UGA Rivalry

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Volsfan895

Volsfan895

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Why doesn't Tennessee have a rivalry with Georgia?.....UT, UF, and UGA are the SECE powers and all have a rivalry, except UT and UGA
 
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#2
Who said we don't have a rivalry with Georgia?
 
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My 2 cents:

I started seriously watching the Vols in the late 70's. We didn't play UGA on a frequent basis then (as I recall).

When the SEC split divisions and we played UGA annually, we jumped all over them. After 9 straight, it didn't seem like much of a rivalry.

Since they gained the upper hand, me likes them less and less...:p and I consider it more of a rivalry.
 
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I'd say it's a relatively new rivalry since we didn't start playing them regularly until 1992 and we dominated them so much in the 90s that it has only recently gotten really competitive.
 
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#6
The ticket agents sure seem to think it's a rivalry.

Like GAVol said, it's only been a regular series since '92, and we beat them every year for a while, there. With Athens only 4 hours from K-town and the SEC-E implications, I think our "rivalry" with UGA just may grow to the UF and UA level.
 
#7
#7
Teams increasingly become a rival when they beat you consistently. Thus, Georgia has become a bigger and bigger rival since 2000.
 
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#8
Now with them being on an equal footing, it is a BIG rivalry. Actually since Richt came, people are no longer ashamed to dump their GT shirts and support UGA.
 
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There's just not the hatred there yet. (except for Munson's hobnailed boot) Richt is just too nice of a guy. :rock:
 
#10
#10
There's just not the hatred there yet
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Speak for yourself, friend. I hate georgia more then any other team. I was there for the loss in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. All extremely painful for different reasons. The road losses taught me just how absolutely rude uga fans are (ive been to road games at bama, auburn, kentucky, along with both peach bowls and the 01 and 03 sec cg, so I have some kind of sample). Plus I live in the state of Georgia so I have to hear all the crap about them. You'd be amazed how much uga crap has appeared over the last couple years.

As for whether this game is a rivalry, I'll share a story. On one of my trips to uga, I went out with some friends to downtown Athens, Im fairly sure the year was 2003. Its an awesome bar scene. Anyways, there used to be this bar called "Gator Haters". A whole bar named after how much they hate florida. I thought to myself...if I went to Gainsville, could I find a bar called "Bulldog Haters"? Probably not. Its a rivalry for one team when youve won 13 out of 14 (or whatever it was at the time).

In the '90s, uga wasnt a rivalry. You beat someone 9 in a row, who cares. But when we lost 5 out of 6...we started hating them and calling it a rivalry. But from the uga friends I talk to, they go into every year wanting to beat auburn and florida...the teams that tend to beat them more often then not. Tennessee, unfortunately, is an afterthought (much like their other supposed rival, Georgia Tech).

Its gonna take some parity, I believe, before its a full blown rivalry. I think we might get it with Cut back, Ainge playing like he is, and Crompton and our stable of rb's waiting in the wings.
 
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volmanbill said:
There's just not the hatred there yet. (except for Munson's hobnailed boot) Richt is just too nice of a guy. :rock:
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Have never taken the Dawgs as that much of a threat. However, I agree Munson's call with the hobnail boot bs has definitely ratcheted up the hatred of all that is red and black!! :finger3:
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
Not sure what that is supposted to mean. 21hrs 15mins til kick off.
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It was in response to this

But from the uga friends I talk to, they go into every year wanting to beat auburn and florida...the teams that tend to beat them more often then not. Tennessee, unfortunately, is an afterthought (much like their other supposed rival, Georgia Tech).
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it's already been said, and i agree with it...the series being fairly "young", and our early domination of the dawgs, we really never had a reason to get our blood boiling about UGA...and Ray Goff was just a real nice guy..hardly someone you flat out hate. I didn't like Jim Donnan, but we beat him regularly too, so again, nothing to get too amped up about.

But with Richt, a very good coach, and some of the name players like Greene, Pollack, Thurman, David etc...and the way they have beaten us of late, there is now something to project your distaste too...1. they've beaten us, and handlily at that in 2 of the past 3. 2. While Richt isn't a guy you hate personally, he is now the face of the UGA program, and his demeanor, while pleasent, really can be very annoying.

i think TN fans have a whole new perspective on UGA...and it's much more of a rivalry game now....the hobnailed boot, both teams planting flags at the 50 in each other's stadiums etc...all the makings of a great SEC rivalry. And it's a competitive series looking at the all time standings...i think we're up 18-15? to the outsider, this would appear to be an "even" series, and probably pretty competitive. And it doesn't hurt that in most years both teams are pretty good.
 
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You've got to love Munson. He's so unapologetically a homer that it's funny to listen to.
 
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TravisHenryCBlockedMe said:
Speak for yourself, friend. I hate georgia more then any other team. I was there for the loss in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. All extremely painful for different reasons. The road losses taught me just how absolutely rude uga fans are (ive been to road games at bama, auburn, kentucky, along with both peach bowls and the 01 and 03 sec cg, so I have some kind of sample). Plus I live in the state of Georgia so I have to hear all the crap about them. You'd be amazed how much uga crap has appeared over the last couple years.

