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Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 4:06 PM
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I understand that Georgia is a rival, but as a younger guy, I have not had the opportunity to be around the rivalry much. I am around the USC rivalry constantly, so I have a really good feel for that one, but enlighten me on the rivalry with the dawgs.
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 4:08 PM
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They dominated us historically, but in the '80s the record was something like 4-4-1, which is when the rivalry was at its most fierce.
I'm not an older guy but I know that much.
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That was back when Clemson played at the top of smash...
Jul 11, 2012, 4:14 PM
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mouth football. You could almost depend on a field goal settling the game. Nobody in their right minds would give you either team and three points.
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Re: That was back when Clemson played at the top of smash...
Jul 11, 2012, 4:26 PM
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And ### it was fun !!
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Fun helll, I'd bite my all my nails up to the third knuckle.
Jul 11, 2012, 4:54 PM
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I usually couldn't talk till Monday then it still hurt a little.
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Re: Fun helll, I'd bite my all my nails up to the third knuckle.
Jul 11, 2012, 5:20 PM
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And if you were like me you loved every ### minute of it !! I never will forget thos stunned dawgs after the '77 game !!
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'86 and '87 were my favorites. Treadwell the heartbreaker!***
Jul 11, 2012, 6:00 PM
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yes - good - BUT 1981 was THE BEST!!***
Jul 11, 2012, 6:27 PM
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Re: That was back when Clemson played at the top of smash...
Jul 12, 2012, 12:51 AM
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We were the first team to play and to beat UGa after their 1980 NC, they then returned the favor and beat us to open the 82 season. If I remember correctly we went 5-5-2 with the Dawgs between 80 and 92.
At leat two of the games were won by last play 60 yard FG's. One by Butler for UGa and one by Treadwell to beat them.
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 4:14 PM
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I clicked on this link thinking I could provide some insight. Does that make me old?
80s were intense! I will never forget '87 - unbelievable come from behind win. Being a kid at the time, I just thought that's how all Clemson games ended.
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 4:14 PM
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Their fans are obnoxious...in a bad way. When I was a student @ Clemson and went to one of the games in Athens...you would get cursed as you walked past their fans...with plenty of red around their necks.They would throw empty liquor bottles off the upper deck as well.
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AND DAMAGE YOUR VEHICLE if they lost the game...
Jul 11, 2012, 4:47 PM
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and maybe even if they won.
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UGA was a #### of a rivalry back in the day.............
Jul 11, 2012, 4:16 PM
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When you went to Athens as a fan you were treading in dangerous territory.
I guess the thing that separates the two rivalries for me is that at least UGA has some tradition. If you beat them at least you felt you accomplished something. And if they won, you hated it but they are a good program.
USuC on the other hand has no tradition and you expect to beat them. You just don't want to lose to a inferior program!
Athens is a great town unless it's game day and you're pulling for the opposite team. I can't stand UGA. But once a year I say GO DAWGS. 
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Re: UGA was a #### of a rivalry back in the day.............
Jul 11, 2012, 4:45 PM
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Agree with this assessment. My only trip to Athens was September, 1977 when we won 7-6 on a wet field. Pell was head coach and it was the start of something special.
Went with a buddy of mine and we sat in a primarily Georgia section. It's the only opposing place I've been where I wasn't sure I was going to make it to my car without punches thrown.
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But wasn't it sweet to walk out from.............
Jul 11, 2012, 5:02 PM
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"Between the Hedges" with a win!
I remember that one, but the one of my favorite games was when Treadwell kicked the FG to beat them. Wow that place went silent!
Of course there is also Kevin "effing" Butler and his 80 yard FG to beat us. I was behind the goalpost and it might have actually went 80 lol.
I sat beside William Perry the year that we beat them in all aspects of the game. Well except Scott Woerner had a career game on punt returns and interceptions. Oh and Buck Belue shot the CU endzone a birdie from the huddle. He can burn in #### as for as I'm concerned.
The worst one was the Labor Day night game after our National Championship. I'm just glad I made it out of Athens alive.
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 4:24 PM
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Was in Tiger Band during the 80's. I can tell you, when we formed the tunnel at The Hill, the noise volume in the stadium was unbelieveable, almost painful. Wow, what fun that was!!!
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UGA was THE Rivalry throughout the 80s
Jul 11, 2012, 4:37 PM
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Both sides hated each other & had successful programs.
SCAR took a back seat because we dominated them.
To give you an example of the vitriol when you went to games in Athens men, women & children would all yell "Clemson sux" or "Rednecks". Those were the sober ones. The drunks would yell "F*ck you" & throw things at you. Keep in mind I was kid during most of the decade.
I was at the first night game in UGA history, the 1982 Clemson/UGA game. By far the most hostile, rude crowd I've ever experienced.
