Dawgs in denial? Last year’s Georgia Tech score: 42-all
A simple typo? Sure. But a Type A typo if ever there was one. (Photo by M. Bradley)
Doing my due diligence on Willie Martinez’s defense, I ran across an eye-opening score on Page 163 of Georgia’s 2009 media guide. The score from last year’s Georgia Tech game is reported as Georgia 42, Tech 42. Which would be a tie. Which would be, from the UGA perspective, wholly preferable to reality.
We all know Tech and Georgia can’t even agree on which side has won how many games in the bitter series: Georgia claims 59 victories against 37 losses and five ties; Tech claims 39 victories against 59 losses and five ties. Still, it’s not often we see a loss turn into a tie. (Although Georgia folks still insist a win became a loss in 1999 when Al Ford and his crew failed to see Jasper Sanks not fumble.)
So this was pretty odd, and definitely amusing. Even Claude Felton, Georgia’s Hall of Fame publicist, laughed off the typo. “I guess we felt like a tie was better than a loss,” he e-mailed. (Though he did note the score and the result — Tech won 45-42 — are correct in the all-important series standings.)
In 2004 Georgia had great fun with Reggie Ball’s fourth-down throwaway: “A math school and the players can’t count to four?” So consider this numerical payback: All the calculators on all the computers at Michael Adams’ university? They stop functioning above 42.
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GA Alumni
August 27th, 2009
12:28 pm
Ass
Pitbull
August 27th, 2009
12:30 pm
Only Mark Bradley and the AJC could turn a typo into a denial.
Journalism (if that is what it is) in Atlanta sucks.
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 27th, 2009
12:31 pm
I’m a homo.
Tom
August 27th, 2009
12:34 pm
No kidding, Jim Bob…..I’ll stick with the program with more NC’s than probations, too.
DawginLex
August 27th, 2009
12:52 pm
Far from a redneck interception idiot. Just call them like i see them and you are a WIMP.
Never played any sports in your entire lifetime.
Won’t admit where you went to college because you didn’t go.
You rag on Mike Bobo for his year in 1996 where he had a lot of interceptions. Why don’t you talk about the fact he was playing for a new coach?
Why don’t you talk about 1997? Why don’t you talk about him beating Florida that year? Why don’t you talk about his stats for that year? Why don’t you talk about his Outback Bowl record for completions in a row and overall completion percentage?
Why? Because you are a tool. A wimp. An idiotic, ignorant, no college attending moron who spends his free time dissing the UGA football team.
What a miserable existence you must have.
I’m done talking to you. You are not worth my time.
Corrine Brown
August 27th, 2009
1:00 pm
And 2 more assaults at Tech,get off the blog and start taking care of your so-called campus!!!
Life coach
August 27th, 2009
1:01 pm
Just a stupid UGA attempt to be a smart ass about the real score. The real story: Jimmy Carter was President last time UGA won a Nat Champ. UGA can not win the big game. My God its been thirty years and counting! Maybe Ole Miss, Bama or Florida will let you UGA guys look at the crystal football one of them will win this year.
ramblinman
August 27th, 2009
1:11 pm
Hey Corrine…Take care of your “so called” professors. Talk about campus safety!!
Life coach
August 27th, 2009
1:25 pm
Well in Athens, a fair number of the muggers are on the Football team and they don’t want to miss the opener by being caught doing TUB (Typical UGA Behavior) this early in the season. So the crime rate is down somewhat during football season. Thirty years and counting!!!
UGA89
August 27th, 2009
1:35 pm
Just another example of how stupid they are over in Athens. How I’m a success as a UGA grad I’ll never know –just one of the lucky ones. Morons!!
Old Gold
August 27th, 2009
1:40 pm
No surprises here. This from a school that chooses to delete from it’s record books losses to GT in 1941 and 1942, but counts their victories from that year. Idiots!
Really then the UGA wins against GT from ‘80 through ‘82 should be stricken from the books –Herschel Walker was essentially seven personalities (hence seven players) using one scholarship. that’s a no no.
Christina
August 27th, 2009
1:46 pm
They have it right in other places in the media guide. It’s just a typo in that one spot. Let’s not blow this out of proportion.
