I believe Brandon thought his glasses needed cleaning and was just trying to be helpful. It was very unfortunate that he wasn't wearing glasses though. Seriously, this is being blown way out of proportion by egomaniacal sportswriters. They had to have something to talk about this week, I mean afterall, no one was eating a hotdog on the sidelines. This game was dirty from the word go, there were punches, late hits, spitting, gouging, etc. This one got caught on video, the others didn't. If it was really as bad as it looked, I can assure you Georgia would have paraded Ealey out in front of the media to show his 'gouged' eye. I do agree with Ken that Georgia should step up and suspend their player who intentionally took a cheap shot at Tebow. To me that one was worse, Tebow was out of the play, the play was winding down and the pup comes and cheap shots Tebow. Talk about inviting injuries, if you don't call that, then don't complain about anything else in the game. Ken K MNGator
_____ From: gatortalk@googlegroups.com [mailto:gatort...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Vega Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:30 AM To: gatortalk@googlegroups.com Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] [SUN]: Gators suspend Spikes a half game for eye gouge [Barlis] Does anyone know of or have a photo of Brandon with his eye patch torn off, or getting the saline squirt after he was poked in the eye? By the way, isn't there a distinction between being poked in the eye and getting one gouged? I'd think the gouge would get behind the eyeball to physically pull it out of the skull, and a poke would be a poke. I'll have to check my medieval torture manuals. >From what I've seen, it looked like a poke, not a gouge. -Zeb On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:29 PM, Darlene Goodfellow wrote: 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
