CENTRAL MICHIGAN PLAYER IMPRESSED, HORRIFIED BY SEC CROWD

Zombies tailgating in Athens? That doesn’t make sense, since zombies crave braaaaaiiinnnnzzzz.

I keed, I keed.

Other zombie sightings in the SEC:

• On the South Carolina sideline: It seems the Ol’ Ball Coach is now the Ol’ Brainz Coach

• At the Kentucky/Norfolk State game: The Spartan players kept getting up off the ground in the 4th quarter even when they were clearly dead. Rich Brooks grabs his pump-action rifle from S-Mart.

grab mah manbagz!

What with all the new restrictions on alcohol consumption while tailgating the cemetery is the only place left in Athens where a Dawg can do both.

On the down side, it’s hard to get beer out of a six-foot deep ice-filled hole without slipping in and freezing to death.

The upside of doing so is, well, obvious.

death/hole/cemetery

At the risk of sounding even more stupid than normal, is this true, tailgating in a cementary? A cementary that close to campus?

Yep. Right across the street from Sanford.

There’s a cemetery across the street from Bryant-Denny. We’ve recently used it to bury hopes and dreams.

Hell, not even Alabama fans tailgate in the cemetery across from Bryant-Denny (upper left if the picture comes through).

We pee there, dispose of “empties” there and I heard a rumor once of someone getting his shwerve on (unconfirmed but she was a Delta Zeta, so it’s better than 50-50 that it’s true) but no tailgating there.

Not is the cemetary it across the East Campus Road from the stadium, but also from the best dorm full of hot co-eds in the entire country.

Ahh, for the days when I roamed Payne Hall, soiling the innocence of a baker’s dozen of Georgia’s finest Christian ladies…

What, no ‘people are dying to get tickets’ comments? Not even a ‘Pat Dye’ joke?

Petie, +10.

Something something overplayed Joe Paterno joke something.

There is also a tunnel under Sanford tall enough to walk through.

Haha! The best part of that picture is Tires (guy in yellow hat with headphones) who was in Simon Pegg’s and Edgar Wright’s show “Spaced.” If you liked Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, check out Spaced…

As a Central alum, I assure you that Brunner’s greatest fright and confusion came from the lack of fat chicks in hoodies at the tailgate.

I’ll bet Maryland WISHES they had the Day of the Dead type, instead of the brutally slow Serpent and the Rainbow type they have now.

In fact, sometimes zombies form their own football teams down here

And when they do, the odds are pretty good that Reggie Ball will be starting at QB and Chan Gailey will be calling the plays.

SMU has been playing a zombie team ever since the death penalty.

I have it on good authority that after spurrier leaves, the arch-lich Joe Paterno will lead the undead in South Carolina to an outback bowl.

I especially like how you attribute Online Athens to being stupid. Isn’t the “Southererns are stupid” bit a little old?

Georgia’s actually a good academic university.

#15, that’s why June Jones is coaching SMU now. I hate to ruin the surprise ending but after June Jones gets SMU back to basic respectability (in a very mid-major sense of the word), he’s going to look down and notice the shotgun hole Georgia left in him from the Sugar Bowl and realize he’s been dead all along.

@17
I think it was more of an Athens zombie tailgating-related joke than an attack on the stupidity of an on-line newspaper and/or Southerners.

yes, this is why we paint our doors and shutters Haint Blue in the SC lowcountry: it keeps Zombie tailgaters away.

Dude in the yellow hat looks like NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.

Never realized he was a UGA fan.

If you want to tailgate in the cemetery, you best have DEEP pockets. That is old school over there.

Why wouldn’t you tailgate in a cemetery? If I were to die, I would hope to still be included in the festivities, sort of like the Etruscan/ Roman custom of leaving a libations hole in their graves so they could receive the offerings of the not-dead.

Awww, where’d the popcorn go?

the cemetery is open to UGA Football Letterman and their families only… so if you’re tailgating in there, you’re in pretty select company.

And yes, there is a tunnel that goes under the stadium from Tanyard creek that lets out in the cemetery. The players that Rennie Curran demolishes are put into the tunnel and sent directly to the cemetery.

If you don’t really understand R.E.M.‘s first three albums (I realize most people don’t want to), watch the sun go down on the cemetery by Sanford stadium.

They’ll make perfect sense after that.

I have relatives buried in that cemetery from the early 1800s. I visited the graves when Auburn played there a few years ago.