Living in a College Town

This is Sanford Stadium, the University of Georgia’s landmark. In the months September through December every Saturday there are intense football fans everywhere. My dad is a professor at UGA and always gets season tickets to the home games on the 20 yard line. I always go with him to at least 2 of the games. Most of my friends are major Georgia football fans also and they all have their own traditions. Every Saturday Caroline goes on campus and watches the game from the bridge, while Mr. Tim (her father) does security. Mr. Yawn has gone to Chick-fil-a every Saturday morning since Georgia won 10 games in a row. Mary Carroll watches the games at home with her family and her friend Drew. One tradition that is most common is tailgating. Downtown, on campus, and in 5 points there are tailgaters everywhere. You see what I mean, these people are in my ecosystem everyday. As Janisse Ray (1999) said in her book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, “It is a land of few surprises. It is a land of routine, of cycle, and constancy” (p. 3).  Sanford Stadium has a major impact on my life, It always has and it always will .