Tennessee

My buddy Dan on the Tennessee game:

You gotta realize these guys have manhandled our lines 3 out of the last 4 years.

And Fulmer doesn't want to get fired, I guarantee you.

Remember the good old days, when you just couldn't imagine Tennessee even keeping it close against this team, coming off a bye week?

2.5 days and counting: Real time photo edition

Lucid Idiocy Athens Correspondent Chris Brusko checks in: The field is painted... the chair backs are in place... all that is missing is us.



UPDATE: Clearly letting the prestigious L.I. Correspondent title go to his head, Chris has started a blog. If he gets our tailgate on ESPN, I'll let it go. Wait, would that be a good thing?

7th Year Senior.

3 days and counting: Moving pictures edition

Madhouse -> The Take Out -> Gov. Perdue -> Coach Richt -> Madhouse

Anyone looking for actual football highlights in their videos today should go here now.

Tailgating readiness: Checklist edition

A friend of mine made a gameday checklist. And if I can help just one person not forget the flagpole stand by publishing her list, my work here will be a success.

Personal Items:
___ Red & Black attire
___ Gameday skivvies
___ Comfortable shoes
___ Georgia face “G’s”
___ Toothpaste/toothbrush
___ Toiletries
___ Gold Bond (Medicated)
___ Pajamas
___ Blankets, pillows, sleeping bags
___ Funny movies

Tailgating Essentials:
___ Food and beer or money for food and beer
___ Money for tickets (if applicable)
___ Coolers
___ Cups & koozies
___ Cigarettes and other health-depleting items
___ Beer (keg or BYOB), Andre, water
___ Gameday music (pre-mixed)
___ Chairs
___ Tables
___ Miscellaneous games and other bad ideas
___ Cameras
___ Advil
___ Georgia flag, flagpole
___ American flag, flagpole
___ Flagpole stand
___ Tent
___ Trashbags (including one for recycling)

Game time Necessities:
___ Tickets
___ Student IDs (if applicable)
___ Diet Coke
___ Whiskey
___ Wins

Alcohol: On there three times for a reason.


Flaming Steve Spurrier pinata: optional, but recommended.
Awesome friends: a must.

The bell is home

Athens Lucid Idiocy Correspondent Brian Huff was good enough to take a camera to campus today and film the first rings of the refurbished Chapel Bell. Long may she ring and often.


That's just good for the soul.

And here's a bit of speech making before the ringing


I believe we have here a 100-year tower. And I'm looking forward to winning all our Bulldog games this year so we can ring this bell.

The Grand Canyon: Aptly named

Two more pictures from my friends' trip.



Images: Jean O'Keefe and Brian Huff.

Glacier

Some friends of mine are on a cross-country trip. They were in San Francisco last night, but had been in Glacier National Park about a week ago.

Glacier is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful places on Earth.


Image: Jean O'Keefe and Brian Huff.

How about them Dawgs. And I'll have that gin and diet now.

It was one of the boys over at Georgia Sports Blog that said, we're three wins from a National Championship.


Meanwhile, strange, personal things happen to us all the time.

Totally appropriate

Just got this email from a buddy of mine:

So, I just got out of lunch and I'm walking down 5th Street in downtown Austin talking on my phone. I end the call as I'm crossing the street at the crosswalk, at the last second realize the girl walking towards me has on a Florida shirt.

Without hesitation (TOTAL Tourette's), I yell, and I mean yell - like leaning in and walking towards her with my right hand cupped around my mouth - "BOOOOOOOOOoo Booooooooooooooooooooo Boooooooooooooo!!!!!!"

She literally shifted gears into this quick walk / run so fast that I didn't even realize how inappropriate I was acting, and by the time I did, I was standing alone in the middle of the intersection (because naturally, I followed her off the path of the crosswalk out where the cars are).

Let me back up - so, to onlookers (which were plenty), here is this guy walking down the street in a suit with a briefcase on his shoulder who "boos" a passerby for no apparent reason. Let me add, I have on ZERO UGA clothes right now. To them, I'm sure it looked like a scene straight out of Jackass.

I hope football season comes soon so at least I can have an excuse. That was just wrong and I'm almost embarrassed (who are we kidding, not really but, I do feel bad).

Hey, if she didn't want to get accosted in the street in Texas, the girl shouldn't have gone outside wearing gator clothes.

"Look buddy, your car was upside-down when I got here. And as for your grandmother, she shouldn't have mouthed off like that."
- Homer Simpson

A Michigan left to Whammyville.

I don't think I can really do justice to my weekend trip to Michigan. Although "weekend trip to Michigan" is a pretty good description in itself.

But the next time you think the Georgia DOT doesn't make much sense, remember that these exist. As my buddy Brett said: "Why have one traffic light when you can have three?"

His brother Scott says he's never going back to Michigan, and these are the sole reason.














Michigan: Move here if you hate sunlight.

Great moments in voicemail history

I meant to post this over the weekend. A buddy of mine called about 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning (aka early in the Saturday evening drinking hours) and left the message below. No names unless he asks me to include it. He knows who he is. And he's hilarious.

"Hey, mother $^@$er, this is God. And I've decided to kick you out of the universe."

While I'm at it, a couple of other gems from my friend:

About a guy with a hangover: "He looked like the dinosaurs after the bomb went off."

And on women: "We win some and we lose some. And we always lose more than we win."

Legendary Voice of the Bulldogs Larry Munson

I think we've all seen this coming, but in today's Telegraph long-time Dawgs play-by-play man Larry Munson says he's "almost 50-50" on calling this season.

My guess is he comes back for one last season, hunkers it down one more time, so to speak.

But either way, Larry Munson IS Georgia Football. He makes you FEEL a Georgia game. There is a waver in his voice, a hope, a fear, something just short of a prayer. By the end of a game, he sounds like I feel: Exhausted.

I was lucky enough to interview Munson a few years back. His middle name is Harry and he once played in a band with Frank Sinatra. I can guarantee you that he's worried about pretty much every game on the schedule this year, especially with all of our suspensions in the first couple of games.

You can listen to old Munson calls here. A good way to kill a week.

Most people have a Munson story, so I'll tell mine. A few years back, on the Sunday before the Florida game, my buddy The General called into the day-after call-in show to talk to Coach Richt and Munson.

He was the last call of the day. In fact the wrap-up music started playing during his call.

The General was just calling to say we'd played a good game the day before, and to let Coach Richt know he was packing up the car and heading down to Florida for the Cocktail Party.

This was on a Sunday. The game was not for six days.

Said Munson, as only he can: "My God! You'll be dead by Thursday!"

Coach Richt and The General

So this is a good friend of mine.

Todd Unzicker, not Coach Richt. Coach Richt's just a guy who calls me for advice all the time. I always answer with "sprint draw."

Anyway - the change in Todd's life over the last few years is nothing short of phenomenal. He went from being one of the rowdiest people you can imagine (yes, I'm toning it down for the Internet) to being a missionary in Honduras.

He got malaria at one point down there. And I've never seen him happier.

Life's unexpected. By the way, we call Todd "The General" because he likes to tell people what to do. I could fill an entire new blog with stories about this guy.