Who you for, UGA fans? The Evil Genius or Nick UnFairley?
"Good luck, Stevie boy. We're all counting on you." (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
Three years ago yours truly paid a midweek visit to Columbia, S.C., for Steve Spurrier’s weekly briefing. Toward the end, I mentioned that a brand new AJC.com poll had just reconfirmed that the Ol’ Ball Coach was — ahead of even Urban Meyer, who was coming off a BCS title — the man Georgia fans most loved to hate.
“Glad they haven’t forgotten me,” said Spurrier, who seemed pleased.
Postscript: Four days later, Spurrier and South Carolina came to Sanford Stadium and beat Georgia 16-12.
The Bulldogs have nothing to do with this year’s SEC championship game, which will be staged Saturday at the Georgia Dome. (Fun fact: Seven different SEC schools have qualified for the title game since last Georgia did in 2005.) But Spurrier will be here, and he might actually be the sentimental favorite. Because here are your choices:
• In one corner, the Evil Genius and his Gamecock minions, who are new to this championship thing.
• In the other, RoboCoach Gene Chizik and Nick UnFairley and, lest we forget, Cam Newton.
Loading ...Auburn fans love their team. Almost nobody else does. Let’s state for the record that Newton is the nation’s best player and Fairley its best defender, but we also must concede that the Tigers lead the world in irrational exuberance.
This isn’t to say South Carolina has been without sin. Tight end Weslye Sanders was kicked off the team without playing a down this season, and several Gamecocks apparently got the William Shatner rate at Columbia’s Whitney Hotel over the summer. And that “2001″ introduction at Williams-Brice Stadium was pretty tired back in … well, 2001.
But Auburn, as we know, has become the new standard in raised eyebrows, what with Fairley’s repeated slams of Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray (see YouTube video below) to the series of revelations/allegations that led to Newton being declared ineligible by Auburn. (He was re-instated, after a timeout of one day, by the NCAA.)
Viewed alongside strutting Auburn, the Gamecocks seem rather gentlemanly. So now I’m asking a question I never thought I’d ask: Georgia fans, are you rooting for Spurrier?
Or, put another way, is there really a cold front bearing down on Hades?
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S GA AU FAN
December 3rd, 2010
12:11 pm
If Fairley were a dawg he would be a rockstar… now who said it?
WAR EAGLE!
Oh Joy
December 3rd, 2010
12:13 pm
Yet another online venue for UGA fans to whine.
Dawgies — you’re getting WAY to predictible.
Try something new (like playing GOOD football, insteady of making excuses, whining, complaining and blaming).
Sheesh — what babies ya’ll are!
Dawg Faced Truth
December 3rd, 2010
12:14 pm
Most of the free world will be (reluctantly) pulling for SC tomorrow (the evil of two lessers). As witnessed on ESPN countless times this season Auburn has been having a fairy tale season (or should I say a farley tailed season). Cam probably has the talent to get them by but doesn’t he remind you of JaMarcus Russell? Hope karma shines on war tiger eagle……whatever tomorrow. Maybe they can play Boise in the Almost National Championship(not to be confused with the BCS). Not hatin, just statin.
Camenstein
December 3rd, 2010
12:15 pm
@ARDawg
How is blind loyalty by a fan to a college football team dangerous?
Radly Dawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:15 pm
Spurrier still remembers who embarrased and destroyed him in 1966 in the Gator Bowl…that is one of the reasons he wanted to exact the punishmnet on Georgia every chance he got. The Dawgs crapped on his Heisman/Senior year…Go Dawgs!!!! Ask Spurrier who Bill Stanfill, George Patton, and Happy Dicks are??
Chizik and his thugs will get there due before this season is over with!!!!! I’d hate to be Auburn next year when they bring their chain gang to Athens!!!! I can see the pictures/posters/etc. in the Georgia weight room…there will be hell to pay…. you bunch of low life plains’billies!!!!! Murray is going to light up Auburn so much…they’ll think Sherman is back in town!!!! Go you hairy Dawgs!!!
Radly Dawg
Falcondawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:16 pm
Don’t worry all you Cam haters he will get his next year when he turns out to be the next Vince Young and looses is mind because no one is licking his toes anymore because he is really just a big athlete who is not a real QB. I’m going to feel sorry for Buffalo when they draft him next year! As for AU their obviously living it up right now because although we may go to the toilet bowl every year, all this feel good their feeling right now will have them going to possibly O bowl games in the next 5, just wait and see!!
Funny
December 3rd, 2010
12:16 pm
Must be absolutely killing thUGA’s to root for Spurrier, know the history of hate where he’s concerned.
Guess that speaks VOLUMES about how they’re still smarting over the beat-down given to them on November 13th.
How funny. Childish indeed, but still downright humorous.
HahHahHahHahHah.
Bitter much, Bulldawg fans? Grow a pair already and move on.
Camenstein
December 3rd, 2010
12:17 pm
@LHardingDawg
And they should also retroactively instate AJ Green and give UGA the games they lost without him. Then UGA would be in the game this weekend, go ahead and buy your tickets.
