Georgia-Florida game moving to Atlanta? World’s Largest Cocktail Party mulls moving up I-75

Florida must laugh at us every other year as we travel down to Jacksonville for our “home” game.
All to make a couple big money coastal contributors happy and the hard-drinking contigency happy. Let’s have the game in Atlanta every year and then we can laugh at them every other year when they they travel to Atlanta “home” game.

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cajdawg- relax. After all, playing it at a neutral site inflates CMR’s “road record”.

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I, for one, think it would be WONDERFUL to have it hear every so often. too many weekends there at that armpit of a city when I was a UGA student, only to have that awesome 5 hour drive of shame back to Athens after FLA wiped the table with us.

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If the Georgia people DO NOT think we can beat Florida in Jacksonville…just MOVE the game for heavens sake. We can LOSE in Georgia too…so more fans can see it live!
Oh…what is this I’m hearing??…..Vince Dooley laughing!
I hope we grow a backbone….and soon.

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i get the tradition of the game in JAX…i’ve gone a couple times and it was a blast. i just with we could play the turds in sanford every other year. the atmosphere that would create, for us and for them, as a home game every other year would be incredible. i can’t imagine ohio state – michigan or oklahoma – nebraska being played on a nuetral field. i know texass and oklahoma play in dallass every year but they should change too now that they are in the same conference. that home game against your rival is what the fans deserve…not having to make a 300 mile trek. so…i say bye bye JAX and no to the dome!

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Stupid. Either make it home-and-away (not a great idea), or leave it like it is. What good is once every 4 years?

And, Baba, you are correct that Richt’s ‘road’ record is better than his overall ‘away from Athens’ record percentage-wise, but either way, it ain’t bad. How does yours compare?

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I’d love to see it alternate, but also don’t have a problem with it being held annually in Jacksonville. Every UGA/UF game I’ve attended as been in Jacksonville and it really does have a great atmosphere. Having it in Atlanta could change that atmosphere and make it less attractive.

The biggest disadvantage to having it in Jacksonville is the impact on the teams. UF gets up the morning of and makes the hour drive over to play the game. They prep and spend the entire week before hand in their natural setting. UGA, on the other hand, has a 6 hour drive and has to give up Fridays and their normal routine to make the trip down. That’s a fair deal on away games, but giving up Fridays and traveling that far for “home” game seems out of whack.

If it happens…Great! If not, it’s still a great game and doesn’t change anything.

At the end of the day, I’d rather they just play at their own stadiums. Is it really a “home” game when half the fans are for the other team?

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Would it provide a “mental edge” to play close to home? Maybe, maybe not. We used to cream the gators up until the 90’s, now, where has our program gone? Or should I ask, where has Florida’s gone?

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about time people realize driving 7 hours to a game is not considered a home game in any year. It may as well be like when LSU played at Arizona State but called it a home game during Hurricane Katrina. What do people not understand that playing a game in Florida means its a home game for Florida no matter how the record books look back upon it.

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So on those years the Florida fans will have to travel to Atlanta twice, I guess. The Georgia Dome is practically a home field for us anyway – we’ve played a lot more games there than Georgia.

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I don’t want the game to go to Atlanta – but I wouldn’t mind seeing it in Tampa. That’s a better town than Jacksonville with more stuff to do.

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we can’t win in jax, lets change it to atlanta! boo frickin hoo!

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Jacksonville’s stadium holds around 84,000 for the Georgia – Florida game. The Georgia Dome holds around 71,000. That means there would be 6,500 fans at each school who could have gotten tickets in Jacksonville who wouldn’t be able to get them if the game was played in Atlanta.

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This Dawg says LEAVE IT ALONE! It is a tradition that both side enjoy to the fullest! The Dome is not a good venue. The tailgating will be terrible!

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I really do not like tailgating in downtown Atlanta…I know that they will not go home at home due to financial consideration. At this time I would get the best deal and leave it alone..

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As an atlanta resident i beg you not to do this. It is bad enough that Georgia frat boys live in Buckhead and retire at thirty to the Highlands but we can not take a full on assault like that. That would be too many hapless rednecks in a great city at once. I think they should move the game to some redneck part of mississippi where the georgia and florida fans would feel more at home.

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cajdawg is correct. Further keep the game in Jax it keeps the magic of the game. The Tx OU Red River Shootout is the only other neutral site game that cames close the Jax game. Terrible idea never have liked watching anything downtown.

CMR has had a great road record why should Jax be any different? Last year was the first blowout loss. Get UGA a week off before the game like UF has had, that is the difference make not the location.

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By the way…Georgia doesn’t drive to the game, they fly!!!

And I would imagine that during the 80’s, when UGA was kicking UF’s butt, not one UGA fan was in favor of moving the game at all.

I’m a UGA fan and I say keep the game in Jacksonville. Great atmosphere and it’s still one of the coolest sights to see the stadium split right down the middle.

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way to ruin this rivalry…playing in the ATL would kill what is arguably football’s greatest rivalry between two high powered teams…quit whining dawg fans: getting beat by 30+ points isn’t going to change if we play in atlanta, it will jsut make all you people who think jacksonville isn’t neutral find something else to complain about…KEEP THE GAME IN JACKSONVILLE!!!

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YES!! Rotate between Atlanta and Jacksonville !!

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This is just a ruse for Richt to shift blame for the fact that UF has owned him. Jax, Atl…doesn’t matter. The stadium will still be split right down the middle. How upset will all the UGA fans be when they don’t get to return to St. Simons to drown their sorrows?

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As a former St. Simon’s Island resident, I like the idea of alternating where the game is held. Currently, the Island gets overrun every Ga/Jax weekend. The beaches are absolutely trashed, and this year some idiot even had the bright idea of giving away beer at the beach. In plastic cups. Who did the clean-up? Not the football fans; they were already drunk again at the games. The islanders did. By the way, thank you to all the volunteers for the beach clean and for helping the already fragile coastal eco-system.

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I realized that I was wrong in my previous comment, because I forgot all of the Peach Bowl games that Georgia has played at the stadium — they’ve played in the same number of Peach Bowls since the Dome opened as we’ve won national championships, so that must be why it slipped my mind. But if you only count SEC championship games, we’ve played there 7 times and UGA 3, so my first point works. Did I mention the national championship we won there in basketball?? Love that place.

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I know it’s ‘profit deal’ for Atlanta, but speaking as a ‘fortunate one’ that for years was able to attend the GA/FLA game, to change it to Atlanta – even if it were just once every four years – would be just ‘effin’ wrong. Sorry, but a long weekend (or short week, if you were lucky) at the beach, with golf and stuff, is way better than a couple of nights in Atlanta. In fact, most of the Georgia fans wouldn’t bother to stay over-night (guess that means we’re just trying to get our hands on Florida money?).

