attended was the Colorado game several years ago with my wife (VT grad) and friends who attended UNC and Vanderbilt. They laughed and laughed the entire day as every Southern- redneck-stereotype was fulfilled that day. The crowd in our immediate vacinity embarrassed me in too many ways to count. I haven’t been back since.
k-dawg
March 19th, 2010
9:53 am
It will be mass chaos! You’re talking 10’s of 1000’s of people now trying to find another place to tailgate (because we all know people are not going to just start showing up for a 4 hour only tailgate) welcome to “Family Friendly” part 2, another spectacular idea that has already been mostly done away with (prior to these new regulations). Just … See Morewhere exactly do they think all these people are going to go??? Every damn lot/deck is already UGA controlled and require a permit. People already park on the exit ramps on the loop, what’s next, tailgating on the side of Hwy 78??? Maybe I’ll just tailgate in my own damn yard, in MONROE!!! I guess that’s what they’re trying to force anyways….
Cross Dawg
March 19th, 2010
9:55 am
Now we sorta know how Vince felt when adams stuck it to him. Time for a change in the President’s Mansion. Wait, forget that, adams rather live eleswhere. Time for a NEW PRES.
Hal
March 19th, 2010
10:04 am
yeah thanks guys. I was ok until the ban on pull behinds….. this sux
TROTTINGHOME
March 19th, 2010
10:24 am
I didn’t tailgate anyway. So no loss for me, however the residual effects of trash and stupidity will long haunt Georgian intellect.
Also higher intellect doesn’t mean high moral fiber.
Silver Classic
March 19th, 2010
10:30 am
Tailgating is not dead! Check out http://www.BulldogPark.com where you don’t have to worry about sharing space with the morons.
AceDawg
March 19th, 2010
10:44 am
While I have always loved the wildness of tailgates at UGA, I agree that the messes left by fans got worse over the last couple years. It is still an academic institution, and it’s sad fun can’t be mixed with at least a minimal amount of responsibility.
DawgBuzz
March 19th, 2010
10:49 am
Don’t ban such a tradition. If you want to keep it going hire extra security and police. You want to stop this type of behavior during tailgating? Fines for litering, public indecency, arrests for public drunkeness, etc.
JMc12203
March 19th, 2010
10:56 am
Just as undisclipined as the football team
Alabama Jack
March 19th, 2010
12:51 pm
dawgs go to Shreveport
Shreveport drops SEC tie
Wonder who the dawgs will dump on at their next bowl, if there ever is one.
Spike
March 19th, 2010
12:57 pm
This just the beginning from Adams. He can kiss my a$$ and say good bye to any more donations from me to UGA while he is there.
ConcernedDawg
March 19th, 2010
1:04 pm
This is a tactic and ploy by the Administration to get the Athletic Department to share some of its funds for unrelated budget short falls of the University. The Administration knows they have these funds but the Athletic Department will not agree to share their perceived wealth. The University has to know that something of this magnitude will cause tens of thousands of dollars (if not much more) in reduced donations to both the Athletic Department and the University as a whole. I can assure you the $6,000 plus I contributed in 2009, much of which went to the University itself, will not be given in 2010 if this issue is not properly addressed prior to the first game. I have half a dozen other friends that feel the same way. (They also contribute a lot more than I do each year) Hopefully all parties involved will see the big picture of things and find a way to work all this out as the complete ban as now proposed is only going to hurt the University in the long run. I, for one, remain confident that the cooler heads will prevail before September of 2010. Go Dawgs.
Skipper
March 19th, 2010
2:47 pm
Yet another reason to keep the Fl-GA Game in JACKSONVILLE!
Reality
March 19th, 2010
4:08 pm
Trashed property and rude behavior by ugag fans – is this really new news?
El Eddo
March 19th, 2010
4:41 pm
Highly Entertaining as per usual. I’m going with lastgrad. It got ruint a long time ago, here’s why:
- Bowling then enlarging the stadium again and again
- Night Games (no times printed on tix)
- Money
- Procreation of fans who didn’t even go to GA
Revista Dawg
March 19th, 2010
6:44 pm
It’s mainly the young, drunk frat punks, who act like slobs and expect other people to clean up their trash, like their mom’s been doing for years. They are losers.
$750K
March 19th, 2010
9:03 pm
At least we have money to pay a football coach $750 K to support of such behavior. I mean, do you think that UGA is some kind of real university?
Winger
March 19th, 2010
10:07 pm
So the prevalent opinion is there should be more people and money to clean up after you and tell you if you had a good time. No wonder you’re the dogs.
