10 best examples of Cocktail Party contempt, heartbreak and hate
Depending on who you ask, Florida and Georgia will square off for the 97th (Florida) or 98th (Georgia) time Saturday on the banks of the St. John’s River in Jacksonville (3:30 p.m., CBS).
You can’t become a rivalry that old and celebrated unless you’ve got a bit of hate in you, and once you mix in a beverage or two — after all, they don’t call this game The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party for nothing — the passions flow.
Georgia leads the series by 7 or 8 (depends on which fan base you ask), which is a relatively close margin, all considered. What’s unusual about Florida-Georgia (or is it Georgia-Florida?) is that over large swaths of history, one side has had runs of superiority over the other. This has only cemented the disdain among the fan bases for the other side, as extended runs of competitive dominance have left deeply ingrained scars on the psyches of both fan bases.
Older Florida fans are still traumatized by Georgia and squirm when they hear the name Vince Dooley, who beat Florida 17 times in his 25 seasons in Athens, spoiling at least 3 Gators bids at SEC championships along the way.
Georgia fans born after 1990 have never had a winning decade against Florida (that can change Saturday!) and even the most pious might swear when they hear the name Steve Spurrier, the Evil Genius who returned to Florida and flipped the script on Dooley’s dominance. In Spurrier’s 12 seasons in Gainesville, Florida beat Georgia 11 times, losing only in 1997.
Through it all, the lore and legend of the Cocktail Party has grown, defined by some astonishing instances of contempt between the two schools.
Here are the 10 best historic examples of Florida-Georgia contempt, heartbreak and hate.
10. The Fans Fight (1928)
When Charlie Bachman took the reins of the Florida football program in 1928, he knew he had a talented team but also knew that to compete regionally and nationally, he’d have to find a way to beat Georgia. The Bulldogs had walloped Florida in the first 6 meetings between the schools (Georgia would say 7) by the combined score of 190-9.
Both teams arrived in Savannah, Georgia with SEC (then the Southern Conference) Championship aspirations — the Gators were 6-0, the Bulldogs 4-1. Florida forced 2 early fumbles and eventually, broke the game open behind the All-American Dale Van Sickle. Florida won 26-6, and after Florida’s final score in the 4th quarter, Florida’s fans prematurely raced to tear down the goalposts, which enraged the Savannah locals. Fistfights broke out across the field, forcing a stoppage from the game and many arrests.
Eventually, the field was cleared, time expired and the Gators finally had a victory over Georgia. Florida would finish 9-1, losing a heartbreaker for the conference title to General Neyland’s Tennessee. The Bulldogs were so stunned by their first loss to the Gators they didn’t win another game, finishing 4-5.
9. Fourth-and-dumb (1976)
Before there was Kirby Smart’s fake punt in the SEC Championship, there was Doug Dickey’s decision against Georgia to go for it on 4th down his own 29-yard line, playing with the lead in the 3rd quarter.
Dickey had been a good player at Florida who had keyed a 30-0 Gators win over Georgia in 1952. He had less success beating the Dawgs as a head coach, but appeared to have No. 7 Georgia on the ropes in 1976 before his team was stuffed by the Dawgs on 4th-and-1.
In an ironic twist, Georgia, led by quarterback Ray Goff, another excellent player who would struggle in the Cocktail Party as a head coach, stormed back to win the game 41-27. The win keyed a Georgia run to the SEC title, but Dickey blamed no one but himself for the Gators’ heartbreak.
“We played well enough to win,” Dickey said afterward. “We lost because I made some dumb decisions and calls.” Dickey’s admission was media gold — and “Fourth-and-Dumb” was born — well before Kirby Smart faked his punt.
8. Grantham Chokes, Chas Henry doesn’t (2010)
The 2010 Florida-Georgia game was bonkers.
The Bulldogs were a young team and came to Jacksonville having rattled off 3 straight wins. Yes, the team was 4-4, but the core of a team that would win plenty of games over the next couple of seasons was starting to show promise.
The Gators were in Year 1 post-Tebow, and Urban Meyer was a sideline zombie, often seen writhing in agony and deferring duties he usually handled himself to multiple assistants. Florida had gone 0-for-October, even losing twice at home in The Swamp, unthinkable in the Meyer era.
