CURIOUS INDEX, 2/2/2009

I cheered against Dockett last night. I wanted to cheer for Warner and Fitzgerald, but Boldin and Dockett made that impossible.

Orson – I must’ve missed something on Dockett. That seems like a lot more than keeping the rivalry w/FSU alive. What gives?

He tried to injure Earnest Graham by twisting his knee after the play in that video, and also attempted to stomp on Rex Grossman’s hand, forever earning his place as Most Hated Nation in our pantheon of Hated Football Players.

Fuck FSU and fuck Darnell Dockett and his bullshit ankle twists. You do realize that we no longer have any organized football until the fall? HOLD ME!!!!

1) Pro Bowl
2) Spring Games

You just have to want to believe they are important. Spring games are useless in coaches’ eyes, in the sense that they already know who has performed and who has not, but they are not useless to us.

@ OhioDawg:

That video is from the 2001 UF-FSU game. On that play, Dockett can be seen twisting Earnest Graham’s knee at the bottom of the pile. What should have been a routine tackle became a knee injury that knocked him out of the next week’s game. Later in that same game, he tried to stomp on Rex Grossman’s hand on the sideline but thankfully missed.

The next week’s game was versus Tennessee, rescheduled due to 9/11. Tennessee won by 2 points, knocking UF out of the SEC title game and the national title race.

Florida lost two games that year, and they were the only two games that Graham did not play. I think you can understand the hatred for the guy that intentionally injured him.

Signing day is Wednesday
Orange and Blue Game is on April 18th (I think). Hopefully I can make it till the Spring Game, but after that its a hell of a long summer.

Dockett can be seen allegedly twisting Earnest Graham’s knee at the bottom of the pile, if you’re paranoid and really looking for something to piss you off.

It’s not like he intentionally threw a pass at the opposing team’s coaches. And missed.

Part 2 of the story is that game against Tennessee ended up being Spurrier’s last game (as our coach) in the Swamp, as he resigned after our bowl game that season. It was strongly suggested/implied/whatever at the time that one of the reasons he resigned was because of Jeremy Foley’s (our AD) lack of public support when Spurrier called out Dockett for his (EVIL) behavior and essentially left him out to dry on the whole thing.

So in addition to purposely hurting Earnest Graham, he instigated a chain of events that led to Zook. And for both of those things, he will NEVER (evereverever) be forgiven. Also, to paraphrase Orson, I hope he dies in a fire.

Darnell Dockett-the Butterfly Effect that lead to the Zookster…Where would Florida be if you still had Spurrier? Would you have at least 2 MNCs?

I’m embarrassed to admit that I even know this, but the semiotics enthusiasts at Brown are Modern Culture and Media majors, assuming that they can embrace the irony of a structured study of breaking down structured meaning.

The Brown football team, on the other hand, is not strong at throwing the deep-out under most circumstances.

Sir —

The important thing here is that Ben Roethisberger won the Super Bowl. And we Miami fans aren’t the least bit irrational for wondering why our subsequent starters haven’t been quite as good as that guy. Nope. No sirree.

@ 9

which brought you Urban Meyer. Show me a non-Florida fan that would not trade for Florida’s past 7 years, and I will show you a liar. Maybe a Southern Cal fan, but I do not see them holding 2 “official,” national titles, so I would still go with Florida.

And to add a really, really bad insult to injury, Arizona fans in Tucson were treated to this during the SB last night (NSFW: Wiener). It’s Comcastic!

Tyler Durden would be proud.

Coop @ 13: As a USC fan, I see USC vs Florida as a push. USC hasn’t lost 4 games in a year since Pete Carroll’s run got going.

In my mind, if Florida, USC, or LSU win it all this season, they are the clear team of the decade.

Good enough for me on Dockett.

Kind of the way Bengals’ fans feel about Kemo Von Ulhoffen (sp) after the cheap shot on Carson Palmer. I say “kind of” because there seem to be some reasonable people that think VonU didn’t try to break Palmer’s knee.

Johnnie Farms: Decisively Indecisive

What a dilemma the NFL poses for the passionate Gator fan. The Cards had Dockett (HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!) and Boldin(meh)…the Steelers had Starks and Baker (CHOMP and CHOMP!) …yet the Cards also had Fitzgerald and Warner (YEAAAAAAAAAAAA!) and the Steelers had Ward (arp arp) and Holmes (bucknut).

Sigh.

#9,

Let’s also not forget about how the media was sympathetic towards Dockett and Bowden, and basically spun the story into Spurrier being a whiny crybaby who should “be spanked” (in the words of FSU AD Dave Hart in his official statement to the media). Their guy intentionally injures our guy on a blatant dirty play (and just misses taking out Grossman) but the problem is that Spurrier is a crybaby? So yeah, fuck Dockett, fuck Bowden, and fuck FSU as a whole.

For the reasons enumerated above, I think Dockett is probably the most hated FSU player of all time by Gator fans, or at least in the top three. I really wanted to cheer for the Cardinals last night, but just couldn’t bring myself to it, so deep is my visceral distaste for Dockett.

And there are some FSU players that most Gator fans really like — Charlie Ward and Warrick Dunn being the most prominent. But Dockett, well, I think we all want him to just burn in hell.

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I don’t care if it was intentional or not. I still hate him, and likewise the Steelers, with an unreasonable, biased, homerish rage.

Who Dey nation has never recovered.

Mike Brown – Step Down!

As much damage as he did to a very fine Gator 2001 team (that routed FSU in the game in question), Dockett also damn near ruined Ernie Graham’s entire life. It took him several years to recover from a nasty knee injury that was intentionally delivered (and indignantly defended by that rat bastard Dave Hart). His NFL career has shown late in life promise, but he’ll never get the money back. Don’t understand how Dockett hasn’t got the karma back yet, but he will. Dave Hart was working for Nick Saban at last check making the black hole of negative karma in Tuscaloosa even larger.

Giving the devil his due, Dockett was unblockable most of the game, saved 4 points on the first challanged TD and was overall Sapp-esque. Loss couldn’t happen to a better guy.

I respect Boldin. I will always hate Dockett with a passion.

Did Florida ever have a chance to retaliate against Dockett? And as far as another dirty player, was Hines Ward as dirty at Georgia as he is in the NFL? Just curious.

Darnell Dockett is indeed a bag ’o shit. And Bolden is a whiny little bitch who will never be as good as Fitzgerald, no matter how hard he cries to his coordinator.