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

Are those type of uga fans that bark dress as furries?

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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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First off you would be defending yourself, not picking a fight...if someone is in your face and acting aggressively you'd be remiss not to defend yourself.

Second I never said you didn't get in a physical altercation, you may well be among those of us who are mature adults who can accurately judge a situation as threatening or not....but to jump from that to assuming that every single fan of an opposing team on any given Saturday is equally mature and emotionally adjusted is ludicrous considering the type of fans all teams have and the amount of alcohol consumed at tail gates.

There will be somewhere in the neighborhood of, I don't know, 110,000 people milling around campus and Athens on a football Saturday. If it is a SEC game about 10,000 of those will be opposing fans...or even 5000. I would posit that at least 35% of those 110,000 are drinking and probably 5000 of that number is probably drinking pretty heavily. Taking the same number of visiting fans that would mean somewhere around 650 of those 5000 visitors are probably drinking very heavily. It would seem to be that about 80% or so of visiting fans to Athens have had someone get in their face and bark based of course solely on anecdotal evidence. Lets say the actual number is 10% so every home game in Athens 65 people who are drinking heavily have an adult man aggressively violating their personal space and it does not result in a physical altercation often enough for it to be known to lead to such? There is only two ways this could true. One is that it does not happen nearly as often as it is reported to happen and in fact happens so rarely that it practically never happens. The other is that visiting fanbases are a rare breed of southerners who are wont to allow grown men aggressively violating their personal space. There is no other answer.

What I have seen at many UGA games, home and away, is every fanbase has its assholes and when they go over the line the home team fanbase will take them to task for it and shame them into stopping and if they do not stop they ramp it up a notch to stop it. UGA fans are prone to telling one another to sit down and make less noise DURING the game...to imagine the entirety of them standing by while some drunken a-hole aggressively invades the personal space of another person is ludicrous.


If all of these anecdotes involved visitors to Athens witnessing adults and children barking at them from a distance, say across the street or even while passing one another on a sidewalk, that would be spot on and 100% accurate. When you go to Athens you are liable to see someone barking like a dog. We do that in Athens. It is part of being a UGA fan. Doing so aggressively while invading another person's personal space is VASTLY different. Its the "in my face" part that is so rare as to be insignificant. If you are attacked in such a way in any situation it would be so shockingly rare that at some point the police or witnesses would put a stop to it. You will see people barking in Athens. You will not see people aggressively violating other people's personal space doing it.

I started in Tuscaloosa 2 years before Saban arrived. One year Georgia came to town. I’ve said since then they were the worst fan base. Insane. I enjoyed their misery for years and will enjoy it again soon enough.

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Smokeyone

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You weren't the first reply on a UGA thread, you're slipping lil Smokey.

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Video proves the point. 8 minutes of video showing what, a 20 year old kid in an Alabama shirt making snide comments, a guy who is obviously recognizable to the majority if the demographic shown, and one 18 year old kid barks at him from about a foot away. It simply is not a thing. The anecdote that is common is it is grown men barking "in the face" of other grown men, or women, or children, or old people. Not a 18 year old kid barking at a 20 year old kid with a cameraman behind him who is easily recognizable by the majority of the people he interacted with as a youtuber who does that sort of thing on all campuses. It is also entirely possible that the kid who does these videos had previously said or did something to provoke the 18 year old kid. He included footage after the game of him standing in front of a camera trying to stir up some shite...it makes for good content for anyone who enjoys such comments...if you watch other videos of this kid doing this on other campuses you will find that he does the same thing before the game that he does afterwards. So you have what would be a modern day muckraking journalist, known to a sizeable segment of the people on video, who goes to college campuses on game day dressed as an opposing fan and making smart assed comments and in Athens, where almost all fans of opposing teams are aggressively verbally attacked multiple times every visit, it happens to this kid once? And therefore it happens to everyone multiple times without fail? Really?

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It is not worth arguing with you. It happens. You are trying your hardest to cherry pick how these interactions occur. First it never happens, then it was ok maybe at distance, then it was well maybe in their face, but it was an 18 year old not an adult.

It happens. People get drunk, and do it. Is what it is.