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Bruce Figgins and Justin Houston have been suspended for violating team rules, coach Mark Richt announced Saturday. Figgins, a junior tight end, was suspended for the first six games of the 2009 season and Houston, a redshirt sophomore defensive end, for the first two games. A third player, junior wide receiver Tony Wilson, also violated team rules, Richt announced, but he was not suspended because he is in the process of being medically disqualified from competition because of a slow recovery from a severe ankle injury suffered in spring 2008. Richt did not disclose the rules violated.

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May 10, 2009  12:04 PM ET

Not sure what these guys did, but it musta been somewhat serious. UGA can ill afford to lose any more people from a D-line that, from what I hear, is already thin. For Houston to get suspended, it must not have been a minor infraction.

May 10, 2009  12:57 PM ET
QUOTE(#1):

For Houston to get suspended, it must not have been a minor infraction

Or it means there were witnesses Germ. This is UGA.

Flexible morals.

May 10, 2009  02:12 PM ET

UGA had an OL in the 1984 Cotton Bowl that was a great tackler. ****ing got away with it too, I still think the refs were paid off. But anyway, that was 25 years ago, so he might have a kid that's about college age. UGA should consider recruiting him for their D-line. If daddy taught him how to tacke, he should be really good at it.

.......... not that I would hold a grudge for a quarter century or anything.

May 10, 2009  02:46 PM ET
QUOTE(#1):

Not sure what these guys did, but it musta been somewhat serious.

Yep, normally they just look the other way.

May 10, 2009  02:49 PM ET
QUOTE(#3):

........... not that I would hold a grudge for a quarter century or anything.

A hiccup in time for the likes of us, eh JRM?

May 10, 2009  02:50 PM ET
QUOTE(#4):

Yep, normally they just look the other way.

Is this when some guy yells, "Get your hands out of my pockets?"

May 11, 2009  12:52 AM ET
QUOTE(#3):

.......... not that I would hold a grudge for a quarter century or anything.

Blink of an eye.

Ask me about the 1986, 1987 AFC Championship games. It was yesterday for me.

Art Modell screwing Jim Brown into retirement? Last week.

May 11, 2009  12:57 AM ET
QUOTE(#6):

Is this when some guy yells, "Get your hands out of my pockets?"

From the Gangsta Conversion album. Tin Man, you are the ambassador!



Gangsta Conversation is the fifth album by the American rap group South Central Cartel.

Track listing

"Do Ya Thang"
"Crucial"
"Pretty ****"
"Still Saggin'"
"Mucho Ye'llo"
"My ****.Z."
"Baby I Gee" (featuring Kurupt)
"Dirty South Central"
"Slumped out"
"Rap ****"
"Bacc Yard"
"Low-Low"
"1/2 Ass Geez" (featuring Jayo Felony)
"Thug Disease" (featuring C-Bo and Spice 1)
"**** Don't Pay Bills"
"Get Your Hands out of My Pockets"
"Gangsta Boogie"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta_Conversation

May 11, 2009  07:47 AM ET
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Art Modell screwing Jim Brown into retirement? Last week.

Good lord! Wasn't that in 1965 or so? Not sure what the statute of limitations is on grudges, but.........

But to sneak in an "on point" comment, does anyone know how big a deal the "rule violation" was? How long is this suspension expected to be for? What does UGA's D-line depth chart look like without Houston? Could they stop a running attack by Tulane? Or even Texas A&M? They're in a ****ing brutal conference.

May 11, 2009  09:31 AM ET

WFT?

ummmm since when do we advertise bad hip hop on FN?

May 11, 2009  12:00 PM ET

I stand corrected (actually "sit" corrected). I didn't expect Houston would be sidelined for more than just the Tennessee Tech game, but Richt surprised me.
Having him out for the Ok St game might hurt more than having him out for the South Carolina game, unless the Gamecocks improve a good bit on offense.

May 11, 2009  12:02 PM ET
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WFT?ummmm since when do we advertise bad hip hop on FN?

You mean there is "good" hip hop...?

May 11, 2009  12:03 PM ET
QUOTE(#7):

Blink of an eye.Ask me about the 1986, 1987 AFC Championship games. It was yesterday for me.Art Modell screwing Jim Brown into retirement? Last week.

My brother (a Bengals fan like me) has a "Muck Fodell" bumper sticker on his car.

May 11, 2009  01:52 PM ET
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what a nightmare, I see that Byner fumble over and over.

(weeping softly)

May 11, 2009  01:52 PM ET
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You mean there is "good" hip hop...?

As rhythm & blues evolved into mainstream rock & roll (I was and still am hopelessly addicted to both), the genre was condemned wholesale by older generations. Swore I'd never do that. I do not care for hip hop. I do not care for other popular music styles that don't harken back to the soul of Robert Johnson. But I don't claim that my not liking something precludes it from being good.

Exception is disco. It sucks. Always sucked. Always will suck.

May 11, 2009  01:53 PM ET
QUOTE(#11):

ummmm since when do we advertise bad hip hop on FN?

Tin Man picked out the song "Get Your Hands out of My Pockets".

May 11, 2009  02:19 PM ET

Perhaps, South Central Cartel was inspired by the autobiography of Malcolm X. Twice emphasized in the film version, SOP for Nation of Islam assassins was a diversion by an accomplice positioned opposite the gunmen. He would shout, "Get your hand out of my pocket!" The crowd (and target(s)) would turn their attention towards the person shouting, and the gunmen would open fire.

May 11, 2009  02:31 PM ET

Hip hop started in the late seventies. While some were going punk and others going disco, DJs from the Caribbean were setting up in the mean streets of New York City. From this scene sprung up rythms, sounds, and dance moves. Lythe street urchins wearing "goodwill" pants several sizes too large not only improvised unseen moves, but started a new fashion trend still plaguing the US to this day ("Pull you pants up!").

May 11, 2009  02:35 PM ET
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Hip hop started in the late seventies. While some were going punk and others going disco, DJs from the Caribbean were setting up in the mean streets of New York City. From this scene sprung up rythms, sounds, and dance moves. Lythe street urchins wearing "goodwill" pants several sizes too large not only improvised unseen moves, but started a new fashion trend still plaguing the US to this day ("Pull you pants up!").

Tin Man - connecting us suburban honkies with the kids playing the game.

 
May 11, 2009  02:43 PM ET
QUOTE(#22):

Tin Man - connecting us suburban honkies with the kids playing the game.

So "crackers" is PI but "honkies" is okay. Hard to keep track of these things.

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