Hey, what's going on? This is the Saturday Down South podcast. Subscribe to Saturday Down South on YouTube. I am Connor O'Kera. Will, you were in Athens this weekend. Kind of a last minute thing for you to be able to go with our guy Perry to Texas, Georgia, see the lads, Emery, Michael Dar, shout out to those guys who have been listening to us for a really long time. How was your time up in Athens on Saturday? Man, Athens game day was amazing. I can hear my voice is a little bit raspy. It's nothing compared to one of the LSU Bambo games or anything. But it was a great time, man. And I feel like truly, you know, I've been all over the SEC. But it's like it's almost like nobody told Athens that we moved on to this like new like NFL era of college football. Because you walk around there and it feels like a college town. You know, it feels like they're kind of doing it the right way. and people can talk about, oh, all this different stuff, stay in the atmosphere, like whatever.

But I think, like, start to finish for a neutral van to enjoy a game day, there might not be a better place than Athens man. And that crew is just second to none that I went with. If someone tells me that Athens is the best college town in America, I'm not going to argue with them. I won't. I refuse. Long overdue to get back. I haven't been back since 21. Yeah, I haven't been back since 21 since championship parade after that. So very jealous, lived vicariously through you. You did a thing that I wonder how many people listening to this do. And by the way, we've got a get to with all things week 12 very interesting week in the SEC where and there were three games aside by two points or fewer third day in SEC history for that per SEC final and it was a lot of like kind of close games late and significant takeaways that we're going to get to here. But you did something

that I applaud you for. You are not by nature a Georgia fan, but when in Rome, not Rome, Georgia,

but Athens, you wore a Georgia jersey to the tailgate, to the game. You were not going to like

wear an LSU jersey jersey which is the lamest

thing you can possibly do you didn't even wear neutral clothes which admittedly is the thing that i would do

and i i do that because i'm a big jay jrna right here you know you got to go with a shade of gray at all

times just a case yeah just you know just want to make sure that all parties involved. I don't want to

have that come back to bite me if people are like, oh, look at you. You're discussing all things.

But I, I applaud what you did because you leaned into it. You embraced your surroundings. You are not a

hater. Did you have any sort of resistance to throw on a Georgia jersey knowing that you are, you know,

fair weather fan for the day in a sense and you're around Georgia fans?

Like what was the thought process that that went into that?

Because I think that's a thing that a lot of people would resist in your spot.

I mean, I'll say this.

Like it is really a win in room thing.

And maybe that comes from like being in social or working in the industry a little bit, but it's a little bit lame to me when people like, we'll be talking about some player or something. And somebody would be like, well, you know, as a Northwestern fan, I think X, Y, and Z. And it's like, hey, man, like you don't always have to bring your fandom into everything. And I feel like if I would wear an LSU jersey to, you know, and my friends are,

you know, covering the tickets and I'm going to their tailgate and all that.

And it's like, every conversation I would have would be like, well, yeah, as an LSU fan, I support you guys. And it's like, well, that just feels whack if I'm going to enjoy all the spoils of Georgia football. And like, granted, don't get me wrong. They're like Georgia's a neutral team to me that has been really good to me.

I live in Atlanta.

Maybe I would feel a little bit different if we were in, you know,

Bryant Denny or something and some others like, you know,

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