Here We Go Again
Shortly after moving to Florida in 1981, fellow classmates at Young Junior High said I needed to pick a side.
University of Florida or Florida State University. One or the other. Couldn't be both.
Hmmm....decisions, decisions. I looked around at all the Gator fans and immediately went the other way. I know. Explains a lot about me and is fairly consistent with my character. The masses are asses. Therefore I almost always choose differently. This is part of my charm.
I think.
At any rate, I never looked back. Even while attending University of South Florida, I remained a Seminoles fan. After all, we didn't have a football team back then and I enjoyed traveling to Gainesville with Julie and Cathy and sticking it to the Gator guys.
Funny story: One year, we were driving through the crowd filtering out from a game (FSU won) and saw a ninety year-old woman all decked out in Gator garb. She had the Gator hat, Gator sweats, Gator mug, and Gator flag. Julie leaned out the window and yelled,
"Hey Grandma, I'll give you a quarter for the whole outfit!"
The woman damn-near sprinted over to my car, grabbed my little Subaru Justy, shook it and screamed,
"F*ck you, FSU!"
As God as my witness, we barely made it out alive.
You may have heard recently that University of Florida won a fairly important football game. I rooted for UF over Ohio State because I live in Florida and try to abide by this guiding principle in life: Always support the home team. When UF won, I even clapped my hands. A little.
However, enough is enough. Enough with the front pages of newspapers taped to the halls of my high school. Enough with the rallies and knick-knacks. Get along with the doggie nonsense. And if I hear "It's Great to be a Florida Gator" one more time...
Several students have been wearing self-congratulating Gator crap since their most recent victory. New shirts, sweatshirts, pants...every f*cking day. Finally, I said to one of them,
"Okay. You guys are way too proud of yourselves. Wear something different tomorrow. Please."
Asshole turned up the next day in a Yankees shirt.
I hate them all.
posted by kate @ 5:58 AM
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7 Comments:
its great to be a florida gator
Please don't start this Katie.
FSU fans, on the average, are the world's more boorish people. Even after LOOSING to you, they still think they're better. We Gators at least know (for the most part) when it is time to shut up and wait for the next game.
When you stop celebrating your choice to be a vegan, I'll stop celebrating my choice to be a fan of the reigning champions of College Football and Basketball. :-)
kthxbye ;-)
Oh...
It's Great. To Be. A Florida Gator!
I Said!
It's Great. To Be. A Florida Gator!
Ugh, now that you've made it to Colorado perhaps you'll see how little most of us care about college football and you'll feel like you can stop being so insane about it. That isn't a put down or a criticism, but this obsession with football that pervades the entire southern region of the country just doesn't happen here. Little old ladies in Colorado don't wear CU apparel and attack families wearing Nebraska red. I'm not saying we're better, we just have other things on our minds.
What an ugly post. It matches the personality behind it.
It's great to be a Florida Gator!
The masses are asses? Where, WHERE did you find this gem? You need to open an online store for this site. This should be your first t-shirt promoting it.
Would you do the artwork???
:-)
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