One Old Dawg and a Historic Year

Well, here it is: The fiftieth anniversary of the 1966 University of Georgia Southeastern Conference Champions.

(Photo used permission of Athens Banner Herald)

One Old Dawg is ready. Been ready.

 “The season can start now,” he declared after he finished his yearly tradition of dusting off and watching the 25 Years of Georgia Football  VHS (Yes, he actually still has a VHS player, maybe for this one purpose).  It seems after watching it, One Old Dawg thinks he could still suit up and play.

This fiftieth anniversary falls on another historic year, Kirby Smart’s first season (UGA All SEC, Indianapolis Colts, Coaching Asst.-UGA, Valdosta State, Florida State, LSU, Miami Dolphins, Alabama. Head Coach UGA).

One Old Dawg came back all smiles from the Athens Touchdown Club last week where Kirby Smart was speaking. He was especially impressed with the forty five-minutes Coach Smart took in answering questions after he spoke, and he loved the sign Bobby Poss (1969-71 letterman) held up during Coach Smart's talk. It read, "I am a Smart Dawg."

A lot of excitement in the air.

But now about that incredible 1966 year. What was the outlook before the season started back then?

Well, the media guide said the schedule was a tough one with the first three games being on the road and all at night. Evidently that was a negative in the mid-sixties.

In an article by Dan Magill, it seemed the SEC coaches ranked the Bulldogs seventh in 1966.  Magill wrote of the 1965 season, “Georgia upset national champion Alabama in the opener, then became the first Southern team ever to master mighty Michigan at Ann Arbor . . .won their first four starts, encountered severe injury trouble as key men bit the dust . . .”

Unfortunately, One Old Dawg is one of those men who bit the dust. Back trouble. He had surgery in the spring of 1966.

Thankfully, Marvin Tootle stepped in when One Old Dawg went out in 1965 and did a great job. One Old Dawg has an interesting memory about Marvin. “I don’t remember what year it was, but in late grammar or middle school, I went to Sylacauga, Alabama to spend a week or two with my mother’s brother. A boy my age who lived in the neighborhood befriended me and showed me around. His name was Marvin Tootle. I never saw or heard from Marvin again until we walked on the field together as teammates at the University of Georgia.”

For the first game in the season, the Bulldogs faced Mississippi State away.

Vince Dooley said of that game in Dooley, My Forty Years at Georgia, “We certainly didn’t start off the season like champions. We opened up at Mississippi State in a real dogfight. The game was tied 17-17 late, Mississippi State was deep in our territory and looking like they were going to win the game. They threw a pass into the end zone and it appeared to hit their guy in the chest for the touchdown. But just as the ball got there, Terry Sellers (All SEC, Cleveland Browns) hit the receiver in the back and the ball popped right into the arms of Happy Dicks (All SEC, All American) , a sophomore who had turned and raced for the ball after it was thrown, and he caught it for a touchback. We took the ball and drove it about 70 yards to kick a field goal to win, 20-17, in the last minute of play. That’s how close we were to being champions or not being champions.”

Crazy to think how that one minute of play set the stage for an SEC championship.

One Old Dawg hoped he would play in 1966, and the Savannah Morning News-Evening Press even wrote an article about the Bulldog Ends.

 

He remembers, “I did not do a good job getting back in shape following my surgery during spring break and paid the price during fall camp. Severe muscle spasms kept me out of practice but I still made the trip to Starkville (we actually played in Jackson).  I wanted to be in the game, but it was not to be. Marvin Tootle had a great game, and I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to break into the starting lineup again. Then, late in the game Marvin sustained a knee injury. Our other backup, Gary Adams went in for Marvin. Anyway, we squeaked out a win.”

For this year’s opener at the Georgia Dome with the University of Georgia Bulldogs facing off against the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, this is how One Old Dawg thinks it’s going to go: 

“As I was contemplating the start of this season I thought of Revelation 21:5: He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’  There is something exciting about new. It conveys the idea of do over or fresh start. Last year was certainly not a bad year for Georgia football, we won 10 games. However, it was disappointing to many because we lost to Alabama, archrivals Tennessee and Florida, and so we did not make it to the Dome.

