. . . but a reasonable argument is a reasonable argument, regardless of whether it’s coming from someone who wears orange and blue.

The tickets are split half and half, and, although I haven’t been there in several years, every one of the several Georgia-Florida games I attended was divided 50/50 in the stands.

Jacksonville is readily accessible to the many South Georgia fans of the Bulldogs who find it increasingly difficult to attend home games in Athens, as noon, 12:30, and 1:00 kickoffs have become fewer and fewer while late afternoon and night games have become more prevalent due to television.

Although I am a native North Georgian, my family hails from South Georgia and I can attest to the effect this change has had. Dad and I used to go to three or four games together a year, and we’d see other relatives almost every week; now, it’s not uncommon for him to make it only to one game, and I seldom see extended family in Sanford Stadium any longer. Georgia fans from the metro Atlanta area may not fully appreciate how important the Jacksonville site is to South Georgia fans, now more than ever.

Furthermore, an annual game in the Sunshine State provides Georgia with a beachhead in a fertile recruiting ground. As Paul Westerdawg has pointed out, Mark Richt has expressed his dislike for the Atlanta Sports Council’s decision to host games like last year’s Alabama-Clemson opener in the Georgia Dome, because it improves the ability of the out-of-state teams that play there to recruit the Peach State.

Keeping the Cocktail Party in Jacksonville similarly bolsters the Bulldogs’ ability to attract recruits in North Florida, which is reason enough for keeping the game there, even aside from more than three-quarters of a century of tradition.

. . . was Cale Conley’s War Between the States, which doesn’t mention a timeout, so I’m not sure if one was called or not. If it was, though, it was either (a) to get the field goal unit onto the field or (b) to decide whether to go for the touchdown or kick the field goal. The first is simply running an orderly sideline. The second would mean Coach Dooley was trying to keep the margin of victory down rather than increase it.

Face it . . . clinging to the timeout in the face of the revelations that it was a kicker and not a center, it was with five and a half minutes to go rather than with mere seconds to go, and it was after the first team had been pulled one series into the second half is just a desperate effort to prop up the illusion that Steve Spurrier was exacting revenge all those years. Believing that based on the fourth-quarter field goal in 1968 is like believing Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

There’s no “regardless” to it; you recited “facts” which are not true and I proved that the whole basis for your belief is just plain wrong. You don’t yank your starters with nearly 29 minutes remaining in the game if you’re looking to run it up or rub it in; Coach Dooley called off the ‘Dawgs. If that show of class (rather than being beaten in the 1966 Cocktail Party and not being hired to succeed Coach Dooley in 1989, which are the real motivations behind the Evil Genius’s contempt for Georgia) made Spurrier so vengeful, he’s even more of an S.O.B. than I always thought he was.