They're Here

Woof, Woof, Woof...woof


Well, it's official. Nine tenths of the Georgia Bulldog and a small segment of the Florida Gator Nations have arrived here on our little island.

A bunch of the blue collar crowd and the younger alumnus have to settle for roadside motels and even the fancier places IN JACKSONVILLE WHERE THE GAME WILL BE PLAYED, but if you're well-to-do or just well connected (i.e. you got a friend with a house here ) the place to stay is St. Simons

All both of the Georgia Tech fans like me can do is batten down the hatches and avoid going outside until Florida finishes stomping Georgia's butt on the football field tomorrow afternoon and everyone goes home.

Since the game starts at 3:30, that means that the island will clear out a little before noon and, assuming about four hours of game time because of the TV coverage, they won't be home until well after dark.

Then if like the past twenty years last year Florida wins, they'll all pass out after midnight and get up and slink back out to Athens and Atlanta before noon on Sunday--leaving piles of trash and about three or four million dollars in the local economy.

Since we don't sell anything tourists and football fans want, we'll just issue a heavy sigh of relief and go back to enjoying paradise in a normal manner.

If you don't hear from my by then, someone send up a flare...