Georgia football: Last word on the Bulldog ‘Boo Birds’

Georgia football fans have been criticized for openly booing in the Bulldogs’ game against Kentucky, and rightfully so.

We get it, Georgia football fans. You’re frustrated. You’re running out of patience. You’ve been so close and yet somehow your team still manages to figure out a way to let that elusive national championship slip away, but yet you have shown incredible support for your team.

The Georgia football fanbase has garnered national attention with its ability to fill stadiums outside of Athens with red and black. They’ve become media darlings by showing support and love for the tragedies surrounding visiting teams – most recently Arkansas State and South Carolina.

Don’t let all that goodwill and positive energy go to waste out of pure exasperation.

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Last week against Kentucky, the “Boo Birds” came a calling at Sanford Stadium. As the Bulldogs struggled to move the ball (for a second straight week) fans began expressing their displeasure with the lack of offense.

Were this any other team, any other fanbase, in any other stadium, it might have been understandable, even condoned to a point.

But not for Georgia football fans. You have set yourselves apart and now must live up to a higher standard. Now you’ve become the center of a national discussion for a different reason.

Fans who were booing were doing so (most likely) at offensive coordinator James Coley, or possibly even, to a degree, at head coach Kirby Smart. They wanted to see more. They felt the Bulldogs weren’t being led to a win in the way expected.

Coley and Smart were deaf to your vocal displeasure. Their minds were on the game. Executing a plan to win and to get out of the southeastern monsoon.

Do you know who wasn’t deaf?

The players.

The very players you claim to love and support. They heard your boos. They heard them loud and clear. They don’t get the advantage of a color commentator telling them that the boos are for the coaching staff. There’s no text coming through on a smartphone or watch, telling them “these boos aren’t for you”.

They just hear the boos.

From their own fans.

In their own stadium.

Kids, between 18-21 years of age are playing their guts out and fighting for a win to please their fans, and they hear boos.

D’Andre Swift heard it…and responded.

How disheartening must that be for them? The fans who have rallied around them and traveled from city-to-city, coast-to-coast with them, are now booing. Booing because why? Because they aren’t winning by a big enough margin? Because the offense is bogged down in mud, wind, and rain?

Yeah, Georgia’s offense was predictable. It was laughably so. Despite that, the long-game played by Kirby Smart worked to perfection. By late in the third quarter, Kentucky’s defensive line had enough of being battered by the massive Georgia linemen on the other side of the ball. They were on skates, being pushed back more and more on every snap, and then D’Andre Swift made them pay.

It wasn’t pretty, but it worked.

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Sure, on paper Georgia should have probably put Kentucky away before halftime. But games aren’t played on paper. They’re played in ungodly winds, pelting rains, treacherous fields and in front of 92,000 fans…

Who booed.

The boos were understandable, but simply not necessary. If you want to boo James Coley or Kirby Smart, then do it directly to them. Send them emails, letters, social media posts. But don’t let those kids think you are booing them. Don’t let the nation think Georgia football fans are that uneducated.

Want to know who else heard those boos?

Florida and their fans. They heard it and even called Paul Finebaum to talk about it. That’s bulletin board material for the Gators. The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is around the corner, and the Gators just heard the fans who turned a game in Notre Dame Stadium into a home game filling Sanford Stadium with boos.

Be better, Georgia fans. We all know you can be.