To try to get a spark, Florida played 3 quarterbacks, with John Brantley trading snaps with 2 future NFL Pro Bowl tight ends, Trey Burton and Jordan Reed. The system fooled Georgia and frustrated defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, who eventually adjusted but not before Florida had stormed to a big lead. Georgia rallied and forced overtime, but after an Aaron Murray interception, Florida had a chance to win in the first OT.
The only problem was that Florida’s normal placekicker was hurt, forcing All-SEC punter Chas Henry into kicking duties. Meyer was so unsure of Henry’s kicking ability he passed up a long field goal to try to win the game, playing for overtime. In OT, he trusted his kicker.
On the Georgia sideline, Todd Grantham “gently” reminded Henry of the scale of the kick by making a choke sign in Henry’s direction:
Henry responded the best way possible — by drilling the 37-yard kick to beat the Dawgs, and silence Florida’s future defensive coordinator.
7. Dooley’s bag of tricks breaks Florida’s heart (1975)
In 1975, the Gators knew if they could best the rival Bulldogs, all they would need is a win over Kentucky to secure the school’s first SEC championship.
The Gators led 7-3 late in the game and had stuffed Georgia’s power run game all day.
Vince Dooley wasn’t known for trick plays. He believed — and still believes — in fundamental, physical football. But he knew his Georgia team needed something — anything — to find a way past a ferocious top 10 Florida team in 1976.
“We had a tight end pass we had run a few times in practice, but never had a moment to run it in a game,” Dooley told the press following the game. “This was that moment. We needed to make a play to win.”
The play started as a reverse, but instead of tight end Richard Appleby running or handing it back off, he stopped, pivoted and threw a parabola to the other sideline to a streaking Gene Washington, who was quarantined behind a fooled and stunned Gators defense.
The Dawgs won 10-7, and the Gators’ SEC championship dreams were once again shattered on the banks of the St. John’s River.
6. Spurrier’s Jab at Ray Goff (1991)
What would a list of clean, old-fashioned hating be without the Hatin, err, Head Ball Coach?
The Heisman winning quarterback returned to his alma mater as Head Coach in 1990 and the SEC, as well as the Cocktail Party, was never the same.
Spurrier’s teams roasted Georgia in his first 2 seasons, overwhelming them with over 600 yards of passing and 8 passing touchdowns and outscoring them by a combined score of 83-20.
After the 1991 game, a giddy Spurrier took a shot at Georgia coach Ray Goff, who was well-known as an ace recruiter but whose teams couldn’t play to the standard you’d expect given their recruiting rankings.
“Why is it that during recruiting season they sign all the great players, but when it comes time to play the game, we have all the great players?” Spurrier quipped. “I don’t understand that. What happens to them?”
This was only the beginning of Spurrier’s hate-filled reign of terror over Georgia.
5. The Georgia Stomp (2007)
Mark Richt was tired of losing to Florida by 2007, having beaten the Gators only once in his tenure in Athens despite winning 2 SEC Championships and competing for another.
Florida, the defending national champions, arrived in Jacksonville confident, thanks to the sterling play of sophomores Tim Tebow and Percy Harvin.
A touchdown underdog, Georgia took the ball and drove the length of the field to score on its first possession. After Knowshon Moreno plunged over the top for the touchdown, the Bulldogs’ bench emptied, with the entire Georgia sideline filling the endzone to celebrate and dance.
Georgia was flagged for multiple unsportsmanlike conduct penalties after the celebration, but it didn’t matter. The “Georgia Stomp” set the tone for the day, as the Bulldgos were the more physical and aggressive football team, winning 42-30.
4. Urban’s Revenge (2008)
Everywhere Urban Meyer went in the spring and summer of 2008, he’d tell people it was “a big deal” how Georgia had stomped and danced against his team in 2007.
Meyer meant it.
The 2008 Cocktail Party was the first top 10 matchup between the two programs since 1999, with both teams holding only 1 loss upon arrival in Jacksonville.
The game was close for a while until a Joe Haden interception of Matthew Stafford turned a nip and tuck game into a rout.