Don’t spoil this tradition for all those fans that love to have this mini-vacation every year. I mean, for most of us we’re just gonna watch it on TV anyway, so what’s it matter where they play it. The only thing we have to do is make that trip back home more enjoyable by winning the damn thing at least as often as they do.

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Make it Home & home and be done with it. Traditions fade over time and this one has had it’s day. It’s simple economics and UGA needs the home games and freedom to schedule better OOC opponents.

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Don’t they call it the Georgia-Florida game because G comes before F in the alphabet?

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As Dawg who lived in Jacksonville from 1968 to 1997, there was never a problem with the game while Doooley was winning most of them. If we start showing up and playing every year and not gagging a fur ball, things will be fine. Moving the game will destroy the unique character of the event.

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Damon says, “Sure we would love to move”, but under his breath he is looking for more money from the people in Jacksonville. There would be a woman President of the USA before this game is moved out of the Gator Bowl.

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Wreck it isn’t UGA’s home field. If I count correctly UGA is 4-3 in the dome. However, I do wish the championship game would move to Florida, New Orelans, or Nashville.

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Nah, leave it in Jacksonville.

1. The ones yelling for it to be in Atl have never been down there.
2. It’s something for all the fans in south Georgia. Let them have that one game. It broadens our fan base by an enormous amount.
3. The game being in Jacksonville is NOT why we lose to UF so much. Don’t use it as an excuse.
4. The only other game of it’s kind (that I know of) is the Red River Shootout. How big is that game? Pretty big if you ask this non-fan of either team. UGA vs UF is the same.

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The only thing wrong with J-ville is that we cannot bring the lesser team and win the game.

BTW, its a totally false argument that FL gets to practise all week and just skip over on game day, and UGA has to travel for days and spend nights away.

Both team arive on Friday and spend the night in town. I’m guessing a couple of hours extra travel isnt that stessful on a highly trained 19 yr old athlete.

Plus now that the airstrip is longer in Athens, and they are starting to fly direct for away games…travel is about the same. Bus an hour, fly an hour. It probably has more to do with blocking and tackling than this.

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Years ago Auburn decided that playing the “Iron Bowl” in Birmingham every year was not a neutral site game…..it was a home game for Alabama in a different stadium. We should realize the same thing…..Spurrier understood the dynamics of playing in Jacksonville, Fl, in a stadium called the Gator Bowl…..neutral site ? Hogwash ! Granted, Jacksonville is a more appealing destination than Birmingham, but it’s still a home game for Florida…every year. If you want to go to Florida, go on vacation, in the summer, when you can go to a good beach. If you want to go to see UGA play UF, don’t get so submerged the periphery. Either go to a home and home schedule, or alternate the Georgia Dome every year….their game will be in the Gator Bowl and our game will be in the GEORGIA DOME !

This isn’t that difficult to understand….would you rather have a fair shot at winning at least every other year or would rather give a HUGE advantage to Florida each year just so you can visit a second rate coastal city ?

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Give up 10,000 seats by moving to the Dome? STUPID. 5,000 Georgia fans shut out of tickets. If UGA is intent on leaving J’ville they may as well go home and home, Athens and Gainesville. Why play a game with 74,000 seats when you have 93,000 60 miles away?

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You people are idiots…UGA will do NO better in Atlanta than he has in Jacksonville. The talent levels won;t change, just the venue…if anything, the Dome is Florida’s home field. They have played there more times than the Dawgs have. You Dawg fans are going to regret it when we get beat and we can’t go back and drink away our sorrows at the beach having fun, instead we’ll be sitting in our living rooms mourning our lost and having no fun whatsoever. Thanks for voicing your opinions to ruin a great football tradition. Sorry Gators that some UGA fans just can’t see how lucky we are to play this game and may ruin it for y’all too!

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Are you kidding me? Georgia fans was just fine with the game being in Jville until they started getting their butts kicked on a regular basis. As I recall, when the game was played in Athens the pooches get their backs broken. Jville, Gville, Athens, the Dome or in somebody’s back yard in Utah, it does not matter were the slaughter takes place.

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ANd for all the Dawg fans saying Jacksonville isn’t neutral, where were y’all when the Dawgs were waxing Florida every year? The site sure seemed neutral then…

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why support Jacksonvill or Atlanta? Move home game to Athens. Ticket holders will have better seats. PLEASE, NO ATLANTA DOME! P.S. I own a condo in Palm Coast.

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i, personally, think winning is more important than tradition and let’s face it, jacksonville may be “neutral” in regards to the amount of fans they let in, but trust me, it’s an advantage for the team that doesnt have to travel as far. i would like to see how the gators had fared the last 20 years had they been forced by tradition to come up to the dome every year. to solve this, i just simply say alternate home and away just like anybody else. if u think this will take away from the electricity of the rivalry, you’re sadly mistaken, but if tradition and money are really that important, than i say the FAIREST way to do it is alternate neutral sites playing at the dome one year and in jacksonville the next.

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Idiots. How can Okl and Texas play in Texas and split the series the past 40 years with neither complaining? There was no talk in the 70’s about moving it. Win more than 3 games in 19 years and it would be enjoyable. Less tickets and no place to tailgate, brilliant!!!

Born in Georgia moved to Florida to get away from you crying hicks.

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Why not make it a true home and away deal? Nobody cares about the game except FL and UGA fans anyway. Everybody is watching their own team on Sat. afternoon.

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Like the tailgating or events leading up to the game in ATL would be anywhere near as fun or enjoyable as Jacksonville. Ever been downtown other than to a game, there is nothing else to do at night. Boring! Buckhead was killed off. I know, we could all go to the Coke museum or aquarium. Yeah, that sounds like fun while me and my buddies are trying to relax with a few cold ones.

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Look, I’m all for “tradition,” but I would like to remind Georgia fans that UGA and Auburn playing in Columbus was once a “great tradition.” Do they play in Columbus anymore? No. Is that a problem? No. If it moves, so be it. If it doesn’t, great–tradition continues. To be honest, UGA should worry less about where the game is played, and more about what the plan is once they are there. Hasn’t looked like they have had much of a game plan in recent years…no, wait…decades.

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

THIS IS A HOME GAME FOR FLARIDA! LET THEM JORT WEARIN MULLETHEADS COME UP TO ATLANTA SO WE CN HAVE HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE!!!

UGA PRESEASON NATIONAL CHAMPS!!!!