DC
December 3rd, 2010
12:19 pm
You cannot compare the reggie bush case with the cam newton case…only comparision is you have parents involved…thats it!
To Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:20 pm
Auburn has a mascot. Just because you don’t have two brain cells to figure it out, doesn’t mean anything.
Let’s see. What’s Bama’s mascot? An elephant? Or a big red wave? Or what?
What a juvenile you are.
Camenstein
December 3rd, 2010
12:20 pm
but you can compare it to the OJ case apparently
IRISH DAWGS
December 3rd, 2010
12:22 pm
AUBURN enjoy your scram season, you got the best players money can buy.auburn your going down, it just a matter of time,just like USC . IT ALL GOING TO BE TAKEN AWAY. AUBURN GOING TO SUCK BIG TIME NEXT YEAR .WITH 3 STARTER ON OFFENSE AND 3 STARTER ON DEFENSE RETURNING FOR 2011.it could get worst, if your on probation.
Ifs&ButsRCandy&Nuts
December 3rd, 2010
12:23 pm
If thUGA’s would just put a FRACTION of their efforts into developing a good football program as they do in making excuses for having a very bad one, just imagine where they would be!
Franky
December 3rd, 2010
12:23 pm
Who cares how many mascots Auburn has, is that really the best you have?
Id rather have 5 than a dog with a lifespan of 2 years that requires ice cubes to be shoved up its behind to stay cool because, after hundreds of years of inbreeding it still hasnt developed the capacity to cool itself adequately.
Mascot Burns.
What's Important
December 3rd, 2010
12:25 pm
Never thought it would happen in a million years, always said if Spurrier were playing the Devil himself I would cheer for the Devil, but in this instance Spurrier is on the side of the Angels, so GO GAMECOCKS.
ARdawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:25 pm
Camenstein
You should ask me that question after Cam is gone and your football program and school is dealing with the fall out. “IF” the dots are connected and the punishment at the very least is the death penalty and at the most admonishment from the SEC, was the Cam loyalty worth it? It’s a yes or no question, take your time
Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:26 pm
Two is a much higher magnitude than what you have working over there. I take that as a compliment coming from you.
Poor Poor Irish Dog
December 3rd, 2010
12:26 pm
Still desperately hoping, wishing and praying, I see!
And, MAYBE IF YOU TYPE IT IN ALL CAPS, it’ll happen?
Don’t hold your breath, son. It’s not going to happen. As much as the media tried to create and perpetuate the character asasination of Cameron Newton and Auburn University, they failed miserably.
You see, the smarter folk refused to drink the media Kool-Aid. I’m guessing you, on the other hand, went back for 2nds and 3rds.
Cherry flavored?
Falcondawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:27 pm
Whats funny is if Cam played for UGA the UGA THUG U hate would be off the charts. He was to thug for even UGA, haha.
Poor Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:28 pm
Maybe your Thug-Pups will have a better year in 2011. Well, after their Boise State beat down at least.
And then, there’s always the Florida Atlantic game to look forward to in 2012.
Yep, things are definitely looking up in Athens!!
Camenstein
December 3rd, 2010
12:29 pm
@ARDawg
So my loyalty as a fan now can somehow impact the severity of the punishment that MIGHT be handed down sometime in the future.
LHardingDawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:29 pm
I’ll be pulling for South Carolina because they are in the East. As far as Spurrier and Georgia, I’ve always enjoyed hating him because of his success against Georgia. Everything he has ever said about Georgia was absolutely true, whether we liked it or not.
Your Breath Smells like Fish Fry Tacos
December 3rd, 2010
12:31 pm
FAIRLLEY is a class A: JERK
Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:31 pm
Funny, I never mentioned what school I went to or rooted for.
Keep thinking the only people who hate you are Georgia and Alabama fans. The hate runs nationwide.
Poor Dawgies
December 3rd, 2010
12:32 pm
Almost feeling sorry for you.
All your tears.
All your hate.
All your excuses.
All your whining.
All your complaining.
All your blaming.
Ya’ll must be exhausted.
Cobb Dawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:32 pm
OJ, I think most educated folk realize the the thesis of my statement was “karma” and not “double-murder”. And do you really think it was just Cecil asking for money without Cam’s knowledge, really?!?! And do you think that they switched to *AU without getting the money?!?!?! Even after Cam’s statement that “the money’s too much at *Aururn”?!? You *Aubies can deny all you want. The rest of the country knows.
Katherine
December 3rd, 2010
12:32 pm
Atlanta, Ga Auburn Tiger.
December 3rd, 2010
11:14 am
This is a silly question because the answer is obvious. The beat down the whiners took from Auburn is still fresh and their pain and anguish is so overwhelming, they’ll all pull for one of the other teams that embarrassed them this season. Ain’t gonna happen. Your anguish continues. War Eagle!
Schools have down years and up years….enjoy being obnoxious now….you might not have another year like this again for awhile.
Camenstein
December 3rd, 2010
12:33 pm
Chris, lets be honest the only folks that ever bring up the mascot deal are UGA fans…(tech and bama also have the 2 mascot thing going)
NoOneCares Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:34 pm
Whatever school you’re a fan of doesn’t matter. I was just pointing out that other schools have more than one nickname, battle cry, mascot, or whatever.
