Poor Man's Game Notes - ND edition

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Well guys -

Here we go.

Saturday may well be the biggest spectacle seen at Sanford Stadium since 1929, when Yale came and opened the damn place.

Tickets are selling at record prices - the median cost is north of $600 on StubHub as of writing this. (Expect a surge in pricing on gameday).

The 8:00 p.m. kick is the latest Athens kickoff time of my lifetime.

Social media accounts are buzzing with pleas to Georgia fans to be nice to the visiting Notre Dame fans.

Suddenly Buckhead is alive with Notre Dame flags and T-Shirts - as if thousands of upper-middle-class Irish sleeper cells have been activated by unspoken decree of the Pope himself.

This may not be the biggest moment in the past 24 months of Georgia football lore - but it is certainly the biggest moment to occur in Athens. The Dawgs have triumphed in South Bend, Pasadena, and Atlanta - only to return to Atlanta for two of the most devastating losses we could imagine. But this weekend the Dawgs step into the national spotlight in our favorite college town. Good for Athens. Good for UGA.

I have read that online ticket brokers are expecting the crowd to be about 25% Notre Dame fans - which is about 2x the normal SEC visiting crowd. I will say that the Notre Dame fans I encountered in South Bend were pretty nice folks. This isn't the LSU crowd we are dealing with here.

Expect some cognitive dissonance when they see our entire school turned into a state fair for gameday - walking around the Notre Dame campus before the 2017 game the only way you knew you were in the right place was because there were about 50,000 other Georgia fans walking around wondering where the hell the party was while everyone else was at mass - but all in all there is nothing to fear from these navy T-shirt wearing people.

As for the game: anything less than a slaughter should be a disappointment for Georgia fans. The Bulldogs are bigger, stronger, faster, more experienced, higher paid, and better prepared for this game than Notre Dame. Some may say this high bar is unfair for a college program, but such is the burden of expectations in our multi-billion-dollar amateur sports operation at UGA.

There is no room for romanticism or nostalgia for our boys in red and black once they get between the hedges Saturday night. Save that shite for a Loran Smith feature. The Poor Men are coming to watch a bloodbath - all in the name of advancing the purpose of American higher education. We just want to see the guys that we don't know in our colors beat up the guys that we don't know in their colors.

Light the stadium red and send these guys back to church school.


Enjoy the Notes!

Go Dawgs, Beat the Irish!

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