{"id":1263,"date":"2008-12-06T19:07:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T01:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:36:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:36:03","slug":"grats-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grats Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, a &#8220;Game of The Year&#8221; that finally lived up to its billing. &#8216;Grats to the Gators for beating us straight up, fair and square.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still a year or two away from having the full compliment of personnel to be able to beat a team that deep and talented, not to mention a once-in-a-generation player like Tebow.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointing, yes, but the Crimson Nation is very proud of this team and what they&#8217;ve accomplished this year and the way they played today. Still, two Bama mistakes led to two Gator scores&#8211;remember what I said about having to play a perfect game?<\/p>\n<p>But did anybody in their right mind expect the Tide to be 12-1 in 2008? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>Texas or Oklahoma, it doesn&#8217;t matter&#8211;Tebow and his Doo-Wop boys will beat them. Has anyone ever seen a player like him? I haven&#8217;t. Maybe we really should have tried to slip some Kryptonite into the Gatorade cooler on the Florida sideline.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Sugar Bowl, that&#8217;s still pretty darn sweet (thanks for all those sugar packets, Gator fans!). Believe it or not, I&#8217;ve already heard one commentator say how great a team Utah is and how Bama &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t want any part of them.&#8221; Go ahead, make my day by making us the underdog in that one.<\/p>\n<p>I say, woe be unto the Utes or whatever team we play.<\/p>\n<p>Roll Tide, Roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, a &#8220;Game of The Year&#8221; that finally lived up to its billing. &#8216;Grats to the Gators for beating us straight up, fair and square. We&#8217;re still a year or two away from having the full&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alabama-crimson-tide-football","category-college-football","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}