Tech fans giggle while UGA fans say, ‘Shut up and deal’
PJ cracks wise; Richt is unamused. (AJC photo by Pouya Dianat)
In times of plenty and in times of want, there’s always Georgia versus Georgia Tech. It’s a game that defines (and sometimes reconfigures) the sport in our state, and by way of public service we offer yet another installment — that’s my way of saying I’ve lost count — of our Field Guide to the opposing sets of fans.
• Tech fans describe the moves Roddy Jones put on Georgia defenders along the sideline as “the old okey-doke.” Georgia fans describe Tech’s stadium as “The joke by Coke.”
• Georgia fans still can’t get over Tech putting the score of last year’s Georgia game on their Coastal Division co-championship rings. Tech fans still can’t get over Georgia players selling SEC championship rings on eBay.
• Tech fans laugh really hard whenever Paul Johnson says anything mildly amusing. Georgia fans stopped laughing at Paul Johnson midway through the third quarter on Nov. 29, 2008.
• Georgia fans don’t take the ACC seriously. Tech fans think SEC superiority is all a figment of Tim Brando’s imagination.
• Two words guaranteed to make Tech fans mad: Chop block. Two words guaranteed to make Georgia fans mad: Excessive celebration.
• Georgia fans believe SEC refs have it in for the Bulldogs. Tech fans believe SEC refs do a fine job — especially that nice Al Ford.
• Tech fans think it’s funny the head of SEC officiating is a Tech grad. Georgia fans think it’s all part of a grand conspiracy.
• Georgia fans are incensed by PETA’s demand that the late Uga VII be replaced by a robot. Tech fans will be incensed if they don’t get the contract to build the robot.
• Tech fans are excited to see the Jackets so high in the BCS rankings. Georgia fans are excited to see the Bulldogs so high in the recruiting rankings.
• Georgia fans can’t believe Tech keeps extending Paul Johnson’s contract. Tech fans would be willing to chip in and help Georgia extend Willie Martinez’s contract.
• Tech fans are eagerly awaiting a rematch with Clemson in Tampa. Georgia fans are eagerly awaiting a rematch with Kentucky in Stegeman Coliseum. (Er, maybe not. Kentucky’s better in hoops, too.)
• Georgia fans cackled when Tech kept going to bowls on the blue turf of exotic Boise. Tech fans with long memories are hoping like crazy Georgia lands in Shreveport, where every night is surf-and-turf at Red Lobster.
• The Tech fan’s favorite moment of 2009: Josh Nesbitt stealing the ball from a Florida State linebacker. The Georgia fan’s least favorite moment of 2009: Joe Cox flipping the ball to a Kentucky lineman.
• Georgia fans can’t understand what has happened to Mark Richt. Tech fans think what has happened to Mark Richt has a lot to do with Paul Johnson.
• Tech fans get really miffed if their team doesn’t wear gold. Georgia fans get really miffed if their team wears black helmets.
• Georgia fans still make fun of Tech’s (lack of) attendance. Tech fans figure that’s the last resort of a fading program: If you can’t beat ‘em on the field, outnumber ‘em in the stands.
• This season has Tech fans recalling the Bobby Dodd Era. This season has Georgia fans recalling the Ray Goff Era.
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JSS
November 25th, 2009
11:34 am
Moment of the week goes to …
GT9!!!
“Could Bradley catch a football? Not if a big Kentucky defensive lineman was in the way, no.”
UGA and Mr. Joe Cox, the gift that keeps on giving!
Oh, and like Reggie Ball, he is a collegiate player, it is not appropriate to boo him. Don’t be crazy Notre Dame fan slugging people!
Technophobia
November 25th, 2009
11:34 am
This would be a rebuilding phase for UGA except for one thing, its fans. When fans get so full of themselves that they think they are “entitled” to win 10 every year they are on the road to decline. You can’t build on turmoil and UGA is heading for a very hard fall.
Paul in RDU
November 25th, 2009
11:35 am
Sue – Good post talking about GT’s playbook.
Against FSU they basically only ran about 5 different plays in the 2nd half but they were all working. Why the heck change what is working?