HUNKERDOWN!
LET THE BIG DAWG EAT!
GAYTORS SUCK
TEBAG SUCKS
CRYER SUCKS

STAFFORD WILL BE A BETTER PRO!

WOOF WOOF!!!

HUNKERDOWN!

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IT is about winning the game not going to party. Move it to home and home and we can party after we win.

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WalkerVoices I think majority of the UGA fans want it in Jax. As for the RRS there was talk in going home and home for them when the Cotton Bowl would not update the stadium but the Cowboy’s new stadium fixed that with alot of money too which is what this is really about. Further Texas has owned that series 58-40 up until recently with OU going on a run with 2 of those games won by ~50 points. The game is alot like Ga/Fl.

I was in Athens for the last tiem it was played in Athen and the game just isn’t the same.

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NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!!!!

No one wants to play football indoors, and who really wants to travel to Atlanta. The location of the stadium has ZERO to do with the outcome. Georgia gets half the stadium every year and fills up our half every year. Jacksonville is a great trip, the perfect place for the game, and a great excuse to go to the beach in October, not to mention a long standing tradition, something that used to mean something in this world. There is no jet jag, no bus fatigue, no time zone difference,NOTHING. NOT A SOUL complained about Jacksonville in the 70s and 80s when UGA won every year, in a stadium named the “GATOR BOWL” by the way. DAWGS, Coach Richt, Damon Evans: Stop making excuses, MAN UP, and WIN THE GAME!!!

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Great idea! 8 games played inside the state of Georgia. All road games within a 2 hour driving distance. Don’t ever whine to me about how tough the SEC schedule is.

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Bad Idea! What is good about playing at the dome every 4 years? There are less seats there, terrible place to tailgate, etc., etc. If not going to go home and home, leave it alone!! The game is a great atmosphere for college football and gets national attention, and we can lose just as well in Atlanta as we can in Jax!! (Sorry about that, but it is discouraging to have lost as many as we have to the Gators in the past 20 years).

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Ben there is a big difference between Jax. and The Auburn UGA game. I have been to UGA/Auburn at home and away as well as Jax as well as UF in Athens. It is not the same. Further it would pay much less to go home and home.

Fox is correct get the open date before the game.

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I think it should go to home and home- the whole JAX thing is stupid an dated….lets make it fair while helping the home communities economies too!

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The game needs to be moved. It should rotate years just for the simple fact of the revenue we dump into FL. Don’t we want a piece of the pie?

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To bad there is not a stadium in Savannah because Jacksonville is definitely not neutral, but Atlanta, the Dome, that makes me want to puke.

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Move it to Atlanta now! GSU is aniticipating a move to D-1 and that will seriously hurt our S.Georgia support since most of those fans did not attend UGA anyhow. Git it up hear were we atliest have a chanse. I hated playing in that pit and moving it to UGA is the best move.

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Home and home.

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Ain’t gonna happen.

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Good idea. Do it. Pump some money into this states economy.

The “talks” are not about pulling out of Jax, it is about a rotational schedule. Every fla fan, coach, employee, booster, etc. laughs their
tail off about the “neutrality” of this game. Heck, spurrier said it
in public!

I also get tired hearing about the “big money” boosters in south Ga. Do
you think other large schools have “big money” boosters that live 400
miles away but still travel to EVERY game? If distance is such an issue, move or buy a game day condo.

I don’t pretend it will have anything to do with the outcome. However,
it will move some $$$ to Georgia every 4 years. Also, dealing with the
Jax authorities has never been fun, they look to harass UGA fans.

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Gators are used to the dome, coming frequently to the SEC championship. I guess UGA is also, coming to the Peach Bowl….

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The game couldn’t be MORE nuetral, in Jax, as anyone who actually goes to it, knows. LEAVE IT BE.

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Being from Ohio this is the 2nd best game every year. I love the “neutral” turf. I have been going to this game since 1979. The only game I didn’t like was the one in G’ville. I missed the home game in Athens. But the best thing is that it is in J’ville. If the game goes to the Dome so be it. I doubt anyone will be staying at the beach that night.

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every other year in jax is fine. make the gayters travel some. that’s fair. it is past time to let RCMR have a choice in this game. He’s earned it. If he wants it changed, then his program is paying the bills for the rest of the athletic department and he should be able to make that call regardless what someone in south Ga thinks about it. We need to distance ourselves from the Dooley-esque period as it pertains to this particular game. We need to stop worrying about rewarding the folks in South GA with their own game and start rewarding the players on our team with a game like this that is close by.

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I never heard you dogette’s complaining when Vince was regularly whipped our butts. What are you going to do with the 40,000 fans who can’t get into the game?

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The Dome sucks!!!! no fun at all, why the heck did they build a Dome in Atlanta anyway? It’s not like they get bad weather all the time. This is from a UGA fan who wants to keep it in JAX. Do a home and home if tey want to shake things up.

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I like it right where it is. And, the Florida “home game” thing about Jacksonville is stupid. There are more Dawg fans in Jacksonville than Gator fans. Some of us South Georgia natives see Jacksonville as Georgia’s second largest city.

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ABSOLUTELY move it here! It’s completely unfair that it’s in FL. I do not understand why it can’t be rotating every other year!

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Keep it in Jax….we love traveling down to St Simons and Amelia Island for the game once a year…great times and great memories!!!Go Dawgs!!

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Home and home……….. Though it is full of history and tradition Jax was NEVER a very intelligent choice for the Dawgs. Who made that deal anyway?

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The Gators will die soon enough, once lord Tebow is gone. Anyhow, they’ll fall to both Georgia and LSU this coming season.

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Home and home. The home cities will benefit. Check the data- the big $ goes to Florida, little to GA. Between the hedges and the Swamp. Gator is good eating.

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What’s wrong with Sanford Stadium? It’s usually a pretty nice for a gathering on an October day.

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We should move it to Jupiter. Then we might get a “draw” when neither team shows.

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I love the game being played in Jacksonville I have gone since before I was a student at UGA- 85 grad- nobody complained when we were winning every year.All we have to do is start winning this game again and you will not hear this complaint from my UGA brothers and sisters.It is one of the great traditions of college football it needs to stay in Jvlle not the dome.

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OH PLEASE NO!!! WE ARE ALREADY IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING RID OF THE HOODLUMS DOWN HERE DOWNTOWN, NOW HERE COMES THE SURBURBAN REDNECKS. PLEASE KEEP THA GAME IN JAX OR ATHENS. I DONT FEEL LIKE SEEING STUPID BLONDES HANGING ON TO FAT MEN WITH SHIRTS OFF CHEWING TOBACCO LIKE THEY ARE AT A NASCAR RACE. PLEASE STAY AWAY HILLBILLIES!!!!!

