PEOPLE IN GEORGIA ARE GENEROUS WITH THEIR LITTER
The University of Georgia is led by Michael Adams, a useless collection of fluff degrees in a well-tailored suit and noted dick. For years now we've been fond of calling him this, both because he represents Florida's primary conference rival and because of our general philosophical opposition to pointless dickishness on all fronts.
Adams has not disappointed on this front, alternately spending exorbitant amounts of money on personal office refurbishments, attempting to change the name of the World's Largest Cocktail Party to something un-American and misleading, and most irritatingly to Georgia fans, attempting to control where and when tailgaters arrive and camp on UGA's campus. We'd love to continue to hurl accusations of dickishness, but one fact stands in the way:
Georgians litter like pack rats in a goddamn shitheap.
This applies to their campus, especially the North Campus, the victim of the most egregious tailgating violations (as seen above,) but it's a statewide problem. We have personally witnessed the following things thrown from moving cars that sped off into the Peach State sunset without hesitation:
- An entire fish dinner and a half in styrofoam containers
- A coffee cup. A ceramic coffee cup thrown from the window at full speed on I-285
- An empty cigarette carton
- A shoe. Not two. Presumably, one had angered the other, and they could not co-exist in the same car for a second longer.
- A bottle of Gilbey's gin. Policeman: waiting and idling at the same intersection three cars ahead.
- An empty six pack of beer, perfectly slipped back into the elastic plastic ringer it had arrived in, because if you're going to litter you want to do it in as tidy a fashion as possible
- Ray Goff, thrown carelessly from the window of a dualie we were behind on 441 headed to Clayton. We didn't have the heart to hit him, and swerved around him out of pity.
It would be really, really nice to support someone getting furious about this, but cleaning up after yourself at a tailgate is basic football fan etiquette, and the people who share our fair state fail at doing that even along the roads of the place they consider home. (Their cars, however, are very clean.) It is a violation made worse by the beautiful campus being trashed in the process. If you want to trash a campus, feel free to do it at one that deserves it, like Florida State's, for example. When they're burning your refuse to stay warm on a chilly Tallahassee night, they'll even thank you for the privilege.
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Yeah it is either <15 MPH or >75 MPH… anything between those speeds will get you shot.
by jokastrength on Mar 18, 2010 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
That picture looks exactly like the UGA detritus left behind in Jax as well...including the abandoned tent.
I’ll never understand how a fanbase so concerned with appearances can, at the same time, be so untidy.
SEE?!
It’s the cesspool of the South, just like we’ve been saying all this time!
All the good parts of our fight song were taken.
Pack rats don't share their belongings via littering; they hoard.
Thus UGA fans are unpack rats.
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by Spencer Hall on Mar 18, 2010 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Athens hasn't seen this kind of destruction...
…since Sulla sacked it in the Second Mithriadic War!
/slaps knee
No, seriously. He fucked it up.
Ugh-uh
Two things secured my transformation into a dedicated Gator fan from slightly alienated UF alum who would normally root for the underdog in every UF game except versus FSU. Both of these happened once I went to Athens for law school.
First was the useless twat at the bookstore who sneered “why are you HERE?” when I mentioned I went to UF for undergrad, teaching me that I’d picked my tribe, and would not be welcome in any other.
Second was the biweekly devastation of the usually-pristine North Quad, as seen in the picture. Jezus H. Christ those yahoos in their white linen pants with red pinstripes would shit in the library stacks or tear down the Old Chapel if it meant they could get suck down their mint juleps more quickly.
There is no excuse for this...
Those responsible should be sacked… and lit on fire.
The dude abides.
The problem...
…is going from “ANYTHING GOES! PLEASE DON’T PERFORM ANIMAL SACRIFICE” to “Sure you can tailgate, but no grilling and no music, AND SOON NO DRINKING AND NO TALKING.” Extreme unthinking reaction = classic Adams dickishness. How about a permit system? How about using the whole offseason for an anti-litter campaign, lame as that sounds? How about at least taking a deep breath before picking up the red phone and firing the nukes?
STRONG LIKE BOAR
How about.....
…..putting a few trash cans out for people to throw their shit into? When I lived in San Diego, the 4th of July was a huuuuuge party at the beaches, and litter was a big problem. They started putting out some giant trash receptacles every 100 feet, and whaddya know- people actually used them
THIS....
they tried that, and the place still came back thrashed. They put out videos, doing everything short of explicitly saying “keep this up and we’ll set stronger restrictions, if not ban it altogether”, and people still treated the place like crap. Enough was enough.
the one thing you’re forgetting is that visitors trash our campus, too. that’s not all georgia fans. we party hard before games, visitors know that and come here to raise hell.
