Why I'm a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

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Why I\'m a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

As a sidewalk fan, I've been asking myself that question all week, and now, I remember why. Whenever, under the crown of skycrapers in Bobby Dodd, I see the forgotten team in the state fighting all the naysayers, against all expecatations, I get a special feeling of pride inside. Us fans, we all come from different walks of life. Different countries, different colors, different regligions. But we have one thing in common. Outnumbered, we stand up united against the rest of the state. UGA fans are a dime a dozen, but when you meet another Tech fan, you know you have something special in commmon. You know that you are fighting a fight which few others in this state are willing to. When I'm in Boddy Dodd Stadium and surrounded by people who love the sight before me just as much as I do, I remember that there is no place in the world I'd rather be.

Give em Hell Tech!
 
Re: Why I\'m a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

I can't imagine having to decide. Fortunately, I was blessed at birth.

If Tech gets in your blood, you'll know it. At that point you won't ever have to wonder again.
 
Re: Why I\'m a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

Great post, I too am a "sidewalk fan", I graduated from Ga but have been a die-hard Tech fan all my life. I was more than pissed this week with Brainless and probation but beating the Canes has put a huge smile on my face. I am so damn proud of these kids, keep it up and let's finish off the leg humpers on Saturday!!!!

Go Jackets, Bust their A##!!!
 
Hey Crazy4Tech

You're from Hazlehurst? I'm from Douglas! Good to see a fellow south Georgia Jacket. We are a few but proud group here in Dawg country /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif
 
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I made a decision at the GT/gagger game in 82 to become a dog. thank GOD dad said i had to take all my visits before I could announce where i was going. the next week i was suppose to go to Tech and dad called a couple of Alumni and they moved the trip to the super bowl weekend. That next monday i became a Yellow Jacket.

BEST DAMN DECISION I EVER MADE.
 
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UGA fans are a dime a dozen

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As a dawg that goes to every home game and most of the road games, I must say that it is annoying that there are a lot of "fans" that wear the gear, but don't follow the team. They're the ones that set the stereotypes. To me, sportsmanship speaks louder than any trash talk, so I usually ignore the latter and respect the prior.
 
Re: Hey Crazy4Tech

Yup, good ole Jeff Davis County. I moved way up north from Homerville (Clinch County) on the GA/FL border. Way out numbered in these parts but there are a few loyal Tech fans around here. Got a buddy in McRae who is as die-hard as they come.

I know there are a few Tech fans in Coffee Co.
 
Re: Hey Crazy4Tech

I was unfortunate enough to have to spend the first five months this year in Albany, GA for work. I saw a GT bumper sticker on about 1 car to every 20 UGAg stickers. I couldn't believe it! I ate dinner with a Tech fraternity brother/classmate and I asked him about this. I said, " it looks like everyone driving a truck with a UGAg sticker on it is a construction worker who never went to UGAg". He said, "That's all I have on my UGAg friends (down here)is that none of their fans ever went to school there". He said, "It is as though they were going to put a sticker of the old Georgia state flag on their car but got pissed off (becuase of the change) and put a UGAg sticker on instead!"
 
Re: Hey Crazy4Tech

I grew up in Baconton, GA (first town south of Albany) and as UF Gator fan until my sophomore year and discovered GT. Down in Albany you have Tallhassee about an hour south and all the uga fans. In the middle of Criminole and Mutts land, it is hard to see any fans for UF or GT. I always loved Halloween weekend when the Outdoor Cocktail Party was over. Now I hope to start loving Thanksgiving Weekend every year, so all my classmates can hear how the RamblinWreck ran over the mutts. Can't wait for Saturday. GO JACKETS!
 
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I'm happy to see that I am not the only UGA grad on this board. I was hesitant to sign up here at first, but I threw it all out there in my user name as to who/what I am.

My dad grew up right near Tech in the 50's and is a tremendous fan. The first game I can remember attending with him is the Tech/Navy game in 1970, in which GT won 30-8. I try to take him to a couple of football games a year and when I can grab tickets (like the UNC-Ashville game Friday)we attend some B-ball games.

I had always planned on going to Tech, but as things ended up, I graduated from UGA in 1989 with a BS in Mathematics/Statistics. The degree was worth it because I am fortunate to have a job where my degree is put to use. I am proud of it. A part of me does wonder how I would have cut it at Tech. My degree required 3 calculus courses, 2 linear algebra courses and 9 statistics courses. Damn hard.

When I started at UGA in '85, I still remember one of my friends telling me that it wouldn't take long for me to forget about Tech and become strictly a Dawg fan. It just never happened. I sat in the student section in '86 & '88 for the GT/UGA game: Tech hat, Tech sweatshirt, Tech shaker, probably Tech underwear.

As the years have gone by my disdain for the Dawgs subsided (with exception to one time a year that is!). I pull for them, mainly against Florida, Auburn and Tennessee. Usually attend one game a year when a friend, who is a season ticket holder, invites me. But the thing that is very apparant in my heart is ...I really just don't have any passion for UGA at all. I just don't. Never have and never will.

The passion was, is, and always will be with Georgia Tech. There is no doubt after this past week. I went through so many feelings; disbelief, sadness, frustration, anger. I even tried telling myself, "Hey, your a Georgia graduate, don't let it get you down." (Like that mattered given UGA's track record with the NCAA) But my passion is where my passion is. I cried as the seconds ticked off the clock in the Orange Bowl Saturay night ...Happy, elated, felt like a burden had been lifted from my shoulders.

I look at this past week, as difficult as it was and as great as it ended last night, as a reassurance for myself. I love the jackets and my passion still burns ...and burns deep!

Now, To Hell With The Alma Mater This Saturday Night!

GO JACKETS!
 
i thought I was the biggest Tech fan around

but I'm pretty sue you are. that is plan amazing. We'll be at the game this week with a gal who transferred from UGA and graduated from GT and her husband who is a UGA grad. they will e wearing GT gear and pull for GT but I think he still bleeds red.

He grew up a GT fan but had no alums in his family on either side because of the racism in the 60s and earlier. Even after a UGA degree whihc makes him lots of money, he's a GT fan but I seriously doubt he cried last night. you are the man!
 
Re: i thought I was the biggest Tech fan around

I just want to see if that bonehead student in the lower NE part of the north stands (where the tunnel is) who has worn his camo UGAg hat to all of our home games is going to wear it again Saturday. Damn embarrassing. Who let him in?
 
Re: Why I\'m a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

It is by the Grace of God that we escaped the being Bulldog fans.
 
Re: Why I\'m a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

definitely something to remember this Thursday! Thank you.
 
Re: Why I\'m a Yellow Jacket and not a Dawg

[ QUOTE ]
As a sidewalk fan, I've been asking myself that question all week, and now, I remember why. Whenever, under the crown of skycrapers in Bobby Dodd, I see the forgotten team in the state fighting all the naysayers, against all expecatations, I get a special feeling of pride inside. Us fans, we all come from different walks of life. Different countries, different colors, different regligions. But we have one thing in common. Outnumbered, we stand up united against the rest of the state. UGA fans are a dime a dozen, but when you meet another Tech fan, you know you have something special in commmon. You know that you are fighting a fight which few others in this state are willing to. When I'm in Boddy Dodd Stadium and surrounded by people who love the sight before me just as much as I do, I remember that there is no place in the world I'd rather be.

Give em Hell Tech!


[/ QUOTE ] Yep, me too. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/drinking.gif
 
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