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I meant to mention to the regulars on here who frequently claim that UF fans are obnoxious ....

I totally agree. I was at the Florida-LSU game and there was a small cadre of maybe 60 LSU fans up near my seats. Despite the fact that anyone with even a modicum of football knowledge would have realized that Florida was very fortunate to win the game, there were a number of Florida fans who treated the LSU fans with great disrespect at the end of the game.

Now, to be fair, the LSU contingent had a couple of their own bad apples mixed in, too. Alcohol clearly a factor for a few.

But after the game, and because of what I had seen in the stands, I went out of my way to congratulate a few LSU folks as we walked to cars and to let them know that it did not escape all of us Florida fans that the game could easily have gone differently in result.

At any rate, my point was that I certainly have to concede after Saturday that your complaints about us Gators were dead on. Its embarrassing, but I imagine it is present everywhere in the SEC to some degree or another.
 
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I still say that it isn't anything you can pin on one school over another. Stupid drunks and people with no class are pretty much the same everywhere.
 
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What really annoyed me was the jeering, as though we'd beaten them 35-0. I mean, it wasn't even that our school is better, or their they have inbreeding, or whatever. It was stupid antics and yelling about how we kicked their butt when of course we did not.

Made me shake my head.
 
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lawgator1 said:
What really annoyed me was the jeering, as though we'd beaten them 35-0. I mean, it wasn't even that our school is better, or their they have inbreeding, or whatever. It was stupid antics and yelling about how we kicked their butt when of course we did not.

Made me shake my head.
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For the umpteenth time....
I'll be happy to buy you your first 'Power T' ballcap.

:victory: Come on over to the real orange, you won't regret it....
 
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I think we have all been embarassed by our own fans! I chip in a UT shot glass!
 
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lawgator1 said:
What really annoyed me was the jeering, as though we'd beaten them 35-0. I mean, it wasn't even that our school is better, or their they have inbreeding, or whatever. It was stupid antics and yelling about how we kicked their butt when of course we did not.

Made me shake my head.
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In the Tennessee section Saturday night after we blocked a punt for a TD, a guy about 5 rows in front of us turned around and yelled something unitelligible at some women in red and black sitting right in front of us. It was completely embarassing, and half the section was watching the guy like a hawk for the rest of the game.
 
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orange+white=heaven said:
For the umpteenth time....
I'll be happy to buy you your first 'Power T' ballcap.

:victory: Come on over to the real orange, you won't regret it....
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Nah, I'll stand by the Gators as an institution forever!! But that will not prevent me, from time to time, admitting individual failures of character.
 
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The worst fans in the country come from Miami, bottom line......I think its terrible there are fans like that
 
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Speaking of rowdy fans . . . I've got to tell this story from Saturday night:

Early in the first quarter, I've got this guy right behind me that kept yelling for us to throw it down the middle of the field and he kept talking incessantly. I thought to myself "Oh no, I've got "the Guy" sitting right behind me." Then Ainge hit Bret Smith on a post - down the middle of the field - for our first TD. I began high fiving people and turned around to high five the guy behind me. It was at that point I realized that guy behind me who was talking so much was . . . . Bruce Pearl.
 
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Haha....Good story GA....I was saying the same thing the whole night though, the middle was open most of the night
 
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crimedawg12 said:
A lawyer admitting character flaws?
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Well, we are experts on that particular subject, right?

GAVol said:
Speaking of rowdy fans . . . I've got to tell this story from Saturday night:

Early in the first quarter, I've got this guy right behind me that kept yelling for us to throw it down the middle of the field and he kept talking incessantly. I thought to myself "Oh no, I've got "the Guy" sitting right behind me." Then Ainge hit Bret Smith on a post - down the middle of the field - for our first TD. I began high fiving people and turned around to high five the guy behind me. It was at that point I realized that guy behind me who was talking so much was . . . . Bruce Pearl.
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That's hilarious! You get to high five him?

I did have "the guy" behind me for the first half of Florida-LSU. Could not decide which was worse -- his annoying habit of getting score updates from friends on the cell phone, or his constant statements of the totally obvious as if he had some special insight.

His comments, in essence, were to the effect that if we scored more points than them then that would be good.
 
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GAVol said:
Speaking of rowdy fans . . . I've got to tell this story from Saturday night:

Early in the first quarter, I've got this guy right behind me that kept yelling for us to throw it down the middle of the field and he kept talking incessantly. I thought to myself "Oh no, I've got "the Guy" sitting right behind me." Then Ainge hit Bret Smith on a post - down the middle of the field - for our first TD. I began high fiving people and turned around to high five the guy behind me. It was at that point I realized that guy behind me who was talking so much was . . . . Bruce Pearl.
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:lolabove: Who could possibly top that....



Unless Lex had Elvis sitting behind him one day.
 
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lawgator1 said:
That's hilarious! You get to high five him?
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There was a row between us, so I thought it would be a little uncool to make a dive for him. :) I did talk to him a couple of times during the night. Most notably (LG will like this) at the end of the game as things started to clear out, he asked if anybody had ever scored 50 in Athens and I told him Spurrier had done it with Florida.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I meant to mention to the regulars on here who frequently claim that UF fans are obnoxious ....

I totally agree. I was at the Florida-LSU game and there was a small cadre of maybe 60 LSU fans up near my seats. Despite the fact that anyone with even a modicum of football knowledge would have realized that Florida was very fortunate to win the game, there were a number of Florida fans who treated the LSU fans with great disrespect at the end of the game.

Now, to be fair, the LSU contingent had a couple of their own bad apples mixed in, too. Alcohol clearly a factor for a few.

But after the game, and because of what I had seen in the stands, I went out of my way to congratulate a few LSU folks as we walked to cars and to let them know that it did not escape all of us Florida fans that the game could easily have gone differently in result.

At any rate, my point was that I certainly have to concede after Saturday that your complaints about us Gators were dead on. Its embarrassing, but I imagine it is present everywhere in the SEC to some degree or another.
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At the Fla game we tailgated by some Fla. fans and they were great people. It is not all your fans.
 
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GAVol said:
Speaking of rowdy fans . . . I've got to tell this story from Saturday night:

Early in the first quarter, I've got this guy right behind me that kept yelling for us to throw it down the middle of the field and he kept talking incessantly. I thought to myself "Oh no, I've got "the Guy" sitting right behind me." Then Ainge hit Bret Smith on a post - down the middle of the field - for our first TD. I began high fiving people and turned around to high five the guy behind me. It was at that point I realized that guy behind me who was talking so much was . . . . Bruce Pearl.
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Too bad you didn't just turn around and tell him to shut his pie hole.
 
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finevol said:
At the Fla game we tailgated by some Fla. fans and they were great people. It is not all your fans.
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Well, I guess we are all agreed that there's good and bad fans for all schools. Generally speaking, the ones that are going to make that hike up to see a game in a hostile environment I would think would be the nicer people. Especially if they are tailgating and not just drunk college juniors who made the trip on a lark.
 
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It is for this reason that I absolutely love going to Notre Dame games. Since there is no jumbo tron in which to catch the big play, the fans at ND stadium pay incredibly close attention to the action on the field and those that attend the game (which is by and large regulars) are very football savvy. Notre Dame fans are quick to point out exactly what each team did well and poor. I would love to see stadiums do away with jumbo trons, however, the marketing revenue they get from big screen revenue will always play a factor in that decision.
 
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