If you can't beat them, join them
I had a lot riding on the Florida-Ohio State game, mainly a steak dinner and a big helping of humility.
It started with a little trash talking between one of my co-workers and I and escalated into the winner buying the loser a steak dinner. True to my Big Ten roots I wanted Ohio State to win.
Flash forward. It’s Monday night.
Burying my head in my hands I’m utterly embarrassed that the team I’m cheering for doesn’t come to play and keeps taking cheap shots. I don’t care that the Buckeyes were off for 51 days or not, it’s a complete meltdown.
It’s now 11 p.m. I ditch the red T-shirt and leave on the long white sleeve shirt I have underneath it. I begin embracing the inner Floridian. As they say, if you can’t beat them, join them.
We're driving to Gainesville.
-Dawn Reiss, Times staff writer
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I'm glad someone else besides me saw all those cheap shots. I was disappointed with the behavior of the Ohio State players.
Posted by: Senor | January 09, 2007 at 07:12 PM
OverratedStateUniversity!!
reminds me of the first super bowl...the packers knew the chiefs were a bunch of over-hyped dogs but acted as tho they were taking them serously
i gotta believe urban and the staff went position by position telling the GATORZZZ exactly what mutts they were going up against
speed and strength, plus offensive innovation will beat lard-buts every time!!
gator player quote: "we played four or five teams better than them already this year."
the suckeyes would be mid-level if they had to play in the sec every year
Posted by: | January 11, 2007 at 03:37 PM