Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut: Emerald Bowl Recap

What bothers me most if that Georgia Tech as an institution, a fan base and a football team showed so little respect to our troops during tonight's 38-10 butt whipping.

Tech fans purchased approximately 7,000 tickets to the Emerald Bowl, and then donated approximately 6,000 of those tickets to members of our armed forces...and orphans.

ORPHANS! It's bad enough that they gave what amounts to a White Elephant Gift to our brave fighting men and women, but to do the same to Orphans? That's just cruel.

In fairness to the Tech people, it's possible that the free tickets didn't require the holder to pull for the Yellow Jackets.

[photo: Tech traveled 3,000 miles just to wet the bed.]

Some highlights from the game via personal observation as well as commentary overheard while watching the debacle. Also links to GT fans in meltdown mode....

-- "Tech just gave up 550 yards on defense and 38 points to a backup QB while a slow white dude shredded them for 220 yards and 4 TDs running the same post pattern for each and every TD. $5 bucks says the Techies blame the loss on Ball."

-- Chan Gailey is the Blue Balls of College Football (by BOR posted on StingTalk and The Hive).

-- When Reggie slipped and fell down on 4th and 2..."Well, in fairness to Reggie he thought it was 3rd down."

-- "Fresno State '02, Duke '03, UNC '04....UTAH '05. What will it be in '06? Hawaii on the Smurf Turf? Arkansas A&T on some baseball field? Maybe we could get creamed by Pacific on a squash court." - By Lay Em Down and Smack "em Jackets.

-- When Reggie caught his own batted ball..."I think that's more than Calvin has snagged in a month."

-- "The team came out flatter than week old Coke, the offense was a disaster and we got embarrassed again on national TV. A complete F- for Gailey." - GoldenTornado

-- Early in the game..."My hope is that Georgia never stoops to a bowl so low as to be played on a baseball field with a woman doing play by play for our game."

-- Retort..."She's twice the man the color guy is."

-- "Maybe if we had given Gailey a 10 year extension we only would have lost by 14." by MacDaddy.

-- Ball completes a deep pass to Calvin....10 yards beyond the back of the endzone to the back wall of Pac Bell Park..."Warning Track Power [clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap]."


[Photo: Please. Think of the children. Before you donate Tech tickets to orphans. Just do everyone a favor and eat the things.]

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