My boy will never wear prison jumpsuit orange!
When I was growing up in the cypress swamps of north Florida, we were always told to be very careful when heading up to the highlands. There were strange folk up in the hills, you see - moonshiners, hillbillies, people who didn’t understand the principles of genetics. If you looked at them wrong they would start a feud with you and never rest until your entire family was hunted down. Well, turns out you can take the Vol out of the hills but never the hills out of the Vol. Should of remembered what I learned as a younger man.
There’s a lot of Big Talk coming up the Thames from the Big Smoke this week. I mean, it’s one thing to have pride in your team (even if they do spend a lot more than four years in prison jumpsuit orange). But it’s another thing entirely to call Uga, the pride of the University of Georgia, “ugly” - well, that’s drawing a line in the sand. And as a proud member of The Dawg Nation, neither I nor my family are likely to back down from a fight. Zach, Timmins and I are up for anything the Vol Abroad can bring. As you can see in the picture above even Timmins wears Georgia colors, and British readers may recognize Zach’s defiant two fingered salute to the Big Orange Army.
And just for impugning the honor (welching indeed) of an alum of The Greatest University in the South I’ll raise the stakes! My boy, myself and my dog will all don orange if by some bizarre act of the devil the Vols and their fat little coach manage to slip past the mighty Dawgs. By accepting this bet, you are succumbing to the inevitable fate of adorning young Cletus, yourself and your little cat in glorious red and black. I guess it’s fair to allow our Irish partners to maintain amused neutrality.
Sic ‘em Dawgs!
19 responses so far ↓
1 Heather // Oct 3, 2007 at 7:37 am
GO DAWGS Sic ‘em!
2 JustJessie // Oct 3, 2007 at 8:54 am
The dawgs better pull through for you guys. It would just be awful to submit little Zach to those ghastly colors. He may never fully recover. He’ll be in therapy as an adult, trying to remember where his deep-dark desire to cheer for the Vols came from, and wondering if it was worth being disowned by his father.
3 ariedana // Oct 3, 2007 at 9:19 am
You could be really evil and make her wear a Bear Bryant hat whilst singing “Sweet Home Alabama” on YouTube.
(And hi. Just found you through Vol Abroad. I haven’t made it to the UK yet, even though you wouldn’t know it from what I watch and listen to.)
4 Jamie // Oct 3, 2007 at 9:30 am
Why is there so much acrimony about which of your teams will finish 4rth and which 5th in the SEC East?
5 CDV // Oct 3, 2007 at 9:39 am
Jamie, that’s big talk from a fan of a team that left their SEC title hopes in the Swamp last week…
6 Jamie // Oct 3, 2007 at 10:10 am
Perhaps, but assuming UF loses to LSU (I am not completely delusional), giving us two losses, that will still be okay. I think uga can beat the Hillbillies this weekend, giving them two losses (and UF the tie-breaker as we beat them). Given that uga already lost to South Carolina (snicker), and it goes without saying you will suffer another defeat in JAX, uga will have two losses as well. I am sure Kentucky will begin losing soon, as is their wont, giving us a finish of UF, Kentucky, SC, uga, Hillbillies, and Vandy. Now, don’t get all pissy; I feel I was very charitable in predicting that you would squeak by Vanderbilt this year.
Oh, and all your plans for Zach will crumble as your progeny rebels against you. Chloe is already saying “Yankees win!.” Shudder.
7 Matthew // Oct 3, 2007 at 10:30 am
I don’t understand why people always referrer to the history of their program. I doesn’t matter if your team won a national championship back in 1998, or even how your team played last year. New people come in every year, and people leave at the same rate. I think the lose to S.C. woke them up a bit, and winning against Alabama has given them a lot of confidence. Unless Georgia chokes, I think you’ve got this one in the bag Chris.
8 Nathan Brewer // Oct 3, 2007 at 11:37 am
What’s interesting about all this debate is that a school from a basketball-first state will end up winning the SEC East…I’m pretty sure this is the year for the Fightin’ Ashley Judds.
9 Jeff Keith // Oct 3, 2007 at 5:28 pm
A lil UGA fan in puke orange…BLASPHEMY!!!! Good thing Matthew and the boys just bought a new pair of hobnails!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will see who the Viles hire at end of this year
Cause Phat Phil is goonnee!! GO DAWGS!!!
10 Jeff Keith // Oct 3, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Heres a nice linky for you guys…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nc2XsimM90
Go Dawgs!!
11 Jeff Keith // Oct 3, 2007 at 5:36 pm
And another…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2nDpTkJm7k&mode=related&search=
12 CDV // Oct 3, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Thanks for the links Jeff - that Sean Jones play is one of my favorites! Thanks for your confidence Matt and as ever your sarcasm, Brewer! You’re just jealous that we’ve got proper football in the SEC.
13 Jason // Oct 3, 2007 at 8:05 pm
As much as I want to talk trash about Georgia, and I certainly hope to see Chris in Tennessee orange, those Herschel Walker clips are awesome. You just don’t see running like that.
When you say that you have proper football in the SEC, what defines it as “proper”? I hope its not based on the number of teams in the Top 25 because the last time I checked, the Big 12 had just as many top 25 teams. Go Mizzou!
14 Strange Scottish Girl // Oct 4, 2007 at 3:11 am
as we discusssed in the lab, you are embroiling your son in a bet and when he’s a teenager he’ll bring it all back down on you like a ton of sweaty socks and probably decide he likes real football and support Arsenal or some other crap
15 CDV // Oct 4, 2007 at 3:37 am
The thing that Jason and McStrange don’t understand is the passion that Southern college football can induce in otherwise sane people.
Jason, it’s just understood that college football anywhere else in the country is inferior to that in the SEC. You know well that I will cheer for Missouri but I just know they will choke as they do for every big game. Pinkel isn’t a big game coach.
Scottie, they day that Zach starts cheering for an English “football” team is the day that we’re on a plane out of Heathrow!
16 Jeff Keith // Oct 4, 2007 at 5:41 am
Talking about football in the south…in my physical therapy clinic we have a rule that you have to be careful talking about politics, religion, and yes college football. Sadly, we have had patients get extremely ugly with each other during their appt. believe it or not. One pt even left before their treatment was finished!
17 Moose // Oct 7, 2007 at 10:40 pm
35-14, UGA’s legs just weren’t long enough to run with the big dogs like Smokey huh?
Can’t wait to see the pictures
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