I am a bit ashamed of what is posted above, although some, if not most of it is true.  I was sitting the right on the Auburn fan/UGA fan line in the lower level.  I was with mostly older (40-55 years old) fans.  The Auburn Players families were also right in front of me.  I have been to every SEC schools stadium as a fan, and this game was one of the worst I have ever seen.  Not quite as bad as LSU but close.  Grown men yelling at the players parents?  I do not get that.  Throwing footballs as hard as possible into the Auburn Section, and at the band with intent to injure?  I always thought that AU/UGA was a friendly rivalry.  What happened?  I know that AU sucked it up, but come on.  Oh well, maybe our team can show some emotion next week and win

My weekend in Athens was just miserable. Damn, I've never seen people hate Auburn so much! I swear, I have never left a place feeling so loathed in my whole life. Before this weekend I would have said my worst experience at an SEC game was in Knoxville when I got cussed out by a bandmember and pushed by an old man; or in Florida when my car flag got set on fire. But this weekend was the worst! I'm not overreacting or being dramatic. My dad went to Bama so I'm familiar with friendly banter - this wasn't it! And I'm not just pissed that we lost. Even my "friends" that are UGA fans treated me like a parasite - and long before the game ever started. Of course I wasn't rude in return because I don't want to be that kind of Auburn representative. "Show your class not your a$$!" One day in Athens was enough to make me realize that going to Auburn was the best decision of my life! I thanked God the whole way home for it.

I sincerely hope that no one reading this has ever experienced this kind of treatment when you were in Auburn. If you have, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Auburn Alumni. And if any of you are ever in Auburn for a game, you are always welcome at my tailgate. And I swear to you, you will only be with friendly fans! I don't associate with people who make my school look bad. Others would be wise to do the same...

IT'S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER!! WAR DAMN EAGLE!

I am currently a student here at the Uiversity of Georgia and I humbly apoligize for whatever bad experiences you had here in Athens.  I did happen to notice that there was a unusually high amount of hostility in the air for last Saturday's game between the hedges, however, having tailgated downtown and in North Campus for the majority of that day, it seems that the bad experience that many of you had were perhaps isolated incidents.  

I tailgated with many a Auburn fan during the day, had many nice, jovial conversations, and actually witnessed a large majority of your students partying it up downtown with our own until the wee hours of the morning.  If anything, I felt that the majority of the animocity I witnessed was aimed toward Georgia fans by Auburn fans, who seemed quite and understandably upset.  Yet, these events did not in anyway change my opinion of Auburn fans, who I actually find to be quite enjoyable to be around. Rather it simply looked bad upon those few who acted in such a immature way.  In the same way, this does not excuse those within our own fanbase who did act as poorly as they did of their wrongdoings, and I would hope that your fanbase would not be so quick to judge an entire groups simply because of the bad taste of a few.  

I hope the Tigers can some how pull out of this slump they find themselves in, and just know that I will be chanting War Eagle every time you guys take the field from here on out.  GO DAWGS!!!

Wow, so all it takes is a little dancing on the sidelines and you're ready to bust out the racially charged code words, huh? You are beyond delusional if you think that we Dawg fans are going to sit for a lecture on "class" or "character" from someone who refers to fellow human beings as "monkeys."

I debated over whether to respond to this whining at all, but this cretin "ArieGold" needs to be called out for what he is. For Auburn's sake I hope Jay has the good sense to scrub this diary and ban "ArieGold" permanently -- I have numerous friends who graduated from Auburn and whom I respect a great deal, and they deserve better than to be associated with this kind of garbage.

First of all, that would be censorship. I am sure that Doug is all about being angry when people say something he doesn't like and having what they said removed from the limelight. Second of all, there was nothing racist in my letter. I said the whole team, fans , and staff performed like circus monkeys. You know, the jumping around and waving towels, and dancing....that was acting like a bunch of circus monkeys. Doug, are you familiar with what monkeys do? They imitate each other and there is no order to what they do. That is what I meant, so stop trying to pin me as a racist you f*cking p*ssy.

Thanks

Amazing what an A** whipping will do to a fragile psyche.  Calling players "circus monkeys", accusing the Dawgs of dirty play... Reminding us poor, backward Georgia fans that despite our back to back canings of the Tigers, you still own us.  Calling folks that reply to your post "F**kin p**sies"  You're starting to sound like a Bammer:  In spite of all evidence to the contrary, we're better than you.  

My wife and my best friends all went to Auburn and live in Birmingham.  I've come to expect better from your fan base when compared to the Bammers.  But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're just a ticked off fan and currently not representative of the Auburn nation.

I'll point you towards three things to help you figure out your current place in the world:  (1)The youtube video of the hit Hugh Nall put on Glenn Dorsey's knee.  (2)The back of Knowshon's head  (3)The soles of Knowshon's feet.

The first should remind you that those who live in glass houses...  Well, you know the rest.

The latter two should remind you that we just scored again.

If Ears leaves, could you do us Dawg fans a big favor and make sure the next HC keeps Muschamp?

Cheers...

Every team is going to have its nice fans, every team is going to have its rude fans. It's all a matter of luck of the draw and being in the right/wrong place at the right/wrong time when it comes to which group you're dealing with. I was at a tailgate somewhere on campus that my cousin took me to, and my ladyfriend and I were the only Auburn fans around, with around 100 UGA fans. We felt a little out of place, but we really didn't receive any negative feedback or anything nasty. Mostly good-natured ribbing.