With nearly all the Georgia fans in the stadium gone and Florida leading 49-10 in the game’s waning moments, Urban Meyer used his final 2 timeouts in the game’s final minutes, allowing his team and fans to bask in the glory of a 39-point lead and making a tired, whipped Bulldogs team stay on the field and watch them celebrate.
Meyer initially played coy about the decision, saying it wasn’t about the prior year. Refreshingly, he’s changed his tune.
“We had 2 timeouts … I wish I had 3, to be honest with you,” Meyer told ESPN for the Saturdays in the South documentary series. “My biggest fear was that when your manhood gets challenged like that, are you going to do something to retaliate? The biggest thing was … I talked to our players nonstop about, ‘Do not get involved.’ Every reporter was asking our players, ‘What was going to be the payback?’
Well, 49-10 was the payback. The timeouts were just a little old-fashioned hate.
3. Georgia 75, Florida 0 (1942)
In 1942, war had broken out across the globe and the Gators lost the bulk of their upperclassmen to the draft or volunteers to the armed services. According to the University of Florida archives, Florida lost 8 starters before the season and several more during it, as well as a handful of coaches who wanted to join the fight against fascism. By 1943, the Gators’ personnel losses to the war were so great the school elected not to field a team.
At Georgia, coach Wally Butts worked hard to make sure he kept his football team together and out of the war. Stars Charley Trippi and Frank Sinkwich were among those who received special draft deferments for enrolling in the University of Georgia’s ROTC program. This kept the Dawgs together and helped them arrive in Jacksonville ranked No. 1.
Before the game, Butts and Georgia knew the Gators would be playing without 16 regulars and multiple coaches. Georgia showed no mercy, whipping Florida’s young reserves 75-0 behind 7 Trippi and Sinkwich touchdowns.
The margin of victory remains the largest in series history.
2. “Half a Hundred in Athens” (1995)
In 1995, Florida traveled to Athens to play Between the Hedges while Jacksonville’s stadium was being reconstructed for the soon-to-debut Jaguars. Danny Wuerffel threw for 5 touchdowns, staking the Gators to a comfortable lead in the 4th quarter, but Spurrier kept throwing anyway.
His backup quarterback, Eric Kresser (who later won an FCS national championship at Marshall), threw 2 late touchdowns — 1 with less than 90 seconds remaining — to give Florida a 52-17 victory.
When asked by a reporter why he threw down the field up 28 with 1:21 remaining, Spurrier deadpanned: “We heard no one had ever hung half-a-hundred on Georgia in Athens before. We wanted to do that.”
This remains, without question, the most hateful thing Steve Spurrier has ever done.
1. “Run, Lindsay, Run” (1980)
Trailing the underdog Gators 21-20 late in the 4th quarter, Vince Dooley’s best Georgia team was on the ropes in 1980. In the shadow of their own goalposts with a minute to play, their dreams of Georgia’s national championship were about to die at the feet of the hated Gators.
No play in the history of the Cocktail Party is as famous or has brought as much joy to one side and as much agony to another as what happened next. And I am certainly not as worthy as the late, great Larry Munson to tell the rest of the story:
"MAN, is there gonna be some property destroyed tonight!"
38 years ago today: Run Lindsay, Run. pic.twitter.com/N3QbEpWrRt
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) November 8, 2018
#1 – #5 are all particularly brutal when it comes to football but man that #3 is not a good look for UGA morally.
And that’s one of the scores their fans love bragging about the most. Makes you wonder if they actually know the true story behind why it was so lopsided.
Of Course they know the truth, and they choose to brag anyway. There’s actually a plaque in Athens that celebrates the win and how happy they were to not support America. It even draws similarities between UGA and SS uniforms. I have lobbied several times to have this removed, but they claim it is part of their heritage, not hate. Until 1976, the restaurant across the street from the plaque serves burgers that look like normal burgers but when you open them up and look, they arrange the pickles in little swastikas. This same restaurant originated the term “French Fries” to celebrate the Nazi occupation of France.
What is the name of restaurant? And where is plaque located? Since you “lobbied” against it and know all of its intricate details you must know its exact location. Also, a restaurant stopping to arrange pickles in shape of swastikas for all its burgers? The term “French fries” refers to the thin long cut of potatoes and its origins are disputed between Belgium and France. You also said “until 1976” then say “serves”. Idiot.