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Someone broke my antennae off that night.***
Jul 11, 2012, 4:38 PM
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Re: UGA was THE Rivalry throughout the 80s
Jul 11, 2012, 4:41 PM
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My wife and I were at that game. She is a professor at a college in this state and she said it was the first time she'd ever feared for her phyiscal safety on a college campus !! About 90% of UGA fans are pure trash !!
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I attended every Clemson/UGA game in the 80s & that was by
Jul 11, 2012, 4:51 PM
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far the worst.
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 4:37 PM
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We won in 1974 - first time since the 1950's. We then beat UGA in '77 7-6, This was my first real encounter with local Dawgs (move to Atlanta that summer just before my freshman year) - the barking gets old fast.
1980 we gave the game away and they won the National championship. We all know what happen in 1981 - Dawg Gone!
Hated to go to work after the '82 Labor Day game and the Butler field goal in '84 made me sick, but we did get some revenge with David Treadwell 2 consecutive years.
To the tune of "Georgia on my mind" - Georgia, Georgia, Georgia won't you bit my A$$!
Can't wait for the 2013 game - Go tigers!
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 5:54 PM
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Don't forget, "To h#ll, to h#ll, to h#ll with Georgia, the cesspool of the South!!!" My alltime favorite!
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I think there were 2 reasons the rivalry was so intense.
Jul 11, 2012, 4:41 PM
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In the old days of the ACC, under coach Howard, we simply could not recruit head-to-head with UGA and other SEC schools (for the most part), but that began to change about the time of Red Parker. He brought in some big name recruits, and though he lost a lot of games, he really started the turn-around for Clemson. Under Charlie Pell we were really going after and landing more highly regarded players, and because of our close proximity to Athens, we were naturally butting heads with UGA more and more in recruiting. This head-to-head battle with UGA for players escalated under Danny Ford, with epic battles for the services of Heschel Walker and John Johnson, among others. We were really infringing on what had once been all theirs.
Then, add to that, both programs were on the rise at the same time and won National Championships a year apart, and continued to be contenders throughout the decade of the 80's.
All of that made for some very fierce battles that both sides took very personally, and made for some unforgetable football.
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Herschel---3 years---Heisman---NEVER saw the endzone.***
Jul 11, 2012, 4:41 PM
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He was snorting the 50 yd line, wait that was Rogers***
Jul 11, 2012, 4:43 PM
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Re: He was snorting the 50 yd line, wait that was Rogers***
Jul 11, 2012, 5:54 PM
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Neither one saw our endzone!
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Pick up UStinC and move them closer to Clemson. Then make
Jul 11, 2012, 4:48 PM
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Clemson and UStinC each win a National Championship in back-to-back years. Then keep them both in the Top10 mix for the next several years - with each of us knocking the other out of the National Championship hunt sometimes.
Imagine what THAT would do to the UStinC rivalry. That's what we had with UGA in the '80s.
It was fun.
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Red Helmet, Silver Britches...
Jul 11, 2012, 4:51 PM
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Go to H3LL you Sons Of Beetches
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POINT! *******
Jul 11, 2012, 5:05 PM
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Sadly, a matchup ceases to be a rivalry when you no longer
Jul 11, 2012, 4:53 PM
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play each other annually. So, I'm not surprised that this game does not have the feel of So. Car.
I suspect that the 2014 game will be our last one, at least during the regular season between the two.
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we beat them in the 1970's also
Jul 11, 2012, 5:05 PM
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back in the 60's and 70's we did win a few....the one I remember the most was 1974 when we beat GT and UGA at home back to back..Mike O'Cain beat them by himself...Back then Auburn used to just kill us, Bama and UGA just scraped by. Uga came into the upstate and got guys like Steve Farnsworth, Steve Greer and pat roderique...they got the guys UT did not get...in 1977, Charley Pell beat them 7-6 in Sanford Stadium, which no one , not even Jim Phillips could find a record of us ever beating them there...we did beat them in Athens in 1914...We were favored in 1978 and UGA beat us 12-0...really tough to get out of there that year. 1979 Billy Lot beat them by himself and the 80s came along and we played pretty even. The recruiting in SC came to be at stake...UGA fans are obnoxious and are a gang of red necks, and like we used to say in the 80's, the game we hated to play was UGA and the one we hated to lose was USC...the rivalry should not have ended...you have to give Dooley his due they were good back then.
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When So Car lucked into the SEC, that was the end of our
Jul 11, 2012, 5:58 PM
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rivalry with Georgia.
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Deer whippersnappers.....
Jul 11, 2012, 5:02 PM
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go to the utubes. Key words. Clemson Georgia football.
hth
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 5:09 PM
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It was great. We always went to the CU/UGA games at Clemson by houseboat. We started north of Augusta and came up with the boat decorated in both colors and logos.
Boy, those Georgia fans are sore losers. They always sat together inside when they lost. When they won, they were so drunk and obnoxious, the Clemson people sat inside to get away from them.
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Ga fans came by boat also & parked behind our house.
