Swamp Thing
Lynyrd Skynyrd — GOING DOWN TO THE SWAMP.
((( Florida Field )))
barbara hansen
Artificial Inteligence
When the university decided to replace Florida Field’s naturally green (?) grass, with a petroleum-based, toxic goo, it was thought that the change would save money. The grass was plastic, it never needed to be mowed. But they failed to imagine what would become of the artificial turf after sitting under a blazing-hot, blindingly bright, gator-warming sun. IT MELTS. What the UF Bull Gators learned the hard way. UF saved the money, but lost an unusually high number of players to their injuring their knees because of the surface being slippery. In 1979, the university changed its mind again, admitted its mistake, and paid to tear out the goo, and make Florida Field naturally green again.
Florida Field is the Gators’ Coliseum of Grass. A well-groomed, naturally green stage, surrounded by a traditional, red-brick wall, shaded by a canopy of moss-shrouded, century-old oaks. Since its opening in 1930, Florida Field has stood large on the west end of UF’s campus, rising like a man-made volcano, from which, on game days, the roar of a crowd nearly as big as Gainesville’s entire population, erupts and spills out onto the UF campus, and the neighborhoods on the other side of University Avenue.
football almighty
As it was, and as it will always be.
FLORIDA FIELD (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)
SOUTH STAND
FLORIDA FIELD (ARTIFICIAL INTELEGENCE)
LAST STAND (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE)
ORANGE & BLUE (SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT)
CRIS COLLINSWORTH (GOOD AS GOLD)
CHARLEY PELL (DADDY’S HOME)
BEAR BRYANT
HOPEFUL ’80 (AFTER A DISASTEROUS 1979)
STEVE SPURRIER
& His Christian Warriors
Danny Wuerffel
Tim Tebow
ALBERT (THE ALLIGATOR)
DR. CADE (GATORADE)
PAY TO PLAY (THE BUSINESS OF TUTORS)
YOGI BERRA (Visitor)