Amen! How shameful! You make me want to drive around that state the next time we go to Florida. To hell with Georgia!
Shane Ford Sent from my iPhone Go Gators! & Skol Vikes! On Oct 27, 2010, at 5:13 PM, "Oliver Barry" <[email protected]> wrote: > 1942- During the darkest days of World War II the brave young men of the > University of Florida had all enlisted into the military and were doing their > part to rid the world of Nazism. > The Georgia school, meanwhile, had beefed up their football squad with a huge > ROTC program. The team was filled with all-Americans on their way to > becoming officers who would most likely fulfill their service in State-side > jobs. The Ga. coach made it a priority to bring in football players. > In Jacksonville, although the Gators put up a valiant effort (what isn’t > valiant about taking a bunch of volunteer football players facing humiliating > defeat at the hands of a team of ringers?) they were defeated by Georgia > 75-0. > Seventy-five to nothing! Georgia didn’t let up the whole game. Frank > Sinkwich won the Heisman that year. If ever a Heisman should have an > asterisk that one should. Our boys were concerned with winning a world wide > war. Georgia was concerned with padding statistics. Shameful. > When Steve Spurrier was faced with the choice of holding back or going for 50 > in that game in Athens, he did the right thing. > I hate them. I will always hate them. I hope they lose every game. I don’t > care if we lose every other game this season, if we beat Georgia, it’s a > successful season. > To HELL with Georgia. > > 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 > > > > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
