What's your Georgia story?

#101
#101
2016. We drove from South Carolina (where we live) to Disney World for vacation. Game was on the radio. My dear friend was driving, I was in the passenger seat, and our spouses were in the back seat. We pulled up to our Disney resort right as Jennings made the catch. My husband says his favorite moment was watching me and my friend lose our minds. All I remember is the valet at the resort looking through the windshield at us like we were insane as we screamed and jumped around inside the car. Core memory!
 
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#102
#102
The Hail Mary.. we were in a Mexican restaurant in middle Tennessee and the game was on and we were near the bar, a super drunk Georgia fan was heckling everyone in the restaurant for no apparent reason.. he thought the game was in hand.. and proceeded to go ‘oh well, better luck next time, losers’ and then the Hail Mary happened and everyone exploded and hollered, all the kids in the restaurant, the grandparents, the workers in the restaurant, my husband who doesn’t even like football and everyone was like ‘in your face’ to the dude and he left.. it was hilarious
 
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Not super football related, but nonetheless I guess I’m one of the rare ones who find it a little hard to fully loathe the Dawgs. My brother earned his Doctorate at UGA, and I lived in Athens for a couple years, worked as a meat cutter for Kroger there on College Station Rd. Hershel Walker shopped there once in a while, and we used to cut filet mignon for Kenny Rogers. I didn’t attend school there, but I was friends with a lot of students, and let me tell you, we got some high level partying done. Such a great and artsy little Bohemian town. Fortunately I lived there during the long stretch in the desert for the Bulldogs, so I didn’t hear much mouth about sports. Don’t get me wrong I love Knoxville, lived there for a while as well, some forever memories were made there, but I’m not gonna lie, if I were in the 19 to 25 age range again, I’d probably head straight back to Athens. 🍊🏈
 
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All Vol! said:
Not super football related, but nonetheless I guess I’m one of the rare ones who find it a little hard to fully loathe the Dawgs. My brother earned his Doctorate at UGA, and I lived in Athens for a couple years, worked as a meat cutter for Kroger there on College Station Rd. Hershel Walker shopped there once in a while, and we used to cut filet mignon for Kenny Rogers. I didn’t attend school there, but I was friends with a lot of students, and let me tell you, we got some high level partying done. Such a great and artsy little Bohemian town. Fortunately I lived there during the long stretch in the desert for the Bulldogs, so I didn’t hear much mouth about sports. Don’t get me wrong I love Knoxville, lived there for a while as well, some forever memories were made there, but I’m not gonna lie, if I were in the 19 to 25 age range again, I’d probably head straight back to Athens. 🍊🏈
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Blasphemy
 
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LowKey said:
All I know is that every UT/GA game I've been to a Georgia fan gets escorted out by the cops.
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Can confirm.. I got smacked in the face by a dude at the game in Athens.. I was 19 and being sassy, but come on 😂 he did a drive by in the crowd so I couldn’t see who did, but I was pretty positive it was a butt hurt dude after we won.. everybody watch after their ladies (at any game for that matter)
 
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i'm a lifelong tennessee fan who has lived in the Savannah area (GA not TN) for about 16 years. My favorite memory of UT vs UGA was in 2006. i was in the old Loco's bar on Broughton Street (a very busy street in Savannah) and we were down by double digits to the Dawgs and the crowd was giving me so much s**t. Laughing and barking in my face. But then Erick Ainge, Arian Foster, and Robert Meachem WENT OFF and we came back and won 51-33. The next week, we were on the cover of Sports Illustrated
 

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Mine was a dandy. For my 8th birthday, my Dad took me to the 1968 Tennessee-Georgia game that was not only John Ward's 1st broadcast, but the game was also televised on ABC. The famous Tie that felt like a Win. We sat on the West sidelines under the press box. My memory is obviously vague, but I still have a mental image burned into my brain of Ken Delong throwing the ball into the stands after the 2-point conversion.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
A friend and I decided last minute to get tickets, drop the Jeep top, and take the scenic route to Athens. We were in the middle of a Georgia section on the 10 yard line, maybe 15 rows up, when Jennings caught the Dobbnail boot. It was a glorious drive home that night.
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The glove in my profile pic is Jennings glove from that game.
 
