“Gator Country”
How the University of Florida turned a beautiful, North Florida stadium, into an ostentatious, money-sucking Swamp.
Molly Hatchet — Jacksonville, Florida
((( “UF Theme Song” )))
sandy felsenthal
(Top) Taking Florida Field as an All-American, Cris Collinsworth‘s future was coming into high-expectations view.
Last Stand
The view sucks, Mr. Two-Bits never comes to lift them out of their distant, bourbon and herb-crazed state of mind. Squeezed in the South endzone, between the east and west are 6,000 football fans. Mostly visitors, with the small number of local procrastinators who waited until the last minute to buy their season tickets. It’s a schizophrenic bunch who can’t decide whether to yell orange or blue when the ear-splitting cheer echoes back and forth across the rest of Florida Field. But these more-demented Gainesvillians are equally enthusiastic Gator fans. Die-hards, who show up every home game, sitting in the South Stand’s wooden bleachers, under a stand of a dozen tall and thin Sabal palms, screaming, cheering, smoking, and drinking their Gator-loving brains out. (text and photos by dave hogerty)
dave hogerty (South Stand)
(video) Student Government Productions
“Highway Song”
1979 — Blackfoot, like Lynyrd Skynyrd was a band from Jacksonville, another North Florida band that played Gainesville, and was instrumental in creating the sound that became known as “Southern Rock.”
((( Blackfoot )))
