A SEASON IN THE STANDS:
A DAWG COUPLE

Their first date didn't exactly go well.

The theme for A Season in the Stands this week is: college football's effect on the relationship. (It's a fairly profound topic.) Last weekend, one of our editors at ESPNTheMag.Com came to this conclusion with some friends: if you ask a person "What's your worst date story?" and they can't answer, they're basically lying and you shouldn't be friends with them. In this video, Chelsea Lipocky of UGA finds a couple with a terrible date story involving a Dawgs football game—last year's loss to Spurrier and the Gamecocks—but luckily for our central characters in this video, everything worked out and they're still together. But honestly, the story in this video is brutal. "And then I realized my best friend had fainted." Sheesh. Just watch.

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