I watched the UGA-KY game and I wondered what the heck happened to the bootleg and the TE in the 2nd half
Steve
November 25th, 2009
11:37 am
It would be funny if ga played cent fla. but it won’t happen. i would love to see o’leary beat them again.
Buzz Belle
November 25th, 2009
11:39 am
To all – Have a very Happy Thanksgiving, be safe driving, try not to eat too much and I want to see everybody on the blogs on Sunday morning! See you at THE game and THWG!!!
Clay
November 25th, 2009
11:42 am
Wow, Tech wins once in 8 tries (and for the 12th time since 1965) and suddenly they are the standard of excellence for football in Georgia? Seven straight to start the decade mean nothing; but, one three point win means they are the gold standard (pardon the pun) for football? Wow.
Mark Bradley
November 25th, 2009
11:44 am
About to listen to Mark Richt on the SEC teleconference. Anything I should ask?
Kyle
November 25th, 2009
11:45 am
Mark
Anything changed with the status of AJ and Rambo?
GDAWG65
November 25th, 2009
11:45 am
Richt should not be fired. Richt should replace Martinez with a compentant defensive coordinator and appoint Bobo janitor of the locker room. We’ve got got fine players – just inferior coordinators.
Drexel Gal
November 25th, 2009
11:46 am
Perhaps this season does recall the Bobby Dodd era … only with more (ahem) diversity on the field.
Ed
November 25th, 2009
11:46 am
Has Richt been to the tanning bed this morning?
Boil Face
November 25th, 2009
11:47 am
Why should PETA be so angry about UGA’s mascot? That dog is treated better than royalty. (Looks better than Prince Charles, too.)
Sonny Clusters
November 25th, 2009
11:50 am
How would Mark deal with a flying ham at Grant Field?
Sonny Clusters
November 25th, 2009
11:51 am
Is the F-150 available in candy apple red?
Things I Love
November 25th, 2009
11:51 am
Things I love about the Tech-Georgia series:
Tech winning the first game in 1893, 28-6. Georgia fans so mad they poked Tech players with canes during the game, and threw rocks at them afterwards.
These scores: 1905 – Tech 46, Georgia 0. 1943 – Tech 48, Georgia 0.
1944 – Tech 44, Georgia 0. 1951 – Tech 48, Georgia 6.
Georgia and Tech dressing in their traditional uniforms, selling tickets as usual, to the public. Then after the two routs, disappointed Georgia claiming the games “didn’t count,” in the Tech-Georgia series, because they were “not normal Tech-Georgia games.” Georgia refused to count the two in the series, although the NCAA, the SEC, Tech, and UGA’s own season record did count them.
Dirty Dawgs.
Sue
November 25th, 2009
11:55 am
Paul…I think on the game winning drive against FSU they only called one play and it worked 6 straight times. Incredible. I hope Nesbitt doesn’t get in that kind of groove on Saturday.
I also hope that the dawgs sub on defense like crazy early on. We will be doing a lot of chasing on Saturday opening the door for a huge collapse in the second half (again). I would rather play at 75% effort the whole game than 100% for one half and then crap in the second half.
HAL's SHAME
November 25th, 2009
11:56 am
HAL, I’ll say it once more: UGA has ONE National Title (1980), period.
Sue
November 25th, 2009
11:57 am
Mark…How about “WTF is wrong with you!?”
…only kidding ask him if we are going to see any razzle dazzle this weekend.
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
11:59 am
5-6-1
The win over Chattahoochee Tech should count as a tie at the most.
Have fun in Birmingham with Papa John dogs. Don’t forget to turn back the clock one hour and the calander twenty years. At least you can stop at Tallageda and take some pics for your album.
LOSERS!
cseay
November 25th, 2009
12:01 pm
Just went through the ESPN top 25 and noticed no Bulldogs to be found. However, I then went to the recruiting top 25 and noticed the Bulldogs in the top ten, once again. Keep it up Mark Richt, no one does less with more!