Jul 12, 2012, 8:34 AM
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As a kid I remember they were obnoxious when they won but I loved to give them hell when they lost. Go Tigers!
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 5:11 PM
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Thanks guys, appreciate all the insight. The lady friend has a family full of dawgs, and I really look forward to beating them in the near future.
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Re: Older folks help
Jul 11, 2012, 5:13 PM
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UGA beat us the year before we won the NC and they won the NC.
We won the next year and we won the NC.
Anyone remember the UGA FG kicker - "The Butler did it"? His son punts for UGA now I think.
UGA/CLEMSON is a natural rivalry that the ACC & SEC just won't promote enough. You can pack the house EVERY game. Too bad - 'cause those are some intense games IMO. I wish we played them every year.
My friend had "Go Walker My Dawg" bumper sticker. He was NOT happy when we beat UGA (and Walker) that year. We did not speak all the way to the car. He threw his program across the top of the car at me. Funny as crap. He was ticked. 
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I hate UhhGA with such venom
Jul 11, 2012, 5:16 PM
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I pull for USuCk to beat them.
couple reasons:
1. I've been to a game in Athens
2. I lived in Georgia
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Even the ga. wemen would get drunk
Jul 12, 2012, 11:20 AM
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and want to fight...rough bunch. Will not go to Sanford Stadium agin ever...i hope.
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I grew up a tiger fan in Atlanta...
Jul 11, 2012, 5:17 PM
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and there was NO bigger rivalry for about a 10 year period. Something felt bigger about that game every year. The UGA people absolutely could not understand ever losing to a tiny school from South Carolina.
I remember sitting in the stands in Athens and seeing liquor bottle fly down from the upper deck when Treadwell kicked that field goal.
Great times and great games.
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This was a real rivalry!
Jul 11, 2012, 5:26 PM
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I was at field level the last year of the yearly home and home. It was new orange pants against red britches. The loudest I've ever heard the valley and we lost. I also visited Athens one year and they were a brutal fan base. I don't believe the usuc series has ever been as intense.
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Re: This was a real rivalry!
Jul 11, 2012, 5:59 PM
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I remember when the Tigerband would play Georgia on my Mind, and the fans would chime in with " Georgia, Georgia , Georgia won't cha bite my ###! "They would play that song at every home game during the season.
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Re: This was a real rivalry!
Jul 11, 2012, 6:13 PM
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The Ga. rivalry was something special. Athletics vs. academics as coach Howard used to say. Still is.
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Told me & Buddy they would whip our Grannies #### in 60's...
Jul 11, 2012, 6:36 PM
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And, I was booed & iced at 1982 game (when we lost a close one) on national TV when I raised my 3X5' Paw flag just before game in middle of 2nd deck..and asked to leave and sit down at old high school size end zone..which I did, and left a business friend who was a Wolfpacker.
Still, they are very rabid fans as we are...love their football...put out good to great hard-hitting teams...and have one of the prettiest stadiums in American..especially at night under the lights & hedges (which we had too until Coach Howard had them cut down due to too much maintenance...HIM).
Go TiGERs!
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Re: To tell the truth, they have won about 3 of ever 4. We
Jul 11, 2012, 6:41 PM
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have done a little better in the last 30 yrs.
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From 1978 throughout the 80s we had a much bigger......
Jul 11, 2012, 6:49 PM
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rivalry on the football field than we did with Carolina - that was some of the best Clemson football I've ever had the pleasure of personally seeing.
It was BIG TIME!!!
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Re: Older folks help - long
Jul 11, 2012, 7:10 PM
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Back in the mid-60's, i would go to Athens on Friday for the Freshmen game and then go out to dinner with Ga fans and have a great time. Then, I moved to South Ga in 69 after marriage and military. Most of my friends here are Dawgs or Noles.
Things weren't all that bad until we started beating them as often as they beat us, that's when it got heated. I took my young son to a game in Athens, the one where Butler kicked the 60 yd field goal to beat us. All during the game, we said nothing while the ga fans around us were cussing Dooley and moaning and groaning! Then came the kick and all of a sudden they were taunting us and acting as if they were national champs. I went back once more and had the pleasure of seeing us win and as I exited the stadium I'll never forget an old man still sitting with his wife and looking as though he would cry. Somehow I did not feel any pity. I remember at one of those games listening to the ga radio station on my way into Athens. One of the announcers was saying how much he hated Clemson. What a bunch of losers.
I don't mind getting beaten by a better team, but Lord help me, the dawgs ain't the better team and the majority of their fans are classless, as are Noles fans.
Once during the 90's while driving thru Athens with my wife, a car pulled up beside me and honked. I looked over and he flashed his age and IQ. I guess he saw my Clemson sticker! Yep, real class!
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for a kid growing up in the 70's and 80's
Jul 12, 2012, 10:55 AM
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the UGA game meant as much or really more than the SC game. The two programs were riding high. Both won national titles..the games were on national tv when that actually meant something. It was incredible.
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