GATORS, EMBRACE THE FLAKE.
Rare are the people who can, simply by entering a room, force the presentation of their human race membership card to all those assembled. As someone who usually has to do this a few seconds after opening their mouth, we sympathize with our fellow “guests of the human race.”
Rarer still, though, are those who just don’t give a shit about their alien status. Remember the scene in Men In Black where Rip Torn, Tommy Lee Jones, and Will Smith are monitoring aliens living as people? This Sunday we know exactly what they were watching in MiB’s control room. This:
Joakim Noah, though you may not play football, we honor your epic freak-flag weirdness, a level of spaced-out orbital lunacy unseen in college basketball since Bill Walton smoked Marleys after games to “calm down” his raging basketball soul. It is truly your world; we’re just wearing all the boring clothes you don’t want in your wardrobe, sir.









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Ltrain says:
Star Jones. Punch in the Face.
Burt Reynolds, old version, Punch in the Face.
Dakota Fanning. That’s right. Punch in the Face.
March 13th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
52
BDoc says:
Pants, what about JJ Redick?
I know of a few people that channeled hate towards him, and rejoiced when he was busted for DUI.
March 13th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
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Pants McPants says:
Hmmm….Reddick never annoyed me that much, I found him to be more of a basketball launching cyborg than anything else….
I think boilerpete is onto something with Damon Bailey….think Reddick meets John McEnroe…
March 13th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
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Nick says:
RedDevilEA if you want to know what JoePa’s reaction would be, scroll down a few posts and watch Ray Liotta show you justice from JoePa’s neighborhood either that or when Pesci whacks the made guy. Now go get your shinebox!
March 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
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maskedavenger says:
If the subject is punchable Duke players how about Wojo who was just like Hurley except that he lacked talent.
March 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
56
Mormon T. Suxorz says:
We’ve had all these Duke players mentioned and not one nomination for Christian Laetner.
Hello? McFly?
March 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
57
Big Jon says:
That smug donkeyfucker Lute Olson is high on the list, but what I really want to know is if Sportstainment! creator Mark Shapiro qulifies as being a part of the sports world. I’m sure he thinks he is.
Along the lines of Damon Bailey and Bobby Hurley, how about former UCLA guard Toby (no relation) Bailey?
Keeping it in college football, nominees should include the Boz, David Boston, Todd Marinovich, every Notre Dame quarterback since Tony Rice, Ryan Leaf, and Bevo. And Dirk Koetter.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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Big Jon says:
Laettner was the lesser evil when it comes to guys like Greg Newton, Cherokee Parks, Alaa Abdelnaby, and Danny Fucking Ferry. Unless of course you’re a Kentucky fan.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
59
Phil K. says:
I’m pretty sure Bevo eloped with Chuck Norris sometime last season, so you probably don’t want to punch him.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
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rjsplow says:
1. kirk herbstreit. on camera. in front of 500 screaming college football fans at 10am on a saturday morning. and big n’ rich is there to laugh at kirk as he spits out his front teeth after i split him.
2. claude lemieux. those who know why are nodding their heads right now.
3. non-sports related choice: dick cheney.
March 13th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
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Gator KK says:
He wouldn’t be my top candidate, but I’d love to sock ESPN’s Barry Melrose right in the fuckin’ mouth. Just for that ridiculous hockey hair, and those suits.
Actually I’d deck just about anyone from ESPN, particularly Stu Scott during one of his hip-hop/spoken word/ridiculous bullshit monologues.
March 13th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
62
Wyatt Sexton says:
AMERRRIKA, FUCK YEAH!!!!!
March 13th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
63
Rusty says:
Peter. Fucking. Carroll.
March 13th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
64
Out of Conference says:
The runaway bride from Atlanta that said she got abducted and really got cold feet. There. I said it. I feel better. Then I’d punch her ex-fiance for not punching her first.
March 13th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
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NoVaDamer says:
Why not John Elway? What was with that stupid grin on his face?
March 13th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
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YMB says:
The Olson Twins. One with a right cross, one with a spinning back fist.
March 13th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
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peachy says:
My theory on Noah hatred : most of the dislike for top-level teams is really disguised envy, but of course not many people are willing to admit that, so they justify themselves by focusing their disdain and contempt on individuals. Unfortunately, you have to be a serious Grinch to work up a personal dislike for any Gator except Noah, which means that – despite being mildly obnoxious at worst – virtually all of the hate directed at Florida lands on him. (This is not an invariable rule – Duke and Notre Dame are always eminently worthy of hate, regardless of standings and players; VCU is everybody’s second-favourite team this month.)
High on my punchability list – CheatyPants McSweatervest. There’s something so insufferably smug about him – maybe a good pop on the schnoz would knock it off.
March 13th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
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DHC says:
Back on topic of badly dancing 7 footers, I give you Gheorghe Muresan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1qEBvPmI1s
Sorry bout the poor video quality, but what can you do.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
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Ted Ginn did Everythin' says:
In the “weighs less than I do” category, Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle.
In the “weighs more than I do” category, Rosie O’Donnell.
In the “glass eye” category, Stu Scott.
In the “really old person” category, Paterno.
In the “dude so hot he’s a threat to my manhood” category, nobody.
In the “gay rooster” category, Jimmy Claussen.