As for whether this game is a rivalry, I'll share a story. On one of my trips to uga, I went out with some friends to downtown Athens, Im fairly sure the year was 2003. Its an awesome bar scene. Anyways, there used to be this bar called "Gator Haters". A whole bar named after how much they hate florida. I thought to myself...if I went to Gainsville, could I find a bar called "Bulldog Haters"? Probably not. Its a rivalry for one team when youve won 13 out of 14 (or whatever it was at the time).

In the '90s, uga wasnt a rivalry. You beat someone 9 in a row, who cares. But when we lost 5 out of 6...we started hating them and calling it a rivalry. But from the uga friends I talk to, they go into every year wanting to beat auburn and florida...the teams that tend to beat them more often then not. Tennessee, unfortunately, is an afterthought (much like their other supposed rival, Georgia Tech).
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I hate UGA, too. I used to not care about them one way or the other, but when I was a student at UT (96-99) I saw how arrogant and rude their fans were. I saw how their female cheerleaders spat upon the T, and in the endzone, and cussed UT fans even when UGA was getting their a$$ kicked. I saw my buddy's girlfriend come back from the concession stand crying, saying that some UGA dolt had pushed her from behind and started calling her names for no reason. About 45 minutes later, this same dolt pops out in front of us and just starts looking up into the stands and cussing everyone who cared to listen. I saw Jim Donnan cuss Fulmer after the game when they met at midfield. I went to see UGA at the Peach Bowl on two occasions, and saw how they throw things from the stands when they're pissed. I've been to UGA games this season, and the concession stand takes the cap off the bottled water they sell and won't give you the cap because they don't want fans throwing full bottles. Yesterday some foreign chick I had never met before who is in one of my classes at UGA told me I was going to get something thrown at me if I wore orange to the game on Saturday. I don't know if that kind of hatred was instilled at childhood, or just since she's been here at UGA. Regardless, it's unfortunately typical of what I've seen through the years from UGA fans. They're arrogant when they're winning, they're arrogant when they're losing. They are rarely, if ever, humble, even when they get their a$$ kicked.

Last week while in Chattanooga and trying to listen to the UGA game on the radio, I heard an advertisement for Arrow Exterminating, where they made a song talking about the one-toothed Tennessee fans, and basically the whole advertisement was a bashing of Tennessee. I have since found out that Arrow Exterminating is based in Atlanta, but they do have at least one office in Knoxville (I'm curious if they have a similar trashy advertisement about the Dawgs playing on the radio up there in K-town... I doubt it). I have never, ever heard any advertisement in TN bashing another team like that. Rest assured, if I ever need pest-control services, I won't be hiring Arrow.

On another note, Munson on the radio this morning talked about how he is shocked and disgusted that Georgia fans have "abandoned" this Georgia football team because of their narrow wins over Colorado and Ole Miss. Larry has been around a long, long time, and that's saying something when he publicly states that the fan behavior and attitude is in such a poor state when they're actually winning. I just don't understand this place, or the people. UGA fans think they're so high and mighty and high class, and you should see this campus the day after a football game... it looks like a freaking dump site. Trash everywhere, stuff is broken/vandalized, and the fans and students just expect someone else to come and clean it all up (which is exactly what happens). Addtionally, in one year at UGA, I already have seen more reports of arrests for drinking, fighting, drug possession (pot, cocaine, and heroin), involuntary manslaughter, vandalism, trespassing, rape, and theft in this small town of Athens than I saw in three years at UT.

Other than that, UGA is a fine educational institution.
 
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VolinArizona said:
Die Munson Die!
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I understand the sentiment VnAZ, but you gotta admit Munson is one(two with Ward) of a kind.

The hobnail boot call remains one of the greatest radio calls ever made.
Add to that, "Run Lindsay, run..." and ..."Oh you Herschel Walker"... It's just a body of work that no modern announcer will ever approach, for any school.

Enjoy Munson while you can Georgia. We lost Ward, and we cry about it still...
 
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Maybe they could snatch Blob Kessling away from us when Munson retires.
 
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I guess I understand why the Dawgs love Larry Munson. However, he is an awful announcer. He rarely mentions the names of players, it's all We, Us, Them. I was listening to the Colorado game driving home and it took forever to figure out who was winning.
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
I understand the sentiment VnAZ, but you gotta admit Munson is one(two with Ward) of a kind.

The hobnail boot call remains one of the greatest radio calls ever made.
Add to that, "Run Lindsay, run..." and ..."Oh you Herschel Walker"... It's just a body of work that no modern announcer will ever approach, for any school.

Enjoy Munson while you can Georgia. We lost Ward, and we cry about it still...
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What about "there's gonna' be some property destroyed on St. simmons tonight"
 
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vader said:
Maybe they could snatch Blob Kessling away from us when Munson retires.
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You know that's actually not far from what did happen....years ago Larry Munson was the host of "tennessee outdoorsman" on PBS out of Nashville. I love hearing Ward, Munson, Gold et.al. The new "technically sound" announcers just don't make it as fun. I think we are bearing witness to a lost art. Munson sure adds to the intensity of the rivalry to me.
 
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