RIP, UGA VII

wow.

UGA VII dies on the same day that EDSBS makes an allusion to a ritual bulldog strangling courtesy of UF? Nothing to see here, folks…

My guess would be a swindling Gator in a St. Bernard disguise…Wasn’t there recently some lowlife of the same general description (minus disguise) in Athens?

can’t wait for PETA and Dawg lovers to get on your case
ace of spades will get you everytime

RIP UGA VII, aka “Loran’s Best.” Damn Good Dawg.

I don’t expect other fanbases to get the connection we have with the Ugas, but suffice to say it sucks to lose him.

We had nothing to do with this. (And a dog’s death is never funny, but we all mourn and offer condolences in our own way. Ours is gallows humor.)

RIP Loren’s Best. At least you went out on a high note. And the Auburn players were so enamoured with you, they even began to imitate your some of your traits – ie: pissing on the ground in plain view of 92,500 people. D.G.D.

It was Smokey in disguise. Damn robbing murdering Vols……….

shouldn’t authorities be looking for Jack McCall instead of the St. Bernard?

much respect to any mascot that tries to eat an Auburn player

What the hell? Didn’t UGA VI die like a year ago?

Who’s picking these dogs?

@11: (insert inbreeding joke here)

UGA Rocks Dept:

USC fan here and I have always appreciated UGA and other famous bulldogs, such as Matilda-owned by the wrastlin’ duo, Brittish Bulldogs.

They are great little creatures, they fart and snore, not unlike most footbaw fans.

Aces and 8’s, a dead dogs hand.

RIP you overweight mutt.

@ #5 Yakko -

Any LSU fan would beg to differ. We have a connection with our Mikes. Our current Mike (aka “Roscoe”) is the only Mike my son remembers. I go back to Mike IV. My grandfather told me stories about Mike I. He’s more than just a zoo critter to us. He’s our spirit animal; the living embodiment of what it is to be an LSU fan. We get it, at least here. My condolences to the Bulldog nation.

2 Dogs in 2 years. tsk tsk tsk.

UGA is the university.

Uga is the mascot.

http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/dynamic/00311/uga_1115_bs2_311621c.jpg

This might be the last known picture of Uga VII with a human being, and it’s with Joe Cox. COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT.

Uga VI : Henry VIII :: Uga VII : Edward VI ?

Mmm…interesting there, softbatch.

Does Uga VII have two big sisters who are ready to take over?

A damn good dog with a run that was way too damn short. R.I.P.

He seemed a lot more laid back than your previous dog. Hopefully Uga VIII will live longer.

@19

So, Uga VIII will have a short, bloody tenure (hopefully resulting in the expulsion of heretics like Willie Martinez) until being replaced by Uga IX, who will return things to the Uga VI form of constant 10+ win seasons and SEC East domination, and live for 20+ years without any heirs?

I’m Uga the VIII I am, Uga the VIII I am, I am…

RIP Uga VII. The bourbon tonight is to you.

I am Uga VIII. My bladder is full.

kinda wish they just wouldn’t tell us when they die… just try to find another one that looks sorta like it and say “he’s been on a diet in the offseason….”

I for one was watching the play in the endzone when Uga went for that boy’s crotch… and I did not blame him one bit… just shows the little pup has spirit (and maybe a little mean streak, but what UGA fan doesn’t?)

R.I.P. little puppy… you looked damned good last Saturday night, did your job well

Well, I guess that means a new Uga will have to take the reins. If I might , I humbly suggest that if Martinez remains as DC, UGA makes a change from the English Bulldog with all its associated tenacity and fearlessnesss to a bulldog of the French variety. It’s appropriate since Georgia’s defense has made opposing teams’ offenses look like rampaging panzer divisions tearing through the Ardennes. However, the “ARP ARP” we’ve come to love from our neighbors to the north will have to be modifiied. Here’s what we’ll have to look forward to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TRdcY1Q5k

That seems a vastly more appropriate sound to accompany the season they’ve had.
Hunker down, chiens.

As the “mother” of a solid white bulldog who looks like Ugas’s smarter twin who went to UF, this makes me very sad. I try not to think about the fact that my bulldog is already almost six years old. Best.Dogs.Ever.

Definitely contact the ACC sheriff’s department. If “scooter” or “traffic violation” is not mentioned in the first 5 seconds of a phone call to the ACC police department, it is policy to hang up.

RIP, UGA VII

So, Vick was in Philadelphia at the time, right? Right?

The Uga is dead! Long live the Uga!

If the links work…here are a couple of pics of my bulldog…who has learned a lesson from all this and will never cheat at poker…or hire Willie Martinez.

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9cf38b3127ccef8f2a29c468800000010O08AZN3DNo1bNAe3nwM/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9cf38b3127ccef8f2c5d9066600000010O08AZN3DNo1bNAe3nwM/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/

RIP Uga.

