Family is what means more, so Georgia football fans will wear pink on Saturday to honor Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson, his family, and his late wife Wendy.
A Georgia football Saturday is a special time, and Sanford Stadium on a Saturday afternoon is a special place. Georgia fans will take special to a new level this Saturday with a grassroots organized pink out, an early Valentine for Arkansas State’s head coach Blake Anderson, his late wife Wendy, and the Arkansas State family.
Around here – in Georgia, Arkansas, and all the great places in between – that’s what it’s all about: family.
When Graham Coffee penned his weekly “Why I hate . . . “ column about Georgia football’s September 14 opponent, the Arkansas State Red Wolves, he pivoted to a gracious outpouring of support for Anderson. His readers took up the topic and came up with the idea of a Pink-Out in Sanford Stadium in support of Anderson and his family.
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Around here – when it comes to family, that’s how we roll.
Word spread quickly, the power of the internet and social media being harnessed by the forces of good for an oh so rare moment, and the Georgia family will wrap it’s big Hairy Dawg arms around Head Coach Blake Anderson, looking up and praying it’s possible that the better place Wendy Anderson finds herself can in some impossible way be made a teeny bit better for the briefest of eternity’s moments knowing her family is loved and cared for the Bulldog family.
Around here – we care about our family, and we care about your family.
Word spread around the nation, and Georgia football finds itself making a statement. Not a top ten statement or we belong in the playoffs statement, but one about its people and their heart, their soul.
Scholars hypothesize that Southern College football grew from a need to rehabilitate the Southern spirit. Maybe football just means more because of these moments, because it’s a chance to not only go to battle but to embrace the enemy.
Maybe we do want the rest of the world to watch, to see our graciousness, to witness our values and spirit.
But that’s not why Georgia fans will wear pink on Saturday. This is family, and that’s what we are when you come to Sanford Stadium. We’re all family.