[at-l] Sorry, but I gotta rub it in!

[janl2@mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

Wow!
That was almost like a trip report!
And i'm not even a sports fan...

KellyGoVols@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Gary,
> 
> I can't tell you how sorry I am about the Gator's loss (NOT!)  How
> appropriate that you're in Tennessee, and I am here.  I'm proudly driving
> around in Fort Lauderdale with my giant GOVOLS magnet on the car, happily
> dodging eggs, while you suffer a Gator loss in Volunteer Country (ouch!)
> But, we deserved this win, and I'm NEVER going to let you live it down.
> 
> GAINESVILLE -- It's all gone now.
> 
> Everything.
> 
> No more Rose Bowl.
> 
> No more Southeastern Conference championship.
> 
> Maybe even no more Heisman Trophy.
> 
> And especially no more Phil Fulmer fat jokes.
> 
> Not anymore. Not forevermore.
> 
> Not after what Fulmer, the perennial punch line of so many Florida jabs,
> accomplished Saturday. Not only did Fulmer beat his longtime nemesis, Steve
> Spurrier, but he beat him in the biggest game in front of the largest crowd
> ever at Florida Field.
> 
> Fulmer entered this game 2-7 against Spurrier, but he left 1-0 after
> Saturday's shocking 34-32 upset of the No. 2 Gators. Throw out all previous
> coaching records because this one game takes precedent over all others put
> together. This one game gives UT bragging rights for life.
> 
> This one was for the SEC East. This one was for Florida quarterback Rex
> Grossman being the clear-cut front-runner for the Heisman Trophy. This one
> was for the once-in-a-lifetime chance of playing for the national
> championship in the Rose Bowl.
> 
> As ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu once wrote in The Art of War: "Will
> somebody please tackle Travis Stephens!"
> 
> If only Darnell Dockett had twisted Stephens' knee -- that's about the only
> hope the Gators had of winning this game. Stephens is the 5-foot-9 Tennessee
> runner who flattened Florida's defense to the tune of 226 yards. Only the
> great Herschel Walker -- Herschel Walker, for crying out loud -- has run for
> more yards against a UF defense. Question: Is it too late to start a write-in
> Heisman campaign for Stephens?
> 
> And what will be the big off-the-field story this week -- Spurrier accusing
> UT coaches of teaching Tennessee offensive linemen to run directly at Florida
> defenders while planting them three feet into the ground?
> 
> How could this possibly be? In one amazing afternoon, the Gators went from
> the penthouse to the Outback. Tennessee fans tossed roses at their players
> afterward. And it only would have been fitting if Florida fans had showered
> the Gators with Blooming Onions.
> 
> The Gators could end up in the Outback Bowl, or maybe they'll go to the
> Orange Bowl. Who knows? Who cares? It doesn't matter. It's like Grossman said
> after Saturday's devastating defeat: "The season's pretty much over."
> 
> Nobody thought Tennessee could win this game. Not the oddsmakers. Not the
> sports writers. Not Lee Corso and his ESPN College GameDay crew -- all of
> whom picked Florida to win big.
> 
> A Tennessee victory? Peposterous . Not here. Not in The Swamp, where the Vols
> haven't won since Ronald Reagan was in office -- as governor of California.
> 
> After it was all over, Tennessee quarterback Casey Clausen stood on a
> makeshift platform in the Florida Field stands and joyously conducted the UT
> band's umpteenth rendition of "Rocky Top."
> 
> Meanwhile, Spurrier, visibly devastated, was finishing his postgame news
> conference. He walked away from the podium mumbling to nobody in particular,
> "They just kicked our butts. There's not much else you can say. Yep, they
> kicked our butts. OK . . . They kicked our butts."
> 
> Phil Fulmer 1, Steve Spurrier 0.
> 
> No matter what happened in the past and what happens in the future, Tennessee
> always will have Dec. 1,
> 2001. It is the ultimate ammunition, the supreme argument ender.
> 
> Florida fans can boast all they want about how the Gators dominated Peyton
> Manning. They can talk about winning 31-0 in '94 or 62-37 in '95, but all
> Tennessee fans have to do is respond like this:
> 
> "Remember 2001 at your place when everything was on the line?"
> 
> End of discussion.
> 
> I wouldn't care if we lost to LSU and didn't make it to the Rose Bowl, just
> beating the Gators is victory enough for me.
> 
> GO VOLS!
> 
> Kelly Sue
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