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And another thing about the media…when Georgia is winning…the Jacksonville media covers us quite well.
In the 70’s and 80’s it was “an expected FACT that we would beat Florida” …that’s what the media said over and over…AND I still have many copies of many years of the Florida Times-Union in my closet to prove it. Fantastic coverage written by David Lamm, Pat Dooley, Frank Frangie, Tom Cornelison and Gene Pullen…just to name a FEW.
For some of you kids on here…there was TALK every single year by the GATORS to MOVE the game BECAUSE Georgia HAD an advantage in Jacksonville..the old timers remember well.
When Georgia is winning…the media takes interest…

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Two things… Oklahoma never complains about playing in Texas everywhere… Maybe it has to do with winning. Who knows. Second, If you take this game to Atlanta every year (or every other year) then, for that year, the SECCG should be moved somewhere else. Fair? Unfair?

I mean… Why should Atlanta benefit from two high level SEC games being played there every year? Not to mention the season opening games, chik-fil-a bowl, etc, etc…

Sounds like Atlanta is getting greedy.

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Rotate it every year between Atlanta and Jacksonville, or switch it to a regular home and home series. Seriously, just because it’s been done one way for so long (hence the word “tradition”) does NOT make it right!

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ONE YEAR IN FLORIDA ONE YEAR IN GEORGIA ON TRUF FIELDS WHY SHOULD GEORGIA FANS HAVE TO TRAVEL EVERY YEAR

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Don’t move the game to the Dome because then what will the Georgia fans excuses be when they lose?

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

NO FAIR, WE TRAVEL TO FAR!

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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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I think it would be fun to rotate each year between the 4 venues. If I were a player I would like to get a chance to play at “the swamp” , the Dome, Jacksonville and most of all HOME!

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Wow Suzy, you sure are a bitter loser! “Hoodlums” and “Rednecks” in the same post? I guess you’re perfect, right?

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Great idea for both teams and fan bases. Has anyone ever noticed that UF has a large alumni bas in Atl? It would also provide a great deal of revenue for the city as well as a safer and shorter trip for the UGA students. Sorry Gators, but I think you guys should have to make the same trip we do every one in a while. It’s the least you could do for the numerous whippings you have given us over the last 15+ years. I vote to have it rotate every year between the Dome and Jax.

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NO!!! End of discussion.

It’s tradition for a reason. And Florida is sooooo much slower on turf, it’s not like UGA has a hard enough time beating them. Home, no way, let’s ask Ray Goof and Steve Spurrier how the home and home thing went. 50 points anyone?!?! It stays in Jax, I’m tired of college football being ruined by money, BCS anyone…or as the lovely and eloquent Corrine Brown would say, “B.S…” It should stay in Jax if for no other reason than tradition.

Dawg Fan

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Oops, meant to add this… ever wonder why discusson of moving the game occur every 3-4 years? $$$$$$ Its times for the AAs to contract with the city and if either can present viable options the more JAX pays! Sounds like what’s happening to Wren & the Braves doesn’t it?!?!?

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Don’t mess with tradition!!!!!

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I want to drink brew and party!!!!!

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Steven D, your absoultely right. It is too bad we can’t have it in Savannah. That would be a perfect spot.

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Dear Sir–I say move it to Bainbridge. Your pal, Leland

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If our win/loss record was even .500 over the last couple of decades this wouldn’t even be a consideration. Moving the game is loser talk. It’s the epitomy of ‘taking the ball and going home’.

Don’t screw with tradition, and don’t play football indoors. We don’t live in Syracuse.

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Home and home. Let Athens and Gainesville reap the benefits of their teams playing and additional home game.

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This is garbage. This is just making our school look like sore losers. No one was complaining in the 60s and 80s when we were stomping their rears in Jax every year. You people are a bunch of babies. This game being in Jax every year is what has made this rivalry special. If you move it, you are going to damage the rivalry.

Here’s a hypothetical situation for you. What if it switches to the suggested scenario and UF just beats us unmercifully in the Dome. Then what? Will we want to move it to Charlotte or Birmingham to try our luck there? I didn’t see Texas fans complaining when they couldn’t beat OU at the Cotton Bowl. I said it before and I’ll say it again; this is just our fans being sore losers and really makes us look bad to the whole league and the nation.

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To heck with moving the Florida game to the Dome–move the Tech game to the Dome when we play in Atlanta-keeps us from having to go to the dump that is Bobby “I Never Beat Vince Dooley” Dodd Stadium at Historic Grunt Field.

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What defines “home field advantage”? I would think that it is ONE team that gets to play in their stadium, on their field and having their stadium filled with their fans.

Last time I checked…the Gators play in Jax once a year and the Dawgs play in Jax once a year. No home field advantage for either school.

Last time I checked…the tickets were split 50/50 between the two schools. No home field advantage for either school.

Last time I checked…the Gators travel to Jax on Friday and the Dawgs travel to Jax on Friday. Both teams sleep in a hotel on Friday. The Gators travel by bus and the Dawgs fly. Is it more convenient for the Gators? Yes! But with that said, it’s not like the Dawgs are flying across the country and changing time zones. It’s a quick flight. The Dawgs aren’t traveling by horse and buggy. Does this make it a home field advantage for the Gators? Of course not! The only advantage the Gators have is convenience.

Please let me know if one UGA football player (past or present) said that they lost to UF (in Jax) due to jet lag…or…UF fans outnumbering UGA fans…or…due to the geographical location of the football field. You won’t find one past or present player that said it, because it’s NOT an issue.

The game should remain in Jacksonville.

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Johnny DangerDawg, you make a good point. Jax needs to be a little careful how they price gouge.

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Whats wrong with Athens every other year?? GO DAWGS…

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RIGHT ON, CRAIG…Why not play college football on college campuses????

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I guess that some UGA faithful are forgetting the HUGE recruiting exposure UGA gets in FL every year that you play in Jax. It isn’t rocket science–if you move the game from Jax, you LOSE an opportunity to recruit one of the most fertile recruiting grounds in the nation. That will give UGA a disadvantage in recruiting there.

Teams all over place try to schedule game in FL just so they can get exposure–ND, ALA etc etc. They play the little FL schools too ie FAU, FIU, USF, UCF–JUST so they can get recruiting exposure down in FL. Why pi$$ this built-in opportunity away?