Lovedthedawgsonce
March 19th, 2010
10:17 pm
No longer a dawg fan…way too much trash on and off the field. Hard to decide which is worse.
ONLY Fair
March 19th, 2010
10:26 pm
194rd
DD795
March 20th, 2010
12:01 am
What do you expect it’s UGA
Dawg Max
March 20th, 2010
9:01 am
Another michael adams special–ruining tailgating for 99% of the people who do not leave trash. I’m hoping he leaves or gets fired soon—he’s a big useless jerk!
bugman
March 20th, 2010
10:09 am
“Seriously… what is this state coming to when personal responsibility is seen as a bad thing?”
Methinks personal responsibility was MIA after their third beer.
And left in a stairwell…
deegee
March 20th, 2010
11:16 am
Nobody is saying you can’t tailgate. You can bring a prepared meal, eat, socialize like civilized people and leave the area clean. You just can’t behave like a bunch of hillbillies anymore. People are sick of hillbillies.
I'm sure somebody sells garbage bags with the UGA logo on them
March 20th, 2010
11:39 am
The Dollar Store sells 1 box of 30 gal garbage bags (7 bags per box) for a $1 So – One dollar plus some self respect equals – no getting Adams involved.
retired on the lake
March 20th, 2010
12:26 pm
MBWillson
March 18th, 2010
3:47 pm
Being a tailgater of over 30 years……..
Your an idiot if you bring it in take it out .. bring your own garbage bag. look in the mirror fool before blaming the university for not putting out trash cans. idiot!
Tigger
March 20th, 2010
10:35 pm
Why do you need trash cans? What’s wrong with bringing your own trash bags, bagging your own trash, and then putting it in your trunk to throw away when you get home? I would have thought that UGA fans were smarter than this – now we know they’re just a bunch of slobs.
Dawg Fan
March 20th, 2010
10:48 pm
I was disgusted after last year. I love tailgating. However, what the idiots did last year was insane. Ga fans have only themselves to blame. We always have a bag of contractor bags packed in our tailgating gear and have never left a item. I offered bags to people who said they did not need them, but left their trash in one big pile. Morons, this time it fits. Congrats, at least I do not need to carry the smoker or fryers any more.
CJ
March 20th, 2010
10:57 pm
Typical UGA fans, no class. Thats ok they can just tail gate down the road at their mothers/sisters/girlfriends house. And yes that is all the same person.
Hate to say it, but...
March 20th, 2010
11:09 pm
About time
budrow
March 21st, 2010
12:04 am
nothing like a parking lot full of drunken hillbillies
Doug
March 21st, 2010
2:51 am
Dog fans are a bunch of blinder wearing morons! That’s a fact! That is also why you are such a joke in the world of college football. UGA hasn’t sniffed a nat championship in 25 years. What makes you think you are relevant at all? What makes you think that every year is “the year the dogs win it all”? What is wrong with you? Wake up!!
dentaldawg
March 21st, 2010
8:07 am
This move was already planned before any problems were encountered. Our athletic dept has become one of the most profitable with the fewest championships earned. We (the fans who actually attend the games) have to endure an insane amount of evening kickoffs and increased costs. Season ticket holders are being soaked for more cash than ever before. As was stated in another post on here, the “good old days” are gone and until the fans hit back by withholding funds and not attending games this fan abuse by the Pres and AD will only continue. and even get worse.
UGASUXS
March 21st, 2010
11:41 am
Blame Bush.
laura
March 21st, 2010
2:36 pm
Thats horrible….trashing our planet over a silly game.
shreveport
March 21st, 2010
5:08 pm
bwahaha stay classy mutts. And you wonder why uga fans are universally thought of as trailer “trash” bwahahahahahaha!
Styles
March 21st, 2010
6:44 pm
Lighten up Frances. The underlying issue here is money and the fact that a cleaning crew charges alot for that kind of mess. With that said, it is a shame the garabage was left but I don’t recall seeing more than 3-4 of those cardboard trash cans. They also shut the library down where people could use the restroom. Poor planning and drinking with no portal potties is a recipe for disaster.
Ashamed
March 21st, 2010
7:00 pm
Yawn. You were correct. My mistake for trying to get that post out and get out of here to the lake house for the weekend.
I am getting on up in age. I have given more than my share to the Dawgs over the years. I think that I will watch them on TV from now on. I will let people like yourself go up there and fight it.