Go Gators.

Gallows humor appreciated, Senor Swindle. It’s in 1000 times better taste than what’s being posted by the ‘fans’ of the institution of your Master’s degree.

Go Dawgs! RIP Uga VII. Tech can go piss up a rope.

I guess UGA VII didn’t have the heart to show up to the Tech-UGA game in two weeks.

To Hell With Georgia!

/Asshole comments aside, I’m sorry the Seilers lost their family pet.

I effing hate that stoopid dawg.

Huh…so… Willie Martinez broke Uga’s heart?

22: That possibility did occur to me when I made the analogy.

Too bad Bad Newz Kennels isn’t running the show out in Clarke County.

#s 34 and 35: Frustrated that the death of a quadruped is a bigger news story than Tech going to the ACC title game? Yeah, I would be too.

Doug,

Meh…I’m not too upset. Tech going to the title game is old news, UGA VII dying is new news. Just like that story will be replaced in a week and a half after we win the Governor’s Cup for a 2nd year. And say what you will about the Almost College Conference….as CPJ would say….#7 is still more than….well, not ranked period.

THWG

Oh, and rivalries aside, I love your blog.

@ Doug at 39:

The ACC has a title game? When the hell did that happen? Why didn’t I hear about it?

Oh and if anybody wants to know the definition of “self immolation”, watching Colorado against a Zac Robinson-deficient Ok. State over the last few minutes would be pretty much textbook. I can only assume the fighting Gundys will reciprocate.

(Strange….that one showed up before my first comment….lets try that again)

Doug,

Meh….I’m not too upset about it. Tech going to the title game is old news….Uga VII dying is new news….UGA making it to the SEC championship won’t be news for quite a while. Either way, all of that will be old news in a week and a half when we get to keep the Governor’s Cup for another year. And say what you will about the Almost College Conference, as CPJ would say: #7 is still more than, well, not being ranked period.

Uga VII was the only Uga to never beat Tech or Florida.

I hope he’s not the last.

/RIP

@15 —

I was mostly talking to the “dude in a foam suit” crowd. All the live mascot peeps feel me, I’m sure.

Sorry the U(sic)GA people lost their dog.

Normally, I’d crack some sort of joke, as I’m sure that the Dawggies chortled when the Wreck got in a wreck a year or so ago.

But a car can be and was fixed and restored. A pet can never be. White and Gold condolences.

RIP Uga IIV. Long live my cat.

Four-legged friends do not live long enough for anyone.

I once stayed in a miserable, terrible relationship two years longer than I should have. Because we had a dog. I think there’s something in the DNA of the Southern male that is helpless in the face of canine affection.

R.I.P. Uga VII. May you loll tonight at the feet of Grizzard and drink sour mash straight out of the bowl.

Greatest. Painting. EVAR

Thanks Orson for lifting your skirts enough for us to see your very classy undies(as if we didn’t know it was there all along). Anyone that has ever loved a pet knows the Seilers are hurting right now. And everyone in the Dawg Nation is hurting right along with them for the loss of our well loved mascot that we each feel a little ownership for. Too bad he never had a chance to improve his record on the field. The next guy’s gonna have some big paws to fill, and in a big hurry.

Reason Bevo and Ralphie is superior to Mike and UGA-

Boosters can eat them when they pass on.

All joking aside— Florida should go the live Mascot route— If a live Gator goes UGA on an opposing player that will make an impression (they could keep it in an endzone tank like Dolphins used to).

condolences from an Auburn Tiger.

Quick note, my own offspring (age 6) adores UGA he was her favorite—I just broke the news to her. While I appreciate my young children’s knowledge of SEC sports, I can’t help but feel a bit of a twinge of regret that I haven’t properly taught my childrent to hate. They seem to like ALL (I’m glaring at you Big Al) of our conference’s mascots—live and otherwise.

On another note—first time poster, long time reader/admirer—Orson, you and your merry band have wonderful gifts—thanks to all of you for sharing them with us. A thousand cocktails to you all.

Poor lil’ dawg. Uga VII seemed to be the best-tempered Uga of them all, but you could tell he wasn’t long for the word. Thing could barely walk, he was so fat and deformed. If the Seilers and all other purebred breeders would stop with the dang inbreeding to turn these animals into freaks, they’d live longer. Anybody who thinks it’s OK to selectively breed a critter that has to be delivered by C section because of its giant head has got something wrong with them.

Uga I was kind of a normal-looking dog. They have gotten more and more bizarre since, and Uga VII, while a sweet, good doggie, looked like the spawn of a pot-bellied pig and a Pekingese. C’mon, y’all, let the genes air out a little, even if you do wind up with something with a head smaller than its shoulders and front legs that aren’t bowed into a circle.