If you’re old enough to remember the years when UGA dominated this series, then there’s no way on Earth you want to see this game screwed-up by moving it to ATL. Don’t let these recent losses blind you. Tell Coach Richt to just suck it up & WIN in Jax. Period. No excuses..

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Playing the Georgia/Florida game in the Georgia Dome every four years would be wonderful…..even better yet…..alternate the game between Jacksonville and Atlanta, if that’s possible. I would certainly be more apt to attend the game if it were in Atlanta, providing of course, tickets were available. Not being a season ticket holder makes it very difficult to secure tickets.

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I think redgadawg has hit upon the ideal solution for the next decade or so … Athens, Gainesville, JV and ATL alternating … then after a couple or three cycles of that you would for sure be able to decide what most fans want… I definitely remember the JV trip from my UGA days as being a fun road trip and a good time HOWEVER I really do think it gives the reptiles an advantage every year with their proximity to the JV venue …why make it any easier on them?????

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HOME and HOME – Enough said !

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bbv –

Actually, the money that the island makes is given back having to clean up after all of the pups. On the other hand, the island is nice and quiet after the game.

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Yeah why not have the game in downtown Atlanta? It would give another opportunity for “at risk” youth to scalp tix, vandalize autos and mug! I fear nobody would come to the game. Ga. fans know what its like and its too far for Fla. fans to drive.

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SSI gator- Then we are in agreement the game should be moved. Then again, seeing orange tank tops and jean shorts make me a little uneasy. Maybe it will be to cold in ATL for the gator fans to wear their normal attire. (But their mullets may keep them warm!)

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bbv -

No, don’t move the game – just take all of the trash back to Athens with you.

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SSIgator- I will agree with you about the trash. I’ve quit going to games, because of it.

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Forget all this neutral site crap. Just play the games in Athens and Gainesville!!!

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Yes, move it to Georgia every four years but not to the Dome. College football is an outdoor sport! Those cool crisp fall afternoons are perfect for football.

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Depriving 10,000 fans the right to see a game does matter. The comment from a spokesman for the Atlanta Sports Authority saying he thinks they can overcome the loss of revenue due to the smaller seating numbers means they do not care about those 10,000 fans (difference in stadium seating between Atlanta and Jacksonville). Add in the extra seats playing home and home there is another 10,000 fans that could attend the game each year.

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Again, move it to home and home, or rotate between Atlanta and Jacksonville. As usual,Gators are singing the same old song: “I never heard the Dawgs complain when they were winning in the ’70’s and ’80’s”. If FL is going to be so damned superior over UGA ad infinitum, then it shouldn’t matter to them WHERE the game is played. It is a matter of FAIRNESS. I live in Jacksonville – how can anyone not say that FL doesn’t have the advantage playing here every year, only 80 miles from their campus? And again, it isn’t a recruiting tool for the Gators – the North Florida media doesn’t give any other school one-tenth of the coverage they give FL. It is a simple matter of FL not wanting another away game.

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They should move the game to Athens and make florida play there every year, since they’ve had home games in jacksonville all these years. Georgia has a big disadvantage having to spend all that time flying way down there, when UF only has a 30 minute drive over the day of the game to play. If they move the game to Athens, Georgia will start winning every year with their home field advantage. UGa officials need to get this done soon—I’m tired of losing to florida and their obnoxious fans every year. Plus, my boss is a florida fan and makes my life miserable for weeks after that game.

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Well I’s 67, been going to Jacksonville since early 60’s, missed a few in the 70’s and have been to the last 10 and yes I do not like being beat up in Jacksonville, but it was worse when they beat us in Athens. I’ll end with it is a wonderful trip and I come from the NC mountains, not south GA, which is my roots. We do not need to change venues, just outcomes. Cullowheedawg

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Why are Florida fans the absolute worst? I’ve met cool people from every other SEC school except for UF. On second that, maybe we don’t want a home and home. I don’t think I like UF fans tainting Athens with their swamp stench.

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I was there in the mid-90’s when Florida CRUSHED Georgia in Athens. Playing in the state of Georgia didn’t seem to help the Dawgs much.

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Keep the game in Jacksonville, but give UGA fans a lot more tickets than florida fans to make it more fair, since it really is a UF home game. Ga fans should get about 50,000 seats and florida fans 35,000. Also, GA should get better seats, since their fans have to travel a lot farther. Put florida fans in the endzones and let the dawg fans sit between the 20s. Damon Evans needs to step and tell florida this is the way it’s going to be, or he’s not having it in Jax!

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You cannot possibly think that the University of Florida football team boards a bus and drives over to Jacksonville the morning of the game.

Who cares what coverage the local media gives UF. Personally I dont read the north Fl papers much. Nor does that affect the outcome of the game whatsover.

The fact that the ASA is willing to pay more money to make it up, doesn’t alter the laws of Physics. 10,000 rear ends still take up the same amount of space. I guess we can all get on Marta and ride around, while enjoying whatever tailgating snacks that can fit in our pockets.

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HEY JUST ASK THE ALABAMA AUBURN FANS…….HOME AND HOME SERIES. I HAVE BEEN DOWN THERE TO THE WLC PARTY, MR. EVANS HOME AND HOME SERIES! HOME AND HOME SERIES…..NO MATTER HOW YOU CUT THE CAKE….UGA DRIVING TO JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA IS NOT A HOME GAME……CMR HOME AND HOME SERIES! WE HAVE OUR CHANCE TO END THIS JOKE. LETS DO IT…HOME AND HOME!

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alternate between Atlanta and Jacksonville,

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NO DOME, HOME AND HOME, NO JAX , SWAMP AND THE DAWG HOUSE!

HOME AND HOME HOME AND HOME HOME AND HOME SERIES YES YES YES……

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THE GAMES SHOULD BE PLAYED IN ATHENS AND GAINSVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Play in jacksonville one year, and athens the next year. That solves all problems. But, in the year the play it in jacksonville, the tickets must be split 50-50. In Athens, UGA gives Uf only 10,000 seats. Plus, the city of jacksonville needs to pony up a lot more cash to Georgia to cover all their expenses to travel, hotels, meals, inconvenience, etc. Ga should get millions more from the city than florida does, since they are right down the road.

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Jax is fine
Atlanta is fine
Home and home is fine
UF can beat UGA wherever, it does not matter.

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Nobody can look me in the eye and tell me that this series wouldn’t be more competitive from a W-L standpoint if it were played as a customary home-home. I will never believe it in a million years. If we had to play LSU in New Orleans every time we played them we’d be in serious trouble. I don’t understand why Jacksonville is so much different. I think some of my fellow Dawg fans are deluding themselves.