NBA–Tim Duncan
MLB–Jim Edmonds
NFL–Ben Roethlisberger
NHL–who cares
But I’d still rather punch Joey Noah in the face than everyone else on my list.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
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dixie hound says:
Peachy you just got nominated for a Punch in the Face for telling everyone ‘the reason you hate him is because you are jealous’
you sound like one of the MTV sweet sixteen brats who inevitably says every episode, “you just hate me because I’m beautiful”
no bit_h, we hate you because you are a miserable f’in human being.
Kevin Durant could run circles around Noah, how come no one is hating on him? kinda messes up the logic huh?
(and yes, I just referenced MTV sweet 16, pathetic, I know)
March 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
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FishFan-GatorMan says:
Yeah that twunt from the dixie chicks needs a right cross to shut her smug pie hole.
And Pete Caroll? Yeah, right when they put the camera in his face after shitting the bed against UCLA. He had that little boy who’s favorite toy broke face on. I would have loved to open-hand slapped him like that wrestler did to John Stossel a few years ago.
March 13th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
72
dogtown gator says:
This is still a gator board, right?
Mickey fucking Andrews.
Jesus. Disappointed in all of you.
March 14th, 2007 at 3:12 am
73
Because They Can says:
S.O.S. Repeatedly.
And a Knee to the considerable schnoz of a smirking Tubberville while gripping an enormous ear in each hand.
Non-sports winner would have to be a tie between Rosie “Disgusting Moung of Goo” O’Donnell and Donald “Creepiest Human Being Alive” Trump.
March 14th, 2007 at 6:52 am
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Pants McPants says:
Re #72…Obviously this is a Gators board….No one’s mentioned Spurrier….Course, even as an OSU fan, I love the guy…college football just wouldn’t be the same without the Ol’ Ballcoach…
March 14th, 2007 at 8:25 am
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peachy says:
No-one is hating on Durant because Texas is a good but hardly exceptional team; that might change if he pulls a Carmelo. (Noah-hate was pretty mild before the Final Four last year.) You’ll note that my argument is general, not specific; I didn’t say you’re jealous of Florida, I said fans in general are jealous of more successful teams and transmute that feeling into distaste for individual players. It’s the natural inverse of the common “he may be a jerk, but he’s our jerk” sentiment – I don’t doubt UF fans would find Noah at least a little annoying if he played for UCLA. I freely admit to committing both types of rationalisations – who the hell hasn’t? – but I’ve rarely seen such intense loathing for an athlete who hasn’t been convicted of at least a couple of felonies.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:41 am
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James says:
1) Mitch Albom from the Detroit Free Press
2) Kirk Herbstreit
3) Jim Calhoun
4) non-sports related, although I am not a Pres. Bush supporter, I would really like to punch all those rioting people in South America who are protesting his Latin America tour. They are saying he’s like Hitler and a dictator and such. These jokers live in countries where people have little to no chance of changing their class/status/economic situation and they call the US president a terrorist. yeah, right in the smackers.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:44 am
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Rusty says:
James, c’mon, let’s leave the little people out of this. Instead, let’s get a set of brass knuckles and beat the snot out of Chavez.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:58 am
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RedDevilEA says:
Mohammed Ali.
March 14th, 2007 at 8:58 am
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parker91 says:
Re #60, I can’t believe I shook his freaking hand…
March 14th, 2007 at 9:04 am
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rjsplow says:
parker- WHOSE hand did you shake?
March 14th, 2007 at 9:24 am
81
rjsplow says:
parker- WHOSE hand did you shake? please don’t say lemieux…
March 14th, 2007 at 9:24 am
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sandman227 says:
Two words: Mike Lupica
March 14th, 2007 at 9:47 am
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parker91 says:
It wasn’t me, I was just channeling the spirit of Darren McCarty for that line….
March 14th, 2007 at 9:55 am
84
Marijuana Simpson says:
Mike Shula. His patented ” I don’t know what the hell is going on so I’ll just stare blankly at the scoreboard” look is a perfect setup for an uppercut shattering his jawbone.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:03 am
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Because They Can says:
#74- The S.O.S. in #73 is Spurrier. Just hate to actually type out the name…
I will say that watching his press conference last year after the SC-UGA game was almost as good as getting in a clean overhand right.
BTW, Gators’ opinions of him would likely have changed a bit had that FG not been blocked late against SC.
March 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
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Ltrain says:
Mitch Albom does not deserve a punch in the face. Unless the punch involves glass shards.
And honey.
And fire ants.
With syphilis.
March 14th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
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Raider Red says:
#37, ’round these parts all non-UT fans refer to him as “Butterteeth” (due to the color of his chiclets) or “Sheriff Rosco” (due to his resemblance to actor James Best).
Oh hell yeah he deserves a punch in the face. But then he would just blink and give you the smarmy ass grin, while condescendingly putting his hand on the back of your neck and telling you what a fine team you have. Of course this is right after his team beat yours by four TDs.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
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Mr. Wrong says:
I’d punch Gandhi.
March 15th, 2007 at 10:18 am
89
guy says:
why are all gator fans so happy? i mean being over zealous about your teams’ winning is one thing, but jesus christ, why haven’t you guys won a championship starting number 1 in the beginning of the year, gone undefeated never leaving that number 1 position, then winning a championship? 12-0 (in football). lrn2 be undefeated in football, win more games than any other team in a decade, and maybe then people from across the country and world will accept you. eat up your winnings because they won’t happen again in either sport for years to come. FSU>UF forever unless that happens which it wont.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:46 am