Fans mad about the hedges- AJC

[romegajacket]

Had a woman at church some years back that got all upset at me because of those silly hedge bushes and GT players tearing off parts of them. She wouldn't even look my way for about 6 months and then they moved away to another church.

Can't imagine why she was so upset with me tho.

All I said to her was that if I had my way, I'd hook a team of GT Linemen to a turning plow and take a lap around that silly referee official protected field of theirs, til there weren't any hedge bushes left.

Then I told her I'd replace them with a rock on one side and a hard place on the other.

She never spoke to me again.

Broke my heart too, for a minute or two.

 

[beej67]

Sanford Stadium was built over an old creek bed. There's an 8x8ish concrete box culvert that runs the length of the stadium, right under the home team bench.

The best way to exfoliate the hedges would be to wheel a fertilizer bomb into the storm drain culvert and PUSH BUTAN.

 

[TechGator1066]

Screw them. I carried my 11 yr old son to his first Georgia Tech/Georgie game. (If I could figure it out again, I would post the picture of him holding his piece of the hedge.) While he was breaking it off some huge security guy stopped and looked at him and told him to stop. He tells him he is not allowed to do that. My son just looked at him grinning and snapped the branch.

:biggthumpup:

 

[TechGator1066]

IMHO, I teach my kids to respect their own and other mens property. Tradition or not, when we visit other stadiums and disrupt their property is does shine bad on us.

 

[BuzzMD]

Okay, I know this is a football board, but where is that photo from? The only pic I know of Bush flipping the bird is a Youtube video when he was a governor. When was that done?

 

[TechGator1066]

Okay, I know this is a football board, but where is that photo from? The only pic I know of Bush flipping the bird is a Youtube video when he was a governor. When was that done?

Haha I honestly don't know man.

 

[PepperR]

Those hedges are not the Chinese Privet which is your average pasture-variety weed. The uga hedges, I think, are the English Privet which is somewhat different - botanically speaking. They are more shrub-like and don't grow invasively like the Chinese privet pasture weed.

According to Walter Reeves: Hedge confusion
Q: At one of your radio remote broadcasts, you asked what was the plant surrounding the football field at Sanford Stadium in Athens. I answered "English privet," but you said that wasn't right. However, several online sources call it English privet. As a Bulldog fan, I've got to know: What is the hedge?
--- J, e-mail
A: You are exactly right that many online Web sites mention "English privet." They are, however, wrong. According to four different horticulturists at the University of Georgia, the shrub is Chinese privet, Ligustrum sinensis. I'm not sure where the confusion occurred. My guess is that a nonhorticultural writer got confused with English boxwood and his or her misinformation has been repeated ad infinitum. Bulldog Nation would be in your debt if you'd contact the appropriate parties and have this corrected!

http://www.walterreeves.com/qa_display.phtml?qaID=1382

 

[gt7282c@prism]

Sanford Stadium was built over an old creek bed. There's an 8x8ish concrete box culvert that runs the length of the stadium, right under the home team bench.

The best way to exfoliate the hedges would be to wheel a fertilizer bomb into the storm drain culvert and PUSH BUTAN.

You say old creek bed, as if the creek wasn't there any more. Tanyard Creek is still flowing. But, maybe creek is the wrong word... how about Tanyard Open Combined Sewer.

Tough for me to admit this amongst ya'll, but I worked out a lot of their drainage problems and utility re-routes during the last stadium expansion. There is some funky stuff going on underneath that place. I hate that my seal is on some of the plans. But hey, I took their money.

 

[buzzdoc]

Okay, I know this is a football board, but where is that photo from? The only pic I know of Bush flipping the bird is a Youtube video when he was a governor. When was that done?

Photoshop. He was summoning someone with two fingers and someone (pretty skillfully) airbrushed the index finger.

 

[goldeagle]

7282, Tell us more,please!

 

[TechSBP]

You say old creek bed, as if the creek wasn't there any more. Tanyard Creek is still flowing. But, maybe creek is the wrong word... how about Tanyard Open Combined Sewer.

Tough for me to admit this amongst ya'll, but I worked out a lot of their drainage problems and utility re-routes during the last stadium expansion. There is some funky stuff going on underneath that place. I hate that my seal is on some of the plans. But hey, I took their money.

I'm thinking Beej67's idea might be a good senior project . . .

 

[gt7282c@prism]

7282, Tell us more,please!