Guess that one went right over your head as well.
Not surprised.
Who to pull for?
December 3rd, 2010
12:35 pm
Why pull for either one!?! Why can’t both buses carrying these clowns drive off deep into the Atlantic… never to be seen again?
Of course, that would be pollution, wouldn’t it???
It is...
December 3rd, 2010
12:35 pm
…comical to watch the Plainsmen blindly defend their team, blame it all on UGA (still can’t figure that one out–inferiority complex, I guess) and ignore the rest of the country that also thinks Cam is guilty and that the program is as dirty as they come. Even the ESPN commentators that love Cam always caveat their statements with a disclaimer that it could all come to an end.
ARdawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:35 pm
Camenstein
You didn’t answer the question. Instead you asked one but, I’ll answer it anyway. Your loyalty certainly comes across as blind loyalty. As in, “we stand behind him no matter the allegations. because he’s the savior and anyone that plays like he does is AU’s messiah” That’s a slippery slope. Toot the horns and let the confetti fly amid the allegations. There may still be the Piper to pay and who do you think will pay it?
The allegations didn’t come out of thin air. There is “some” degree of substance to them. If I were an AU fan, “I” would want to know
Old Dawg Dad
December 3rd, 2010
12:36 pm
Any way BOTH can lose?
If not, I’ll hold my noise and go with The Old Visor Thrower. His act is still good for a laugh!
But, after recent events – I wouldn’t pull for ALL-Barn if the team plane was going down!
re: Poor Dawgies
December 3rd, 2010
12:37 pm
It’s “y’all” not “ya’ll”. Don’t be ignorant in your red-neckness.
OJ
December 3rd, 2010
12:37 pm
@Cobb Dawg
So the Karmic wrath for someone asking for money should be the same as it is for double murder?
Also, why would Auburn suffer this wrath, what did they do?
Or are you saying it will come back and haunt Cam because he knew about it and lied?
HereUGoPups
December 3rd, 2010
12:37 pm
(::::[ ]::::)
Here’s bandaid for the boo-boo you got on November 13th.
Maybe that’ll make it feel better!
Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:37 pm
Not surprised you don’t have the downstairs fortitude to keep a single name.
Oh well, I’ll enjoy the postscript when none of this ever happened.
KIDD HUFF
December 3rd, 2010
12:37 pm
The two most beautiful words all you THUGA fans will hear is
TOUCHDOWN AUBURN…all night long!
ARdawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:38 pm
My personal observation is, many of you blind homers from AU really do believe in Santa Claus. Enjoy and hope you loyalty is well placed
Your Breath Smells like Fish Fry Tacos
December 3rd, 2010
12:38 pm
First off Au fans, the academics at Au are terrible. You all folks were rejected from UGA. You are just like the Kang Chuck Oliver. He admittedly could not get into UGA so he went to Au. You all are about as bad as a NERD.
Poor Chris!
December 3rd, 2010
12:41 pm
Sadder and sadder, you are.
Hating more and more.
Cry me a river, sonny boy!
Waaaah Waaaah Waaaah Waaaah
Wow, Nov 13th really smarted for you, didn’t it!
Poor thang.
:’-(
Darth Visor
December 3rd, 2010
12:41 pm
What happens to all those blue chip recruits once they get to Athens?
lol at Fish Fry
December 3rd, 2010
12:41 pm
What’s next?
Gonna through dirt in my eyes on the playground or pull my hair?
Grow up, kiddo.
ARdawg
December 3rd, 2010
12:42 pm
I have a number of rabid AU fans as friends. Most have their caution well placed all the while enjoying their recent success. They question and are worried something worse is yet to come. Maybe they are wrong. Maybe Cam and Bruvvah Ministah Cecil are on the complete up and up. None of them will take a bet on it though
BMDPD
December 3rd, 2010
12:42 pm
Once again, to all you idgits out there that say, “The O line didn’t block that Dick Fairley.” Answer this: How many sacks did the POS have?
CMR
December 3rd, 2010
12:45 pm
I’m going to watch the game with Vince. It will be great to see two REAL football teams as opposed to this bunch of thugs I had to coach this year.
Chris
December 3rd, 2010
12:45 pm
The 13th was a pretty good day for me. My team didn’t lose that day.
Now, about the bus ride from Auburn to Atlanta – a normal bus would probably make it on one tank. Since yours is well…longitudinally challenged…does it have to stop for gas on the way?
Auburn or South Carolina - what a choice!!
December 3rd, 2010
12:46 pm
Now I don’t know, and I certainly don’t think so, but it’s been rumored a certain bully from Auburn likes wearing red lipstick and red panties in the confines of his football dorm room. It has also been rumored a certain AD was going to give that bully the red panties he had if that mean old cop had not messed things up, thus the reason the bully was so uptight at the UGA game. Ah such is the love between UGA and AU.
cadilac
December 3rd, 2010
12:46 pm
gotta go with Auburn; war eagle!!
BMDPD
December 3rd, 2010
12:46 pm
Not sure I will ever be able to cheer for Auburn again.