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re: How many here experienced the Florida fanbase in the 90’s?

Posted on 9/30/19 at 6:57 pm to
Posted by FleauxRidaTiger
Tampa, FL
Member since Dec 2017
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Posted on 9/30/19 at 6:57 pm to
This! Moved here during their "first championship" season (1984 I believe, the one they cheated for and had to forfeit games, IIRC). The Gator fans I was around were the most obnoxious, unrealistic, and illogical bunch I have ever seen. Took three (3) years before I actually met one that attended the school. When I moved here, the Gators were my third favorite team. Not even remotely close anymore.
Posted by ChexMix
Taste the Deliciousness
Member since Apr 2014
25494 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:01 pm to
they were the worst set of fans. Wearing their tacky arse hats and always obnoxious when they visited your stadium.
Posted by jvilardo
5024 e. Brooks Town BR, La.
Member since Jan 2012
4011 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:03 pm to
In
Posted by Bbobalou
HOGTOWN
Member since Oct 2012
5507 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:08 pm to
I don’t want to call bullshite but I’m very sketchy of you memory. Been going to games since the 70’s and don’t really remember fans from opposing team being molested, yelled at, or any of that shite.

Either you egged the fans on or were hyper sensitive. Not to say we can’t be assholes but that goes with any teams fan base.

Case in point is LSU, and Auburn fans now. You get hot and think your shite doesn’t stink. But, if that really did happen then that’s to bad. I like to think we are civil to opposing fans win or lose. If you’re a jerk then all bets are off.
Posted by OliverQueen81
In The South
Member since Oct 2015
10711 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:13 pm to
People in this thread seem jealous.
Posted by BoozeDawg
ATLANNUH
Member since Sep 2018
1481 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:19 pm to
quote:

Been going to games since the 70’s and don’t really remember fans from opposing team being molested


sheesh........well that's a relief
Posted by Screaming Viking
Member since Jul 2013
5623 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:32 pm to
I was there in Gainesville to witness the 56-3 whipping the gators put on the Tigers. Cannot recall if they had 2 or 3 guys rush foe over 100 yards each.

The bad - not even close, they were the most arrogant fan base I have ever run across.

The good - 6 foot blonds were everywhere. The bars Wes went to looked like something that would be seen on MTV (back then).
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:36 pm to
A handful of times - 92, 96, and 99 SEC Championship games, 98 games in Tuscaloosa and the 99 game in Gainesville.

Never had an issue with them really. A few obnoxious ones here and there, but that was about it.
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:39 pm to
Oh, I was also in the Florida section at Tiger Stadium when LSU knocked them off 28-21 in 97. They were pretty cool then as well, if not a little shocked.
Posted by phil4bama
Emerald Coast of PCB
Member since Jul 2011
11827 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:47 pm to
The difference between the Alabama fan base and the 90's versions of Florida fan base: old money, new money. And it was never more quantified than then. Just awful.
Posted by armtackledawg
Member since Aug 2017
14338 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:51 pm to
No offense to the op, but this is the worst topic on the Rant and this is the third thread about it. Only snowflakes complain about fans
Posted by Go Go Gata
Member since Oct 2016
4552 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 7:56 pm to
quote:

This! Moved here during their "first championship" season (1984 I believe, the one they cheated for and had to forfeit games, IIRC). The Gator fans I was around were the most obnoxious, unrealistic, and illogical bunch I have ever seen. Took three (3) years before I actually met one that attended the school. When I moved here, the Gators were my third favorite team. Not even remotely close anymore.



Everyone cheated but the old SEC boys couldn't stand seeing UF win. People forget but UF won the SEC in '84 and '85 (on the field).

Interestingly Auburn was the main program that supported UF not being stripped. Tennessee on the other hand led the charge. That's why they're 1-14 vs UF now and been owned by UF ever since.
This post was edited on 10/8/19 at 11:29 am
Posted by tattoo
Fantasy Island
Member since Oct 2017
1989 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 8:05 pm to
IMO, Alabama is a distant 4th to those 3. Wait until it's anyone but Bama, if anyone ever begins to dominate.
Posted by CBandits82
Lurker since May 2008
Member since May 2012
58650 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 9:06 pm to
quote:

The difference between the Alabama fan base and the 90's versions of Florida fan base: old money, new money. And it was never more quantified than then. Just awful.


cant get a better analogy.
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
48556 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 9:39 pm to
I think there is quite a bit of misremembering ITT. Who in the hell wants to hang around old money anyway? They are either boring or entitled. New money earned that shite.
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
28146 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 9:41 pm to
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People forget but UF won the SEC in '84 and '85 (on the field).


What? You guys were ineligible for TV,bowls or the SEC Championship

quote:

Interestingly Auburn was the main program that supported UF not being stripped


Weren't stripped of anything by the SEC in '85.It was part of the probation terms from '84.
Posted by BrerTiger
Valley of the Long Grey Cloud
Member since Sep 2011
21771 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 9:44 pm to
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Neither LSU nor Georgia could match the level of trash talking and combativeness and that is saying something.


Echoing their coach.

I like Spurrier so much better post Florida. Humbled him ever so slightly.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
73556 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 9:54 pm to
Florida is 100% pure trash. frick Auburn but frick frick Florida. War Damn Eagle.
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:09 pm to
The thing is, Florida I want you to be swaggering trash talking ruffians. Makes the conference more interesting.
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
48556 posts
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:12 pm to
I don’t prefer it, but I don’t care if they talk a little trash, as long as the effort and attitude is right.
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