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Posted on 5/19/13 at 4:37 pm to Big Kat
Posted on 5/19/13 at 4:37 pm to Big Kat
Alabama and Auburn used to play in Birmingham every year, being a major steel manufacturing city which is why it got it's name "The Iron Bowl". Auburn bitched about it for years and wanted it to be home and home saying that Birmingham was not neutral. 
That is neither here or there now, since Legion Field is a dump.
That is neither here or there now, since Legion Field is a dump.
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Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:11 pm to harmonics
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Alabama and Auburn used to play in Birmingham every year, being a major steel manufacturing city which is why it got it's name "The Iron Bowl". Auburn bitched about it for years and wanted it to be home and home saying that Birmingham was not neutral.
FWIW... UGA played Auburn in Columbus Ga.(38mi from the AU campus) every year from 1920 thru 1958...
So from 1933 to 1958 we played Auburn in East Auburn (Columbus) & Fla in East Gainesville (jax is 70mi from Gainesville) every year...
It's a wonder we lead the UF series and are tied in the Auburn series...
Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:36 pm to deeprig9
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Jacksonville is a shithole and it is a home game for Florida.
Then stay in St. Simons or spend your weekend trick or treating and ignore the game.
Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:41 pm to meansonny
I love it.
Is there an advantage for Florida? Sure. But we're splitting hairs. The only disadvantage for UGA is that we have to get there a day early and stay overnight in a hotel. We shouldn't be hitting full contact that last day of practice, anyway. So, it's not that big a deal (ie. it's the wasted practice day that coaches like Pete Carrol would have on home game weeks).
Is there an advantage for Florida? Sure. But we're splitting hairs. The only disadvantage for UGA is that we have to get there a day early and stay overnight in a hotel. We shouldn't be hitting full contact that last day of practice, anyway. So, it's not that big a deal (ie. it's the wasted practice day that coaches like Pete Carrol would have on home game weeks).
Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:43 pm to meansonny
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The only disadvantage for UGA is that we have to get there a day early and stay overnight in a hotel
I would say this is an advantage.
Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:48 pm to harmonics
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I would say this is an advantage.
In the sense that Florida is driving to the game for 50 minutes in a bus?
OK.
UGA has a slight advantage. But it's so minor, that it's pointless.
LOL
Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:54 pm to meansonny
It's the best weekend of the year. I have to move far away next year and I'm really sad I have to probably miss the game the next 4 years.
Posted on 5/19/13 at 5:55 pm to meansonny
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UGA has a slight advantage. But it's so minor, that it's pointless.
I agree.
LOL
Posted on 5/19/13 at 6:30 pm to harmonics
Normally, i would say that the last practice is important for such a big game.
But UGA has learned from our mistakes and we are scheduling our bye week before Florida. during their run, the majority of their wins against us had the extra week to practice/heal up before beating us.
But UGA has learned from our mistakes and we are scheduling our bye week before Florida. during their run, the majority of their wins against us had the extra week to practice/heal up before beating us.
Posted on 5/19/13 at 6:50 pm to tween the hedges
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It's the best weekend of the year. I have to move far away next year and I'm really sad I have to probably miss the game the next 4 years.
Feel like you've mentioned it before but where are you moving? Was it NYC?
Posted on 5/19/13 at 7:06 pm to gatorhata9
Yeah
Posted on 5/21/13 at 11:20 am to tween the hedges
Being an older Gator fan and having been around the WLOCP since 1962...its magical...the history and the importance of the game makes it special. UGA & UF fans don't like each other...period.
I remember the 1963 game when our star ALL SEC rb Larry Dupree's wife had just delivered a baby stillborn...Duprees father in law was head of the Florida Highway Patrol and he was escorted to the game by Floridas finest after grieving with his wife and arrived just before gametime.
In 1964 UGA had a young upstart HC named Vince Dooley who played at AU (and AU would eventually have a HC who played at UGA), UGA lined up for a tie FG attempt late in the game and snap to the holder went awry and Bobby Etter ran it in for a TD and a win.
In 1965 late in the fourth qt Spurrier marched UF down field with several big pass plays to beat UGA and the following year in 1966 UF was undefeated and Spurrier was going to win the Heisman...but UGA beat us badly 27-10 with their defense.. 1967 we had a wr named Richard Trapp who made an incredible run after the catch and beat UGA...1968 Id rather forget.
1976 we were ahead 27-13 at the half and I was celebrating until UGA came out of the locker room after a blistering speech by Dooley and commenced to cram the ball down our throat 41-27.
The next year AA wr Wes Chandler (the highest drafted wr in SEC history -third overall pick), caught a pass in the very back of the end zone to get revenge for the previous year.
1980 we know about the great last minute heroics of Buck Belue. There have been great games throughout the series and the game should never move from Jax. Never.
I remember the 1963 game when our star ALL SEC rb Larry Dupree's wife had just delivered a baby stillborn...Duprees father in law was head of the Florida Highway Patrol and he was escorted to the game by Floridas finest after grieving with his wife and arrived just before gametime.
In 1964 UGA had a young upstart HC named Vince Dooley who played at AU (and AU would eventually have a HC who played at UGA), UGA lined up for a tie FG attempt late in the game and snap to the holder went awry and Bobby Etter ran it in for a TD and a win.
In 1965 late in the fourth qt Spurrier marched UF down field with several big pass plays to beat UGA and the following year in 1966 UF was undefeated and Spurrier was going to win the Heisman...but UGA beat us badly 27-10 with their defense.. 1967 we had a wr named Richard Trapp who made an incredible run after the catch and beat UGA...1968 Id rather forget.
1976 we were ahead 27-13 at the half and I was celebrating until UGA came out of the locker room after a blistering speech by Dooley and commenced to cram the ball down our throat 41-27.
The next year AA wr Wes Chandler (the highest drafted wr in SEC history -third overall pick), caught a pass in the very back of the end zone to get revenge for the previous year.
1980 we know about the great last minute heroics of Buck Belue. There have been great games throughout the series and the game should never move from Jax. Never.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 11:41 am to reel_gator8
Others have said it, but I'll repeat it. The electricity of that weekend is unmatched.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 2:46 pm to dallasga6
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FWIW... UGA played Auburn in Columbus Ga.(38mi from the AU campus) every year from 1920 thru 1958... So from 1933 to 1958 we played Auburn in East Auburn (Columbus) & Fla in East Gainesville (jax is 70mi from Gainesville) every year... It's a wonder we lead the UF series and are tied in the Auburn series...
Not exactly correct my canine friend...the WLOCP has only been played since 1933 in Jax as a permanent site. You guys also claim an extra game back in the freaking 1904 era or somewhere like that and we don't..why? We didn't have a school team back that year...it was a private club team.
We also lost a bunch of games during WW2 because our men were serving overseas while your ROTC program kept a crap full of talent on campus...but someone had to fight the war. Must be proud of the 75-0 whipping you gave us back then when we almost didn't field a team and didn't in 1943. Just a little revisionist history to think about.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 3:03 pm to reel_gator8
Yeah. UGA didn't have anybody go to war. 
And that club team in 1904 was a college football team that was annexed into UF (along with 3 other colleges that you acknowledge as part of your very own past).
The history of your university
And that club team in 1904 was a college football team that was annexed into UF (along with 3 other colleges that you acknowledge as part of your very own past).
The history of your university
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