Georgia seemingly botches striped stadium gimmick by giving white t-shirts to student section
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Georgia was trying to win a big football game on Saturday afternoon against Ole Miss, and its athletic department was trying to do it all in style.
Well, the former could still very well happen, as 9th-ranked Georgia had its home crowd behind it against 5th-ranked Ole Miss in a huge SEC showdown in Athens. ESPN’s College GameDay was on hand for the occasion, and there were those style points that Georgia was trying to win with that wonderful home crowd at Sanford Stadium.
Scratch the style points, as it turned out. In a bizarre twist and miscalculation, Georgia botched its attempt to turn Sanford Stadium into a striped stadium. Instead of handing out black shirts for 1 side of the stadium’s fans, the university handed out white shirts. Call it what you want, but it was the first bad call by Georgia, long before the actual game against the Rebels even started.
Here was what the “Stripe Sanford” design was supposed to look like, before it all went wrong:
With the striped stadium idea botched, Georgia fans could only pray that the Bulldog players were more on the ball on the field than the athletic department was in planning out the crowd design for Week 8. That’s really the only thing that mattered in the end on Saturday in Athens, but it sure would’ve been nice to see the striped Sanford Stadium come to fruition.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
