Brooks Brothers places UGA among preppy elite
What does UGA have in common with Harvard and Princeton?
Brooks Brothers clearly enjoys a challenge.
That’s not the the beginning of a joke, though I’m sure Tech fans will calculate a clever punchline.
According to Bloomberg business wire, Brooks Brothers, the alleged “oldest” and probably “stuffiest” men’s clothier chain in the U.S., has deemed UGA worthy of its first attempt at licensed college merchandise.
Fifteen schools made the cut, and a few of them don’t even have decent football teams. Brooks Brothers included a string of Southern schools because, according to the Bloomberg article, men here like to “wear ties” to football games.
We also like to stick bottles of Jack Daniels in our boots, so hopefully the distillery and Tony Lama will call soon.
The Bloomberg article says college sports fans spend more money than followers of any pro sport. It’s a good thing we’ve got the NCAA around to keep the sins of cash away from student-athletes.
Gawker, in a factually-challenged attempt at humor, says Brooks Brothers has “inadvertently revealed America’s whitest colleges.”
That can’t be true; but I’ll let you decide.
Here’s the complete list:
* Alabama
* Auburn
* Boston College
* Cornell
* Georgia
* Georgetown
* Harvard
* Notre Dame
* NYU
* Ohio State
* Princeton
* Stanford
* U.S. Naval Academy
* Vanderbilt
* Virginia
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60 comments Add your comment
Brad
June 28th, 2011
9:31 am
Go Irish – I’ve worked with some of your women….no style and not feminine.
Bill Clinton
June 28th, 2011
9:37 am
I think it is fair, I heard that Ga Tech was given two awards for dress – one by the Taliban and another by the Chinese Communist party, since most students are members of one or the other.
Georgia Guy
June 28th, 2011
9:41 am
Hahahahahah Love it Bill.
Dawgturds ahoy
June 28th, 2011
10:03 am
Fifteen schools made the cut, and a few of them don’t even have decent football teams.
Right, including UGAy.
And their coach sucks too.
Prepster
June 28th, 2011
10:05 am
The athletic history of UGA is full of so many sordid, sleazy incidents – dating back to Vince Dooley and continuing through Mark Richt – that it’s impossible to overlook. The school has come to stand for drunkenness and lawlessness, coddling of illiterate athletes who should never have been admitted to college, and rampant cheating by coaches.
Oh, and preppiness, I forgot that.
Worm
June 28th, 2011
10:39 am
I’m disappointed… Any SEC School who did not make this list should be hanging their head in shame
m
June 28th, 2011
10:56 am
What do Georgia, Princeton and Harvard have in common….They all have and ‘r’ and have two syllables that should exhaust the set of solutions
LukasAtl
June 28th, 2011
11:18 am
George, UGA has more in common with Yale than either Harvard or Princeton … UGA was started by Yale grads and patterned after Yale.
Chuck Taylor
June 28th, 2011
11:45 am
@LukasAtl
The only thing UGA has in common with Yale is a Bulldog mascot.
Help Me Understand
June 28th, 2011
12:19 pm
I have gone to a lot of games in Sanford and noticed:
1) Why the boys wear shirt and tie in a football game.
2) Why the girls wear black pajama gowns.
3) Why #1 and #2 continue to do this when it’s 90+ degrees in the stadium and sweat profusely.