"When you're right you're right, and you you're always right!"

While this quote was made famous by one of the greatest movies in the history of man-kind, Spaceballs, sometimes in a self absorbed way I feel it sort of describes me. During last week's show we talked about the T-Day game coming up on Apr. 19 (I'll be there will you??). My argument was that the name should've been changed to something more exciting and less boring. The points were two fold:

1. It's dull: You're fighting for the attention of young adults across Atlanta & the name doesn't spark any interest.
   
2. Georgia has G-Day: Now you never want to take anything from Georgia, and although I am not fond of the Mutts there name falls of the tongue much easier (especially when its hanging out of their mouth)

Now during the show we had a caller call in and said that T-Day has been around forever (Thanks to the caller, hope you keep listening), but when people stopped going to the games they stopped calling it that and changed the format to a glorified practice session, instead of an all out scrimmage. At the time I felt silly because I have only been around the program for a few years and maybe I was just ignorant. But then came that glorious moment earlier this afternoon when I found out how right I was and NOBODY knows it was called T-Day and now it looks like we're just stealing things. On one of the local sports talk shows the T-Day spring game got mentioned. During the confused silence you could have heard the National Championship trophy drop. "T-Day what's that" remarked the host. "I guess that's what Georgia Tech is calling their spring game this year" retorted the other. "I've never heard it called that before" the response was. Now I will not give out which show it was, but let's just say one of this duo played for the Mutts themselves and has been around Atlanta and its sports scene ever since. Now we all know that you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, so the fact that a UGA Football Player who has been around the block a few times didn't know about T-Day, then there isn't much more I can say. It's time to move out of the 1950's and into the 21st Century. This is a new era at Georgia Tech where the sports are competing with a million other entertainment attractions in the metro area. The average age of fans that Tech isn't attracted is 25-35 year old young professionals. They aren't going to know that T-Day was started way before color television, they are going to see exactly what I see, Georgia Tech is trying to steal from their neighbors to the East. Now if you are a child of World War II and you don't think that's fair well I think not getting a discount everywhere I go isn't fair, we win some and we lose some. So why don't we change the name. Appeasing the older generation may get you some extra booster money, but in the end you'll push away the younger generation and lose your money in the future. Just something to think about.

~Jason Boral