NFL teams making Brandon Spikes answer for Ealey eye gouge
Former Florida linebacker Brandon Spikes faced an obvious question from potential employers at the NFL Combine.
The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun says the question went like this:
“Why did you try to gouge a player’s eyes out?”
The player, of course, was Georgia freshman running back Washaun Ealey.
And Spikes’ answer to the NFL teams that asked the question?
“I told them it’s the SEC, Florida-Georgia is a big rivalry,” Spikes said, according to the Sun. “There were a lot of emotions going on. Both sides were taking shots at each other. But that’s why I suspended myself. That’s not the way the game is supposed to be played.”
The apparent attempted eye-gouging –- cameras caught Spikes sticking his fingers inside Ealey’s facemask — occurred during Florida’s Oct. 31 victory over Georgia. Spikes was suspended for one half of the following game by Florida coach Urban Meyer, and the player extended his own suspension to a full game because, he said at the Combine, “I didn’t want young guys to think that was the right way to play the game.”
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UGA Alumn
March 2nd, 2010
2:44 pm
just sayin: “Is the UGA fan base the only one in Major College Football that thinks they will win the NC every year?” No, I’m sure UF, BAMA, USC, OSU, Mich, UT, and a few others expect to win the National Championships every year as well. If we didn’t have high expectations we would be GT!
just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
2:52 pm
UGA alum, dont forget how long it has been, or are you younger than 30?
UGA Alumn
March 2nd, 2010
2:54 pm
I’m out! I got to get back to work, if I don’t manage these Tech boys a Pokemon battle will break out. Latter Gator Haters!
Grantham Rocks!
March 2nd, 2010
3:22 pm
Grantham was offered the DC job by Saban and recommended by Muschamp, Smart & Foster.
Pretty good references.
Don’t think Saban offered the Fla DC his DC job.
Grantham’s in a class by himself.
Snoop Dawg
March 2nd, 2010
3:24 pm
Spikes is a thug. I’d rather lose the game than have an unterleut like that wearing the Red and Black…
Nawls
March 2nd, 2010
3:26 pm
Keep in mind, when Spikes was a young man it was customary to gouge out your enemies eyes. This was commonly used during the Vietnam era.
pookie
March 2nd, 2010
3:28 pm
Tech’s new DC is a joke. He’s a great grandfather and everyone close to the UVA program agrees he should have been canned years ago.
Personally, I think CPJ hired this old man because he doesn’t plan on staying in the ghettos of Atlanta for much longer himself.
just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
3:30 pm
just read where Jaybo is heading to GaSouthern because they offer education as a major, yeah sure.
I'm just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
3:35 pm
He’s going to Southern because CPJ sucks as a recruiter and landed a dud. He’s more content with Gailey’s boys. This ship is going down in flames!!!
just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
3:37 pm
no Im just sayin, but I agree. Kid is a punk and so is his brother. Spurrier must be on drugs to have signed the younger Shaw.
Cobbler
March 2nd, 2010
3:38 pm
pookie,
I’ve been saying the same thing. Why on earth would Johnson hire a guy of such advanced age just so he has to go through the same process all over again in a couple of years? Johnson isn’t stupid. He realizes last season was the perfect storm and his best shot to succeed at Tech. He is aware FSU, Miami, Va. Tech and BC won’t remain down for much longer. He is aware that UNC is on the rise. Johnson is going to bolt first chance he gets within the next couple of years.
just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
3:40 pm
Cobbler, I think he has waited too long already to get a better offer. Unless he goes away from his high school offense, he has Tech as high as they will get and when Nesbitt is gone, he is toast.
Gatorman
March 2nd, 2010
3:44 pm
Cobbler: You got the wrong coach leaving, in Florida, we see Mark Richt taking off before his record drops below .500. Our man Johnson is only getting started (2nd year), and this year recruits are his best yet. Watch those little doggies whine when he starts owning them, then they get to pee in the pants twice every year, when they play us and when they play my little techster buddies.
Yellow Fuzz
March 2nd, 2010
3:55 pm
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dap01
March 2nd, 2010
4:03 pm
How is Urban Meyer progressing in his treatment? Has he stabalized?
just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
4:06 pm
yes dap01, he ready to resume his dominance over the suntan boy.
HUNKER DOWN
March 2nd, 2010
4:46 pm
Now if we only had Larry, Curly and Moe to help out UF with the eye gouging they would be NC once again!
DirtyDawg
March 2nd, 2010
4:59 pm
The thing about Spikes’ helmet gettin’ knocked off all those times, it’s not just the hard hits, it’s the fact that he intentionally wears a larger one so those ear-flaps don’t push into his ‘ear-bobs’ and ram the posts into Spikes’ neck. The deal is, whenever he’s on the sidelines – with helmet off – he wants to be sure that if the camera’s on him everybody gets to see his ‘ear-bling’. Those things have got to be $20,000 – that’s assuming they’re not fake – and God knows he couldn’t trust anybody at Florida to look after ‘em for him – I mean those guys steal from one another all the time – plus if he’s constantly puttin’ ‘em on and takin’ ‘em off he’s sure to get caught on camera, and how much of a wuss would that make him? Bound to have gotten at least one question from the NFL on that part.
So he leaves ‘em on and looses his helmet all the time.
Beck
March 2nd, 2010
5:02 pm
41-17!!! How about you beat us two years in a row sometime this decade and then start talking.
THUGA
March 2nd, 2010
6:38 pm
at THUGA we players get and carry a get a free out jail card.coach mark richt tells us to keep the card on us at all times.NICE
THUGA
March 2nd, 2010
6:47 pm
Damn that urban coach owns Thuga and mark richt.plus Urban won 2 national titles and 1 heisman winner. what has Mark Richt won at THUGA?
