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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hit a single
January 3rd, 2013
4:53 pm
I sure wish Chipper was reporting in Feb. because I don’t see the Braves offense any better without him. Look at the won/loss record when he was not in the lineup. Way too many strikeouts in the lineup this year.
Bobby Petrino
January 3rd, 2013
4:53 pm
I thought UF played with a lot of class last night. I don’t understand what the problem is.
zzzzzzzzzzz
January 3rd, 2013
4:53 pm
no mas, no mas
zzzzzzzzzzz
January 3rd, 2013
4:54 pm
Gators played with a lot of class last night…….. Too bd it was all LOOOOOWWWW!
Bobby
January 3rd, 2013
4:56 pm
Chipper Jones….Chipper Jones. Oh, didn’t he play for that team that blew the biggest lead in MLB history last September?
MLS
January 3rd, 2013
5:00 pm
Oh is it so sweet every time a Gator or Dawgie gets their butt kicked They are like a bunch of little cry babbies!!! They don’t have the guts to stand up and admit they got beat by a better team. Just remember one thing cry babbies. The SEC might be a good conference but neither of you two schools made it that way. Stop riding on the Alabama and the LSU’s coat tail. They are class teams and together neither one of you jerk schools can hold a candle to either of them. I would not pull for either of you cry baby schools even if yawl were playing a grammar school in Iraq. Mark is a super nice and smart coach but that idiot Florida coach should be coaching a grammar school team. The reason I have never pulled for either Ga or Fl. is because of you STUPID BIG MOUTH fans. Come on now, cry us 96 tears. No, I am not a GT fan so get the heck off that even before you start on that school to divert attention away from the # 1 & # 2 Cry Baby schools. I must say I hope I live to see the day GT Kicks the Dawgs butts all the way back to the slums in Athens Ga. Oh, by the way, I hear you doggies will start playing Clemson next year. I bet you really hate to take some of those tough LITTLE schools off your schedule to have to play them. To you two cry baby schools ,, Now. Go get some more tissue’s. Sniff,, Sniff,,, Oh my goodness Sniff,, Sniff,,,, HA,,HA,,HA,,HA,,HA,, Roll Tide!!!
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
5:02 pm
MLS
Major League Soccer?
Go back to your mini van and pick up your kids from practice
dawgindulth
January 3rd, 2013
5:06 pm
These bowl games have outlived their significance. Hell, UF couldn’t even sell their ticket allotment. The only thing that will make bowls relevant again is an 8-way playoff system. That will generate serious interest and serious jack.
Skitty Fritty
January 3rd, 2013
5:07 pm
You are right, it is all about the $ not the matchups.
Just Sayin"
January 3rd, 2013
5:15 pm
Observations from an outsider:
* Florida was/has been WAY overrated all year. Just because in the SEC…..
^.LSU sure shot blanks in passing up the Louisville QB
* ESPN announcers pretty much said Louisville didn’t even belong on the same field as Florida during pre-game comments
* The Gators were extremely undisciplined
Yep, an enjoyable night for most of the nation.
DaDawg
January 3rd, 2013
5:18 pm
gators blow..
All about dem dawgs.
Suck it zz
Yowza, yowza, yowza
January 3rd, 2013
5:19 pm
As a lifelong dogs fan I find great comfort in watching last nights meltdown debacle of the Gators.
As far as Chipper Jones comments, hey, he’s entitled to his opinion and I find it right on every comment. Somebody up above said since he’s getting divorced he’s a bad guy and “not the sharpest too in the shed” yet I imagine there’s several of my fellow commenters that are divorced. Are they, too, quote dulls tools in the shed? Me thinks perhaps the gentleman that made that comment is probably legitmately the only real “tool” in that particular shed and I ain’t talking about pliers, saws and carpet knives.
Richard
January 3rd, 2013
5:20 pm
Chipper should go look at a tape of his last game. Who gives a sh*t what he thinks? His opinion is no more valuable than anyone else.
kman
January 3rd, 2013
5:24 pm
Chipper needs to be put in the chipper.
MT
January 3rd, 2013
5:25 pm
Lay off of Chipper for stating the obvious. I for one am glad he was a lifelong Brave and I respect that this Florida native is upset with the performance of a team he’s always been a fan of.
And for you Georgia Tech fans… Middle Tennessee State. That is all.
Benadawg
January 3rd, 2013
5:25 pm
after finding out that Larry Jones is a gator fan, i say so who cares what he thinks? Go Dawgs!! He is on my sh-t list like Matt Ryan.
