January 25, 2022 · 11:21 AM

Twitter is the opposite of Montana.

This is pretty funny.

Sorry, Cam, but Twitter knows best.  Them’s the rules.

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72 responses to “Twitter is the opposite of Montana.”

  1. eethomaswfnc
    January 25, 2022 at 11:23 AM

    All of these other schools that try to claim the word Dawgs are absolute pretenders.

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  2. stoopnagle
    January 25, 2022 at 11:25 AM

    LOL. I guess that settles it.

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  3. bmacdawg87
    January 25, 2022 at 11:25 AM

    Does Washington use “Dawg”? I find it hard to believe you would hear anyone anywhere near Washington state say the word ‘dog’ where it sounded like “dawg”. They should be the “dags”

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  4. Corch Irvin Meyers, Former Jags Corch (2021)
    January 25, 2022 at 11:28 AM

    This is something that has bothered me for YEARS.

    The word “dawgs” is the spelling of “dogs” with an implied SOUTHERN DRAWL.

    There is no Southern drawl in fucking Seattle, WA. That these granola munching wimps continue to use the word “dawgs” as a monicker for their team pisses me off to no end. It just doesn’t make a damn lick of sense!

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  5. divingduck7
    January 25, 2022 at 11:38 AM

    CC: Mandel

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  6. godawgs1701
    January 25, 2022 at 11:39 AM

    Funny, it’s almost like the Mississippi States and Washingtons of the world need to stop stealing our thing and get their own. At least the Starkville people have southern accents, I’ve never understood Washington trying to use “Dawgs”.

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  7. Dawgfan Will
    January 25, 2022 at 11:48 AM

    Everyone here commenting that Washington’s use of “Dawgs” makes no sense because of the southern accent implied by the spelling are ignoring the biggest reason it doesn’t make sense: They aren’t the Bulldogs; they’re the Huskies. Maybe that’s not as dumb as Auburn using an eagle for a mascot when they are the tigers, but it’s still pretty damn stupid.

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  8. originaluglydawg
    January 25, 2022 at 11:55 AM

    Shouldn’t he be apologizing to Georgia fans instead of W fans?

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  9. 89dawg
    January 25, 2022 at 12:06 PM

    All good points except… Do any of you guys have a suitable response when the Green Bay crowd bitch about us stealing their logo?

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  10. poetdawg
    January 25, 2022 at 12:12 PM

    We probably shouldn’t get too huffy about this. Yale had the original Bulldog mascot in 1889. We didn’t become the Dawgs until about 1920.

    As for young Mr. Bright, Freudian slip perhaps?

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  11. Remember the Quincy
    January 25, 2022 at 12:14 PM

    Check out the comments on that Twitter thread. Washington fans claiming we stole Dawgs from them? What the…? They don’t even have “dogs” in the name of their team.

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      • Russ
        January 25, 2022 at 1:22 PM

        TBF, it’s from 1980.

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        • Russ
          January 25, 2022 at 1:23 PM

          I believe the HBTD came around in the late 70’s like you said. The article you posted is obviously from 1980. I’m the king of obvious.

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          • eethomaswfnc
            January 25, 2022 at 1:33 PM

            The Rivals article is the one that pointed to the 70s but yeah.

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          • 81Dog
            January 25, 2022 at 1:56 PM

            I stood in the parking lot at River Mill after the Clemson game in 1978 (we upset them, and they were really upset about it), drinking a few post game beers with a dude named Phil and some girls on a ground floor apt facing the tracks. Many of the crowd had parked towards downtown, and followed the tracks back from the stadium. Many of those people were Clemson fans.

            Phil, who undoubtedly was a tad overserved, as was his custom (mine, too, if you want to be all technical), took it on himself to greet many of the Clemson folks trying to flee the jurisdiction Most of them ignored him as the trod along the post game walk of shame, but a few made the tactical error of looking at him.

            Phil: Sir? Excuse me, sir?
            (dude looks)
            Phil: Sir, how BOUT them dawgs? (he put all the emphasis on BOUT)
            (dude glowers, looks away, keeps walking)

            This happened several times, as the parade of losers was fairly steady. However, one 30-ish chick, walking alongside who I would assume was her husband, reacted differently. I would say was maybe 5 foot nothing and about a buck five, in her orange overall painters pants cutoffs.