This sounds like a complete lie. Give us more details.
NASA, why don’t you and Gromit tell us about your military service? We have time to review it and pat you on the back for your patriotism, if any is there.
Boy, there is just no fooling this group of geniuses. This is called Parody. I now know that once I “admit” that this is made up, you guys will pat yourselves on the back for solving the mystery, and even though you won’t understand why, just know that calling this out as BS actually makes you look dumb as hell.
Of coarse it isn’t a true story. I would never go to Georgia.
Parody? I doubt even the most ardent Gator fan is going to buy that.
So, what do you think this is? Please ‘splain it real good fer me. Sos I kin understaind it.
#3 is why to this day I have zero respect for anyone that supports UGA. As a veteran from a family of veterans, it truly disgusts me that Wally Butts marched his team down to the ROTC office on his campus and signed up each and every football player on this team so they wouldn’t leave and go fight in the war.
The ONLY team in America that pulled that stunt. To this day it truly disgusts me that anyone could put a stupid sports program over something as important as the worldwide fight of good vs evil.
What does amaze me is just how few modern day sports fans are aware of this, especially Dawg fans who seem very reluctant to acknowledge it.
That said, my favorite of all time is Urban’s revenge in 2008. Like him or hate him, but his response to Mark Richt ordering his team to rush the field in 2007 was perfect.
So you’re holding a grudge over people who had nothing to do with something that happened over 70 years ago?
He also took a moral high road then loved a team that had a racist (Riley Cooper), a woman beater (Chris Rainey), a murder (Aaron Hernandez) and Tim Tebow. Let’s not forget Brandon Spikes eye gouge. Yeah that sounds like what gator fan would cheer. A morally bankrupt fanbase taking the high ground.
Hey Nate, no one here would cheer for those reprehensible acts. Just like I am sure no decent Dawg fan would cheer or condone a victory that was rooted in putting football before our Freedom.
And your starting QB getting caught with a naked 11 year old boy in his bedroom is acceptable behavior for “MORAL” fanbases like UGLY? Please. You people are some of the most classless and hatefilled fans in the nation. Please stop trying to throw stones.
Don’t sit there and try to act like Florida fans SUPPORTED problem players when they had issues at Florida. By and large everyone was willing to kick those kids off of the team asap as soon as they pulled something stupid.
Any problem I have with Georgia pretty much boils down to the fact I do not believe they should have the right to fly the American flag in their stadium on game days considering how they turned their back on this nation during WW2. It is an affront to my patriotism and dedication to my country.
The fact that to this day, none of the dawg fans feel any remorse or sympathy in the slightest proves my point. They try to defend it and celebrate the fact whereas moral citizens would be ashamed if not outraged. Do you really think any Florida fans celebrate Aaron Hernandez Day or some such? We are all as sickened and depressed about what that kid and all of his potential did to himself and others just as anyone else is. I have never met a Florida fan who still supported him after the fact.
That’s the difference.
Yeah! What He Said!! ^^^^
“Hate filled fans” says the guy holding a 70 year grudge. I’m a vet and a UGA fan. I have no idea of this incident you describe from 1942 and I really don’t care. It in no way reflects on my patriotism or lack thereof. In fact, it is no reflection on anyone involved in the game Saturday – on the field or in the stands. You want to hate the Dawgs and Dawg fans, hate them. But please, stop with this nonsense of dragging up something from WWII to prop up your own sense or moral superiority. If you’re really hanging on to this, you might be taking it all a little too seriously.
Cry me a river
Interesting take. Care adding your 2 “cents,” for #3? Anything “sense,”able to add? “Since,” your comment has a “scent,” of arrogance to it, do you mind elaborating? LOL.
LOL This is my 2 cents for #3
He just did.
Yeah, you and the writer need to do some research.
The Bulldogs triumphantly returned to Athens but the great 1942 team was gutted by the war. Thirty-five of the teams 43 players enlisted in the military. Sinwich entered the Marines in June 1943, Trippi served in the Air Force and “Red” Boyd joined the Marines.
