I Laughed; I Cried; It Became a Part of Me
Well done, Spencer.
The only thing you missed was devoting as much time to the red britches as you did to the all-orange Tennessee uniforms. Man, I miss the red road britches.
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Vote for the Dawg Sports Comment of the Week!
by T Kyle King on Feb 9, 2010 6:00 PM EST
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I'm not guaranteeing that this will become a regular weekly feature; in fact, I'd be willing to bet that it will occur only periodically, as circumstances warrant, so as not to devalue the award.
However, it has been a particularly strong week for comments here at Dawg Sports, and, out of recognition of that fact, I am posting a poll to determine which was the week's best comment. If you believe a worthy contender has been omitted, you may cast write-in votes in the comments below by quoting what you believe to be the week's best comment; if you agree with someone else's write-in selection, simply reply to that comment and say so. This is Georgia, so feel free to vote as though you were dead and buried in Telfair County. May the best comment win!
The lucky winner will receive the gratitude of the Dawg Sports community and the satisfaction of a job well done.
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92% of Americans and 78% of Georgians Are Wrong About the BCS
In an incredibly scientific poll conducted two days after the Super Bowl for the first time in modern memory even arguably paired the NFL’s two best teams, 92 per cent of Americans participating in the internet balloting indicated that the National Football League does a better job of producing a deserving champion than the Bowl Championship Series.
Georgians gave the BCS its second-highest approval rating (behind only the denizens of the state to our immediate left, currently the home of the BCS championship trophy) with 22 per cent.
For the record, while I did not vote in the poll, I am in that 22 per cent, a figure which doubtless would have been considerably higher the day after the New York Giants upset the New England Patriots.
It bears pointing out, by the way, that Plessy v. Ferguson was an 8-1 decision and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed 416-0 in the House and 88-2 in the Senate. As P.J. O’Rourke has pointed out, it’s not the divisive issues on which folks are split down the middle that pose the biggest threats; it’s the issues about which there is eerie unanimity that run the greatest risk of disastrously bad consequences, such as Jim Crow, the Vietnam War, and a Division I-A college football playoff.
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Monday Night Dawg Bites: Who Dat Say Saints Make Him Wanna Puke? Edition
by T Kyle King on Feb 8, 2010 10:21 PM EST
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The Monday following Super Bowl Sunday is like an aluminum bat to the face, and trebly so if the team you (nominally) supported the day before lost. Granted, there is no outcome of any NFL game I could find truly fortunate or unfortunate---it’s the NFL; it’s basically just a waste of six or eight otherwise perfectly good years of collegiate eligibility (and, hey, I took forever to get through school, so why can’t they?)---but the Super Bowl marks the surest sign that football season is well and truly done.
Accordingly, in an effort to come to terms with the reality of the offseason, I bring you a brief rundown of goings-on around the blogosphere for your entertainment and, I hope, edification:
The national news media would nominate Drew Brees for Sainthood, but that would be redundant. I’ll admit it . . . I had a much stronger visceral reaction against the Saints than was warranted under the circumstances, partly because of an Atlanta-area native’s ingrained disdain for the longtime Falcons rival but mostly because I have been annoyed for a full decade over the absurdity of Drew Brees being named the MVP of the 2000 Outback Bowl, which his team lost to my team. I repeat: he was named the most valuable player in a game his team lost, even though his team’s defeat would appear to suggest that there were 85 scholarship athletes on the opposite sideline who were more valuable to their team than Brees was to his, since their team, you know, won, or something.
Nevertheless, we now find ourselves in a curious situation wherein Saints fans are praising a player who went to school in Indiana while mocking a Colts quarterback who grew up in the Big Easy. Go figure. In any case, Florida fans were rooting for the Saints, so I know I was right to favor Indianapolis.
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Super Bowl Game Day Open Comment Thread
by T Kyle King on Feb 7, 2010 5:45 PM EST
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178 comments
Aside from the G-Day game, tonight's NFL championship outing is the last real football we'll get until Labor Day weekend, so we might as well make the most of it before the offseason truly begins.
