Stetson Bennett rocks new (old) Georgia jersey on SI cover: LOOK
Stetson Bennett made the Sports Illustrated cover. And he showed off Georgia football’s new (and also old) threads in the process.
Pat Forde featured the Mailman in this preseason piece for the 2022 College Football season.
Like it or not, superstitious or ‘just a little stitious,’ Stetson Bennett is the big story in this issue.
Being the uniform nut that I am, I immediately noticed the big, bold, block numbers the Bulldogs will once again sport this season.
I didn’t even look to see what the story was about.
Georgia football’s block number revival is the main story to me.
Back in my day, when you landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, it was a big deal.
I can’t really describe the excitement of a new, tangible issue of SI to today’s digital generation. If your team made it, feelings of awe and terror swirled in your gut.
There used to be something called the Sports Illustrated curse. Ask Georgia fans how the cover with Matthew Stafford, Dannell Ellerbe and Knowshon Moreno worked out for them.
These days, I’m not sure it matters. It’s all on the internet or in the cloud somewhere.
At the very least, Stetson Bennett ought to get a new Instagram post out of it.
Of course, there’s a real story to this iconic Stetson Bennett image
SI’s Pat Forde wrote about Bennett’s rise to stardom, and the acclaim that came with it.
You’ve likely already read a lot of those stories, since you consume everything – free and premium – on DawgsHQ and DawgsHQ’s YouTube channel.
The stories about flying with the Blue Angels, and being disrespected, undersized and underweight are all old hat by now.
You can make a new drinking game out of it this football season.
Stuff of the same ilk as David Pollack and David Greene playing little league football together, Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw being high school teammates, and Jake Fromm playing in the Little League World Series.
But one quote stood out to me from the piece that embodies everything the Stetson Bennett Experience entails.
“The most blunt way to say it, he had a ‘f— you’ attitude, and it was awesome,” former Georgia football teammate John Seter told Forde.
I think he still has it.
And he’s gonna wear it just as visibly as he wears that impeccable, sharp, classic new Georgia Bulldogs football jersey.
Now, can we please bring back the silver britches?