“This year we have a new coaching staff, some gifted new players, and there is a fresh, new and exciting feeling in the air. Many are thinking if Coach Smart can get 95,000 thousand people to attend that glorified practice we call G day, he is a first class motivator who can get these guys in high gear. Anything is possible! There’s just something exciting about new. My heart skipped a beat when I saw my tickets had arrived in the mail. It is going to be an exciting year for Georgia football.

“Now about those Tar Heels. This game is really hard to call since we haven’t played them since 1971 (wondering what a Tar Heel is? Look here). We did have two common opponents last year: they lost to South Carolina 13-17 who we beat 52-20; they beat Georgia Tech 38-31 who we beat 13-7. Go figure! I know I have zero credibility as a prognosticator because I always pick the Dawgs to win. However, picking the Dawgs every week last year gave me a 77% accuracy rate, which compares favorably with the best in the business. Beside that, I have inside information. I’m convinced our players love Kirby Smart who has conditioned and prepared them for a great new start. I’m confident they will give us 110% and that’s more than enough.  North Carolina will find their tar heels mired in Georgia red clay as the fleet Dawgs run around and pass over them for a solid victory. Go… Dawgs.  Sick ‘em.”

Did we mention One Old Dawg is ready? So, we’re off and running. It’s going to be a great fall.

One Old Dawg and the Big One

Now just a few weeks out from the Georgia Dome game when the University of Georgia Bulldogs face off against the University of North Carolina Tarheels, we’re busy working here at One Old Dawg. The dining room table is covered in old news clippings because this year is the big one―the fiftieth anniversary of the 1966 University of Georgia Southeastern Conference Championship Team.  Let all your friends know to sign up to receive by email or check in Wednesdays at the One Old Dawg site beginning August 31.

As usual, you can also count on One Old Dawg to be holding court concerning what’s happening with the Bulldogs today.

If you’re in the Athens, Georgia area, stop in at the Varsity where you’ll find a photo of that 1966 championship team hanging on the wall. Our wonderful grandchildren point out their grandfather (Can you tell the picture was not exactly candid?).

So watch for us, and don’t miss any of One Old Dawg’s mostly true Bulldog lore.

One Old Dawg on Tumbling Tech

Lots of preparations going on here at One Old Dawg’s house as he does much of the cooking at Thanksgiving. For that, One Old Dawg’s wife is SO grateful. He smokes the turkey and makes the dressing to the delight of his whole family. So good!!

 

Wearing his Georgia apron, he takes a break from chopping onions, green peppers, and celery for the dressing to talk about the Georgia Tech game―both this weekend’s and the one in 1965.

 

“I said this last year and I’ll say again, I can’t believe football season is over, it seems like it just started. But here we are getting ready for the last game of the season against that North Avenue Trade School.  Last year we were both 9-2 so a lot was riding on the outcome besides state bragging rights, like priority bowl games and national rankings. It would seem the game would not be such a big deal this year since they are 3-8 and we are 8-3. But folks, Tech is always a big game regardless of records and rankings. They embarrassed us last year by squeaking out an overtime win between the hedges 30-24; it’s time for payback.

 “In 1965 it was a bit different. We were a disappointing 5-4 and our bowl hopes were gone; but we sure wanted to end with a winning season. They were 6-2-1 and desperate for a seventh win which would land them in a decent bowl game. Tech was gunning for us because we messed up their season the previous year by clipping their wings for a 7-0 win between the hedges. That loss left them a respectable 7-3 season but they still did not go to a bowl game, which they surely would have, had we not beat them.  Did I mention they were gunning for us?’

 When doing the research for this article, we found One Old Dawg’s mama did not save many newspaper clippings from the last games of the 1965 season. Her son was sidelined for many of those games with a back injury. You know how Mama’s are, if her baby wasn’t playing, she wasn’t as interested. One Old Dawg continues.

 “I only have part of one article about the Tech game by Atlanta Journal Sports Editor, Furman Bisher.

 

 

 

"But thanks to my friend Mark Maxwell, who does a lot of archiving for the UGA Athletic Department, I have a written play by play which helped me remember.

“Turnovers were the difference in the game.

