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GO GATORS. IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY.

The bitter irony of Barry Switzer announcing Oklahoma trumping Texas in the BCS rankings is beyond all established metrics, but we didn't hear that: all we heard was "Florida," and then we proceeded to break out the jet-skis, the sleeveless vests without shirts and baggy pants, and the Uncle Luke.

It's our birthday.

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Congrats O. I’ll be cowering under a couch when we play UT and deal with Peter later.

by Crabapple Buck on Dec 7, 2008 8:24 PM EST reply actions  

Not sure which is worse, the throngs of Gator fan soon to descend upon Miami, or the fact that you are using our top friend of the program to announce their entrance.

by NOLAcane on Dec 7, 2008 8:25 PM EST reply actions  

You should tone it down to every third article about your beloved gaytors.

Seriously.

Sincerely pulling for OU,
austiger

by austiger on Dec 7, 2008 8:33 PM EST reply actions  

GAYTORS LOL OMG LOOLOL WHERE DID YOU—

We’re sorry. We can’t hear you because IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY! GO SHORTY!!! IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY!!!

by Orson Swindle on Dec 7, 2008 8:34 PM EST reply actions  

Seriously, the Florida bias on this site is really getting out of hand. Where do you get off writing about your own alma mater, Swindle? IF THAT IS EVEN YOUR REAL NAME

by Holly on Dec 7, 2008 8:39 PM EST reply actions  

Yeah Orson, what’s next? A site banner of Wuerffel and Spurrier?!

by MrRedDevil on Dec 7, 2008 8:42 PM EST reply actions  

For years I’ve pondered this eternal question. What is worse, losing to Giggity or a Pirate?

Thanks to the BCS, we now know.

by MrRedDevil on Dec 7, 2008 8:44 PM EST reply actions  

For all this time I thought black people didn’t like swimming, and here they are jumping into pools and gettin’ all crazy with watercraft. Uncle Luke teaches ya something new every day, I guess.

by Double Eagle on Dec 7, 2008 8:55 PM EST reply actions  

Wait…. this is a football blog?

by BurritoBrosShits on Dec 7, 2008 8:59 PM EST reply actions  

its funny because a lot of our players really ARE shorties!!!!!!!111111

by meeyami on Dec 7, 2008 9:07 PM EST reply actions  

Jet Skis? Tebow stands on two dolphins and wields a trident.

by Brian on Dec 7, 2008 9:08 PM EST reply actions  

Brian, he walks on water and laughs at its futility.

by BurritoBrosShits on Dec 7, 2008 9:11 PM EST reply actions  

OK, I’ll bite……….“sleeveless vests?”

Forgive my northern ignorance, are there vests WITH sleeves?

by Stagecoach on Dec 7, 2008 9:19 PM EST reply actions  

Cleveland: “I’m no meteorologist, but it’s raining bitches!”

Straight from Chris Rainey’s mouth to Seth MacFarlane’s ears.

by italiangator on Dec 7, 2008 9:19 PM EST reply actions  

Damn you, Orson.

You have the best team, and the bestest site.

(futile shaking of fists)

by NRBQ on Dec 7, 2008 9:38 PM EST reply actions  

My favorite bowl assignment (besides my Gators, of course) is seeing BYU going to the Las Vegas Bowl. Boy, I’ll bet those Vegas hotels are just thrilled at the spending potential of a horde of people that don’t drink or gamble. Though I bet the Osmond show at the Flamingo will be sold out.

by baconboy on Dec 7, 2008 9:42 PM EST reply actions  

The winner of the BCS matters not, as the University of Tennessee Volunteers remain the single most important entity in the Universe.(Including 37 parallel universes). BTW, in protest to how shitty the Vols offense was this past season, Eric Berry plans to awaken the supermassive black hole residing at the center of this galaxy…way to go Dave, you and your stupid fucking Clawfense.

by VolunteerValtrex on Dec 7, 2008 9:42 PM EST reply actions  

wait for it….

ESSS…EEEEE….SEEEE…SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

and Tebow of course

personally I have begun whittling a tiny Conestoga to use as a voodoo icon…. it will be mired in chilled pancake syrup while lizards glued to tiny RC cars run circles around it

best of luck to the Gators… keep it in the family !!

by InsaneCoachPosse on Dec 7, 2008 9:49 PM EST reply actions  

@baconboy

The two Utah schools’ destinations for bowl season? Las Vegas and New Orleans. The tourism bureaus in those two cities are thrilled. Mormons on Bourbon Street? Egad.

