He didn’t even get tackled. GPD and ACSO went easy on him. I’m sure everyone could tell by his slow trot that he would not resist, but still.
Saw plenty of students get manhandled by GPD for sneaking booze into the East Stands. This was during the Spurrier years. Can’t imagine it’s changed much.
To be fair, he just stopped running. If he kept running around on the field, it may have been a different story.
Actually, it was on the broadcast for just a couple of seconds as you can see from this screenshot as the cretin withe the Heupel physique approaches the 15-yard line:
I don’t remember. During the 90’s. May have only been for big games. I definitely remember them being there at a Tennessee game I went to with my Uncle.
My first FSU game was 83, which we won easily 53-14 I believe. As the 4th quarter wound down, police in full riot gear circled the field just daring someone to storm the field. It was quite a look.
Police in riot gear is different than police on horses. I am skeptical of that claim since there really isn’t any room for that on the sidelines. But I was at the 83 game
Been coming to the games since I was a student in the mid-80's, nobody has ever stormed the field. That being said...against the leg-humpers in 1984 up in Jax...we DID storm the field after the beat-down, and tore down the goalposts. There is a picture of me (in the crowd) on the front page of the Jacksonville Times-Union passing up the pieces of one of the goalposts through the stands. Good times!
You're right. I think they purposely cut away though. No need to give this more attention. I hate it when idiots interrupt a sporting event to draw attention to themselves. Storming the field after a win? Absolutely! I have no problem with that.
There absolutely has been mounted police at Florida Field. I can’t recall the years but it was between 1977 and the early 90s. To add: just spoke with my oldest daughter who was a student between 2008-2012 and she said there were definitely mounted police on the perimeter at the end of big games
Spurrier was trying to wave the crowd into the field and seemed disappointed it didn’t happen, he even walked up to a goal posts and acted like he was trying to push it over. But the cops were hog tying the people who did jump the wall and lining them up like human shields in front of the student section…
I am not sure how you define storming the field but I know that several hundred Gator fans ‘stormed’ the field after one of the SWAC games in the 1990s. The police were not amused and cleared them off using some force. Our seats were in the second row next to the visitor’s tunnel. Several people who appeared to be students were taken past us by the police. Several of them were bloodied to a moderate degree. The police presence at games in that era was rather heavy with a significant number of K-9 units to encourage the fools to avoid being on the field.
