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for Southern Foodways Alliance: Offsides Fowl
josé a. alvarado jr.
Jan 9, 2024
The University of South Carolina had a 3:30 p.m. date with the University of Georgia, college football’s defending national champion, and oddsmakers said the Gamecocks were supposed to lose by twenty-seven points.
In the fall of 2022, Daniel Watts and Ethan Lustig were on campus for the perennially lopsided matchup, tailgating with their fraternity. But since they’d graduated and moved to New York City for jobs—Lustig’s in real estate; Watts’ on the PGA of America’s sales team—they decided to watch the 2023 game at Mason Jar on E. 30th St., arriving almost ninety minutes before kickoff for bar seats.
Lustig ordered a screwdriver to harmonize with his “morning mentality,” and as the bartender mixed it, he explained their stools would soon be whisked away to accommodate the crush of Gamecock fans.
“You haven’t been here for a game?” he asked the pair, understandably correlating their subtly striped USC polo shirts with regular attendance at the second-most important venue in the Gamecock universe, after Williams-Brice Stadium. “It’s a….”
Only one-third of that assessment is printable. But it’s 100 percent accurate.
Watts grinned.
“Good!” he said. “Like Columbia! Everybody’s happy!”
Photographed for Gravy/Southern Foodways Alliance, with words by Hanna Raskin
Offsides Fowl | Southern Foodways Allianceby Hanna Raskin Photos by José A. Alvarado Jr. The University of South Carolina had a 3:30 p.m. date with the University of Georgia, college football’s defending national champion, and oddsmakers said the Gamecocks were supposed to lose by...
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