JustSaying
January 3rd, 2013
5:28 pm
Easy to see why Georgia had such a good year. SEC is really weak this year. Georgia looked bad against a poor Nebraska team, SC barely beat an average Michigan team, LS PUKE vs Clempson, Miss St. Just saying Ole Miss loses, Alabama loses, but A&M wins. Weak, Weak…..
The Truth
January 3rd, 2013
5:29 pm
Florida had no business being in the Sugar Bowl anyway and it showed last night.
Nadsmasher
January 3rd, 2013
5:32 pm
Chipper, a great BB player, a HOF player. However, not to bright, surprised he knows how to Twitter.
MT
January 3rd, 2013
5:33 pm
If weak means 6 national championships in a row, I guess the SEC is weak. Florida lost because they’re a team of undisciplined thugs and LSU lost because of poor coaching.
Dmx
January 3rd, 2013
5:34 pm
Chipper is right about my Gators……..we should of hire Charlie as the head coach. He start his career with the Gators………our quarter situation is a mess.
Nadsmasher
January 3rd, 2013
5:36 pm
Justsayin needs to wake up and recognize success, love these SEC haters, probably a flunky Tech fan
The Truth
January 3rd, 2013
5:38 pm
Just Saying. What are you trying to say? Just because Florida just got their gators handed to them, you blame the rest of the East being weak? Georgia and SC are the teams to beat in the east and Florida ain’t in the conversation anymore. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Dblissit
January 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm
I think it’s funny that all u can do is brag about your punter. I guess since he was the only player on the team who did his job, he’s the only one that can get congratulated.
cantondawg
January 3rd, 2013
5:44 pm
Chipper is an expert at Flopping in the postseason
Tommy
January 3rd, 2013
5:45 pm
I hate the Gators as much any true follower of Christ should, but wtf is with Chipper weighing in on their performance? He certainly never went to school there…did he even finish high school?
Tampon Gaytor
January 3rd, 2013
5:50 pm
Don’t you dis my jort boys !!!
The Truth
January 3rd, 2013
5:55 pm
MLS,
you talk about the class of the SEC being Alabama or LSU? LSU got beat by Clemson in their bowl game (poor game management) but they still lost. Alabama needed a tipped pass to get into the National Championship Game after getting beat by Johnny Football and Texas A&M. Alabama fans are as disillusioned as UGA and Gator fans are. Every Bama fan I know lost their minds when A&M beat them and I’m sure you did too. Now that Bama is in the NCG, you want to act all high and mighty. I hope bama plays better in the NCG than they did in the SECCG or it will be a long night,
3d
January 3rd, 2013
5:57 pm
It’s depends on how hot and bitchy she is and if he has a prenuptial.
1eyedJack
January 3rd, 2013
6:05 pm
Florida played Scut Farkus to Louisville’s Ralphie and got the bloody snot beat out of them.
I thought of defending Chipper – and then I thought again. He’s a Florida fan. If’n you is rich enough you can “date” a playboy bunny, even if you got yeller teeth. If you’re reading this UknowWho, invite me out to your ranch for some huntin’.
cpj - frying fish since ??
January 3rd, 2013
6:07 pm
GTBob
January 3rd, 2013
2:24 pm
The SEC is a joke, the ACC owns them and made LSU quit.
Florida had NO BUSINESS being in a BCS game, the most poorly coached, under-prepared squad I’ve ever seen, and that is coming from someone who has first-hand witnessed Paul Johnson’s squads in bowl action.
As Taylor Martinez said, Nebraska was clearly better than Georgia but somehow the Mutts squeaked one out.
NEVER FORGET that GT beat the preseason #1 team in America and Rambling Wreck football is restored to Glory!
THWSEC!
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Thanks for the laugh. Too funny.
OLD MAN
January 3rd, 2013
6:09 pm
THIS IS WHY THE BIG NAME TEAMS DO NOT WANT A PLAY OFF . UNLESS YOU HAVE A PLAY OFF TEAMS WITH WITH MONEY MONEY WILL ALWAYS BE NO. 1 PLAY OF SHOWS WHO IS THE BEST. BIG NAME TEAMS HAVE A LITTLE CHICKEN IN THEIR BLOOD
K Conway
January 3rd, 2013
6:13 pm
Chipper must have been drunk again ! A good ball player but a loser off the field!
DannyG
January 3rd, 2013
6:15 pm
The Gayters were embarrassed last night. They never deserved their ranking and now, they will fall where they should be…behind The Ga. Bulldawgs. Eat it.
LakeDawg
January 3rd, 2013
6:20 pm
Is this the same “Chipper” that threw the ball into right field on a double play ball in his last game?
