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Gameday manages to be both Southern with the food, the whiskey and the hospitality and nerdy with the tailgate locations including "the physics lot" and "behind the old reactor," a rickety old car with a loud horn careening around the field and the oldest on-campus stadium in college football -- a stadium that has seen more wins by the home team than any other in the history of the game. The sideline that Paul Johnson is walking up and down is the very same one that John Heisman and Bobby Dodd and William Alexander patrolled. Stop into the athletic museum and there's trophies from every one of the major bowls and a very recognizable giant crystal ball. It might be a bit offbeat compared to other gamedays in the South, but somebody has been doing something very right on that little patch of ground in the middle of Atlanta for a very long time.
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...ties-Georgia-Tech-where-at-l?urn=ncaaf,196366
 
it sucks nobody knows that we were once a football powerhouse...
 
gtcu17 said:
it sucks nobody knows that we were once a football powerhouse...
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How could you follow the game and not know? The best player every year gets an award named after a Tech coach. So does the best coach. And it's two different Tech coaches. Oldest and winningest stadium. Most lopsided victory ever. Elite, famous fight songs. Lots of movies featuring our team. (Usually as the villain.) Best chili dogs and onion rings in the world located walking distance from our stadium. Moving into the present: Elite NFL WR. Running back for the Dallas Cowboys. One of the longest bowl streaks. One of the most talked-about offenses. Video game franchises reinventing their playbooks to accomodate our offense. And many more great hits!

They know and deny.
 
GiveEmHellJackets said:
How could you follow the game and not know? The best player every year gets an award named after a Tech coach. So does the best coach. And it's two different Tech coaches. Oldest and winningest stadium. Most lopsided victory ever. Elite, famous fight songs. Lots of movies featuring our team. Best chili dogs and onion rings in the world located walking distance from our stadium. (Usually as the villain.) Moving into the present: Elite NFL WR. Running back for the Dallas Cowboys. One of the longest bowl streaks. One of the most talked-about offenses. Video game franchises reinventing their playbooks to accomodate our offense. And many more great hits!

They know and deny.
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Sadly all of that means nothing to this generation. Remember We have people attending Tech who weren't even bron when we won the 1990 championship.
 
All we need is ONE good coach to bring a consistent team into the mix...
 
i_like_money said:
Sadly all of that means nothing to this generation. Remember We have people attending Tech who weren't even bron when we won the 1990 championship.
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there are probably people TEACHING at Ugag that werent alive when they won their last one
 
i_like_money said:
Sadly all of that means nothing to this generation. Remember We have people attending Tech who weren't even bron when we won the 1990 championship.
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I agree that nobody cares. But if they are paying attention to college football, they are aware that we have a rich history.
 
GiveEmHellJackets said:
I agree that nobody cares. But if they are paying attention to college football, they are aware that we have a rich history.
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Too bad we can't play in the CFA Kickoff game (in conjunction with the NCAA Football HOF opening in ATL) to remind and reinforce some of our history. ;)
 
ContactBuzz said:
Too bad we can't play in the CFA Kickoff game (in conjunction with the NCAA Football HOF opening in ATL) to remind and reinforce some of our history. ;)
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For real. It's hilarious how Tech fans bitch about not getting any exposure and then go apeshit on D-Rad when he tries to get us a primetime football kickoff game.
 
Ish said:
For real. It's hilarious how Tech fans bitch about not getting any exposure and then go apeshit on D-Rad when he tries to get us a primetime football kickoff game.
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Anyone but UGA and Tech fans have NO problem with this game.

UGA/Tech should ALWAYS be turkey weekend.
 
Ish said:
Ok, well, those fans have no room to complain about a lack of exposure.
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Why not? Why is it so beyond the stretch of the imagination that they could get us in there to play someone else? I know a lot of teams don't want to do it because it is 'basically a home game' for us in that situation.

But I bet it could happen. Get Auburn in there with us, or get Tennessee.

I'd be perfectly OK playing either of those teams AS WELL as playing UGAg in the same year.

But leave the UGAg game alone.
 
For the final time... This was a unique (once in a lifetime) opportunity to re-balance our home schedule at BDS, gaining a boatload of cash ($2.5 million) and primetime (ESPN/ABC) exposure.

Too bad Damon Evans at UGA didn't want to do it, because I bet D Rad would have pulled the trigger despite a few bitching GT fans.

This was a one time deal in 2011. It wasn't changing our UGA Thanksgiving tradition forever.
 
jeff0106 said:
What movies has GT football been in?
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An exhaustive IMDB search yields the following results:

Rudy

The Program

Football Headliners 1955 was a reel that showed some b/w highlights, including the Auburn/GT game.


Flight (1929) had a "wrong way run" inspired by the Rose Bowl where Roy Riegels recovered a Tech fumble and ran it the wrong way for a safety. Mr Doodle Kicks Off (1938) had a similar "wrong way run."


With soundtrack references to Ramblin Wreck From Georgia Tech in:

My Sister Eileen (1942) sung by Gordon Jones

Alaska Highway (1943)

The High and Mighty (1954) whistled by John Wayne

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956) played by Gregory Peck on the ukelele
 
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