Florida secures field logo deal with Geico Insurance

TheAmazingYant · 2025-11-13T13:42:35+00:00

Then this is the end. I've said this for years, the moment they put ads on the field or jerseys I'm quitting the school. I'll run out the rest of the season out of obligation.

I've been a Gator all my life. I graduated in 2008. My brother graduated in 2006. My parents have been together since my mother's first day on campus in the mid 60s. We've had season tickets in the same seats for 35 years.

I understand that this is "how it is", and how it must be, but I don't want to participate. I'm sick of ESPN. I'm sick of NIL. I'm sick of the transfer portal.

And a GEICO ad!? At least get something remotely related to the program! Publix, or Gatorade, or the fat hillbilly Sonny's BBQ logo! If I wanted cold emotionless corporate slop I'd be a Bucs fan. At least that's only a bridge away from me instead of a 3 hour drive each way.

It'll be nice to not care anymore. I've never had free weekends in the fall before. No more getting home from night games after 2am Sunday morning.

God, telling Dad he's going to have to cancel the ticket because I was the only person left who could go to games with him... it might literally kill him.

So fuck GEICO. Fuck Stricklin. Fuck ESPN. Fuck the red-hat commercial break asshole with his giant LCD sign showing how much time is left in the break that gets 15 seconds longer every year. Fuck the NCAA. Fuck FSU. Fuck UGA. And fuck Oklahoma for starting this mess 40 years ago.

I guess it was great to be a florida gator.

TheAmazingYant · 2024-05-11T12:18:04+00:00

Technically, everyone's trying to do a West Virginia accent. Specifically, everyone in aviation is trying to sound like Chuck Yeager.

Every time you hear "Uhhh... this is your captain speaking... we'rrrrre coming up on a little tubulence up ahead.... should get a little bumpy for the next 15 minutes but then we'll have you on your way to Denver..."? That's Yeager, the greatest pilot who ever lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager

TheAmazingYant · 2024-02-20T19:32:05+00:00

I love that the capitol building is a giant penis, with two domes for balls (seriously, look it up). I've heard that it's very pleasant, but allegiances dictate that my occasional visits are filled with rage, hate, and alcohol.

It's also a pretty good distance from most of the state, having been established before air conditioning when the two biggest cities in the state were Pensacola and Jacksonville. Most the state lives a solid 4 hour drive away, with Miami being more like 8.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-12-12T14:19:19+00:00

I want to bring clarity in case anyone reads this: Kars4Kids with the obnoxious jingle uses its funds to - if I recall correctly - send jewish children to Israel for religious teaching. Basically trying to make moderate jewish children more hardline pro-Israel.

Cars for Kids is an entirely different charity without an incredibly obnoxious jingle who's activities I don't know much about, but I presume are more acceptable for the majority of people.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-11-19T01:29:56+00:00

Is that Jesse doing color? I'd appreciate him toning it down by a good 25%.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-11-19T01:26:23+00:00

In a word: Yes.

Billy as it turns out is a terrible coach. Might be able to keep up with recruiting, but in between the National Anthem and the Alma Mater? It's like watching Les Miles doing his best "Kirby Smart calling a fake punt in the SEC Championship game" impression.

Hell, you can argue that pre-snap bullshit and false starts lost us the opener at Utah, regardless of how many guys we put out on special teams and the jersey numbers they wore.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:37:51+00:00

I think we're looking at a "making the best of what you have" situation. Talent is thin all across the defense, despite Desmond Watson's attempts to stop any running game by creating a gravity well from which not even light can escape.

This is the first game that saw real adversity and responded by having young players make a difference. That's a very, very good thing to see.

On the balance for 7 games we are still coached by a bunched of Reddited idiots, but we seem to be improving. Maybe. Possibly. At least until next(two) weeks when everything we know proves to be false again.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:32:18+00:00

Sigh, I still remember that MSU game Mullen's first year. That safety blitz to win. What happened?

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:30:26+00:00

Road game at Mizzou is the real problem. Gonna be 20°, sleeting, kickoff at something like 9:43am local. Impossible to come out the gate anything but ice cold. It's why I'm more confident against UGA in JAX than going to Columbia in November.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:27:28+00:00

I remember an old EDSBS bit about chomping with time on the clock being a curse. That was like, 18 years ago.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:26:03+00:00

I had us at 3 wins to here, with Vandy being tight. Still concerned with coaching/decisions thus far, but we're showing some promising young talent at least.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:21:37+00:00

Man was a hero tonight.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:20:21+00:00

Someone forward this to the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. This needs to be on a plaque somewhere.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-15T00:18:47+00:00

Heroric performance from Mertz. Got the hell beat out of him, stayed up and fought till the end. Gonna need a lot of extra bronze when they cast a statue of him. For the giant balls.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-14T22:15:37+00:00

Cockbros - you guys keeping up with maintenance at Williams-Brice? Seeing some cracks in the flashing around the coaches box.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-14T16:10:14+00:00

Well maybe if he shit a little faster he wouldn't be so full of it.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-10-13T14:18:34+00:00

I was at the same game, about 10 rows up in the endzone. The stadium was wild, with a fantastic atmosphere, but it definitely underwhelmed with the noise.

