Uga can’t even attend Georgia football games this season and now we’re sad.
Uga won’t be able to take in Georgia football games this season at Sanford Stadium.
If that doesn’t break your heart today, something else will. This is the world we live in now were the greatest Dawg in the world can’t even watch his beloved Georgia Bulldogs tee it up Between the Hedges. He’s usually chilling in his Dawghouse doing Dawg things. Now, he’s going to have to watch Georgia games on television like the rest of us. Poor dowg can’t even watch his Dawgs.
COVID-19 is depriving Uga from doing his favorite thing in the world.
“It’s my understanding the SEC and NCAA consider the field a ‘bubble,’ and the only people allowed in the bubble are essential,” said Charles Seiler, Uga X a.k.a Que’s owner. “As of now, no dog on the field. The whole idea is to have not people to congregate,” Seiler said, “and if you know anything about the dog he’s kind of a magnet and he draws people and they’re trying to avoid that.”
The Seilers have been the owners and the caretakers for all the Ugas since 1956 when Sonny and Cecelia Seiler receiver the original English bulldog as a wedding gift when they were still students at the University of Georgia. Que has been in his role as Uga X since Nov. 21, 2015, having been present for the final weeks of the Mark Richt era and all of the Kirby Smart era in Athens.
Given that The Seilers have to make the trek up from coastal Savannah, Georgia for each Bulldogs home game, it doesn’t really make sense for them to do the multi-hour pilgrimage if Uga X can’t interact with fans this season. He’s photogenic, people love him and other Dawg want to be him. It’s a great life, but he’s going to be rooting on his favorite team from Savannah this season.
Let’s just be real. Live mascots make everything better. If you can put a dog, a bird, a large mammal or a low-key reptile on the field and get a way with it, you should do it. Though not every live mascot is as cuddly or as willing to be pet as Que, there’s a reason why Uga X and his distinguished family make college football so much fun down south. It has always meant more.
So we’re going to need Uga X to be Zoomed in from his Savannah Dawghouse this year or will cry.
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