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 moss shrouded oaks, and a traditional, red-brick wall. Since its opening in 1930, Florida Field has stood large on the west end of UF’s campus, rising like a red-brick volcano, from which, on game days, roars erupt and spill onto campus, across University Avenue, and into the mostly deserted, nearby neighborhoods. Mostly deserted because the stadium was filled with more Gator (football) fans than populated the entire school and all of Gainesville.
football almighty
As it was, and as it will always be.