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Huh? the game is a great recruiting trip for UGA and keeps South Georgia focused on Athens. Valdosta has supplied plenty of UGA athletes despite being much closer to UF and FSU. It maybe an advange to UF being closer but the scheduling and having a week off is a much bigger advantage than location. If the game moved I would want it to go to Tampa. The fans may have to drive more but it would be more equal for the players.

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Why??????? When we were 19-6 vs Florida during Dooley’s time nobody wanted to move it- why now? Besides, based on our away record during Coach Richts time at UGA (especially last year), I vote we either go to a 12 game away schedule or lets go home and home series with them. We need to quit looking for excuses and just play football.

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Home and Home enough said!!!!!

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If ever a series needed to be on a home-and-home basis, this one is it. Meanwhile, until that happens, is it really asking too much to have a home game once every 4 years or so? I think not.

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Does the Jacksonville Police Department share the revenues from this event with ACCPD..?

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Navy,

We get the bye week next year. UF doesn’t.

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I hate going to Jacksonville, even when UGA wins. We drive hours and spend hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms while Florida fans make the trip for the day. The only stadium in the SEC that I have never been to is Florida, so I would love for us to play there sometime. I would also love for Florida to play in Sanford Stadium. I could care less if we ever went back to Jacksonville or the Georgia Dome!

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Gator fans why don’t you want to do a home and home series. Let UF and FSU play in Gainsville FL. Watch out dawg fans, here comes all of those, we will play you any where comments. SOS changed it UF advantage and it will never change until we go to a home and home. But be prepared to lose the first one at home. And that thing in the 90’s. You had SOS and some heisman trohpy winner at QB. That didn’t do squat in the NFL. So let’s look to the present and future. The teams are dead even in talent. We do a home and home with every other team in the East. Why should UF be any different?

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Not a single Fl official or fan wants a home and home or even Jax – Atl. What does that say?

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I think the Ga people who want to keep it in Fl have personal motives…own condos there, relatives, girlfriend hookups, can get drunk and relive their college days w/o being reported, etc.

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The UGA fans are hilarious. It was no problem going to play in Jacksonville prior to 1990, because UGA won most of the time. But since
Steve Spurrier came back to Gainesville, it has been a different story. Spurrier 11-1 vs UGA @ UF, Zook 2-1 vs UGA, & Urban Meyer 3-1 vs UGA. It does not matter how close the games are, UF still has OWNED UGA in the last 2 decades. All the UGA fans were saying after they won in 2007, the tide has turned. What was the score last year? Oh yes 49-10 UF. Maybe they should go home & home. This would give Urban the chance to match Spurrier & drop half a hundred on the dawgs!

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“Huh,

The only one who is dellusional here is you. Location has nothing to do with it. We used to beat UF there all the time in previous decades, proving that location is irrelevant.”

We beat them in previous decades because we had BY FAR AND AWAY the better team. You’re right. Location didn’t matter. It also didn’t matter in the 90’s when Florida had by far and away the better team. But in case you didn’t notice, its 2009. The 70’s, 80’s and 90’s are gone. These two teams are more competitive than they have ever been and EVERY advantage possible counts. I think its insulting to our team to just tell them to simply try harder, which is essentially what most are saying. They are already busting their a$$es in that game every single year. You don’t think they want to win it more than anything in the world? Get real. Florida is a great program just like we are a great program. You give any great program an edge and you can bet your a$$ they are going to take advantage of it. Go ahead and stick your head in the sand if you like, but I don’t want to see any head scratching when Florida keeps racking up close win after close win. Huh? has put you on notice. Good day.

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i think they should play home and home

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i hate fla. and i have never been to that game .i do not like the fact that we have to go fla.every year to play. im not an alum. but herschel made me fall in love w/ the dawgs .i was only 4yrs. old.i bleed red and black. they should have to bring their a$$ up here every other yr. d**n once every 4 yrs. damon needs to make a stand.GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Boss Hogg

“All the UGA fans were saying after they won in 2007, the tide has turned. What was the score last year? Oh yes 49-10 UF. Maybe they should go home & home. This would give Urban the chance to match Spurrier & drop half a hundred on the dawgs!”

I think the scores to the last two games are misleading. I didn’t think the dawgs were as good as that 42-30 score might indicate, nor do I think the Gators are 39 points better than the Dawgs last year. What is interesting in this rivalry is the pychology of both teams. The team that has the mental edge wins, period. UGA lost last year because of turnovers, not because Florida was marching up and down the field on them. UGA shot themselves in the foot and didn’t show up mentally, period. This wasn’t like the 90’s where Spurrier would win every year by 30 points. In 2007 UGA totally burst FLA bubble with the endzone dance. Cheap shot or not, FLA got hit in the mouth and didn’t respond. Did UGA deserve the beating this year after the stunt last year? Perhaps. But Miami Hurricanes used to do far worse things to intimidate opponents and they still won because they had that swagger. Bottom line, it doen’t matter where the game is played, or who cheap shots who. What matters is which teams shows up more mentally tougher and more prepared. In 2007 it was UGA, in 2008 it was FLA.

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FloridaDawg, what town do you live in. Moving the game would help Athens and Gainsville with revenue, period. We play a home and home with GT, and sho said we can’t win against GT. Please. We weren’t out schemed that day. CMR told us what the problem was and he fixed it. UF deserves the mutual respect of a home and home series. You mean to tell me that moving a game, we will loose recruits? Are they allowed to come to the game as recruits? I am not so sure.

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Speaking as a University of Florida alumnus who lives in Atlanta, I will be happy to see the game played wherever the UGA athletic department and fans want it played . . . every other year. The University of Florida intends to keep its series home games in Jacksonville.

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BTW, the Atlanta Business Chronicle put a very different spin on these discussions:

http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2009/03/23/daily1.html?ana=e_du_pap

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Move the game?

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

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Reality Check….I can’t believe that I’m responding to this but I will
I threw the GT thing in to make a point…I think most people would get it…where does hiding from an opponent stop?
I lived in Jax half my life. Move the game and we distance ourselves from a rich recruiting base. North Florida and Southeast Georgia is important for recruiting.
We get tons of local media coverage, especially the weeks leading into the game.
Want to guess what that costs if you wanted to buy air time on TV or radio or ads in a major daily paper?
Jacksonville is a big city…the loss of “media exposure” would be costly. You are going to get the Atlanta exposure anyway.
The Jax media covers Georgia year around because of the huge base of fans that live in North Florida. We contribute for heavens sake…why is that hard to figure out?
Players go to both Georgia and Florida to “play” in an atmosphere provided by the Jax venue.
They can get the GT game “atmosphere” each year up there…while we north Florida & South Ga fans can do the 5 hour drive…for EVERY home game.

