I’m heading out for the Cocktail Party this morning, which means that posting, like my sobriety, will be sporadic at best.
Whether you’ll be down there with me, or watching the game from home, enjoy yourselves. Injuries, mediocre records or whatever, it’s still one of the crown jewels of college football and we’re lucky enough to claim it for our own.
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Be careful and hit me up on twitter if you want to get lunch on Friday here in Jax Senator.
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Cannot wait. The most wonderful time of the year. Safe travels.
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Senator – please get drunk & post in the comments section after the game – I hate to be the only one..wink wink.
Have fun & pullem thru! Go Dawgs!
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Safe travels Senator and bring home the win.
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Safe travels. Will be there tomorrow around noon. The Missus and I are taking 2 of our grandsons- one who is a huge Dawg fan and hopes to matriculate there next fall and the other who is a Bama fan that I’m trying to correct his thinking.
Go Dawgs. Let’s get a win! GATA!!!
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See ya there!!
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GATA and thanks for the blog.
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Mull this over..By all reports, Gurley is about 100% and well rested…Douglas and Green have gained valuable experience from having been thrown into the fire…..Georgia should be able to p-o-u-n-d the Florida offense late in this game..Gurley makes everything better..esp the play fake and the screen….and of course the running game.GATA indde!
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Are you already into the brown liquor, ugly? I trust so and Godspeed good man. I say the game hinges upon the Dawgs’ DLine — they ought to be able to go pummeling through toward Murphy, who may singlehandedly solve the turnover drought.
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The game hinges on our ability (or lack thereof) to get a punt off or attempt a field goal without disastrous results.
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I am much more worried about our OL than our DL. Unless by DL we mean what it means in baseball….:)
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bring home a W and talk way too much shit in all those florida bars.
go dawgs!!!
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see you there.
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It looks like the weather will be perfect Saturday. I will be in the stands loud and proud cheering for the DAWGS!!!
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There’s a 90% chance of rain…
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I just checked weather.com and it said 70% tomorrow and 0% for Saturday.
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The city had changed on me it is 90% up from 70% they reported yesterday. I will be wearing my poncho in the stands.
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Hopefully it’ll scare away all the Gator fans. Stay dry! 🙂
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Thanks!!
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Rain changes are down now and expected to be over by mid afternoon.
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Muddy track
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Gurley’s father was a mudder
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Rain supposed to stop by noon now.
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I love the Artie Lynch quote. I have taught my kids (age 7 and 5) that we don’t hate opposing teams – except the Gators. We hate them intensely. They understand.
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Yeah, the forecast has been rain all week. Stay dry, Senator….not orally of course. BE WELL and GATA.
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Well I can’t make it down this year. So have a great weekend on Amelia. I will ask a favor of you now. After The Dawgs get the W saturday, and when you get back to your after game abode. Sit out on the deck, take in the ocean and have a fine single malt along with really fine maduro. That’s what I do.
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Damn, those are my two favorite ways to kick back. I don’t have to wait for a Gator beating to enjoy them here in the mountains of course but they do seem to be even better on days like that. Mother Nature has gotten her special paintbrush out this week, everything is setting up for a special weekend for all Dawgs. Enjoy everyone!
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We’re in Athens, but I was hoping to take the family on a drive and hike up to the NGA mtns on Sunday afternoon but it’s not looking likely….where are you guys, Mac?
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Hey, I am at the “Birds Nest” in Blairsville until the end of January. Where are you guys in these glorious GEORGIA Mountains? At this Health Retreat I have no TV, no internet, no contact with the outside world. Have to go into Young Harris to connect with the world. Not sure where I am going to watch the GAME.
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Wow, don’t often see Young Harris mentioned very often. Matriculated there many years (and brain cells) ago.
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Wish I had known about Young Harris before I went to Athens. Would have been a good place to start. Beautiful here, and especially love all the Wine Vineyards. May make this my permanent home after the first of the year.
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I am just deep in the mountains very near the NC line, not close to anything really, even Google can’t find me. Young Harris is about 45 minutes from me, play golf there occasionally. Supposed to be clear and colder in Sunday, high in the fifties.
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Well, we are having a party at Honey Bee Farm, (next to The Birds Nest), after the GAME tonight. Sunday night after Church, we are going to PARTY BIG TIME. 477 Dockery Road. The THREE DOCKERY HONEY BEES, RR, MADELINE, AND SARAH AND A FEW OF OUR RIVER MEN.
