Football fans, by definition, are assholes to everyone who does not swear allegiance to their team. UGA football fans, as a group, are scum among this group of Philistines. I view them through the same prism I view police officers; which is to say I can make an exception and befriend one on an individual basis, but seethe with contempt for them as a group. Exhibit A is in today’s AJC letter’s section in a submission from reader Brady Couvillion:
I had presumed the University of Georgia, being in the heart of the South, understood the concepts of class and hospitality. At the LSU game last weekend, that perception changed as I heard UGA fans chanting “Katrina, Katrina, Katrina” while I was walking into the stadium.
Inside, the mockery included this comment by a Georgia fan: “This is our house — y’all don’t have any homes anymore!” After it was obvious that LSU had been beaten on the field, another fan yelled, “FEMA can’t buy you everything”
These comments were directed at LSU fans, some of whom lost their homes and possessions, even their loved ones. They were there to see a team they love and respect, in the hopes that they could, if only temporarily, escape the horrible reality thrust upon them in recent months. The UGA fans were mocking a university whose efforts helped save thousands of lives, whose facilities were converted into triage centers, whose athletes sheltered the homeless.
Had I been from Louisiana, and had one of those fans said that to me, I’d have hit him or her with the closest available blunt object until his or her body quit twitching.
I went to one game this year at UGA and have to agree.
In front of me was a group of fans from both teams. The whole game every time UGA did anything ie..first down, complete a pass, make a tackle.. The fucking UGA fans would laugh and yell about how UGA was the greatest team ever. Funny thing, they lost the game.
Yeah, well, I think it’s equally pervasive at most schools and that UGA incidents are magnified because of your burning, itching hatred. While in the band at Georgia, I was physically assaulted at Tennessee, South Carolina, and Florida that I can remember. It goes both ways. You wouldn’t want to believe that Vol fans are capable of such obnoxiousness, but you’ve never wandered into Knoxville wearing a red and black band uniform.
There’s obnoxiousness (which all fans are certainly capable of… yes, even Tennessee’s), and then there’s been my experiences with UGA fans.
Practically every time I’ve been to Athens, I’ve been in some sort of physical altercation with someone. Without fail, I was in plain clothes, not even wearing opposing fan garb, and NOT looking for a fight.
On more than one occasion in Athens, I saw a mob of UGA fans surround a car with an opposing team’s stickers on it, blocking them from moving anywhere, while other fans threw beer bottles and cans at it and pounded on the windows.
Every time they were in Knoxville, in the Donnan and Richt days, they behaved notably worse than any other opposing team’s fans — even Florida’s. And Florida fans are pretty trashy.
Yeah, all fans can be assholes, but UGA fans as a group are degenerates among degenerates.
Yeah this was pretty bad even for drunk football fans(probably the biggest factor in the rudeness). That said the FEMA joke actually did make me laugh just because of the idea of FEMA wasting money on a college football program seems plausible.
This is part of why I went to a school with no football culture.
As for UGA, as Weiss and other GSU types can surely attest, cats (specifically Panthers) are smarter than dogs.
You’re an asshole, so we’re even.
Yeah. My school’s mascot was a banana slug, and the only teams I knew anything about were for volleyball and tennis. School spirit sucks
Hey guys lighten up, it’s fucking football. The people in New Orleans were making jokes about Katrina two weeks after the storm hit (and for those who know me you know I got my information first hand).
I was at a Florida - Tennessee game a few years back, and there was a rather musical chant the had only the words “Fuck Spurrier.” Class and football do not go hand in hand.
Last year Central Florida opposition would chant Charley, Frances, Jeanine in succession. FSU’s enemies would bring Dillard’s bags to a football game to lampoon Peter Warrick and Laverneus Coles.
This should not be shocking. More than that it should not have been in the AJC (more proof that no newspaper tries less).
Oh, and Tom, if this is why you didn’t go to a “school with no football culture” rent a shotgun, rent a toe clip, and buy a single slug…It is time stop the voices in your head.
…but, before this gets out of hand, it is kinda funny, but in poor taste.
I would just ask that you preface that title with “Some UGA fans…” since not all of us would say things like that. I’m a hard core fan as any, but I was actually telling Lyss on the way to watch the game Saturday that if LSU won the game, it would be nice for them to bring a Championship back to the state that had seen so much hardship.
I don’t like no double negatives.
/grammar snark & general commentage biatch
I am glad that you have time to banter about bad fans. What happened with last weeks picks off NCAA
Two Youtzs,
I’m almost done playing catch-up. I’ve added last round’s results to the last post, and will have this round’s results and bowl odds up tonight. I’ve just got to put together the bowl schedule, then it will be up.
Oh, and Tom, if this is why you didn’t go to a “school with no football cultureâ€Â…
I don’t like no double negatives.
/grammar snark & general commentage biatch
Notice please I was quoting another persons remark you self indulgent school marm.
I went to a school with a sports culture, but not an SEC/Football crazed culture, partially for this reason as well. I didn’t want to put up with this type of crap. Honestly, yes, it is “just football,” and coming up with nasty sladers to fling at people who’ve been wiped nearly off the face of the earth by a frikkin’ hurricane isn’t sportsmanlike, intelligent, fun, or anything I would ever want to be even vaguely associated with. The entire culture is annoying, and I’ve never made a secret of that, even to my UGA devoted friends. Beyond that, I’m not expecting drunken frat boys and sorostitutes to be classy, but some common courtesy would be nice.
Yeah but you should have said, “Oh, and Tom, if this is why you went to a ’school with no football culture’…”
Okay, I’m over it. Everyone hates a stickler for grammar, right? And save the cunning linguist jokes, k?