Three players from the 1942 team were killed in action. Offensive lineman William Burt, of Macon, Georgia, was shot down over Italy on May 25, 1944. Lineman Walter “Chief” Ruark, of Bostwick, Georgia, was killed in action in Aachen, Germany, on Nov. 22, 1944. Army Captain Winfred Goodman from Atlanta, was lost while leading an air/sea rescue in the Philippines in January 1945.
I am not sure the writer disputes any of this. The point was made that the coach found a loop hole in the system to keep his team in tact. Then that team, which was loaded, went into the Florida-Georgia game knowing the UF team was down due to our best players serving. Then proceeded to run the score up. Is that part of the story true in your opinion? And are you ok with that as a fan today? I believe this is the debate.
Get off your dam() high horse Vomit. Take your meds and get some rest.
Wait wait wait…Jake Fromm got caught in bed with an 11 year old boy? Holy cow how has this been kept quiet for so long. I thought he was a good guy like Tebow (minus the double A baseball skillz)
Gromit, you’re a self righteous, sanctimonious moron. Not only do you not have the complete story, you quickly judge an entire fan base for actions that happened 70 years ago. Plus, in your sprint to claim the moral high ground, you ignore the war service of UGA fans/athletes of every other war. This is a pristine example of virtue signaling.
What goes around comes around so UGA put 52 on Spurrier at SC and knocked him right out of coaching, the ultimate pay back.
What the Dawgs did to Spurrier while coaching at South Carolina is of no significance to me.
The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is better than Christmas. Such a great and storied rivalry. Also there is no disputing that historically this is Florida’s biggest rivalry, it’s not just about the last five years, or 20 years, or even the last 50 years. But it certainly wouldn’t be the same anywhere but Jacksonville, it just adds an edge that would disappear if this went to a home and home.
What is Florida’s biggest rival really depends on the era. For many years Auburn was one of our biggest rivals. During a certain period of time it was definitely Georgia (the vinny dooley years). In the 90’s it was unquestionably FSU because they were winning national titles and breaking records every year, at the same time Florida was having it’s best success ever, meanwhile Georgia was a joke of a program. It’s hard to say Georgia is your main rival when you beat them 11 out of Spurrier’s 12 years. Tennessee was more of a roadblock to Florida winning the SEC in those days. Up until recently, the joke was for Florida fans that half of your donation to the Florida sports program went to Florida, the other half was donated to Georgia to make sure they didn’t fire Mark Richt.
Now that Georgia is the clear team standing between Florida and competing in the SEC Championship game where it belongs, it is easy to say Georgia is our main rival again.
Tell us about your military service Gromit since you have challenged our patriotism using the military as your excuse.
You think that dipsh*t keyboard warrior Vomit served his country? LOL
Not a chance Fly Fisherman.
For me, it’s always been Georgia
Saying UGA was ONLY team in America to get player deferments means you have PROOF that not a single other team got a single deferrment. Both Sinkwich and Trippi served in WW2. Also, joining ROTC means they were obligated to serve as officers once degree was obtained. Actually was better for players so they could be officers instead of enlisted. It stands for Reserve Officer Training Corps.
I believe there was a major story about it in Sports Illustrated in the 1980’s about how Georgia was the ONLY team in the nation who did not contribute a single one of it’s players to the war effort during the actual war. What happened AFTER the war (and AFTER their playing eligibility!!!) is immaterial.
Somebody else did the research not me, and I don’t keep periodicals from that era lying around my house.
You “believe” there was a SI article? If it so disgusted you why didn’t you keep it? Sinkwich and Trippi, players mentioned in article above, served DURING the war. Trippi actually came back (after serving in WW2) to play in 1946.
Whether they eventually served or not, doesn’t change the fact that your coach/school did everything they could to postpone their service to win football games when most other schools were putting the flag first. Being a “marine” yourself, it’s kind’ve surprising you’re trying to sugarcoat that line of thinking.
Hey Joe…the “marine” thing makes you a gigantic a$$hole
Joe, you being Mr Patriot, tell us about your military service. It’s one thing to go in when you have to, quiet another to go in because you want to. Tell us, we are all paying attention.
Joe, attempting to jump on Gromits’ pathetic effort at making false claims about UGA’ athletes’ military service (supported by claims of reading some article 30 years ago) is horrendously stupid. You know nothing about what happened and are opportunisticly trying to claim moral high ground.
