re: OK enough flaming, show us something from your stadium!

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The first 32 rows of The Swamp are below the surrounding land, it was built into a depression that existed on campus.

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Same for Sanford. Built into a natural valley (Tanyard Creek, to be exact, which still runs beneath and irrigates the field) using prison labor in the 1920s.





Also, a neat feature of UGA up until the 1981 season were the "Track People." If you walk down East Campus Rd, behind the East endzone of Sanford, you'll notice a steep berm atop which runs a working rail line. Before the East endzone was bowled in after the 1980 season, some of UGA's craziest, drunkest, and most diehard fans would camp out on the tracks in a sort of shanty town and watch the game for free. They were notorious for trying to tip the opponents buses that would have to stop at the bottom of the berm to let the players off into the locker rooms.