“On the first possession of the game we recovered a Tech fumble on their thirty-two. Georgia only took seven plays to cross the goal line and it was 7-0 Dawgs. Early in the second quarter, Lynn Hughes (All SEC, All American) intercepted a Tech pass at our forty and returned it the Tech twenty-five. We couldn’t move the ball so Bobby Etter (Atlanta Flacons, Memphis Southmen)  booted a forty-yard field goal, 10-0 Dawgs at the half. Being a defensive player I can’t help mention that according to the play by play, Tech had zero net yards rushing and forty-nine yards passing at the first half – Glory to Ole Georgia. Erk (Defensive Coordinator, later head coach at Georgia Southern) was surely proud.

“Ridlehuber (Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders,Buffalo Bills, New York Jets) returned the second half kickoff to the Georgia thirty-nine. Ten plays later he scored from the five; 17-0 Dawgs.

“I’m really having fun remembering all of this. Tech was able to mount a drive at the end of the third quarter and scored with thirteen minutes left in the game. Tech launched two more drives. The first ended with a Joe Burson interception at our forty-five. The second ended on the Georgia eleven when Marvin Tootle tackled Lenny Snow for a three yard loss on fourth down. Georgia took over with forty five seconds left to play and ran out the clock for 17-7 victory, how sweet it was.

“After the 1965 season, we were disappointed and felt a bit cheated. We did not receive a bowl invitation yet we had beaten two teams that did, including the reigning national champion that repeated as champion that year. Auburn had a worse recorded than Georgia but they played Ole Miss in the Liberty Bowl. The Sun Bowl picked TCU over us, and they got whipped by Texas-El Paso. Then there was the Tangerine Bowl that picked Maine to play East Carolina. Maine? They were in the Yankee Conference. Ever heard of it? That was their only bowl appearance in history, and they lost 31-0.  We were mad.

“I wish I had known the truth the Apostle Paul discovered and wrote about in Philippians 4:12, ‘I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.’ His context was material provision but the principle has universal application. Our discontent over how the season turned out did not change anything and it kept us from fully enjoying what we had accomplished that year.

“We were only sixteen points short of being 9-1. We were the only team to beat the national champion, Alabama. The nationally televised victory over Alabama together with the well-publicized victory over defending Big-Ten champion, Michigan, in Ann Arbor, reestablished Georgia as a national championship contender. Instead of being disappointed, we should have been content, enjoyed our successes and looked forward to the next year, for which we had established a good foundation. Besides that, I went to the Orange Bowl and saw Alabama beat undefeated Nebraska for the national championship and that was pretty cool for a small town boy.

“Back to those Atlanta Insects.  I hope this doesn’t make anyone mad at me, but I don’t hate Tech like many Georgia fans. It is a State of Georgia institution and a number of my good friends from Valdosta played there. I always pull for Tech except for one game every year. However, because of my friendships, I want you to understand that I really enjoy beating them.  So hunker down you Red Clay Hounds and swat those Jackets. Make them what they sing about - rambling wrecks from Georgia Tech. Sick ‘em dawgs.”

From everyone here at One Old Dawg, we wish you a very blessed Thanksgiving. Go Dawgs!

 

Go Dawgs!

Since there was no 1965 game this week in the season, One Old Dawg is taking a break. But he’ll be back next week for the last regular season game to talk about the 1965 Georgia Tech victory. It was a doozy!

Meanwhile, he’s getting ready to go to the Georgia-Georgia Southern game this weekend, and he’s sure his team is going to defeat those Eagles.

Until next week, Go Dawgs!

One Old Dawg on a collage of feline hides

One Old Dawg couldn’t stop smiling during the Kentucky game. The win was a balm for his Bulldog soul.

 

As he takes a break from watching the SEC network tonight, he turns his thoughts toward the Auburn game this weekend as well as his memories of the 1965 Auburn game. “Well, we had a good, solid game against Kentucky. Is it weird that we beat them by the same score Florida beat us? Anyway, it felt good to get another W but we can’t waste much time patting ourselves on the back; we have a big game in front of us―another Tiger. You might be thinking, what’s the big deal? Both teams are already out of the SEC and national playoff pictures.  Auburn vs. Georgia is the longest rivalry in the South and the fifth longest in the nation. We’ve played Auburn every year since1892 except for five years: 1893, 1897, 1917-18 due to WWI and 1943 due to WWII. That’s 118 games in the last 123 years and its all tied up 55-55-8. There’s more than one year of bragging rights at stake on this game.

