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Georgia Fans/Athens Experience
Aug 5, 2014, 10:40 AM
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I have heard from a lot of people that Georgia is one of the more "unfriendly" places to go to game, and that fans are downright nasty to opposing fans...
Anyone have experience in Athens with Georgia fans? I know that there are always bad apples in the bunch, but I'm just curious as to what to expect in 25 days...a Williams-Brice/type experience or a place where you're treated with respect by good/decent fans.
I know not all places can be as great as Clemson on a gameday!
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"a place where you're treated with respect by good/decent
Aug 5, 2014, 10:41 AM
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fans"
LOL
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Re: "a place where you're treated with respect by good/decent
Aug 5, 2014, 10:47 AM
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Yes, I know he's asking a serious question, but I laughed when I read that too.
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Re: "a place where you're treated with respect by good/decent
Aug 5, 2014, 10:53 AM
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Never really seen opposing fans treated poorly in Athens in the many years I have had UGA season tickets.
My honest opinion is if you dont act a fool and provoke anyone you will be treated well and maybe even invited for food and drink at a Dawg tailgate.
I cant speak for every Dawg fan, but I would intervene if I saw opposing fans being treated poorly for no reason and am sure there are alot of other mature UGA fans throughout Athens that would do the same.
We love our CFB at UGA, but it's a game at the end of the day..no need to act like an idiot over it.
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The Guys really aren't bad
Aug 5, 2014, 10:42 AM
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But the ladies and coeds are awful at UGA.
It's as though they've created this environment where anything goes for the women. They will be obnoxious and in your face.
I always wonder how many husbands/boyfriends get beat up rag year because of it.
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Oculus Spirit [83197]
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Never had a bad experience in Athens or Columbia.***
Aug 5, 2014, 10:46 AM
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CU Medallion [51567]
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Never been?
Aug 5, 2014, 10:49 AM
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That's gotta be why.
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Oculus Spirit [83197]
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I'm a big guy who shows the same respect I expect.
Aug 5, 2014, 10:59 AM
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Been to Columbia 9 times and Athens 3.
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yo peep this homeslice.
Aug 5, 2014, 11:12 AM
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I've talked to many opposing fans about bad behavior. All of them admit they have bad apples but defend thier fan base.
Georgia fans are the only ones I have encountered who actually admit they have a bad fan base especially at home. The decent Georgia fans I know seem some what apologetic about it. The jerkwad Georgia fans I know are proud of it.
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Re: Never been?
Aug 5, 2014, 11:52 AM
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The only way not to have a problem at either, is that you were dressed in their wolves clothing, or never have been representing your team in your teams colors. Or you just have never been. Fan bases don't walk around in pure white Angel wings!!!
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Re: Georgia Fans/Athens Experience
Aug 5, 2014, 10:51 AM
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Went to games in there in the 60's, 70's, & 80's. Was always treated terribly. I certainly would not take wife or kids to that venue. Just not worth it.
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everywhere, even clemson, has their bad apples
Aug 5, 2014, 10:58 AM
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i've been to sanford atadium a dozen times, or so over 30 years..i've had no bad experiences, except when i was drunk AND obnoxious..maryland (byrd stadium) is the only stadium i've ever visited that i would go into expecting to be insulted or accosted.
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Without exception or question....
Aug 5, 2014, 11:04 AM
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the most vile and repugnant group of fans I have ever encountered.
I will give them credit for one thing; they don't discriminate. They hate all opposing fans equally.
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Re: Without exception or question....
Aug 5, 2014, 11:06 AM
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A coot on here talking about another school's fans. Now that is funny.
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Coot fans are certainly...
Aug 5, 2014, 11:11 AM
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some of, if not the most mouthy, ignorant, and deluded fans you will encounter, but they are effectively harmless.
That said, I do agree with your assessment. Capons making derogatory statements about another schools fan base is the epitome of hypocrisy.
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Re: Without exception or question....
Aug 5, 2014, 11:12 AM
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Our campus' are a couple hours apart.....I'm sure there's this huge discrepancy between our fan bases. That being said I'd take the college atmosphere in Athens over clemson any day.....no comparison. If you have a bad experience on gameday in the Classic City it's because you were looking for one.
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Whatever helps you sleep at night princess....
Aug 5, 2014, 11:17 AM
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but I can certainly see that deNial is not just a river in northeast Africa.
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never seen something like this about Clemson
Aug 5, 2014, 1:17 PM
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http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-01-27/ease-football-tailgate-rules-uga-students-say
ATHENS, Ga. -- University of Georgia students want administrators to ease up on restrictions the university imposed on football tailgating on UGA's North Campus, but the administration instead may crack down on tailgaters in other parts of campus.
UGA's Student Government Association has asked the administration to drop three prohibitions UGA imposed last year on fans who tailgate on the university's historic North Campus - no tents, no tables longer than 4 feet and no tailgating until four hours before kickoff.
