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Post by turtleclubsailor on Jan 11, 2009 15:31:02 GMT -6
A friend and I have had a thread going ever since the baseball playoffs and then the World Series, that morphed into the BCS rankings and then the bowl games themselves (on another board that we both got sick of).
So, everything I predicted about the Gators' move to number one happened! Go Gators!
Last time the Gators won the National Championship in football, they had won the National Championship also in Basketball the year before and that same year, also.
I'm not so sure the men's basketball team will reach that level this year (the women are looking better), but I'll still be cheering them on.
I went 3 years+ at the University of Georgia, but my wife and soul mate converted me to being a fan of the Florida Gators. But that's fair, since I converted her and her family from being Buffalo Bills fans to being Tampa Bay Bucs fans.
Speaking of which, I'm ready for a new coach. Gruden won the Super Bowl with Dungy's team, and has been inconsistent ever since.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 12, 2009 6:47:13 GMT -6
A friend and I have had a thread going ever since the baseball playoffs and then the World Series, that morphed into the BCS rankings and then the bowl games themselves (on another board that we both got sick of). So, everything I predicted about the Gators' move to number one happened! Go Gators! Who?Last time the Gators won the National Championship in football, they had won the National Championship also in Basketball the year before and that same year, also. I'm not so sure the men's basketball team will reach that level this year (the women are looking better), but I'll still be cheering them on. I went 3 years+ at the University of Georgia, but my wife and soul mate converted me to being a fan of the Florida Gators. But that's fair, since I converted her and her family from being Buffalo Bills fans to being Tampa Bay Bucs fans. Speaking of which, I'm ready for a new coach. Gruden won the Super Bowl with Dungy's team, and has been inconsistent ever since. |
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Post by turtleclubsailor on Jan 12, 2009 8:26:58 GMT -6
University of Florida Gators.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 12, 2009 8:43:17 GMT -6
Must be a regional powerhouse, Ive never heard of them. Theyre Division II right?
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Post by turtleclubsailor on Jan 12, 2009 9:13:45 GMT -6
Watch out that you don't grab the wrong leg!
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Post by wareagle on Jan 12, 2009 12:21:50 GMT -6
University of Florida Gators. It's nice to have another SEC guy hanging around. |
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Post by DT on Jan 12, 2009 16:12:52 GMT -6
It's nice to have another SEC guy hanging around.[ /quote] Hey, someone has to take HB's place. psssst....... Not a big NCAA football fan, but, did see the Gators win the SEC (I was rooting for Alabama) and the National Championship. |
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Post by turtleclubsailor on Jan 12, 2009 17:20:00 GMT -6
War Eagle, I thought your handle referred to something to do with Native American thought, but I see the connection now. Since I started watching football in the '50s, I've known that SEC football is the best. Probably before your time, but I used to sell 7-Up at the GA Tech stadium during the college games (and I'd hang around where the drinkers were, to sell to them, for mix - and just kind of watch the games). Anyway, I was in the stadium once when one of Bear Bryant's linebackers had to jump UP in order to smash his elbow across the faceguard of the GA Tech runner. Naturally Bear defended his player. That was necessary roughness. Ha.
Of course one of the sayings at the U. of GA, where I went to school, was "Whomp 'em up 'side the head!"
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Post by nolaflacav on Jan 12, 2009 17:45:22 GMT -6
War Eagle, I thought your handle referred to something to do with Native American thought, but I see the connection now. Since I started watching football in the '50s, I've known that SEC football is the best. Probably before your time, but I used to sell 7-Up at the GA Tech stadium during the college games (and I'd hang around where the drinkers were, to sell to them, for mix - and just kind of watch the games). Anyway, I was in the stadium once when one of Bear Bryant's linebackers had to jump UP in order to smash his elbow across the faceguard of the GA Tech runner. Naturally Bear defended his player. That was necessary roughness. Ha. Of course one of the sayings at the U. of GA, where I went to school, was "Whomp 'em up 'side the head!" I had the good fortune to meet Bear Bryant up close and personal. As usual, Alabama came to Baton Rouge to play LSU in the mid 70’s when I was a student. It was a nationally televised game and several of us that were in the radio & TV program at LSU were hired to work for ABC that day. It was all very exciting and I was assigned two jobs for the game. I was to be on the Alabama sideline. There were no Erin Andrew types back then. So it was my duty to call up to the press box with injury reports and updates. I was also assigned to escort Alabama onto the playing field. Being a nationally televised game this was supposed to be highly choreographed. The plan was LSU was to run out on the field first followed in a couple of minutes by Alabama from the opposing side of the stadium. I was wearing a headset and the producer informed me to head down the tunnel to the Alabama locker room. My instructions were to queue Alabama in the tunnel and lead them out onto the field when I was notified by the press box. I was about a third of the way down the tunnel when I heard the LSU band launch into the fight song and the stadium go crazy. I knew the LSU team was streaming onto the field at that point. The producer informed me that it was 90 seconds and counting to bring the Tide out. By this time I was half way down the tunnel when I heard a tremendous crash and the two doors to the Alabama dressing room were literally kicked open. It sounded like a gun shot. From behind the door comes running at full speed Bear Bryant. He is closely followed by three Alabama State Troopers with hats that are as broad as their shoulders. And behind these four men are the football players in full gear and rolling toward me at full speed. I threw up my hand and weakly said something to the effect, “Coach we need to hold here till ABC gives us the signal”. I quickly realized Bear’s game plan was to hit the field at the same time as LSU. He wanted his players to run out hearing only the cheers and zero boos. Bear Bryant never broke stride. He looked me straight in the eyes and gave me words of advice that still ring true today. He said “Son you better get your ass in gear cause it is time to Roll Tide!” With that I did an immediate 180 and led Alabama out into Tiger Stadium on Bear Bryant’s schedule. And I am all the better person for it. Mainly because I would have been trampled to death if I had tried to hold my ground. I like to think Bear Bryant and Nola came to some sort of mutual understanding that afternoon in Tiger Stadium. |
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Post by turtleclubsailor on Jan 12, 2009 18:57:49 GMT -6
Great story. I can tell you and I will be swapping stories. Not related to sports, but I need to sometimes tell about meeting Brenda Lee in the Summer of 1961. And about my wife and me getting interviewed for the Superbowl that Tampa Bucs was in (in San Diego) in Jan. 2003 (with 3 different segments that ran that night on air).
