Gameday

You knew it was coming, it was only a matter of when. This is it, I am talking football. Nothing groundbreaking (my team is 0-2 after all) but the early days of Fall can't pass us by without paying homage to the pigskin. B & I went to the UGA v Boise game in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. The weekend was filled with anticipation. I was so excited to see the Dream Team in action - would Isaiah Crowell be the 'Next Herschel'? Was Malcolm 'Tampa" Mitchell ready to take over for AJ? Did the off season conditioning really make a difference? Is Aaron Murray ready to be the leader of this team? Are scooters banned from campus yet? So many questions...and so much hope. That is until about 2:30 into the 2nd half, then it was just filled with disappointment.

Alas, the weekend was not completely lost, we did attend #TweetGate 2011. For those that have no idea what that means, the verb of Twitter is Tweet...and I am big on the Twitter (aka Twittah). There is quite a Bulldog community there, so we often discuss UGA football with each other. Those of us that are living in exile also watch the games together (i.e. tweet back and forth about the game plan/plays/players, etc). Anyway, we all got together to tailgate before the Boise game. It was a helluva tailgate for 50 strangers. Video below is courtesy of @BernieDawg and his friend @Namaman, two of my favorite tweeps.




Finally, no post is complete without a field shot and puppies.

 

PS - Jury is still out on the "Next Herschel" nametag. At the very least he has earned the "Next Knowshon". Yes, Tamps is the answer to AJ's departure. Off-season conditioning helped, but we were just too far behind to make up the ground in one year. Aaron Murray has shown that he is ready to be a leader with his mind...with his throwing arm, eh, ask me again on October 30th.

Go Dawgs!

9/11 in NYC

We spent the majority of the weekend out East in Bridgehampton, so we did not get the full effect of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 in New York City. However, our local fire station Ladder Co. 3 had a nice tribute on the sidewalk. They lost 13 men on September 11th.