Hate Week and Serendipity

by wqueenjr on Oct 29, 2009 11:27 AM EDT Comment 20 comments

Or: What may wind up turning the Cocktail Party rivalry back in the Dawgs' favor.

I was browsing my usual combination of football and movie sites when I come across a link to one of those ubiquitous movie countdown lists, this one on IFC.com. Being the week of Halloween as well as Hate Week, this list was of "Scariest Moments in Non-Horror Movies." I thought that might be a pretty interesting way to waste a few minutes, so I clicked on it. There were a couple of good choices from movies that rock (The Bourne Ultimatum, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and several from movies I'd never seen or heard of before. Then I came across the entry that really caught my attention: #18 An Inconvenient Truth. (Here's the link if you want to check it out.)

What caught my attention, other than seeing a documentary film on a list of scariest moments? This sentence:

"I was most frightened by the montage of graphics illustrating the effect that rising waters, brought on by the melting glaciers, will have on land masses around the world -- major portions of China, India, Florida, California and Manhattan are shown to be swallowed by the ocean."

For a fleeting moment, the blackness of my Hate Week-infused soul blotted out any environmentalist leanings I have, and I smiled as I contemplated the only pro about global warming.

Go Dawgs!

Will

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I feel the same way...

When I was a freshman, we had to watch that movie in environmental biology. There was actually a large part of me saying, “Wait, this map shows that Gainesville, Florida is underwater… awesome! What can I do to make this happen faster?” Unfortunately, I have a conscience, and I felt bad about thinking that about 5 minutes later.

Sic 'em Dawgs

by ClassicCityDawg on Oct 29, 2009 1:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Stand outside the Swamp

and spray about 48,123,098 of these

"Hollywood made a movie of my life. The film had me proposing to my wife on the football field. I would never misuse a football field that way." -Crazy Legs Hirsch

by Stuck in the Plains on Oct 29, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That usually only happens . . .

when Tennessee comes to town. White Rain’s a hell of a drug.

by MaconDawg on Oct 29, 2009 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Too soon....

we’re still cleaning their huffing supplies out of BDS. I didn’t realize that there were 100,000 Jessco Whites.

"Hollywood made a movie of my life. The film had me proposing to my wife on the football field. I would never misuse a football field that way." -Crazy Legs Hirsch

by Stuck in the Plains on Oct 29, 2009 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My wife needs to see this clip...

I’ve been trying to convince her for years now why Florida sucks.

Sincerely,
DavetheDawg
Weston, FL

SEC Officials: The FEMA of College Football.

by DavetheDawg on Oct 29, 2009 7:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Gainesville under water

Gators swim. Check it out and put away the aerosol cans. I would not want to see our neighboring state rivals seeking refuge in Atlanta. Yellow Jackets are bad there anyway.

by renegator on Oct 29, 2009 10:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

They're not so bad

They only sting a couple or three times a decade. They’re largely harmless for seven-year stretches at a time.

Gators are amphibious. I’m pretty sure that means they need land, too. They can’t swim all the time.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Oct 29, 2009 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Better watch out for that new strain of bees

Those Johnson bees are alot tougher than their predecessors…..but there’s still plenty of time before that needs to be discussed.

by skigator93 on Oct 29, 2009 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Two words, skigator93:

Pepper Rodgers.

A lot of guys have won one in a row.

Color me officially not worried.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Oct 29, 2009 11:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Let's just say...

I’m glad that FSU is our in-state rival this year and not the Jackets. It’s difficult to prepare for that option offense. We haven’t run nearly enough option plays this season, but we may test you out tomorrow.

by skigator93 on Oct 30, 2009 8:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And yet, for all the fear of Georgia Tech . . .

