Meyer goes soft on Spikes with half-game suspension
Urban Meyer just took, "Stand by your man," a little too far.
Florida coach Urban Meyer’s apparent policy on eye-gouging is now clear. Only a successful blinding or maiming can result in a full-game suspension.
Meyer suspended Brandon Spikes for only the first half of the Gators’ next game against Vanderbilt for eye-gouging Georgia running back Washaun Ealey.
I’m not sure if missing one half of a Vanderbilt game really qualifies as discipline. But apparently SEC commissioner Mike Slive didn’t want to get in Meyer’s way on this one. I guess Slive only worries about the real serious issues: sound bites about referees, not trivial matters like jamming fingers into eyeballs.
What happened Saturday certainly did not affect the outcome of Georgia’s 41-17 loss to Florida. The Bulldogs themselves have devolved into one of the nation’s most-penalized and least-disciplined teams. Meyer felt compelled to say the linebacker was retaliating for earlier incidents that resulted in him having his helmet knocked off and being poked in the eye (he said).
But Spikes’ act was on another level.
“I don’t condone that,” Meyer told reporters in Florida. “I understand what goes on on the football [field], but there’s no place for that. We’re going to suspend Brandon for the first half of the Vanderbilt game. I spoke with him. That’s not who he is. That’s not who we are. He got caught up in emotion.”
Ealey was not available for comment Monday. It was a day off for Georgia players (the NCAA mandates one day off per week for players). Coach Mark Richt declined comment on the incident Sunday night.
But that didn’t stop this from snowballing into a national story Monday. The strongest comments came from Mike Golic, co-host of ESPN’s morning, “Mike and Mike” radio show. Golic has some credibility. He was a defensive lineman at Notre Dame and an eight-year NFL veteran. He has been at the bottom of a few of these piles. So what does it mean when he calls this, “one of the biggest chicken-bleep things I’ve seen in my life”?
And what does it mean when he says it was worse than when Oregon’s LeGarrette Blount punched Boise State’s Byron Hout in the season opener? (Blount initially was suspended for the full season by Oregon. But several weeks later the school announced a tentative reinstatement, and he may return this week against Stanford.)
“You can clearly see Brandon Spikes’ fingers go into the facemask of the running back for Georgia, and, I don’t mean just go in there — go in there and twist around,” Golic said. “It is a bad looking eye-gouge. And I know this guy is a tough player and I know he hits and I know he’s considered one of the best linebackers. But that’s one of the biggest chicken-bleep things I’ve seen in my life. Ever. Ever! To be that good of a player and have to do that – stick your fingers in a facemask and try to blind a guy, eye-gouge him, is pathetic, Brandon! Pathetic, that you would do it!
“There needs to be some disciplinary action. Everybody wants to talk about LeGarrette Blount from Oregon for punching that kid. I’ll tell you what. I’ll take the punch over this garbage. Any day of the week. Any day of the week over that garbage on the field of sticking your fingers in somebody’s facemask and trying to blind him. Stick your fingers in their eye? Are you kidding me…?”
Golic later said: “What a horrible move that is. What a classless, unsportsmanlike move that is.”
Meyer said his wife and defensive coordinator Charlie Strong both mentioned the Spikes’ incident to him. His initial reaction was to move on. Then he saw a replay of the incident decided to speak to Spikes about it.
But his initial balking indicates he didn’t want to suspend Spikes at all.
“Very emotional things happened in that game in particular that were not good for either side,” Meyer said, “but the bottom line is we’re Florida and he’s Brandon Spikes and we expect certain things.”
Nice speech. But it would’ve meant more if there was some action to back it up.
If you haven’t seen video of the play, you can view it here.
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Joe N
November 2nd, 2009
6:25 pm
Golic just backed off his comments quite a bit on TV.
Cry Me a River
November 2nd, 2009
6:25 pm
Tebow won’t do well in the NFL. And, and, and…Meyer is going to Notre Dame. And, and, and our big brother, Bama, will thump you just like they did to us last year. And, and, and…all Gators are big fatheads. And, and, and…
Enough sniveling already!! It takes all the fun out of beating you. Now you’re just pathetic.
Sore_Losers?
November 2nd, 2009
6:26 pm
where are those facts sore losers? or should we jsut believe your gangsta creed?
Dave
November 2nd, 2009
6:27 pm
DP I was watching the game not the video. I guess a mosquito flew in Tebow’s eye and Spikes helmet got ripped off by a ghost. UGA players are thugs at its best.