Central FL Dawg
March 2nd, 2010
6:50 pm
Living here in orlando (behind enemy lines) I can not see any integrity or any morality come from Gainesville. These people cry foul when things dont go their way. These peoiple cry foul when their players get suspended for such a flagrant disregard and/or disrespect of the opposition. And now they are crying foul because they do not receive respect from others in the SEC and even around the country.
I been around this country and have heard the “I hate the Gators” so much where I wished I had a dime for every time I have heard that, I could own a good chunk of the third world countries.
From the low class players and coaches, to the no class fans, the Gators are in a league by themselves. There is no sense of decency, no morals, no integrity. The SEC was the best all around conference bar none. Sadly because of idiots like Spikes, and the rest of the Gators… the SEC has lowered its standing compared to other conferences.
GO DAWGS……. SIC ‘EM
The Truth will ...
March 2nd, 2010
7:24 pm
I did it because my coach at Florida didn’t see anything wrong with that type of play. So I felt I could get away with it like I normally do. Just a couple of weeks later, I got away with attacking after the whistle a FSU player that was down. NOBODY caught it even though it was plain to see on the game tape. I suspended myself for Vandy because I was coming back from a hamstring injury and didn’t want to reinjure myself in a game that was meaningless.
Louie
March 2nd, 2010
7:37 pm
Well, where do I start.
jackhammer, checked above posts, DO NOT SEE your arse anywhere. Report as told.
Time to change the topic mutt writer…..
Can’t decide who is the most class-less between the mutts or the Gators.
Still stand on my feelings regarding cheap shot at J. Nesbitt.
The intent was there to take him out. Watch the replay. Cheap and bush to say the least.
STILL…. (you know the rest)
Urban Meyer
March 2nd, 2010
7:42 pm
dappy…I’m doing fine, thanks for asking. Just recharging my batteries so I can kick the dogs azz for another 5 years.
Señora Weeb
March 2nd, 2010
7:51 pm
How hypocritical of the NFL. You could see worse than what Spikes did in practically every play in an NFL game, especially between the tackles.
Buzzy As A Bee
March 2nd, 2010
8:38 pm
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Loquatious T. Futtbuck
March 2nd, 2010
8:44 pm
Morons
Chuck
March 2nd, 2010
9:03 pm
Spikes’ eye gouge isn’t what is going to keep his thug butt out of the NFL. It is his lack of speed and complete inability to co ver a tight end in the NFL.
And I. for one, am sick of hearing about Tebow. I can’t wait til some NFL practice squad reject lights his cheesy white a$$ up. What a complete punk.
PTC DAWG
March 2nd, 2010
9:33 pm
I agree with an early post MOVE ON..
Spikes Sucks
March 2nd, 2010
9:54 pm
Brandon Spikes should be banned from joining the NFL, The NFL is the only league in sports that will glorify worthless thugs like spikes and pay them millions on the side. I’d like to meet spikes one day and let him try to gouge my eyes, I’d show him some south florida sidewalk justice, what a disgrace for him to join the NFL, much less be involved in the SEC. SEE YA later you worthless piece of trailer park trash. Brandon Spikes is a piece of trash and what is wrong with the NFL and pansy coaches like Urban Myer today.
just sayin
March 2nd, 2010
10:03 pm
just sayin that most of you dawgs are whining pu$$ies who are not relevant in the SEC anymore.
archangeladidas
March 2nd, 2010
10:42 pm
GATORS 17 out of 20. I would be mad to if i was you losers! GO GATORS!
UGA Alumn
March 2nd, 2010
10:49 pm
just sayin that your a big talker on the computer! Aren’t you a GT fan, I guess it’s convenient to jump on UF’s nuts since your sorry a** team can’t carry big brother from Athens jock strap!
UGA Alumn
March 2nd, 2010
10:50 pm
Earchangeladidas, with a handle like that I am very glad you aren’t one of our fans!
guy
March 2nd, 2010
11:38 pm
It’s hard to believe the childish comments from supposedly mature adults about stuff like this. None of us are in control and our opinions don’t really matter. Has anything changed? It’s over anyway!
hind tit
March 2nd, 2010
11:51 pm
changing the subject,curan said he left uga because they fired the coaches.is he going to quite the pros when they change the head coach or head coach fires the defensive staff because his boss said to or else.not
UGA Alumn
March 3rd, 2010
12:00 am
hind tit: I think it had more to do with him having to learn a new system his last year and the uncertainty. I don’t believe it had anything to do with loyalty. Rennie is a Damn Good Dawg
hind tit
March 3rd, 2010
12:29 am
alumn: all the more reason to stay.he was a good player but lacks almost no coverage skills. the three years he played all i ever seen him do was tackle which he did better than anyone on the team but i don’t remember ever seeing him cover a pass receiver. brooking was all pro with the falcons and was cut because of his failure to cover in the playoffs and it lost the game. would have learned more in one year under current coaches than he did in three under willie. i’m think he was overcame buy the mighty dollar.
how2fish
March 3rd, 2010
2:38 pm
Rennie also wanted to get in before a work stoppage and rookie salary cap if possible..
Fleet of feet he aint
March 8th, 2010
2:23 pm
Brandon Spikes will be on America Most Wanted in a few years after his woefully insufficient speed keeps him from any success in the NFL. Ya just don’t know any slow linebackers in the NFL and Spikes won’t be the one who makes it. Not to mention his injury factor. All that coupled with another Florida boy without guidance from stronger people will doom his adult life.