UGA opener is sold out, extending streak to 58 games
ATHENS – Around midnight Monday, Georgia sold the last ticket to Saturday’s football opener against Louisiana-Lafayette.
That means the Bulldogs’ streak of consecutive home sellouts has reached 58, extending into a 10th season.
The last Georgia home game not to sell out was the Nov. 25, 2000, game against Georgia Tech.
Tickets had been available to Saturday’s opener because Louisiana-Lafayette relinquished most of its allotment. The Ragin’ Cajuns were contractually entitled to 4,500 tickets but wound up selling 490, leaving UGA with the other 4,010 to sell.
Georgia currently has no tickets available to any of this season’s home games in 92,746-seat Sanford Stadium, although it’s possible that some could become available if returned by an opponent later in the season. Opponents can return tickets from their allotments until three weeks before a game.
The Bulldogs’ opener kicks off at 12:21 p.m. Saturday.
Note: At noon today, and each Tuesday during the season, Mark Richt will hold a news conference to discuss the week’s game. Please follow @ajcuga on Twitter for instant updates.
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Yes
August 31st, 2010
11:14 am
Nerds only Atlanta sellout is if the Dawgs come to play. You all just suck at everything.
Red-N-Black
August 31st, 2010
11:25 am
Are you kidding me – Really ? Without aspirations what are you shooting for? Fans are here to hope for their team – unless it’s an ACC team – which you are probably a fan of sorry I forgot your inferiority complex. Carry on with your jealousy.
AltamahaDawg
August 31st, 2010
11:26 am
uh no, 35% of people willing to give an answer to some online poll said that chief. I don’t think anybody came to thier house to determine thier qualifications.
Should we apply that same deductive reasoning to determine that 90% of tech fans are childish and bitter based on reading the UGA blogs?
Big time?? Not
August 31st, 2010
11:46 am
Did we include any hot dogs? Cokes?
how2fish
August 31st, 2010
11:56 am
BigDawg what ad’s we didn’t get the damn tickets until late last week 4,100 that the ragin cajuns didn’t sell took what 3 days..please ESAD.
football is in the air
August 31st, 2010
12:18 pm
DAWGS rule…. this has been such a none story trying to make it a story. We wouldn’t have even had the tickets if it were not for the return of tickets from the opponent.
Now here is a story….
Tech has sold and distributed (means gave away because they wouldn’t sell) 46,000 tickets for Saturday’s game. Bobby Dodd Stadium seats 55,000.
DAWGS 30-24
DC
August 31st, 2010
12:18 pm
Its on Peachtree TV. Channel 7 for most cable customers.
blazerdawg
August 31st, 2010
12:19 pm
@ spider – agreed! Good luck to the Panthers and Bill Curry on Thursday night.
dawgster
August 31st, 2010
12:20 pm
Hey BigDawg…what a pitiful post for such a teenie little man..find you another team to support..you are definately not a true dawg fan…Hard to believe you would post something as absurd as you did…I hope all the true dawg fans give it to you on here and it appears that they are….
MoDawg
August 31st, 2010
12:24 pm
This is NOT big news for UGA, but you know it kills the bugs…The fact that we hadn’t sold out was one of the only things they had to talk about, and now we’ve taken that away, too.
Nerds, this means that this decade, we have averaged nearly 91,000 in the stands for every home game. It would take at least 2 of your home games against quality opponents to get that many bees in the stands.
Gotta laugh! The insects are funny and predictable.
PowerDawg
August 31st, 2010
12:26 pm
Just like every other year, they will ALL be sold out. Even Idaho St. (There might be some empty seats but it will be sold out)
Tech probably won’t sell out any games this year…not even their conference games.
Have no fear gnat-gnuts, we’ll be back in 2011. As usual we’ll have more fans in the seats than you do, but it will be a sell-out!
Steve
August 31st, 2010
12:30 pm
Why are there no stories on tickets sold by the nerd school on north ave who won the ACC last year? Shouldn’t every game be sold out? What a bunch of losers. They won’t sellout a single game.
how2fish
August 31st, 2010
12:30 pm
Yes would like to add my best wishes to Coach Curry and Ga State!
Columbia Needs You
August 31st, 2010
12:32 pm
Meanwhile SOUTH CAROLINA still has seats available for the GEORGIA GAME!!!!
Why arent we bringing that up AJC? HUH?? BECAUSE IT ISNT GONNA RILE UP THE LUNATIC FRINGE…and therefore it is REAL news, and you are a tabloid.
MoDawg
August 31st, 2010
12:37 pm
Ditto best wishes for Georgia State and Coach Curry!
5150 P.O.A.D.
August 31st, 2010
12:38 pm
490 tickets for La Laf. That sounds like the players & cheerleaders family and some administrators. I know it is a long drive but I would think more fans would like to spend the Holiday weekend in the Atlanta area. Enjoy the game dawgs.
Gar
August 31st, 2010
12:41 pm
What kind of people paint a little dog’s a$$?
The obvious answer is a$$holes.
