re: Common enemy that bonds your school and another together?

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UF and AU have always had a nice, clean rivalry, even when y'all were kicking our asses in the 1990's.

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I beg to differ sir.

When I was in school in the early 80's, Florida was hated BIG TIME and it wasnt nice. We played UF home and home and it was a hateful rivalry. Got worse when Spurrier showed up and started rubbing everybodys nose in it. Florida fans were obnoxious as hell and that extended all the way to their cheerleaders.

in 1987, Wife and I were stopped in Opelika at a shell gas station just off the highway. Im pumping gas, Wife is inside buying a coke. Up pulls a van of UF Cheerleaders in uniform. Im wearing AU garb. Wife is too. these kids get out of the van and start 4 letter swearing at my wife about how Florida is going to kick "our" asses as if we are playing ourselves.

I reminded the little bitches that they were in OPELIKA ALABAMA. A call to the cops would put them in jail...in uniform. That would probably not go well with UF administration. They shut up and drove on. As I recall, we won the game. But I really hated Florida BIG back then. It was not a nice rivalry.

Georgia was a good rivalry then, and Bama was Bama. But, Florida had some hate in it.