University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Student Life 25

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it ' s great...to be...a Florida Gator! Never has this chant been heard so loudly, with so much vigor through- out the University of Florida, throughout every opponents stadiums, and especially throughout New Orleans. This was definitely the year of the Gator. There ' s nothing that compares to Gator fans and we ' ve shown we meant business in 1997. The SEC titles rolled in from all directions, the conference championships poured in, and to top it all off, the first National Championship football team in U.F. history stomped their way into the spotlight. Gator fans everywhere bled orange and blue and added a little color to everywhere we conquered. Millions of Gator dollars poured throughout the nation by those die hard fans. If there was a word that could dramatize spirit , that word would describe the average Gator fan, and who knows what word could be used to describe the fanatics! There ' s no doubt that Gainesville wouldn ' t mean the same without the University of Florida, and the University wouldn ' t mean the same without the teams, and the teams just wouldn ' t be the same without the fans. So here ' s to those Gators everywhere. A well deserved salute to the heart, the support, the craziness, the enthusiasm, and the madness that makes the Gator.

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1996 N A T I N A L G H A M P S