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No Apology Necessary

I’ll go on record right now…

My second favorite SEC team has always been Georgia.

Partly because…my high school’s mascot was a bulldog. So maybe you can’t really teach an old ‘Dog a new trick.

Mainly tho, it’s because Georgia has always handled itself with a lot of class. No matter if it was an up year or a down year for them, you could always count on the Dawgs for a well-fought contest, without cheap shots during a game, or Georgia fans acting like jackasses after the game, no matter what the outcome.

I think that stems from the fact that Georgia, like Alabama, is a program with a long and storied tradition of football excellence.

In other words, they’ve been winners before, and they know how to act…win or lose.

That stands in direct opposition to the cow colleges and schools devoted to cosmetology that pass for institutions of higher learning in other places around the SEC.

As Running Antelope would say about those kinds of places…

They’ve always acted like trash.

Which, BTW…

Is prolly the worse thing a Southerner can say about a fellow Southerner.

So if there’s any team in the SEC I’d rather see win other than Alabama, it’s Georgia.

Which is why I thought the excessive celebration by Georgia in its recent win over Florida was…

Quite frankly…

AWESOME!

I thought it was a brilliant tactical move. Why?

Because it had the most important element of any tactical move, which is spelled…

S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E

Florida didn’t expect it. Why, no one dares taunt the almighty Gators!

Unfortunately, Florida’s arrogance and reality-distortion-field about their one-dimensional offense, which is now about half-dimensional thanks to the injuries to The Frankenback Monster…

Sure didn’t keep them from getting manhandled by Georgia. And just like Pulp Fiction has spawned about a billion knock-off movies that were utter crap…

There will be plenty of folks who try to mimic Georgia’s celebration play. And it’s a fact that anybody who tries to copy Georgia’s celebration play will simply come off as a dumbass. All of which will totally be the fault of that copycat, not Georgia and not Mark Richt.

Even tho absolutely no apology was necessary…

I give Mark Richt credit for being man enough to apologize to the SEC, Georgia fans, and even Florida for the celebration play.

Of course, I would have prolly worded it something like…

Dear SEC,

I am very very very very very sorry for kicking Florida’s ass so badly this weekend, and making them hate each and every minute of it.

Oh wait…I’m not sorry at all! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

XOXO,

Coach “Suck it Gators!” Richt

Even if one goes so far as to claim there was any risk of a fight breaking out from the Georgia bench swarming the field…

It’s my particular opinion that the risk of violence would have come from the bone, thugs ‘n parolee lineup fielded by Florida.

But the fact that Richt took the blame for that as well…

That’s the difference between a class act, and a no-class act. Rather than mouth off endlessly in the press, as Florida players and coaches are wont to do…

And did after getting their asses royally handed to them by Georgia…

Richt went ahead, took it all on himself, and apologized, even though no one outside of Gainesville thought anything malicious about the celebration.

That’s the definition of a real leader. If I were one of Richt’s players, all of this brouhaha would only serve to make me want to play even harder for him.

|| posted by chris under game, nostalgia, opinion, thumbs up || || ||