(look at that, I’m managing to sweak out a blog post, three months late, and before the new year.)
The Game.
“It’s Saturday in Athens!”
“Are you going to the game?”
“See you at the Dawg Walk”
“Well, I had a little rooster..”
“Good afternoon football fans, I’m Brooks Whitmire…”
“In the upper South West deck..”
“SATURDAY, SATURDAY, SATURDAY…night’s alright!”
“It’s time to tee it up between the hedges”
“Goooooooooooooo Dawgs! Sic ‘Em! Woof, woof, woof!”
“First down, Georgia!”
I miss it. I miss it all. The smell, the grass, the hedges, the loudness, everyone pointing to the upper deck, the waves of hands in unison holding the four going into the fourth quarter, the beautiful music of Tara playing after the game, and the ringing of the chapel bell.
It’s like being home. That deep, deep welling up feeling of home when everything is just…right…and you are surrounded by 93,000 of your closest friends.
It’s the tradition.
We’ve been away from it for almost four years but it’s exactly the same. The names on the back of the jerseys have changed; some of the coaches have changed. But it’s still all the same.
We love it.
Tennessee…not so much.
It’s one of our biggest rivalries. Heck, just about anybody else in the SEC is our rivalry, but the Tennessee one is right up there in the top three or four.
One of my sweetest, most loyal Dawg fans, friend happened to have some tickets available to the Ga/Tenn game when we were in Georgia and we got to go.
It was Ruby’s first time post-womb stay going to a UGA game.
First there’s the Dawg Walk.
Then the band under the bridge. It’s one of my favorites. “If I had a little rooster”.
“Hey what’s that coming down the track? A huge machine that’s red and black. Ain’t nothing finer in the land, than the Georgia Redcoat Marching Band. Go Dawgs!, Go Dawgs! Go Dawgs! Go Dawgs!”
Iconic Sanford Stadium pic on game day.
The Game
Our seats were really nice and everyone around us was very polite. The girls did really well. Clara had to have her diaper changed in the third quarter and then again at the beginning of the fourth. So, most of the fourth quarter was spent walking around and letting her stretch her legs. That was the tense part of the game so it worked out perfectly for me. J We watched through the openings and on the closed circuit tvs with the state troopers. The girls did not mind the noise at all.
The Dawgs pulled off a win over Tennessee 35 to 32. Whew!
It was a great opportunity and we are so glad and blessed that the girls got to experience it.
