re: Excited UGA fans on this board for Belk Bowl....

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Damn Good Dawg
Excited UGA fans on this board for Belk Bowl....
No, but I do daydream of winning the lottery and becoming Georgia's t Boone Pickens mixed with the intrusiveness of a bobby lowder

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you wqnt to be the pinnacle of cleat chasers... I admire your honesty...

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you will still watch this game even though you keep swearing you wont.

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And this guy gets it too.

Dat Belk swag doe.

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Belk is the name of the family who has owned it for over 100 years

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Good people. I was fraternity brothers with one of them. He's trying to make a name for himself. Owns a BBQ place in Athens.

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I'm shocked at the amount of folks that don't know what Belk is?

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Same. I had no idea it was only a southern place.

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I thought all self respecting southern males and females shopped there?

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Growming up in Atlanta we had Davidsons and
Rich's in the 80's Malls.Belks got squeezed
out of those places.

I remember maybe a couple of stand alone stores
back then in the Metro area.

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hat most people don't get yet is that after the big six bowls all other SEC linked bowls aren't tiered by success anymore (except the Citrus that looks like it will take the SECCG loser every year)...

The SEC is filling their half of the bowl matchups by looking for the most attractive matchups, location of bowl to team, excitement level of fanbase (i.e. UT fans happy will travel to Jax, UF fans bummed so put them in B'ham cause they ain't gonna travel anyway) & bowl support history (i.e. UGA fans should sell out Charlotte allotment, not so much Tampa).

After the Citrus Bowl pick it is now about putting fannies in seats, fans traveling & attractive matchups, not who went 9-3 or 6-6...

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This. Not sure why everyone would rather play in a New Year's Day bowl just because in the past those have been "higher rated" bowl games. It simply doesn't matter with the new system. We are playing in a night bowl game against a ranked opponent, I think there is a better chance we come out motivated and play well than us playing a snooze fest against a team like Minnesota on Jan. 1st and having an embarrassing performance.

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We now have people that actually feel self-conscious over the company/brand that sponsors the bowl that their favorite football team plays in.

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And this guy gets it.

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Growming up in Atlanta we had Davidsons and
Rich's in the 80's Malls.Belks got squeezed
out of those places.

I remember maybe a couple of stand alone stores
back then in the Metro area.

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Belk stores for a while during my childhood/teen years (80's-90's) were stand alone. Rich's and others did dominate the larger malls. Now that Rich's is gone Belk has stepped up into the malls.

I grew up in Newnan. It wasn't the Newnan that it is now with a million stores. Granted there were some malls around but they weren't that close. Southlake, Shannon, Cumberland were the ones we always made the drive to. However if you wanted to dress in Polo, Guess, Tommy Hilfiger and other higher brands back in the day and didn't want to drive to a mall, Belk had all that in stock. We had one in Newnan and there is no telling how much money we spent in that place as I was a fashion conscious spoiled rotten brat. Now not so much lol.

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For me the only good thing about this game is that it is in walking distance from my condo in Charlotte.

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Postgame party at your house