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Look it isn’t 1980 anymore. To UF’s credit, their program is stronger now more than ever. They have a monopoly on thug talent in the state of Florida. Years ago players that steal credit cards of the deceased and rapists on Florida’s squad would have gone to FSU or Miami. Not anymore, Urban has locked down talent in the state. UF will continue to be a force to be reckoned with and UGA needs every advantage possible.

Someone pointed this out earlier: consider why UF officials are adamantly opposed to moving the game out of Jacksonville? Because, like mindless lemmings, we have been hiking down to Fla. one hour from their campus for our semiannual “home” game. They have gotten used to our idiotic support of this tradition.

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colossal mistake leaving it in jax forever. need to have some variety in this game. it’s all in uf’s favor. no travel for them. it’s time to stop catering to the dooleyites in south georgia. grow some gonads damon and start talking about taking it on a rotational basis either to the dome or to sanford stadium. nut up!

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It sickens me to see gutless ‘dawg fans want to go and change one of the great games of all college football and turn it into just another home and away series, just like the gutless gator fans wanted to do back when the tables were turned and uGa was dominant.
The simple fact is that the game in a neutral site does favor one team over the other…it favors the BETTER team.
The only thing having the game occur as a home game will guarantee is that the better team will embarass the other, no matter whether it is a home game or an away game.
P.S. Careful what you wish for: The home and away thing didn’t work so well when Spurrier hung 50+ on you in Sanford Stadium.

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When is this argument going to end? This is truly one of the greatest atmospheres in all of college football. Recruits, television, players and MOST fans love it! One team is going to have to travel further for this event. This was a non issue in the 70’s and 80’s. Only when GA starting having problems winning this game did this really gain strength. Do you really think the TEAM having to travel an additional 300 miles has really had an effect on the outcome of the last 20 games? NO! A season ticket holder from Valdosta travels this distance every home game of the year without complaining. All this boils down to is GA Atlanta fans used to getting their way. Hopefully Mr. Evans will not submit to Atlanta pressure and remember that UGA is the STATE school.

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sj

“Not a single Fl official or fan wants a home and home or even Jax – Atl. What does that say?”

What it says to me is that UF officials and fans are embarassed to host a game in that POS Gainesville. Although the game should be played home-and-home, I would never make the trip to that $h!+h01e. The only thing that would stop me from p!$$!ng on that place would be if it was on fire.

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If they have the game at the Ga Dome, will they rename it the “World’s Largest Outdoor Street Crime”?

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LOL

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Yes, we need it in Georgia every other year. Why should Florida get homefield advantage every year?

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PuppyDawg u remember that beating in Athens from the Gators @between the shrubs in 1995? AHHH the pain still hurts today for UGA fans..Spurrier still holds the record for hanging half a hundred @ between the shrubs!!

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Gainesville to JAX is 71 miles (travel time per MapQuest = 1 hr 21 min.)

Athens to JAX is 362 miles (travel time by air for an equivalent distance of MIA to JAX = 1 hr 20 min.) I have to assume GA would charter a direct flight from Athens to Jax.

Travel time is not the issue here. Dawg fans are just tired of limping home with their figurative tails between their figurative legs year after year. GA has equal, or nearly equal, talent. Your problem is mental – you need a shrink.

Stop with the garbage about this being a Florida home game. Win the game more than 16% of the time (3 of the last 19) like you used to and this whole argument goes away.

If we beat you consistently in Atlanta you’ll be finding other things to blame – turf, climate, concessions …

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Leave the game in J-ville…………It gives us in South Ga. a chance to see our beloved Dawgs

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I think it would be a huge mistake if they move the game away from Jacksonville to Atlanta, even on a rotation. However if everyone is so deadset on moving the game because it is not a true neutral site then I recommend moving the game to Savannah. Granted you would have to build a sizeable stadium, but I think the money can be found for a college football game. The game would still be on the coast so everyone can still party at their beaches and the game would actually be more equidistant between the two schools. And to help with the funding you can add another bowl game. Hey, if they have one in Detroit, Washington, DC and Boise, then they can have one in Savannah. Or just move one of those to Savannah.

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If the game is moved to the Dome, Atlanta and Dome officials need to make the occasion more fan friendly as in create more space for tailgating. Create a place for GA. and FL. fans to get together the night before the game such as the Landing. It doesn’t have to be on the water. Bring in some top notch entertainment for all to enjoy and I’m not talking about local bands, (brand name bands).

If they can’t do these kind of things I prefer home and home, because anyway you slice it’s a travel game for the Dawgs

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Leave it alone, for crying out loud. Don’t mess with it. It’s a nice stadium.. one of best game I been to was in ‘97.. plus more seats than the Dome.

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I like the neutral site but any site 1 1/2 from one school in their state, and 5 hours from another out of their state, isn’t exactly neutral. I would love to see every other year Jax and Dome– each site about 90 minutes from the opposing school so its fair enough for their fan base. Anyone complaining about an “indoor game” on a “beautiful fall afternoon” has never sat in 4 0r 5 of the toorential down pours that have occured in Jax in the past 15 years.

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But where would we move the annnual “Gators Eat Boogers” golf tournament that is played in Brunswick every Friday before the game? In Hoc, boys.

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I sat in those torential downpour in J-ville, but lets be honest 1 or 2 not, not 5 or 6. Great memories as far as I am concerned. Not because of the rain, but despite the rain. It’s a college football game. When I want to look at the latest electronic equipment, the dome would be my first choice.

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As a Doubledawg, cast my vote for home on home. We are not playing this game on a neutral field. Remember ‘85 when the Jax police clubbed the UGA fans when they came on the field. I think the Mayor was Jake Godbold. To my recollectio, the Gator fans were not treated the same way when they won the year before

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Enjoy the game in Jax’s, but tired of getting bent over by the city and all the hotels.

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Rotating between two neutral sites is the dumbest proposal from the state of Georgia since Roy Barnes’ new state flag. Just go back to a home-and-home series if we’re going to do that. You can even give more tickets to the away team, like 65/35 or 60/40, if you want to give it a more neutral feel. Otherwise, keep it as it is. Some of you Dawg fans need to know that UGA no longer drives the team down from Athens. They now fly out of Ben Epps on three planes for a one-hour flight, which is no different from UF’s one-hour bus trip from campus. A better solution is to convince the big boosters in south Georgia to give up the whole Jacksonville thing and go back to a home-and-home, since they’re the ones who have to make a 4 or 5 hour drive up to Athens vs. a 1 or 2 hour drive to Jacksonville.

