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Kevin Kolczynski
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Last Stand — For all Florida Field time, the South Endzone had been the place where visiting fans and the last of the UF season ticket-holding students met on Saturday afternoons. Thrown together randomly, the two sides, never forgot who they were rooting for, but the confrontational, back-and-forth banter was always good natured, friendly, and fun. Except for UM (Miami) and their mascot 2-Live Crew.
Mr. 2-Bits* — Mr. 2-Bits was one of the most recognizable Gators for more than 30 years, photographed for the Alligator by Acey Harper in 1974.
Daddy’s Home — Kevin Kolczynski’s photograph of head Gator Charlie Pell meeting his mentor, Alabama head coach, Bear Bryant, after the Gators’ 1982 loss to the Crimson Tide.
Afternoon Delight — Alligator photographer Al Diaz not only captured the jubilant Gators carrying coach Charlie Pell off Florida Field, in the same shot he also caught three of his Alligator mates, who were also “working” the game. Bill Wax (bottom left); Kevin Kolczynski (left), holding his camera high; and Tom Burton (bottom right) crushed between a celebratory Gator and a Florida Highway Patrolman.
Before the stadium expansion (demise), Florida Field’s south end zone was used primarily as a place to relegate visiting fans. The South End was little more than a large, old-school, wooden bleacher, resting comfortably under a stand of tall, thin, Sabal Palms. One hundred yards of well manicured, naturally green grass led to an equally old-school scoreboard rising out of the stadium’s north end. It was worked manually, from the small, low-profile, open-air press box on the 50-yard line, atop the west side stands.
Of course when it was decided to expand Florida Field, all that long-standing tradition and environmental, red-brick charm had to go. It was standing in the way of (profit-making) “progress.”The first “good,” cost-saving idea was to replace the natural grass with an oil-based, artificial turf. They believed the “maintenance-free” sales pitch. Next it was bulldozing the palms and bleachers in the South end zone. That made way for 20,000 more $100 seats, and replacing the mostly inconspicuous press box with a large, 10-story skyscraper, with seven floors of luxury skyboxes. Just what the big-money “Bull Gator” boosters wanted.
The opposite of those last-minute, South Stand, season ticket holders, who, with 5,000 others prefered the view from the crowded wooden bleachers, in the shade of the swaying Sabal Palms. Far away from the screaming 50-yard-line madness.
In the first ten years of Alligator independence, the game, and business, of football was, as it has always been, a priority of the University of Florida administration. As such, the Alligator always paid a fair amount of attention to what is much more than a popular extra-curricular activity. It could be said that all of Gainesville and the University of Florida, revolves around the almighty football, God’s most important activity in what they call the Southeast Conference.
The Day God Saved The Growl
Homecoming ’80
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 24, 1980
vol 74 no 25
FOOTBALL ALMIGHTY
GATOR GROWL (HOMECOMING)
Gainesville Green (“I’d like to fertilize her buds”)
TOM PETTY (Coming Home)
MUSIC (BLUES IN THE NIGHT)
HALLOWEEN BALL
Time Loves A Hero
CRIS COLLINSWORTH
[STORY]
((( Little Feat )))
dave hogerty
Time Loves A Hero
Little Feat
((( >> )))
Refugee
Tom Petty
((( >> )))
Time Loves A Hero
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 24, 1980
vol 74 no 25
Breakdown
Tom Petty
((( “Breakdown” )))
God is a Gator
Football Almighty. As it was, and as it will always be in Gainesville.
ORANGE & BLUE
The Holy Spirit*
CRIS COLLINSWORTH
Good As Gold*
CHARLIE PELL
Off To A Slow Start*
BEAR BRYANT
Daddy’s Home*
HOPEFUL BEGINNING (1980)
ALBERT & THE GOVERNOR
FLORIDA FIELD 1971
FLORIDA FIELD
Artificial Inteligence
FLORIDA FIELD
Artificial Intelligence (Alt.)
1980 AFTER A DISASTEROUS 1979
STEVE SPURRIER
and his Christian Warriors
Danny Wuerffel
Tim Tebow
ALBERT (THE ALLIGATOR)
DR. CADE (GATORADE)
PAY TO PLAY (HIDDEN TUTORS)
BEAR BRYANT (Visitor)
YOGI BERRA (Visitor)
Gator Growl
How the University of Florida turned a beautiful, red-brick, classic, North Florida football stadium, into an ostentatious, money-sucking, Bull Gator Swamp.
Naked Launch
(Pretty As A Florida Picture)
Diamond Teeth Mary
(Singing The Devil’s Song)