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The Swamp ranked as the 10th best stadium in College Football

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by cfbselect, Feb 9, 2024.

  1. 06GATORS08

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    List is garbo. Doak @ 4 is funny. Also, I like Michigan but it's way too high.
     
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  2. your_perfect_enemy

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    Hmmm a user name that matches the name of an irrelevant/unknown website makes this their first post here with a stupid “article”
     
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  3. audiogatorjim

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    I dunno, I was so drunk before the games there. One time, a friend and I were playing pool before the game at some bar over there. We just stomped whoever we played and we won 10-12 pitchers of beer; we couldn’t finish it all but we had enough. The FSU fans were so bitter and resentful we were better and had the better school.
    Two of our kids graduated from UF and one graduated from FSU.
     
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  4. deathroll

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    I went to MI once. Nothing more than a big, shallow, charmless bowl. Horrific distance from the field/action. Worst stadium I’ve ever been in.
     
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  5. audiogatorjim

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    Posting initially on a website is like sex - sooner or later, you will have a first time.
     
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  6. MCB51

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    I just remember a game where it was pouring rain there and their field flooded on the sidelines..the TV announcers kept mentioning it and showing it
    One time their tuba player slipped and fell on his behind lol
     
  7. Crusher

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    That's the Rose Bowl's MO too....a pancake Bowl. 102,000 seats and only about half of them worth the price of a ticket. At least Michigan's stadium isn't an erector set like the Rose Bowl, though. UMich's field is somewhat like Ben Hill Griffin though...it was built in a ravine and ground level where you enter is about 1/2 way up the stands.
     
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  8. Crusher

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    Beano Cook: [​IMG] RIP
     
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  9. TrueGator

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    The best place to play a Gator game is the Swamp. That is all that matters.

    Doak is a tinker toy stadium that is half empty when they're bad.
     
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  10. vaxcardinal

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    It’s how they define “best”. I think the rose bowl is a dump
     
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  11. oragator1

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    You realize it was the author who brought the link here right? 1 post, trying to drum up clicks.
     
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  12. antny1

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    Dammit. I didn't even look at the author. I never opened up links by what I presume to have been Mike Bianchi or his staff as he used to spam the board with links to his trash articles and then the "new poster" would never revisit the thread. A new name every time.
     
  13. audiogatorjim

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    Oh, I remember that game I think. Was it the game where Ricky Natiel caught a floater pass in the end zone for the win? It was raining bad that game.
     
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  14. MCB51

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    Yes..it was..
     
  15. Skink

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    Quiet too. I saw Michigan play a big game vs. Notre Dame there on a beautiful sunny afternoon and couldn’t believe how dead the crowd was
     
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    I was there for 1 game, in the UM student section. The Westbrook Hail Mary. Was hilarious, especially because they had been giving me grief all day about how overrated we and the SEC were. Stunned doesn’t begin to describe that place.
     
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  18. crl

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    Should be number one. Especially when we're good. No more difficult place to play IMO.
     
  19. archigator_96

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    Meh, stupid list designed to get clicks and fill up the comments at the end. They have VT but not Clempson? Dumb list with some obvious rankings to rile people up.
     
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    Whoa Nellie!!!
     
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