I agree with most of what was said. But I need to add. The gators are thieves. I had 2 ice chests stolen during the game!
The first time I went to Gainesville, it was with the band (of course) in 2002. The night before the game, the band was staying in a hotel about 30 minutes from Gainesville. One of the girls on the trip was from Gainesville; her mom picked us up from the hotel and brought us back to her house. There is a wall near the Florida campus that it's legal to paint whatever you want on it. The layers of paint on this wall are incredible, because people come out and paint things on the wall, and over time they're just painted over. Well, we went out with gallon cans of purple and gold paint and painted six large sections of the wall purple and gold late the night before the game. :lsup: :wave: Needless to say, we made a few people angry. We had some guy from the apartment complex across the street yelling at us. The next day after the game we passed by the wall while riding on the bus. People had come out with spray paint and wrote some things over our stuff, but we had covered the wall from top to bottom with purple and gold, so it was still prominent.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Swamp, BUT- - The UF band is absolutely horrible (and they were miked!) - I was 9 rows off the field (behind our band) and the fans didn't seem as loud as Tiger Stadium. The few times I was harassed by fans, a simple rendition of "Hoddy Toddy" shut them up. Campus was MASSIVE, and was dead. We found a place not far from the stadium, on campus, to park for free (a friend of a friend goes to UF and helped us out). I stayed at the UF Baptist Student Union (I convoyed with people from LSU's Chapel on the Campus and BCM, and they opened their doors to us, very nice) most of the day and watched games, because every time we would try to find something to do we came up disappointed, and paid $3 for an all-you-can eat BBQ. It was pretty bad. Drove my new (to me) Honda Element 5-speed there and back, just got it on Thursday night. Loved the drive! Went to a gas station to get some ice at 1:50 AM EST Saturday, and they were cracking down on drinkers. Stopped selling beer at 2:00, stopped letting people in the store at 1:55. As we pulled up, I watched an older black gentleman sell a blunt to someone. He came over to the car and asked for some money to buy a drink, instead I went inside and bought a Coke. (I bought a drug dealer coke!) They have these bike-powered buggies that bring drunks back to their houses and dorms, looked like something you'd see in India or China. Women there are either modified or not very pretty. Those were the two groups I saw. JORTS. Won't be going back for a while.
I was like that real bad last year. I was miserable after those two losses. I wanted to fight the world. I think winning championships make it a little easier to lose every now and then. :thumb: LMFAO. I know i shouldn't laugh, but it might have been the funniest thing i saw all weekend. Friday night we were walking down University along the bars and noticed one of those bike guys making their way down the road. No sooner, a suburban slammed into him from behind, and kept going. The biker guy was slammed to the ground. He was alright, but i about pissed myself. The even funnier part, at TV crew was out there on the street so there were 3 cops standing right where the guy got hit, and didn't do a thing. :rofl::rofl::rofl: We had another funny run in. Right when we got in Friday night, we were looking for somewhere to park behind the bars. We saw another one of those biker guys so we pulled up along side of him (still riding down the road) and asked him if he knew anywhere we could park. Ha, he stared at us for a minute, let out a huge fart, turned and peddled the other way. :hihi::hihi:
I forgot to mention the highlight of my trip. This is 100% true I swear. As we were walking around somehow we managed to find the definition of every Florida fan stereotype. Here was a man with a Florida visor on, with a mullet, a cutoff Florida T-Shirt, cutoff jorts, with Florida Crocs on... and to top it off, he was pissing on the side of a trailer. And yes, seeing him was the highlight of the trip, sadly.
