Chipper Jones rips Gators after upset
One of the Florida Gators’ best-known fans is ripping into the team after its stunning 33-23 loss to Louisville in the Sugar Bowl Wednesday night.
Chipper Jones took to Twitter to express the frustration that many Gator fans are feeling after watching Florida fall behind 24-3 in the first half and 33-10 in the second half before falling 10 points short in a late comeback attempt.
“Never seen a more undisciplined football team in my life. As a life long UF fan, that was embarrassing,” Jones wrote Thursday.
And then: “I can handle getting beat, but to show ur [fannies] in front of the whole country? Sure hope the inmates ain’t running the asylum down there!”
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UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
3:52 pm
Hey. We are 7-7!!! But 10-2 in basketball!
Louisville, for all intensive purposes, is a member of the ACC. They are just going through the motions in the Big East because they have to. Five solid ACC wins in bowl games; VT, GT, Clemson, FSU and Louisville!!! Two over SEC powers.
Escaped from Email Purgatory
January 3rd, 2013
3:52 pm
“…[Chipper Jones ]doesn’t sound like the sharpest tool in the shed.”
Chipper is a world class dufus. He proves it darn near every time he opens his mouth. The signature moment of his final season with the Braves was to toss a routine throw to second base into center field in the playoff game with St Louis.
Two years ago, he decided to publicly lecture Jason Heyward on playing with pain. Hello? Chipper? Aren’t you the same guy who routinely excused himself from work (at a cool 67K per game) because your ring finger was stiff, or you hurt his back changing shirts or sleeping on the mattress in a 5-star New York hotel?
He’s a man blessed with prodigious physical talent. God evened it out by giving him the mental capacity of a bag of hair and the competitive heart of Caspar Milquetoast.
dmr
January 3rd, 2013
3:54 pm
Gator fans need to give credit where it is due. You don’t seem to want to accept the fact that you were going up against one of the premiere coaches and defensive minds in the game in Charlie Strong. Not only that, but Strong knows the Gators inside and out and Louisville’s personel isn’t exactly bad. Their defense had strength and speed and Driskell was under pressure all night long. Just don’t be like Nebraska, where you tell everyone how much better you are than a team that just whipped your rear ends. Just take, bury it, and prepare for next season!
MTSU Blue Raider
January 3rd, 2013
3:54 pm
Wake up Yawn, we just scored again.
RAD
January 3rd, 2013
3:57 pm
Hey Tech are you petitioning to get a pass to play in a bowl game in advance this year….?
partlycloudy
January 3rd, 2013
3:58 pm
The gators were bad! I always cheer for the SEC teams up against out of conference teams. So I was cheering for the GAtors.
Well, UGA should have had that gig, not the gators.
Now it’s up to Bama to beat Notre Dame.
Thankful Dawg
January 3rd, 2013
3:58 pm
In retrospect, I believe us Dawg fans have a reason to be thankful we weren’t placed in that BCS bowl. I think we would have hopefully kept it closer but I doubt we would have come up with a W. Charlie Strong and Bridgewater are scary good.
Said What?
January 3rd, 2013
3:58 pm
Florida is the premiere team in the SEC – yeah, if by “premiere” you mean “cataclysmic failure.”
Sugar Cookies
January 3rd, 2013
3:59 pm
Chipper was overrated, just like the Florida Gators!
Go Cards!
anonymous
January 3rd, 2013
4:00 pm
hooters pot, meet playboy kettle
Go home to Texas or Florida, Chipper.
January 3rd, 2013
4:01 pm
Shut up, you idiot. I hope there’s more your wife can use against you in a divorce. Are you what your children have to look up to!
Doodaddy
January 3rd, 2013
4:03 pm
Great to see bully Muschamp’s stooges get punched in the nose and fail to get up and fight back.
UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
4:03 pm
3 of the 4 longest bowl streaks reside in the ACC (FSU, VT, GT). And the 4th is UF. The ACC has turned the corner with our bowl showing this year, and will be at or near the top next year!!! If not us, it will be the Big Ten – not SEC.
Ekim56
January 3rd, 2013
4:03 pm
I stopped following Chipper Jones soon after baseball season was over; he was ranting about the Warren Commission findings. Then I decided that he was just another guy with an opinion.
UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
4:04 pm
Muschamp’s stooges will be MORE then ready next year when they play UGA. And, without the 6 turnovers, they will start to win year after year over UGA – just like they did when Spurrier was there.
Doodaddy
January 3rd, 2013
4:06 pm
Life’s such a drag when you’re living in the past.
Ekim56
January 3rd, 2013
4:06 pm
@UGA = Yawn. Here, let me correct that sentence for you:
“Louisville, for all intensive purposes, is a member of the ACC”
“Louisville, for all intents and purposes, is a member of the ACC”
Just thought I’d share.
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
4:06 pm
I think Florida is the new “U”! Multiple personal foul penalties and one player ejected from the game. Way to get beat and look like a bunch of thugs at the same time.
Wildgator
January 3rd, 2013
4:06 pm
The bowl games just prove the playoffs need to be like 16 to 24 teams to give the underdogs a chance to win the NC. And its true, the Gators looked like hott ass garbage last night (with a lil help from the refs)!!! And Driskell needs to learn how to step up in the pocket. But I still say, GO GATORS!!!
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
4:08 pm
Can the SEC git rid of the Gators and pick up Louisville?
Atlanta Irish
January 3rd, 2013
4:08 pm
Blah, blah, blah. The rest of the reasonable world doesn’t give a (as you southerners say it “rat’s a–) about all your little overrated redneck teams. The real team with real student athletes that take real classes with real entrance exam scores will show up and shut you all up. You will get what you deserve when an intellignet Irish team takes your big dumb Elephants, Tide, whatever, to the proverbial woodshed. Then when we schedule those ACC games, we will run that conference, too. Your days of glory are up. Kick’em Irish.
UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
4:08 pm
I would be happy with 8 team play-off. 16 would be optimum but they will never go for that. 4 is too few.
Sugar Cookies
January 3rd, 2013
4:09 pm
Sugar Bowl announced crowd of 54,178 is the game’s worst since 1939 and smallest ever for a BCS bowl. Pathetic Gators fans!
RTR
@falconxdwag
January 3rd, 2013
4:09 pm
Really? That’s rich. With all uga’s wonderful glories they’ve experienced lately? Get over it – loser.
UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
4:10 pm
Atlanta Irish – last time you came to Atlanta to play GT we pelted your team with fish and Jack Daniels bottles – just as you deserve. We are the ACC – you are not. GT is the marquee school of the conference. 222 – 0 ! Beat that!
DG
January 3rd, 2013
4:10 pm
Wildgator – I think the problem has more to do with Driskell than the refs. If UF had a QB (or someone that could coach them), UF would be in NC game.
Will Muschamp
January 3rd, 2013
4:11 pm
My players are the best D*** players in the country and play with extreme class so shut the F*** up.
john
January 3rd, 2013
4:12 pm
Are you stupid??? Florida has been over ranked since day 1 of this season. Like wise is Notre Dame very over ranked! The buckeyes should be and would be if it was for a dam tatto!
King Gator
January 3rd, 2013
4:13 pm
Florida’s was performance was on par with Chipper’s as a husband – both were pitiful! Go Gators! Yall stop by Gainesville anytime if you want to see what a BCS championship trophy looks like. 11-2 in a rebuilding year with a new qb, not bad. (But last night was awful – no excuses for the lack of effort; too many guys looking forward to “announcing for the draft”) Was this year as good as it gets at Georgia? 271 days until next season!