Feel free to share your thoughts on Jon Stinchcomb, Tim Jennings, Travis Jones, 2000 Outback Bowl MVP Drew Brees, longtime Bulldog-slayer Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis Colts, the New Orleans Saints, Tim Tebow, and the rest of the commercials in the comments below.
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Why This Super Bowl Sunday Is a Big Day In Bulldog Nation
by T Kyle King on Feb 7, 2010 9:11 AM EST
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James Wallace Butts was a native Georgian and a direct descendant of Captain Samuel Butts, for whom Butts County is named. During Coach Butts's first season as the Bulldogs' skipper in 1939, the Bulldogs were facing NYU in Yankee Stadium when New York Times sports editor Robert Kelley approached Athens Banner-Herald sports editor Dan Magill and asked, "What nationality is Coach Butts?" Perhaps for the first and last time in his storied career as the definitive source of data for all things Bulldog, Magill did not know the answer, so Atlanta Journal columnist Edwin "Ole Timer" Camp interjected, "Why, he's a Georgia Cracker---that's what nationality he is."
Camp was right. Coach Butts served the University of Georgia as an assistant coach, as head coach, and as athletic director. His 22 years at the helm of the Red and Black football program make him the Bulldogs' second longest-tenured coach, behind only Vince Dooley. Coach Butts trails only Coach Dooley in victories, as well; between 1939 and 1960, Wally Butts compiled a ledger of 140-86-9 that included four SEC championships, shares of a pair of national titles, and wins in the Oil, Orange, Rose, and Sugar Bowls. Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy called Wally Butts "one of the greatest coaches of all time" and praised the Red and Black headmaster for the "beautiful but deadly flow of pass patterns, sound execution of fundamentals, and . . . hard-nosed style of play" that typified his Georgia teams.
Coach Butts opened recruiting pipelines to Ohio and Pennsylvania (the latter with the help of Keystone State Coca-Cola bottler and former Red and Black player Harold Ketron) and he coached three of the four Georgia players whose jersey numbers are retired (Heisman Trophy winner Frank Sinkwich and Maxwell Award winner Charley Trippi among them), as well as "Peerless Pilot" Fran Tarkenton. Following his sudden death in 1973, Coach Butts was buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery, in the shadow of Sanford Stadium; prior to his passing, he had written weekly letters to Coach Dooley throughout the younger skipper's coaching tenure in Athens.
I mention such things about Wally Butts because he was born in Milledgeville on February 7, 1905 . . . 105 years ago today.
Enjoy your Super Bowl Sunday, Bulldog Nation.
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Instantaneous Ill-Informed Roundball Wrapup: Georgia Bulldogs 72, Vanderbilt Commodores 58
by T Kyle King on Feb 6, 2010 10:27 PM EST
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All right . . . so, wait, you can build up an early lead, lose it, be trailing at the half, come back, and then win? Are you sure they allow that, 'cause I thought the formula was play hard, build a lead, let them cut into it before the break, go into the locker room up by a couple or three but feeling demoralized, and let it get away at the end in the most agonizing fashion imaginable.
So you're saying the Fox Hounds actually are allowed to win one that's close at the half?
I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. I'm thinking the league office is going to review this one and say we have to forfeit it or something. I mean, being down at the break and outscoring the other team after intermission has to be against the rules when we do it, or else we'd do it all the time, wouldn't we? Hang on, I'm checking . . . wait a second while I Google that. . . .
Well, I'll be danged. It turns out we are allowed to do that. Georgia was behind 26-23 and came back to outduel the 'Dores by a 49-32 margin in the second half. Who knew?
Great job, guys. Maybe all those nailbiters were a learning experience, after all.
Could it really be that things are turning around in Bulldog Nation? Could it really?
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Vanderbilt Commodores at Georgia Bulldogs Basketball Game Night Open Comment Thread
by T Kyle King on Feb 6, 2010 7:30 PM EST
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85 comments
Admittedly, I pretty much ignored the midweek men's basketball game because it fell on national signing day and, frankly, I didn't think anyone would care.
Now, though, it's the weekend, the Fox Hounds are back in action at the Stegosaurus, and it's time to figure out if the Hoop Dogs can close the deal against an SEC opponent.
Should you be so inclined, you are welcome to comment on the evening's roundball action below.
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