When a nerd falls on Thanksgiving

Y'all have a very Happy Thanksgiving! I truly appreciate all your visits here and hope you and yours have a great day!

And if nothing else, be especially thankful that we're Dawgs and not bugs.

You gonna finish that turkey and dressing or I'll
squash you again. Got it?

"WHATS THE GOOD WORD?"...Obsession

Yesterday I offered some pretty raw initial thoughts on the annual renewal of Clean Ol' Fashioned Hate. I then spent nearly twelve hours in a car...in the rain and the cold...with three female bladders.

Are we there yet?

So all I'm saying is I had some time to think, and pray for Murray and Scott-Wesley's knees. And avoid dipshits who drink pepsi. I practically wrote friday's misery in my head in the 236 miles it takes to traverse NC in a vehicle on I85...in the rain...and the cold...okay, we've done that already.

Today I just want to ask you not to sink to the bees' hive mind. I get the hate and the ill will and the bad feelings. I wanna beat them like a drum. I was there when Kanon Parkman's knuckler found the air between the goalposts and it was the biggest win I had experienced (at the time). But just listening to people in our neighborhoods and across fence posts and reading the social media trash talk, you come to understand that the nerds are far more obsessed with this game than we are. 

I believe as Dawg fans we are invested in Clean Ol' Fashioned Hate. And I know our team is. Even us old folks that grew up with this game meaning so much. We only have to hate them for a week or so. But they are pathologically obsessed with UGA. They spend an entire year...no!, Check that!...a lifetime hating us. It's both sad and comical really. They're cute the way they get worked up into a lather over ignoring Reuben Houston and exaggerating scooter transgressions and insisting they are the more academic lot. Cute!

I just say, thank God we have a coach that knows how to prepare his team for a little brother with a napoleon complex. Thankful that when a nerd buzzes in my ear I can just point to the absurdly lop-sided series record and realize a life outside of stingtalk and my parents' basement.

Now I'm off to celebrate another year of being awesome and to give thanks for friends and family. Perhaps I'll make a wish that Reuben earns that extra time in the yard, or that they all can learn to ride actual bikes instead of tricycles, or learn to block like a man instead of diving at opponents' knees, or that their school will change its color from piss yellow to something more fitting of a program that once had Heisman himself on payroll...

Nah. I'll just wish for the same thing I always do - another win at Historic Mark Richt Field. Go Dawgs!

Hate week - sexy nerdy time!

Tradition.

Presented without comment....except that this is probably the same guy that's spouting off about fictitious higher academic standards and pretending the North Ave Trade School has never, never ever, never ever ever had a football player arrested and complaining that his mother's tater tots are too cold dammit!! and his character on World of Warcraft could "sooooo rush for a trillion billion yards against Alabama's defense AND Georgia's AT THE SAME TIME!!" and wearing a depends diaper because that increases his "productivity" on Stingtalk and then "OMGHERD!!! PAUL JOHNSON ACCEPTED MY FRIEND REQUEST!!! #theMigration" and "we're going to beat thUGA like it's 2010...oops!, I mean 2008 cuz that's when we beat them so bad by three points OMG I'm gonna write that on Coach Johnson's wall!!" and then it's 10 am and it's time to get ready to clock in at Kinko's....

...before coming home drunk on Mountain Dew and 5hr Energys and doing shit like this...

Early thoughts on the flats

Limited posting here the next couple days, so I'll make this quick and to the point. After all, this is a pretty straight forward matchup.

Offensively we're fine. It'll be awkward not seeing #11 out there, but Mason will get plenty of work with the 1s this week. And of course we always have Gurley. In fact, he's such an important presence I went back and looked at his first game against the Yellow Jackets. He averaged eight yards a carry and 10 yards a catch with two touchdowns. So #3 is Mason's greatest asset, just as he was for Murray.

Defensively is a different story. What concerns me is that we're preparing for this offense on one week of practice. Last year we had GA Southern as a primer and the benefits were obvious as we actually defended the triple option better against Tech than the Eagles. Still, we can learn a thing or two from 2011 when we had the Nerds one week after Kentucky. It'll just take some discipline and decisive tackling. Like this

Finishing in the positive for turnover margin would also help tremendously.

And special teams...I'm thinking a return to the house would be spectacular. That's what I got. How about y'all?

Hate week - klassy engiNerdette

Make no mistake, she graduated from Georgia State and was hired at Tech to sell their merchandise in the school bookstore. She's a divorced mother of two who has George O'Leary's resumé tattooed on her left bicep. And she really enjoys her boxed chardonnay on game days.

Auburn self tackle > gator on gator

Excuse my interruption. On one hand I understand the fascination with those two gators blocking each other. Florida is losing a lot and everyone wants to beat that reptile senseless. And trust me, I'm all for it.

But, unless I'm mistaken, they scored on that play. It's kind of ho-hum and doesn't have nearly the panache as this five seconds of epic fail.

What Longevity looks like when it ends.

After 52 consecutive starts, nearly as sad to see it in print as it was to see it in person. Prayers and good thoughts to Aaron as he heads into surgery tomorrow and then stages his comeback on a game he's already conquered in so many ways.

Hate week - You can do that!

Want to win one game in twelve years and still type from your mother's basement with an air of superiority??!!?? YOU CAN DO THAT!!

Not your average quarterback

I've read some unappreciative (at best) and ridiculously malicious comments on social media by supposed Georgia "fans" after Aaron Murray's injury. Some people will never get over the fact that Georgia's greatest quarterback never had a defense to compliment him. Why they take that as an opportunity to attack someone who gave all he had and then some is well beyond me.

Anyway, one remark was especially ill-conceived and contemptible, attacking Murray's character of all things. I've only met Aaron once and don't pretend to know him personally. But some things just speak for themselves. (h/t Hester)

But what sets #11 apart from the other men across the nation is the whole definition, “a person who leads or directs a group” # 11 is more than an arm, more than a quick mind, more than a handsome face or a leader on the field. # 11 has written a story, here in Athens, far greater than points on a scoreboard. He is a man who gives time & attention to those who are often stared at & forgotten. A man who has helped his team to change their perspective & use their position to engage. He is a soul that chose to use what he had to give to something greater than himself.

I had intended to add that I would now focus my attention on the "new" Georgia quarterback. But you know, Murray is and always will be worthy of any and all necessary space here. He's earned it tenfold.

Hate week - engiNerd bird

Hey dumbass. You don't have to use your phone. Hairy's standing right in front of you.