re: Worst Experiences as a Visiting Fan

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Georgia fans are mainly people formerly called yuppies and UGA students who attended N Atlanta private schools.

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I say this as a proud UGA alum and supporter of all UGA sports teams, but you’re describing what Athens is like on an average weekday during the semester when it’s just students and professors on campus. On gameday, a sizeable chunk of people on campus never attended a class at UGA a day in their life and do not fit this supposed stereotype at all.

And that’s fine! I never really understood alumni who look down on “sidewalk fans.” College football is awesome and the University of Georgia is awesome and everyone should be able to come and hang out and have a good time and cheer on the Dawgs. The overwhelming majority of fans who didn’t go to UGA are just as level-headed and cool as alumni, and often more passionate and knowledgeable about the team and football in general.

But don’t act like we don’t have as much of a lunatic fringe attached to our fanbase as Alabama, OSU, LSU, Tennessee, or any other major program in the country. We do have the types that breakawayzou is describing.