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I am jonesing for football and freaking out that there might not be a season. We have discussed a lot about favorite players, best teams, etc. What about favorite season? What is YOUR favorite season?
Mine was 1984. i was a Jr, just xfer from Palm Beach Jr. College. UF got hit with the 107 infractions, Pell resigned, starting QB blew out his knee before the season even started. Arguably the best defensive player to ever play at UF had just joined da Bears. Whew....it looked grim.
Then the Gators lose to defending chumps scUM on a last minute drive after the Gators start a walk on QB who drives them to a go ahead TD late in the 4th.
The Gators tie LSU 21-21 and are sitting at 1-1-1 with a 5th string walk on qb, interim fat bald head coach. The season looked lost.
A few wins here, and there and then Bo comes to Gville after a monster game the year before on the plains. The mighty Gator D stifles Bo and holds him to 50-something yards. So frustrated and battered, he takes himself out of the game and the Gators win 24-3.
Onto Jax where the Dwags had won 6 straight. Up until that point, the Gators had only beating AU and UGA back to back three times. The D came to play with the goal line stance at the end of the third qtr and then the Kerwin to Ricky lore to put the game away. You never forget your first and this was my first cocktail party and the best one, even to this day. 27-0. Six years of bent up frustration came out in one spectacular day by the river.
We win the SEC at UK and traffic stops on University Drive. My knee is still f-ed up from getting hit by a car I jumped on the hood, slid down and got hit. But I felt NOTHING!!!! i laughed and high fived the guy driving. No one felt anything that glorious day in Hogtown.
Onto Joke Shambles and the driving rain storm. I got arrested in their south end zone after we destroyed the bleachers. This was our bowl game. I spent the night in Leon County jail for walking away with a piece of the bleachers. Criminal Mischief. Got it expunged. Memory of a lifetime.
Going from a shiit show in September to being the best team in the country (fuuck BYU) by the end of the year, this was my favorite Gator football season. IMO, only 96 and 08 were better teams. But the way this team fought through adversity and won UFs first SEC title, this was a special season.
Things I remember about the 84 season-The Great Wall of Florida, three 1st round running backs (Lorenzo, Neal, and John L), Kerwin to Ricky, tearing down the goalposts in Jax and getting arrested at the erector set.
Chime in if you choose.
Mine was 1984. i was a Jr, just xfer from Palm Beach Jr. College. UF got hit with the 107 infractions, Pell resigned, starting QB blew out his knee before the season even started. Arguably the best defensive player to ever play at UF had just joined da Bears. Whew....it looked grim.
Then the Gators lose to defending chumps scUM on a last minute drive after the Gators start a walk on QB who drives them to a go ahead TD late in the 4th.
The Gators tie LSU 21-21 and are sitting at 1-1-1 with a 5th string walk on qb, interim fat bald head coach. The season looked lost.
A few wins here, and there and then Bo comes to Gville after a monster game the year before on the plains. The mighty Gator D stifles Bo and holds him to 50-something yards. So frustrated and battered, he takes himself out of the game and the Gators win 24-3.
Onto Jax where the Dwags had won 6 straight. Up until that point, the Gators had only beating AU and UGA back to back three times. The D came to play with the goal line stance at the end of the third qtr and then the Kerwin to Ricky lore to put the game away. You never forget your first and this was my first cocktail party and the best one, even to this day. 27-0. Six years of bent up frustration came out in one spectacular day by the river.
We win the SEC at UK and traffic stops on University Drive. My knee is still f-ed up from getting hit by a car I jumped on the hood, slid down and got hit. But I felt NOTHING!!!! i laughed and high fived the guy driving. No one felt anything that glorious day in Hogtown.
Onto Joke Shambles and the driving rain storm. I got arrested in their south end zone after we destroyed the bleachers. This was our bowl game. I spent the night in Leon County jail for walking away with a piece of the bleachers. Criminal Mischief. Got it expunged. Memory of a lifetime.
Going from a shiit show in September to being the best team in the country (fuuck BYU) by the end of the year, this was my favorite Gator football season. IMO, only 96 and 08 were better teams. But the way this team fought through adversity and won UFs first SEC title, this was a special season.
Things I remember about the 84 season-The Great Wall of Florida, three 1st round running backs (Lorenzo, Neal, and John L), Kerwin to Ricky, tearing down the goalposts in Jax and getting arrested at the erector set.
Chime in if you choose.
