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Since Todd of the "Lee Corso Is a Penis" fame bothered to stop by and comment, I figured I'd reply to it ... and it turned out to be more fitting for a full entry.

Hey, I'’m not going to lower myself to the point of insulting you since we don't even know each other. I just wanted to point out that as you were explaining how stupid even non-UGA students were, you failed to spell "too" correctly. Now if a "4th grader," as you called me, could find that mistake, I wonder what grade you made it to. Todd-

Well, since I correctly used "to" and "too" throughout the rest of that post, it's obviously a typo - though a pretty funny one. By the way, even though I studied applied mathematics and not English, I'm pretty sure it's a grammatical error and not a spelling error.

You say we don't know each other, but that's not quite true. I do know you, at least by proxy. You are a member of the vast majority of UGA fans that don't have a direct personal attachment to the university other than simply being from the state of Georgia, picking up with the "winner" or simply liking the color red. I have never had a problem with an alumni from UGA, and I cannot imagine someone with a degree from there holding up a sign that says "Lee Corso Is a Penis" on national television. They understand they represent their school when in public, and wouldn't shame themselves in that manner.

On the other hand, it is the non-affiliated fan like yourself who brings such a poor name to the school. It was fans of your ilk that poured entire cups of beer over me because I wore a GT t-shirt to a Braves game (god forbid, I went 5 miles from my campus with a school t-shirt on). It was fans of your ilk that hurled ethnic slurs at a female friend of mine as we walked around Buckhead. It was fans of your ilk that boo'd the GT band at a Falcons game this year. It was fans of your ilk that keyed my car repeatedly when I parked it in a public lot in Atlanta. I'm not from Georgia, I didn't know that by attending the smaller of the two public universities in the state I was subjecting myself to continual abuse - and while I love the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia, I find myself strongly disliking much of the culture that has sprung up around football in that state, a culture that encourages this form of behavior.

You see, holding up a giant sign with toilet humor on national TV just exemplifies the deep problems that run through the UGA fanbase. There is a huge contingent of fans who have no affiliation with the university, and thus have no concept of their behavior effecting the image of the school as a whole. Instead, they seem to relish in their abusive antics and lowest common demoninator behavior. When I first saw the story about the sign, the first comment out of my mouth was "I bet he doesn't even go to UGA" - which was obviously true.