Daily Zoot - 9/23/09 - The Annexation Puerto Zoot

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Saturday's game between Urban Meyer's Florida Gators, and Lane Kiffin's Tennessee Volunteers was expected to be a heated game between two rivals with both traditional, and new-found hate for one another. I expected Lane Kiffin to rile up his troops to earn him his first win against a big SEC power house. But more than that I expected the Florida Buzzsaw to leave nothing more than little shreds of orange fabric on the field. It turned out to be little more than a lull in the action.

Heading into this past off-season, Florida and Tennesse was no longer one of the premier rivalries in College Football. Florida had won four straight, and the game had lost some of its intrigue nationwide. Lane the Brain (and I call him that because he was able to drum up all this attention for a team that isn't so good, smart move if you ask me. one of you asked me, right?) all but guaranteed a win against Florida in his first presser, then accused the Florida staff of NCAA violations at a public event a few weeks later; accusations which would prove untrue. Urbania Meyer (Urbania is a better football name than Urban; Little Giants anyone? Home of Kevin and Danny O'Shea?) hung up little Kiffin quotes and snippets and pictures around his locker room to try and fire his guys up. Everyone including myself thought that to be a strategy that would prove successful. Everyone including myself also thought that Florida would destroy Tennessee when they met. The bad blood continued to simmer until the kickoff last Saturday afternoon in Gainesville...

Then the game happened, Florida wins by an uninspiring 10 points, 23-13. Everyone including myself was disappointed.

I for one thought the whole thing to be over; I thought wrong. Let's play a favorite game of mine: What they said/what they meant

Kiffin came out on Monday and said he couldn't wait to face Florida next year without Tebow because he is such a great player.
Superman is all they got. Take #15 out of this one and we win this game.

Meyer responded to criticisms of the narrowness of Florida's victory by saying he went with a conservative approach because Tennessee wasn't coaching to win, and that a lot of his players had the flu.
Lane doesn't know how to coach a team to win a game in this conference, we didn't even have to try to win to do so. Our guys are better than theirs even when we're all swined out.

Kiffin, when asked if any of his players were sick, said he would wait until his team played a game they were unenthusiastic about, then he would say they had the flu.
F%&@ YOU URBAN!

I get it, you two don't really like each other, and that's great; I support, endorse, and encourage that. I just wish you could make the game itself as aggressive and mean spirited as your press-conferences. Let us out here enjoy all this hate with you. Thank You.