Just Saying
January 3rd, 2013
4:13 pm
This article is about the Florida – L’ville game, correct? Why so many comments about UGA and GT???? Both teams won their bowl games so let’s just be happy about that. Who the heck cares about the number of SEC or ACC bowl wins?? Pretty juvenile in my opinion.
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
4:13 pm
UF is not Man enough to beat UGA or Louisville.
Wildgator
January 3rd, 2013
4:14 pm
DG – I agree. Driskell is awful!!! But come on now, that unsportsman like conduct call, on the bench – for being in the white was unreal!!! LOL! How many times have you seen or heard that being called?!?!
UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
4:14 pm
Agree john – would have loved to see Ohio St smash UGA in a bowl game. A school steeped in tradition vs one steeped in dog manure.
UGA = Yawn
January 3rd, 2013
4:15 pm
Just Saying – ’cause we can!!!
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
4:16 pm
I love it when UF fans have to wish another school would smash UGA because UF could not do it for the 2nd year in a row.
Gators are garbage
January 3rd, 2013
4:17 pm
Why is anyone surprised with last night’s outcome? These same gators should’ve been beat at home by La-Laf. And their QB play continues to be horrible- I don’t care what Driskell was rated coming out of HS. He sure is doo doo now.
And Muschump, don’t get me started. His rah-rah cheerleading style didn’t work that well in Texas. I could never understand why such a defensive genius had teams in Austin that would routinely give up 40+ points.
Atlanta Irish
January 3rd, 2013
4:17 pm
UGA=Yawn. You prove my case. That’s just what you did, I was there. You’re classless and immature. You get lucky and tie one game and you think you’re god’s gift to football. You’re just another southern joke without a punch line. By the way, how old are you? Did your Mommie have difficulty washing the urine out of your sheets this morning. Marquee my a–.
King Gator
January 3rd, 2013
4:17 pm
Ohio St steeped in probation last time I checked… #buckeyetat
Wildgator
January 3rd, 2013
4:17 pm
@ John – Um sir, it was more then a tatto….
@Just Saying
January 3rd, 2013
4:18 pm
I guess if you go back and begin reading from the beginning it only took the second post for the uga fans to begin their rants.
Get the flag out on the single wide today huny, we’re gonna watch us some fooosballl….
Watch where the animosity comes from.
Just sayin’
Sad thing is
January 3rd, 2013
4:19 pm
uga couldn’t even whip alabama for all the marbles in their own state….
Crickets anyone?
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
4:19 pm
Short on Top & Long in the Back with Blue Jean shorts – Go Gators!
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
4:20 pm
UF couldn’t even whip UGA for all the marbles in their own state …..
Crickets anyone?
Charlie Strong
January 3rd, 2013
4:21 pm
From start to finish that game shouldn’t have been as close as it was… We dominated that game. The Gators were a joke.
bruce mac
January 3rd, 2013
4:21 pm
I knew I had some crazy man love for Chipper. Now I know why? Calling out the Gators as classless chumps is pricelss. And this from the most famous Gator fan of all time. You gotta love #10, best Brave ever.
Gators are garbage
January 3rd, 2013
4:21 pm
Atlanta Irish must’ve broken out the old Irish whiskey a litle early today. Keep drinking pal. Bama is going to steamroll you’re overrated bunch. And the whole world knows it except for the delusional ND fanbase.
zzzzzzzzzzz
January 3rd, 2013
4:22 pm
What did Chipper say that was incorrect? Florida was an absolute embarrassment last night in all phases of the game. All the Mullett-Men are crying loud today!
Omar Little
January 3rd, 2013
4:22 pm
Since all the SEC teams take credit for an SEC national title, are they all taking the blame for that pitiful Gators performance?
Reality
January 3rd, 2013
4:23 pm
The Gators had 9 penalties for 98 yards and 1 player ejected from the game. Way to go Gators and 1 sideline penalty warning did not cost you the game.
Harold Hawks
January 3rd, 2013
4:23 pm
Mark it down, Aaron Murray will be a top 10 QB in the NFL.