Bulldogs’ TE Aron White talks about being eaten by UGA’s famous hedges
Aron White clutches a piece of Georgia's hedges as he's interviewed at Sanford Stadium following Saturday's 63-16 win over New Mexico State. (AJC photo by Chip Towers)
Aron White has become somewhat of an Internet sensation.
Video of the senior tight end from Columbia, Mo., getting stuck in Georgia’s famous hedges has been making its way around the world wide web since the Bulldogs’ 63-16 win over New Mexico State Saturday. White dove head first into the Chinese privet hedge row after leaping a marimba following a touchdown catch in the east end zone. He had to be extricated by teammates before he could celebrate his second touchdown of the season.
I spoke with White about the chain of events in the locker room following the game and took a picture of him clutching a piece of the assaulting hedge, which I’ve included here. Scroll down to see video footage of the play.
Here’s what White said about it after the game:
“I’m a little bit of a character so people thought I was playing. They said, ‘Man, you did that on purpose.’ But I didn’t. I couldn’t get up. My teammates got to the hedges and they were yelling at me. ‘Come, on, come on!’ I was saying, ‘I can’t. Help me, pull me, do something!’ When they finally did yank me out of there, it tore a big hole in the back of my jersey. They didn’t believe me ’til I showed them my shirt. That gave me a little credibility. But God, man, it felt so good to score in Sanford Stadium. To be right in front of the student section and to pop up like that and it go from almost dead silence to everybody cheering and roaring and everything, it felt really good.”
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109 comments Add your comment
True Dawg Fan
November 7th, 2011
8:22 pm
sogadog ! Please tell me you are not calling the Redcoat band nerds, I hope you are not but if what you wrote is how you really feel you have been sniffing glue to long. Those Redcoats are some of the brighest talented faithful Dawg fans on the face of this earth. Please get educated and have some common sense to go along with it before you call a fine group like the REDCOATS nerds. Go Dawgs !
Rabid Dawg'84
November 7th, 2011
10:03 pm
Still@ So if CMR goes 32-19 (not so good), he will match CPJs record. NOW CMR has 74% wins in the SEC, CPJ has 71% wins at Ga Southern, Navy and in the ACC. PLEEEASE!
Idiot Dawg
November 7th, 2011
10:15 pm
Corch Bobo might would likes it at Ole Mississippi. I bet he would. UGA Insider maybe you could mention it to him.
CasualObserver
November 7th, 2011
11:24 pm
Nobody pay ANY attention to anything Still@theKool-aidBAR says. Yesterday he was comparing Jerry Sandusky raping 10-year old boys in the Penn State locker room to UGA players smoking weed, as if they were equal offences, and then went on to defend Joe Pa for not doing anything to make sure it didn’t happen to any other kids. He obviously has his head very far up his @$$!
RedandBlackDawg
November 8th, 2011
2:07 am
TampaDawg
November 7th, 2011
1:23 pm
See how statistics can lie,. You just proved my point again. You are completely right. How could any reasonable person compare div II football games, play by Navy for the time CPJ was there, to SEC team and then state any reasonable assumption. The old saying goes, about apples and oranges. Now if, he really coached Navy in the 1960s-, early 70’s, that might have been a point. In 1963, they finished second in the nation and lost to Texas for the national championship in the cotton bowl. They had a guy named Staubach or Roger the Dodger as he was called. Once he left though, Navy fortunes went down quite a bit.From about 1980 on, they have played in mostly games, with the exception of Notre Dame, at schools, with more of the same type student body and recruiting power that they have. It is hard to recruit guys at the service academies, even though they can apply for waivers, to spend their six year obligation in the reserves. The great majority of folks on here that use statistics to try and prove their point, don’t factor or think about enough of the conditions or variables and hope folks like you and I will not call them up on them.
GO DAWGS and GATA
True Dawg Fan
November 8th, 2011
9:49 am
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 7th, 2011
6:43 pm
Ole Miss Coaching Search……………..not only do you just SUCK at football, but you are DUMB too. Ralph Friegden was the HC at his alma mater Maryland.
Wow your really one to call anyone stupid. You are the most uniformed of anyone this blog.
You are a complete tool with no life. Get out of your mommys basement and get out there.
True Dawg Fan
November 8th, 2011
9:50 am
True Dawg Fan
November 7th, 2011
8:22 pm
sogadog ! Please tell me you are not calling the Redcoat band nerds, I hope you are not but if what you wrote is how you really feel you have been sniffing glue to long. Those Redcoats are some of the brighest talented faithful Dawg fans on the face of this earth. Please get educated and have some common sense to go along with it before you call a fine group like the REDCOATS nerds. Go Dawgs !
My Handle pick another one there big guy
Mad Dog One
November 8th, 2011
11:37 am
@ still drunk at the bar
GA. TECK HAS A BLOG??????????
As always GO DOGS & GATA
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