/Off soapbox, RIP DGD.

He did not die. He defected!!!

http://im1.shutterfly.com/media/47b9cf38b3127ccef8f2c5d9066600000010O08AZN3DNo1bNAe3nwM/cC/f%3D0/ps%3D50/r%3D0/rx%3D550/ry%3D400/

@51…so your basically saying UGA VII looked like a WVU fan?

As our fearless leader memorably said of Uga VI, he “died as most Georgians will: pantsless, lacking a high school degree, and suffering from a heart attack.”

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/06/30/curious-index-6302008/

UGA…we hardly knew ye. Whether it was you or your predecessors matters not…you UGAs always seem to find a way to bite our Auburn players in the ass…giving them good reason to run faster.

Jason-
Jim Carey says it better than I can, re: the 2009 season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUiV_tj1DI&feature=player_embedded

Love the picture! On a more serious note, Chris Spielman’s wife Stephanie Spielman passed away while fighting her 5th bout with cancer yesterday evening at the young age of 42 and leaving behind 4 children. Ohio State fan or not, this is a sad day.

Can you blame VII? With the season he has had to put up with, next years recruits, and the coaching staff, I too would have found a way out!!!

You all have obviously missed the meek looking collie on the left of the picture… Reveille would do anything, including bull-dog-icide to get the heck out of College Station. Doing hard time is far superior to suffering through any more of Sherman’s march to the unemployment line.

#59
Most people up here in the Detroit area are very sad for the loss of Mrs. Spielman. I find it very telling that the Federal Government just announced the day before that it wasn’t necessary for women under 50 to get mammograms.

Welcome to ObamaCare?

….and then this morning that women need not worry about annual pap smears until 21 and then only every 3 years….

….BUT on a positive note (for most of the EDSBS family) they now say that heavy drinking is actually good for men’s hearts.

1. - I have also failed in the hate department. I’m going on the theory it will just come with age. My 6 year old son loves all things birds and tigers (we have a lot of neighborhood influence from AU and LSU); we compromised on the Atlanta Falcons. So when he recently said, “daddy, you like Alabama and I like the Falcons”, I was OK with that. If he had said Tigers he may have slept on the deck.

Ugh! Bart, the bulldog didn’t ante.

/dollar short

Wow, it has been a really shity year for UGA.

Doug @39: Uga VII death trumps techs footbaw success because, as I understand it, tech does not represent the state of Georgia. How many of GT’s students are in state? Not many. Add in the historical in state dominance of UGA on the footbaw field and it is not surprising local news prefers to cover anything UGA.

However, I do understand your frustration. I myself am technically trained from a school whose successful football team is overshadowed by it’s in state rival.

I think ole Smokey dun it!

@62
Fuck you. Using a woman’s death to get a little, albeit retarded, jab in about politics in a no politics zone. Go get fucked by a pineapple sideways.

I realize it makes no sense to anyone who isn’t a fan, but there will literally be grown men crying when they have a moment of silence on Saturday.

@ 14 – Anyone familiar with Columbus and its environs is well-versed in identifying overweight mutts. And never stop believing:

http://app.onlinephotofiler.com/images/A_0/4/5/9/79540/block09_95a7b.Large.jpg

This is an absolutely hilarious post. Well done.

@65. This is a canard. Most of Tech’s undergrads are from Georgia (and only about one-third of the grad students are from overseas). The football team is even more heavily skewed to Georgia (the current recruiting class are ALL from in-state). What makes Tech not embraced by the state as a whole is that it’s for smart, math nerds. UGA doesn’t have an engineering program, and it does have an ag school. So the bulk of Georgia’s college-bound kids, looking at the liberal arts, agriculture (it’s a big ag state), law, medicine or business, aspire to UGA. Only the math nerds aspire to Tech, although its curriculum has broadened somewhat and has always included a big business school (if mathcentric).

@52 What kind of walmart-loving moron tells a 6-year-old girl that a dog she loves just died, unless he must? Do you throw a nickel at her face while screaming, “Here comes the tooth fairy!” before you punch her in the mouth?

Hey, let’s credit the late Cassius M. Coolidge for the painting “A Friend in Need”. The man was a genius!

Deceased mascot or no, all I care about is that in just under 23 hours (after the UGA-UK game ends), it will officially be time to reinstate the annual diplomatic hostilities known as Clean Old Fashioned Hate, where the North Avenue trade school dorks get matched up against the overconfident, irrationally exuberant cultural sinkhole of Athens, a name which makes sense given that the ancient city also had its healthy share of bestiality and pederasty.

If the worst insults I hear are “There must be a Star Trek convention in town!” or “Did you predict this game on your calculator?” I shall be disappointed, but not surprised.

Good Word Time.