3:30 Is Your Official Time Of Championship Mode
by mlmintampa on Jul 7, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
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PrintThe announcement that CBS will show the Tennessee-Florida game at 3:30 is not surprising. This is a Championship Mode game and CBS wanted it in their top spot. But, the sweltering heat plus the blood boiling hatred (if you are one of those bizarre people who do not already hate Tennessee), will bring this game to a new level. Gator fans are anticipating a 70-0 beat down, with Tim Tebow striding across Lake Alice on his way to the Gator Walk. Tennessee fans are anticipating unleashing their boy Lane on the unsuspecting SEC, and ending the Gators' title chances. A pedestrian 37-24 win for Florida almost seems impossible. It's all or nothing.
I cannot think of another Tennessee game I have been anticipating like this. FSU games? Yes, but not Tennessee. Not even the season-ender in 2001, moved due to the 9/11 attacks. (That was my senior year of high school, and I toned down my Gator-fandom in case they rejected me.) I can't even imagine how intense it will be, and I'm someone who yells when Florida is up by four scores.
Another Championship Mode game filled with hate will be Georgia, also a 3:30 start time on Halloween. (Florida-Georgia for Halloween? My God, Jacksonville will burn.) Maybe this is why UF President Bernie Machen does not want as many alcohol vendors in Jax, as the weekend has turned into a way to drop UF's enrollment. But this is like keeping Gasparilla attendees from peeing on rich people's homes; it's not going to happen. (Oh, they're trying to do that? Good luck Hyde Park.) My one Jax experience involved fitting 8 people into a 2-door Chevy Cavalier, sleeping in an abandoned lot, having stray dogs stalk our tent, then evacuating Jax with my brother like the British at Dunkirk.
If Bernie wanted to save kids from the evils of alcohol, he'd get hotels to cut their rates (so you sleep off your buzz in a bed, not a parking garage ledge), make the Jax Police actually enforce laws (Jax acts like this is Mardi Gras), and make areas accessable only to ticket holders or alumni/students (again, locals acting like it's Mardi Gras and starting problems). Machen and UGA's prez have Jacksonville bent over backwards to keep the game in The Bold New City of The South. This is their chance to keep the Florida-Georgia game from being a weekend you forget because you were unconcious from drinking or getting your ass kicked by some guys from Baldwin.
Of course, the other problem with alcohol is that, if not in moderation, it can hurt your ability to be in Championship Mode. That's why UF now has a texting system to alert stadium security of any drunk assholes, douchy frat boys, or people not willing to be in Championship Mode. At least, that's what I'd use it for.
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WLOCP
What’s the deal with Univ. Presidents? Trying to change the traditional name of the game or number of alcohol venders in the stadium will do absolutely nothing. The WLOCP is every uga fans favoirte trip of the year. Its just annoying that these “intellectuals” have their hands on football programs and act like they actually care about fans with their feeble attempts like name changing and cutting alcohol vendors. Political Correctness. Us fans are holding out though. Hey, at least Sanford doesn’t have taddle texts…yet
As an SEC event
There are ZERO alcohol venders in the stadium (not including luxury boxes of course where rules do not apply!)….
I think everyone will have tattle-texting this season. The GA Dome had it last year for Falcons games.
Pirate Festivals
We have our own down here called Billy Bowelegs in Orange Beach, AL. Not on the scale as the one in Tampa, but nearly as many crazy drunk idiots. And enough pee to turn the Gulf of Mexico a nice watered-down yellow.
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken
Definitely
looking forward to UF laying 50+ on Kiffin btw…
"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken
Everyone is.
Even his wife – once a Gator, always a Gator. :)
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100 Cocktails to you, sir
That is if Bernie Machen and Mike Adams approve. Cut the hotel rates and you don’t have kids drinking in precarious situations. I remember having to pile 12 ppl into a room at the Omni my junior year just to make the trip somewhat affordable since Jax decides to raise their hotel rates about 400% that week.
Also good point on police actually enforcing the rules. I remember 2004 pre-game we were leaving the Landing at 9:30ish to start walking to some other tailgates under the bridge when we started to leave with a drink and first asked the officer if we could take them out on the streets. He said “No, but I’m not going to stop you”. Our “Why?” was responded by “there are 100K of you doing it, what’s the point of stopping you 3?”.
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After the 2005 game, I saw a pickup bed full of guys speeding between the stadium and the Landings drinking out of a keg. Now, I love my alcohol, but safety first kids. The hotel situation is a joke too.
I’d actually prefer a home-and-home (I love Athens), but I’ve only been in Florida for 20 years, so I don’t understand the majesty of playing a game in a poorly designed NFL stadium.
mlmintampa
UF C/O 06
Not sure you want the police to start cracking down that hard
Many alcohol laws are waived on game day – it’s sort of like not responding to “noise complaints” for fireworks on July 4th. Do you really want cops to start making tailgate arrests for open container violations?
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