Did everyone watch Gameday like the true Tiger fanbase should? If you did you saw the massive gathering of overe 7,000 Orange clad maniacs flooding Bowman field for the loudest Gameday presentation ever (which I am SURE that the shamecocks are set on beating). You also witnessed the creativity and weeklong preparation of the traditional Gameday signs in the crowd. I don’t know about you, but it seemed like there was an abundance of signs in the crowd. Everyone knew which commentator they were behind and when that guy would start talking the background would flood with signs. I witnessed multiple battles for sign positioning, the greatest being between Clemson fans and a lone Michigan fan with a big sign on a stick that left after abotu 30 minutes of harrassing. Unfortunately I did not put my sign on a stick so I had only my arms length to get on TV but that served it’s purpose as everyone around me were fighting for the higher ups with their “stick” signs”.

Now on to my story. As we approached the site my wifes friends called and directed us to their position which was located behind Herbstreit. We finally reached them and their signs, another stick sign. After about 45 minutes, the drinkers in the group decided to head back to the tailgate and left myself and my wifes friend with our signs to fend for ourselves. Every time that Herbie would come on I would be the directional guide for our friend to the ideal position to getting the sign on TV. This went on for an hour and we had been defeating the other stick signs in positioning successfully when the unimaginable happened. During a series while Herbie was talking an officer of the law started meandering through the crowd looking at the signs that people were holding. He was obviously being directed through his radio as he would listen for sign reference and turn and walk in a general direction. As he walked in front of me and the friend he halted, turned to us, looked up, looked at us, grabbed the stick that the sign was mounted to (which was a tent pole), and said “let go of the pole”.

Yeah, our gameday sign was confiscated by the cops, how ya like dem apples?! He wouldn’t even let my buddy keep his tent pole and yanked the sign while stating that it was a “dirty sign”. The guys around us who had begun to help direct the sign started booing as the cop trudged back through the crowd.

So that’s my gameday story. Oh yeah, the sign……you may have seen it ALOT and alot of Clemson people were probably commenting on the crassness of the sign and it’s meaning. All it said was “SHOCKEM TIGERS” with the infamous Shocker hand signal.

Now who saw it!!!

Posted on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 at 6:21 pm by Clem

Filed under Football, Georgia Tech.

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