Georgia football: Dawgs win and there’s plenty of blame to go around

Georgia football fans are feeling snookered. The promise of always focused, flawless efforts by the Dawgs appears to be a hoax.

First, it was the great tight end hoax; tight ends, the darling of Georgia football fans since Richard Appleby threw to Gene Washington, would become on integral part of the Bulldog passing attack.

Psych.

Now for Georgia football fans, the feeling of victimization runs deeper, the sense of betrayal more distinct.

The promise: remove Mark Richt and the Dawgs would never lose “the games they were supposed to win,” like Vanderbilt at home.

Remove Mark Richt and the Dawgs “would never have embarrassingly close wins,” like Nicholls State.

Remove Mark Richt and the Dawgs would “always always look ready to play,”  unlike this week against Missouri.

College football reality check

Shake it off, Dawg fans. The universal, eternal truth is that all teams are sometimes upset, all teams are sometimes embarrassed by close wins against inferior teams, all teams sometimes don’t look ready to play. That’s just the way it is when you have a bunch of 20-year-old boys you wouldn’t trust to flip a burger flipping around a ball with points on the end.

That’s the life of every fan. It was a Dawg’s life against Missouri, but so was winning.