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It’s a beautiful autumn morning here just outside Athens, Georgia. As usual, I’ve got a full menu planned for the family, but (for the first time this season) the meeting between your #1 Georgia Bulldogs and the Missouri Tigers being a night game allows me the privilege of cooking all day and doubling up my efforts. The early round will feature barbecued smoked sausages, baked beans, and smoked apples with brown sugar, raisins, and walnuts. The evening plans will, of course, be rib-based (in this case a combination of St. Louis ribs, baby back ribs, and beef short ribs). The change in the weather and some of these familiar smells and flavors make me a bit nostalgic for Saturday mornings of days past and that got me to thinking. I have so many wonderful memories of Georgia football Saturdays with my wife, kids, and other family members and friends (some of whom are now gone). But I also have memories from my college years, which were often a little less football-focused and a little more self-involved.
That brings me to this morning’s song selection, in which I will feature one of Missouri’s finest. Now, I’ll grant you that they hail from Kansas City and not Columbia, but I’ll ask that you indulge this musical journey to a very early Saturday morning 22 years back... during my Freshman year at UGA. Imagine, if you will, a very self-serious almost 18-year-old. It’s 2 a.m. and he’s returned from another night downtown trying to wash away the first real heartbreak of his life. He’s sitting bleary-eyed on the steps outside O-House leading to the back parking lot, chain smoking menthol cigarettes. As he relives the experience again and again in excruciating detail, he pulls out his Sony Discman and presses play, then repeat…
Considering the copious amount of beverages consumed, its frankly impressive that the memory remains so vivid. Thanks Missouri. And thanks to New Mexico State, who Jim Donnan’s final Georgia squad walloped that day... although I saw more of the Sanford Stadium bathrooms than I did the game.
Alright, enough of that. Let’s suck it up and talk some Dawgs.
Here are your Gameday Morning Dawg Bites:
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— Georgia Football (@GeorgiaFootball) September 30, 2022
Since Georgia defeated Clemson 10-3 to kick off the 2021 season, the Bulldogs haven’t scored fewer than 24 points in any game.
That seems like a pretty good recipe for success... particularly if you’re fielding at least a semi-competent defense, which we can agree is a pretty low bar as far as Georgia is concerned.
As always, this space will also serve as your Morning Open Comment Thread. Let us know about how you’re planning to pass the hours until kickoff, your thoughts on today’s game and others around the country, and any autumn Saturday memories you’d like to share. I’m also always up for a discussion of the Midwest emo scene. MaconDawg will be along a bit later with additional comment threads and game threads.
Until then...
GOOOO DAWGS!!!