Ken Stallings
November 2nd, 2009
6:27 pm
Hard to say what upsets me more:
1. The thuggish act itself.
2. Urban Meyer’s laughably light punishment — hardly any punishment at all.
3. The childish comments so many have made in this blog to justify the action.
Mike Golic’s comments remain the best. It was as he said it was — “pure chicken (excrement)!”
He’s also right to say a punch to the face is a far more manly action. And the Oregon player was being taunted. So, I can forgive that action and thought the coach showed real class in handing down the season-long suspension, but also allowing the player to remain on the practice team and train with the team. Good balance. He hasn’t killed the kid’s career, but he sure handed down a firm message.
Meyer by contrast has lost a lot of credibility. In terms of viciousness, what Spikes did was orders of magnitude worse. A punch to the chin isn’t going to cause lifetime injury. Might cause one to zip soup out of a straw for several weeks, but that’s about it.
To gouge one’s eyes out is lifetime buddy! It is appalling so many seem incapable of grasping that fact.
But worse it seems pathetic that Urban Meyer cannot grasp that. A half of punishment for attempting to poke a man’s eyes out deliberately! Gee, Urban, is it a six-game suspension for assault with a firearm? What about first degree murder? Does that earn a season-long suspension at Florida!
There is another angle on this to be considered. Brandon Sikes has likely cost himself 20 draft slots with this thuggish act. NFL teams cannot use a high first round draft pick on a player with a reputation for something that would get them banned a very long time in Roger Goddell’s NFL!
Conservatively, I estimate Sikes just cost himself about $5 million a year merely from lowering his draft position, and that’s assuming he remain a model citizen and player the rest of the season.
boots
November 2nd, 2009
6:28 pm
First of all, this Spikes guy has to be in his 30’s. Someone check the birth certificate. Secondly, I think we all agree that he is a jerk. The linked video fails to show the worst of it. The play was over and he came running over to the pile to do his dirty deed. He wasn’t even involved in the tackle.
However, the Dawgs have some major changes to make. And soon, let’s hope.
Dawg fan
November 2nd, 2009
6:28 pm
Dawg fans—we got whipped–no doubt about that–even Florida fans understand that.
Richt
November 2nd, 2009
6:28 pm
What uniforms should we wear for the cocktail party next year? Oh and I got the video of Spikes playing now in the locker room- it will motivate our guys. We will beat them next year- read my lips.
Dave?
November 2nd, 2009
6:29 pm
where are those facts Dave? or should we just believe your gangsta creed?
Mid town
November 2nd, 2009
6:29 pm
Guys, let’s all take it easy. ALL coaches lost control of their players
several years ago. The only thing that is important now is whose team does he play for. If he plays for my team he can committ murder, but if he plays for the other team and is a Saint he is wrong.
Everybody just relax and continue to root for ALL the thugs.
tnt
November 2nd, 2009
6:29 pm
This half game suspension is a joke…I consider this eye gouging worse than the Blount incident..
This should be treated on the same level.
Louise
November 2nd, 2009
6:29 pm
I’m not a Fl girl, I’m a Georgia girl and I’ve been ashamed for the past few years of how we play. Again, and it has been said by many older UGA people these past few days, where has the dignity and class gone? I was there in Jax this weekend and it was embarrassing. To be bested by a superior team is one thing, to try and injure people on purpose is another. All I’m saying is if we are going to point fingers and cry foul we need to take a long, hard look at ourselves first.
grrrrtrfan
November 2nd, 2009
6:30 pm
anything short of scoring this a victory for the leg-humpers will not be enuff for Golic (epic NFL failure) OR butt-sniffers…so unless Meyer makes Spikes personally hand over the last 2 national championship trophies to St. Richt…we will hear about this for the ages…chalk it up to WE HATE YOU…YOU HATE US…I fully expect video of this to loop through the “facilities” (bathrooms) for the next 365 days until Richt comes up with another un-working gimmick…and when the poodles come out with neon facemasks on silver helmets and purple pants, have a pre-game celebration, slaughter 2 ducks in the middle of the field, immediately followed by urination by the entire team on the Gator head in the locker room in Gainesville (after a 4 hour round trip bus ride), and LOSE…we get to listen to talk radio in Atlanta and watch Schultz make a fool of himself again….see you next year babies!
Richard
November 2nd, 2009
6:30 pm
Golic is dead on. A half-game is totally inadequate. Meyer should have made this a teachable moment. Instead his wrist slap with a wink and a softened message teaches the wrong thing. Sure it was a tough game, but I didn’t see any other player on either team try to intentionally hurt (blind) another player. Spikes is low class and now so is Meyer.
