Field's eye view

This is just awesome.

University of Georgia Drumline Point of View from Kyle Krafka on Vimeo.

Tech - what to look for

If you have a ticket in hand, there's no reason not to be in Sanford early today to tip your hat and heart to these seniors that have poured theirs into the program. Don't meet me there, beat me there!

• Gurshall early and often. At least early I would expect to see a lot of 3 and 4 to test this Tech defense and grind out some yards. Eventually they might break a long one, but giving their defensive counterparts a break form the on field action early will help us to be more physical as the game wears on.
• In the third quarter we dominated Southern's offense and quickly imposed our will by taking them out of their element. Can that be replicated earlier in this game?
• Physical on the edges. Our safeties and corners will need to bring the wood out there and lay some nerd asses out. If you know what I mean.
• Can these special teams officially trend upward? We've had a good couple weeks in the kicking game. We should outmatch the Yellow Jackets on both sides of the ball in terms of the line of scrimmage and the playmakers. The special teams can both complement that and put the nail in their coffin.

Friday Misery - Birthday at Little Bighorn

It’s hate week, so…has Reuben Houston sold Joe Hamilton any weed today?

Of North Ave. and vomit

Yesterday on twitter I got a little nostalgic. The year was 1995. My first UGA diploma was still somewhat fresh in hand only two years old and the Dawgs were invading “historic” Grant Field on Thanksgiving Day one last time. Ray Goff was nearing his end and had helped the team endure some key injuries. Tech was still acting like a friggin' 12 year old over their shared national title five years prior…OMG that was the best team ever and those mutts were delivering our pizza while we celebrated from our dad’s basement!!!1

Turkey carcass, or tech secondary?

We watched as senior kicker Kanon Parkman set up to kick a winning field goal, just as he’d done four years earlier as a freshman, My God!. The snap was good and the hold was true. But the kick was about the ugliest thing you could imagine. I swear it never lifted higher than Coach Goff’s signature ball cap, maybe even lower than his horn rimmed glasses. It wobbled a lot more than it spun. Its magnificence was only confined by its aim, which was true. Kanon’s leg was dead on. It knuckled its way to Glory! I jumped victoriously and sent a heartfelt thanks towards the Heavens...

...then sprinted my happy ass to the truck, jumped in and hustled my way towards some Thanksgiving leftovers. Shortly after escaping Atlanta’s city limits however my stomach began to rumble. The wings I’d had the night before were making their own comeback. I pulled over and left a roadside offering of the food poisoning variety. And by the time I had driven the 300+ miles I was hardly in the mood for turkey and dressing.

But still…I drifted off smiling. Dawgs 18 nerds 17. Holy shit it sucks to be an engiNerd.

This year’s candles

I was born to despise Tech.  Legend has it that on the day I was born Tech sucked even more than on the day before. So it has become my obligation, one of my greatest pleasures in life to hate the wrambled wreck. Every year since that historic day when I took my first breath, looked the doctor in the eye and said “Jasper’s knee will be down goddamnit!”…I have celebrated my birthday in part by blowing out candles towards Georgia Tech’s ineptness, their inability to tackle, their cute little offense, and their eternal virginity.

Custer was Chantastic!

It’s not a task I enter into lightly. When family and friends watch the smoke clear and ask, “Bernie, what’d you wish for?” I simply reply, “Same as every year.” And then later that day, or later in the week, as the time drains from the clock I can simply point to the scoreboard and smile.

Most years that is. There is the occasional Georgia Tech win, that may or may not be vacated. There is the occasional year when our Dawgs are not up to the challenge of my birthday cake’s adornment. They waste a lead and therefore waste my breath. Consequently, my wish is lost like a Jim Donnan gameplan. Or it’s stolen by Al Ford and thrown in the dirt. JASPER WAS DOWN GODDAMNMIT!!!

Despite those hiccups…those fleeting moments of epic nerdom…this series is about as one sided as Custer at Little Bighorn. The candles on the cake put up more of a fight than the teams Tech sends onto the football field. And that's why wishes can come true when your birthday is around the same time as mine. 

Dawgs on top. Wear black. See you in Athens!

Erk statue update

Since the news broke over a year ago, Dawg fans have been coming here for updates on the statue being made and erected outside Paulson Stadium on the Georgia Southern campus. And here we are just a day away from the unveiling.

For more info on the finished product (as well as a sneak peak at it) you can click here. We may not ever get the man enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame where he should be, but the next time I'm down near Statesboro I'll definitely be dropping by to visit a long time friend...one more time!

Flashback: 1981 beatdown

With commentary from Coach Dooley and the legendary Larry Munson, Dawg19 gives us this epic beatdown of the engiNerds in 1981...44-0!

Bullpups of yesteryear

Pretty cool bit of history that may be news for some of you younger Dawgs. For the rest of us it's a ood reminder of the way things were.

Baby Bullpups vs. Baby Jackets

Flashback: 2004 Tech Fail

For those down moments during the day when you're in between the turkey and the pumpkin pie...for your viewing pleasure.

h/t Dawg19

Happy Turkey Day!

From all of us here at BDB, have a great day filled with carbohydrates, tryptophan, friends and family!

And just in case those family and friends are plain nuts...

The importance of beating Tech

This one is chock full of quotes that drive the obvious nail home:

• For the seniors: “This game is huge personally for every senior, for our state,” linebacker Christian Robinson said. “You don’t want to deal with that loss for the rest of your life and for a whole year.”
• Proximity. “There’s a mixture of the fans down there,” the fifth-year senior cornerback (Sanders Commings) said. “There’s some Georgia fans, there’s some Georgia Tech fans. Excluding my redshirt year being undefeated against those guys will be a great feeling.”
• For senior lettermen in years past. “Don’t lose that last one,” was the message from former Bulldogs defensive end Rod Battle, whose senior day was ruined in 2009 with a 34-27 loss to Kentucky. “You’ll live with it for the rest of your life.”
• Goals, plain and simple. “We need this win,” senior Branden Smith. “To get where we want to get, we need to win every week.”
• Program, plain and simple. “Georgia Tech is scoring an awful lot of points lately, and they’re playing extremely well as a team,” Georgia coach Mark Richt said. “We know what this game means to our program on a year-to-year basis. We’re very excited about playing it. We know it’s going to be a battle. It’s going to be our senior day, the last shot for our seniors to play between the hedges and I hope they have a really positive experience.”

Humpday Hilarity - Earlma and Shitheadra

Taxidermican em up at WalMark's one-hour photo.