 

“It was also a big game in 1965 not even considering the long-standing rivalry. Our head coach was the head freshman coach at Auburn just two years before and he and several of our assistant coaches played at Auburn. We were 5-3, 3-2 SEC, and Auburn was 4-3-1 but leading the conference at 3-0-1. Keep in mind there were only nine bowl games available in those days so another loss would pretty much end our hopes of playing in one of them. This was a big game and we felt we had the edge since we were playing between the hedges.

 

“The teams seemed evenly matched, and that is the way the game played out. Auburn scored a touchdown in every quarter except the fourth and we scored a touchdown in every quarter except the third. Auburn had blocked the extra point kick on our first touchdown forcing us to go for a two-point conversion on the second touchdown, which failed. We got a touchdown late in the fourth quarter and made the PAT to make the score 21-19. We held Auburn on their next possession but they punted us down to our own sixteen yard-line. However, our offense blasted off with a forty-five yard run from Preston Ridlehuber (Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets).

 

Preston Ridlehuber, George Nowicki, Jerry Varnado, Pat Hodgson

“Then, Kirby Moore threw a twenty-two yard pass to Frank Richter (Denver Broncos) . Some tough running got us down to the three yard-line. We were just a heartbeat away from victory but it ended in heartbreak. Our great fullback Ronnie Jenkins was hit hard at the goal line, the ball came loose and Auburn recovered. We did get the ball back with a couple of minutes left in the game but were not able to mount another drive and the game ended 21-19.

 
 “Heart break hotel.”
 

As always, One Old Dawg looks for the greater lesson in his football experience. “I wish I had been walking with Jesus in those days so I would have known Psalm 55:22, “Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.”  I know football is just a game but try to tell that to a twenty-one year old who had already pictured himself playing in a bowl game on national television. That was a big deal in 1965. In two years, only two of our games were televised, the Sun Bowl and Alabama of that year. This was a bitter pill to swallow. I was discouraged and felt like we had failed.

 

“When I looked through my Biblical Cyclopedic Index this week, I saw a list of causes of discouragement. One caught my eye: apparent failure. Something that looks like failure but really isn’t. That reminded me of Romans 8:28, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” God will turn any supposed failure into something good, if we’ll let Him. Yes, we had lost four games and it appeared our season was for naught. But that was not reality.

 

“We had beaten the national champion on national TV and the Big Ten Champion in their own backyard. Before injuries riddled our team, we were ranked number four in the nation. In just two years, we had elevated the Dawgs from the SEC cellar to the hallowed halls of title contender and a significant player on the national stage of college football. Failure? Depends on how you look at it. We learned and grew through the heartache and the core of this team returned in 1966 to become SEC champions and number four in the nation.”

           

One Old Dawg casts his prediction for this weekend’s game. “Here we are fifty years later loading up the bus to make the trek to Auburn, Alabama. Statistics indicate we should beat them, but for this game, you can throw statistics and records in the trash, they do not mean a thing. The Tigers will be growling Saturday looking to have Bulldawg for lunch; we best be ready for a fight. As I mentioned last week we are doing well against felines this year, having already skinned a Jaguar, a Tiger and a Wildcat.  Hunker down folks; Uga needs one more tiger skin to finish his collage of feline hides for his Dawghouse rug.  Sic ‘em Dawgs.”

 

At the Kentucky game, we sat behind sports agent, Tommy Sims, who was there looking at a few of our players. A South Georgia native, he started at defensive back for the University of Tennessee, and co-captained both the 1985 SEC championship game and the 1986 Sugar Bowl Game. We’ll forgive him all his Rocky Top ways, because he’s Dad to the gorgeous and brilliant, Camille Sims, Miss Fulton County and runner up in this year’s Miss Georgia Pageant (That Miss Georgia went on to be Miss America, and of course we crowned another at a Georgia game a few weeks back). We just love the folks we meet at UGA games.

 

Until next week, Go Dawgs!

One Old Dawg and what he thinks about naysayers

It's been a long time since we've seen One Old Dawg like this. As he takes off his Georgia logo jacket and settles into his desk chair, he declares, "We’re playing Kentucky Saturday and I already talked about the 1965 Kentucky game back in October (One Old Dawg and No Time for a Pity Party October 7, 2015). It was not a pleasant experience and I don’t care to talk about it anymore. But there is one thing I do want to talk about.
 

