Gather round, Noles. At this special time of year when we host the obnoxious reptiles we can't let the time pass without recalling just how fu came to be known as a reptilian specie and why.
While fu officially traces its origins back to 1853 in Ocala, it does not trace its football back to that year. They artificially choose to begin their fb history in 1905. Why? Because they lost most games they played in the prior years. So when you read the fu version of history you get one set of wins and losses and different ones when you read the SEC accounts or the Georgia, Alabama, or GT versions. How did they arrive at the 1905 date as a beginning ? The school. then known as East Florida Seminary, began in Ocala in the nineteenth century. It subsequently moved to Lake City when the rent came due. Finally, in 1905 the school moved again to Hogtown, Florida. Why? Apparently because no other town wanted them and the school administration obviously was not too choosy on where to call home. So the seminary arrived with its name and little else. They began playing football, but had and no nick name, school colors, or mascot image. A group of players and coaches would just show up and play against an opponent. No one had much interest.
In the village of Hogtown there lived a merchant who operated a pharmacy. It was common in those days for pharmacists to concoct refreshments. That's how coacoa-cola and Dr. Pepper were invented. His name was Phillip Miller and he attracted seminary students to buy his sarsaparillas and other merchandise. Mr. Miller made a nice living off the seminary students.
Miller had a son of college age. But he chose not to send his boy to the local school that made him wealthy. Instead he sent young Master Miller off to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia. Old Phill liked their money, but not the education. Phillip visited his son, Austin at school and they attended a UVa football game. Fans showed up dressed in blue and orange, carrying pennants and wearing Cavalier pins. Being the successful merchandiser he was, the senior Miller took note and commented to young Austin. Austin suggested that dad could sell the same type things back home in Hogtown.....except, the Hogtown seminarians didn't have a name or colors. So what could you put on the pennants or pins? Austin suggested that the Millers simply give the nameless school a name; an identify, if you will. He said, "Why not call them The Alligators'? Dad liked this so much that he immediately went to a firm that made the Cavalier peanuts and ordered a batch that said "The Alligators". He then thought he could sell more if he had pennants with a picture of an alligator on it. There were no pictures of alligators lying around to do the artwork by, so the 2 Millers went to the UVa library (the one Thomas Jefferson designed), checked out a book on fauna and headed back to the pennant maker and made up another batch. They used blue and orange as colors because that's what UVa used.
So today we now have an arrogant alumni from a town originally named hogtown claiming superior heritage based on a marketing scheme plagiarizing another schools color's and adopting a mascot it never identified itself as and now use a musical theme for a shark movie. About as genuine as a $3 bill. #faked florida legacy
Go To Hell fLORIDA 💩
While fu officially traces its origins back to 1853 in Ocala, it does not trace its football back to that year. They artificially choose to begin their fb history in 1905. Why? Because they lost most games they played in the prior years. So when you read the fu version of history you get one set of wins and losses and different ones when you read the SEC accounts or the Georgia, Alabama, or GT versions. How did they arrive at the 1905 date as a beginning ? The school. then known as East Florida Seminary, began in Ocala in the nineteenth century. It subsequently moved to Lake City when the rent came due. Finally, in 1905 the school moved again to Hogtown, Florida. Why? Apparently because no other town wanted them and the school administration obviously was not too choosy on where to call home. So the seminary arrived with its name and little else. They began playing football, but had and no nick name, school colors, or mascot image. A group of players and coaches would just show up and play against an opponent. No one had much interest.
In the village of Hogtown there lived a merchant who operated a pharmacy. It was common in those days for pharmacists to concoct refreshments. That's how coacoa-cola and Dr. Pepper were invented. His name was Phillip Miller and he attracted seminary students to buy his sarsaparillas and other merchandise. Mr. Miller made a nice living off the seminary students.
Miller had a son of college age. But he chose not to send his boy to the local school that made him wealthy. Instead he sent young Master Miller off to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia. Old Phill liked their money, but not the education. Phillip visited his son, Austin at school and they attended a UVa football game. Fans showed up dressed in blue and orange, carrying pennants and wearing Cavalier pins. Being the successful merchandiser he was, the senior Miller took note and commented to young Austin. Austin suggested that dad could sell the same type things back home in Hogtown.....except, the Hogtown seminarians didn't have a name or colors. So what could you put on the pennants or pins? Austin suggested that the Millers simply give the nameless school a name; an identify, if you will. He said, "Why not call them The Alligators'? Dad liked this so much that he immediately went to a firm that made the Cavalier peanuts and ordered a batch that said "The Alligators". He then thought he could sell more if he had pennants with a picture of an alligator on it. There were no pictures of alligators lying around to do the artwork by, so the 2 Millers went to the UVa library (the one Thomas Jefferson designed), checked out a book on fauna and headed back to the pennant maker and made up another batch. They used blue and orange as colors because that's what UVa used.
So today we now have an arrogant alumni from a town originally named hogtown claiming superior heritage based on a marketing scheme plagiarizing another schools color's and adopting a mascot it never identified itself as and now use a musical theme for a shark movie. About as genuine as a $3 bill. #faked florida legacy
Go To Hell fLORIDA 💩