Eric
November 2nd, 2009
6:30 pm
hahaha… im a huge UGA fan. in fact, i go to uga and have had the pleasure of sitting in every game this season. i read these blogs every week after we get embarrassed. let me be clear… what brandon spikes did is inexcusable. in fact… disgusting. and the punishment is far from fitting the crime. BUT… i have a feeling that if we won the game we would never mention it. florida destroyed us. we are 4-4. 4-4!!!!! we suck. why dont we focus on our team and the countless problems we have instead of focusing on florida and what they do to punish their players. i know its hard to take our focus off of florida… seeing as theyre going to win another national championship, but lets stop looking like such idiots and move on. i only wish our players had as much passion and wanted to win as badly as every player on florida did. if we have a problem with what they do… settle it on the field. but stop looking like such babies, whining about bull**** on the blogs. grow up and get over it. florida won, we got annihilated. theyre going to win the sec and another national championship, well be lucky to make a bowl. therein lies the problem… not this incident
ReptilesRule
November 2nd, 2009
6:31 pm
I guess Tim is more a New Testament guy, turn the other cheek, and Spikes is more an Old Testament guy…an eye for an eye…
Mackey54
November 2nd, 2009
6:31 pm
Thank you Gators!!!!!! You guys make my Miami boys look like saints. How many arrests lately? How many “thugs” beating up their girlfriends? How many shooting incidents the past two years? You have taken over as “THUG U”. We have had only 1 arrest since Randy Shannon has taken over and that was Robert Marve who no longer is with us. The kind of behavior you Gators exhibit on and off the field will catch up with you slime balls. Our team will be back and our swagger will come back but our coach will not tolerate the trash that Urban finds acceptable. Go CANES!!!
can't we all just get along
November 2nd, 2009
6:32 pm
Ok so Georgia players are losers and Florida Players are Thugs.
Rather be a loser-It’s more Christian–Ask Tebow.
DP
November 2nd, 2009
6:33 pm
Dave, do you not get the difference between intentional and unintentional? I’ve seen the video of Spikes, if a Georgia player intentionally gouged Tebow or Spikes it would be on YouTube by now. Correct me if I’m wrong but the guy who ripped Spikes’ helmet off got a personal foul call. Then Spikes’ helmet came off again a play or two later on routine contact. Maybe he should consider buckling the snaps next time.
I’m not a Georgia fan, but trying to compare what Spikes did to anything else in that game is ridiculous.
Louise
November 2nd, 2009
6:34 pm
Eric, I think I love you.
Candy Canes
November 2nd, 2009
6:35 pm
Mackey54 – enough time hasn’t passed since your “prison yard riot” with FIU for you to start lecturing other programs.
GaGator
November 2nd, 2009
6:35 pm
GREAT POST TAMPA GATOR JUST WANTED THESE LOSERS TO READ IT AGAIN, IF THEY CAN READ:
TampaGator
November 2nd, 2009
6:07 pm
BG, it that is what you wish, then about 10 of Georgia’s players will tear their ACL in the next game. Not to justify what Spikes did (and his actions do not in the least way indicate what kind of person Spikes is…he is a fantastic leader and person). But Georgia players were taking cheap shots on him and other Gator players all game long. Georgia players could not play with Gator players, so they just acted like thugs well after plays were over. I saw four different times where Georgia players took cheap shots on Spikes, including the ripping off of his helment twice and once with him getting his face scratched by a Georgia offensive lineman after his helment was pushed off. In addition, Tebow got his eye punched when he was on the ground by a Georgia player and, since Spikes and Tebow are best of friends, I am sure Spikes did what Tebow would not do, retaliate for what happened to him all game long and what happened to Tebow when he was on the ground. I have never seen so many dirty and thug focused players as I saw playing for Georgia on Saturday. That is one of the main reasons you are losing this year, no self discipline or self control. You had a chance to get back into the game and what happens, one of your thugs tries to hurt Brandon James on the sidelines with a pick up, whirl around, and throw on the ground stupid play. No Georgia fan or Georgia player should even comment on what Spikes did. What he did was wrong, and uncharacteristic of him as a person, but for Georgia fans or players to make a comment about it is pure bush league…like the Georgia players on Saturday. They lost the game and they acted like losers, too. I hope the Gators win 17 of the next 20 and we have about a dozen players just like Spikes in the future. He is a nornally a class act and a great leader. He made a bad decision on Saturday to take things into his own hands, but it a lot of ways I can’t blame him because he was dealing with a lot of classless players on the Georgia side of the ball all day. PERIOD.