Florida Cry Baby
January 3rd, 2013
6:22 pm
Chipper is absolutely right. The way the gators played they couldn’t have beat a high school team!
LakeDawg
January 3rd, 2013
6:23 pm
Just when it looked like that maybe Muschump wasn’t so bad after all, UF lays an ostrich egg in front of the nation….in PRIME TIME. Not to mention several indicators that not all is well with the coaches and key players. Its great to be a Georgia Bulldawg!
This Just In.......
January 3rd, 2013
6:26 pm
How to kill a QB? Make him a Gator! Has one did anything worthy in the NFL? Don’t say RG 0, he only started in the SB, but people who know, know that Kyle Orton lead that team.
IrishMark
January 3rd, 2013
6:30 pm
Chipper is absolutely right…that was the most undisciplined bunch of thugs, what an embarrassment! This is the team that thought they deserved to play for the national Championship? They shouldn’t have been in the Sugar Bowl, Georgia deserved to be there.
This Just In.......
January 3rd, 2013
6:30 pm
Shareef Floyd, and Matt Elam played like Champions, the rest of Gator Nation threw up last night. You choked in front of “The Greatest”, and I think I seen him shuffle one last time.
Tim Scott
January 3rd, 2013
6:34 pm
Chipper you are one of my alltime favorite Braves and I agree you 100%. But I gotta call you on one little thing being from Jacksonville and around to watch you play at the Bolles school, you signed to play football at Miami,Mr Lifelong Gator
gatordawg
January 3rd, 2013
6:36 pm
I am a grad of both UGA and FL and must agree with Chipper that the SB was the most uninspired performance of a SEC team in a bowl that I have ever seen. Charlie Strong deserves kudos for bringing a team that was prepared to take it to the Gators. The Gators MAY have a good team next year, but this embarrassment will take a long time to forget. Dawgs in top 10, Gators still ranked???
Big Mouth Fan
January 3rd, 2013
6:42 pm
Glad I am not classy like MLS
'Rammer Jammer' Al A. Bammer
January 3rd, 2013
6:58 pm
Ain’t karma a BEEE-OTCH!!!
black boortz
January 3rd, 2013
7:23 pm
THESE comments coming from a player who was the elder statesman of a team that had one of baseball’s most epic collapses? THESE comments coming from a player who pretty much tossed his team’s playoff (or playIN) chances to right field in his last game of the year? THESE comments coming from a player who ended the 2002 Division Series against the Giants by grounding into a dp with the winning runs on base? THESE comments coming from a player who was part of that GOD-awful 1996 World Series team that choked like an ant trying to swallow a jaw breaker? THESE comments coming from a player who–ah, forget it. Yeah, Chipper DEFINITELY knows when a team is showing their ass and playing below expectations.
I still love Chipper….just had to get that off my chest. I wasn’t at that play-in game to toss my trash on the field……
willie wingate
January 3rd, 2013
7:29 pm
hey, we dawg fans seem to have forgotten about Central Florida. The truth is that all Gator fans are responsible for setting your own team up for this fall in the Sugar bowl. Everyboby, and I mean everybody, talked for weeks about the “inferior opponent” you were facing. Heck, you people didn’t even purchase but half of your alloted tickets because you couldn’t get excited about who you were playing. In essence, your superior ego,s leaked over to your team and, they weren,t prepared mentally for a team that was tired of hearing about the Gators and the SEC. You folks don,t have any right to criticize your team and coaches because you brought this on yourselves.
deltaman
January 3rd, 2013
7:33 pm
Ran into some Louisville fans on I-59 heading back to Kentucky this morning. Have something Gator fans don’t. It called class. Said there weren’t many Gator fans on B street after the game. As for Atgators remark,, at least Georgia beat ya’ll and won’ their game Ha Ha.
ROLL TIDE.ROLL
Russa
January 3rd, 2013
7:46 pm
lol talk bad about Florida and it’s like you just talked bad about a Florida fan’s mother
…. you lost, badly … suck it up. Really, why are you guys taking it so personal???
DawgNole
January 3rd, 2013
7:46 pm
KingGator
January 3rd, 2013
3:14 pm
And finally, burn those ORANGE pants. That’s retro ’80’s, and we all know how painful that decade was
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Actually, that decade wasn’t painful at all the those of us who despise the insufferably arrogant gator nation. And there are many of us. MANY of us!
Rick James
January 3rd, 2013
7:50 pm
Saban was right..Georgia should have been the second SEC team to get a BCS bowl bid.