Yellow Fuzz
November 25th, 2009
12:03 pm
4 tickets
4 hot dogs
4 cokes
4 humble pies
408 more yards rushing
40,000 pounds of trash left on our campus
40,000 fans leaving at half time (AGAIN)
GT JJ
November 25th, 2009
12:06 pm
I love how this is now a “rebuilding year” for uga fans. where are those fools who were saying “we’re uga we don’t rebuild, we reload”?
If you reloaded this year, i guess you got some bad ammo boys.
Sonny Clusters
November 25th, 2009
12:07 pm
We wasn’t heavily recruited by Georgia but we was always impressed with Coach Richt until we went to the Dairy Queen with him and he didn’t know how to order. He was lined up in the Brazier line and talking about a sundae and it was embarrassing to me and Jeff. Coaches at Clemson know the Dairy Queen inside and out. Ask Coach if he remembers Sonny Clusters and Jeff taking him to Dairy Queen.
instate
November 25th, 2009
12:08 pm
the GT baseball team is starting a fundraiser drive for UGA player Chance Veasey, nice story!
Sue
November 25th, 2009
12:09 pm
I don’t get it Fuzz. You and I both know ‘dega rocks my face–Oh because we are rednecks and like country music and Nascar, I see. So by your rationale, I guess Ravi Shakar and Cricket is all the rage on the Tech Campus.
What do they put in the water at GA Tech?
November 25th, 2009
12:13 pm
1943? 1944? Let’s see…what was significant about those two years?
Only a fool would brag about winning college football games then. Glad you were able to beat the women GA fielded while our boys were helping America win the real war.
Bama 92
November 25th, 2009
12:17 pm
Photo Caption:
CMR: Is it raining?
CPJ: No, Coach, they’re spitting on you.
CMR: Tech fans are spitting on me??!!!
CPJ: No…
Lamar
November 25th, 2009
12:21 pm
I remember when Georgia had to play at Grant Field at night after Tech played in the afternoon, just to get someone to watch. Apparently no one wanted to travel to Athens to see them play
MythBuster
November 25th, 2009
12:23 pm
1. Georgia is NOT a nationally prominent college football team! They last won a NC in 1980…..that would be 29 years for you Dawg fans. And what have they done since? They won a couple SEC titles? Impressive!
2. The SEC is not the best conference in the country when UGA is tied for second in their division.
3. UGA will not beat Tech this weekend……no way, no how. Even if UGA is at their best, I do not see them shutting down the running game of Ga. Tech. They had a tough time with 2 Kentucky RB’s, how are they going to stop all the options that Tech will throw at them.
Happy Thanksgiving all, and enjoy the game.
WTFyousay
November 25th, 2009
12:23 pm
It’s over for Mark Richt. He knows it, the fans know it, the players know it. One more year tops but he’s gone.
BJohnDawg
November 25th, 2009
12:25 pm
Sorry 11-2 in 2007, 10-3 in 2008, 6-5 2009
We are down this year. This program is not falling off a cliff.
Tech has won nothing yet their biggest accomplishment in the last 8 years is a three point win at georgia in 08.
And yet Mark, you add like Tech is the new national champion.
JOhnson is a great coach. Richt is a great coach…he just needs to get rid of a few non performers on his staff.
JSS
November 25th, 2009
12:35 pm
Instate…
Any word or link of note regarding the fundraiser? Post it if you can… I think this something even the most ardent of supporters can work towards…
Wouldn’t be wonderful if we could have something like the old Scottish Rite game to benefit the Shepard Spinal Center and possibly helping the poor to afford proper spinal care?
Paul in RDU
November 25th, 2009
12:38 pm
What do they put in the water at GA Tech?
November 25th, 2009
12:13 pm
1943? 1944? Let’s see…what was significant about those two years?
Smart guy – you realize that UGA claims that they won the MNC in the 1942 season don’t you?
The reason UGA refuses to recognize GT’s wins in 1943 and 1944 is because GT had players on campus who were in the armed forces.
And before you start making aspersions about GT players in WW II you need to google “Clint Castleberry”.
