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Georgia football vs. Georgia Tech: Things I Hate Less than Yellow Jackets

By Mike Stowe

ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 28: Members of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Cheerleaders lead the team onto the field before the game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Bobby Dodd Stadium on November 28, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)
ATLANTA, GA - NOVEMBER 28: Members of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Cheerleaders lead the team onto the field before the game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Bobby Dodd Stadium on November 28, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Scott Cunningham/Getty Images) /
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Georgia football travels to Atlanta to take on Georgia Tech this week in the 111th edition of “Clean, Old Fashioned Hate.”

Well it’s officially here. Hate Week. This is the week when the state title of Georgia is decided. This Saturday the Georgia Bulldogs take on the Yellow Jackets of Tech (they don’t even deserve to have Georgia in their name), and the winner can say for the next 364 days with pride, “We run this state”.

While the rivalry has definitely been ruled by the Dawgs during the 2000s, Tech has won two out of the last three including a victory in Athens last season that saw the enemy tearing up our beloved hedges after the game.

It was a classless move that has not been forgotten by a talented young group of Georgia Football savages. While I would hate to be Tech Saturday (player or fan) it’s going to be a blast to watch the Dawgs stomp their bug guts out.

I hate yellow jackets. I’m not just saying that because it’s the cool Dawg thing to say. I legitimately hate them. The actual insect and the football team. I’ve worked in land surveying nearly my entire adult life, so I have had many a horrible encounter with this miserable, useless insect.

If you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to get a nest stirred up in the middle of summer, you know what I’m talking about. Combine that with the red and black that flows through these veins and it equals a deep, burning hatred of all things Tech and yellow jacket related.

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So in the spirit of “Clean, Old Fashioned Hate,” I have come up with a little list. These are things that I loathe. Things that I despise. Things that I hate. This will hopefully put into perspective how I truly feel about Tech. I hate the following 10 things, but I hate yellow jackets more.

1. Left lane slow drivers

This drives me nuts. The road usually will have a 55 or 65-mph speed limit and there’s always that one person cruising in the passing lane at a steady 40 miles per hour. I hate that, but not as much as I hate yellow jackets.

2. That Flo lady from the insurance commercials

Is this just me? She just irks the piss out of me. I still hate yellow jackets more.

3. Boils and zits

Not fun, but they eventually go away. Yellow jackets never seem to.

4. Arguing over politics

How many thousands of hours have been wasted by people arguing over a thing that the majority of them are never going to change their minds about? I despise arguing over politics, I hate yellow jackets more.

5. Going to the DMV office

The Georgia version of this, the Department of Driver Services has done a lot lately to make renewing your driver’s license an experience that isn’t quite as miserable as it once was. It’s still a pain. Not a big a pain, though, as yellow jackets.

6. Spoilers

Don’t you just love it when you’re getting ready to go see the latest big blockbuster movie and someone who has already seen it blurts out without thinking, “Hey, wasn’t it crazy when so and so died in that movie?” You’ve dealt with them.

They’re the people who think nothing about telling you a surprise ending or twist in a movie. They are the ones who can completely ruin a movie like “The Sixth Sense” for you before you see it. I hate that. Once again, I hate yellow jackets more.

7. Stubbing your pinky toe

Ever been walking through the house with no shoes on and clip your pinky toe on a coffee table leg? That will knock a grown man to his knees and water his eyes up. It’s awful. Not as awful as running into a nest of yellow jackets or losing to Tech, though.

8. Ebola

I’ve never had this. While I’m sure it would not be any fun whatsoever and I would hate it, I’m also fairly confident I wouldn’t hate it as much as I do Tech.

9. Hot tea and cold coffee

In case y’all haven’t figured it out yet, I’m from the South. We like our coffee hot and our tea cold. I’ll never be one of those who pays six bucks for a cup of cold coffee, even if is called the “Frozen Grande Pumpkin Spiced Moco-Choco-Frappo-Latte.” I’ll take my sweet iced tea. Hot tea and cold coffee isn’t for me, but I still prefer either over a stinking yellow jacket.

10. Mosquitos

They are vile insects. Not many things can ruin a summer picnic or a day at work in the woods like a Georgia skeeter. There is one insect I hate more,through. You guessed it, the yellow jacket. They are a miserable useless insect. I have serious concerns and questions about an institution that chooses to name their football team after them.

There you have it, Dawg fans. I hope you enjoyed my list of grievances and maybe even identified with a few. On another note, I, along with all the rest of us here at Dawn of the Dawg, would like to wish you and yours a very happy and prosperous Thanksgiving.

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