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<blockquote data-quote="Old South Stands" data-source="post: 264115" data-attributes="member: 1036"><p>Haven't been to Sanford Stadium since '76 or '77, when our Pop Warner teams got to go to games for selling a certain amount of raffle tickets. Would travel in large groups from Atlanta to Athens in chartered Marta buses. Saw them play Clemson a couple times and also Vanderbilt. Tech tickets were given away to us for free back in those days, almost as an afterthought. I rooted for both teams up until '77 and became a Tech fan exclusively, since they were close by in Atlanta and I liked Pepper Rodgers's TV show better than Vince Dooley's. Don't know why I digress, only to say I haven't been there in so long it's hard to remember what it was like...</p><p></p><p>Two things I do know; my old hallmate from Techwod was there for a game back in 1997 or so. After Tech lost the game, he had to run the gauntlet of drunks and disorderlies out the stadium and through the parking lot back to his car. He said several people tried to pick fights with him along the way because he was wearing Tech gear, and that it was hard to imagine what they probably would have done to him if Tech had won. On another occasion several years ago, our local paper here in South Carolina warned Clemson fans heading to Athens what to expect there, cautioning them to be polite and not to do anything that might provoke the fans. I thought it was an incredible admission coming from the press, which ordinarily is quite PC about most things. What it says is that it's not just Tech and Tech's fans who've experienced UGA hospitality. Would like to go see Tech play there one day, though...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old South Stands, post: 264115, member: 1036"] Haven't been to Sanford Stadium since '76 or '77, when our Pop Warner teams got to go to games for selling a certain amount of raffle tickets. Would travel in large groups from Atlanta to Athens in chartered Marta buses. Saw them play Clemson a couple times and also Vanderbilt. Tech tickets were given away to us for free back in those days, almost as an afterthought. I rooted for both teams up until '77 and became a Tech fan exclusively, since they were close by in Atlanta and I liked Pepper Rodgers's TV show better than Vince Dooley's. Don't know why I digress, only to say I haven't been there in so long it's hard to remember what it was like... Two things I do know; my old hallmate from Techwod was there for a game back in 1997 or so. After Tech lost the game, he had to run the gauntlet of drunks and disorderlies out the stadium and through the parking lot back to his car. He said several people tried to pick fights with him along the way because he was wearing Tech gear, and that it was hard to imagine what they probably would have done to him if Tech had won. On another occasion several years ago, our local paper here in South Carolina warned Clemson fans heading to Athens what to expect there, cautioning them to be polite and not to do anything that might provoke the fans. I thought it was an incredible admission coming from the press, which ordinarily is quite PC about most things. What it says is that it's not just Tech and Tech's fans who've experienced UGA hospitality. Would like to go see Tech play there one day, though... [/QUOTE]
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