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Blairsville
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Go Dawgs!
Have fun!
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Watch for speedtraps! You are going to be driving in Georgia and Florida after all.
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Senator, what time are you hitting TRay’s in the morning. I’ll look for you. Safe travels.
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I’ll be there at 0730, FWIW.
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That was too early JG!
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Vaya con Dios Senator! If we play as physical as we have the last two years against the Gators, you’ll have a great time.
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I’ve watched this game from so many vantage points: Manuel’s Tavern (1980!), a friend’s house in Baltimore, a sports bar in Georgetown, a hotel room in St. Kitts, a fake British pub in Half Moon Bay (last year). This year’s at home, so the tailgate begins at dawn.
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Just realized I forgot about the time I followed the game during my honeymoon on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean by eavesdropping on a Florida fan who was paying a fortune for text play-by-play! And forgot to wish the Senator a great time and a happy recap! Let’s pray we aren’t talking about the refs or laying odds on Grantham’s firing when Sunday arrives.
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Gators wear jean shorts!
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Ive watched this many many times. I love it.
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Ok kids, Dad’s out for the next few hours. Anyone got any UGA links to share?
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How about JSW out for Clemson 2014? http://www.macon.com/2013/11/01/2750152/justin-scott-wesley-arrested-on.html
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We should stop recruiting players with hyphenated last names. Ugh.
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This is so ridiculous! RA….identify yourself! Got some Buckhead Boys, who want to have a little meeting with you. You jerk!
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Yesterday Mark Richt lost control of Carl Pelini and a rogue RA
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Can’t anyone roll a joint anymore
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Never have been able to do that! The best way is a “one hitter”. Looks like a short Cig. Call it a pinch hitter..you know cause I am a baseball fan. You just pinch a little and push it in. No lingering odor. Have done it in public many times. It is best if the place allows smoking, cause no one can ever figure out where that wonderful little aroma is coming from.
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I have been told, but do not actually know from any personal experience mind you, that you can get a cigarette rolling machine and make joints that are perfectly cylindrical in shape and, if one is so inclined, put a filter tip on them. I heard that this takes out all the harshness and results in a very smooth draw and mellow high. Also, since it is a method of making a legal product, a cigarette, it does not qualify as drug paraphernalia, legally. At least that is what I have been told. The foregoing would obviate the need for hand-rolling a joint. At least,I have heard that.
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Sweet. We’re already getting started on next year’s excuses.
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Maybe there’s an injured reserved exception for Fulmer Cup purposes. That way we can still get points for JSW even though he was stroked mid-season
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I’d have so much more respect for the UGA administration if they suspended JSW for the rest of 2014 and only 2014 as punishment. I mean if South Carolina can suspend Stephen Garcia for Spring Practice….
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sorry meant 2013, my above post would be so UGA, aka a terrible idea.
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Nah. Just declare him fit to play right now and suspend him for the remainder of this season. Wasn’t it medicinal for his rehab pain?
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Or if you prefer more urgent worrying, check out the graphic on UGA’s run defense between and outside the tackles: http://espn.go.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/77066/how-taylor-can-help-run-over-bulldogs?src=mobile
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That’s why Ray Drew is seeing time at OLB. We’re on the motha’.
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GATORS EAT BOOGERS!!!
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If I could, i’d send you a bottle of bourbon.
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Wearing my Georgia shirt to work an a guy stops me to say he’s a Dawg fan as well (sort of rare here in Houston). Turns out, his dad was Harry Babcock, who played end for the Dawgs and was the first pick in the 1953 NFL draft, going to the 49ers. Woof!
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We need a game day post Senator!
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Hell Yeah! Pictures say one thousand words.
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That’s it I’m gonna put one in the upper deck. This place is gonna smell for weeks.
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Great opening drive. Gurleeeeeeey! Unfortunately, Wiggins still can’t cover his grandma.
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What’s wrong with Gurley? He sure doesn’t look over on the sideline, but damn if I can see what happened on the play.
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I don’t know where they took 2012-vintage Marshall Morgan or what they did with him, but I’m sure liking whoever’s impersonating him this year.
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Shit! Now Artie’s down.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand … Rantavious just got robbed — unless justice is done on this review.
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Nopers. Onward and upward, I guess.
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Is it to early to talk about paying a plane to fly around the Gator Bowl with a sign reading “Buldogs for Boom?”
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Wiggins cannot, repeat, cannot cover.