. . . they had to hang on to win a shootout with Florida State by five points. Such is the narrow gap between success and failure in the parity-riddled ACC. The fear factor differential between that league’s first- and eighth-best teams (unlike the chasm separating the SEC’s first- and eighth-best teams) is negligible.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Oct 30, 2009 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm just saying

The PJ Jackets are 10-1 at home, they are no longer a gimme.

by skigator93 on Oct 30, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They were never a gimme

Most of those games were close. The breaks that didn’t go our way against Florida did against Georgia Tech, but, over the last decade, the Yellow Jackets have played the Bulldogs exactly as tough as the Gators. (Look at the scores in both series if you don’t believe me.)

Home field advantage at Grant Field is meaningless. Georgia has as good a record against Georgia Tech in Atlanta over the last 45 years as we do in Athens, and I haven’t seen more than a couple of series games in my lifetime that would have come out differently in the other team’s stadium. For years, Georgia Tech wouldn’t allow aerial shots of dinky Grant Field during Georgia games because the sea of red made it apparent which team came out in force.

The Golden Tornado’s open date and weak stretch run may determine the outcome of this year’s game, but home field advantage will be no more a factor this year than it was last year.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Oct 30, 2009 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

"dinky Grant Field"

Still, it’s the oldest on-campus stadium in Div IA. We’ve got to give them that. Of course, that it’s one of the only Div IA programs in a major urban area helped a bit (to the extent Atlanta was a “major urban area” in 1913).

I reckon I’ve got a ~~love~~ respect-hate thing going on, which may be understandable under the circumstances.

by NCT on Oct 30, 2009 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's old . . . I'll even give them "historic" . . .

. . . but it has the seating capacity of a Texas high school stadium. An intimidating venue it ain’t.

I’m not saying we win the game this year, but, if we lose, the site will have nothing to do with it.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Oct 30, 2009 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You guys have a bad habit

of factoring in victories from the WWII era. Just look at the last couple of years because that is all that matters. Just because you may have crushed Tech in the 70s or 80s doesn’t mean that they don’t have a home field advantage now. They will soon be a top 10 team and fan enthusiasm amongst Nerd Nation will awaken with such a vengenge that those Dawg fans used to walking up to Bobby Dodd Stadium with $50 in their pocket and confident that they can score a 4 pack of lowers may just find themselves in the Varsity, out of luck at kickoff, but at least with a plate full of damn good chili dogs and o-rings!

by skigator93 on Oct 31, 2009 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Why is this such a big deal to you?

I’m not hectoring you over Florida State . . . and, by the way, Georgia Tech has beaten Georgia without cheating exactly once in the last two decades.

I know these people. You’re wrong about them . . . and a 55,000-seat stadium is still a 55,000-seat stadium, no matter how many nerds with laptops are sitting in the stands.

I’m happy to have you around, skigator93, but, right now, you’re talking about something you don’t understand, and, frankly, I’m not sure why you care. I’m asking you as a personal favor to let it go.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Oct 31, 2009 11:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess we'll see around Thanksgiving time

I’m not trying to hector you, I’m just surprised that as such a knowledgeable football fan, and a Georgia resident, you fail to see that the intown program is on a steady rise.

I have also lived in Atlanta for 31 years, so I do understand the rivalry just a bit.

Also, I’m not sure there is anything you could say about FSU that would bother me.

by skigator93 on Nov 1, 2009 5:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The point is that we won't see . . .

. . . around Thanksgiving.

Georgia Tech has beaten teams that are mediocre or worse. This year’s Georgia team is mediocre or worse. A loss in Atlanta would prove little.

The Yellow Jackets’ wins are over a Division I-AA team, three 5-3 teams, a 4-4 team, a 4-5 team, a 3-5 team, and a 2-7 team. Most of those games were competitive.

The one team the Engineers have faced that was even arguably better than mediocre beat Georgia Tech convincingly.

This is a sign of ACC parity. We’ll see what sort of staying power it has over the long haul. I am neither concerned nor impressed.

I give you the benefit of the doubt, skigator93, because of your track record around these parts, but I hope you can see how it comes across as rubbing our noses in it. I understand why Georgia Tech fans have been living vicariously through Florida for years (and, oh, how they have done so), but you as a Florida fan should have no need to live vicariously through Georgia Tech.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Nov 1, 2009 8:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs