i was there the year prior
So was I.
But I was also at this one. And I'll repeat, there is nothing better(football related) than leaving the stadium in Jax as the victor. Between the sun setting, the cool, sometimes cold, wind whipping off the St Johns, and the meaning of this game, it's hands down number 1.
I went to three in a row between 08-10 and they were my favorite games to have gone to.
I think that 2010 overtime game shortened my life by about 10 years.
Each year was fun for its own reasons, 08 of course the blowouts and embarassing them with the two timeouts, 09 for Tebow breaking Herschel's record, and 10 because it was such a crazy game and Chas(sp?) Henry winning it for us.
So was I.
But I was also at this one. And I'll repeat, there is nothing better(football related) than leaving the stadium in Jax as the victor. Between the sun setting, the cool, sometimes cold, wind whipping off the St Johns, and the meaning of this game, it's hands down number 1.
The '08 drubbing was just an awesome day. Did our final ultrasound of our first boy the day before, so I was already in a great mood. The game, and the feeling that we may actually destroy everything placed in front of us from there on, was just the icing on the cake.
2009 was fun, but miserably hot.
And I somehow had way too much by mistake before the 2010 game and don't remember any of the first half. So going into OT kind of balanced things out and gave me my money's worth.
Oddly enough I don't remember the 09 game being a scorcher. I remember the bozos in black helmets, Tebow breaking
Walker's rush TD record, and ultimately a sixty minute ass kicking. 08 is by far the most fun of these games that I
went to. Though I will say the 03 game was a lot of fun too ruining their season with a RZ coached team and a true freshmen CL.
Nothing really has changed, I think the practical fans(though they are few and far between, mind you), know that they've been selling wolf tickets the last two years, and only benefited because UF has been down.As much as I bag on Zook, that 2002 game was a Top-10 all time Gator win, imo. It really set the stage for Richt's time at uga because the momentum should've changed hands that night. What gets lost in all the beatings we've given them over the years is that in most cases, they knew it was coming and we were just better. Years like '92 and '02 crushed their entire beings and devastated their seasons.
I had a drunk uga girl try to attack me just because I smirked at her on the way out of the stadium in 2002. She was ranting about how they were going to still win the SEC, game didn't matter, we still suck, etc. Literally, all it took was me giving her a sarcastic look as I walked by, and she went completely nuts, having to be held back by friends and wildly swinging in my direction. She knew--they all knew--that all the fake bravado they were trying to spew was just a total farce and that we still owned them.
What a fun game this was to be at....I've never seen a neutral field game so empty on one side and completely full on the other....
I've seen 30 UF/UGA games now, and 2008 is by far my favorite one. It's not that it was just about revenge, UGA started off the season as the #1 team and was picked by a lot of people to win the NC. We didn't just stomp some crappy unranked Georgia team that day, it was complete annihilation of a supposed top team. We had a couple of Georgia jerks on the GSMB talking trash right up to the game, including one asshat who told me he'd bet me $20,000 that I was wrong about UF winning by 20+. He was never seen again. Mr. SEC, the buttsniffing jerk still hanging around this board, also talked a lot of noise and then disappeared for a least a year following that game. He ONLY shows up, even today, when he's confident that all the cards are stacked in his favor in this rivalry. There's nothing to respect about that.
Meyer's focus and obsession with rivalry games is one of the best things about him.