I had never heard this awesome story before. It sucks it didn't work.
The night before the win over Tennessee, Spurrier was already doing his best to play mind games with the Vols.
While the team was in nearby Alcoa seeing a movie, Spurrier placed a dummy play sheet on the floor of the bathroom at the theater. It included the first 10 plays of the game, all bogus, with the first play being a reverse.
One of the assistant coaches found it and brought it back to Spurrier, who quickly told him to take it back, that he put it in there on purpose. A few minutes later, one of Florida's security officers again brought the sheet back to Spurrier.
"No, no, go put it back in there. I'm the one who left it," Spurrier told the officer.
A few years earlier, a "faxgate" scandal had erupted when former Tennessee assistant coach Jack Sells was caught by a Kinko's employee near UT's campus faxing diagrams and notes from Tennessee's playbook to then-Florida defensive coordinator Ron Zook.
"I was over there on the sideline waiting to hear one of those Tennessee boys across the field yelling, 'Reverse! Reverse!'" Spurrier said. "But I don't think they ever got it."
And, yes, Spurrier remembers precisely what play was on the dummy sheet: Zero Reverse Left.
"But we ran off tackle and faked the reverse," Spurrier said. "It didn't go very far, but anyway ..."
