since 12/15/98		Columns::April 14, 2003 Weekly Reader Book details history of UGA mascots $29.95 Hill Street Press Co-authored by UGA alumnus Sonny Seiler and Georgia Magazine editor Kent Hannon, Damn Good Dogs! is an exhaustive history of the university’s line of bulldog mascots. The book opens with a prime example of the mascots’ popularity: an overflow crowd of 1,000 people--many of them young couples with children in strollers--standing in line to get their picture taken with Uga. The saga then retreats to 1956 and proceeds chronologically, beginning with Uga I and continuing through the current denizen of the spiked collar, Uga VI. Illustrated with hundreds of news and feature photos, many of them from the Seilers’ private collection, Damn Good Dogs! is an upclose look at UGA’s six bulldog mascots--who have come to symbolize the tenacious, never-say-die personality of Georgia athletic teams. “It’s a remarkable saga,” says Hannon, “and no one could tell the real inside story but Sonny. He is also the keeper of an endless number of Uga anecdotes, the best of which we’ve incorporated in the book. For Georgia fans who have wondered what the Seilers’ personal Uga scrapbook looks like, Damn Good Dogs! is it.” UGA Today supports QuickTime, Flash, RealPlayer and Acrobat Reader (PDF files). Download information about these plug-ins. Affiliate icons for UGA Today COLUMNS ] UGA Today ] Subscribe ] News Bureau ] Office of Public Affairs Directory ] Photo Services ] Broadcast, Video & Photography ] Master Calendar] Columns ] Georgia Magazine ]Visitors Center ] UGA Home ] Alumni ] Admissions ] UGA Directories ] Sports ] Weather ] Search UGA sites ] Columns is produced by the UGA News Service, a unit of UGA Public Affairs. Beth Roberts: Columns editor, Juliett Dinkins: Columns managing editor, Janet Beckley: Columns art director. Peter Frey: Columns photo editor Questions or comments should be directed to columns@uga.edu Copyright 2003 University of Georgia. All rights reserved