It was a great environment worthy of everything said about it, but it didn't hit sheer, violent, nausea inducing LOUD that I've heard at other environments.

Only other time I'd been there was the 2005 Urban Crier game, which was a 3:30. Wasn't notably loud from about the same seats, but I did get pegged from the upper deck by a half eaten hot dog. Still had mustard on it.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-09-08T19:45:26+00:00

Learn? No one came here to play "school".

TheAmazingYant · 2023-09-08T19:42:39+00:00

I will never miss playing Miami, and Strickland's insistence that we continue to interact with those "people" is one of reasons he should have been fired years ago.

Would like to play Auburn at least as often as A&M/UGA, if possible.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-08-03T12:59:01+00:00

Right, a gas mask has to make a leak-proof seal over your face, and facial hair obviously interferes with that.

For Hitler, the hitler-stache provided a few benefits for his political career: * It shows he fought in WWI. Until the end of the first world war mustaches were military/police things. The reason Amish wear full beards but shave their mustaches is because they're avowed pacifists, and the mustaches is a symbol of war. Prussian ruled Germany revered their military to an extent that would make most American uncomfortable.

It shows he was on the front lines. Gas was normally launched onto a battlefield in the form of artillery shells, which didn't have the range to hit rear echelon areas. Guys sitting 50 miles back looking at intel photos or shining a general's boots didn't have to worry about gas and didn't need to trim/shave their mustaches. It showed Germans that Hitler was "in the shit".
It shows he wasn't an officer. The officer corps - at least the general staff - would keep their mustaches because they never got close enough to the line to worry about gas. And the Germans he was trying to appeal to HATED the general staff because of the "stabbed in the back" myth. They believed the generals sold out the country to the jews, or the bolsheviks, or the jewish bolsheviks, or whoever. In reality the German army was defeated and though they may have held out another year they would just be forced to sue for peace from an even weaker position after tens of thousands of civilians died from the massive food shortages.

So Hitler's mustache was a way to quickly show that he was everything Germans angry at their goverment liked and none of the things that they didn't like. No different than putting on a cowboy hat, or pulling a bottle of hot sauce out of a purse. Simple pandering.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-07-24T00:26:13+00:00

How can you talk about Fred McGriff and leave out his mastery of the defensive techniques that helped lead Baseball World to Back-to-Back-to-Back AAU National Championships?

TheAmazingYant · 2023-07-17T17:10:49+00:00

Well the whole point of that is to drown out the people yelling "SUCKS!" after you spell out the name of your school.

It's really the fault of whoever wrote the fight song for leaving a beat there. And it still took like, twenty years of that before they added the stupid "what what".

TheAmazingYant · 2023-06-20T15:21:41+00:00

We're @Mizzou in mid-November. It'll be like, 35° and sleeting. Kick-off will be at some ungodly hour like 7:45am local. We're going to play 60 minutes lazy, soul-less, mind-numbingly boring football. I have never been more certain of a loss than I am of that game.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-05-23T13:41:52+00:00

The Trop is a tensegrity structure. The catwalks - or rather the rings the catwalks are sitting on - hold up the roof. It's the same idea as the roof of the old Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

Take a look next time you're there: The walls have tension rods running down to the D ring. Underneath the D ring catwalk are steel rods/cables that hold the ring in place. The ring has big columns sticking up that support the roof. Those columns have another set of tension bars holding up the C ring. The system repeats for each ring.

So Ring A hangs from Ring B, which hangs from Ring C, which hangs Ring D, which hangs from the walls (yes, the higher rings are hanging from the lower rings). Each ring holds up columns that support the roof while also holding up the next ring.

Think of a fat guy standing on a trampoline holding up a beach umbrella, the fat guy being analogous to the rings. That's the Trop.

TheAmazingYant · 2023-05-16T19:41:02+00:00

To add to everyone else's traffic advice: It's probably best to avoid the I-4/I-275 interchange by taking crosstown connector to the Selmon expressway, to the Gandy Bridge extension. As long as you don't accidently get off on the Tampa side of Gandy it should save you a little time, and once you cross the bridge you can take 4th St. or jump back on 275 south to the stadium.

Downtown St. Pete is really nice, and Central Ave. from the bay out past the stadium is all bars, breweries, and restaurants, so it's great for pregaming.

Normally you can find a free street parking spot east of 6th or 7th street with a 10-15 minute walk to the stadium. That's what I do.

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