You know, it’s funny. I was assured that NIL compensation would be the death of college sports, that fans wouldn’t support players who were paid to appear on billboards, that envy would consume locker rooms as players who didn’t sign deals would resent their teammates who did, yada, yada, yada.
Well, let me tell you, it was a real shock to see reality catch up with Jordan Davis yesterday. I’ve never heard a stadium so quiet when a player was introduced to the crowd.
Okay, it was Senior Day. That doesn’t count.
How about the time the crowd booed when he came out in the jumbo package?
Probably just the usual excitement when the Dawgs score. You know, Big Team, Little Me stuff.
Well, you know after the game, everyone just left the stadium, rather than recognize a kid who selfishly decided to make some money off his Georgia connection.
The point to all my sarcasm is that it isn’t whether we ask kids to bleed for their school for love, not money that makes college sports special. It’s that kids are willing to do so, regardless of the surrounding circumstances. Jordan Davis’ face on a billboard shouldn’t ruin anyone’s enjoyment of the game. It certainly didn’t affect anyone’s at the game yesterday. Including Jordan’s.
The pisser is, it shouldn’t have affected Todd Gurley’s, or A.J. Green’s, either.
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Don’t know if I’ve ever enjoyed watching a kid as much as big #99 Jordan Davis. What a gift he is!
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And they said it would fail:
The fools!
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Watching that video reminds me to be thankful I didn’t end up as grease on the tracks of a T-72 in the Fulda Gap. Some of y’all know that it got right sporty in late ’83 and again in ’86. We dodged the big one.
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Thanks for standing guard on the wall. I was in high school in ’83, then lost somewhere in Park Hall in ’86. People forget, or never even know, what others did for them.
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At this point you just don’t want to be convinced NIL compensation is a good thing.
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I’m just not convinced that isn’t way too early for the pro-nli folks to declare victory.
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I love JD 99. He represents everything we love about college sports and especially Georgia football.
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Your last two words mean the most, to #99, all those before him and all those who wish to follow his example that walk through that arch…GO DAWGS!
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But everyone told me endorsements would corrupt these young men and ruin the game…
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Yes especially the part about Gurley and AJ!
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Damn watching that made me cry. DGD for the ages.
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Are you sure that was Davis? The announcers said it was Jared Zirkle.
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Jared Zirkle: isn’t he the guy that Bob Hope described as “the golfer from the Moon” 😎
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He boomed his two kickoffs in the 2nd half through the end zone. I think the kicking duties are in good hands next year.
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Yeah, and Brock Vandagriff needs to quit committing pass interference and stick to quarterbacking.
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Fuckn morons. That proved how totally unprepared those shit-for-brains were to call a Georgia Football game. You’d think they were from Montana or somewhere else in Canada.
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The Redcoat Band should retire that director’s ladder.
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The offensive line sure is bitter about JD’s NIL deals and fame…did you see how they attacked him after his TD?! It was like they wanted to pound and squeeze the life out of him.
This must be why Kirby has benched Daniels. Too much locker room drama over his deals too.
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Wonder if that trading card company is gonna see a big return on their investment…
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Couldn’t love Jordan Davis or this team more.
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#31 for CS was trying to take out JD’s lower legs on that play. I hope he was served a few extra hard blocks for that cheap shit. He looked as if he was auditioning as a portal candidate direct to tech.
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Davis scored the first time. I said what I said. Should have been reviewed.
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Right!?! His rushing YPC is what’s gonna keep him from winning the Heisman. Stupid refs!
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I wish it had been ruled a TD. It was much more Herschelesqe over the top. So awesome.
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I LOVE that, after Davis scored and celebrated, Zeus waited to lift him up in the end zone as he had been lifted up by linemen so many times after scoring. Problem was, it took Jones to help lift him!
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What a treat to have been in Sanford Saturday!
When they ran the jumbo package in, the roar was deafening.
When they shifted in the jumbo the first time, and we saw what was coming, it was ear-splitting.
When 99 didn’t get it (he did, tho), the crowd ramped up into a fevered pitch that I’ve never personally witnessed in Sanford Stadium. I feared for our coaches’ well-beings if we didn’t give it to Jordan again.
When we did, indeed, give it to him, the ground shook and my sunglasses lenses cracked. What a moment.
Amen.
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