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Nothing beats a fall outdoor football game. Jax is a tradition. And NO you are wrong – the location has NOT “long rankled” dog fans. Just rankled them for the last 20 years or so…..hmmmmm. wonder why. We never heard this crap about killing such a great tradition back in the 80s, 70s, 60s and before….when the gators lost all the time. Now the tide turns and poor sports are crying….

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I’m a life long Gator and have lived in Atlanta 16 years. I’d HATE to see it in Atlanta. That is a terrible venue for the Falcons and would be even worse for a college game (I’d love the SEC Championship to go back to Birmingham or just about anywhere else). 3 games in Jax then home and home in Athens and Gainesville every 5 years. Alternatively, lets play one at Georgia Tech. Anywhere except the dome. Football indoors is just wrong – I don’t care how convenient it is.

Last point – despite the extra distance (that most Gator alum are making as well) the Dawg fans are never in short supply. It may be a shorter drive for the Gator players and students but certainly no additional home field advantage. Either set of fans would travel 20 hours to this game. Atlanta is definitely not the solution.

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Let’s move the game to Atlanta for the next 70 years, it’s only fair, Fla has had it long enough.

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I would much rather drive 4 hours from Sav to Athens, It’s a much safer drive than I-95.

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The UGA person who agreed to play in Jacksonville every year must be the biggest gator fan of all times. Make it home and home, that is
Athens and whereever the gators want to play. DON’T PUT IT IN THE GEORGIA DOME. That thing may fall down!!

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Let’s rotate the Ga Dome and J-Ville, and then both teams would have a neutral site.

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The Jacksonville staff is definitely biased. I have seen the law enforcement give the Dawg fans a hard time for many years. The stadium staff are usually rude and inconsiderate to all the Ga fans that spend big money in there city. I would rather keep our money in our state. If we move this to the Ga Dome, Atlanta wants to build a new stadium for the Falcons, so we’ll end up with a nice new stadium to have the Ga /Fla Game………. MOVE IT ! ……..THWF !

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I have been going for some 25+ yrs and I have no idea what you folks are doing to get hastled by either the J-ville police or the stadium staff, but My large group of sometimes drunk and obnoxious Dawgs fans have never had the first issue like that. We had the stadium staff kick out gator fans who were messing with out folks. We didnt ask, they saw it and stepped up. We’ve had the local police help us with car troubles.

In fact one of the only college football game I have ever attended where I got ripped off outside the stadium, and got zero help from the locals was the Georgia Dome.

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It’s all about you kid, and here is what I think you should want. Just kidding Glover…..they obviously should figure in, except that they are getting a scholarship to play for the university so not sure its really only about them. Not sure we play NE La Tech for them, or travel to wherever for them, or go on a 5 week road swing for them.

Even still, in 25 years I can’t recall a single player ever lobbying to move that game. Even years later in all candor. In fact, quite the opposite.

But campus would be my vote over the convention center. AT LEAST that would as you say have some experience to the event.

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i think they should play two years in the gator bowl and two years in the georgia dome

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HOME and AWAY baby !!!! That is the only way to have it be fair!!!!

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Need I remind all the puppy fans that support a move to ATL that before the 90s, UGA had their way with us year in and year out. There wasn’t the internet medium back then but I don’t ever remember thinking that the game should be moved despite all of UF’s trouble in Jax in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Yeah, I’m that old. Traditions get better with time so let’s keep it. This is, by far, my favorite game of the year and is always the most fun, win or lose. Don’t mess up a good thing, don’t fix something that isn’t broken, etc., etc.

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I am all for a neutral site, but how can Jacksonville be called a neutral site when it is still in the state of Florida? Spare me about the distance “how the crow flys” from each school’s campus. Come on! How is it fair that the state of Florida gets all of the economic boost from this game? How is this fair? It should alternate from Jacksonville to Atlanta EVERY year. THAT would be fair. This once every four years crap is BS. BTW, I remember when Florida wanted to change it. We owned them big time until Spurrier. Either way, do what makes the most common sense. Alternate each year from state to state at a neutral site.

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It would be nice if a large stadium were built in Valdosta, GA that could host the game evey other year. That would keep the game close to the Georgia/Florida Border and would allow the state of Georgia to bring in revenue every other year. The stadium could also serve as Home field for the Valdosta State Blazers and allow them to move up from Division II. It would be nice to have another Division 1A school in Georgia and it be in South Georgia. The Valdosta/Lowndes game could be played in the stadium as well as some state playoff games and other events. Why should Atlanta and North Georgia have all the fun? Let’s build something in good ole South Georgia for a change.

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Home and Home! It would be good for both schools and fans.

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Waaa Waaa Waaa! Its in Jacksonville and thats where it will stay! For those who don’t like us invading their beloved St. Simons, shut up! You live in a resort town on the beach that advertises to tourists! As for Jacksonville being an advatage to the Gators… Its time the Dawgs start manning up and winning some games! They don’t have any more tix than we do. Besides I look forward to the annual trip!

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“No true bacon boy” (or whatever your name is. If you are a “no true bacon boy” then what are you, a meathead?). Let me get this straight. Tide kicked Fla’s butt for most of the game? Do they get points for that? I think Gators won. And, my personal favorite, Dawgs would have won if they “had gotten a few breaks” against Fla. in ‘08. Yeah, you’re right, that 45-10 butt whippin’ was much closer than the score indicated. A few more breaks, and the Gators would have won 65-10!!! Either you didn’t see the game or were too drunk to watch, trying to soothe your hurt feelings with a few spirits. “Need I mention Ole Miss.” Please do, if it wasn’t for that loss we would not have turned it around and been in Miami in January as opposed to, where were you guys, Tampa, Orlando? One loss by one point. GA: 3 losses by….didn’t even win the Georgia State Championship in 08!! Ouch!!! Geeks from Techville put it on you guys! Snicker, snicker! About the Fla.-Ga. game, Gators don’t care!! Put it on a barge in the middle of the freakin’ Atlantic. We’ll still show up and kick your butt 9 out of 10 years anyway!!!!!

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it wont make a diffrence, the gators will still kick that dawg ass

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When Georgia was beating Florida all the time nobody complained. no the leghumpers can’t be the Gators but once every 5 or 6 years want the game moved. u georgia hicks kill me. boo hoo. Mark Richt made a stupid remark on how hot it was in Jax. say what? Maybe 10 degrees or less warmer. Hey Mark Richt did you complain about the hot weather while you were at Florida State? Dumb ass. Georgia fans can keep your hypocrite coach.

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