re: Matt Stafford thinks calling the Dawgs/barking at people is trashy.

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Nobody barked in your face. Yes, grown men bark when they call the dogs, but I have never once seen someone bark in an opposing fans' face.

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Its an urban legend and one that discredits anyone who repeats it in the same way returning soldiers returning from Vietnam getting spit on discredits the soldier in question. If either ever actually happened somebody would have toted an arse whupping and there'd be a record of it somewhere because somebody would have gone to jail and possibly the hospital. All of these SEC fans running about claiming someone got in their face and barked at them in Athens on a football Saturday when emotions are running high and the alcohol is flowing are either lying or pussies who let a grown man get in their face and bark at them. UGA fans couldn't get by with barking in one another's faces without someone getting their arse whupped yet entire gangs or visiting fans have had it happen and did frick all about it. Of course there will be the internet warriors along any minute with the "I whupped that barking motherfrickers arse" but I will guarantee you that if you press them for details...date especially, and name, there will be no record of it at the Athens Clarke County jail Most of the claimants will tell you about a friend of their cousin's friend's aunt's nephew....it won't be them because they know when pressed for details they will have amnesia. It did not and does not happen and anyone claiming otherwise has not stopped to consider what would ensue if it did happen.

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We went to Athens for Mett's return. Having grown men bark in our face was wild. We chalked it up to a gator chomp or tiger bait, but it was on another level.

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Serious question....you were in Athens and at least one if not several grown, adult men (you said men so it would be more than one) got in your face....and there wasn't a fist fight which ensued? Notice I left out the barking part because simply having an adult man get in another man's face would result in a physical althercation....let one of them start barking and its gonna escalate right quick.

Now if you are telling me someone barked at you from an acceptable distance and did not invade your personal space to do so I will believe that....done it many times myself in fun to fans of other teams who took it in good spirit...but not getting up in someone's business...that'll cause a fist fight to break out anywhere on the planet, yet you say it happened more than once, so the question is how many fights ensued?

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Right, being named a cock is stupid.


Not as stupid as grown men barking on the sidewalk. I think the majority of the SEC would agree.

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SO no one has actually ever witnessed nor had a grown man walk up to them, in Athens or anywhere on the planet, and bark in their face without a fist fight breaking out. I have, however, seen this in person....several times, but once in Athens it was a gorgeous blond hair waif of a girl, no more than 6 or 7 years old, wearing a garnett Tee shirt with "I Love The Cocks" on it. I have seen men wearing the same thing but they were adults...what they do is their business, the heart wants what the heart wants, but any group of people who would not be put out by that young girl wearing that shirt are sick. Or they reside in Murphy Village, SC. Either way its sick.....

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I need to go to a road game in Athens with a bag of dog biscuits. Give one to anybody who barks at me.

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It would be taken for the fun intended and y'all would have a good laugh about it.

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We went to Athens for Mett's return. Having grown men bark in our face was wild. We chalked it up to a gator chomp or tiger bait, but it was on another level.

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It's dumb, but pretty much every fan base has people who do similar stuff.
I think wearing plastic hats that look like Razorbacks or elephants are dumb and childish. I mean, go down the list and very few college football fans would be accused of being high society.

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I have seen UGA fans bark at opposing team fans from a distance, I have done it many times myself, but doing so inside of another persons personal space just does not happen often or there would arrest and hospital records that could back it up. It is one thing to bark at people from across the street...or do the Gator Chomp or any other similar thing....its part of the fun of going on the road to support your team....having someone invade your personal space as many people claim happens very often simplly does not happen. Barking at opposing fans 10 feet awat is vastly different that doing so 10 inches from their face...the former is going to happen, the latter never does, at least not as often as folks claim.....

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More than once it was within an inch of my ear. They choose their victims carefully. I was solo, with a small beagle, an easy target for a drunk frat guy in a group of 10. That's what keeps the hospital and arrest records down. The trash pick their victims who aren't in a position to do anything about it. They wouldn't have done it if I was in a crowd of other men, other than at a distance which is fine and normal. And if I didn't have a new dog with me there would have been a problem.

Go to the next UGA home game in opposing team colors and walk around alone pregame for a while. You'll find out.

I'm one of the well known biggest UGA homers on this site, why would I lie to make us look bad?

It happens often, and it's trashy.

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happened more than once, so the question is how many fights ensued?

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Why would I, an opposing fan outnumbered by an entire fan base, pick a fight? People don't just get in fights, I am not sure why this is your entire argument.

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you were in Athens and at least one if not several grown, adult men (you said men so it would be more than one) got in your face

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Yup, on more than one occasion. I don't see why you find this fact so hard to believe. Easily within a 3ft personal space bubble. There are plenty of videos of this barking shite online, a quick google search would find it.

We got stopped as the golf cart with UGA was driving through. People were packed shoulder to shoulder for a minute or two and we got the business. It was a lot, but it wasn't something that is worth "fighting over".

Have been to many games against UGA both home, away, and neutral, and UGA fans are always a good time though. That same Athens trip above, they setup a beer funnel from the second floor of the parking deck near where the UGA bus that rocks comes down. That was fun.

The cloest I have ever actually came to throwing fists was at UF. The visiting student section is right off the 40 yard line, and we were in the first few rows. We lost, and the entire walk up was at a standstill and every single gator fan chomped in our face. "It's a long ride back to Baton Rouge". Think we lost 14-6 after Jarvis fumbled.

Edit to add: I never felt that there was any sort of danger. Like I said above, chalked it up to a wild drunken fan base. You are naïve to think there are plenty of times that fans are not on top of each other. Walking between the street and the barricade, waiting in line to enter the stadium, etc. Plenty of times were people are just naturally close without "getting into someone's face".

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If either ever actually happened

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"It NEVER happens" lol

It doesn’t happen. I don’t bark in folks faces and other than a Dawg who was provoked beyond reason by a drunken Vol years ago I’ve never seen it.
I’d take barking over having urine thrown from the upper deck - that was Florida. Two fat guys mooning fans as they left the stadium was Florida too.
Barking is better than having a bunch of drunkenTennessee hillbillies spewing obscenities. It’s better than a drunk LSU fan who somehow got a seat in a season ticket area of Sanford Stadium and puked all over a ladies purse and shoes and then having the nerve to ask her to go out with him.
Or having a child in Baton Rouge throwing rocks at UGA fans and her LSU father thinking it was a good thing.
Or having AU scratched into the side of my new car after UGA beat AU in the 19 second game. Our friend had the same thing happen to him at a restaurant in Knoxville. He saw the rednecks doing it. When my friend, a very large former college linebacker approached them in a very bad mood, they hauled arse like the cowards they were.
There are a lot worse things than barking. And in over 50 years of attending football games I’ve seen plenty and the above are only a sample of what I’ve seen.
So Woof Woof Woof!!!!! Get ready you dimestore cowboys. We are coming. We are gonna be signing horns down and barking like crazy. Especially if that’s all it would take to drive y’all and your delicate feelings out of the SEC.