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Mar 18, 2010 2:20 PM EDT reply actions
Dude...
not that many visitors on North Campus.
by jokastrength on Mar 18, 2010 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions
dude...
north campus isn’t the only place that gets trashed on game days, by visitors and uga fans alike
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Mar 18, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
C'mon man...just own it...Gators wear jean shorts and Dawgs litter like it's their job.
We all have our cross to bear.
i just don’t think it’s all that accurate. i think the littering on campus during game days is more a product of the sheer number of people tailgating than the team/state they represent. that’s all.
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Mar 18, 2010 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
depends on which game, where you tailgate. i’m just not buying the “drunk florida fans don’t litter” bullcrap
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Mar 18, 2010 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Only the basis of experience.
Georgia fans litter like it’s their job. We’ve been to Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, and other SEC schools, and we’ve never seen anything like it anywhere else.
by Spencer Hall on Mar 18, 2010 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
And I say this...
…as someone who really, really enjoys the experience of Athens tailgating.
by Spencer Hall on Mar 18, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Take us off the list
Hard to see how bad campus looks in the middle of the night after a game, plus we have crews from Angola clean up in the early hours on sunday for a happy meal. (true story)
See Adams is trying to stop the problem, when he should just try to find a solution to the problem. Is there a large state penitentiary within a half hour’s bus ride of Athens?
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More than 10 minutes has elapsed and no Georgia alum has suggested Georgia Tech students? That’s a little disappointing.
Well the problem with that idea is that they all know they work for us.
Really, though, I’m just replying to see how narrow we can get this comment thread. Do you think we can get it down to one letter per line?
All the good parts of our fight song were taken.
by ToStirItRound on Mar 18, 2010 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Cleaner Beeees?
See, the problem with that plan is that we need someone to throw the trash away, not just hand it off.
by Prince_Lightfoot on Mar 18, 2010 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I really didn’t want to, but this made me laugh.
All the good parts of our fight song were taken.
by ToStirItRound on Mar 18, 2010 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions
just moving this over to the right a little more.
by jokastrength on Mar 19, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Been going to Gainesville for over 25 years...never seen anything like that photo.
Never seen it anywhere else either…except Jax…and I’ve been to every SEC stadium.
What UGA "fans" have done to North Campus is a disgrace.
This issue was brought up numerous times this past season. Blaming anybody but these great “fans” is insulting.
by JoeinSavannah on Mar 18, 2010 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Sorry, buddy
I went to class on the North Quad 5 days a week (give or take) for three football seasons. Y’all F’d that mother up every game. It was gross. Never saw anything like it at UF, even at the intramural fields/band shell where the RV’ers would tailgate.
The difference is that as far as the number of people tailgating,
it’s not any higher in Athens than it is most other places in the SEC. Does the grove look like a landfill after a game? I doubt it. This is something that was very easily preventable, but rather than having pride about one of the prettiest, most historic areas of a college campus in the entire country, we (and I say we because I’m a Georgia alum as well, even though I didn’t personally trash North Campus) treated the place like we were tailgating at the Georgia Dome. Sure, perhaps some measures could have been taken in the meantime that weren’t so drastic, but the facts remain the same. There were literally TONS of garbage scattered around…that’s just pitiful on the part of Georgia fans.
by hailtogeorgia on Mar 18, 2010 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions
They need to embrace the littering, like WVU has embraced couch burning.
What started as a one-off phenomenon after the 2003 win over #3 ranked VT that the media blew into a “problem” (WVU had street bonfires after big wins since the 1975 win over Pitt, but the focus was never on couches) has now become a beloved tradition/joke that all the nation knows says “WVU.”
by An 'eer with a beer on Mar 21, 2010 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
well, it was certainly interesting to hear all of your feedback.
i’m from georgia and i’ve always been a uga fan, however i’ve also always been a very environmentally conscious person. ya’ll are right that it’s disgusting what some uga and other schools’ fans do to our campus on game days, but it’s going a bit too far to pass judgment on the fanbase or state as a whole. that being said…“Go Dawgs!”
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Mar 18, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Seriously...have you been a CFB fan long? Ever read this blog before?
Comments like “it’s going a bit too far to pass judgment on the fanbase or state as a whole”….lead me to think no.
i’ve been following this blog since it moved to SB. i know it’s mostly meant to be in jest, but i couldn’t resist throwing in my two cents when i read, “Georgians litter like pack rats in a goddamn shitheap.” sorry for being the turd in your punch bowl, i couldn’t resist.
