Rail Road Tracks

Now THAT is COOL Buc!!

Unfortunately, I have only heard stories about watching the game from the tracks.

Still, they are a unique & iconic feature of the Athens gameday experience.

After every home game I exit my seats on the Southeast corner of Sanford & stroll (grinning & head up or discouraged & head down) the entire length of the tracks back to my parking spot on Oconee. Something therapeutic about walking down the rails

I am excited about the winds of change in Athens this offseason. Hoping we get some of that "MEAN machine
in Red & Black" back!!!

GooseDawg78 wrote: Unfortunately, I have only heard stories about watching the game from the tracks.

Still, they are a unique & iconic feature of the Athens gameday experience.

After every home game I exit my seats on the Southeast corner of Sanford & stroll (grinning & head up or discouraged & head down) the entire length of the tracks back to my parking spot on Oconee. Something therapeutic about walking down the rails

I am excited about the winds of change in Athens this offseason. Hoping we get some of that "MEAN machine
in Red & Black" back!!!

I recall one time walking with my dad into Sanford Stadium. As we were in front of the tracks and a few yards behind some Carolina fans, they were pelted with bottles and rocks. I remember laughing as the Gamecock fans covered their heads with seat cushions, purses, pennants, and any thing else they were carrying. Very rough crowd on those tracks!

Like GooseDawg, it is a tradition for us to walk to and from the stadium on the tracks.

Go Dawgs! GATA!

TN Dawg wrote:

GooseDawg78 wrote: Unfortunately, I have only heard stories about watching the game from the tracks.

Still, they are a unique & iconic feature of the Athens gameday experience.

After every home game I exit my seats on the Southeast corner of Sanford & stroll (grinning & head up or discouraged & head down) the entire length of the tracks back to my parking spot on Oconee. Something therapeutic about walking down the rails

I am excited about the winds of change in Athens this offseason. Hoping we get some of that "MEAN machine
in Red & Black" back!!!

I recall one time walking with my dad into Sanford Stadium. As we were in front of the tracks and a few yards behind some Carolina fans, they were pelted with bottles and rocks. I remember laughing as the Gamecock fans covered their heads with seat cushions, purses, pennants, and any thing else they were carrying. Very rough crowd on those tracks!

Like GooseDawg, it is a tradition for us to walk to and from the stadium on the tracks

Go Dawgs! GATA!

Buc will remember this one.
1964, Tech/Bama, Bear Bryant came on the sideline wearing a football helmet after nearly being hit with a liquor bottle a couple years earlier.
Back when bottles were the weapon of choice.

Have tried several times to download a photograph I have of my Grandfather and his fireman on Engine 208. Somehow it does not work. Anyway, my Grandfather weighed well over 350 pounds, grew up in the North Georgia Mountains, had a fourth grade education. Went to prison for four years for a murder. One of his friends on his death bed told the autorities that my Grandfather did not shoot the man. Grandfather released from prison, went on to become an Engineer on the Gainesville Midland. Spent many hours just listening to him and his stories.

When he returned home from a trip on the coal burners, he would be covered with soot. Before he passed, the Gainesville Midland stopped using the coal burners like 208 and 209 and took up the diesel way of doing things. When he returned from a trip, not a spot of coal dust on him. Amazing from where I sit, 4th grade education and accomplish what he did.

Would love to see some of that spirit in Athens. Big money has a way of causing shortages in the brain. I said that.

Said on this board back some years. My Uncle Bill Brown was a noted figure in the Agricultural School. When he retired, it was something to see, those that appreciated what Uncle Bill passed on to the University of Georgia.

Many in my clan have graduated from the University of Georgia. I did not. I was recruited by Shug Jordan, but there was a problem in the Far East and I landed far, far away.

I know that some here don't appreciate me "barking". I have deep roots in Athens and I don't mean to be ugly, but like those before me, I stand my ground and am willing at my age to back it up.

Yes, I want change for the better. My patience runs thin, very thin since our last National Championship.

No, I am not a bleeding heart. I believe in God, Family, Nation and the Georgia Bulldogs.

Not proof reading this, if I made a lot of errors, spit happens.

I was one of those Track-Dawgs that watched the games from the tracks. Boy that was some great times! First time I was there I saw Hershel run up and down that field that day. I was hooked to the tracks!

Later on in life my wife and I got married and they already close in the stadium from the tracks and I started going into the stadium.

But boy do I missed throwing beer cans and chicken bones at Clemson, Auburn, SC etc etc LMAO :woohoo: