If your Georgia Bulldogs are spending their entire early season subsisting on a diet of cupcakes, and you’re wondering how they’ll fare when they get to the main course, you could probably use a drink. I can help you with that.
We didn’t learn a great deal about the Georgia Bulldogs from their season opening 45–7 victory over the Marshall Thundering Herd. The Herd are a brand new football team, with 72 transfer players. And while they fought to the end, they simply were not in Georgia’s league.
Neither
for that matter are the Austin Peay Governors, and I mean that quite literally. The Guvs play in the FCS’s United Athletic Conference. True, they did notch an impressive 34–14 victory over Middle Tennessee State last weekend. But there’s every reason to think that Georgia would have throttled the Blue Raiders as well, and that the difference between the Governors and the Bulldogs remains vast, like the gulf between a lightning bolt and a lightning bug.
In short, we’re not really going to learn very much of consequence this weekend either. We’re not going to have any more insight into how the Bulldogs will do on the road in Knoxville next week against the Tennessee Volunteers, in what may very well be their toughest road contest of the entire season. The best we can hope is to say hello to Austin Peay, see a little more of Ryan, Puglisi and a host of other promising reserves, and then say goodbye to the Governors. End of.
And what’s the drink for the game in which you simply want to say hello to the Governors and then just as quickly say goodbye?
The A’llo, Guv’nah.
It’s a refined, refreshing gin cocktail that’ll have you speaking in a mock Cockney accent as you wander the sun-soaked streets of Athens.
You’ll need:
- 1 and 1/2 ounces dry London gin
- 4 ounces of tonic water
- 2 Granny Smith tart apple slices
- 1 sprig of thyme
- 1 twist of lemon peel
Start by placing the apple slices & thyme sprig into a balloon or high ball glass. Add the gin and swirl well to infuse. Fill the glass with cubed ice, top with the tonic water, and twist in the lemon. Give it one final stir, and enjoy. Until later…
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
