Georgia football: Do the Bulldogs have the coolest turnover award?
Georgia football debuted their turnover award Saturday night in the win over Notre Dame
In the first two weeks of the 2017 season several teams have introduced their awards. First Miami showed off a huge gold chain with a “U” medallion for players to wear on the sidelines after creating turnovers.
The gold chain is quintessential Miami. Especially after watching the two ESPN 30 for 30 films on the Hurricanes, when people think the U, they think of swagger. And nothing says swagger more than a big gold chain. The chain would have fit right in with the 1980 Hurricanes.
From lavish to laughable, on Monday, Tennessee debuted a big grey Rubbermaid trashcan for players to toss balls into after turnovers. After Butch Jones’ comments about “five-star hearts” and “champions of life” you would think that Tennessee would have the self-awareness to think that a trash can might make them the punchline of some more jokes.
Back to awesome awards, both Colorado State and Ole Miss players now sport wrestling style championship belts on the sidelines after creating turnovers. That’s something that Alabama has done since 2015.
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However, the Georgia football team may have one-upped everyone Saturday when Lorenzo Carter sacked Notre Dame quarterback Brandon Wimbush to cause a fumble in the third quarter. A shot of the sidelines showed a Georgia staffer with a set of shoulder pads, trying to get them around Carter’s neck.
But we saw a much better shot of the pads after the game when Davin Bellamy made the play of the game with a blindside sack of Wimbush to cause a fumble that decided the game. Cameras went straight to the sidelines afterwards to see Bellamy wearing a set of golden-spiked shoulder pads with the word “savage” under the power-G.
The spikes are a clear homage to Georgia’s Spike Squad, a set of students who line the front row all clad in spiked shoulder pads. Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox has joined the spike squad on a few occasions, first in 2013 when Georgia beat LSU in Athens. The spike squad has one of the largest followings on twitter among Georgia fan pages with 15.4 thousand followers.
Plus the spikes just look cool, especially as Bellamy wore them while celebrated with the team on the sidelines and on the field after the game.
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But that’s not why Georgia has the coolest turnover award. It’s the coolest because the field isn’t a night club, teams aren’t a janitorial service, and the players aren’t wrestlers. This is football, they are football players. And we’re talking about awards for something players do on a football field.
What better to award to players than something football related? Make it gold and add some spikes, and it’s the best and most awesome turnover award in college football. Championship belts are overdone anyways.