You could argue that this all started with a goat.
The pet of UGA student Bob Gantt, the goat was there when Georgia beat Mercer 50-0 in its first ever football game in 1892. Thinking he might have brought Georgia’s newly formed football team some measure of luck, Gantt brought the goat to Atlanta’s Piedmont Park three weeks later for the university’s second ever game.
The goat wore a black coat with the letters “U.G.” sewn on in red and donned a hat with ribbons trailing down his horns. Officially, the University of Georgia’s football program suffered its first ever loss that day, falling 10-0 to Auburn.