Before I forget ....

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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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Years ago I saw LSU at Vandy and a redneck LSU adult (over 35) jump out of his seat to go join in on the fight young college students were having.That was REDNECK.
 
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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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I will have some of my LSU fans/friends in tow for the game in K-Town. I am praying our fans show alot more class towards them then I saw against us in Baton Rouge last year.

We may or may not win (we will) on the field but there is never a reason we do not win the class act contest. N E V E R
 
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Bayou_VOL said:
I will have some of my LSU fans/friends in tow for the game in K-Town. I am praying our fans show alot more class towards them then I saw against us in Baton Rouge last year.

We may or may not win (we will) on the field but there is never a reason we do not win the class act contest. N E V E R
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Well, reality is that if they come in there wearing Purple and Yellow, they are going to take some ribbing. But there is a difference between a joke or two and slobbering out some utterly inappropriate expletive. Would be nice to see the former exclusively, but we all know better. No matter where you are.
 
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I'll never forget when I was 12 I was at a Georgia/LSU game in Athens. LSU won the game and I saw one of their fans acting like an idiot after the game and get paid back for it by getting brained by a UGA fan with a Jack Daniels bottle. It was awful.
 
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The last game I got to go to, we had two opposing fans sitting at the end of our row. They looked really nervous when they sat down, because they were in a sea of orange. I can honestly say we did our best to make them feel welcome and put them at ease. It really isn't that hard when you remember that it is after all, only a game.
 
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I had a man and his two sons sitting next to me that were the only Georgia fans for about 50 feet in all directions. I intentionally tried to tone it down a little especially after the game got away from Georgia in the 4th quarter. One of those kids looked like he was on the verge of tears. At first I felt bad for him but then thought " . . . well, at some point he has to see the error of his ways." :crazy:
 
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LadyinOrange said:
The last game I got to go to, we had two opposing fans sitting at the end of our row. They looked really nervous when they sat down, because they were in a sea of orange. I can honestly say we did our best to make them feel welcome and put them at ease. It really isn't that hard when you remember that it is after all, only a game.
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Shame on you LIO - you know that it is way more than just a game!!!:) :p
 
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BLEEDS ORANGE said:
That's the thing that there is bad fans of EVERY team, even us.
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you've got that right. if you want to get a real dose of how your own fans act, just wear an opposing team's colors around for a little bit and see what happens.

i had in mind conducting such a little social experiment (too bad... I mean THANK GOD... i'm not a psych major) and after being verbally assaulted by someone, passing them a pre-printed 'thank you for participating' card that explains that wearing the opposing colors was an experiment to track behavior patterns.
 
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I've got nothing but good things to say about all the gator fans I met up in Knox this year.... I guess all your bad apples stay in the swamp.
 
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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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very classy LG. there's bad apples in every bunch...there just alwasy seem to be bunches of bad apples down there....kudos, fans like you are what make the SEC fun.
i've quite enjoyed the few stints of witty banter that have gone back and forth between us.
 
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jakez4ut said:
very classy LG. there's bad apples in every bunch...there just alwasy seem to be bunches of bad apples down there....kudos, fans like you are what make the SEC fun.
i've quite enjoyed the few stints of witty banter that have gone back and forth between us.[/quote]


Me, too.

But that's mostly because I am always proven to be right. :)
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Nice discussion on the interplay between home and visiting fans. At Georgia, there was a well-behaved and football-smart couple behind us that actually made some pretty keen observations and talked to us frequently and civilly, a 20-or-so-year-old at his first game at Sanford beside me who was really friendly, a guy in front of us who was beligerent and cussed us a few times, and a well-appointed UT female who stood and cheered the entire game. The only real lack of class we had was to the tune of a thrown "spit bottle" to the back of us while cheering with the UT section after the game. Joke's on them though: the stain came out and we still dropped a fi-ty. :biggrin:
 
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I am a season ticket holder and I actually enjoy it when someone around us gives their tickets to some away fans. Before the game we get to talking about the game and our expectations, then during the game it gives us the opportunity to hear their perspective and some good-natured ribbing depending on whose winning.

The best visitors I ever met were last year at the Georgia game. They were an older couple that sat behind us. They had been to every GA game except two for the last 27 years -AMAZING stories. They were actually the only reason the game was tolerable.
 
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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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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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:eek:lol:

That's awesome. Bruce Pearl is everywhere.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Well, reality is that if they come in there wearing Purple and Yellow, they are going to take some ribbing. But there is a difference between a joke or two and slobbering out some utterly inappropriate expletive. Would be nice to see the former exclusively, but we all know better. No matter where you are.
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Hey... no fair. I played in Purple and Gold (really yellow, gold sounds a bit more manly I suppose).

On another note, since I haven't been to a Vol game in my 19 years, I do have a story about high school here. Happened a couple of weeks ago. I think it was the Macomb-Sherrard game, I was on the Sherrard side. I always happen to sit next to the person(s) that think they know everything about the game. Well, this person kept trying to tell her young children why Sherrard wouldn't pass the ball. They were losing 43-0 at the time I think. Well anyways, the explanation went something like "they don't pass because they are big wusses and don't want to win the game." I wish I had a Hershey's Kiss to throw at her. It was rather annoying and degrading to the players on the field.
 
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I was at the UF-LSU game. Before the game, a loud group of LSU fans (probably students) nearly started a riot by jumping up and down on the Gator statue outside the stadium. As a UF grad student, I honestly got pretty close to jumping in. The police eventually broke it up. I just thought it was a very classless and stupid act on the part of the Tiger fans.
 
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As for UF fans, some UF students (none in my program) like to shake their keys at visiting fans late in games. I have always thought the bit with the keys, regardless of who's doing it, is as stupid as the "overrated" cheer. Other than that, I think the Gator students are mostly good fans, at least the ones I've been around. However, I did get extremely annoyed listening to UF fans complain about where their seats were at Neyland. There is no bad view at Neyland!
 
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