Robin Morgan

Plott helped me by showing how to work to be a better team mate and person. Somehow Plott, Johnny Jordon and I were members of a most exquistie ritual conducted before every Grey Knights football game. I am sorry

to learn of his passing.  From the reading about his legacy here, I am encouraged that his life was blessed in 

many ways and that he passed those blessing along to all who came near him as I did.  Rest Brother.

Rupert Fike

The day after UGA won the national championship I was in the car listening to sports-talk radio recap the game, and they were interviewing Mark Schlabach of ESPN who went to Georgia, the last question being, "Is there anyone who has passed on that you wish could have been there for the game last night?" Schlabach paused a second then said, "Well, I guess it would be, Plott Brice." OMG I almost drove off the road - I too had been thinking of Plott and his crazy love for the Bulldogs - even in Ms Durling's class he'd be drawing UGA doodles - then we had some time in Athens together when he roomed with Newell. Schlabach went on to say how he'd been on the AJC with Plott and bonded with him and how much he missed Plott. Whew, I had to pull over and have a minute. Later I told Plott's sister with help from Arva Weinstein in Athens. Then I fired up my Twitter account to thank Schlabach for the shout out.

Mab Francis

Plott is the reason I'm a Bulldawg fan. His never ending enthusiam won me over. What a great guy!

Rusty Brooke

Rupert thank you so much for posting!! It means a lot to me. Plott was a great person and made a great wonderful good impact on lots of people. He and Newell were great Georgia fans and being the National champ football team is just wonderful. Sure do miss them! Rusty 

Alvin Townley Jr

Thanks to Rupert for posting this incredible moment!  That had to be a Jaw-Dopping moment, and just makes me feel like Plott is tapping all of us on the shoulder and saying, "P. Brice is a sly dog."  He made that comment to me at Grady.  While I have not been able to remember in what context he said it, I've never forgotten how he said it.  Maybe it should have been, "P.Brice is a sly DAWG!"  Maybe, just maybe, that "Sly Dawg" thought 41 years between National Championships was just right for a repeat!  Below are a couple of quotes about Plott we can all enjoy>

Here's Joe Drape on January 2, 2018 in the New York Times

"But if Alabama is SEC — and college football — royalty, then the Bulldogs are the closest thing to a feel-good program that the conference can offer, something I learned firsthand as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

I thought I knew college football: I had come from Texas after growing up in the Midwest in what was then Big 8 Country. The man who would teach me most of what I know in journalism, however, showed me everything that was important about football in the South.

Plott Brice was an Atlanta native and a Georgia graduate who liked to say that he “learned to read on my granddaddy’s knee by turning the pages of the AJC.” He was a voracious reader, an accomplished bluegrass musician and an expert of all things newspapering. He handled hot type, laid out pages, covered Wimbledon and, as national editor, dispatched young reporters on ambitious assignments from Cuba and Romania to South Africa and the Soviet Union.

On Saturdays, however, Brice’s heart and soul belonged to the Georgia Bulldogs. There was nothing more sacred to him than the 60-mile pilgrimage to Sanford Stadium in Athens to watch the Dawgs do battle “between the hedges,” a nod to the privet hedges that have surrounded the field there since 1929.

Brice shared each game day with his wife and sisters and Larry Munson, the voice of Georgia football for over 40 years and a homer’s homer if there ever was one. Brice wore a transistor in his ear when he went to games and tuned his stereo to Munson when he was watching at home.

He had a tape of Munson’s most famous call, a 92-yard touchdown reception from the cinematically named quarterback Buck Belue to Lindsay Scott that beat Florida and kept Georgia’s 1980 national title drive alive. Years later, he still could recite it word for word."

Here's one more "Sly Dawg" story by Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior Writer, who Rupert heard speak of Plott while driving.  Mark Schlabach had a dog named "Tubby" who appeared at the Kentucky vs. UGA game on October 25, 1997. Tubby was between the hedges eluding capture.  You can read the entire story if you google Mark Schlabach and When a Georgia football game was interrupted by my dog on the field.

"Once the game kicked off, it was pretty uneventful. I was sitting in my seat in the press box, working on a notebook and story for the early editions of the AJC. With about four minutes left in the first quarter, however, Tubby made his Sanford Stadium debut. Michael Adams, the then-UGA president, told me later he watched my dog follow the Redcoat Marching Band into the stadium through the gate near the east end zone.

Once Tubby was inside, he somehow found a gap in the chain-link fence behind the famed hedges and ran to the middle of the field -- almost immediately after Georgia safety Kirby Smart intercepted a pass.

When the crowd started cheering, I looked up from my laptop in the press box and saw the dog standing at midfield. Immediately, I knew it was mine -- and I could feel the blood drain from my face.

I was helpless. I turned to one of my editors, Plott Brice, who lived in Athens. He knew Tubby and immediately realized it was my dog. Plott chuckled and shook his head in disbelief.

For about four or five minutes, Tubby eluded security guards, football players and coaches who were trying to catch him. The crowd cheered as he ran down the sideline before he finally ran off the field through the east gate, where an officer from Athens-Clarke County Animal Control intercepted him."

Plott has given  me cause to smile and feel really good today!