A House Divided

A house divided, I know, you’re thinking House of Carters. (Those singing, dancing, smoking siblings can get after it!)

But this is about Atlanta radio station 790 The Zone and Home Depot . They are putting together a little promotion searching for a household in the Atlanta metro area that has split loyalties between the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech.

The winners get their house painted half red and black, half yellow and blue. The winners also receive a $5,000 Hope Depot gift certificate…and their house repainted in the color of their choice. So that’s good.

Very interesting promotion, a true test of team loyalty. Anybody can paint their body, big deal. But when you commit to have your domicile, your abode painted, now you’ve got my respect.

And probably a good place to do it, in Atlanta. That place is where most young alums from Athens end up and it’s home to Tech.

I would love to see this house, both before and after. So if you’re one of the households in “The A-T-L” with fans on both side of the fence, let me know. More importantly let the good folks at 790 the Zone know so they can send over some people to paint your house red and black and yellow and blue.

Of course, they’ll probably have to wait until the Dawgs fans get back from Jacksonville and the World's Largest Outdoor Gathering of a Lot of People Who May Have Beverages. Because, let's be honest, that’s the rivalry that gets the Bulldog fans up in arms. Georgia/Florida or maybe Georgia/Auburn, depending on who’s having the better year.

But somebody please let us know if your house gets split in half with two different paint schemes.

And I would love to see this promotion throughout the country. If it goes well in Atlanta, why not have some UCLA/USC, Michigan/Ohio State, Texas/Oklahoma houses scattered across the country? Come on Home Depot, let’s make this work!

To enter, e-mail your story along with a photo of your house to contest@790thezone.com by Wednesday, Nov. 1. It’s got to be a paintable surface which means no brick or vinyl siding.

It’s just paint people, take one for the team. Or, two for the teams, I guess.