The 2005 edition of the Georgia vs. Florida game will be my 12th Cocktail Party and my 13th time watching this matchup.
I've only missed the 1993 Game (aka "Timeout Florida") and the 1994 Game (aka "The Debacle in the Swamp). I even sat through the 1995 "Beat Down in Athens" in which with 5 minutes left I yelled:
You're not Getting 50. Not in OUR HOUSE!"
[Quiet for 3 minutes]
"Well...You're not getting 55."
I hate the Gators for the same reason that most Gator fans over the age of 40 hate Georgia. My frame of reference is one of pain, hatered and long bitter rides home on Sunday mornings.
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After that great Vince Dooley run, which not coincidentally ended in the Gator Bowl, the Dawgs went 3-13. The Dawgs kept their swagger for 1 year after Dooley retired. Winning in Ray Goff's first year. Then the wheels fell off.
The winds of change blew again into Jacksonville as Spurrier retired after the 2001 season. Just as the Dawgs enjoyed the momentum of their ownership of Florida for 1 more year after Dooley left; the Gators enjoyed two more years of ownership of Georgia after the Evil Genius walked away.
Now we enter this weekend's game.
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What will this matchup bring? I don't honestly know. With Shockley gone anything can happen.
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[Photo: A reinactment of the 1995 Fiesta Bowl.]
If the Dawgs protect the ball we win. And not only that...we begin another Dooley like run of dominance. This series has NEVER been about balance. It has always been about domination. And Gators brace yourself because if we win under these incredibly adverse circumstances, we're going to settle into victory lane for the long term.
The Very Long Term
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I hate the Florida Gators with everything that is deep within my Red & Black soul. Some people hate Tennessee. Some people hate Auburn. Everyone hates Georgia Tech. That's all well and good and each Dawg fan has that special spot of hatred reserved for the team of his or her choosing, but for me, that spot is reserved for the reptiles, the vermin that reside in Gainesville, FL.
There has never been a more cocky fanbase with so little to back it up with. There has never been a more arrogant group of people to the point it infuriates you to talk to them no matter what. There is not a fanbase out there that will proclaim superiority on a more regular basis regardless of a record that screams otherwise than the fanbase of the Florida Gators.
If Georgia could beat them 77-0 on Saturday and have the ball at the Florida 5 yard line with 5 seconds left, I would hope that Richt calls a pass play into the endzone and then goes for two instead of kicking the PAT. If there's any time left after that for a kickoff, I would hope that CMR kicks onside and we recover the ball en route to a TD as time expires...and, yes, I hope we go for two after that score as well. I want Georgia to embarass Florida in every sport, every chance they get. Embarassment is the only thing that will shut a Florida fan's pie-hole. Unfortunately, we haven't been able recently to embarass them like we used to, but there's not a better time to bring back that good old Georgia tradition than this weekend. I want Georgia to destroy Florida and then rub their noses in the smoldering heap that is the "Urban myth". I want a Gator fan's great-great-great-great grandchild to talk about this game to his or her son or daugher in hushed tones and reverent solemnity because it still hurts so bad even after all the years have passed. I want the series record to get back to what it used to be before the 90s hit and Georgia literally owned that patheitc little excuse for a football program down in Gainesville. I want Florida fans' hangovers on Sunday morning after the WLOCP to be preferable to the thought of the game against the Dawgs...and I want all of this to happen year after year after year after freakin' year.
Florida should be embrassed, destroyed, maimed, ridiculed, levelled, decimated, annihilated, blasted and plain old whooped by the Georgia Bulldogs on a yearly basis. It should be so bad that the rest of the SEC should begin to feel pity and awe at the things Florida has had done to it on an annual basis by the Dawgs. I want the beatings to be so bad that a new term is created in the English lexicon to describe utter and complete destruction, and it should be derived from the utter and complete destruction that Georgia hands out to Florida in the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party every year. Speaking of that moniker, I want the beatings to be so bad that the media is forced to rename the annual match-up from the WLOCP to the "AFGAW" - The Annual Florida Gator Ass Whoopin'...maybe just "GAW" for short. The annual "GAW" in JAX. I want that to roll off the toungue of every college football commentator in America and I want it to be used on-air at least 148 times during the week of this game so that every Florida fan everywhere knows deep down inside what this week is all about.
It is about hating Florida...and I do.
That pic of the baby seal makes us laugh, God help us. We'll take our Hell extra crispy, thank you.
Anonymous, start your own blog. I'll read it.
So how is that turning out for you -- this newfound return to the dominance of the Dooley era LMAO... Go Gators
LOL...Stupid dawgs -- it will never happen. Go Gators!!!!
cgI trust that by now you're in therapy with the rest of your bipolar dawg pals.
Yes, and I'm sure you rednecks up there carry those shotguns in the front seats of your pickup trucks ready to hunt us down...Go Gators...See if you can find a job sometime in the next 10 years that does not involve reading the bible.
You were so right on in this post. What did happen in that game....Ohh yeah, the gators won and they also one the national championship. Nice try.
I found this page by Googling, Why I hate the Georgia Bulldogs, because I was looking for a clever bit to make one of my newest coworkers even more remiss about taking a job in Vail, CO in an office dominated by the Gator Faithful.
For the record, I only hate their football team, male students/alumni, and female fans that think they know about sports. Those that are mute, and are comfortable in their short black skirts, and tight red shirts will forever be on my list of people that I do not hate, but would rather fornicate. For the few that I have, many thanks.
I find the fella that wrote this amusing, and dare I say educated, which is a clear indication that the tirade was actually manufactured by a more intelligent being, possibly a Tech alum, but more likely an independant contractor hailing from one of the "smarter" regions of the world.
My advice would be to get in bed with a winner, and not allow your literary career to be marginalized because of your poor taste/business savvy. As they say, hindsight is 20/20.
Perhaps, now that the smoke has cleared on one of the most dominant athletic progrmas...ever...you have already reconsidered.
Most certainly not wanting to remain anonymous,
T. Adair
You douche bags do realize this was written in Oct. 2005 right?
Nothing like a little timely smack on your parts. lol.
PWD
WOW!!!!! This was before the 2005 game, I hope this poor sould has not been sent on "vacation". He must really hate Florida now because since that time all Florida can do is win championships.
GO Gators
So Mant titles, so lil time
btw, just found this by way og google.
whoever posted that first comment.. you need to relax and get a life. The Gators rape you in every sport.
Everyone has a right to vent and I agree with him. I see the gators' heads getting a little smaller this year...
We won last year in Football. In basketball, we are the current SEC Champions. What do you "rape" us in right now?
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