Did fans chant F U florida?

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Spartacavolus said:
you guys would've been crying in a corner at Gainesville when we couldn't block Alex Brown. I always wondered how bad it would be if we had actually won.
When you jump a curb and run over a tree to get away from crazed UF students trying to tip you over, holla.
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Revenge for the OT loss in '98, 8pm kickoff, coupled with Cedric Wilson saying The Swamp was no more intimidating than Commonwealth Stadium had our fans whipped into a frenzy in '99.

I wouldn't put anything past our students that night.

That said, the walk back to our car following the '98 OT loss was easily the scariest road game atmosphere I've experienced. For a UF fan wearing blue that night it was akin to walking through Damascus draped in a giant American flag.
 
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The chant wasn't insulting. It was quite the opposite. Chanting that just lifted the Gators up higher than they are.

I'd take pride in Gator fans chanting that after a UT win.
 
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NO SIR EEE said:
Let me say this since like I said before I was there yesterday, Fowler Jr. takes his cup of ice
Water and throws it at the student section, Debose was waving and taunting the crowd in the end zone everytime he was gonna return a kick, when Florida won, several players slam dunked on the goal post as they were exiting the field, it wasn't just the student section chanting **** You, it was the whole stadium. Florida deserved it, especially for all the times*after the whistle and their cheap ass athletes would get a shove in. SO YES **** YOU FLORIDA
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And this proves my point to a T. The things we detest about other teams anger us. We say they are scum, trash, and worse. But, for some reason it is okay for UT fans to respond the way they did because we are frustrated, or they were acting like, what ever they were acting like. Show some class and let them be the ones in the wrong. I guess I was raised a little different than most obviously. Two wrongs don't make a right.
 
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Fans, especially students with some alcohol in them, get really stupid really quick. It was a dumb chant but we have plenty of dumb fans

I wish they'd chanted something more like, "Why are we dropping back so much with an offensive line that can't protect when we could change up our offensive play calls to mask our weaknesses?", but that would be difficult to clap along to.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Revenge for the OT loss in '98, 8pm kickoff, coupled with Cedric Wilson saying The Swamp was no more intimidating than Commonwealth Stadium had our fans whipped into a frenzy in '99.

I wouldn't put anything past our students that night.

That said, the walk back to our car following the '98 OT loss was easily the scariest road game atmosphere I've experienced. For a UF fan wearing blue that night it was akin to walking through Damascus draped in a giant American flag.
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And I bounced on the strip during those days. And a lot of your concern was due to your drunk idiot fanbase that taunted people as they were walking to the game. It's like I told those guys. You cheer for a team. You're not the team. If 100plus K decide to turn on you, what do you think we could or would even attempt to do about it? That and the 2000 game was easily the 2 most stressful nights I had working due to Florida fans thinking wearing their colors gave them some super powers.
 
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sanddune50 said:
And I bounced on the strip during those days. And a lot of your concern was due to your drunk idiot fanbase that taunted people as they were walking to the game. It's like I told those guys. You cheer for a team. You're not the team. If 100plus K decide to turn on you, what do you think we could or would even attempt to do about it? That and the 2000 game was easily the 2 most stressful nights I had working due to Florida fans thinking wearing their colors gave them some super powers.
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Whatever dude...I've been to Neyland nine times from 1994 to 2010, and I've lost count of the liquored up students who took the time to walk up to me, unprovoked and unsolicited, to talk $h1t or worse.

There are dickhead fans in every fan base. Your gig as a bouncer doesn't give you any more perspective to claim some moral high ground than me or any rival fan who's traveled to just about every SEC venue.

You've encountered a-hole UF fans in Knoxville. I've encountered a-hole UT fans in Knoxville.

We're both right.
 
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The morality argument of this incident is something I am not gonna gripe about. Sure,it is immature and offensive, and should not be heard by ten year old kids at the game. However, it is the world we live in.

What does bother me is this was a big recruiting weekend, and we had a bunch of good HS players there who are being recruited by a whole bunch of schools. Could that fan reaction have turned off a player or his parents? I have no doubt that every time students and fan chose to react in a vulger manner, it can very likely undermine recruiting.

So, go ahead and yell what you want, knuckleheads. And reap what you sow. Blame coaches and sign petitions. Berate players. And ask each other what the hell happened when some promising players choose not to represent the Big Orange. And keep on bragging about how Tennessee has the best fan base in the nation.

I can only hope one of these days soon, someone can say something that puts a stop to this nonsense. It's really out of hand.
 
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I have never been embarrassed to be a VOL fan until this chant started! It was totally classless and made our fan base look just like stupid rednecks everyone thinks we are! If you were one of the fans with children, grand children or a future recruit I apologize for this chant and want you to know not every VOL fan is classless!
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Whatever dude...I've been to Neyland nine times from 1994 to 2010, and I've lost count of the liquored up students who took the time to walk up to me, unprovoked and unsolicited, to talk $h1t or worse.

There are dickhead fans in every fan base. Your gig as a bouncer doesn't give you any more perspective to claim some moral high ground than me or any rival fan whose traveled to just about every SEC venue.

You've encountered a-hole UF fans in Knoxville. I've encountered a-hole UT fans in Knoxville.

