YOU MIGHT BE A LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVIL FAN IF
The better ones were sent to us, and the lousy ones we came up with!
- you feel guilty going to a high school football game in which your Red Devils are not playing!
- you have a Red Devil blanket, umbrella, and other useful items but refuse to use them because you don't want them to get dirty!
- you and your significant other won't speak to each other the week of the LC-WW game, simply because she is from "there".
- Furman Parton
- you are met with groans, dirty looks, profanity, offensive gestures and other niceties when asked where you are from at work after you've moved away. - Ray Crook
- your 3-year-old daughter's favorite saying is Get'em Devils! - Joe Estes
- you can't wait to get home after the game just to get on the GAVSV message boards and see everyone praise our legendary program!! - Josh
- it ruins your whole weekend when you hear Lincoln County lost Friday night!
- you no longer live in Lincoln County but continue to travel to Red Devil games on Friday night!
- you have a Red Devil Christmas tree in your home
- your child's first word is "RED"
- you go to www.lincolncountyreddevils.com more than once a day
- you catch yourself humming the Lincoln County fight song when you're not even at a Red Devil game
- you leave your Red Devil magnets on your car all year long
- 10 years after graduation you still have dreams of running onto the field with the rest of the team
- your family either arranges Christmas get-togethers around playoff games or postpones get-togethers due to state championship games.
- you, your brother, your daddy, and your two grandfathers all played for the Devils!
- you make sure that your cold weather wardrobe is RED -- even your thermals.
- before accepting a new job offer you arrange to have Fridays off during football season.
- you arrive at the locked stadium gate 2½ hours before kickoff.
- you plan your daughter's wedding and rehearsal dinner to avoid conflicts with Red Devil games.
- you hold your dear aunt's funeral at noon on Friday so that everyone can leave for Atlanta to be at the Dome the next day for a Devil game.
- you specify in your will that you ashes are to be scattered over Buddy Bufford Field.
- you only wear red underwear.
- you only buy red cars or trucks.
- your 911 address marker has a LC star on it.
- you plan your work vacation days to coincide with long Red Devil road trips.
- you don't allow bright blue and yellow clothes in your home.
- you know where you were on the most important dates in history: when the Devils won state titles.
- you know how to get to small towns in Georgia like Homerville, Folkston, and Colquitt
- you leave Lincolnton at 9 AM for a Red Devil game with a 7:30 kickoff.
- you put red horns and a red forked tail on your car.
- you can count on two hands (or less) the number of Red Devil games you've missed in the last two decades.
- you have friends call you in the hospital with score updates from a LC game that you couldn't attend because of that emergency surgery the doctors wouldn't let you postpone
- every Friday night is a family reunion (and lot's more exciting!).
- you have to separate family members at your grandparents' Christmas dinner because some attendees live in a Lincoln County rival's town!
- With a family of Red Devil fans if all birthday and Christmas presents you give them must be RED or have the words LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS on them in some form. - Belinda
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