Gabby
November 25th, 2009
12:39 pm
At times a sports writer has something to write about and then there are times that he has to write about something as in this piece.
Mark Bradley
November 25th, 2009
12:40 pm
I did ask about the Dairy Queen incident. Richt said he remembered two guys wearing Parkview shirts cutting line.
Kidding. Didn’t ask that. Asked instead about changes in the program.
Delbert D.
November 25th, 2009
12:51 pm
Seattle Jacket – You might add to you list that Tech’s FCS opponent, Jacksonville State and Georgia’s FCS opponent, Tenn. Tech are in the same conference.
Jacksonville State beat Tenn. Tech 2 weeks ago 55-28.
JetBuzz
November 25th, 2009
12:54 pm
Your “Fan Guide” is an annual pleasure, Mark. Anticipating Furman Bisher’s “Thankful” tomorrow!
Some Bullpup posters here still don’t take the Jackets and CPJ seriously. Time will tell…
Jackets are only a 7 1/2 pt favorite Saturday. Suspect our defensive
backfield is a big part of these odds. Let’s set the record strait, guys! Play tough and bring down some turnovers. Tech by 14+. GO Buzz!!
Delbert D.
November 25th, 2009
12:54 pm
What’s all this talking about the past? The wins in the past don’t count this year, and you can’t get any do-overs on the losses.
This is the present, here and now. This weekend is the future, and therefore subject to speculation.
William
November 25th, 2009
12:57 pm
Not saying we will… nor that we should… But if UGA beats Tech, does that say anything about all the experts and Pundits at the AJC that have proclaimed the end of UGA and the dawn of the Golden Age for the Jackets? I’m just saying, because I dont recall articles like this when UGA beat Tech for 7 years in a row. Don’t walk too Proud nor talk too wise Jackets, there is always a writer at the AJC ready to throw a rock at you and say your program sucks.
Brock
November 25th, 2009
1:03 pm
Jeananne- before you post agian please learn the difference in “loose” and “lose”. 3 times you used it wrong. Why is this so hard? I see it all the time. Sorry but it annoys me.
Delbert D.
November 25th, 2009
1:04 pm
William – According to Paul Johnson, no. He says he doesn’t buy into that stuff.
Brock
November 25th, 2009
1:05 pm
Tailback U- what do you have against gay people?
Brock
November 25th, 2009
1:05 pm
guess I should learn to spell again..oops
Gator A
November 25th, 2009
1:06 pm
Wow!!! Tech has two decent seasons in a row and suddenly they can run their mouth! Maybe it is because you are not use to it? But all it makes you look like is a “Sore Winner” Classless!!!! But what should anyone expect from fair weather fans?
Enjoy your time here… it won’t last long!
Stan Gann
November 25th, 2009
1:08 pm
Richt: ‘We’re not dead yet’
The dog is dead.
Mark Bradley
November 25th, 2009
1:10 pm
I’ve done this look at Tech and Georgia fans on a more or less annual basis — I think there was one year I missed — since 2000.
2BT
November 25th, 2009
1:10 pm
after Saturday, Mutt fans will only be up 7-5 over the last 12 with nearly ALL of the Jackets returning for a 3-peat in Athens next November! Suck on that reality pipe for awhile!
GT
November 25th, 2009
1:11 pm
Jackette you make a lot of sense. Richt will be fine but this lynch mob over in Athens may find that some of the problem is themselves. 70 tons of trash, fouling the parking lots, stumbling into a stadium in a stupor still zipping up from urinating on the sidewalk in front of minors, old ladies and dogs better trained and mannered. You are lucky a man like Richt wants to be seen with the likes of you. You are like the fat slob that tells his beautiful wife I think I will keep you, like he is doing her the favor.
jay
November 25th, 2009
1:12 pm
Wow tech finally got a win last year and now they are the best team ever….please don’t flatter yourselfs georgia had a typical georgia tech year.Georgia will beat tech and all this bullsh*t will go away and richt will get his ball team back together and on top again.
GO DAWGS!
D-Ro
November 25th, 2009
1:14 pm
TO HEll WITH Georgia