"Negativity!
 

"People are bad-mouthing our coaches and our players because we’ve lost three football games? I understand that some who call themselves Bulldawgs are joining the chorus.
 

"My daddy used to say: 'If you can’t say something nice about someone, you ought to keep your mouth closed.' Can I get a witness?  I hate losing as much as anyone but this is not the end of life as we know it. Must I remind us all that College Football is a game played by eighteen to twenty-two year old young men? Keep it in proper perspective!

 

"Since I might run into you somewhere, there is something you need to know. As you might guess, I’m Georgia through and through; I’m a supporter, not a critic. This is my school, my coaches and my players, and my goal is to support my Dawgs any way I can, win or lose. I don’t cuss, criticize, or knock them in any form or fashion, and I’m not interested in listening to anyone else do it. Everybody at this house is a Bulldog fan.

"If you don’t feel the same you ought to turn in your Bulldawg Nation citizenship card before it gets revoked."

It's true that One Old Dawg's pup, Lucy, is a staunch Bulldog supporter. If he's watching a game at home, she's right there with him. It's thought she even wags her tail at a Georgia touchdown. One Old Dawg narrows his eyes and grows even more intense as he continues.

"Fire Mark Richt?! Have you lost your mind? Who under the sun would you get to replace him? His winning percentage ranks seventh among active coaches in the five, so called, power conferences and sixteenth among division 1-A active coaches (which is significant considering that Nick Saban is twelfth).  Six of the fifteen above him have been head coaches for only five years or less. As Tom Fornelli (CBS sportswriter) put it: 'When it comes to Richt, people spend too much time focusing on what he hasn't done rather than what he has. The man has coached 184 games with the Bulldogs and he has won 136 (seventy-four percent) of them. He has won two SEC titles (the only two Georgia has won in the past thirty-two years) and six SEC East crowns. The only thing he has been guilty of has been coaching in a conference that has been the home of some of the best coaches and teams in the country the past twenty years.'

"Can anyone say amen?

"That’s not even counting the fact that Mark Richt has also initiated many improvements in our athletic facilities and has consistently modeled honesty and integrity to our young people, the state and nation. If you are a true Dawg you’ll get behind our team and coaches, support them and pray for them that they will be able to face and overcome our present challenges and make the best they can of the rest of this season."

As always, One Old Dawg draws a spiritual parallel to the situation. "This brings to mind something Jesus said when he was accused of casting out demons by the power of Beelzebul (prince of demons or the devil) in Matthew 12:25-26:  "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?”  If some of us are berating players, trying to run off coaches and playing the blame game, it accomplishes nothing and divides us, making us more vulnerable. The Dawgs need our support not our criticism.  If you must continue your negativism and naysaying please do the Bulldawg Nation a favor and become a Tech fan.

"We do have a game this Saturday, the Kentucky Wildcats – between the hedges. Record wise they are 4-4 and we are 5-3. We both beat South Carolina and Missouri and we both lost to Florida and Tennessee. Georgia is favored by fourteen, but it seems a pretty even matchup to me. I’ve watched Kentucky play in two or three games and in my opinion, the Dawgs will need all the help they can get. This will be a sure enough Dawg-Cat fight. We are doing well against felines this year; we have taken down a Jaguar and a Tiger to date, and I’m confident we will turn these Wildcats into housecats come Saturday.  Sick ‘em Dawgs."

Okay, so tell us what you really think, One Old Dawg. You can always count on him to be crystal clear about where his allegiances are.

He'll be back here again next week for the Auburn game with more mostly true Bulldog lore.

        

In the Driver's Seat

One Old Dawg is plenty ready to go after taking a week off. He thinks his Bulldogs are, too.

“A lot is riding on the annual swamp showdown with the Florida Gators – some things never change. But this one is about more than border wars and bragging rights. Whoever loses this one can just about hang it up as far as the SEC title is concerned. For now, Florida is in the driver’s seat with only one conference loss, while we have two. But if we win Saturday and take care of Auburn and Kentucky, we will be in the Dome December 5 playing for the championship. Even if Florida also wins out the rest of its schedule and ties us for SEC East title, we would get the nod because we wrestled the Gators into submission. Hunker down Dawgs; we really need this one.”

