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well played vine.

Or, at least, not within the last week (like me).

The only reason I’ve ever heard of Ke$ha is that the kids on “Victorious” opened a lot of ice cream cartons in pursuit of the winning lid that would allow them to win a free concert with this person.

Basically, if DirecTV cancelled all my channels except the low 200s and the 290s, it’d be a month before I noticed.

They just named him “Brisset” instead of “Brisket” to throw us off.

Not that that’ll matter on the field, of course. Florida will still win.

I meant the Mark Richt era; basically, from 2001 to 2010, the East was even: Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee each went to the SEC Championship Game three times, and South Carolina went once. The point that Florida hasn’t been a better program than Georgia during the Mark Richt era still stands, which is what makes the results in Jacksonville in the last decade (as opposed to the preceding decade, when the Gators were just better) so maddening.

The reason the University of Florida is so adamant about denying its history is that it fared so poorly in its initial seasons. T.H. Taliaferro, the president of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College, coined the term “The University of Florida” in 1903, and it stuck from that point onward. The first football team to take the field under the University of Florida name went 1-2 in 1903, beating the East Florida Seminary but losing to Stetson and Florida State. In 1904, Florida went winless, falling to Alabama, Auburn, and Georgia.

So, no, hatred of Georgia isn’t what causes Florida to lie about its gridiron heritage; the understandable unwillingness of the Gators to acknowledge one extra loss apiece to Alabama, Auburn, Florida State, and Georgia solely for the sake of being able to claim a one-point win over the East Florida Seminary is.

If you don’t believe me, though, believe Tampa Tribune sports editor Tom McEwen, who literally wrote the book on Florida’s football history, and who is quite clear upon the obvious point that the institution’s relocation of its campus from Lake City to Gainesville was merely a move, not a do-over. Dr. Taliaferro didn’t change jobs; he just packed up his office in one city and unpacked it in another, but he was the president of the University of Florida the whole time. Anyone who claims the 1903 and 1904 Florida teams weren’t Florida teams should also claim that, when he changes apartments, he becomes a completely different person, because that’s exactly the same ridiculous argument the University of Florida is making.

Of course, the University of Florida also published a picture of a crocodile, not an alligator, on its media guide; used the wrong Roman numerals when commemorating its alleged 100th anniversary; and fields a football team coached by a man who claims he was a Florida fan while playing as a walk-on for the Georgia Bulldogs, which was previously coached by Urban Meyer, whose litany of insincere statements is too lengthy to list here, so getting the story straight and the details right simply isn’t a Gator strong point. :)