Georgia Football Fans Are Made a Fool Of
Delighting America, Georgia football fans dance like toy clowns on a stick.
“I will not be made a fool of! – John Vernon, The Breakfast Club
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The Dawg Nation has taken to the streets.
Bulldog Country is in flames.
Georgia brothers and sisters scratch and claw each other while the world screams in delight, “Fight, fight!”
Reports reveal hitherto unknown tales of deceit and debauchery within the Georgia football family, each report bringing another barroom brawl among Georgia fans and another knee slapping response from the college football world.
“Boy he hit ‘em a good one that time.”
We look like fools.
With every story we point our finger, “My office is right across that hall. Any monkey business is ill advised. Any questions?”
Hall of Fame quarterbacks rampage.
Bloggers predict immediate firings.
USAToday claims enough evidence from all manner of unnamed sources to re-open the Warren Commission investigation.
With each tweet, we twitch, like a toy clown on a stick while a child laughs. “Make it do it again, Uncle Ike, make it do it again.”
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We look stupid.
How can we look so stupid?
Let’s explore the dynamics of this particular group foolish event.
First, you do a job for 15 years, you have a lot of people who don’t like you, some even that hate you. The fourth estate knows this dynamic well. It plays that hillbilly tune on a Stradivarius and the Georgia people dance like it’s Fat Tuesday.
Second, a rumor is tweeted to hundreds in one stroke. It is then retweeted a hundred times again and then again. One rumor read 20 times in a fans twitter feed, read in five facebook postings, and then quoted again in twitter feeds and the fan, who is actually trying to work, must put forth enormous effort to maintain perspective.
We look stupid.
“It must be true, I read it at least 50 times.”
Yea, they gotcha.
The third dynamic is the Florida Gator demon that still possesses Bulldog fans.
Georgia is over .500 hundred against the Gators the last five games. But every loss to the Gators jerks the Dawg psyche back to 1995. A single loss becomes a losing streak, two in a row sends Georgia fans over the edge.
Florida is ranked tenth in the first College Football Playoff Rankings. The Gators always had talent, they just lacked organization. Georgia, on the other hand, has no quarterback – a problem easily observed, yet denied, by Georgia fans in August. By the time the Dawgs traveled to Jacksonville, Nick Chub was gone as well, as were two of the Dawgs top three wide receivers. A win in the Gator Bowl was not likely – even David Pollack knew that.
Still, we are not having this discussion if not for a lucky fling by Tennessee Quarterback Joshua Dobbs placing a fourth down wounded duck in the belly of a receiver lying on the ground.
On the road against Tennessee, Georgia lost its best player in the first minute. While Tennessee rolled, abusing a fatigued and injury depleted Dawg defense, the Dawgs hung around. With less than two minutes to play, that ball with the points on two ends took the bounce of Tennessee Head Coach Butch Jones life, making a left turn at the one yard line and leaving the Bulldogs 100 yards away from victory. Georgia marched 80 yards. You do the math.
And so the media pumps up Georgia, Lady Luck deflates her, and Bulldog fans dance on the end of a stick to the delight of the college football world.
“Make ‘em do it again. Make ‘em do it again.”
Hey, I’m not lying. Screws fall out, the world is an imperfect place.