The team rival you hate most and why

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#102
Volosaurus rex said:
This is the essence of the distinction that should be drawn between the Tidy Bowl boys and the Reptilian horde. Both Neyland and Bryant considered the Tennessee-Alabama game to be the measuring stick of their respective teams during a given year. Both of them essentially stated that “you don’t know what kind of team you’ve got until you play Tennessee (or Alabama).” They fostered an atmosphere that led to the Third Saturday in October being played as a fierce, unrelenting, but clean 60-minute war. There was a mutual respect, albeit one that was surpassed by a fervent desire to win that game.

Contrary to their protests, Florida, on the other hand, remains a comparative Johnny-come-lately. There was no history of sustained excellence until Spurrier assumed the reigns of that program. His cockiness filtered down to the fan base and created a toxic environment in which everything BCS (before Coach Spurrier) was conveniently ignored as irrelevant. Far too many Florida fans are incapable of winning with grace or losing with dignity.

In a nutshell, the Alabama game remains the preeminent rivalry to those of us who are members of the gray-beard contingent, but Florida has earned undying contempt.
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Very well said, Rex. I appreciated that.
 
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Jravol78 said:
that was a good day my friend..... I had a sugar cube for the longest time when I was a kid that I had saved from that day. If you remember we were throwing sugar cubes on the field to commemorate the upcoming USF&G Sugar Bowl invite.
Even better was the ‘94 game. I was attending BGA which was essentially a college prep school for Vanderbilt.Vandy was decent that year by their standards and TN had a fairly underwhelming season. There were only 2-3 UT fans @ my school and all week they were talking that trash that their candy arsed fans were known for. Ran into a few of them before the game. By the 3rd quarter with the Vols up somewhere around 50 points I naturally went looking for my “Friends”, but they were nowhere to be found. Final score 65-zilch!! That was a glorious Monday morning for a 16 year old orange blooded male such as myself :eek:lol:
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Funny you mention the sugar cubes as that was what started the fight. A couple of teenagers a few rows down kept looking back up at the Vandy fans and showing them the sugar cubes. Finally one of the drunk Vandy fans yelled "F y'all" at them.... then a Vol fan stood up and turned around and told the guy he didn't appreciate him using that language in front of his wife.... well... the guy that yelled it apologized and said he was just frustrated.... all over right?.... no.... another guy he was with chimed in and said "F you and your wife"..... I was right in the middle of the fiasco.... they were swinging and rolling on the bleachers... we got them separated and thought everything was cool and then the instigator looks at a different Vols fan and said "you're the MF that was hitting me in the back of the head".....lol.... and he was.
I have a true classic picture on my office wall of the scoreboard from the '94 game. There are :02 left on the clock... the score is 65-0.... It shows a football icon by Vandy indicating they have the ball.... and the scoreboard says "Let's go offense!" I have no idea who took the original but it was taken from the Vols sideline
 
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Carl Pickens said:
Funny you mention the sugar cubes as that was what started the fight. A couple of teenagers a few rows down kept looking back up at the Vandy fans and showing them the sugar cubes. Finally one of the drunk Vandy fans yelled "F y'all" at them.... then a Vol fan stood up and turned around and told the guy he didn't appreciate him using that language in front of his wife.... well... the guy that yelled it apologized and said he was just frustrated.... all over right?.... no.... another guy he was with chimed in and said "F you and your wife"..... I was right in the middle of the fiasco.... they were swinging and rolling on the bleachers... we got them separated and thought everything was cool and then the instigator looks at a different Vols fan and said "you're the MF that was hitting me in the back of the head".....lol.... and he was.
I have a true classic picture on my office wall of the scoreboard from the '94 game. There are :02 left on the clock... the score is 65-0.... It shows a football icon by Vandy indicating they have the ball.... and the scoreboard says "Let's go offense!" I have no idea who took the original but it was taken from the Vols sideline
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:eek:lol:.... man That’s a great story! I’m also glad that you remember the sugar cubes. That’s one of those things that I know damn well happened, but I have never heard another person confirm it except my grandfather who I was there with. As crazy as it sounds I almost was starting to wonder if I didn’t imagine it, because unfortunately that sugar cube is long gone. :eek:lol: “lets go offense”..., we have that same picture floating around somewhere.
 
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#107
Alabama

As a child of the seventies I didn't even know Florida had a football team until I was of legal age to buy alcohol.



:eek:lol::eek:lol:
 
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Gators. Alabama is also held in low regard but they at least respect tradition. A few other teams in the SEC pop off and disrespect, but the Gators are an art form of thuggish disrespect. Reminds me of a large pack of coyotes. I can't abide em, anymore than Lt. Aldo Ray can abide a Nazi takin off his uniform.
 