You are clueless, do some research on stuff before you start talking. As a Veteran I would think you would have a little more respect, and actually think before speaking. They did serve and some died. I’ve yet to read anywhere that Trippi was in the ROTC, he was in the Air Force though. Below is material you can find by simply doing some research.
The Bulldogs triumphantly returned to Athens but the great 1942 team was gutted by the war. Thirty-five of the teams 43 players enlisted in the military. Sinkwich entered the Marines in June 1943, Trippi served in the Air Force and “Red” Boyd joined the Marines.
Three players from the 1942 team were killed in action. Offensive lineman William Burt, of Macon, Georgia, was shot down over Italy on May 25, 1944. Lineman Walter “Chief” Ruark, of Bostwick, Georgia, was killed in action in Aachen, Germany, on Nov. 22, 1944. Army Captain Winfred Goodman from Atlanta, was lost while leading an air/sea rescue in the Philippines in January 1945.
To be clear I was talking to Gromit, not USMCDawg
I am not sure the writer disputes any of this. The point was made that the coach found a loop hole in the system to keep his team in tact. Then that team, which was loaded, went into the Florida-Georgia game knowing the UF team was down due to our best players serving. Then proceeded to run the score up. Is that part of the story true in your opinion? And are you ok with that as a fan today? I believe this is the debate.
I believe I read the same article maybe in the 80’s. I believe it talked about how UF tried to enroll their football team into the ROTC but was rejected because the military needed qualified cooks, ditch diggers, and latrine cleaners, so I believe the UF players were shipped out immediately.
Give up. You lost the argument with your beliefs and incorrect “facts.”
stupid attempt at humor, you don’t know if any of those kids you call latrine cleaners died in the war effort, and the fact still stands that the UF players went to war while UGA players kept playing and beating up on depleted teams
CO, that’s a bad take, even for you.
If CO is anything he is consistent with his bad takes
I do not know the story but even if all the things you say are true it still seems kinda shady to do all that in order to win football games.
It’s intact, not in tact.
“Upon the outbreak of WW2, each branch of the U.S. military faced the seemingly insurmountable challenge of providing enough officers to command the massive influx of new soldiers, sailors, and airmen necessary to fight the war. To alleviate this situation, the U.S. Navy established technical training schools at colleges and universities under the V-12 program.
The University of Georgia was part of the Navy’s V-5 program, in which a Navy pre-flight training school was established at the University, but its students were not part of the general body of regular students enrolled at the University. The few remaining students enrolled in Athens were either females, *men completing courses of study to then enter the military*, or men who were either too young or physically unable (a 4-F draft status) to join any of the service branches. The Georgia Bulldogs athletics teams were able to draw from these students, but not from the Navy school’s cadets.”
“With many colleges and universities stopping play for the duration of WWII, Wally Butts allows the 1943 team to vote on whether or not to continue with the season. Despite knowing that they would be only marginally competitive, the team votes to continue to play. The 1943 and 1944 teams would be comprised of men too young for the draft or physically unfit for military service. Had the 1943 team elected not to play, Butts would have been given a contract to work as an instructor in the Physical Education Department.”
Nutshell: in 1942, UGA was helping to prepare men to go to war … while being in college. There was no ploy to keep players out of WWII as the writer and many commenters on this site have incorrectly assumed. And don’t forget that UF did field a team in 1942, they just don’t like the team they had. Many colleges fielded teams with guys that couldn’t get into the military, including UGA. UF just doesn’t want to acknowledge the loss.
WWII didn’t end until close to the end of 1945 and UGA men were sent to war to fight and die alongside men from UF for the USA.
Gromit should be ashamed of himself for insulting all the soldiers that put their lives on the line and by dismissing the service of all the soldiers who went to UGA.
Exactly. Also Sinkwich and Trippi served, as USMC Dawg said.
The fact they ran it up is bad and hate-filled, but the “Georgia is immoral” line is malarkey, if you ask me.
Sanity from a Florida fan. Refreshing.
Vomit mentioned starting QB getting caught in bed with naked 11 year old boy. Never heard that one before. Did you make that up too?
