What Have You Done Differently to Bring the Georgia Bulldogs Good Luck?

… by accidentally leaving my red Georgia cap at home. I have not worn it since, and will not put it on again as long as this winning streak lasts.

1) Continued wearing of the Goat Roast shirt on gameday (I’ll see what I can do about getting some pics of said shirt out and about in Jacksonville.

2) Mailing Cam Newton “discount” laptops weekly.

is not wear any Georgia gear on game day. For the UT game I didn’t have anyone but the family to watch with, and I wasn’t going to get dressed up for what would be an 11:21 local time kickoff, so I’ve just been sans Bulldog gear on game day.

You better believe I won’t be sporting any red and black on Saturday, either, until after the game, win or lose.

Drink out of my “G” mug, while wearing my favorite worn white “GEORGIA” shirt sitting upon my Georgia recliner eating from my Georgia dishware using my Georgia cutlery and my Georgia salt and pepper shaker trying not to spill anything on my Georgia bib which leads me to my bathroom where the loo has a Georgia seat which I avoid now and when I go anywhere in my car, sans Georgia bumper stickers and license plate frame, I absolutely never drive at “34” Mph lest it bring bad luck.

Other than that, not much has changed.

Everybody else is doing this too?

Indoctrinating my Indian co-worker about football is my personal project. He’s really gotten into it this season – I figure guys who can enjoy cricket are REAL fans.

Anyway, every game but ULL, he’s asked me on Friday how I think the game will go. WITHOUT EXCEPTION, the margin of victory I have predicted for the Bulldogs has been the opposite of the actual margin.

Eventually, I caught on. I predicted a four-touchdown defeat against the Vols. Our final margin of victory was 27 points. I haven’t looked back.

Friday, I will tell him(ritually) that we will lose by three TDs. Y’all can thank me later.

afraid I’ll jinx it – ask me again when the season is over and I’ll tell you then.

And I really don’t want to try, honestly. If I start examining my game day routine, I’m quite certain I’ll spin into some kind of obsessive-compulsive cycle and drive myself crazy.

But I am in full support of all who are able to identify appropriate activities, clothing, beverages, and the like.

For some reason my friends and I always make cracks about donuts during football games (“Why isn’t AJ Green on the field?” “He must’ve eaten some of Coach Bobo’s donuts”), so my roommate and I have made it a “tradition” to get some donuts the morning after every Georgia game. It obviously has no effect on how the game plays out, but it definitely has an effect on my mood Sunday morning, especially following a loss. I figure it’s better method of self-medication than alcohol, at least in the short term (in the long term: diabeetus).

Post colorado, I began wearing a mundane, 1970’s Georgia Bulldog red t-shirt that reflects (in my mind anyway) the Dawgs I grew up with. Since then, We are racking up 40+ points and playing some scary f-ing D. I bought this shirt in the Oglethorpe Mall in Savannah prior to the 2005 SEC championship game. Needless to say, this is t-shirt is on my back for the rest of the season. Kill ’em Dawgs!!!!

to give this a listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWfvp99
Jawja Boys in the A T H

….. ice the beer, listen to pregame (our announcers suck), cuss Florida and Auburn and Tech, look at pretty girls. Same thing – win or lose. Go Dawgs!

I firmly believe that Excessivus and his brethren were putting the hex on me BECAUSE of my gameday rituals. Through the CU game, I would in down to Kroger each Saturday morning for beet, brats, burger, buns, chips and charcoal. EVERY WEEK. I had a gameday shopping list, for crying out loud!

I wore my coach’s golf shirt each Friday, along with my beloved fitted black cap I’ve since the day before I left for boot camp (that’s kind of a long time) and put the flags on the missus’ car every Friday morning on my way out the door (they frown on me flying them on the work car).

Then the trip to Athens for the UT game happened. The shirt was dirty and meetings that Friday precluded my wearing the hat. We got new shirts for the game. We forgot the flags in the garage. No lookout since we weren’t home. Georgia pasted UT.

Friday before Vandy I wore the new shirt to work, no hat. Gameday was opening day for gun season, so no cookout. I barely made it home before kickoff, so I watched the game in my hunting clothes, with my hat on.

Last Friday I got called in at oh-dark-thirty, wore a regular shirt and the hat. After hunting I took a shower and was wearing shorts and a vendor shirt by kickoff.

Due to the success of keeping the football gods guessing, thus rendering their hexes and bad mojo moot, my gameday ritual will be completely random and stay that way until we lose again. Cause, obviously, they’ll have figured out a way to hex THAT.

The reason for our sudden success? My asian-inspired red and black shirt. The last time I wore it was the 2007 WLOCP. We all know how that ended. After that game, I put it away in the back of my closet and didn’t wear it again until the 2010 Tennessee game. We all know how that ended. I actually haven’t worn it since for fear of jinxing it. In fact, I’m trying to decide what I should do with it. Burn it? Frame it? Bring it out on very special games only, like an SEC Championship game? I really don’t know. One thing’s for sure, I won’t be wearing it on Saturday.

I live in Neptune Beach, FL and work in JAX Beach. I work with a ton of UF grads and my boss is one. He said that anyone who wears Florida shit to work on Friday can leave at noon. So I’m swallowing my pride (so that I can drink earlier) and I’m going through with it. I have a Pouncey jersey that I got from my buddy and made a pair of JORTS to satire the whole affair. I believe that my extra 5 hours of drinking I will get in gives the Dawgs a competitive advantage for when I’m in Everbank. Got to make sacrifices!

Not getting political, so please no pol-sci debates…I just hate Reid. Not as much as Florida, but a damn close second!

…take everything out of your right pocket and put in in your left pocket. Take your glove off. Untie your shoes. (Is this really gonna work?) Shut up and just do it!

(h/t Romeo Poser in Tin Cup)

First of all, I appreciate the kind words from last week’s game day thread. Lord knows I needed those drinks. It truly meant a lot. If all goes well, I should make it back home by the end of the season. I can’t wait to get back and watch them at normal times with all my proper game day attire. If the win streak continues, I will have to throw on my uniform to watch the games. This has been my game day outfit all season and I don’t want to be the one to mess it up because I haven’t worn my lucky 21 Georgia jersey all year…I do it for my county why not for my dawgs.

Since the UT game and opening that comment thread I haven’t been able to jump online with you guys. I stated that I would be there in spirit and this is how, I set the alarm on my watch for kickoff and as soon as it goes off I give everyone around me my best GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS, Sic em WOOF WOOF WOOF!!! It’s the little things that get you through deployments.

Those are two of my current win streak enabling traditions. I hope to see you all on here Saturday. Until then…GO DAWGS!!!

…wearing one while we were winning, then switching to the other when we lost and wearing it until we lost again. After the loss to Miss. St. I abandoned the jerseys altogether and started wearing whichever UGA shirt was next in my closet.

I’m seriously contemplating buying an new #11 jersey, though.

No for real…

…. Dawgs fans wore red Izod (now LaCoste) shirts with a bandaid over the Gator?