            Phil: Ma’am? Excuse me, ma’am?
            (Chick spins like a dancer, glares dagger eyed at Phil)
            Phil: Ma’am, how BOUT them Dawgs?
            (Chick unleashes a torrent of profanity and takes a step towards Phil, unhinged malevolence clearly visible in her eyes)

            before she could take step 2, her husband reached over, without even looking, grabbed her unruly little ass by the back strap of her orange overall shorts, and literally dragged her away. She continued to fume and curse Phil as she was pulled into the distance. This, of course, only amused Phil, who waved genially to her and, perhaps mockingly, wished her a pleasant ride home. It appeared that this only infuriated her more, but she did not relent until she had been dragged completely out of sight.

            I cannot swear that Phil was the inventor of “how bout them dawgs”? I can say that I never heard it before that day, that Phil, such as he was, would be considered “an influencer” at River Mill, and I would bet several hundred passers by, many of them Bulldogs who observed and enjoyed the effect these words had on the hated Clemson folk. In any event, it became heard and used more after that, and I guess SI took it national after the Florida fame in the 1980. From small things, sometimes big things develop.

            Phil was arrested on his first night coming into Athens (and released without charges), and on his last night a few years later (also released without charges), putting a pleasing (sort of) symmetry on his time at UGA. He did graduate, and while I havent seen him in years, I know he has been a successful business person as an adult. I dont know what happened to Angry Orange Overall Girl, but I assume that her husband will have a place in heaven by now if they’re still married.

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            • 81Dog
              January 25, 2022 at 2:03 PM

              I should add Phil was also friends with a few of the OL on the football team, so it is possible he knew the Maryland dude in the Rivals article. Also, before the SI cover, I never recall seeing “Dawgs”, only “Dogs” for the diminuntive form of Bulldogs. It may have come out of our mouths as “dawgs” but in print it was almost always only ever Dogs. When I saw the SI with Dawgs, my first thought was “those NYC assholes are mocking us, FTMF,” but it kind of took over.

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            • Reservoir Dawg
              January 25, 2022 at 3:48 PM

              81, I first heard “How ’bout them Dawgs” as a freshman in ’77.

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            • gurkhadawg
              January 25, 2022 at 6:51 PM

              The first time I heard “how bout them dogs!” Was 1976 outside the Clemson stadium after we beat them 41-0. Me and my friends were the ones yelling it. We were with a Clemson guy who was a good friend and was pretty big and a real bad ass. That’s the only reason we didn’t get our asses kicked. A couple of weeks later at a home game, the cheerleaders were yelling it. My friend said “ hey, I think we started that”. I’m not claiming credit, but I know it was a thing in 1976. By the way, before someone says something, nobody spelled it dawgs back then.

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              • 81Dog
                January 26, 2022 at 9:01 AM

                It had to start someplace. 76 at Clemson is as good as anywhere! And it was definitely Dogs in 76,and at least through 80. I’ve heard Buck Belue say “I’m a Dog, not a Dawg.” if it’s good enough for him, who am I to dispute it for our era? 🙂

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  12. Ozam
    January 25, 2022 at 12:16 PM

    For those of you who don’t know, the Twitter overlords have decreed in honor of UGA’s national championship, that the G logo will follow #GoDawgs until a new champion is crowned.

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  13. voxdawg
    January 25, 2022 at 3:14 PM

    Washington, much like Moo State needs to learn – just because your mascot is canine, that doesn’t make them Dawgs.

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  14. Mary Columbia Cty Office
    January 25, 2022 at 4:52 PM

    My Father, may he rest in peace, had a bumper sticker on his car, no later than “79, that said “How Bout Them Dawgs”. No idea where it came from or when. But We are the DAWGS. Screw Washington.

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  15. TheOriginalGatorHater
    January 25, 2022 at 5:49 PM

    https://uga.rivals.com/news/the-dawning-of-dawgs-
    For anyone who wants to know the origin of “Dawgs.” It was 1976 and it sure as hell wasn’t in Seattle

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  16. Illini84
    January 25, 2022 at 6:33 PM

    Southern Illinois are the Salukis and they use Dawg. https://getinvolved.siu.edu/spirit-and-traditions/dawg-pound.php

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