Oh yeah. I will keep my 6 Masters badges however.
Newt Burns
March 21st, 2010
7:18 pm
Throwing trash on the ground is just what Georgians do. Georgians love all forms of garbage. Come into the state from any interstate and the first thing you notice is garbage everywhere.
Unforgiving
March 22nd, 2010
8:35 am
Adams and Dooley have done their part in driving fans away from UGA and football. I think he should get an executive bonus say….5 million dollars. That way he can keep his area pristine.
boohoo
March 22nd, 2010
8:47 am
Typical bandwagon Ga fan base, they finally beat Tenn after a nine year rout only too destroy their own stadium and shrubs oops those beloved hedges, thug dance in the endzone for beating FLA once in 20 yrs, wearing all black uniforms only to get schlaaaaked again, now they cant even pick up after themselves at home games that now will prohibit tailgating. Course then again shouldnt expect too much from a bunch of bandwagon ga fans. They should be use to picking up trash that is the major of choice at UGA isint it. Embarrasment to the state ,The univ, and the conference.
boohoo
March 22nd, 2010
8:52 am
Look on the bright side, 5 % of ticket sales is going toward trash cleanup instead of education, wow UGA has it going on. Keep urinating in athens it all stinks.
mta56
March 22nd, 2010
8:59 am
Got some bad news for you bafoons blaming the the trailer park trash for doing this. I spoke with a family friend who graduated from UGA two years ago. He stated this was where mostly STUDENTS gathered. He sais it was the place for students to be seen before a game! Thanks to Adams who apperently can’t control the sorry hoodlums under his watch. Also thanks to the worthless, scum parents who raised their trashy spoiled brats to act like the idots they are!!!
sylvia
March 22nd, 2010
9:41 am
You would never see this at a tailgate party in the SIAC
Beachbabe
March 22nd, 2010
10:08 am
How sad that your lives are so impacted by all this. If you weren’t drunk, didn’t leave a garbage dump when you left, and use other peoples property as bathrooms you would probably still have
the tailgating perk. NOBODY likes a loud obnoxious drunk. If you could see a video of yourselves after a day of tailgating (drinking) you wouldn’t believe it was really you. You have my sympathy, not for the lack of tailgating, but for the sad lives you lead. Is is possible there really is life without alcohol and tailgating? You better believe it. Take your ticket, sit in the stands, and for once react to the game sober. It’s great!
Steve
March 22nd, 2010
11:42 am
A large percentage of tailgaters don’t have tickets. First step: Require tickets to be checked before entering into any of the tailgate areas. Provide adequate dumpsters, Port-o-lets, and trash cans. Re-assess. Fine-tune policy.
UA Alum92
March 22nd, 2010
11:49 am
We’ve rented space to tailgate at in Tuscaloosa for years now and it is a common practice. It allows us to know we’ll have a spot every home weekend, and also makes us responsible for maintaining / policing the space. My sons are scouts and we try to follow their “leave no trace” philosophy. Plus, we tailgate next to a church and don’t want kids having to step around trash trying to get to Sunday School the next morning. This sounds like a concept who’s time is well overdue in Athens.
ha1ku
March 22nd, 2010
11:54 am
I haven’t been to a game yet, but if this is how it has been lately I don’t think I would have enjoyed it. I’m for enforcing no littering, but prohibiting grills and tents is going too far. Folks who are seasoned campers know about the etiquette about leaving your area in better condition than you found it.
UGA Fan
March 22nd, 2010
11:55 am
Thank you for ruining the fun…..idiots. While some fellow alumni and students defend and enjoy the tailgating madness, the filth and urine that is left behind makes us all look like low-class, third world, hill billies….I commend the people that establish the new rule. I to the person that said,”We will see how long this lasts, once donors start pulling money back”…….you and any donor that gets mad about this is also low-class. Remember money does not equal class.
Title #14 in 2010
March 22nd, 2010
5:59 pm
At Alabama, this would never happen. Bama fans respect the university and leave little or no trash after tailgating.
Dunwoody DAWG
March 31st, 2010
8:20 pm
They ruined tailgating for a lot of us who had spots they shared for decades taken away to charge more $ years back. I gave up my tickets; much better to get scalped for the few decent games a year than to put up with this BS..
I hope Adams takes the NCAA (or any) job, he will always be jerk – I would love to see him go.
Michael Adams
May 21st, 2010
8:34 pm
This is my latest requirement concerning the new tailgating rules, and this requirement will be strictly enforced. http://www.collegelunchboxes.com/
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