Georgia Football: Don’t expect a 93K-Day for G-Day

Georgia football fans should expect limited seating at G-Day.

During the 2020 football season, Georgia football fans saw drastically reduced seating for home games at Sanford Stadium. They should expect the same thing for G-Day. Even with the release of a vaccine for COVID-19 and numbers for cases and hospitalizations trending down, Sanford Stadium will only be allowed to be at 25% capacity.

According to Seth Emerson of The Athletic:

This is very disappointing for those that were hoping to get past all of this and get back to normal in 2021. Hopefully, we see the positive trend in COVID cases and hospitalizations continue between now and September that would allow us to have full or close to full capacity for home games. It would be quite a disappointment for Georgia football fans to have to miss out on going to games for the second year in a row.

It’s weird to think we could be on the verge of the second straight season that sees Georgia football fans not allowed to tailgate before the games. This would also mean that only a select few can get in the gates to watch the games from the stands of Sanford Stadium. For those of us that don’t live in Athens, we would pretty much be SOL when it comes to watching the Dawgs live.

Watching from home just isn’t the same. The comradery you build while tailgating before the games and cheering alongside Dawg Nation inside the stadium is way better. There is nothing like doing all of the traditional fan chants along with the band or standing to listen to Larry Munson as the band plays The Battle Hymn of the Bulldog Nation together.

For now, this is how it’s got to be. Hopefully, there is better news come September. There is nothing better than a packed Sanford Stadium on a Saturday afternoon in the fall. Hopefully, we will get to see some more of those this season. Even if we don’t it will still be Go Dawgs every Saturday, even if it is being forced to watch the game on ESPN.