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#110
bama hands down
its a rivalry that is a 100 years old
bear bryant quote "you never know how good you are till you play Tennessee"
played consecutively since 1928
the only day I do not work is on the third sat in october
winning team gets a cigar (a very cool 67 year tradition)
fulmer gave out a lot of cigars as a coach hope he has to start giving out more as AD
16 national championships
the fans are all loud stupid rednecks that get on my last nerve
 
#111
#111
'dem derned UGA puppies.....

Living down here near the jawja border is not fun when you have to listen to the most IGNORANT football fans in the land!!!!

I can't remember which UGA RB got his knee hurt when our CB made a normal tackle in a game several years ago....but they were crying about our guy making a dirty hit...

That---and their ability to blow more smoke about how good they are when they've not won anything nationally since 1980.....
 
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#112
After hearing a few seconds of Matt Jones on Finebaum today for me, tonight, it’s Kentucky! I hope Tennessee crushes that garbage of a football program and shuts that idiot up!
 
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#114
Florida! I hate the way they pull the win out of their butts or UT chokes when they play them. Some of my friends and family are the obnoxious Florida fans as well! I can’t stand that gator chomp in my face I want to break their arms when they do it!!
 
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NEOCON said:
Mine is FL.
By a large margin.
They cost us so many SEC titles in the 90s and had Fulmers number. I started watching football around 89 and we owned GA and Bama while I was growing up. But FL destroyed our National title hopes so many times. Hate them!!!!

What is the team you hate most and why?
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Bamer for me and it ain't even close.
 
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#118
To all those who picked Bama....

Can you name a year that losing to them cost us the sec east or sec title?

I can count over five where losing to fl cost us.
 
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#119
1. Florida my mother and both sisters were born in Florida. They constantly gave me crap. So they instilled in me a strong hate for everything that is Florida.

2. Alabama it always hurt losing to them when I was younger. Still does.

3. Georgia my ex-wife is from there so enough said.
 
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NEOCON said:
To all those who picked Bama....

Can you name a year that losing to them cost us the sec east or sec title?

I can count over five where losing to fl cost us.
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not as many times recently as Fla. but historically it’s probably pushing 5. 1989 for starters had to share the SEC Title where a win would have won it outright and possibly had a chance at a national title, as that was the only loss
 
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Nerwen Aldarion said:
Florida, but it has more to do with the fans. I know every fandom has its bad apples and I know there are many decent people that are also fans of Florida.

But I remember being a student at a game and watched as one of our players was lying on the ground in pain and eventually had to be put on a stretcher. When it was clear one of TN players was hurt I looked up and saw Florida fans laughing, cheering and doing the gator chomp in delight that an 18 year old kid was injured. I also know that the common courtesy is you sit down, be quiet and only clap when the player is taken off the field as a sign of encouragement.

I lost any respect I had for Florida fans that night. This wasn’t one or two, this was the whole visiting section in the nosebleeds at Neyland.

Now I’ve been to probably a hundred TN games and seen many players from our side and other teams hurt, this is the only time I have ever seen fans cheer over a player being injured. I’ve never seen TN fans do it, nor any other fan base. Does it happen? Probably.

But this was easily a hundred Florida fans delighting in the fact that a TN Player was injured. I will never understand that and vowed to always hate Florida after that.
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Oh stop. Bitter fans always have these “the whole section was throwing urine” stories, or “thousands of their fans were booing our player as he laid their decapitated” stories against the fan base they hate the most. Go ahead and hate, just stop with the exaggerated hyperbole. All big fan bases have some fans who make them look bad. Some UT fans chanted “f#%k you Florida” one year, some fans boo’d a hurt player before because they thought he was trying to slow down their vaunted face-paced offense, I remember some message board UT fans actually deriving pleasure and joy from Tim Tebow suffering a particularly bad concussion on the football field. But those are exceptions to the UT fan base, as UT fans on the whole are good people with class who simply want their team to win. Same as Florida.
 
#125
#125
Well my son isn’t even 1 yet but I’ve made it clear that While I’d prefer he be a UT fan, he’s my son and I’ll love him and he will be allowed to be a fan of any team/s other than a Bama and Florida. Bama because they are Bama and I don’t care who they play I want them to lose every single game. UF just because they are the most annoying team/fans I have ever had the displeasure of having to deal with. Even when UF loses to us they just talk about how they beat us before and especially the last 5 years when we had the talent to beat them but unfortunately not the coaching. UF just gets under my skin but if we could only beat one fo the 2 in a season I’d pick Bama hands down, doesn’t matter if it’s the past decade and their dominance or they are the worst team to ever exist, I’d take a win over Bama even if it meant a loss to UF.
 
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