UGA also banned kegs, televisions, grills or other cookers, generators and household furniture such as couches on North Campus, but the students did not protest those new rules.
"We don't necessarily need couches and grills, but we want to see people out there," said SGA President Josh Delaney.
UGA announced the North Campus prohibitions last March, following a 2009 football season in which thousands of fans jammed North Campus before home games and repeatedly trashed the area, trampling the grass and leaving behind tons of litter.
A committee of campus public safety, athletic association and other officials heard the SGA request at a meeting last week, but won't make a decision any time soon, said George Stafford, the university vice president in charge of gameday activities.
It may be too soon for university officials to know if less restriction still might protect North Campus.
"We're not going back to the damages we had before," Stafford said.
North Campus saw only a handful of tailgaters before home football games last season, but 2010 was not a good test of the new rules, Stafford said.
Most of Georgia's kickoffs were early in the day, so fans didn't have much time to tailgate. All over campus, fewer people gathered for pregame parties.
"It was the season that wasn't, for tailgating," he said.
But the hardcore party fans seemed to move from North Campus down to Myers Quad on the university's South Campus, and now UGA officials are worried about fan behavior there.
UGA officials don't like what they saw at Myers last year, but the committee hasn't talked yet about whether to impose new rules, Stafford said.
"We were unhappy with what went on over there, particularly at the last game," he said.
During tailgating before Georgia's final home game Nov. 27 vs. Georgia Tech, someone pulled a couch from a nearby residence hall and set it on fire, he said. Someone also drove beer bottles into the ground, then broke them, exposing jagged glass.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1692796
ATHENS, Ga. -- Abusive language, rowdy behavior and fighting have become all too common at Georgia football games -- and that's not even on the field.
Sports fans, with the help of a little alcohol, are a growing problem for school officials and local law enforcement, who have had to deal with everything from littering to riots.
"I've had calls for guys that were standing at the top of the stadium, in the 300- and 400-level seats, urinating over the top of the (seating area) to the gate at people entering the stadium," said UGA Police Chief Chuck Horton.
These sorts of shananigans don't happen at every game, but they do happen too often, he said. "I don't know that I'd bring a small child in there."
The University of Georgia Athletic Association and the Athens-Clarke County government have teamed up on a new Fan Behavior Committee, which will look at ways of changing fan behavior during home games.
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LOL...Fan Behavior Committee....
Aug 5, 2014, 1:41 PM
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The University of Georgia Athletic Association and the Athens-Clarke County government have teamed up on a new Fan Behavior Committee, which will look at ways of changing fan behavior during home games that includes;
tons of litter,
property damage,
setting couches on fire,
driving beer bottles into the ground then breaking them to expose jagged glass,
abusive language,
rowdy behavior,
fighting,
riots,
guys standing at the top of the stadium urinating over the top of the seating area on to the people entering the stadium below.
That's a classy bunch of fans you got there superdawg.
Of course, I'm sure the people who reported these bad experiences were probably just looking for trouble (rolling eyes).
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Re: Without exception or question....
Aug 5, 2014, 2:31 PM
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Hahaha, yeah, nothing like tailgating in bank parking lots and parking decks!
"That being said I'd take the college atmosphere in Athens over clemson any day.....no comparison."
This is a joke... right?
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No...he just has a grossly over-inflated opinion
Aug 5, 2014, 2:48 PM
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of his team and his school, although I doubt he has ever spent one second on the UGa campus as an actual student. The vast majority of UGa fans are like Tennesses Vol fans. Just a bunch of uneducated local rednecks who jumped on the home team bandwagon.
Just look at his post history.
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It's exaggerated. The 99% bad apples give the 1% a bad name.***
Aug 5, 2014, 11:06 AM
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Uh...no...it really isn't.
Aug 5, 2014, 11:13 AM
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In fact UGa fans seem to go out of their way to earn that reputation.
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Reread my post...slowly.***
Aug 5, 2014, 1:44 PM
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Yeah...I'm saying the 1% is grossly over-estimated
Aug 5, 2014, 2:07 PM
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If 100,000 UGa fans tailgated or attended a game, you'd be hard pressed to find 1,000 who didn't act like a bunch of drunke, imbecilic, adolescents.
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Re: It's exaggerated. The 99% bad apples give the 1% a bad name.***
Aug 5, 2014, 12:17 PM
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The 1% are so very far and in between that your chances of meeting 1 of the 1% are 30k to 1 chance. I'm sure there will be some good people in H&ll, they just never excepted Jesus Christ as their savior. And that will get their AS$ just as lit up, just as fast as the Satan group.
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Re: It's exaggerated. The 99% bad apples give the 1% a bad name.***
Aug 5, 2014, 12:26 PM
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Hades will be overrun with dawg fans,,,
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It's hard to get a recent sampling ...
Aug 5, 2014, 11:14 AM
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...since they're skert to play us. So, my observations come from many years past. Perhaps those responsible are in prison ... or the ground ... by now.
