Just keep writing. 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 10:26:51 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half gamefor eye gouge [Barlis] I always wanted my very own editor! ;-) ----- Original Message ----- >From: Arthur Polhill >To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com >Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:24 AM >Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half >gamefor eye gouge [Barlis] > > >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: gatort...@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: gatort...@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. The incident can >>>>be seen here on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISxU8Crulw >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