Dogs stink when wet
August 27th, 2009
1:58 pm
Bahaha… what an utter lack of competence. Then again, we are talking about UGA.
Dogs stink when wet
August 27th, 2009
2:01 pm
Corrine, Prof Zinkhan says hi. Game, set, match.
Champaign Dawg
August 27th, 2009
2:02 pm
Is it just me, or is the countdown to kickoff clock off an hour?
Champaign Dawg
August 27th, 2009
2:02 pm
Old Gold, that was downright funny. Good work.
Nick
August 27th, 2009
2:09 pm
Also shows them playing in Alaska the year before!! Burrr! Ha!
Trade School Junkie
August 27th, 2009
2:18 pm
In education circles, it’s referred to as:
“Outcome-based Math”
Geography, on the other hand, is a whole ‘nother problem.
When you dawgs travel to play the Hawgs, be sure to ask the locals
to show you some Eskimos, Glaciers, Northern Lights, the ocean, etc….
….while you’re in…….Fayetteville, AK !! HA HA HA HA HA HA
ROTFLMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sting 'em Buzz
August 27th, 2009
2:22 pm
dan said: Tech fans: when UGA wins in Atlanta this year, you’re going to shut the Hell up right?
Gator fans: enjoy the ride. Your Gators are King of the Hill. But by some small chance ( like 5%) if UGA is able to pull off an upset against your team, you guys will never, and I mean NEVER, live it down! Maybe we should jump in your endzone again, seemed to work pretty well last time we did it. Just remember, what goes up must come down. Nature’s law, not mine.
You want Tech fans to shut up, but a Florida loss and they will never live it down. Wow.
Willie Martinez
August 27th, 2009
2:35 pm
Why didn’t y’all tell me? I thought we was playin flag football?
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 27th, 2009
2:44 pm
I’m still a homo.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
2:52 pm
DawginLex
Promise?
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
3:05 pm
Look, any progam that cannot man up and admit 2 miserable losses is quite frankly one of the mosts pitiful and non-respected programs in the country.
Even other larger and better programs never take losses off the books, but only UGAY does and the crux of why they are do disrespected and hated. It is always someone else’s fault, and not their fault.
It is a total joke and the main reason everyone takes great joy watching them lose, and 2009 should be a windfall year for watching UGAY lose and drop out of the top 25.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
3:07 pm
Champaign Dawg
Thanks for showing some class and bringing some humor to this blog. It is nice to see some objectivity, and for the record I believe Herschel Walker and Scott Woerner were 2 of the best college football players of all time.
They have my respect.
We all know about Techies
August 27th, 2009
3:18 pm
B’Ham Jacket: You may be a Techie but your Mama’s a Dog!
We all know about Techies
August 27th, 2009
3:19 pm
Old Gold: We know you are a Yellow Jacket but your Mama’s a dog!
Dog in Fla
August 27th, 2009
3:31 pm
Of course, using the take away method of arithmetic in favor of Georgia, the score would be 42-20 if you just take away the 3rd quarter or 28-12 if you just take away the second half…
Tom
August 27th, 2009
3:47 pm
Actually, it would be 42-19 if you take away the 3rd……which was 26-0 GT. (38-28 score end-of-3rd)
macrotech
August 27th, 2009
4:17 pm
NXS, yeah….lsu did what the mutts couldn’t do….whatever it took to WIN!
Royal Dawg, sorry…we’re VERY aware of our history…just seems that there is this goofy thought that we’re irrelevant…now, WHERE would this come from? You guys were PRETTY PUMPED when you finally beat UF.
Cuz, what’s wrong? Bulldawg Bill not writing enough stuff on the pups?
toh3llwithgeorgia
August 27th, 2009
4:35 pm
42..43..44..45 WOAH new concept haha thats pretty good. Did you guys give Reggie a job? I mean he played for you every thanksgivning weekend so why not? Haha
Cmon dog fans gotta laugh at yourself sometime.
Go Jackets and to Hell with Georgia.