"Dum spiro spero"
by Bravely going forward on Mar 18, 2010 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions
#2Villanova had been behind all day...
tied at 55 now w/1:30 left
by JoeinSavannah on Mar 18, 2010 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions
My heart can't take this! And I'm having to watch it on the Mobile TV on my phone...
with the sound down in my office!
Stupid Mormo
Demanding sacrifice of Wonder Bread and tap water and Gator meat.
the streak ends at what, 12 straight NCAA wins?
by JoeinSavannah on Mar 18, 2010 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Colt McCoy is Mormon?
Tracy Porter's gonna score! TRACY PORTER'S GONNA SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (HT Takimoto)
by AllSaintsDay on Mar 18, 2010 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Le sigh.
Every fucking time.
Only five and a half months until footbaw season.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 18, 2010 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions
So Florida takes BYU to double overtime...
… then fails to cover. Fuckin’ thanks, Gators.
I hate Florida. Why do I ever bet on them, anyway?
by vineyarddawg on Mar 18, 2010 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
So, its the Pennsylvania of the south?
Blogging about D.C. Baseball since April '04. Penn State alum. Also partial to the Washington Capitals, New York Yankees and Yale football.
With all due respect...
To the best of my knowledge there isn’t human feces in any of those coolers or vomit strewn about the quad. Thus, Ohio State fans still hold the BCS title for campus destruction and general assholery
Eh...
I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I’d be willing to bet both of those things are present.
by hailtogeorgia on Mar 18, 2010 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Hoping we'll see Michael Loyd, Jr....
dye his mohawk blond and take the court on Saturday as Simon Phoenix, since someone seems to have found a way to release him from the cryo-jail of BYU’s bench. That dude averaged under 5 points a game all season but managed to hang 26 on the Gators.
by Prince_Lightfoot on Mar 18, 2010 3:56 PM EDT reply actions
I think North Campus is so packed
because the douchers that occupy it would get lost if they ventured any further into the University. The difference between DAWG fans and GEORGIA fans.
by Silver Britches on Mar 18, 2010 3:57 PM EDT reply actions
All this talk about the litter...
and no mention of the REAL story here. Namely, that Ray Goff would have probably been thankful if you had hit him. I mean, Ray Goff getting run over by a Florida grad after being thrown out of a moving vehicle? Could there be a more fitting end?
You're almost correct...
The REAL issue is that a Florida grad did not give Ray Goff a ride. That’s the least that they can do for him, ungrateful bastards.
by BuddyColtrane on Mar 18, 2010 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions
He would have at least hooked you up . . .
with some chicken fingers and some of Terry Bradshaw’s fried pickles. Ray may have sucked as a head football coach, but he’s got the tasty wings and chicken fingers business on lockdown.
And as someone who tailgates clear on the other side of campus and marvels at the wreck North Campus has been recently, I cannot imagine anyone being surprised by this. Seriously. In light of pictures like the above, how could the University not react? My only regret is that the army of dumbasses from that area will move in our direction.
I also don’t buy the “no trash receptacles” argument. I’ve been to Gwinnett County. They sell trash bags there, just like in Athens. You could even buy them from Diana DeGarmo, that charming American Idol also-ran from Snellville, who just has to be working at Wal-Mart by now. The above spectacle wouldn’t look nearly as bad if it were just a stack of Hefty bags.
Georgia administration sort of brought this on themselves.
And thus we have the classic passive/aggressive response. When they ran the frats off a nearby street, the mobs of students who partied on the old frat row moved to N/C. They decided to provide extra trash receptacles AFTER the situation got out of control. The entire campus is becoming a for/profit deal on game-day anyways. If there was a way for them to run students out of their dorms on game-day and rent ’em out they would. Their mindset is that it would be a great place on game-day if not for all those darn students…….
Florida fans don't remember that...
He played before 1990, Florida football games played before ‘90 don’t count/never happened.
by PowderedDonutPancakeSurprise on Mar 20, 2010 7:07 PM EDT reply actions
I'm surprised no ones mentioned the added nightgames....
Last semester was my first semester at UGA for gradschool, but all of my colleagues that went here say that most of the extra trash is due to the night games. Apparently in previous seasons there was only one home game at most per year that kicked off later than noon or 3:30. This year if I think the homecoming game was the only day game. The extended hours before kickoff leads to extended hours of tailgating and thus trash. It’s ESPN’s fault!!!
by MightyMightyMitzu on Mar 21, 2010 7:08 PM EDT reply actions















