Florida doesn't respect Alabama's undefeated season

by cocknfire on Dec 6, 2008 8:46 PM EST in SEC Football

In all seriousness, congratulations to both teams on a great game -- and especially to the Florida Gators, the 2008 SEC Champions.

Alabama will likely have its chance for revenge soon enough. Perhaps in the 2009 SEC Championship Game.

All good SEC fans will now root for both teams vigorously in their respective bowls.

More tomorrow.

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YEAH WE WILL!!!

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by bdalebs on Dec 6, 2008 9:17 PM EST reply actions

Great game.

Congratulations go out to both teams. Florida for being the better team and to Alabama for getting there at least a year earlier than most anyone thought.

Now for a good bowl season. Go SEC!

by lacrosse_cat on Dec 6, 2008 9:59 PM EST reply actions

Represent, Gators...

I hate you for most of the year. But against Oklahoma, you guys are my team!

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by Gamecock Man on Dec 6, 2008 11:49 PM EST reply actions

So I'm a bad SEC fan...

…because I want to see the Gators lose by 40 points to Oklahoma??

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by AuditDawg on Dec 7, 2008 12:53 PM EST reply actions

Okay, there are exceptions

I don’t always root for Georgia …

Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.

by cocknfire on Dec 7, 2008 4:00 PM EST up reply actions

UGA is the only SEC team that I'd have to think twice about rooting for if they were in the MNC game...

But I’d probably root for them, too, unless they were taking on a team I like.

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by Gamecock Man on Dec 7, 2008 5:23 PM EST up reply actions

I can see that

Florida is a team that I root against every time they go out, no matter who they’re playing. I want to see them lose 12 games a year.

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by AuditDawg on Dec 7, 2008 5:40 PM EST up reply actions

Be careful what you wish for

If UF were crushed, UGA could find itself playing Penn State to our Ohio State in the future – the contender from a conference that had recently and definitively failed to prove itself on the big stage. That kind of perception raises the degree of difficulty enormously for a team with national aspirations – in PSU’s case, their first loss was enough to kill their hopes for good. (Which is why I swallow my raging hate and root – reluctantly – for UF’s principal rivals in their significant games; national perception of the SEC relative to other conferences helped book us a ticket in 2006, and may do it again today.)

by peachy rex on Dec 7, 2008 5:54 PM EST up reply actions

I can deal with that

If UF gets crushed, the least of my worries will be whether we got the short end of the stick next year. I’ll be elated that we don’t have to hear about it from their fans again. I honestly could deal with the losses if the fans weren’t so damn insufferable. You would probably say the same about UGA fans, but there’s a particular nastiness about UF fans that I haven’t experienced anywhere else.

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by AuditDawg on Dec 7, 2008 7:43 PM EST up reply actions

Having lived in Atlanta now ...

I have to say that Georgia fans are just as insufferable as Florida fans, if not more so.

Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.

by cocknfire on Dec 7, 2008 11:14 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah

We’ve got some bad ones. I try to stay civil. I don’t get the whole thumping your chest thing. There’s a classy way to win and there’s a classy way to lose. Certainly pockets of our fans don’t walk that fine line very well. I’d like to think people like Kyle over at DawgSports represent us, but maybe that’s just me daydreaming. I think we can all agree it could be worse. We could be Notre Dame fans and be hated by everybody rather than just pockets of people.

http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/

by AuditDawg on Dec 8, 2008 10:47 AM EST up reply actions