He picks up a yellowed newspaper article lying on the dining room table. The bold headlines read, “Georgia’s Best Game Goes Down Drain.”

 

 

He winces as he remembers a Saturday fifty years ago. “It was a similar situation then, but reversed, the Dawgs were in the driver’s seat. The 1965 Dawgs had one conference loss going into the game and we had already beaten the defending national champion Alabama.  Florida had two conference loses with UGA and Tulane left on their schedule (Yes, Tulane was in the SEC in 1965). If Florida could win both games, they would have an outside chance at conference honors but for sure, a good bowl game.

“Keep in mind there were only nine bowl games in 1965, getting to one of them was a big deal. If we could whip Florida and Auburn, we had at least a piece of the conference championship, maybe the whole thing. This game was big. And we were ready to play, or at least “they” were. I was on the injured list and didn’t see any action; but I did travel with the team.”

One Old Dawg was a frequent recipient of the Johnson and Johnson award for his many injuries. This time, though, it was serious. He required disc surgery at the end of the season.

He continues about the 1965 Florida game. “It was hard fought, and due to a Pat Hodgson (All SEC, Washington Redskins, Coach at San Diego Chargers, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Jets) touchdown, we were tied 7-7 late in the fourth quarter when we got our big break – Florida fumbled a punt in their territory, and we recovered. Bobby Etter’s (Atlanta Falcons, Memphis Southmen) twenty-five-yard field goal put us on top 10-7 with only minutes left in the game. Then the unthinkable happened.

 

 

“Steve Spurrier completed a pass to their all-star receiver, Paul Casey, for forty-six yards and a first down at our thirty-two. Then Spurrier unloaded another long pass to Jack Harper. Our safety Lynn Hughes had him covered like a blanket. I’ve read accounts of that play that differ but from the sidelines, but it looked as though they both went up for the ball and collided in mid air and fell into the end zone. Unfortunately, the ball fell into Harper’s arms for a touchdown. 

“A few minutes remained on the clock but we were not able to mount another scoring drive and Florida won 14-10, dashing our hopes for a shot at the conference title.  It was a very sad day. In the 1990s, as head coach of the Florida Gators, Spurrier whipped us bad and bragged about it, but the rift so many feel with him first appeared twenty-five years earlier.”

One Old Dawg contemplates the deeper meaning of that giant disappointment in 1965. “Disappointment is a fact of life. Often things do not turn out the way we planned, hoped and maybe even prayed they would. Disappointments and failures do not determine or define us, unless we let them. I’m reminded of a biblical principle from Paul’s writings in Philippians 3:13-14, “ But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Paul had resisted God in the recognizing Jesus as the Messiah. He persecuted the church, even had Christians jailed and consented to the stoning of Stephen, the first Christian martyr. How stunned he must have been to discover he was wrong and had been fighting against the God he claimed to serve.

“Talk about disappointment! The principle of the text is to forget what is behind and it applies to all aspects of living. Forgetting does not mean removing it from our brains. Rather it means to not letting past events discourage us from pursuing our dreams, from pressing into the future that God has for us.

“Paul repented and turned his life over to God and became a great apostle of Jesus establishing churches in gentile areas of Asia Minor and Western Europe and authoring two-thirds of the New Testament. His life literally changed the course of world history. I’m sure glad he did not let his past disappointments and failure keep him from pursing the preferred future God had planned for him.

“This same core group of young men who suffered such disappointment with that loss to Florida in 1965 would return the next year to give it another shot. Next fall you’ll hear the continuation of their story.

“I’m figuring the similarities in 2015 to 1965 are going to continue. The team in the driver’s seat is going to suffer disappointment and have a very sad day this Saturday as the Dawgs drain their swamp on the way to the Georgia Dome. I just love the Florida Gators, stewed, grilled or fried. Sic ‘em Dawgs; woof, woof, woof.”

Stewed, grilled, or fried? No one can doubt where One Old Dawg’s allegiances are.   

We’ll be right here again next week for more of One Old Dawg’s “mostly true Bulldog lore.” Join us, and until then Go Dawgs!