Indala
August 31st, 2010
12:44 pm
UGA folks can brag all you want to about beating Tech in football most years, and that’s perfectly fair. What’s also fair is to point out that with a history of Jan Kemp (Vince Dooley days), Jim Harrick, and now Damon Evans, UGA is truly “The Cesspool of the South,” and is richly deserving of that title. No one outside of Georgia has any respect for UGA or its athletic department, and that is a fact. It has been said many times: “Tech people are proud of their school, Georgia people are proud of their team.” What a legacy to be proud of!
UGA fans can now return to your mobile home parks and resume waiting for your unemployment checks.
And watching those red panties falling from the sky, always a good time-killer for thUGA dawgtards. :-) :-) :-)
Yes
August 31st, 2010
12:45 pm
Seriously, what is the Gtu Nerds ticket status for their first game? Is it sold out?
Yes
August 31st, 2010
12:47 pm
Indala the closest you will come to red panties are the ones you wear – you closet dweller.
DarkCloud
August 31st, 2010
12:48 pm
This is something like the eighth article / blog this week about THuga’s opener not being a sellout. The ajc is now officially the most useless source of NON information in America.
Jason
August 31st, 2010
12:50 pm
WILL THE GAME BE TELEVISED?? IF SO, WHERE??
option smoption
August 31st, 2010
12:52 pm
Spider. I would offer you congradulations on a great year last year if congradulations was a word. But congratulations nonetheless.
Indala's top
August 31st, 2010
12:53 pm
Don’t mind Indala, we fought last night and I was extra hard on him in poundtown. He actually hates football and didn’t graduate high school
Joseph
August 31st, 2010
12:54 pm
tickets to the Idaho State game are still available from the Idaho State ticket office. Just go to their website.
Bama in Atlanta
August 31st, 2010
12:54 pm
If anyone has recently moved to the SEC region from parts unknown, here’s a brief summary covering the last few years in the conference to get you caught up…..
http://korkedbats.com/2010/08/26/the-sec-on-facebook/
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
12:54 pm
This just shows you UGA fans indeed don’t have much better things to do. Louisiana-Lafayette, really? with all the ticket-selling scheme by UGA? really?
I’d rather donate my money to the school like most Tech fans do, than scammed by UGA’s schematic ticket selling maneuvers.
Alphare's top
August 31st, 2010
12:56 pm
Don’t mind Alphare, we fought last night and I was extra hard on him in poundtown. He actually hates football and didn’t graduate high school
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
12:57 pm
BTW I am a nerd who has no friends!
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
12:59 pm
You are stealing my name?! never mind, must be a UGA football player.
Ed
August 31st, 2010
1:03 pm
Fans get what they pay for. If you’ll pay full price for the likes of La.-Lafayette and Idaho State, that’s what you’ll get. It’s not just Georgia, but pretty much everyone in the SEC. They’re not getting my money for that crap.
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:06 pm
I love wacthing those sweaty men run up and down the field in Red and Black!!
BG
August 31st, 2010
1:10 pm
8 out of 9!!!!!!!!!!!
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:11 pm
Fake Alphare,
you really sound like some girlish UGA fans now.
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:12 pm
I am secretly devoted to UGA!
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:12 pm
I troll blogs I have no business on from my mom’s basement
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:13 pm
I can’t wait to drink a 6 pack of Zima and be mounted by my boyfriend
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:15 pm
While the rest of college football fans will be rooting their teams on Saturday, myself and Still@thebar and the rest of the “real” Tech student body will be at Dragon Con for the entire day..and then we will move to Swinging Richards to attempt to break the Ripley’s world record for World’s Biggest Tickle Pile and if we don’t do it on the 4th we will be back to again attempt it on the 5th!
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:15 pm
Indala, are you kidding me?, Gar I would love to be the pivot man in a circle jerk with you fellas
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:15 pm
I have never touched a boob
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:17 pm
Fake Alphare,
you can hide but you cannot run. A gator bite or elephant stump is all it takes to get you exposed.
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:17 pm
I secretly want to be mugged on GT campus just so someone will touch me
Mark (another one)
August 31st, 2010
1:18 pm
Got my GSU tickets for Thursday and my UGA tickets for Saturday. Welcome football season. Go Dawgs!!!
Paul Johnson's Sagging Teets
August 31st, 2010
1:19 pm
How long is teck’s sell-out streak?
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:19 pm
I am the real Alphare and I am coming out of the closet! I want all my fellow GT fans to meet me at Dragon Con. I will bring the Zima and you fellas take turns! Yeehaw!
#1 Tech fan
August 31st, 2010
1:24 pm
Alphare,
I wish you would stop coming here and making GT look bad.
option smoption
August 31st, 2010
1:24 pm
Indala…Are you kidding me? At least our coaches don’t lie on their resumes and our students don’t attack each other with swords!
Still@TheBar
August 31st, 2010
1:24 pm
Alphare I am still at the bar and would love to buy you a Zima
Indala
August 31st, 2010
1:25 pm
I hate football but love men
Alphare
August 31st, 2010
1:26 pm
Sorry for posting my true feelings. It feels so good to be out.