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by T Kyle King on Sep 19, 2010 10:02 PM EDT

After two weeks' worth of trying, I haven't found a suitable place to mention this, so I'm just going to put up a fanpost about it. Your indulgence is appreciated.

My seven-year-old son went with me to the Louisiana-Lafayette game, and, when we went by the campus bookstore, I bought him a book he selected, entitled University of Georgia Football: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports and authored by Daniel J. Brush, David Horne, and others.

It's a useful handbook of Georgia football trivia, and each chapter begins with a quotation. After we got home from the game, I was leafing through the book, and I saw at the start of each section of the book quotations from Fran Tarkenton, Mark Schlabach, Michael Adams, Herschel Walker, William Tate, me, Pat Dye, Larry Munson, . . .

Wait. What?

I had to double check, but, yeah, there it was, on page 119, a quotation from me, properly attributed, taken from the posting I wrote upon the passing of Erskine Russell.

Let me tell you, your son will never be more impressed with you than when he asks you to buy him a book, and you buy it for him, and, when he gets it home, he discovers that you were quoted in it.

Go 'Dawgs!

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+100 celebratory cocktails

That’s pretty awesome.

by vineyarddawg on Sep 19, 2010 10:08 PM EDT reply actions

Very cool!!!!!

Congrats on being looked at in an even better light by your son.

by EricBDawg on Sep 19, 2010 10:17 PM EDT reply actions

Congrats Kyle

Who knew quoted in a book about UGA football > actually a lawyer in real life?

I can bake like a demon.

by podunkdawg on Sep 19, 2010 10:28 PM EDT reply actions

Dude... everybody knows that.

(obligatory lawyer deprecation)

by vineyarddawg on Sep 19, 2010 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm gonna have to pick that up

Leaving insightful football commentary and analysis to other people since 2006.

by wwcmrd? on Sep 19, 2010 10:31 PM EDT reply actions

I fully expect, one day, for that quotation and source to be cited in full in each and every literary chamber North Campus has to offer. Grats, Kyle.

by BarnettShoals on Sep 19, 2010 11:58 PM EDT reply actions

Thats just too cool for words

I’d like to be able to experience that one day. I don’t have the attention span to maintain a blog so I guess I’ll have to write a book.

"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't." - Lewis Grizzard

by RedCrake on Sep 20, 2010 12:13 AM EDT via mobile reply actions

that sounds an awful lot like

work. Which I am not in favor of if it can be avoided.

I can bake like a demon.

by podunkdawg on Sep 20, 2010 12:41 AM EDT up reply actions

very true

But how am I ever gonna get people to care about what I say otherwise :-)

"I want anything wearing red and black to tear the head off anything that isn't." - Lewis Grizzard

by RedCrake on Sep 20, 2010 12:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I knew i was blogging with one of the Georgia greats!

Congrats man you deserve every ounce of pride you receive from it though i’m sure the cool points you get from your son are more than enough.

What was the exact quote that was in the book? Just curious?

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

I Corinthians 9:24

by Southern Dawg on Sep 20, 2010 11:15 PM EDT reply actions

The passage in question was this:

“Coach Russell was a master motivator who did not forget that, as someone who molded young men in a university setting, he was a teacher first and foremost. He passed along life lessons, and not just defensive techniques, to his players and he knew how to get his message across to them.”

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Sep 21, 2010 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Congrats, Kyle...

…what an awesome moment of discovery that must have been!

"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell

by DavetheDawg on Sep 21, 2010 10:45 AM EDT reply actions

In the void left by Munson...

…there are several voices that speak for the Dawgs – many of them very good. But none taps into the history and pathos of UGA footgall like you, Kyle. Well earned, and I hope it is the first of many.

by first and thom on Sep 21, 2010 2:17 PM EDT reply actions

Ditto!

Kyle, you have HANDS DOWN the best UGA blog out there. I know, I’ve been out of state for 18+ years. Like a true leader, not only are your insights and inputs enlightening, but all who post on here are a breath of fresh air and classy. For the most part I hate blogs for the ignorance, but there’s none of that here (and when there is, it’s not tolerated!).

I took my son, for the first time, to Athens last November. He loved it and cannot wait to attend. I hope he lives a dream I never got to fulfill, and that’s to attend UGA. (My college was the USAF). Now, forgive me for this, I get to tell him I converse (loosely!) with a paragon of UGA Dawgness!

by Inteljumper on Sep 22, 2010 3:04 AM EDT up reply actions

Thanks, everyone.

It was pretty cool. On the list of “moments my son was most impressed with me,” it may have ranked right up there with the time Thomas and I went for a haircut and I discovered after we had gotten back in the car that someone had stuck a flyer on our windshield while we were in the barber shop. I had already put the car in gear by the time I noticed it, so, rather than stop the car and get out, I instead rolled down the window, turned on the windshield wipers, and reached out and grabbed the flyer as the windshield wiper brought it to me. Thomas thought that was the coolest thing he had ever seen a human being do in person.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Sep 21, 2010 10:38 PM EDT reply actions