Go ahead..take that first step..pick a game next year and go...plan to go and do the things you did in the past when you did go..if you have children..take them..sometimes seeing all the pageantry thru eyes of a child can make it fulfilling..
It was just two years ago with Trask and Pitts/Toney that we were playing Bama in a very close game. Things can turn quickly for us with a great QB and some difference making players
Just curious, how did you watch the gators on tv 8 times a year for 40 years? Streaming services have not been around that long and no way all their games were televised on Jefferson Pilot.
Before streaming, in the olden times, there was this thing called cable which was a system of delivering audio and video signals to homes though a coaxial cable run underground and into the home. Most people would use a device called a cathode ray tube to interpret those signals into something displayed on a curved glass screen - aka the tube TV, telly, or boob tube.
Although I don’t think you could successfully watch 8 games until at least the 90’s? Maybe locally in the Gainesville/central FL you could, who knows.
Many times back in the "old days" you might get a big game or 2 televised...most of the time it was listening to Otis Boggs on the radio... I remember my older brother smashed his radio because he was frustrated by a Gator loss
As I’ve gotten older, life becomes a little more clearer for me. Yes, I like it when our boys win, but it doesn't ruin my weekend when we don’t. I still have so many other things that bring me joy, mainly my family. Gator FB is in a rebuild right now. Don’t let a loss or a kid committing to another school bring you down.
Caught me in a lie I guess. I didn’t put all games because I knew I didn’t see all. I dont keep an abacus with games watched in my study. May be hyperbole. To be fair, I did say literally and conservative. Maybe not literal nor conservative. I will not post math while buzzed anymore without having at least two sources and/or people proofing it. The media doesn’t even do that anymore. Thanks for pointing out that I’m a liar too. It is hard to get stuff by you wordsmiths.
This is me exactly! It’s not JUST about winning games, it’s the whole feeling of college football. The emotions, fans, dedication to the team, traditions and just those things that tie us all together. Pro football lost that a long time ago and college is trying to head in that direction. Of course it makes it that much sweeter when you are winning but it’s about so much more.
Our Oline got dominated up front. No OC would be able to be able to call plays successfully, especially when our QB struggles with those short screen passes.
Spent many a game on the tractor with those fancy headphones on. Wise use of time killing two birds. Just don’t hit anything when you’re cussin
Yeap..I learned that a win or loss didn't change my life much..the sun did and does come up the next day
Blast from the past! Remember one time I shielded myself from an untelevised UF/FSU game so I could watch it “live” @ 11:00 or 12:00 on Sunshine Network (1985?)… When we won (last minute I think?) I stepped out on the porch (of the apt I was living in with my new wife and child - see her in my avatar ❤️), I let out a yell of exhilaration and was excited to hear several other “Go Gators” yelled from other apartments !
I'm sure we've all wondered whether its worth investing so much time and emotion into Florida Football. I know I have and have really thought I was finished and would be much more casual with my following of the Gators. It's never actually happened. I wish it would sometimes.
Been there, done that and feel your pain, but I still care. Not as much to the point of suffering through a televised game anymore like I used to when I would watch til the last second ticked off of the clock during horrible losses, but I still care.
Even with cable the Gators haven't been on tv 320 times over the last 40 years unless replay is included. In fact, until the mid to late 1980s when the NCAA wasn't allowed to control TV rights anymore that teams were limited to two games a year on television.
