Category Marietta
UGA Dawgs Country
My city divided in fractions with factions of fans, but the state is solidly ours. GEORGIA Football is still the most popular sporting enterprise in the largest state east of the Mississippi River. The Atlanta Braves, a Southern regional favorite and the only close competition for the title of top draw in the great state […]
“Cocktail Party” (poem) by Han Vance
Writer (author/journalist/poet/blogger) Han Vance won the Harriette Austin Poetry Award for ATL Fire (published by Silver Stone Press in 2015) and is the aspiring Georgia Bulldogs Poet Laureate. Cocktail Party (C) 2006 HV This is what it comes down to. This, and Auburn, but this sets up the Auburn game. For the Auburn game to […]
Cocktail Party (c) ’06
Full-length version of my award-winning football poem: This is what it comes down to. This, and Auburn, but this sets up the Auburn game. For the Auburn game to be truly huge, the Dawgs have to win this game. Every year…And, we have won it exactly 2 of the last 16 godforsaken years. Our Quarterback […]
Looking for Greener Pastures
Vince the Prince seemed to always beat the Gators. Herschel Walker was only one of a myriad of good to great GEORGIA running backs that shredded the Swamp People under Coach Dooley’s watch. Georgia didn’t throw the ball much back then. No team in the old SEC did, until a twangy Tennessean named Spurrier was […]
What it’s like to compete against Champ Bailey
ATHENS, GA – In this corner: Non-trad returning fourth-year junior and future DAWGS journalist, Han Vance. Versus: One of the greatest NFL defensive backs of all-time, then-freshman Champ Bailey. With a record of 3-1, we felt our team was close to evenly matched with anyone in the packed new SPACE Center. And our draw that night […]
With Mettenberger Gone, Quarterbacks Must Step Up
Curious that Aaron Murray did not play in the first half of the G-Day Game, I had to ask myself: Is he already the season opener starter for the University of Georgia Bulldogs? That question was a presumed yes for many fans anyway, with Zach Mettenberger facing at least a one game suspension for arrest […]
Big D In the Classic City
Hailing from Ft. Worth by way of Austin, I’m a native Texan and third-generation Cowboys fan. Long ago, the Atlanta Falcons beat Dallas in a regular season match, causing my beloved Nanny to be the first to utter the term “Dirty Birds.” And when Steve Bartkowski went down to Danny White in the playoffs I […]
The Real Chris Boggs is a DAWG!
I recently came into awareness of an impostor. Of all things, this other Chris Boggs is a Tech writer, for the AJC. No, he doesn’t write about technology – he writes about the wimpy North Avenue Trade School Yellow Jack-its. The real Chris Boggs was brave enough to be my roommate in multiple old homes […]
DAWGS-Zonely
I Hate Losing WAY, WAY, WAY More Than You I Hate It More Than Richt, Stafford and Bobo Combined I Hate It As Much As Larry Does – Munson FOREVER!!! And Losing To Your Biggest Rival, Neigh, Giving Them The Game Like A Bunch Of No Heart Free Hookers: NOT GOOD, NOT VERY GOOD AT […]
Classic City Homecoming
It was Saturday, in Athens, and that meant football to me. I had a walk around town and campus and only a couple of adult beverages before heading to my seats. I just don’t party like I once did. Big up to Jonathon for the laughs. My pretty date and I sat in section 103 […]
Big Hairy Blawg 