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
T14 or Nothing
June 29th, 2011
4:48 pm
@2L
UGA Law is so Montlick and Associates.
Dawgman
June 30th, 2011
1:19 pm
As a Monetary Alumni Member since 2000 (UGAAA) and season ticket holder for football the student body is a class ACT on GAMEDAY with oxford shirts and team color ties and the women with their RED BLOODED dresses only show how classy we really are at UGA. The dress depicts a touch of CLASSIC but REVEERED taste of the SOUTH which can only be described as styling and profiling!
sosososodef
June 30th, 2011
1:58 pm
Anyone that thinks it’s “stupid” to wear decent clothing to a football game is of the same ilk as those fans that spit and curse in front of my children in the stands. You have no place at Sanford.
jay
June 30th, 2011
2:01 pm
Those rednecks dont even like right in Brooks Brothers gear. The guy in the chair looks like he wants to take that $#!t off.
VOLinATL
June 30th, 2011
3:26 pm
bamaguy: Perfect comment!!! I would love it if they had one game a year in the SEC with only students and alums allowed…it would be refreshing!
Vince Drooley
July 1st, 2011
6:44 am
There is no way a guy wearing RED PANTS is hetero. Just sayin.
Mary Ann
July 1st, 2011
7:23 pm
95 and wearing neckties!!! How dumb!!!!!!!!!!!!
sob sister
July 4th, 2011
5:58 pm
NYU??? really? I agree that Ole Miss belongs here…NYU?
Mike
July 6th, 2011
1:23 pm
First off, George, Brooks Brothers was founded in 1818. I think you can take the quotes off “oldest.”
The entire tone of this article makes you look sound the guy who wears shorts and flip-flops to a job interview and thinks he didn’t get the job because he was competing against a chick with big boobs.
And as a genuine prep (same high school as Matt Ryan), who did attend UGA, I can say that the uncomfortable guy in the chair a) looks like he lied about his pants size and is now regretting it; b) wasn’t told the rule about how black shoes and socks with beige pants makes you look like Mickey Mouse; and c) doesn’t read Dilbert.
@Chuck Taylor
July 14th, 2011
7:06 pm
If your comment on Preppy Elitists was only true. The South would be so much better off with those Yankees staying up north. Problem is you Yankees have been coming to the South since well before the 1860’s and we still don’t like you. YANKEE GO HOME!