Can’t begin to imagine what Brandon Spikes must have felt like through all this.  This man jumped to his defense not because he’s a Gator and I’m a homer.  It was because like many like me I follow the program as close as I can and watch the actions of these players as much as possible, read about them, just believe that Spikes is one of the really good guys.

Not making as many practices anymore but when I did I’d always spot Brandon Spikes and go back to him several times during a practice to see what he was doing.  From what I could see he’s a very sociable character always hanging with his teammates and chewing some sort of fat with them. You’d see him smile and laugh a lot. And he’d end up making them laugh.

Webster should take a photo of Brando Spikes and use him in their definition of gregarious. An online Webster definition of the word gregarious - tending to associate with others of one’s kind : social b : marked by or indicating a liking for companionship.

Brandon Spikes likes his teammates. That’s what I saw at practice.

I grew to deeply respect Spikes. Read a story on him that described what he wanted to do with himself at college and why. Many said where he grew up he wouldn’t make it out they felt he’d fail. He wanted away from that type of life to be something much better than what the hard streets ground most young men into.

He’s a man that loves his family and mother. That’s a man after my own heart. Those people who said what they did about Spikes this week not only hurt him but they hurt me too. It was like how could they say those things if they really knew him. Where he came from, what he stands for.

As fickle as our national media is they’ve gone from thinking of Spikes as a goat to a hero in a few days. Most saying he helped his NFL stock by showing the kind of character that we Gator fans already knew Brandon Spikes had.

When he came out and said he didn’t want to be a distraction to the team so he was taking himself out of the whole Vanderbilt game. That told the nation what he was about, a team player all the way.

I am a guy who deeply loves my Gators and college football. Guys like Guss Scott who lost his mother and took a lot of abuse by Gator fans, or Reggie Nelson who lost his mom but didn’t take the abuse, and of course Brandon Spikes who was recently abused nationally they all reach a special spot with Swampie.

Spikes already had my respect, he said Ryan Stamper had his back. Well Brandon Spikes he isn’t the only one who’s got your back, as if you need any help, well you got it. You have the proud backbone of Gator nation behind you, not those fickle emotional wishy washy fans. The ones who bleed orange they’ve got your back buddy.

From here to bloody hell buddy I’d go to war with Brandon Spikes, wouldn’t be much darn good but I’d go in a New York minute.

So here’s to Spikes, hope he gets some more rest this weekend then goes out the winner he is the last five games of his Gator Career.