Being from South Georgia, it is really hard for me to get too worked up over Georgia Tech. Being the son of a man who grew up with Tech being the best program in the SEC (yes, SEC) during his childhood, I get my father's hatred of the Techsters. His hatred isn't anything near what they'd have you believe on Sting Talk or the Hive, but they also think all Georgia fans are married to their cousins, major in animal sex, and drink moonshine. That being said, this week always brings out the best troll in every rabid Tech fan.
For my part, I think the general disregard many Georgia fans feel for Tech only feeds the Tech fan's need to ramp up the hyperbole. We've seen the pejoratives used online and in person. We all have a Grant Field story that ends with a grandmother spitting at you, yet the random Tech fan swears that any unsuspecting Tech fan in Athens will likely be gangbanged by marauding bands of gangbangers who are intent on gangbanging anyone in
yellow jonquil sunglow goldenrod old gold. And probably tear your ACL off while stealing your wine coolers for good measure.
Tech fans all have that fetish.
To me, my dislike for Tech always goes back to the death of the Ugas and how Tech fan's celebrate that. I know someone will bring up Georgia's glee (
and this blog's glee) over the wreck of Tech's Rambling Wreck. Let me put it into terms you Georgia Tech fans graciously giving us hits on the Georgia Sport Blog will understand (unless, of course, you failed out of engineering and now have a management degree):
A living animal that is someone's pet and cannot be repaired when he is gone>>>>A car
To that end, let us call for the end of these hostilities. Can we just have Clean, Old Fashioned Hate? Can we openly mock each other without hyperbole and needless bashing? Is it possible to find common ground in the fact that we both
have earned the right to play are playing in our respective conference championship games? Does it have to be this way?
Wait, who was I talking about? Tech? Yeah. To Hell with them.
TD
