When did you become a Gators fan?

[78]

That's why Wisconsin's Jeffrey Dahmer simply went for dudes.

You think he sized up the field and said screw it, I'm gonna start doing dudes?

 

[MidwestChomp]

You knew it would happen!

I stopped telling people I was from manitowoc. A girl in my high school class dated that Brandon kid at the time of the happenings. She was a bit off her rocker.

 

[MidwestChomp]

Midwest from Wisky no doubt.

Probably has human body parts in his fridge.

You calling my wife ugly?

And nope. Just head and shoulders in the bathtub

 

[78]

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[Swamp Queen]

I stopped telling people I was from manitowoc. A girl in my high school class dated that Brandon kid at the time of the happenings. She was a bit off her rocker.

Wait seriously?! That’s crazy and amazing!

 

[Swamp Donkey]

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Lulz. Absolutely Wisky hair except there should be a mustache or too. Maybe a shemullet.

 

[cover2]

My granddaddy, who raised me, was a Gator fan, so there wasn't another option. I never got to attend a game until 1981 after I was out of high school, but until then I listened on the radio while sitting in a field shooting dove. We hunted with a few guys that had attended UF and they all told some great stories that added to the intrigue. Until that point, the best story I had heard was from my grandmama's brother, who was in a fraternity with Buddy Ebsen, who told all of them that he was dropping out of school and heading to California to become an actor. They all laughed at him, but he got the last laugh I guess. Never underestimate the spirit of Gator determination. Then one of the hunting buddies told a fraternity story about his uncle and how he got the clap during one fall in Gainesville. It was then that I knew where my true allegiance would be.

I didn't have two nickels to rub together, so my early forays into Hawgtown were to visit my best buddy who was in a wreck and was paralyzed from the waist down prior to his enrolling. I'd take off after work and spend the weekend with him and we'd sandwich the game between some of the night spots or parties that seemed to be everywhere. He got to park right up at the stadium, so a bunch of guys would meet at his house and drink it up before loading up in his pickup for a ride. They'd holler and raise cane all the way, then ride back after the game and drink some more. Getting to see Kerwin and the Gators was the best, but if there was one play that I really identified with, it was the lick Jarvis Williams put on Melvin Bratton...



That was toughness that I wanted to be a part of, even if vicariously, and I think it kind of spoke to what you needed to be a Gator after some of the setbacks we have endured.

I've never looked back as a fan and in its hey day, the Swamp was as good a venue as there was for a home game in college football (even though it was hard as the devil getting to those early afternoon games after a night of revelry. Something about the team, the town, and the experiences just grab you and never let you go. Best way I can describe it is that I'd 100 times rather be an 0-10-1 Gator than an undefeated Seminole. There's just no comparison.

 

[stephenPE]

Until that point, the best story I had heard was from my grandmama's brother, who was in a fraternity with Buddy Ebsen, who told all of them that he was dropping out of school and heading to California to become an actor.

I love this story. My brother found 3 UF yearbooks in the wall of a very old house from 1926 27 and 28. I got the 28 copy but no Buddy was in it. I think he may have been in one of the other two. Buddy did Gator Growl years ago. They said he was drunk. I couldnt tell maybe cause I was a little ripped, too. Or that was the Robin Williams gator growl. So long ago..............Your description of gatorville and all that is a perfect way to describe it. It is an atmosphere like no other. It was like that when I was 12 in the late 60s too.

 

[stephenPE]

When you said gator girls my mind immediately went to the 80s gator getters..........only pick I could find so far. I remember the hats so well. Among other things. They were escorts to recruits on campus. He is a story about them.

By ROBBIE ANDREU / Sun sports writer
Posted Feb 25, 2004 at 12:01 AM



Back in the 1980s, they were called Gator Getters, an evocative name that simply could not - and did not - survive in the politically correct 1990s.
“Some groups got together and felt it could be considered too suggestive,” said Betty Ling, the University of Florida’s longtime administrative assistant for football recruiting. “So, the name was changed in the early 1990s.”
The Gator Getters now are called Gator Guides, but their role basically hasn’t changed during the past 25 years, Ling said. These are the female UF students who volunteer each year to assist UF’s football recruiting effort by guiding recruits around campus on game days and during official recruiting visit weekends in January.
To many, the old name - Gator Getters - implied the Gators might be using attractive females to help lure top recruits to Florida, which UF officials say wasn’t true then and isn’t true now.

Role of Gator Guides under scrutiny

 

[BNAG8R]

1971

 

[TN G8tr]

It's really hard to remember when actually. But can remember my Dad taking me to FF. My earliest memories were of John Reeves, Jimmy Dubose, David Posey, so I could make the argument for 1969-70. It was UF in our household no doubt. I can remember with my Dad listening to Otis Boggs on the radio, that's if he didn't go on a road game. None the less I would listen myself. One of my earliest memories was my cousin, who was very good friends with Burton Lawless (OL) would bring him out to our Home to go hunting. What stood out was how big he was and that he would just step over the fence rather than going through the gate. The Gator passion was always there. As a teen I would ask for season tickets every year for my birthday. They were very cheap back then. So Dad got me a pair of seats each year, drop me off at the N. endzone off University and pick me up afterward until I was old enough to drive myself. And to this day I am still a ticket holder. There have been some memorable games that I witnessed but back then no other game was as dominating as the UF-USC game. I still think to this day Sean Salisbury from USCw hits the deck in flashbacks of Wilbur Marshall. I will always be a Gator and have been one for a long time.

 

[Albert]

I forget the year, I’ll have to look it up, but UF had just lit Arky up at Fayetteville in classic SOS fashion, throwing until the last minutes.
In the postgame interview the porkers were screaming insults at the HBC, to which he replied “It must be illegal to throw a pass in the state of Arkansas”. I was hooked, partially because I hate Arky, and because SOS is cool.
I moved to Hawgtown for work right after the 96’ship. Married a smoking hot gator grad. First game was 97 Tennessee. Most glorious headache of my life!

 

[stephenPE]

. My earliest memories were of John Reeves, Jimmy Dubose, David Posey,

we used to chant DUUUU DUUUUU..............and some thought we were booing. Dubose was our first 1000 yrd rusher I think. GREAT FB player.

 

[LeeForThree]

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Hmmm...I see clothes and that fish is tiny compared to a shark....you got a lot of work to put in to get to the big leagues