Well, well – you can understand why Georgia might be feeling a little confident going into this game what with the bizarre reverse home ground winning streak.
But what this fellow describes is just hubris. Pride goeth before a fall. And to say we’ve had a decade of bad football in Tennessee is just a lie. Hmmm – we’ve had a national championship somewhere in the last ten years. Sure, it’s now at the outer edges, but still.
And we’ve got something else, too. Phil Fulmer knows that he can’t play choke artist on this one. The Big Orange Army will be taking scalps this Saturday – and they can be from Dawgs or they can be from coaching staff.
The Bet
My brother didn’t lose a tooth down in Athens “defending Smokey’s honor” just to see his nephew dressed in red and black. But I’ve been challenged – one expat blogger against another with the ultimate stake: one tiny expat SEC fan against another – his son vs. mine. If the Vols win – little Zach will finally be dressed right – in Tennessee Orange. If Georgia wins, and though it sickens me to write this, poor old Cletus will have to don Bulldog colors.
Which would be a shame, because as we all know, my boy looks so good in orange.
I do note that like a wily, welching Georgia fan Chris has already laid the foundation for a get-out clause.
Would it be inappropriate to use our sons in a bet? Son of losing fan wears colors of the winning team? Or will our respective better halves step in…
Mine sure won’t. Although he’s from Northern Ireland and doesn’t even much care for college football, he perversely likes to see Tennessee squirm. (Grounds for divorce, I know) Although even he can appreciate a win like the thumpin’ we gave the Dawgs last year.
So here’s what I propose. Losing team’s fan dresses son in winning team’s colors – for real. With team logo (this can be photoshopped, since NCAA baby gear is impossible to source in the UK). Photo to be posted on the loser’s blog by Wednesday. First in a post, then kept in the sidebar for a week.
The Vol Abroad 