Dreaded Sidewalk Fan

dilleshaw

dilleshaw

Varsity Lurker
Joined
Oct 10, 2012
Messages
288
I'm one of the small number of Tech sidewalk fans. I didn't attend, but I have been a Tech fan since middle school, in the mid 80's. I guess I've always liked pulling for the underdog.
When my daughter's friend wanted a ride home from school and was wearing a dawg jacket, I made her go put it in her locker before she could get in my truck.
My hate for the dawgs and love for the Jackets is just as deep as any Tech grad.
I wouldn't pull for the dawgs if they played the Taliban.
If Brent Key keeps the guys playing like they did last night, there will be many more like me that will be pulling for the white and gold.
 
dilleshaw said:
I'm one of the small number of Tech sidewalk fans. I didn't attend, but I have been a Tech fan since middle school, in the mid 80's. I guess I've always liked pulling for the underdog.
When my daughter's friend wanted a ride home from school and was wearing a dawg jacket, I made her go put it in her locker before she could get in my truck.
My hate for the dawgs and love for the Jackets is just as deep as any Tech grad.
I wouldn't pull for the dawgs if they played the Taliban.
If Brent Key keeps the guys playing like they did last night, there will be many more like me that will be pulling for the white and gold.
Click to expand...
More like cherished sidewalk fan.
 
dilleshaw said:
I'm one of the small number of Tech sidewalk fans. I didn't attend, but I have been a Tech fan since middle school, in the mid 80's. I guess I've always liked pulling for the underdog.
When my daughter's friend wanted a ride home from school and was wearing a dawg jacket, I made her go put it in her locker before she could get in my truck.
My hate for the dawgs and love for the Jackets is just as deep as any Tech grad.
I wouldn't pull for the dawgs if they played the Taliban.
If Brent Key keeps the guys playing like they did last night, there will be many more like me that will be pulling for the white and gold.
Click to expand...
Welcome to the jungle.grab a clear whiskey and post some pics of your mom. Or someone else’s mom.

We love guys like you.
 
Sidewalk fans are better fans than alumni. Alumni almost always chose Tech for reasons other than sports. Sidewalk fans choose Tech for sports.

The only bad sidewalk fans are the ones like the woman who tried to talk to my son while wearing all red: “But I cheer for Tech everyone other day of the year.” To which I said, “But not when it matters.”
 
You don’t have to be a master of differential equations to be a tech fan or else we couldn’t even let our own management grads in the club.

All it takes is an appreciation for people who choose to go down the more difficult road to better themselves instead of those who take the easy way out.
 
I guess I'm a sidewalk fan because I went to Southern Tech, had season tickets from 1981 till 2021 now I give my tickets to my daughter. But when I went to Southern Tech it was because I had to go to night to get my degree. (that is what I tell people, but it had a lot to do with my SAT Math was ok 740 verbal 320) and yes, I speak English, but I speak southern English.
But when I went to Southern Tech it was A division of Georgia Tech that ended the year I finished.
So I guess I'm a sidewalk fan, or a fat drunk fan that loves Tech.

1701094609732.png
 
stech81 said:
I guess I'm a sidewalk fan because I went to Southern Tech, had season tickets from 1981 till 2021 now I give my tickets to my daughter. But when I went to Southern Tech it was because I had to go to night to get my degree. (that is what I tell people, but it had a lot to do with my SAT Math was ok 740 verbal 320) and yes, I speak English, but I speak southern English.
But when I went to Southern Tech it was A division of Georgia Tech that ended the year I finished.
So I guess I'm a sidewalk fan, or a fat drunk fan that loves Tech.

1701094609732.png
Click to expand...
Sounds a lot like me. I went to STI from 1977 to 1981. MET degree. Dad went to Tech in 1940’s in Navy ROTC program. We had Tech season tickets from 1982 to 2018.
 
stech81 said:
I guess I'm a sidewalk fan because I went to Southern Tech, had season tickets from 1981 till 2021 now I give my tickets to my daughter. But when I went to Southern Tech it was because I had to go to night to get my degree. (that is what I tell people, but it had a lot to do with my SAT Math was ok 740 verbal 320) and yes, I speak English, but I speak southern English.
But when I went to Southern Tech it was A division of Georgia Tech that ended the year I finished.
So I guess I'm a sidewalk fan, or a fat drunk fan that loves Tech.

1701094609732.png
Click to expand...
The Bathtub Race was the greatest spectacle in all of motorsports and the most dangerous university activity of the 20th century. I am also a Southern Tech Grad. I actually loved the place. And, for any GT fans talking about the "ratio", when I started Southern Tech in fall 1984, Southern Tech had the lowest female enrollment of any public university in the state. If you had one female in your classroom, you were lucky, and she wasn't a looker most of the time.



bathtub-race-sensia-100.jpg
 
JJacket said:
The Bathtub Race was the greatest spectacle in all of motorsports and the most dangerous university activity of the 20th century. I am also a Southern Tech Grad. I actually loved the place. And, for any GT fans talking about the "ratio", when I started Southern Tech in fall 1984, Southern Tech had the lowest female enrollment of any public university in the state. If you had one female in your classroom, you were lucky, and she wasn't a looker most of the time.



bathtub-race-sensia-100.jpg
Click to expand...

We only had one female in all of civil engineering
 
I had a professor make my lab partners for a facilities design project a Korean girl, a Saudi guy, and a Nigerian guy. I pretty much had to write all the writeups and do most of the work because of the language barrier. The Korean girl was extremely math smart, but the application of math she suffered. I didn't trust the Saudi or Nigerian to do work to my standards. Both were rich kids sent to America to study by their parents and were pretty coddled
 
FullMetalBuzz said:
You don’t have to be a master of differential equations to be a tech fan or else we couldn’t even let our own management grads in the club.

All it takes is an appreciation for people who choose to go down the more difficult road to better themselves instead of those who take the easy way out.
Click to expand...
Shit, that should be in our annual football commercial. That's a beautiful summation of what GT stands for.
 
JJacket said:
Amazing how pretty a plain girl can be in a sea of nerds.
Click to expand...
I can remember standing outside after a test about 10 of us this pretty girl walks by us outside the civil building everyone stopped talking and looked at her after she went by someone said that guess she much be looking for Kennesaw college.
 
JJacket said:
I had a professor make my lab partners for a facilities design project a Korean girl, a Saudi guy, and a Nigerian guy. I pretty much had to write all the writeups and do most of the work because of the language barrier. The Korean girl was extremely math smart, but the application of math she suffered. I didn't trust the Saudi or Nigerian to do work to my standards. Both were rich kids sent to America to study by their parents and were pretty coddled
Click to expand...
1701102696796.png
 
dilleshaw said:
I'm one of the small number of Tech sidewalk fans. I didn't attend, but I have been a Tech fan since middle school, in the mid 80's. I guess I've always liked pulling for the underdog.
When my daughter's friend wanted a ride home from school and was wearing a dawg jacket, I made her go put it in her locker before she could get in my truck.
My hate for the dawgs and love for the Jackets is just as deep as any Tech grad.
I wouldn't pull for the dawgs if they played the Taliban.
If Brent Key keeps the guys playing like they did last night, there will be many more like me that will be pulling for the white and gold.
Click to expand...
We need to have many more like you.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top