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- Thread starter Leakfan12
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Dale J. Rodriguez
Gator Fan
At first I thought it was funny until I read what happened and what he had went through, that was really messed up.
Hope this gets further than the blogs...a LOT of these guys, especially among the RBs, we've been competing with UGA for the last few years and have too often lost out to them, for whatever reason...
"Take heed, prospective recruits: we don't treat our own this way in G-ville, no matter HOW things turn out on Saturday!"
"Take heed, prospective recruits: we don't treat our own this way in G-ville, no matter HOW things turn out on Saturday!"
For a while it was looking as if Gator fans were starting to head down this path. I don't know about you, but I have seen a shift in Gator fan demographics in recent years. It's not just me getting old and cranky--it is also being shown as younger fans were not going to games. In recent years I have not enjoyed sitting around the younger fans that are disrespectful to everyone around them--these are the kind of kids that would turn on the players.
Agree, big time...as you say, I remember being "young and crazy" well enough to wonder whether these folks are "learning the lore"--ie. having the various traditions of Gator home games (beyond swaying back and forth and singing "We Are the Boys..." at the end of the 3rd qrtr...Even there, didn't you mention this was less and less a stadium-wide practice in recent years, E-?) passed on to them--or if they even care about "all that stuff". I recall hearing of "Mr. Two Bits" passing sometime in the last year or two, while someone's rising to carry on in his place has so far been intermittent at best. There were a lot of things we used to do that we copied from those who came before--some of them lame, stupid and/or outright dangerous (do they still pass girls over their heads in the Student Section, sending drunk or terrified young coeds on an involuntary crowd-surfing "adventure" to the top of the stadium?). I somehow expect THAT stuff to be picked up and carried on...it'd all be OK if the more friendly and good-natured aspects of a "Gator Crowd" were also being "passed down"--but I wonder: Like you, E-, I don't get that impression.
More than anything else, I hate the idea that we are becoming the kind of obnoxiously unruly "home mob" that unmercifully rides visiting fans who are here to loyally and enthusiastically root on their teams--as we return to national prominence and "re-take" the Swamp, we can afford to remain gracious and hospitable to these folks, as we have and hope to continue to enjoy from the fans in THEIR places. Victory is enough--rockin' the HOUSE among our crazed fellow Gators at home, and more quietly happy in satisfied warm after-glow as we file out of a subdued stadium among disappointed fans of our latest victims. "Acting like you've been there before" goes for us as well, I guess is all I'm saying.
More than anything else, I hate the idea that we are becoming the kind of obnoxiously unruly "home mob" that unmercifully rides visiting fans who are here to loyally and enthusiastically root on their teams--as we return to national prominence and "re-take" the Swamp, we can afford to remain gracious and hospitable to these folks, as we have and hope to continue to enjoy from the fans in THEIR places. Victory is enough--rockin' the HOUSE among our crazed fellow Gators at home, and more quietly happy in satisfied warm after-glow as we file out of a subdued stadium among disappointed fans of our latest victims. "Acting like you've been there before" goes for us as well, I guess is all I'm saying.