We're both right.
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You know, I have to tell you, when my boys were younger, I took them to every venue in the SEC with the exception of Florida and LSU. I never would take them to those two places because I felt it was not a place for kids to be. That is based on my own experiences there. Take it for what it is worth, but I have never seen anyone in Knoxville get pelted with bottles from the stands (happened to me when I was sitting low near the team in Gainesville). I also personally witnessed Florida students locking their arms on the sidewalk and forcing old ladies wearing orange to move into the street. I know there are few A-Hole fans in Knoxville, but walking through Gainesville wearing orange is downright dangerous.
 
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PayingUTKTuition said:
You know, I have to tell you, when my boys were younger, I took them to every venue in the SEC with the exception of Florida and LSU. I never would take them to those two places because I felt it was not a place for kids to be. That is based on my own experiences there. Take it for what it is worth, but I have never seen anyone in Knoxville get pelted with bottles from the stands (happened to me when I was sitting low near the team in Gainesville). I also personally witnessed Florida students locking their arms on the sidewalk and forcing old ladies wearing orange to move into the street. I know there are few A-Hole fans in Knoxville, but walking through Gainesville wearing orange is downright dangerous.
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And based on my experience, Knoxville was no less dangerous walking back to the car in '98 and '04.

I was in Baton Rouge when LSU ended our 25-game SEC winning streak in '97, and in Auburn when they beat us in 2001.

Neither compares to Knoxville in '98.
 
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I'm confused why people are upset with it. We chanted stuff like this at nearly every high school basketball and football game (bull****, **** you "", etc) and it was even easier to hear in a smaller venue. Oh, and I loved hearing it on TV yesterday...only thing that helped me swallow the loss. And guess what? It's 2014, move back to Mayberry and the 1950's if you can't adapt to the times
 
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I also had the pleasure of sitting behind some "spirited" fans in Section ZZ for the Gaffney game in 2000.

They were on a mission to pick fights with any UF fan in a three row radius. Thankfully some UT fans had security escort them out halfway through the 3rd quarter.

Every fan, from every fan base, has a similar story to tell about traveling to SEC road games. The worst I encountered...believe it or not...were Kentucky fans in 2007.

I don't discount any negative experience a UT fan encountered in Gainesville.

Don't fool yourself into thinking UT fans can claim some moral high ground. I've seen both fan bases at their best and worst.
 
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I'm not defending the chants, but the only fans that claim to be treated poorly at Neyland are UGA and UF who are notoriously known as the two worst fan bases in the SEC. Might have something to do with the way they act???
 
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SDV said:
I'm not defending the chants, but the only fans that claim to be treated poorly at Neyland are UGA and UF who are notoriously known as the two worst fan bases in the SEC. Might have something to do with the way they act???
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And I'm calling BS on that.

You telling me there's not a Bama, South Carolina or Vandy fan out there who hasn't had a poor game day experience in Knoxville due to some a-hole fan(s)?
 
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SDV said:
I'm not defending the chants, but the only fans that claim to be treated poorly at Neyland are UGA and UF who are notoriously known as the two worst fan bases in the SEC. Might have something to do with the way they act???
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+1,from going to many FL TN games home and away over many years
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
And I'm calling BS on that.

You telling me there's not a Bama, South Carolina or Vandy fan out there who hasn't had a poor game day experience in Knoxville due to some a-hole fan(s)?
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They're supposed to. As long as their not my grandpa's age sure I hope you had a horrible time and caught crap from everyone.
 
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Ten years ago I probably would have chanted too. Because I was young and dumb. Maybe this means our fan base going to games is younger than it used to be. I haven't been in neyland in a while but i used to think it was full of overall wearing potbelly ticket holders... Which I was one day hoping to be. Did everyone lose their jobs or are they just selling the tickets to these punks?
 
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I was at home so not offended personally. But as I heard it on the tv, really my first thought was that the fans doing that were embarrassing the University of Tennessee.

If I heard that at a UF game I know I'd feel embarrassed by it.
 
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Vato said:
We were all thinking it in the forth quarter
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I actually laughed at first because I couldn't believe it. Then, I came to my senses and in retrospect I'm sad this will be remembered as a representation of our University. We expect a certain responsibility for how our players represent our University. We as fans would be wise to consider that we also represent our University as well.

I was mad and totally let down by the loss, but that shouldn't mean we should be trending toward European soccer game actions. What's next? Huge fan fights in the stands are going to become the normal now?

It's a hard loss, but we are on the way back. Our young team played so hard and they are whom I'm sad for the most. Thank you Vols for playing your heart out.
 
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BigOrangeVols said:
Yes we chanted it and yes I chanted it loud. This is Knoxville. We drink Jack Daniels, not wine coolers before games.
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Hope in the near future you can find something to be more proud of. You and the others not only embarrassed yourselves, but our great University.

Tennessee has always been among the highest class fan bases, but just because we played against a coach with no class, you did not make him look worse. It made us look like we were in his class level.
 
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jim43 said:
Hope in the near future you can find something to be more proud of. You and the others not only embarrassed yourselves, but our great University.

Tennessee has always been among the highest class fan bases, but just because we played against a coach with no class, you did not make him look worse. It made us look like we were in his class level.
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I am by no means defending muschamp ' s comment after the game but I suspect it was caused by the chanting.
 
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jim43 said:
Hope in the near future you can find something to be more proud of. You and the others not only embarrassed yourselves, but our great University.

Tennessee has always been among the highest class fan bases, but just because we played against a coach with no class, you did not make him look worse. It made us look like we were in his class level.
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Isn't today church day or something for ppl like you
 
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