Damn, that is fucking wrong. I don’t care who you are, that is fucked up. That puts a new perspective on “sore winner”.
Rusty, I’m not trying to call you a liar, but… wait a minute, yes I am. You, sir, are a liar.
True, every school has their share of rowdy/drunken idiots, and UGA is no different. However, as an Athens resident and loyal UGA football supporter for as long as I can remember, say, the last 18 years… I have NEVER witnessed anything such as this following nonsense:
“On more than one occasion in Athens, I saw a mob of UGA fans surround a car with an opposing team’s stickers on it, blocking them from moving anywhere, while other fans threw beer bottles and cans at it and pounded on the windows.”
LOL, whatever team you support, get over yourself and your blinding hatred… stop spreading ridiculous rumors that no one in their right mind would believe just because you’re mad our team is better than yours. Yep, I’m calling you out. Stop lying, please, it does no one in our region any good. That story is beyond absurd, please stop acting like a child and making up sensational stories.
Thank You,
- Fellow SEC Fans
PS - As someone who was at the game in the Dome, I’d also like to go on the record and state that Mr. Couvillion isn’t exactly being forthright as well… sure, maybe an isolated incident occurred, but both of your rants just come off as nothing more than sour grapes to someone who was actually present at the events in question. I mean, I guess it’s possible that I was nowhere near you that day and you’re 100% telling the truth! But it’s also possible that you’re both completely full of shit and bitter beyond belief… I’d wager on the latter myself.
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Josh,
I know what I saw. Fuck you, your city and your school.
Love,
Rusty
Oh, come on now, calm down all you boys. I’d just like to point out that if I hadn’t made my way to Atlanta via Texas and Athens, then, well, I wouldn’t be the GDGF.
So there!
Oh, come on now, calm down all you boys. I’d just like to point out that if I hadn’t made my way to Atlanta via Texas and Athens, then, well, I wouldn’t be the GDGF.
So there!
How would we have been able to make it? You know, without having someone diagram my sentence structure and Rusty not having someone to tend to his “dangling participle.”
Damn, Amber’s a real bitch.
That is true, Dr. Blank Comment. But you forgot to call me a dirty whore while you were at it. C’mon, let’s not be a half-assed pussy, now…
It appears to me that blogs are nothing more than a place for whiners and arrogant know-it-alls.
Hooray flame bait! I’m going to leave that up here, but inform the readership what IP and domain that was posted from (68.117.208.163, dhcp.athn.ga.charter.com) so your hometown can be proud of you. Dick.
I love it when people complain about blogs on blogs.
I am a 28/M WVU fan and I live in south Georgia. I went to the 2006 Sugar Bowl and observed a new class of dumb ass rednecks. They were rude, thoughtless, and really fucking dumb. They kept yelling in my face stating “YOU GOT A FRESHMAN QUARTERBACK…WE”RE GONNA KILL YOU”. I am not just gloating because WVU won, but I do want the ever so fair weather georgia fan to know that you lost and you suck. You lost the civil war also. You really need to get over that as well. One more thing….Sherman should’ve burnt Atlanta and Athens on the way back up.
To the older more thoughtful fans that were gracious in defeat I thank you. You can tell the classy people in Georgia from the rednecks as soon as they open their mouth.
What the fuck does the Civil War have to do with football? Maybe YOU should get over it. Also, I think burning cities on account of an athletic event is somewhat shallow. In fact, that comment is along the same lines as the “Katrina” chant at the LSU game. But then again, you are a West Virginia fan. How can you say anything about rednecks, when you yourself are a fucking country bumpkin hillbilly, that has most likely had sexual relations with at least two family members. Possibly male.
Thanks,
Jay
PS- If I lost to UGA like UT every year I would be pretty fucking bitter too.
Just an FYI… I tried to burn Athens, and was told that I needed to have a permit.
Ok that was a lame joke… But so was the fucking post that equates the Civil War to a Football Game… What next we are going to look at WWII and Wrestlemania.
SHIT!!!!
Hey! If I can’t burn Austin, you can’t burn Athens.
Gig’em
*D*
Even if you did burn down Athens…who could tell the difference?
good point
Yes all UGA fans are assholes, because everyone from GA by definition has no class and no self respect. If you ask they will agree that this true. Look at the way people drive here, this is a statewide tradition that goes back many many years. I wish the entire state of GA could be relocated to where it belongs, in its rightful place, in the north, just west of New York state or in canada. If you do things like yell “FEMA” at LSU fans, then get out of the south because your sorry ass doesn’t belong. And remember this, real southerners and white trash are not the same thing.
Sick em. Woof Woof Woof.
yeah i know exactly what you mean. I’m in the band at the University Of Hawaii and we played UGA at the Sugar Bowl and I admit we got our asses kicked but the UGA fans are some of the worst people I have ever come into contact with. They are rude and obnoxious. They talk crap to us, the band, when we walk pass them. I know it’s supposedly “in the spirit of the game” but that’s just going too far. even the football team were assholes. horrible just horrible. And they continue to rub it in our faces after they beat us. Sure we lost to a better team and I can except that but if they continue to talk after the game, I can’t except that one bit.
Well I just transferred to UGA from GSU and I have to go ahead and disagree with an above comment that GSU students are smarter than UGA students. Give me a break; nice play on words with “cats are smarter than dogs”. GSU was nothing but a squaters camp for Atlanta bums, and I often thought some students were bums. GSU and Atlanta are both turning into sewage dumps. Don’t even think for a minute that GSU comes close to a real college or provides any kind of valuable education. I worked harder when I was in high school (currently 3.5 gpa). Fuck GSU