Oh, I've got some stories, but the pipes aren't really the interesting ones. Here's a memorable one:

I was having to go to weekly OAC (Owner - Architect - Contractor) meetings during construction. A great deal of these really didn't pertain to me, as they dealt more with structural issues. For example, there was a lot of arguing over the results of 7 and 28-day breaks from samples of concrete used in the raker beams. (Some of the concrete only had about 60-80% of its expected compression strength.) Luckily, I had a T&M contract, so I didn't need to worry about the long meetings and drive back and forth eating into the budget.

Anyway, one day the U[sic]GAg Owner's Rep comes in and he's absolutely livid. He's been fielding phone calls all morning from various bigwigs, VD included, about the "Tennessee flag" flying on top of the tower crane. At first, no one knows what the hell he's talking about.

But we soon figure out the problem. It so happens that the FAA requires safety flags be flown from the top of tower cranes. The particular flag used happens to be an orange and white checkerboard.

Here's a link to one:
http://www.usflags.com/productDetail.asp?ItemID=4423

The dumbasses saw this, and figured it meant "Go Vols!" :laugher:

 

[Rodzilla]

Haha. So of course you had it replaced with a gold and white checkerboard, right?

 

[BuzzMD]

Photoshop. He was summoning someone with two fingers and someone (pretty skillfully) airbrushed the index finger.

Ah, thanks. Thought it was fake, but then he did have a real one captured on video when he was governor, so was not sure.

 

[B-rockGT]

send me your email and ill email it to you

 

[gojkts]

Oh, I've got some stories, but the pipes aren't really the interesting ones. Here's a memorable one:

I was having to go to weekly OAC (Owner - Architect - Contractor) meetings during construction. A great deal of these really didn't pertain to me, as they dealt more with structural issues. For example, there was a lot of arguing over the results of 7 and 28-day breaks from samples of concrete used in the raker beams. (Some of the concrete only had about 60-80% of its expected compression strength.) Luckily, I had a T&M contract, so I didn't need to worry about the long meetings and drive back and forth eating into the budget.

Anyway, one day the U[sic]GAg Owner's Rep comes in and he's absolutely livid. He's been fielding phone calls all morning from various bigwigs, VD included, about the "Tennessee flag" flying on top of the tower crane. At first, no one knows what the hell he's talking about.

But we soon figure out the problem. It so happens that the FAA requires safety flags be flown from the top of tower cranes. The particular flag used happens to be an orange and white checkerboard.

Here's a link to one:
http://www.usflags.com/productDetail.asp?ItemID=4423

The dumbasses saw this, and figured it meant "Go Vols!" :laugher:

That's hilarious!

 

[gojkts]

Anyone catch it the story yet. Larry says that the AJC has been getting complaints from UGA fans about the GT players messing with the hedges...I say... haha:laugher:

Sour grapes. Those idiots destroyed their hedges years ago after ending a losing streak against Tenn. Mutt fans stormed the field when the game ended and trampled the hedges in the process. Sanford & Son's groundskeepers put up a chain link fence that year to prevent mutt fans from further damaging the recovering hedges.

I think the hedge "pruning" tradition after a win started after mutt players ground out the GT logo on Grant Field after a win in ATL. Taking pieces of hedge was our payback for their vandalism of our home field.

 

[beej67]

Hilarious OAC story.

My wife is working on the Atlanta Botanical Garden expansion right now, and she's got some hilarious stories as well. They requested a green tower crane for one, (which don't exist) and they've had all other sorts of strange requests of the GC. Made them wrap their portajohns in filter fabric to better obscure them from the garden area.

 

[DeepSnap]

I think the hedge "pruning" tradition after a win started after mutt players ground out the GT logo on Grant Field after a win in ATL. Taking pieces of hedge was our payback for their vandalism of our home field.

Not exactly... this has been done since 1970, the first time we won in Athens in the Dooley era, and since the Gaggers make such a damned fuss, every time since.

I wish I still had mine from the 17-7 win in '70!

 

[gt7282c@prism]

Hilarious OAC story.

My wife is working on the Atlanta Botanical Garden expansion right now, and she's got some hilarious stories as well. They requested a green tower crane for one, (which don't exist) and they've had all other sorts of strange requests of the GC. Made them wrap their portajohns in filter fabric to better obscure them from the garden area.

Those requests sound like they could have come from Mary Pat, herself. Not that ABG is a bad client. It's just that they tend to make some strange requests and put too much stock in recommendations from boutique high-level planners whose ideas don't translate well to the real world. It's much like dealing with some of the campus planners I have encountered at Emory and UGAg.