Make em quit! (explicit post, caution for sensitive clickers)

It's only Wednesday. I have a podcast to do tonight and I'm already tired of talking. Tired of typing.

Tired of losing to these assholes.

And that's just me. How do you feel about the state of our series against the Tide? And can you imagine how Kirby feels?

Our head guy was 0-1 against Alabama as a player. As our head coach, he is currently 1-6.

The one win was one we'll never forget. One we celebrated like malnourished and incredibly parched animals devouring a steak and goblet of wine. Crazed and deranged, but so goddamn happy!

Kirby likely felt the same, with the added cherry on top being it went down with his mentor/rival/former boss on the opposite sideline.

GATA 16! (via AJC)

Shit, I got sidetracked and all glory-eyed. Sorry. Because those are not these teams. These teams are not even the same as the teams that met last year in Tuscaloosa. Jalen Milroe used last year's win against Georgia to add a few zeros to his paychecks. (I guess Carson Beck did the same somehow...)

Back on track...I don't just want a win. I want to dominate in the trenches. I want Gaston thirty yards downfield shoving a d-end into the dirt. I want Gunner lowering a shoulder into a Tidy linebacker just for the blessed feeling of it being 2nd and 2 and not 2nd and 4. I want Kirby to throw his visor/headset not just in pure unadulterated frustration, but in all out fucking jubilation!

Cash Jones being hoisted in the endzone by Micah Morris like the angel he is. CJ Allen breaking hearts and Chris Cole hitting a running back so goddamn hard it takes the running right out of him. He's just a back, laying on the ground. Hoping he's injured just enough that he can stay on the sideline until their team bus is warmed up.

Yes, make em quit. Make them cry for their mommas. Make them be glad they're losing so they're happy there's less potential of playing us again in Atlanta. Make em act like Auburn fans and turn their sad September eyes towards basketball season.

"Tidy bama bangs you got there bro. But how ya like our Dawg fangs!"

Go Dawgs! Beat em by a hunnerd.

Bama @ UGA - shock the monkey!

It's a BIG week. And it's past time, so let's dig in.

Peter Gabriel's early 1980s hit song has many interpretations. It comes to mind as I write this post because I've always interpreted the monkey as not literal, but figurative. Metaphorical.

The song is about jealousy. Again, my interpretation. But I'm wedging it into this post because this series between Georgia and Alabama is also currently rooted in jealousy. Is it time to "get the monkey off our collective back"? Sure. But it's more than that.

Lemme explain. And let's start with a question. Is UGA now the premiere SEC football program? We can make an argument for the yes column. But it comes with caveats - that's partially due to the Alabama coaching change. And oh, also...Have we beaten them in Sanford? No, like recently?

Nope. The last time we beat Alabama in Athens I was a new dad to my now 24 year old. iPhones were not only absent from shelves, the phones we could carry in pockets were not Smart.

Meanwhile they've got wins against us in five different cities. This series (at least recently) is so jacked up, I can make two seemingly dichotomous statements that are both true:

1. In the modern era...let's says since 1980, Coach Mark Richt has been our most successful coach again the Tide. Yes, you are correct: He had an early win against both Franchione and Shula to prop that statement up on...
2. ...but I digress. It was Richt's 2015 loss to the Tide that was the beginning to his end.

Weird, right? Then again it's college football. It's SEC football.

Former Bama head dude and current Gamecock OC.
Lifetime loser to Georgia

Since 1984, we've gone 6-13 against the gumps. Our last home win was in 2003. We beat them on the national stage in Indy, so are we jealous of them as a program? I'd say probably not. Not anymore. But a rebuttal brings up two years of home games - 2008 and of course, 2015.

Not only bad losses, but two of the worst in program history.

"Overrated! OVERRATED!" - chants from the visitors in '08

"Dressing for their own funeral." - Scott Cochran in the lead up to our funeral in '15

These days are different. We fired Richt and got our guy in Kirby Smart. Bama fans lost their guy in Saban to retirement and as a result, carry a lot more envy than Dawg fans do. 

But that needs to play out on the field. That's something that didn't happen last year in Tuscaloosa, and it didn't the year prior in Saban's swan song in Atlanta. Saban (with and without Kirby) owned us, and now Kalen DeBoer is stating his case. Shock the monkey to life is what I say. No one would really be surprised when/if we win Saturday night. But it'd be nice to prove to those knuckle draggers that there's a new king in the South. 

Am I jealous of the Alabama football program? I would answer a lot less today than a few years ago. What would make my answer more definitive? A win Saturday night 'tween the hedges! Go Dawgs!