War Eagle. My apologies. In reading, the last 2 posts, I suddenly realized you are probably an Auburn alum or fan. My wife was a travel nurse (labor & delivery) in Montgomery before we met, so she knows that in Alabama, you have to be for one school or the other - no other choice. And in some areas, God help you if you have chosen wrong.
I was visiting my Dad when he was near death in the VA hospital there one year, and when I went outside to smoke (still smoked then; in fact, I've only been quit since July 31, 2008), there was a guy being brought in who had cut his leg bad because he had missed while chopping wood and listening to the Alabama-Auburn game (and a little trashed). He was feeling no pain, and having a smoke before heading in.
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Post by wareagle on Jan 13, 2009 8:09:11 GMT -6
Great story. I can tell you and I will be swapping stories. Not related to sports, but I need to sometimes tell about meeting Brenda Lee in the Summer of 1961. And about my wife and me getting interviewed for the Superbowl that Tampa Bucs was in (in San Diego) in Jan. 2003 (with 3 different segments that ran that night on air). War Eagle. My apologies. In reading, the last 2 posts, I suddenly realized you are probably an Auburn alum or fan. My wife was a travel nurse (labor & delivery) in Montgomery before we met, so she knows that in Alabama, you have to be for one school or the other - no other choice. And in some areas, God help you if you have chosen wrong.I was visiting my Dad when he was near death in the VA hospital there one year, and when I went outside to smoke (still smoked then; in fact, I've only been quit since July 31, 2008), there was a guy being brought in who had cut his leg bad because he had missed while chopping wood and listening to the Alabama-Auburn game (and a little trashed). He was feeling no pain, and having a smoke before heading in. My Dad started taking my brother and me to Auburn football games when we were 5 and 6 years old back in the late 1950's and we've been going ever since. People who don't live down here don't understand the rivalry between AU and UA but it's 365 days a year and it's intense because we all live and work together and can't get away from each other like other rivalry's can. I spent 33 years of my life either playing football or coaching it and I spent many an hour up in Tuscaloosa or Birmingham at an Alabama coaching clinic headed up by Coach Bryant in the 1970's and early 80's. I went to other coaching clinics around the south but Coach Bryant's were the best. I still remember staying up late at one of his coaching clinics and he got drunk with us. Coach Bryant was so drunk he was riding the elevator and couldn't get off, funny as hell and he was one hell of a guy. But I did tell him once I'd rather beat him than win with him. I love college football, pro football is fine but I love watching the high school kids and college kids best of all. Me 'n' my bruther are the first of our family to receive college edamucations and I still enjoy typing southern grammar, much to the chagrin of some of our up tight grammar and spelling Nazis on this board and I ain't a gonna ch-ch-change no-how. |
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Post by turtleclubsailor on Jan 13, 2009 8:48:10 GMT -6
You the man! I'm afraid that track was the only thing I lettered in, but I've always enjoyed sand-lot football, and I've watched football since the days of Tarkenton in college (and Unitas in pros).
At UGA, the "glory, glory to ol GA" song ends with "and to hell with GA Tech!" But I agree, the rivalry is probably not 365 days a year.
My soph year at UGA (1962-63), I was an Argonaut (a volunteer freshman "advisor in the dorm - not a paid resident advisor). My first night there, I took my group to the best pub (that didn't check IDs if you looked old enough to reach for your wallet). This was important, as that county was dry for hard liquor (and the cops from Atlanta to Athens always watched for car trunks which sagged with weight of transported liquor).
Anyway, my contribution to UGA football was that a couple of buddies of mine and I would get a hotel room and a portion of each poker pot went for the expenses of the room and drinks. And some of our regulars were UGA players. I don't think any of them were stars, but I might have contributed to allowing Florida to beat us back then. This was pre-Herschel Walker days.
When I went in the Navy in 1963, I got in lots of arguments over which conference is best. The Big 10? The Pac (now 10)? I always argued that year after year, the number of teams in the top 10 or 25 from the SEC is quite good. Plus, we knock each other off. Look at Ol Miss this year!
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