Then, after the game, we ran into some obnoxious people, mostly students. If we had taken a different way back to the car, it would have been a different experience. It could have been worse, could have been better.

As an Auburn graduate and Auburn man, I feel like it is my duty to be as respectful and humble as I can, and try to ignore any hate-filled words toward myself or my University. I kept my cool the entire game, and although I sat right in the middle of the Georgia section (across the field from the Auburn band) I feel like the UGA fans around me respected my class, knowledge of the game, and passion (the kid behind me calling Gabe McKenzie a "retard because he goes to Auburn" for dropping a pass late in the 4th quarter notwithstanding). When the result was no longer in doubt, I didn't sit down and pout or leave the stadium. As I always do, I stayed until the very end, and watched every play.

It doesn't matter if you're at Georgia or Vanderbilt, you'll run into some a-holes, but you'll probably run into some kind people who wish you a safe trip home. I know I ran into both kinds of people on Saturday.

Once again, we have a disgruntled fan of the losing team, ArieGold, who had a really bad experience at a road game.  Such stories are rampant after every such trip, regardless of your school and regardless of the trip.  As PowerOfDixieland pointed out, this is just luck of the draw.

I know some great Auburn alumni, but my experiences in my trips to the Plains have included some really nasty encounters, especially when Georgia has won.  Assume what you will, but I'm a polite guy who doesn't even participate in "good-natured ribbing" with Auburn fans I don't know -- not that there's anything wrong with that.  No, the provocation I've thrown out there to get a Coke thrown on me by an Auburn fan, to have the hoses turned on me as I sat in the stands, the in-my-face yelling I've endured by random rednecks from Andalusia or Oneonta or wherever, consisted of nothing more than wearing red.

But I don't hold the conduct of the several a-hole Auburn students and fans and staff I've encountered over the years (with startling consistency) against the school or fanbase as a whole.

And the "circus monkeys" comment was way out of line.  I've got to agree with Doug on that one.  And late hits?  Please.  A program with Auburn's history and national reputation has no room to call anyone out on suspect behavior.

We all have had terrible experiences in road trips, whether they were to Auburn, Tuscaloosa, Clemson, or Baton Rouge.  Making broad, sweeping judgments about a school, its team, and its fans based on those experiences after your team suffered such a beat-down smacks of cry-baby sour grapes.  Man up.

I apologize for the implied language, but I will not apologize for stating a fact. Georgia was classless in their victory on Saturday night, and the game turned into a CIRCUS. I stand by what I said. Thanks

...if what you meant by a Circus was that aweful display of quarterbacking put on by Brandon Cox's, then you would be right (just some playful ribbing, please don't go writing another diary blasting my integrity, put a bag of flaming poop on my front porch, beat my cat, or whatever your angry soul wants to do to my 'classless' UGA self) . But seriously, if you get upset about our players pumping up a crowd by waving towles in the air, and dancing on the sidelines, I would hate to see how angry you would get when Alabama players high five each other on the field next week.  

I can see how you could get your panties in a wad if our players on the field were taunting your team after a big play, but seriously,  ON THE SIDELINES???  Stop fooling yourself and admit that your overgeneralizations are just absurd.  What would happen if I saw what your place kicker did at Ben-Griffith Stadium after he kicked the game winner (or did you turn a blind eye to his obvious taunting of the Florida bench when he did the gator chomp in their direction?) and then surmised that, since he is obviously acting in a moment of high excitement, he and the rest of the Auburn players are thus a troupe of trained circus monkey? Does this train of thought, which you are implementing in your above statement, sound idiotic?  It sure sounds like it to me.  

Lets hope that your common sense eventually overrides your dissapointment, and that you learn to accept a lose like the gentlemen I know you probably are.  

I usually just read posts and here and never respond, but I have to here. These were not isolated incidents. I went to Florida and LSU this year as I am in the band and Georgia was by far the place we were treated with the least respect. Isolated incidents are ones that happened at Florida and LSU...a few stupid fans that yelled obscenities or other crap. Nothing was ever thrown at us.

In Athens, we were booed when we took the field at halftime, pelted with debris as we came off the field, had ice and footballs thrown at us while in the stands, multiple men, not students, cussing us out, people trying to start stuff on our walk back to the buses...the list goes on.  I heard plebty of other stories from other fans as well. I was told that Georgia was a friendly rivalry, so I looked forward to visiting Athens. Now I've lost a lot of respect for their fans.

And Mark Richt going fo it on 4th and 1 up by 18? Just a little classless.

It was not isolated fans. Every school has it's idiots, but Georgia had a lot more than any other I've seen. War eagle and looking forward to next year, because it's become personal now.

I am an Auburn Grad who lives in Atlanta with my wife who is a UGA Grad.  We have enjoyed each campus with no problem for the last 5 years.  We have a circle of friends from all SEC schools who get along as well as you can imagine when it comes to SEC Football.  If you are in an opposing teams town, you cant expect nothing to happen and hopefully you will run into some class people.  If not just simply ignore them.  Unless they are total iditots, I have found if you turn around and smile to wish them a good game they will feel pretty stupid.