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TNinSC said:
i'm a lifelong tennessee fan who has lived in the Savannah area (GA not TN) for about 16 years. My favorite memory of UT vs UGA was in 2006. i was in the old Loco's bar on Broughton Street (a very busy street in Savannah) and we were down by double digits to the Dawgs and the crowd was giving me so much s**t. Laughing and barking in my face. But then Erick Ainge, Arian Foster, and Robert Meachem WENT OFF and we came back and won 51-33. The next week, we were on the cover of Sports Illustrated
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I was in Savannah then.
 
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The first road game I ever went to was Georgia in 2000. They tore the goal posts down that night. I guess there was a lot of pent-up frustrations being let loose, but I’ve never been treated worse at an opposing school. That’s when I started hating Georgia more than Florida.
 
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MOOOOONEY said:
1. 1989 - first SEC game I had ever attended. Me and my friend sold drinks and when the game started we hid our carrier and watched the game in some empty seats 3 rows from the top of Neyland. Final game of the Cobb-Webb era as Webb was dismissed before the Alabama game. Vols -17 Georgia - 14 this win started a 9 game winning streak. 1989 started an epic run of Tennessee Vols football that culminated with a National Championship in 98.

2. 1992 - My first SEC road game. Watched Heath Shuler become the man.
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Someone likely corrected but it was Cobb dismissed, not Webb
 
#119
#119
My mom went into labor with me during the 1989 UT-UGA game. We've played Georgia off and on on my birthday weekend pretty much my whole life, so I've got a lot of memories of going to Neyland with my dad for my birthday. I never wanted a party or a celebration, just a trip to Knoxville.
 
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I was in college in 2006 and we ended up with 4 tickets to the game down in Athens. We were walking into the stadium on the open end under where the scoreboard is… I remember seeing small projectiles smacking against the ground all around us. It took me few seconds to figure out they were throwing batteries at us from the upper deck. They were barking during the first half, we blew them out in the second half. Most bulldog fans didn’t stay for the final minutes
 
#121
#121
I was working on a construction project in a prison in 2019, so I was stuck there for 12 hours a day/ 7 days a week, and had this plumber who was from Georgia on the project with me with the name Dooley. We had a Georgia fan, a Bama fan, a South Carolina fan, a Wisconsin fan, and myself (a Tennessee fan). We got to talking football and I told old Mr. Dooley that Georgia is the best college football program to have not won a championship since the BCS. I was being sincere and he seemed to appreciate the respect.

6 years later, Georgia has two titles and now I’m thinking Tennessee is the best program to have not won a championship since the playoffs. Too many people disagree. It’s time that The Volunteers claim the respect that our program deserves.
 
#122
#122
The Dobb Nail boot…
I was in Orange Beach…my granddaughter’s mother was getting remarried and my wife wanted to go to the wedding…we came down mid week to enjoy to enjoy the beach, visit, etc…on Saturday I got up and was watching ball as is my norm…I knew I was going to have to leave before the game was over and I dreaded it…as it got close to time to leave I kept saying, “Just a minute…one more series…let me see this play…” my wife finally got pissed and said she was going to go without me and I said ok - which made her even madder. Anyway, I stayed and watched the greatest ending in the history of the world and she went to the wedding…when she got back she asked me if I felt silly for missing the wedding over some stupid football game…I was still ecstatic and on cloud nine and told he no - it was one of the best decisions of my life…I was laughing so hard I had tears…i just kept telling her I had seen the greatest ending ever and I was so happy I stayed back in the room…to this day she still doesn’t understand what a great decision I made that day…
 
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#125
Best day ever...Vols at UGA 2016. My daughter was supposed to go with me and faltered at the last minute... So I took off on my own, up the Ocoee River gorge into the mountains... beautiful day! Took a right somewhere and headed down the other side towards Athens. I rolled in the northeast side of town and drove downtown to the courthouse. A car was pulling out of a spot right next to a van load of FUGA fans. Pulled in and fed the meter a quarter for the last 30 minutes that the spot was monitored. Headed towards the stadium and held my spare ticket overhead. Immediately sold to a Vol fan at face value.

Then the game happened...Eason's heartbreaking TD throw as the clock wound down was right below where I was sitting on the sunburn deck. When EB returned the kickoff I moved towards the middle of the upper deck. Then... The Hail Mary. Amazing!! I was hugging and high fiving Vol fans like crazy. Went down to the lower level and celebrated with Volnation for a while. The walk to the car was a blast- quite a site to see the woofers limp away with their tails between their legs and their mouths shut! Drove back to Cleveland on a state of bliss, relishing in the glory of the day!
 
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