Spike
August 27th, 2009
4:46 pm
It is not “old gold.” It is piss yellow.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
4:50 pm
Spike
Beats homo red and black….so when is the next blackout this year? I liked the one against Alabama and those faces in Sanford stadium looking like they lost their best friend….it was priceless.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
4:52 pm
Well, just add those 2 victories back in like a man, and you might gain some respect….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKTaC9-jDQ&feature=PlayList&p=4ACD0EABAB102D0C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=28
Whats the Good Word?
August 27th, 2009
4:52 pm
Spike, you might consider seeing a doctor if that’s what your piss looks like. And to the guy who said to “take away the 3rd” quarter….really? Seriously? Hey, take away the whole game and you wouldn’t have lost! Whatever helps you sleep at night. Have fun mowing our lawns.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
4:55 pm
I think this sums it up for UGAY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI9i4IqeOcY
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 27th, 2009
4:59 pm
This really sums up Why The Dogs Suck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKjurP9ceKI&feature=related
Spike
August 27th, 2009
5:19 pm
Mike Bobo.. “Homo red”? That tells me all I need to know about you if you think homo when you think red. You must have a serious man crush on M and St. Simons and yellow fuzz. I’ll bet you are one of those little piss yellow pencil necks who paint themselves and wear wigs and look really stupid in the end zone when Tech gets their ass beat on their own field.
Whats the Good Word?
August 27th, 2009
5:30 pm
Spike, if that’s the color of your piss, you may want to see a doctor. Also, if that’s really the road you want to go down, then it’s not red, it’s the color of your gaping, bleeding vaginas.
And to the guy who said to “take away the 3rd” – seriously? Really? Hey, if you take away the whole game, you didn’t lose! But apparently you guys think you didn’t lose in the first place. Good luck with that.
TECHNick
August 27th, 2009
5:33 pm
I would just like to state that I love some the names of the U(sic)GA fans here. Bubba? Spike? Just another great reminder of who really roots for U(sic)GA. Guys who use a name that was on the football jersey when they were 8 years old. Let me guess, you both wear camo overalls on a regular basis?
GO JACKETS!!!
Spike
August 27th, 2009
5:35 pm
Good word.. “gaping, bleedig vaginas” Wow, you are the one who needs medical attention. Pyschiatric medical attention. Get help now.
Michael
August 27th, 2009
5:48 pm
This is such a dumb post. It is a typo, nothing more nothing less…and only someone who is such of a negative nancy as you would find it worthy of posting.
Simple Simons
August 27th, 2009
5:49 pm
((((((((42-42))))))))hahahahahahahahaha
Dawgon
August 27th, 2009
5:52 pm
Did realize how many tech fans read the dawg blogs. Guess thats all they have to read.
macrotech
August 27th, 2009
6:18 pm
For real Nerds?, are YOU going to tell our service men that they can go and risk their lives for our country, but NOT play a game?! Tech lost players to the war, too. Lame argument!
Mark Bradley
August 27th, 2009
6:20 pm
More pocket protector jokes? They never get tired, do they?
Clayton
August 27th, 2009
6:23 pm
Don’t drag me into this mess…BTW football jocks, I am going to turn in Roddy Jones for not paying me for taking all of his exams over the past year. My friends and I are tired of doing all of their school work while they run around in tight pants. Wait a minute….that is pretty good compensation. 17 INTs, are you still planning on meeting us at the Rainbow tonight? I can’t wait for you to show me your manhood. Why don’t you just tell everyone your real name (Leslie)? I won’t out you…yet!!!!
For real Nerds?
August 27th, 2009
6:27 pm
Bradley,
it sure does get old but it is a tit for tat response to “redneck”. Agree? macrotech- lame argument? Playing with semi-pro players is legal in NCAA football? Man you nerds ARE smart: you have found a way around eligible athletes. Oh wait, you got busted for that just recently.
For real Nerds?
August 27th, 2009
6:31 pm
macrotech:
the games were being played while a war was going on. What part of that don’t you understand? I bet you could spin some numbers and compute a clever response in syntac.
For real Nerds?
August 27th, 2009
6:44 pm
this is right on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7_87-9gn_M&NR=1&feature=fvwp
For real Nerds?
August 27th, 2009
6:47 pm
and this…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHsj2gxcFC8&feature=related