Floyd of Rosedale?  Are you sure he isn't the plumber?

 

Oliver Barry CRS,GRI

Real Estate Broker

Bob Parks Realty

1517 Hunt Club Blvd

Gallatin TN 37066

Phone: 615-826-4040

Fax: 615-822-2027

Mobile: 615-972-4239

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ken Kirkley
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 8:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Fw: [gatornews] [SUN]: "The Chalkboard" ---
Florida-Georgia winner to get "Okefenokee Oar" [Crabbe]

 

I think this is pretty silly.  Here in Big Televen country it seems they
give a trophy out for every single regular season game.  You get trophies
for winning championships, not for beating rivals.  For that you get
scoreboard and a year of bragging rights.

 

Here is a sampling of the awesome trophies to be had:

 

Wisconsin - Minnesota     Paul Bunyan's Axe 
Michigan - Minnesota     Little Brown Jug 
Iowa - Minnesota     Floyd of Rosedale
Illinois - Northwestern     Sweet Sioux Tomahawk  
Purdue - Indiana     Old Oaken Bucket 
Indiana - Michigan State     Old Brass Spittoon (nice!)
Iowa - Wisconsin     Heartland Trophy 
Michigan - Michigan State Paul Bunyan Trophy 
Illinois - Ohio State  Illibuck 
Illinois - Purdue Purdue Cannon 

 

Ken K

MNGator

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Gator Talk
Subject: [gatortalk] Fw: [gatornews] [SUN]: "The Chalkboard" ---
Florida-Georgia winner to get "Okefenokee Oar" [Crabbe]

Has anyone seen this oar? 

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: Shane Ford <[email protected]> 

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:28:34 -0500

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: "The Chalkboard" --- Florida-Geor gia winner to
get "Okefenokee Oar" [Crabbe]

 

 
<http://www.gainesville.com/global/graphics/blogs/gs/hdr/The+Chalkboard.gif>


October 28th, 2009 01:53pm


Florida-Georgia
<http://chalkboard.blogs.gainesville.com/11656/florida-georgia-winner-to-get
-okefenokee-oar/>  winner to get "Okefenokee Oar"


by Nathan Crabbe <http://chalkboard.blogs.gainesville.com/author/crabbe/>
(Gainesville SUN)

 

 

The winner of this Saturday's Florida-Georgia game will get a wooden oar to
go along with bragging rights.

The University of Florida Student Government announced Wednesday that the
"Okefenokee Oar" would be presented to the game's winner starting this year,
in the hopes of establishing an annual tradition.

"It's just a way to increase the friendly competition in the game," said
Eric Conrad, student government spokesman.

Presenting such a trophy follows in the tradition of other rivarly games
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_college_football_rivalry_games> .
The winner of Michigan-Minnesota gets the Little Brown Jug, the winner of
Minnesota-Wisconsin gets Paul Bunyan's Axe and other teams have also
exchanged quirky items in longstanding rivalries.

The oar, which will be presented to the student government president of the
winning university, is carved from a 1,000-year-old cypress tree cut from
the Okefenokee Swamp <http://www.fws.gov/okefenokee/> , according to student
government. The swamp straddles the Florida-Georgia border.

The oar is "supposed to symbolize the area that has always been fought over
by the states," Conrad said.

 



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