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Let the meltdown ensue. God I hate watching this team.
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Can’t we ever put anybody away? Rhetorical question.
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If we end up losing this damn game, and Grantham’s not gone by this time next week, I will be real disappointed.
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Bobo better be on the same bus as Grantham. I am so sick of him going ultra conservative when we get a lead. We got screwed for sure on the incomplete pass ruled a fumble but Bobo has been mia since the first quarter. Ridiculuous that Florida is still in this game.
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yeah, once again, we went conservative way too early. Let UF right back into the game. Could have been a blow-out.
Ok, we have it inside our 5 as the third Q winds down. A long-drive TD here should win it.
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So much for that shit.
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Yeah. We’ve run six plays in the second half.
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Unbelievable. Unacceptable. Total fail, yet so predictable. Richt can save his job by dismissing Bobo and Grantham asap, otherwise he has probably come to the end, which I hate because I like him.
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Lord, I’m pissed as anybody, but please. Grantham? Fire his ass now and make him buy his own ticket back. Richt? Dawg, you’re crazy as hell.
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I agree. I don’t want to see Richt go but he has to make some changes this year. Might as well start fresh since we lose Murray, but Grantham isn’t working and Bobo is a disaster.
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Grantham needs a Lane Kiffin-style firing tonight.
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Mark Richt better blister this referee crew after the game
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Anybody on this board still want to justify Bobo’s job? Safety? He had three good choices – Gurley, Gurley, or Gurley and he goes play action in the endzone! We will never win anything with that idot calling plays.
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Something was up with Gurley. I bet flu.
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For the record, you just called out Bobo for going “too conservative” when we had the lead.
In basically your next post, you called him out for not running the ball.
So…which is it?
I think your next post should be “we should fire Bobo for calling plays that sometimes don’t work”
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Georgia has thrown out of the endzone very succesfully this year. Purifoy was unblocked on a blown assignment. Real Dawg fans are celebrating tonight and not bitching.
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No I didn’t, but I understand football. The play action in the end zone was just a poor decision. You see, it takes too long to set up and a sack leads to, well, a safety. It could have been worse, nice job for Murray to hang onto the ball, but in that situation you need to get positive yardage running the ball forward, especially when you have the best running back in the country and have controlled the line of scrimmage. That is the kind of bone headed play calling that kills us. Timing is everything and it is a skill that Bobo just has never seemed to understand.
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Bad day for Lynch to go brain dead.
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Like your ‘nym, Dawg. I’m a Grady “Double Dawg” myself – BA in ’92, MMC in ’94. You? We might know one another.
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(That’s ABJ, I should have said. Is Grady the only school that issues those?)
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Call for LSUfreek graphic
Lynch lateral = bill Buckner 1986
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I don’t know about Buckner, that was his fault. That was a horrible call Murray threw the ball from the 20 and it hit Lynch on the 21.
Two games in a row that horrid officiating has changed the game against Georgia. I know they do it behind the scenes but I would like to see Richt step up and call out that crew for that call publicly.
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Baloney.
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It was the right call.
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From my perspective, the official made the right call, despite his being ridiculously out of position to make it.
That being said, it’s the most uncalled play in CFB for some reason (i.e., 49 times out of 50 it’s a borderline lateral, and called an incomplete pass).
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It wasn’t even close. People want to bitch about that would whine about anything.
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Wasn’t close? I saw the replay on tv, it was a forward pass and the ref that made the call was almost 10 yds up field, in no position to even make the call. The fact is it was a bad call that once again changed the momentum of a game.
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I agree. Right call.
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Yep.
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Well, Saban. Nobody’s leaving the Gator Bowl.
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Lord, I hope we somehow win this clusterf****!
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Oh, God, I just need to go lay down.
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I just bark laughed
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Damn!
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That was 30 mins of hell.
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Come one now, you weren’t foolish enough to actually believe we would maintain or extend our lead at halftime?
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Brett McG–My hero.
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“Elizabeth, it’s the big one!”
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LOL
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Over at Swamp Gas they are having a serious debate about whether Muschamp is a UGA plant.
http://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/showthread.php?t=276377
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This regime makes it really hard to love the Dawgs.
I really wish CMR would retire soon. I see too many of these type games to believe he will ever do different.
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Georgia just beat Florida for the third year in a row…did you notice?
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The two are not mutually exclusive.
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In some respects UGA letting them back in the game just makes the loss all the more painful and bitter for Gator fans….and that’s always a good thing.
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