TampaGator
November 2nd, 2009
6:37 pm
Georgia fans, you can’t win on the field so keep trying to win off the field and see what that get you. I am no fool. I pull for the Florida Gators. The only fools I currently know are those who pull for Georgia and say that Georgia is going to win the NC and beat Florida every year. Then, after they lose, they keep coming up with crap to take the shine off their own sorry team and coaches. Both the Georgia Bulldogs and their cry baby, unrealistic fans are losers…17 out of the last 20 year. Suck on that for a while you Georgis losers. Yes, I am sick of you crap…losers. That is what you are…LOSERS…and especially when you play the mighty Gators!!!!!
Pit Bull
November 2nd, 2009
6:39 pm
Well said bigstack19. The SEC commish should suspend HIMSELF! How do you say “TWO FACED”!
Richard
November 2nd, 2009
6:40 pm
Louise,
WTH are you talking about? Georgia is over penalized but do you recognize the difference between a late hit or face mask and TRYING TO GOUGE OUT A PLAYER”S EYES? Eric, you’re right. Dogs have many, many problems and are not good and Florida won–big. But this is not something that is ok to let go.
BobDawg
November 2nd, 2009
6:44 pm
I’m glad to see the wonderful “Christian”, Tim Tebow sees no problem with Brandon Spikes’ eye-gouging behavior. Make you feel all warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it?
icedawg
November 2nd, 2009
6:44 pm
I went to a fight once and a hockey game broke out. In male sport there is always some posturing. There’s biting, gouging, poking, pinching, all kinds of deviant behavior going on, especially in a pile of players. It is the nature of the depravity of the human race. It probably is a wonder that it’s not worse than it is.
Candy Canes
November 2nd, 2009
6:46 pm
Richard – I can see objecting to both cheap shots AND eye gouging. What I don’t get is how you’re ok with one and not the other. A serious head, back or knee injury from a cheap shot is not a big deal? I guess not, as long as your red and black glasses are on.
Quit being a homer – there’s no place in football for what Spikes or Williams did.
gator dawgpounder
November 2nd, 2009
6:49 pm
You nuggetless whining Bulldawgs. Go back to your glory years, yeah way back, when uncle hershel was getting paid to play there.
Pit Bull
November 2nd, 2009
6:49 pm
Spikes is a Coward. Any gator that supports what he did is also a coward. Look in your mirrow at yourself!
2010 will be worse for the mutts
November 2nd, 2009
6:50 pm
those gators will beat uga worse 2010 because all the dirty playing and cheap shots uga took. start making excuses right now.
JB
November 2nd, 2009
6:51 pm
Tampa Gator gets made to look the fool for defending a no class punk who wont can’t defend himelf for his on field actions and TG resorts to saying who won the game of late.
Like I said, what a fool.
HBTD!!!
TampaGator
November 2nd, 2009
6:51 pm
Pit Bull…ya, to the tune of 10 individual tackles, an interception for a TD, and great defensive play calling on the field. Yes, your Georgia Thugs really got the best of Spikes didn’t you. The only time you got the best of him is when your OL uppercut him with a forearm when Spikes head was down in a pile, knocking off his helment, and then another Georgia player scratching his face. Losers.
Mark Richts
November 2nd, 2009
6:53 pm
Go ahead and stick your finger in my players eye. I don’t care! Just make sure you don’t say anything about my bud, Wee Willie.
bigstack19
November 2nd, 2009
6:53 pm
If Rennie Curran eye gouged Jesus H. Tebow, he would have been suspended for the rest of this season and there is a good possibility that SEC commish Mike Slimmey would have had him publicly executed at halftime of the SEC Championship game. Dr. Pepper could have paid to slap their name on it.
can u poke someone eyes out
November 2nd, 2009
6:55 pm
wearing gloves? I tried it didn’t work.
OldDawg
November 2nd, 2009
6:56 pm
AMAZING…..really is……huge UGA fan here who has had season tixs for 32 years…been to Ga.-fla game 27 years in a row!
This is not about football…..the gators kicked our a$$ again….the dawgs were not competitive…again….I have not heard ONE single dawg fan say anything remotely close to anything but that1
this is not abnout crying, or being sore losers…..IN FACT THIS SPIKES INCIDENT WAS NOT STARTED BY DAWG FANS….THEY ARE NOT THE ONES CRYING AND COMPLAINING…IT IS WHAT IT IS!!!
