I found the ESPN-site's writers' take on the game interesting. First the fact that there were barely 90,000 on hand at Ben Griffen (that's about 7,000 short now, am I right?), then their impression that the crowd was "sitting on its hands, holding its collective breath" at what they'd see on the field "after last year", that they "weren't completely sold on Muschamp or this team"...Until that point he lost it and stalked down the field just screaming at the officials, certain they'd gotten that call on his guy wrong, that he HADN'T jumped the snap, had just made a great play--THEN they were "all in", etc. etc.
Now, it makes good copy, and I do remember that moment, the cheering, smiling myself and thinking, "This is a big change from last year's crossed-arm, distant stare from Meyer--yeah, give 'em hell, Coach Boom!", and I'm sure the players love it too...but I just didn't read it all that way. Now, I wasn't there, and I can only guess the reasons why the game wasn't a sell out (for the first time in a BUNCH of seasons)--but we were ALL wondering what the on-field product would look like, ESPECIALLY after last year, but the dominant emotions out HERE were excitement and impatience, and that's exactly what I THOUGHT I saw, heard and felt from the crowd at the swamp--albeit through my Sony/Bose--personally, I knew we had a whole different "animal" out there calling itself "the Fightin' Gator Football Team" than what we saw last year by 1/2 way through the 1st qrtr., and Coach's tirade was just gravy. What did y'all think? How about someone who was there at the Swamp?