Insane Hate

by mlmintampa on Nov 24, 2008 1:14 PM EST in Florida Football

When I moved to Florida, one of the first things given to me was an Albert the Alligator sticker by a new neighbor. Not only was my neighbor a decent looking girl, she was very smart. Her brother was a dumb jackass. And a Florida State fan.

In elementary school, the UF-FSU game was generally played before Thanksgiving and in the lunchroom the Friday before someone would start the Gator chomp or Seminole chop. My teachers would do the chomp and so would my friends. The kids I could not stand and the lunchroom manager did the chop. It should also be noted that my two younger brothers, one who graduated from UF and another who roots for them, started as FSU fans.

We are socialized as children so it comes as no surprise that my passion for the University of Florida is followed by my personal hatred for Florida State. It trickles down to a preference for blue over garnet, orange over gold, Gainesville over Tallahassee, intelligence over stupidity. I can turn off my opinions for anything; politics, religion, music. But I cannot turn off my Gator fandom and my hatred of FSU. This is a perfect example:

Average Person: "Congratulations to Myron Rolle for being named a Rhodes Scholar."

Me: "I hope Myron Rolle gets his knee blown out and he can perform surgery on himself since he's premed."

See? I'm completely insane. Thankfully, Urban Meyer is also insane. This is in the new football complex. (HT: 2-Cup)

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In one piece of cardboard, Urban Meyer gives red meat to every Gator. There is the football dominance, the popularity in attendance, and proof that Florida produces graduates including African-Americans. Remember, Meyer has a psychology degree, so he knows what buttons to push. He is also surrounded by younger Gators, which is probably the reason he had seen FSU and Tennessee has larger rivals than Georgia (until Urban destroyed Mark Richt this season). To the kids Meyer recruits, FSU is a football enemy. To the students, FSU is a wasteland that does nothing more than takes money that should go to UF to build their Erector Set Stadium and medical school (which is really a problem of state government, but when the Florida executive branch is two FSU grads, they get the blame). Like I said, I'm insane. But my love of Florida leads to my hate of FSU. And that is not insane. (By the way, today is only Monday. If I am like this now, can you imagine me on Saturday? And it'll be two weeks of this with Alabama coming up too. This is the stiffest test of Championship Mode since the last time the Gators went to the SEC Championship. I hope you are ready.)

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there we go....

…people forget how evil the garnet and gold is. There is nothing to like about them. Nothing is better than seeing them lose, and finally on Saturday we can deliver a loss to them first handed.

You gotta hate to lose more than you want to win

by alwaysafan on Nov 24, 2008 3:46 PM EST reply actions

Does Coach actually call it that?

Clutch: A measurement of how much better or worse a player does in high leverage situations than he would have done in a context neutral environment. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/glossary/

by bdalebs on Nov 24, 2008 5:35 PM EST reply actions

FSU Fan Here

Well, I always suspected as much. I KNEW there was a propaganda machine in the UF Athletics Department!!! I grew up in Atlantic Beach outside of Jacksonville. My friends were a mix of FSU, UF and UGA fans (with a few Miami outcasts who got beat up on the playground regularly). Also, I come from one of those mixed families. My father, uncle, half my cousins and many of my extended relations went to UF. My mother and sister, sister in law and the rest of my cousins went to FSU. Now, I KNOW where this will go so let me preempt you: “FSU is a girls school! Therefore you are a girl!” Let me assure you, I am actually a red blooded American male who picked FSU for s simple reason. The women at FSU rival any school in the country and blow the doors off UF! After spending one weekend in Gainesville and one in Tallahassee as a senior in high school, I was sold. My father actually forgave me after spending an afternoon at the Phyrst drinking beer with me (yes, he was in town for the FSU/UF game and we had just fu@!$%ing lost to you guys!).

mlmintampa – “I hope Myron Rolle gets his knee blown out and he can perform surgery on himself since he’s premed.” – Okay, that is FUNNY! I can only say that I hope Tebow is captured by a group of Gator FanBoys on Friday who won’t let him go until he reads them the unabridged collected works of Oscar Wilde in a blue and orange thong! By the way, that cute smart girl you knew as a youngster grew up to be a Cow and went to UF!

bs.uf15bosox9bears23 – I really don’t hate you guys except for this one week. There are certainly Noles out there who are the opposite side of the coin to mlmintampa, who can trace every dark memory they have back to some UF fan. It reminds me of the Georgia Tech fans I see here in Atlanta who occasionally give a random shout of “What’s the good news?!?” To which any GT fan within 50 yards will reply “To Hell With Georgia!” I have too many relatives who are Gates to really despise you guys. Besides, how could I? You look so snappy in your jorts with your freshly washed mullets all ready for national television!

So, in closing, here’s what I won’t say. “Bring your A-Game to Tallahassee because were gonna be ready!!!” I hope you don’t bring your A game. I personally think you should be focused on Alabama because there’s not much happening here in Tallahassee. We’re still rebuilding and waiting to see who croaks first, JoPa or Coach Bowden. Besides, Alabama fans think you guys are toadies and a flash in the pan who are beneath their contempt. I will say that, if you win, I hope you go all the way and bring the national championship trophy back to Florida. The road to the national championship SHOULD pass through the state of Florida. However, while you guys are celebrating your MNC victory by drinking a few Milwaukee’s Best tall boys with a couple of UF lovelies who could best be described as “country husky”, I’ll be enjoying the favors of a few shapely FSU coeds after our victory over UTEP in the Meineke Car Care bowl.

Sincerely,
GonzoNole
F-L-O-R-I—D-A S-T-A-T-E! Florida State! Florida State! Florida STATE! Wooooo!

by GonzoNole on Nov 25, 2008 1:30 PM EST reply actions

Rebuttal

Exhibit A

http://poonsec.blogspot.com/search/label/Florida20Gator20poon

I’ll admit that there are some really good looking girls that didn’t meet the admission standards at UF, USF, Stetson, UNF, etc., and had to go to FSU. But we all know, that deep down, they pull for the Gators, because they all love a winner. UF has its fair share of hotties and are well represented on the Poon of the SEC website. By the way, don;t bother looking for Poon of the ACC….that website died for lack of hotness.

Exhibit B

Even your most famous hottie – Jenn Sterger dropped FSU like a bad habit for greener pastures.

http://thewizardofodds.blogspot.com/2007/10/jenn-jumps-on-south-florida-bandwagon.html

Exhibit C

How can you sign your name with that cheer? We all have some gay cheers – but that one takes the (fruit)cake. Florida State, Florida State, Florida State – Whooo? Geez.

I’m out.

by skigator93 on Nov 25, 2008 3:26 PM EST reply actions