Also, in a totally unrelated note, Jay G. Tate is reporting that Hugh Nall is out of the coaching business and is taking a job as COO at some company. Knees all over the southeast are breathing a sigh of relief.

by WarCardinals on Dec 7, 2008 10:00 PM EST reply actions  

I can honestly say that in my 25 years of life on this earth, I don’t think I’ve actually ever heard the song where the saying “It’s your birthday, get busy” came from.

Thank you, Edsbs.com. You complete me.

by haybeav on Dec 7, 2008 10:27 PM EST reply actions  

LaVell Edwards was credited as saying that bowl committees tended not to like BYU because their fans “come to town with a twenty dollar bill and a copy of the Ten Commandments and leave without breaking either.” He’d get a good laugh out of this year’s travel plans.

by DevilGrad on Dec 7, 2008 10:55 PM EST reply actions  

Good job Gators.

Go win the National Championship.

by Etch Westgrin on Dec 7, 2008 11:08 PM EST reply actions  

I am a Gator Hater of long vintage, but have to congratulate Orson and company on this season. As for EDSBS homerism—Lord a’ mercy, this is like accusing Kafka of being too Jewish. You know, kind of beside the point.

by donkeydawg on Dec 7, 2008 11:11 PM EST reply actions  

Is anyone going to the game? Cause ill be the drunk guy singing, “its our birthday!”

by displaced gator on Dec 7, 2008 11:34 PM EST reply actions  

It will be glorious; I will fly to Arizona to watch Terrelle Pryor and the rest of the Ohio State vagina dentatas get pounded into the pavement, then go home and watch Dr. Tebow slice and dice the Oklahoma (non)defense.

Hook em and (for the next month) CHOMP CHOMP!!!

by DJ on Dec 7, 2008 11:38 PM EST reply actions  

Hurray for the BCS! 3 double digit favorites (Rose, Fiesta, Sugar), a game where 80% of fans of teams left out of the BCS either watched their team beat one of the two teams in it or know their team could beat the winner of it (Orange Bowl “Classic”), and a very compelling national title game (with Florida a 3 point favorite, the ultimate betting line).

The BCS is a lot like a federal or state employee, it does exactly what it is supposed to do and not one ounce extra. Thank you system for your 20% efficiency rating.

by Rawk on Dec 7, 2008 11:42 PM EST reply actions  

For a Gator in Miami, this is one of my fave posts of all time. See you all down here!!

by chaimy4life on Dec 8, 2008 12:07 AM EST reply actions  

I am a pissed-off Horn fan. (But wait, there’s more.) Here I was hoping for a chance to defend the Big 12’s honor against the SEC. Instead, Florida has drawn a team that has blown four straight BCS bowl games and has lots of trouble containing teams with non-lead-footed quarterbacks (see Zac Robinson and Colt McCoy).

After Florida wins I’m gonna have to hear “the big 12 suxxxors” from every SEC team for the next year …

by Joe Killpack on Dec 8, 2008 12:22 AM EST reply actions  

Time for a Simpsons reference:

Homer: Well, he’s got all the money in the world, but there’s one thing he can’t buy.
Marge: What’s that?
Homer: [thinks] A dinosaur!

by JD on Dec 8, 2008 1:03 AM EST reply actions  

Damn.
Watching that video, one can’t help but conclude that a lot of people in South Florida have the same birthday.
I don’t wanna say I freaked out completely when Joe Haden made that late interception, but more than one person in the room compared my reaction to that of The Highlander during “the quickening.”
Big deal. We all drop our sword sometimes, when we get hit by lightning…right?

by PDXgonegator on Dec 8, 2008 1:29 AM EST reply actions  

I swear I thought Barry Alvarez was titled as Barry Switzer, or vice versa. FOX should probably work on this before January.

And WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I’ll be trying to buy a ticket, Orson, but, if not, I will be rioting on University within seconds of the final whistle.

by Rockabye Reggie Nelson on Dec 8, 2008 2:16 AM EST reply actions  

Will all you want, Tebow is still a virgin…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrKkNWbBtQ

by anon on Dec 8, 2008 6:33 AM EST reply actions  

Uncle Luke is undoubtedly the sunshine state’s Poet Laureate.
Congrats, UF and OU.
See you guys at the Clevelander.

by scalz1 on Dec 8, 2008 8:47 AM EST reply actions  

Go Gators!
                     Do the SEC proud, even if you did lose to Auburn 2 years in a row. Can’t wait till Spurrier brings his show to the Plains..

by Frank Drackman on Dec 8, 2008 8:52 AM EST reply actions  

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