Yeah he made it up
That’s news to me too. Another lie.
I think this thread proves what a beautiful, hate & loathing filled rivalry this is.
God, I HATE FLORIDA.
@Kirby I am starting to embrace the hate! LOL. I was just thinking that the “stereotypical,” UGA fan makes me sick to my stomach with their delusion. I love this rivalry! For the record, I will have to say I always appreciate your viewpoint as a forum member. Firm in your fanboy status for UGA but far from a troll. Thanks for that.
Congratualtions Kirby. You have the admiration of idiot Fla fan. I would rather be crucified than declared their friend.You must be saying all the right things.
LOL man the hate is strong.
Kirby is TruVol/Dawg in drag.
2bits, strictly speaking, Florida fans have shown themselves to be just as delusional. This thread more than proves that.
Yes Boxster. There is delusion on both sides. I think there are a few posters that give their fan base a bad look.
Without a doubt. Most aren’t, though. There’s lots of good ones on both sides here on SDS.
They make it so easy to hate them
Yep, then smile when you get pissed. If we don’t have any relevant content to add, we just make stuff up.
…that’s something to be proud of.
When LS caught that pass it opened my mind up to heartbreak. I’ll never forget that. But watching Matt Jones running all over uga made up for it
So many pots. So many kettles.
The Internet is a beautiful tool.
1985 was a favorite of mine. UF came out ranked #1 for the first time ever. It lasted 4 days.
I was there, it was another great day to be a Georgia Bulldog!
So, does that put Army – the clear best team in America during the war years – in the same boat as UGA? Talented football kids of school age going to officer training school stateside and playing football rather than fighting overseas?
Yep. According to Vomit, NASA Gator and rest of UF fans. They should have disbanded team and enlisted.
The 1943 final AP Poll included:
(2) Iowa Pre-Flight
(4) Navy
(5) Great Lakes Navy
(8) Del Monte Pre-Flight
(10) March Field
(11) Army
(17) Bainbridge NTS
All kids playing football stateside while the war was raging. It happened everywhere, especially in the military. Trying to zero in on this 65-year old dynamic to justify hate for UGA is weak. Like, really weak. Gators don’t need extra manufactured incentive to hate us. By 1944 most of UGA’s regular players had cut their careers short and were off fighting in the war.
Your absolutely right. Co, marks,nasa, none have served yet constantly take the sewer route to question those that have. They should be ashamed at the false accusations but that would be giving them more credit as being actual human beings than what they actually are.
I love the Jekyll Island comment. I stayed there last year for a weekend event. There was no property destroyed when I was there. Regardless, go Gators!
Wow, Neil! You really stirred a hornet’s nest with #3. Caused me to do some Internet research of my own just out of curiosity. The 1942 Georgia players did in fact end up going their separate ways for military service the following year. Wally Butts did game the system, but only for one year.
The long passage reproduced by @ATLDawg is from the University of Georgia Library, but it fails to explain that during WWII, including 1942, there were actually two football teams on the Georgia campus, the team coached by Wally Butts and the “Skycrackers.”
The Skycrackers were the Navy Preflight School team, and by some accounts were just as good as the regular UGA team. But you’ll never guess who one of their assistant coaches was: Paul “Bear” Bryant.
Another fascinating thing:
While Georgia had no problem hanging 75 on Florida in 1942, when Florida’s roster and coaching staff were heavily depleted by military service, they felt it was unfair when Georgia Tech beat similarly depleted Georgia rosters in 1943 and 1944.
In fact, after the war, UGA sports information director Dan Magill felt that those two Georgia Tech victories were so unfair that he removed those two games from the Georgia record books. Naturally, he left the 75-0 victory against Florida.
The 1943 and 1944 games have since been restored to the record, but with an asterisk by each year.
Maybe Floridas sports info director needs to remove the 1942 game, wait a few years, and then add back with asterisk. Doesn’t exonerate the outright lies, inflammatory accusations, and utter cowardice of the Fla posters on this thread. Thank you for further exposing them.
The fact that a poster has a Gator or a G next to his handle doesn’t mean he or she speaks for that fan base. I suspect you would prefer not to be lumped in with Negan and his ilk.