Thoughts on Syracuse

[iceeater1969]

Today I learned! And I feel like I could say that for the next 3-4 comments as well

In the day u what you brought into bds was not inpected. .

As gt was getting invite to orange bowl many brought oranges to throw on field

Some of us cut core of orange, inserted vodka, plugged core, consumed the vodka during game , and can't remember past going into game.

 

[TechPhi97]

I agree with this. I am going to watch to see how and who we cover their TE with. Apparently that guy is a good one and this issue feels like it has been an Achilles heel for our D's over the last ??? many years.

It’s generally a problem for a lot of teams, because the speed and athleticism of TE’s has improved and you got a LB lining up against them IMO

 

[bensaysitathome]

Our own yellowjacket nickname has morphed from yellow jackets (an item of apparel) to the insect yellowjacket:

Buzz (mascot) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"Fans of Georgia Tech would often wear yellow jackets to sporting events in support of the early Georgia Tech teams. The early football teams, lacking gold fabric for jerseys, wore yellow jerseys. John Heisman told the Atlanta Constitution that he wanted his teams to be referred to as the Yellow Jackets in October 1905. In November 1906, the Atlanta Journal portrayed a University of Georgia football player being attacked by a yellowjacket with the words "Somebody's about to get stung" as the caption. This was the first time that the Georgia Tech sports teams were referred to as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in print."

I believe gold used to be one of the mutts' colors, along with the red and black. Their coach at the time made some reference to yellow or gold being cowardly, so Tech students started to wear yellow jackets to sporting events to mock them. It stuck.

I'm pulling this from memory, but it's in a book I have somewhere.

 

[bobongo]

I believe gold used to be one of the mutts' colors, along with the red and black. Their coach at the time made some reference to yellow or gold being cowardly, so Tech students started to wear yellow jackets to sporting events to mock them. It stuck.

I'm pulling this from memory, but it's in a book I have somewhere.

I've heard various accounts. My favorite was, girls from the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens decided they would cheer for Tech because one of their own was jilted by a rake Ugag football player and in response, her friends wore yellow jackets to a Tech - Georgia game in solidarity with the Golden Tornado. A reference to the "yellow jackets" made its way into the papers, which gradually stuck and in time that morphed into our lovable though potentially painful insect.