The First Annual Alligator Army Awards: The Albies

by mlmintampa on Dec 16, 2008 2:28 AM EST in Events Comment 10 comments

Over the next few weeks, you see Time publish the "Man of The Year" issue, ESPN roll out every cool highlight and more "Year End" lists than you can stand. That's why we're getting into the act too.

The Alligator Army Awards (or the Albies, for Albert and Alberta) will be awarded in several categories. Each winner will receive the satisfaction of having a random Gators blog call them the best at something. While some of the categories will have obvious winners, my job and your job is to come up with the nominees.

The time span for The Albies is January 1, 2008 to the present day. Each category covers multiple sports. Some are serious. Some are silly. As an example; there is no "Best Football Freshman" it's "Best Freshman" with five nominees from all sports. Leave your nominations in the comments or email me at alligatorarmy@gmail.com .

Here are the categories;

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Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow

Best Freshman

Best Senior

Best Female Athlete

Biggest Surprise

Best Quote

Best Heckle (The most absurd or obscene thing you heard directed at a Gator opponent this season and who said it; you, a friend, your minister. If you leave the nomination in the comments, bleep out the cursing. If you email, leave it in.)

Best Gators YouTube

Best Looking Gator Athlete

Best Game

Best Moment In Championship Mode (Best play/performance in a Championship Mode game; UM, UT, LSU, UGA, FSU, Bama for football. NCAA Tournament games for all others.)

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Submit your Albies nominations by Friday, December 19. Voting begins on Monday, December 22 and ends on Tuesday, December 23. Drop your nominations in the comments or email us at alligatorarmy@gmail.com .

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My nomination

Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow: Percy Harvin

Best Freshman – Jeff Demps

Best Senior – Louis Murphy

Best Female Athlete – um… sorry.

Biggest Surprise – Janoris Jenkins

Best Quote – "The reason Tim is better — er, special, is… " (Urban Meyer when discussing his quarterback vs. Bradford at the Heisman Trophy ceremony interview)

Best Heckle – too many to pick one

Best Gators YouTube – the Star Wars one I posted at my site recently

Best Looking Gator Athlete – pass

Best Game – UF vs. Alabama. That was special.

Orange and Blue Hue: The World through GATOR-colored Glasses -- http://www.orangeandbluehue.com

by Gatorpilot on Dec 16, 2008 10:58 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

By the way

Best moment in championship mode: for me I can’t stop thinking about Tebow’s 2 minute drill down the field at the end of the half, in the driving rain against FSU. I know FSU sucks, but that was still epic.

Orange and Blue Hue: The World through GATOR-colored Glasses -- http://www.orangeandbluehue.com

by Gatorpilot on Dec 16, 2008 11:03 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Nominations

Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow: Percy Harvin

Best Freshman: Janoris Jenkins

Best Senior: Cornelius Ingram

Best Female Athlete: Stacey Nelson

Biggest Surprise: Florida Softball’s run to the World Series semifinals.

Best Quote: "It’s boring. I thought it would be fun, like you see on TV. But it ain’t like that." -Chris Rainey on his “sex classes.”

Best Heckle: " What are you, a family of computer programmers?" -Heard in Knoxville by
a friend who was making fun of a group of Tennessee fans that were all wearing jerseys with the numbers “00, 1, an 10.”

Best Gators YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQShWogLzw

Best Looking Gator Athlete: Corey Hartung

Best Game: The Cocktail Party; I loved every minute of that game.

Best Moment In Championship Mode: Brandon Spikes setting the tone in the Georgia game by hitting Knowshon Moreno, and then staying on top of him to talk trash.

by tbcook on Dec 16, 2008 12:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Italics indicates my first choice if I listed more than one name.

Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow – Percy Harvin, football.

Best Freshman – Josh Adams, baseball; Stephanie Brombacher, softball

Best Female Athlete – Stacey Nelson, softball; about 4 or 5 women on the Gymnastics squad could go here too.

