Shockley scores
A month ago, I posted that ESPN was going to televise this game at 7:45 pm. I posted that b/c ESPN.com listed the game at that time. Shortly thereafter, they pulled the game off the site. Well, it's finally official.
If you need a hotel room, check out the Holiday Inn in West Columbia just off I-26. As of last night, they had rooms available. A reliable Gamecock friend told me last night that it was a pretty safe/quality place to stay.
My dad said a buddy of his used to live in Greenville, SC. He moved to Georgia because:
"I hated South Carolina. It's too big to be an insane asylum and too small to be a state."Groo over at DawgsOnline has your Columbia gameday photos up. If you've never been to Cola on Gameday, check out Groo's site. Auburn calls itself the "loveliest village on the plains." Dawgnoxious calls Columbia the "Newark of the South."
While we're talking about no tradition having ass clowns, you might want to read up on the Gamecocks stadium intro.
(Given that CBS will be televising the US Open in Tennis on Sept. 9th there was never any doubt that this would be a night game.)
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Hotel room? Hell to the no. Columbia is at the top of my list of places I never want to wake up (followed closely by Clem(p)son, then Auburn). If you were going to give the South an enema, you'd stick in Columbia. I'm driving back if I have to burn myself with a cigarette lighter to stay awake.
As a UGA grad and Dawg fan living in Columbia, I have to take exception to the "Newark of the South" comment as to the town itself. Columbia is no Athens by any stretch, but there are some really nice places to live and work.
However, when you talk about where Carolina has chosen to play football, all bets are off. Unlike other SEC schools, Carolina's stadium is not on campus. Instead, they decided to put in a nasty, industrial, dilapidated area of town. It is truly a sight to behold. There was a rail car chemical spill there last Friday, within shouting distance of the stadium.
I think they are trying to change the neighborhood, as they are now building condos (of all things) across the street from Williams Bryce. You could never talk me into living there, but guess who owns a piece of them? Former Bulldog Ray Goff.
Also, if you were going to give SC an enema, you should actually stick it in the Florece area. Florence makes Columbia look like Eden.
Wow, Florence or Columbia? I'd go Columbia due to their proximity to the lake but that's like choosing between hacking your arm off with either a chainsaw or a bandsaw.
I can't say much about the Gamecocks stadium location though. Back in the day a quite spectacular SMU team played off-campus in one of the worst neighborhoods in Dallas. Then again that was the Cotton Bowl. Williams-Brice Stadium is no Cotton Bowl.
I actually like Clemson. It's a nice little town. I usually get one of the natives to translate bar drinks for me though. Without a translator handy I might end up in a nipper-bottle-tossing rage while trying to order drinks.
I had a ticket to the game where Pollack made the super catch but couldn't go at the last minute. Maybe I need to get tickets this year and not go.
My family lived in Cola in the early 80s and Charleston in the late-80s. I was living in that state off and on from roughly age 8 to 16.
My parents went to see George Rogers run in Williams-Brice at the time.
I know Columbia, and it blows.
However, as an impressionable youth, I had an appreciation for the gamecocks from having lived in the state for a huge chunk formative football fan years.
I actually had a Gamecock Sticker on my first car. And even attended my 2nd UGA game in '89 pulling for the dudes in black....not red.
Looking back, I think that was more of a function of hating Clemson more than liking the Gamecocks.
Anyway, I had a car wreck on the way to the Sanford Stadium wearing a gamecock shirt. That was sort of what addicts call "a moment of clarity" when you know something is terribly wrong.
1 season later, I enrolled at UGA and found my true calling.
I tried giving the Gamecocks another shot in '90 just to be nice and to visit a friend. When visiting a friend in Coloa, I saw FSU beat them 41-10.
When I saw their "best fans in the world" filing out of the stadium early in the 2nd quarter, I just shrugged their program off forever.
Their fan base is a fraud.
Sure, they'll show up at the beginning, but it's rare that they see the end of a game.
114 years of bad football doesn't happen by accident. You almost have to want to suck to be that bad for that long.
Geez they blow. Everyday in every way.
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The last time I went to Columbia, I actually had a blast -- their refurbished downtown is kind of a fun place to hang out -- but I'm glad someone brought up Florence. The end of my senior year at UGA, we were coming back from a long Memorial Day weekend at Myrtle Beach, and we stopped in Columbia on the way home; we got back on the highway, which soon split to allow people to get on I-20 going west or east, and the sign said "Florence / Augusta." I muttered, "Florence . . . Augusta . . . death is not an option," and the whole car cracked up. Now somebody says that every time we pass through Columbia.
While I'm thinking about it, why hasn't anyone tried to just hand Augusta over to South Carolina and make it their problem? I mean, it's right there. I'd even be willing to give up the golf course if Georgia no longer had to be responsible for the rest of the place.
I've been to Cola twice and hate it for 2 different reasons:
1. I was there the year Donnan waited his whole life for a team like that. Unfortunately QC waited his whole life to suck like a rotten egg.
2. Two years ago, a ticket taker denies my $100 scalped ticket, I kick a trash can in frustration, next thing I know I'm spending the night in the Richland County clink. Prison Jump Suit and all (even the food sucked!)
If Iran wants to test a nuke, I'm giving directions to Columbia.
I'd vote for de-annexing Disgusta. The only complication is what to do with the golf course. Eighteen holes is all the differentiates Disgusta from all the other shithole towns in SC. If we gave the golf course to SC, they'd ruin it with pink lawn flamingos and that stupid palmetto tree everywhere.
The way I figure it, if a natural disaster ever wiped out the golf course, Disgusta is going to be Georgia's next Christmas gift to SC.
Y'all are really going to hate Columbia on the 10th of September!
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