Spikes helmet was “knocked off…twice…the guy never buck;es either of his chin straps…and has more hair than will fit into his helment to start with!
I played football…saw plenty of accidental eye goughes during course of blocking, tackling, etc!
What Mike golic was dead spot on!!! this was TOTALLY CLASSLESS and inexcusable!!! PERIOD!!!
Am really surprised gator fans are so quick to defend and justify his actions….that is quite telling!
This has NOTHING to do with Ga.-fla. game…this stroy has legs and the legs are growing….Meyer will regret not handling this differently….IF you dont believe it…stand back and watch!
On a football note…congrats to the Gators for another well deserved win….BTW…I hate the ?Gators one Saturday every year….but they are one of my SEC brethren…..that said….for the rest of the season….go Gators!
fourth tier law school attendee
November 2nd, 2009
6:57 pm
HAHA to UGA fans your so retardedlol
Mace
November 2nd, 2009
6:57 pm
Will the girls on this post please leave…I’m a girl and I’m embarassed and the over-exagerations and hand wringing. Brandon Spikes was trying to blind Ealey, he was trying to damage him for life…blah, blah, blah. Do you see how hard these guys get hit on every play? Brandon Spikes made a poor, emotionally laden decision and I’m sure he wasn’t sitting there thinking…’hey I think I’ll blind this guy for life.” This was an emotional game on both sides of the ball. I’d love to go back to 2 years ago when all of the Dawg fans were blogging about ‘taking Tebow’ out of the game because he had an injured shoulder but was going to play anyway. All the Dawg fans that said if he can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen…remember that one? I would say that each of the players that said, we’re going to take Tebow out especially since he’s hurt are just as ‘thugish’ as Brandon Spikes. Nice of them to want to ruin someone’s (Tebow’s) future…right? I guess all of the UGA people need something to focus on since your program is in disarray. Where’s the suspension of all your players and their dirty hits that weren’t called. How about the player that doesn’t have his license but drives anyway…guess he wasnt allowed to bring someone with him to the written driving test to read the questions to him.
Keeping It Real
November 2nd, 2009
6:58 pm
Back before black players were allowed to play football in the SEC, I recall a situation involving Alabama and Georgia Tech in which a player(Chick Granning) was deliberately kicked in the face. Does anyone remember what punishment the thug committing this act received from the SEC? Also, does anyone remember what punishment the University of Texas received when their thug players kept trying to injure Ernie Davis when he played for Syracuse? Football has always involved thuggery. All of us nerds were jacked up by a football player at our lockers in high school.Lets not make this a bigger deal than it actually is. Spikes was wrong and is being penalized for his actions.
TampaGator
November 2nd, 2009
7:00 pm
When you point a finger, Georgia Bulldog fans (I mean losers), you have three pointing right back at you. In this case, you have about 10 Georgia players acting like thugs all game long including Chumpus, Miller, your OL, your other CB, and several others. Florida played a bunch of games before Georgia and nothing like this was going on. The blame is all on Georgia and its players for what Spikes did. Not that what he did was right, but I can’t blame him for overreacting to such a large group of classless thugs that play “football” for Georgia.
By the way, Spikes did at least have the decency to apologize for his behavior. Non of the MANY Georgia players have apologized for their behavior, including the head coach who allowed the thuggery (maybe caused it) to go on all game long. Losers.
The game of football is very emotional,” Meyer said. “The bottom line is we’re Florida and he’s Brandon Spikes. We expect certain things.”
Spikes issued a statement through the UF sports information office Monday apologizing for the incident.
Quote from Spikes today:
“I accept responsibility for my actions and I accept the consequences of my actions,” Spikes said. “I would like to apologize to my team and the coaching staff and Washaun Ealey. Football is a very physical and emotional game, but there is no excuse for my actions.”
Sounds like a man who knows what he did was wrong and is accepting responsiblity and moving on. No Georgia players are accepting any responsibility for creating an environment for thuggery on Saturday. Georgia players did that. No Florida players. A Florida player retaliated for the many Georgia actions on the field. And he has apologized for it. He has more class than any of the Georgia players…or their head coach. Losers.
DawgDawg
November 2nd, 2009
7:00 pm
I think both sides should be ashamed. We always in the past played UF hard, and there was some, but minimal aggressive play. Both schools have too good a tradition of great players with class (Walker, Ward, Tebow, Wuerffel) to engage in such play.
