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Game Day Open Comment Thread and Honorary Captains

Welcome to your weekly game day open comment thread. For the benefit of any newcomers to the blogosphere who may not be familiar with the phrase "game day open comment thread," I would refer you to the wise words of one Dan Rydell:

Dan: Eleven years ago, he pitched a perfect game.
Rebecca: A perfect game?
Dan: Yes, ma'am.
Rebecca: And a perfect game is good?
Dan: Listen, I know there's a lot of jargon, but some of these are pretty self-explanatory.

Your thoughts, reactions, and exclamations regarding the day's college football action may be put forth for the good of the order in the comments below.

In the meantime, I am going to use this opportunity to inaugurate a new feature here at Dawg Sports. As you know, there is an honorary game captain on the field for the coin toss at every Georgia home game. I think this is a good idea in principle, but, oftentimes, it seems as though the athletic association trots out whatever former player happened to be available that day, without any particular rhyme or reason to it.

We here at Dawg Sports intend to name honorary game day captains, as well, but they will be former Bulldogs who are specific and appropriate to the occasion. Since this is the debut of this feature, I want to start things off with a big splash, so I will be naming two Dawg Sports honorary game day captains . . . one particular to the opposing team and the other particular to the opposing coach.

The team-specific honorary game day captain is Kirby Moore, whose 87-yard touchdown scamper against South Carolina in 1967 remains the third-longest T.D. run from scrimmage in Georgia history. Since 1892, the Bulldogs have notched eight rushing touchdowns covering more than 80 yards and three of those came against the Gamecocks.

The coach-specific honorary game day captain is, of course, this gentleman:

To you and me, he's Bill the Landfill, but, to Steve Spurrier, he will always be "Mr. Stanfill" . . . as in, "Heisman Boy, Mr. Stanfill will sack you now."

Go 'Dawgs!

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Cheers!
Let's hope we get to see the Dogs take several stomps on Blakie's skirt this evening.

by NCT on Sep 8, 2007 10:10 AM EDT   0 recs

Some LSU fan . . .
on College Gameday just held up a cardboard cutout of Nick Saban holding up two sacks of cash while wearing a Michigan shirt. Would he leave for Mee-chegan? Not likely. But you have to appreciate the sentiment.  And the fact that we'll be seeing that bit with a different shirt every time a bigtime program is in the coaching market.

by MaconDawg on Sep 8, 2007 10:45 AM EDT   0 recs

Check out deepsouthsports.com
For a new fark on Saban and Michigan.

by TheUnknownStuntman on Sep 8, 2007 2:31 PM EDT   0 recs

Halftime Thoughts
Somebody's having trouble stopping the run, and it sure isn't USC.

It's going to be a long 2nd half until our guys start wanting the win as much as Spurrier and his team do.  

by ifmercyfalls on Sep 8, 2007 7:28 PM EDT   0 recs

Strawberry or Grape?
I think I drank a little too much Kool-Aid after Oklahoma State.  Knowshon came to play but the recievers looked like the guys last year.  Granted, some great catches, but Tripp...I need some personal time to cry right now.

by Georgia underage drinker on Sep 8, 2007 11:02 PM EDT   0 recs

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