The results are in…and I have to say, recency bias showed in our closest competition:
That’s right…tOSU was that close to beating Florida. I’ll give it to them, they are an annoying bunch and their proclamations of the 2024 Suckeyes being the best team in college football history after losing to a .500 rival reminds me a bit of the cackling that came from the Nerds when they tied for a National Championship in 1990. Also, maybe the recent success against the Gators have rinsed the vitriol and misery that was the 1990s from many of our collective minds, because if you were ever in person at any of those games, especially Spurrier’s revenge game played in Athens in 1995, then you know the only correct answer has to be a Handbag while basking the reflective glory of their football team’s success.
Before we get to the Championship game, let’s check in on the winner of the NIT bracket.
NIT Champion: Georgia Tech (81% of votes received)
Maybe it was the opt outs from Carolina’s bunch, or maybe it’s because Tech fans are the most insufferable, arrogant, and needlessly boastful group of people that many of us living in the Atlanta metro area have ever met. Consisting mostly of Georgia State grads or retirement home residents who can remember the few times Tech was a relevant team, between having grandpa wax poetic about the Rambling Wreck or hearing about how much Georgia sucks from someone who never set foot in Athens or had a snowball’s chance in hell of attending the greatest University in the greatest college town in the southeastern United States, these folks take the cake. Sorry, Carolina fans…looks like that elusive football Championship is still just another cannon shot recruit away.
The Championship: Tennessee (77%) vs. Florida (51%)
Let’s look at the commonalities here. Rednecks. Orange. Obesity. Hygiene. Poor wardrobe choices. Home of the two quarterbacks – Manning and Tebow – consider by their fanbases as the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Obnoxious and overbearing. Decent fight songs, though.
In what would be the game that most would prefer to see end in at one of the hottest levels of Dante’s Inferno, who do you pick? If you could pick one group to be isolated to a far away island, never to be heard from again (yet would reproduce in an exponentially frightening way) who would it be?
Let’s crown a Champion once and for all, to receive the first – and probably only – GTP Refugee FTMFs Cup for the worst college football fanbase.
What a hard decission. Both fanbases are so richly deserving of derision. In the end, the self agrandizing assholes from Hogtown win out.
Yep I’m going with the Florida Gaytors
It’s fitting that the Jacketasses win the “Lesser” NIT championship. Those assholes deserve it.
Handbags over Hillbillies.
When the Hogtown Ditch Lizards are good, their fan base is insufferable.
Florida today. Florida tomorrow! Florida forever!!!
It’s forever Florida for me. FTMF
Soooooo, you’re telling the world that if these fan bases exchanged clothing, your basic man on the street couldn’t tell the difference…? FU fans are perennial asswipes, champions of the brown stain on humanity, FUCK THOSE MUTHA FUCKERS…as for tosu, wouldn’t mind a rematch, just to let them know, luck only last so long…GO DAWGS!!
How do you think the Senator would vote in this final? I absolutely know how Rangers Russ would’ve voted.
May they be forever trapped in an endless swamphog day of perpetual ties, never to be resolved in hell for eternity. Why pick one?
This was the hardest vote yet for me. While living in Nashville I recall all the older Cadillacs and Lincoln Town Cars with orange and white poms poms in the rear window year round. That crappy stadium that only holds over 100,000 because they paint the seat numbers only 6 inches apart which the average Vol fans takes up seven. But in the end it has to be the FU Zubaz, Oakley Blade, tank top wearing dirt bags that make up the Gator fan base.
Really really hard choice. Overtime/sudden death literally.
It’s Florida. Tennessee is awful but they have become the Keystone Cops of the SEC. They’ll find a new and creative way to fuck up and their yearly “We’re back!” talk is a punchline.
Years of losing to Florida even when we shouldn’t have, Spurrier, Corch, that freaking debacle when we started Bauta and they threw like two passes the entire game, all of it along with their God awful Yankee moved south fans “Ee lahv beeting Jarga! Yoo gees will navver bee as good as ahs!” I hate them so much. No amount at bad fortune is enough.
Florida, only because I’ve hated them longer. My second college football game ever was The Cocktail Party in the old metal Gator Bowl (My first was UGA vs Pitt in Sanford when they had a freshman running back named Tony Dorsett). My dad took me multiple time in the early and mid 70’s to get the disdain started. I didn’t get the opportunity to start hating Junior and Lulu till much later. I hate them just as much now, just not as long.
Texas then Ohio State for me, followed by Bama, ND, USCw, then Florida for me.
This is hard.
I have acquaintances from both oranges. To be honest? All the mouthy shit I heard from both sides during Tebow/Manning/Bobo/Martinez/Third yadda yadda…
They’re strangely quiet now, and I like it. I picked ut on a coin toss and in honor of my late friend: #fuckthosemotherfuckers.
Fucking orange. Who picks that for a team color? Fucking morons, that’s who.
There is no wrong answer to this question. Hate them both early and often.
My Dawg.
Florida has a fight song?