Hitting hard? Fine. But dirty play is above both of these schools. I follow UGA, so I’ve been subject to seeing sloppy and sometimes over the line play this year. I also know that UF plays aggressive too, that’s how they are coached.
But this stuff is ruining the game. This behavior must be punished severely going forward or else we’ll keep seeing it.
KC
November 2nd, 2009
7:01 pm
Every one of you fair weathered DAWG fans would take Spikes and Meyer right now in Athens if you could. So, cut the crap about saying he should have done more. Good luck the rest of the way. Maybe you can beat at least one Tech team this year. The Ramblin Wreck will own you again.
Randy
November 2nd, 2009
7:02 pm
This is so typical bulldog whining, don’t think for one minute georgia players don’t do the same thing. Cry all you want Schultz…your dogs lost and they lost a mans game so man up and quit crying. Florida and Spikes in particular probably got sick and tired of the unsportsmanlike penalties not called against georgia and took matters into his own hands. Do you georgia fans realize how silly you sound on boards like this? You make yourself the laughingstock of the country.
Call It Like It Is
November 2nd, 2009
7:02 pm
Old Dawg – most Gators don’t condone what Spikes did (these posts are hardly a representative sample). But how many Dawgs on here have any problem with what Nick Williams did? Not many, apparently. BOTH players did things that were totally classless and inexcusable.
Tebow didn’t get hurt, but go look up Warren Sapp’s cheap shot on Chad Clifton – a very similar play where Sapp decided to headhunt a player who was not involved in the play. Except with Clifton there were questions if he’d ever walk normally again after that hit. What Williams did is not part of football (I played the sport, too) and is just as dangerous.
Spikes got half a game. I think he deserved more. As for Williams, the only sound from Athens is crickets chirping.
Dawgs30814
November 2nd, 2009
7:03 pm
PURE THUG
Maybe if he got the eyeball out it would have been a whole game. TOP NOTCH THUG PROGRAM.
brandon spikes
November 2nd, 2009
7:05 pm
Yo. I be tryin to be helpin out a brutha. I be seeing a you know, bug fly into, you know his you know eye ballz. You know. Yo peeps no be needin to pick on my hair. I was be raisin on the screets. I you know can’t be affordin no you know hair care productions you know word. I be tellin coach that if I be sittin the first half against Vander you know bilt I could be catchin up on my homework for my you know classes you know. In my eeenglish lit like a crack head class we be reedin Hop on Pop. I know it be past me reedin level, you know, but I bee perputrating hiring a tutor to you know be helpin me be reading this be a hard ass magazine you know.
wirebound
November 2nd, 2009
7:07 pm
stuff like that happens all the time in pile ons in college football.
Liar. If that were true there would be 100s of youtube videos showing it. I’ve been watching football for years and I have NEVER seen a player (not even NFL) putting their hands inside the mask of an opponent trying to gouge his eyes out. You GAYtors and Techmites pretending to be GAYtors are pure scum to try and find a pretty spin for this kind of behavior. He’s a Thug but what else would I expect from Thug University in Gainesville.
TampaGator
November 2nd, 2009
7:12 pm
One last comment: Your special teams player tried to seriously hurt Brandon James by twisting and throwing him hard to the ground while out of bounds. I guess that kind of behavior is just fine. And how did Tebow’s eye get scratched during the game? And Will Hill almost had his eyes taken out by your kick returner while he was attempting to tackle him. Spikes sin is someone posted the video (probably a Georgia fan) and no one posted the video of the Georgia OL uppercutting Spikes in the chin long after the play was over, causing him to lose his helment and to leave the game to recover from the illegal punch to the chin. Maybe Richt should consider suspending his OL for a play that was not posted for everyone to see. But the fact remains, FLORDA 41, GEORGIA 17. Same place, same story this year and for 17 out of the last 20 years. Some things never change.
wirebound
November 2nd, 2009
7:14 pm
I am sure he would have some choice words on some Georgia players as well.
Oh my yes. I’m sure there are soooo many instances of UGA putting their hands in a GAYtor mask trying to blind them.
“He poked me first daddy!”
“He spit on me daddy so I tried to blind him!”
lololol
I wish UGA would put Thug University on rotation instead of Bama. I’d rather UGA play Bama every year than this Thug school. Next year one of the Thugs might bring a knife into the game. Too bad their trashy, sewer fans can’t get the hell out of the state of Ga completely as well. It sure would help clean up the toxic spills in the system here.