If you’re proud of how Todd Gurley composed himself earlier in the year when accosted in a downtown Athens bar, wait ’til you see how Zach DeBell stepped up in Toppers.
Please, please, someone in the media, ask Mark Richt for a comment on this. Please.
Get The Picture 
Athens has a downtown strip club? My, times have changed.
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“Part of the “uniqueness” that is downtown Athens. I can see why they fought so hard to keep Walmart out.” 😉
Seems like we had a walk on that got himself punted from the team for a similar instance at Toppers.
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It’s been there for over 20 years duh. Times have not changed in this respect in a looong time.
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Well, duh, I haven’t been there in more than 20 years.
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I remember the place. Back when I was attending, there were two strip clubs — both of them really skeevy — Topper’s and Chelsea’s, which was out on Baxter. When I read the Senator’s post, my first reaction was “Topper’s is still there? Damn. How?”
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Turns out a lot of people are willing to pay money to watch girls take their clothes off.
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Hmm.
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Athens had a downtown strip club, a downtown XXX movie theater, a peep show emporium, and of course the back aisle at Barnett’s when I as at Georgia.
The whorehouse shut down a few years before I got there.
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they relocated to Milledge when I was there.
/rimshot/
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True. Diversification is often the best business strategy.
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We had Barnett’s and Effie’s, and the XXX movie theater. I guess the strip clubs came a little later. Pun intended.
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It has been there a LONG time…
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So the bouncer sucker punched the guy after Debell did his job for him. Some real dirtbags in that profession.
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In the story the patron elbowed and punched the bouncer at the bar and that is where he received his bruise.
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Don’t they say off linemen always have the best sense of humor?
That story is awesome.
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I would like to hear Watts Dantzler’s take on this.
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“carried Kirkland out of the bar by his belt and collar”
Good technique, I believe that’s also how you throw daffy duck out of an old west saloon.
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Daffy Duck wears a belt?
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+1
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Yes, he does. It’s a Ducks Unlimited belt
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I am no legal expert, but is DeBell not overstepping his boundaries a bit here? I mean, he does not work for Topper’s so him picking up and throwing people out himself seems a bit of a risky move to me?
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Perhaps Zack felt like the patron was in peril. After all, where Zack rendered aid was the location (bar) where the patron received his bump and bruises.
A duty to rescue is a concept in tort law that arises in a number of cases, describing a circumstance in which a party can be held liable for failing to come to the rescue of another party in peril.
…or perhaps it was something else.
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Not a risky move when you’re 6’6″ 298.
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Now, now, now. Zach was simply coming to the assistance of a young lady in distress. I’m sure he did just what he learned in Boy Scouts.
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This is one of those situations where he was doing the right thing and helping out when he could, but dammit, why couldn’t it have been at a grocery store or something. His momma won’t be too happy to see this, even if he was being the one to do what’s good and right.
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to be fair, they were (small) underpants at Toppers so it’s not much more than you’d see at beach.
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There’s a great comment by user SilverBritches on the EDSBS post about this: he said he was surprised DeBell wasn’t ticketed for littering.
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…or penalized 15 yards for illegal use of hands.
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Jimmy Williamson haz a sad.
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DeBell will be ticketed for emerging from an alley on a Cooter.
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Why whatever do you mean sir?
A Cooter is a ” Gopher ” Turtle . A land Turtle that lives in burrows usally near swamps and lakes .
The word ” Cooter ” is usally used in the Southeastern USA to describe the ” Gopher ” Turtle .
In recent years it has found it’s way into slang as a synonym for Vagina ( pussy )
Also in the deep South it can have another meaning refering to an old hard working southern man ( aka Red Neck ) who is drunk .
” Look over yander y’all , there’s a Cooter going in that hole ”
” Man I bet da bitch gots some fine Cooter ” !
“yo , I gots some of dat Cooter Pop ” !
” Hey y’all , Bill’s drunk as a cooter ”
” Mr. Johnson , he’s a hard working old coot ( er ) ”
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Thanks for that clip, I’m sure eight-year-old KornDawg was petrified that the General Lee was gonna end up flying off that cliff. And your examples of the many different uses for the word “cooter” were pretty funny, yoo.
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*too
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That’s some beautiful rural Georgia countryside right there.
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The first five episodes were shot in northern Georgia. Street scenes for the county seat are actually from Covington, Georgia, which has a small Dukes of Hazzard museum in the back of the A Touch of Country cafe. The rest of the show was filmed in California.
During the filming of the pilot episode, two directors were eating breakfast in the town square of Covington when they heard a car drive by that played the opening bars to “Dixie” as the horn. This, they thought, must be in the show. They chased down the owner, bought the horn out of his car for $300, and installed it in a General Lee.
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http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/dukes/thumbnails.htm
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Hollywood Morons! They could’ve gotten one of those from the J.C. Whitney catalog for about $50.00.
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I am surprised Penn Wagers did not flag DeBell for holding. Gary Danielson said it was clearly holding.
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What were Penn and Gary doing in a strip club in Athens, GA? Together? Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
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They were saved by DeBell in Zombie Nation?
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Penn’s daughter works at Toppers and has for years. She loves her some Georgia Bulldawgs and that is why Penn hates us.
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Penn and Gary were doing a special segment for Paul Finebaum’s show on the SEC network. The special called “Where you go to forget losing to Tech.” will air during the SEC championship game this afternoon.
I understand Dan Mullen will join Gary as color commentator.
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An observation, then a question.
Observation: Blessed are the peacemakers, for strippers and free lap dances shall follow them all the days of their lives.
Question: Does anyone know if the guy who got bounced said, at any point, “I didn’t know how many linemen it was gonna take to deposit my ass on the sidewalk, but I knew how many they were gonna use.”
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Weasel…. I think that observation was for u
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