Biggest Surprise – The 2008 Softball team.

Best Quote – Tebow’s Ole Miss speech.

Best Gators YouTube – Ecstacy of Gold FTW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVC7BolOe04&feature=related

Best Game – SEC Championship game, football; South Carolina game, football (bonus points for being my last game at the Swamp as a student).

Best Moment In Championship Mode – Tim Tebow’s 4th quarter of the SEC Championship game.

by Gator Cub on Dec 16, 2008 12:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

my nominations

Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow – Brandon Spikes

Best Freshman – Nick Calathes

Best Senior – Mary Ratliff – the only senior on the 70-5 softball team that set a record for wins in a season and ran off a 37 game winning streak at one point in the season!

Best Female Athlete – Dara Torres…still winning medals at 41. Are you kidding me?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7546224@N08/2748724685/

Biggest Surprise – Softball team’s run to the national championship game with only one senior player .

Best Quote – "It’s boring. I thought it would be fun, like you see on TV. But it ain’t like that." Chris Rainey on his Human Sexuality class.

Best Heckle – (really a worst heckle) “I hate Tebow” by an Alabama fan at the Georgia Dome. When asked why he hated Tebow so much, he replied “Because he’s awesome”

Best Gators YouTube – Have to agree with tbcook above on the Spikes de-cleater of Moreno: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQShWogLzw

Best Looking Gator Athlete – Corey Hartung. Although none will ever compare to Heather Mitts. She’s the Tim Tebow of good looking Gator athletes. http://www.heathermitts.com/images/modeling/slides/hm20(2).html

Best Game – UGA. I live in Atlanta, it was an easy choice.

Best Moment In Championship Mode – Tebow 4th quarter in SECCG…finally coming from behind for a win!

by skigator93 on Dec 16, 2008 3:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Fun idea...

Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow: Brandon Spikes

Best Freshman: Janoris Jenkins

Best Senior: Louis Murphy

Best Female Athlete: Stacey Nelson

Biggest Surprise: Ahmad Black (Hard to not pick the softball team here, but they had talent to compete. Black on the other hand was never expected to be this good…Meyer even said so.)

Best Quote: Anything that comes out of Chris Rainey’s mouth will always get my vote.

Best Heckle: I feel bad voting for myself, but why not? “My Heisman Trophy Winner beat up Your Rhodes Scholar.” I’m sure you can guess which game this is in reference to.

Best Gators YouTube: I’ll go with what a few have already posted. The hit Spikes put on Moreno. That hit defines the 2008 Gator defense.

Best Looking Gator Athlete: Danielle DeLuca

Best Game: The SEC Championship

Best Moment In Championship Mode: The entire fourth quarter against Alabama.

by The Bull Gator on Dec 16, 2008 7:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Mine

Best Player Not Named Tim Tebow: Percy Harvin (Brandon Spikes just missed)

Best Freshman: Janoris Jenkins (Jeff Demps just missed)

Best Senior: Louis Murphy (duh)

Best Female Athlete: Stacey Nelson (I have no idea who that is)

Biggest Surprise: The Ole Miss loss (especially in hindsight; noticing a female Gator mascot just missed)

Best Quote: the Tebow quote (like, duh)

Best Heckle: You lost to Wyoming. (To Tennessee, after we played them, and I know its harsh. Yeh I need to get a shower because it is so dirty).

Best Gators YouTube: Brandon Spikes killing Moreno

Best Looking Gator Athlete: Jeff Demps (since I promised to marry him during the Alabama game…im not gay : |…not that there is anything wrong with that. : | )

Best Game: Florida vs. Alabama (Florida vs. Citadel just missed, are you kidding me?)

Best Moment In Championship Mode: Tebow drenched in rain and endzone paint during the FSU game. That picture will be remembered for years to come.

by Slica on Dec 17, 2008 5:00 AM EST reply actions 0 recs