YES, WE CAN!! YES, WE CAN!! GO TO ATLANTA IN DECEMBER!!!!

To say that this football season has been anything else but “weird” in the SEC, especially in the East, would be an understatement.  Pre-game comments by both Coach Steve Spurrier and Coach Mark Richt, before the South Carolina vs Georgia game, intimated that whichever team won that game pretty much had the inside track of winning the East this year and would make it a bit of an uphill battle for the other.

After our second SEC loss, Coach Richt admitted that getting to Atlanta with two losses would be “tough,” which of course was a polite way of saying “we’ve screwed the pooch and we’re out of it.”

When the third SEC loss came, Coach Richt stated that “We cannot panic. There is still a lot of football left to play,”  which of course could be translated to mean “We will be lucky now to end up in the TOILET BOWL in December, the way things are going.” (source of actual quotes not my translations: Ledger-Enquirer Newspapers and Bulldawg Illustrated Publications)

Now, two SEC wins later, combined with Florida losing their third and South Carolina losing their second to Kentucky, this entire thing has been turned upside down and on its ear.   Would you have ever thought that you would see headlines such as “Bulldogs climb back into East race?” (source: Ledger-Enquirer, Columbus, Georgia 10/18/2010) after the team already having had three losses? I kiddingly projected how the Dawgs would make it to Atlanta a couple of blogs ago, and now folks who really know what the hell they are talking about are saying the same thing.  Now that’s scary!  Bottom line is, this season is absolutely nuts and anything can happen.  Right now we are only a half game out of first place in the East.

Now with what I am getting ready to say, you will probably rub your brow and say, “Why am I reading this drivel (a word a nice lady tagged one of my prior blogs with, and it kind of stuck), this guy is an idiot.”  Well here it is, out of the three remaining SEC games (Kentucky, Florida, and Auburn) the one I am most concerned about is this coming weekend with the Kentucky Wildcats.  I truly believe that if we can get past that one, and that is a big if for several reasons, we will without a doubt in my mind put Florida (those disgusting reptiles) and Auburn to bed.  The other remaining intangible is South Carolina losing two of its remaining SEC games, which is definitely doable.

By the way, as an aside, and this is so classic: Did you know that Auburn University, primarily known for its Veterinary School, and whose mascot is the “War Eagle,” a golden Eagle, does not treat birds nor exotic parrots at its school or clinic?  They even have a Raptor Center, but some outside private Vet comes in to take care of them.  But of course, guess who not only does treat birds and exotic parrots at its Veterinary School, but also has on its faculty probably one of this country’s most foremost authority on exotic parrots on its staff.  You guessed it, a pretty little college in Athens, Georgia whose mascot is a “dog.”  That info and $4.00 will get you a souvenir size coke at the next home game. It will also piss off some Auburn fan if you lay it on them.  No problem, it’s a freebie on me.

We will discuss why this is a trap game coming up this weekend, and why Kentucky is so dangerous, in the blogs this week!

Until next time, REMEMBER THAT A BLOG WITHOUT COMMENTS IS THE SAME AS “THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING!”  GO YOU HAIRY DAMN DAWGS!

By: Dawgman1973 (Gary K.) Lead-Blogger “Dawn of the Dawg”