Florida Gators (official thread)

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Actually it pre-dates football (1835). Google The Toledo War. Toledo may have ben a useless piece or real estate, but it was our useless piece of real estate.

Interesting and aligns with the point I made.

There’s more reason to hate a program than what they’ve done on the field.

 

[BB73]

If on the field success is required to fuel or justify hatred, why do Buckeye fans hate TTUN so much?

They do lead the all-time head-to-head, and have more total victories, which we Buckeye fans are anxious to take away from them; even though they have those marks mainly because of pre-World War I dominance.

 

[Nutriaitch]

They do lead the all-time head-to-head, and have more total victories, which we Buckeye fans are anxious to take away from them; even though they have those marks mainly because of pre-World War I dominance.

and Florida is a bunch of toothless jort wearing meth head inbreds.

do we really need a reason?

 

[cincibuck]

If on the field success is required to fuel or justify hatred, why do Buckeye fans hate TTUN so much?

Because they exist. But beyond that, they have had a long history of success in the Big Ten.

 

[cincibuck]

and Florida is a bunch of toothless jort wearing meth head inbreds.

do we really need a reason?

Compared to Alabama, Florida is a tribute to human progress. Why not hate on Alabama?

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Compared to Alabama, Florida is a tribute to human progress. Why not hate on Alabama?

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

Because they exist. But beyond that, they have had a long history of success in the Big Ten.

Florida existing is a reason too.

Also, while their success overall hasn’t been much besides those aforementioned years, as someone born in the 90s, everything that happened pre 1990 doesn’t register as much as much with me as what has happened after.

Even the spurrier years were before my time but my older brother has some horror stories about what that SOB did to lsu in the 90s.


Frame of reference for my life, they’ve had enough good years for me to hate them with Urban alone.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Interesting and aligns with the point I made.

There’s more reason to hate a program than what they’ve done on the field.

That’s from a map from the 1840s. Found it at an antique map store in NYC like 25 years ago or so. I grew up in Henry county and when I was looking the map there was something off about it. We weren’t a border county. It took me about 30-seconds to realize that this was done during the war for the Toledo strip.

And while a lot of us are happy to poke fun at Toledo, you can see that the bay and connecting river (Maumee) would have been valuable real estate related to shipping.

So, even going back to the 1840’s Urban was right. “Never lose to those pricks… never.”

 

[cincibuck]

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That’s from a map from the 1840s. Found it at an antique map store in NYC like 25 years ago or so. I grew up in Henry county and when I was looking the map there was something off about it. We weren’t a border county. It took me about 30-seconds to realize that this was done during the war for the Toledo strip.

And while a lot of us are happy to poke fun at Toledo, you can see that the bay and connecting river (Maumee) would have been valuable real estate related to shipping.

So, even going back to the 1840’s Urban was right. “Never lose to those pricks… never.”

I'm always struck by the fact that Upper Sandusky is down stream from Sandusky and Lower Sandusky.

 

[thackattack]

I'm always struck by the fact that Upper Sandusky is down stream from Sandusky and Lower Sandusky.

This is a joke, right? Didn’t see sarcasm font.

Upper Sandusky is upstream, as the water flows northeast to Sandusky/Lake Erie.

 

[Nutriaitch]

Compared to Alabama, Florida is a tribute to human progress. Why not hate on Alabama?

i also hate on them, but the fanbases of those 2 schools are not close to comparable.
Florida is at the extreme shallow end of the gene pool.

I'm always struck by the fact that Upper Sandusky is down stream from Sandusky and Lower Sandusky.

if you're in New Orleans and want to go from the East Bank to the West Bank, you have to travel due East.

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

This is a joke, right? Didn’t see sarcasm font.

Upper Sandusky is upstream, as the water flows northeast to Sandusky/Lake Erie.

Is that like how Upper Egypt is south of Lower Egypt because of the flow of the Nile?

 

[Tomateaux Quinoa Gumbeaux]

and Florida is a bunch of toothless jort wearing meth head inbreds.

That describes the trashy redneck part of their fanbase

Don’t forget the douchey Jersey Shore Bro transplant contingency too.

That fan base encompasses all the trash from the southeast and the northeast into one giant pile of shit

Fuck em!

 

[cincibuck]

As for the direction of the Sandusky, I kinda remembered that as soon as I hit post, but then I questioned why anything in Ohio would want to move in the direction of Michigan.

 

[gmen6981]

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That’s from a map from the 1840s. Found it at an antique map store in NYC like 25 years ago or so. I grew up in Henry county and when I was looking the map there was something off about it. We weren’t a border county. It took me about 30-seconds to realize that this was done during the war for the Toledo strip.

And while a lot of us are happy to poke fun at Toledo, you can see that the bay and connecting river (Maumee) would have been valuable real estate related to shipping.

So, even going back to the 1840’s Urban was right. “Never lose to those pricks… never.”

And yet we still have the "Lost Peninsula", the very tip of the peninsula formed by the Ottawa and Maumee rivers. That tip is actually part of *ichigan, but can only be accessed from Ohio. (Toledo).