Wow! With very minor punctuation editing, this may be the best written sentence in sports-writing history.
As edited: It's being compared to the Oregon situation because people are making snap judgments based on 10 seconds of video instead of the context of the entire game; and, the people making these judgments are either fans of rivals who hate anything Gator-related or sports media looking to fuel any imagined controversy. A. Leon Polhill, Gator Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves. ________________________________ From: Darlene Goodfellow <goodfell...@earthlink.net> To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 9:28:47 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half gamefor eye gouge [Barlis] It's being compared to the Oregon situation because people are making snap judgments based on 10 seconds of video instead of the context of the entire game, and the people making these judgments are either fans of rivals who hate anything Gator-related or sports media looking to fuel any imagined controversy. ----- Original Message ----- >From: Shane Ford >To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:11 AM >Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half >gamefor eye gouge [Barlis] > > >Ken, > >Who's to say that Coach is not standing up for him? A half game suspension is >being seen on all of the blogs and sports sites as being extremely leniant and >most people are saying that Coach has lost any respect for not clamping down >on this. I've read where people are likening this to the Oregon plyaer who >punched that Boise State player and got kicked off the team, and they are >saying that Spike should suffer the same. I don't see it! ....but it's being >talked about out there! Don't believe for a second that Coach is not going to >lose some national respect over this decision and it may hurt him some in >other areas with media types, etc. I believe he did this as a "lighter" >sentence, because Spikes should not have retaliated, but in Football some >times you ahve to stand up for you and yours. You know? Like it or not... >Some times, there has to be a fall guy. JMO..... > >SHANE > >GO GATORS!!!! > > > > ________________________________ From: "ken...@earthlink.net" <ken...@earthlink.net> >To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 10:58:47 PM >Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half >gamefor eye gouge [Barlis] > >This is infuriating. > >Where are the suspensions on the Georgia side? Until we see something from >them, I wouldn't have suspended Spikes. Why is he the only one to be punished, >especially since he didn't initiate the dirty play? > >To hell with this. As I wrote this afternoon, I hope it does not cause any >dissension or other problems on the team. If I had been out on that field, I >would be asking why my coach isn't standing up for his players. > > >Go Gators!!!! > >Ken B. (NYC Gator) > >Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed ________________________________ >From: "Darlene Goodfellow" <goodfell...@earthlink.net> >Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:29:50 -0500 >To: <gatortalk@googlegroups.com> >Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half game >for eye gouge [Barlis] > > >Yeah, but for some perspective, one of the regular posters at the Virtual >Swamp works in the athletic department office and here is what she had to say >today about, as she called him, The Gouger: > >"Ok, I gotta weigh in. Just saw The Gouger downstairs and HIS eye is" > > > >bloodshot and puffy. He also lost a chunk of hair and got punched in the face >at least twice. Lots of throat punching went on as well. >Half the team is banged up from extra curricular activity in the pile. >The SEC refs did a poor job of managing this game and Brandon (or the rest of >the team) should never have had to put up with this much abuse before taking >matters into his own hands. Again, I'm not condoning the behavior and I'm >satisfied with the way the athletic department and Spikes have responded but >it's ridiculous to think that Brandon's actions weren't provoked. >----- Original Message ----- >>From: Helen Huntley >>To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >>Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:55 PM >>Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half game >>for eye gouge [Barlis] >> >> >>Lots of dirty things go on in those piles, and Spikes obviously was upset >>about what happened to him. However, >>I think Spikes and the Gators are very fortunate that the Georgia player >>(apparently) wasn't injured.. Can you imagine the outrage if the situation >>were reversed and that was a Georgia player trying to poke Tebow in the >>eye--and Tebow was actually injured as a result? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Shane Ford <go.ufgator...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>Gators suspend Spikes a half game for eye gouge >>> >>>Brian W. Kratzer/The Gainesville Sun >>>Buy photo >>>Brandon Spikes digs his hand inside a Georgia helmet during the third >>>quarter of the Florida-Georga game at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium >>>Saturday Oct. 31, 2009. >>> >>>By Jeff Barlis >>>Gainesville SUN Staff writer >>>Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. >>>Last Modified: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. >>> >>> >>>Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes was suspended for gouging the eye of >>>Georgia tailback Waushaun Ealey on Saturday in Jacksonville. Coach Urban >>>Meyer on Monday announced the suspension, for the first half of Saturday's >>>game against Vanderbilt. >>>"I don't condone (what Spikes did)," Meyer said at his weekly news >>>conference. "There's no place on the field for that. We're going to suspend >>>him for the first half of the Vanderbilt game. That's not him. But we love >>>Brandon Spikes and the team is going to support him. >>>"It's hard. I just spoke with him not too long ago. We're Florida and we >>>expect certain things. ... I did speak to the (SEC) commissioner. >>>"I wanted to move on and then I saw it and said, 'That's not right.' " >>>The video evidence shows Spikes gouges the eye of Ealey. 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