Next to Maryland, which was the only venue where I actually felt concern for my physical well-being, Athens remains the worst place I've been for a game in terms of verbal abuse, spitting, random objects and invictives hurled and vehicle vandalism.
I would not travel in packs of fewer that about two dozen, and keep the women and children safely in the middle.
In fact, leave the children at home. Athens is no place for the innocent.
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There is nowhere like Clemson. Just Remember that. AND
Aug 5, 2014, 11:24 AM
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develop a warrior mentality. Who cares if they are nasty. Be nasty back or even better ignore them. You are not there for them. You are there for your team. Ignore them as I always have. Gear up, put on your gameday face, and stand tall and proud for the Tigers.
GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: There is nowhere like Clemson. Just Remember that. AND
Aug 5, 2014, 12:06 PM
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Athens surely ain't for the weak at heart. If you are, you will surely get tumbled the second you show it. The first sign of weakness, and there will be a dog in your face growling at you.
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Re: Georgia Fans/Athens Experience
Aug 5, 2014, 11:27 AM
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GA fans aren't AS bad as coots, but they run a close second. I have only been to two games in Athens and refused to go back. On both occasions, I was hit in the back of the head with ice, cups, etc., and I was sitting with my ex who was wearing his GA colors (his alma mater). Of course, when we stood up and looked to see who was throwing stuff, everybody just laughed and nobody would point out the culprit/culprits.
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Last time I was there, tailgated next to a group of
Aug 5, 2014, 11:29 AM
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dawg fans, pretty regular smack talkin' til they got good and drunk. Then things got a bit nasty,we tried to ignore them...then a 50+ grandmotherly redneck woman mooned us and hollered, "you buncha pu$$ies can kiss my a$$!"
My date commented that you really don't expect to see old lady tw@t at a football game. Aforementioned "old lady" then wanted to fight due to being called old.
Soooo...they're a wonderful group of people, once you get to know'em.
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Re: Georgia Fans/Athens Experience
Aug 5, 2014, 11:42 AM
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Coot fans are awful no doubt about it. And I think they could be much worse if we all mostly wasn't from the same state. But sir, if you're going to Athens, you're about to get an all new terrible experience. And believe this, I'm not in anyway close to being a man easy to put fear into b/c I've always stood my own. But I think that day in 1986, I knew how Custer felt in 1876, the day he was over whelmed by Crazy Horse's force. The only difference was I felt over whelmed by as many crazy dog fans looking for any reason to bite anything in orange. On your way out after we win, walk out with the biggest group of Clemson fans you see.
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I had some Georgia frat bros try to get me to instigate a
Aug 5, 2014, 12:41 PM
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fight. They were putting their hands on me (not pushing or shoving or anything violent), and basically just trying to get me riled up to the point where I would do something.
It wasn't anything malicious, but it was annoying. Although, I expect that to happen when I go there wearing a jersey from another school.
I did have a man in his his 40s get down on all 4s and bark at me for an awkwardly long time, which was just hilarious/awesome. All in all it was a pretty positive experience. Like all places, don't start trouble and you will be fine. You will be heckled of course, but you have to expect that going to any away stadium (I would be upset if that didn't happen to be honest).
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Re: Georgia Fans/Athens Experience
Aug 5, 2014, 2:12 PM
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Im making my first trip to athens with a friend of mine who is an FSU fan. I want to get the most out of our experience and would love to wine and dine with some of the best UGA tailgaters but will be more than happy to see some tiger fans and link up with you guys. I cant wait to get to Athens. 25 days cant get here fast enough!
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"Wine?" You must be a wine and cheese ACC guy. I would
Aug 5, 2014, 2:38 PM
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expect plenty of beer and whiskey but I don't know about that Swofford wine and stuff.
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I've been to our games in Athens several times..........
Aug 5, 2014, 2:18 PM
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since the early 70s and have always found them to be foul-mouthed and abusive.
Just be prepared - don't take your girlfriend, wife, daughter, etc. with you.
Maybe I've just been unlucky but I've been around several areas outside Sanford Stadium and it's always bad. Hopefully our beating them last year will shut them up some.
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Re: I've been to our games in Athens several times..........
Aug 5, 2014, 3:15 PM
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Hopefully our beating them last year will shut them up some.
I would expect it to have the exact opposite effect. Be prepared for your worst-ever experience in Athens for just that reason. Just like coots, losing only makes them more vocal and obnoxious.
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Re: I've been to our games in Athens several times..........
Aug 5, 2014, 3:58 PM
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Correct. When they win, they are sated by keying cars and bending license plates......lose, and they want to fight. This is not inclusive to college students....you might see a 40 yr old man instigating a fight.....pretty common.
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Re: Ya'll
Aug 5, 2014, 2:27 PM
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Pretty much covered it. I swore off Athens back in 70's after we had beaten them a time or two. They were just as bad when they came to Clemson, just not so many of the drunk bastids.
If there was some way to keep them off the firewater there might be hope...oh, never mind.
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