THE GATOR FLOP: VISUAL EVIDENCE

I always thought the Florida flop was the pick six Rex threw to Maurice Sykes in ’02 that facilitated a 41-16 beat down at the swamp. But I see that it was actually something else.

Goddamn you and your fifth-grade offense, Ed Zaunbrecher. Damn you to smoking gay hell.

Hey I’d take Zaunbrecher or Pat Nix…wait never mind. If I came to that fork in the road, I’d just drive straight.

Of course, that was supposed to be “over Pat Nix.” The mere thought of choosing between the two, caused a mild seizure.

Was it the flop incident that spawned this?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=750794049&v=feed&story_fbid=47212092466#/group.php?gid=55706448641&ref=nf

Now I see what jealousy does, it’s a bad bad thing.

Shameless – I was looking for the appropriate adjective. Thanks O.

The comments by the then Miami coach in that linked article from The Alligator just go to show that the more things change, the more things stay the same.

Good times and GO GATORS!

Wooooo! Jean Shorts! Yur all trash! Arp Arp Arp… tear… Arp Arp Arp

The Texas team from the 1991 Cotton Bowl thinks the Gator Flop was completely fucking justified.

Also, FUCK MIAMI AND FUCK THEIR STUPID FUCKING CAMOUFLAGE OUTFITS FROM THE 1987 FIESTA BOWL AND FUCK THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEIR FANS THAT ARE COMPLETE FUCKING DICKBAGS.

Go Gators!

This game was back in the day when there was only 1 college game on every Saturday, and this was not one of them. I was a sophomore at UF at the time, and had to listen Otis Boggs call the game on the radio. Too bad this event did not happen sometime in the mid 80’s or 90’s, as it would be like the Flutie game, or the Stanford Band game, and we would constantly see the TV highlights of it. I loved it then, and love it more now. BTW, I caught more grief from fsu fans than I did from cane fans about the FLOP. Unless you are from NY or NJ, Floridians could not care less about scUM. Even when they give their tickets away for free, there’s not enough scUM fans to fill up a stadium. UF should drop them forever, forget playing them anymore – their program gets a big boost by playing UF. Screw ’em, let scUM get their glorification by playing their pathetic bretheren in that mighty acc conference. Plenty of 60 minute flops over there.

Dept. of Things I Did Not Know

Every once in a while I learn something about the history of college football that completely justifies my irrational and all-consuming addiction to the game. Thank you Orson.

PS: A quick wiki search of John Reaves also revealed this little gem.
Reaves was arrested in 2008 on gun and drug charges
I’ve learned so much today and it’s not even nine o’clock yet.

John is looking pretty good (photo courtesy of the Hillsborough County Jail). He’s also Lane Kiffin’s father in law.

http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/pub/default.asp?/Online/qdisp/bn=08046431

See, the beauty of this is there aren’t even UM trolls to screw this up…

I know one of those 8 Miami fans (though he was more interested in helping buy the Canes their baseball titles)
and the hatred he expresses towards Florida based almost solely on that one play is impressive indeed.
I don’t know what would happen today. BrettFavreBrettFavreBrettFavre did the exact same thing for Michael
Strahan, and all he got was a chuckle from the sports media as they polished his knob. If TimTebow did it,
surely no one would mind.

Ah, the tradition of Wake Forest and the arrogance of Notre Dame. G8RB8R, thank you for reminding me that most Gator fans are obnoxious and sub human and not something to be looked at with anything other than disdain and pity. It was a lesson I learned as a young boy, from several family members, and Floridians, who were at the game in the OB and told me the story at a time when I otherwise would have looked at UF not as a rival, but as a chickenshit joke of a program who refused to play us out of fear.

Even when on top of the world, you would rather not play us because “they get a benefit from it.” That ’s the type of subhuman cowardice you only get from hogtown.

Randy Shannon says thank you, because the Flop will help him more than you’ll ever know.

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Stay classy in the 305! Keep it fresh in the 504!

Your entire post reeks of projection and rightfully so. The non-graduate fan base of UM is as wretched a hive of scum and villainy as there ever was.

See you in 2012 or whenever the hell we’ll grace you with our presence again. It certainly won’t be in any bowl game any time soon. UM can’t keep up.

I still get a chuckle noting the outrage over The Flop from almost any of the seven Miami Hurricane fans that still lay claim to that dubious condition after their squad’s hilarious multiple drubbings this past season. Attempting to schedule the Gators for regular matchups seems a bit ambitious for so tattered a bunch. They might find more appropriate out-of-conference opponents by searching listings of middle schools (for girls). Myeah heah. Bwa hem. BeeeHAAAAARCHACACHAAAR!!!

Careful Florida fans, don’t poke the zombie-hydra… when UM comes back, (and most people think they will, see: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2008/09/04/miami-the-land-that-shame-forgot/), they’ll be looking to re-establish themselves as the Pain and Suffering Distibutors, Local No. 618.

I fear that day.

In the other picture, I swear one of the UF DBs near the top is flat on his back like he’s making snow angels. Well, they were playing Miami, so maybe they’re BLOW angels.

HA HA Ha ha he he h eh e……….

NOLAcane: " . . . most Gator fans are obnoxious and sub human and not something to be looked at with anything other than disdain and pity."

On behalf of Gators everywhere, thank you.

I’m sorry, I’m going to need more definitive evidence than that to believe that Florida played football before 1990.

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Played football, yes, for 100 + years actually. Played well, consistently, however, is another story.

sorry, but if your team has to roll over and play dead so that you can break a passing record, you don’t deserve the passing record.

the “flop” was an insult to all athletes out there actually using skill and talent to make records.