We were pretty much surrounded by Bama fans, too, but the two couples behind us
were particularly bothersome. I'm sure I've told that story here before.
One of the girls had some pompoms and kept intentionally (obviously
intentionally) shaking them right on my head when Bama had one or two decent
plays at the beginning of the game. Finally, about halfway through the 2nd
quarter, my inner Gator Bad Grrrrl stood up and said, "Girl, if you hit me in
the head with those @)#$(#$% pompoms again, I'm gonna take them away from you
and kick your @$$." She looked quite stunned that a nearly 40 year old woman
would say and do such a thing, but... well... there it is. LOL. It's a good
thing I hadn't been drinking.
At halftime, my 15 year old daughter and I went to the restroom and stopped to
look at some of the Gator memorabilia. Pompom Girl's boyfriend approached me
and started chastising me for "cussin' at his girlfriend". I turned my back on
him and told him he'd better leave me alone. Fortunately, my sister had seen
him leave his seat right after we did so she came looking for us... with a
policeman. She had already told him the whole story so he was watching the
confrontation at the souvenir table and came over and told the guy to leave me
alone. LOL. Little did he know. ;-)
It was all a moot point anyway because they got really quiet after halftime...
and left well before the game was over. I don't think Pompom Girl picked up
those annoying things again for the duration of their stay.
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: Gatornet Admin
To: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 5:51 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Florida fans outnumbered (Crabbe)
I sat in the middle of the Bama fans. My daughter and I were a constant
irritation to them by our whooping and hollering and high fiving. I'll never
forget the woman in front of us who stayed seated the entire game with a
worried look on her face and kept rubbing a little plastic elephant with her
thumb. She (and her party) vanished at the end of the game. I REALLY enjoyed
walking down the ramp and chanting "It's GREAT to BE a FLORIDA GATOR!" with all
the gators afterward. :-)
Ah, memories... Wish I were going to be there tomorrow.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: Cecilia
To: Gatortalk@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Florida fans outnumbered
(Crabbe)
Hey, I was at that game, too. I don't remember seeing you there, Randy!
;-)
Cee
----- Original Message -----
From: Gatornet Admin
To: GatorTalk
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:02 PM
Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Florida fans outnumbered
(Crabbe)
Although I've been to a lot of SECCG's, the only one I've been to where
we played Bama was in 1994. It was an absolutely fantastic time, but one thing
I DO remember is being outnumbered by the Bama fans. It was easily a 3:1 ratio
or maybe even worse.
My opinion is that the Bama fans snatched up the bulk of the SEC's
tickets (not the tickets that go to the schools) in '92 & '93 when the game was
in Birmingham and has renewed their order each year, thus holding onto the
ticket. I used to be one of those, but I missed renewing my order one year (I
had moved and my form was lost in the mail) and have been trying to get back in
the rotation ever since.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: Shane Ford
To: GatorNEWS
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 8:17 AM
Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: Florida fans outnumbered (Crabbe)
Florida fans outnumbered
Doug Engle/Star-Banner
Painters Calvin Rosco, left, cleans off the templates for Jerry Gray,
center and Travis Smith as they outline the letters in the word Florida in the
endzone Thursday morning December 4, 2008 at the Georgia Dome, in Atlanta Ga.
The crew said that they would be completed by Thursday evening for Saturday's
SEC Championship matchup against Florida and Alabama.
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