There is no Orlando envy here. You’re big-timing us when it comes to pro football. Or as we like to say, “we love our Arena League Orlando Predators!”
But on the flip side, how does it feel to have the worst NFL franchise in Florida?
About 4,500 children die each day from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation facilities.
Source: unicef.org
My favorite place.
Good backdrop for reading.
This woman somehow got through security with her nail clippers. May God save us all.
A little early? Maybe. But I’m okay with that.
I think this speaks for itself. If you want to show support, you can Digg it here: http://digg.com/autos/Orlando_Speedtrap_Gets_Owned
Moron Orlando Reporter Again Bashes Jags, Bucs
In an unsurprising tirade, the Orlando Sentinel’s resident chimpanzee has again thrown his feces in all directions but south. Let’s cover a few of the choice passages.
I don’t know about the rest of Orlando, but I’m tired of being designated as a “secondary” market to Jacksonville. Isn’t that sort of like the filet at Ruth’s Chris being designated as secondary to the country fried steak at the Billy Goat Cafe? We’re Orlando, for crying out loud; we’re not Yulee. We’re not Green Cove Springs.
You know what, Mike? You’re right. Orlando isn’t Yulee. Yulee High School has a more NFL-ready football facility.
We’re a bigger city than Jacksonville. We’re a bigger television market than Jacksonville. We have much more diverse sports interests than Jacksonville. We are 150 miles and 2 1/2 hours from Jacksonville.
I bought you a map for Christmas. Miami is four hours in the opposite direction. Just because it feels like you’re going downhill because you’re going south doesn’t mean it’s closer. Although, it most certainly is downhill.
Memo to Jacksonville owner Wayne Weaver: Change your name to the Florida Jaguars and play half your home games in Orlando. What have you got to lose? If you had fewer games in Jacksonville maybe more fans would show up. And with a much larger population base in Central Florida starving for big-time football, just think of the potential fan base you could develop here.
Yes, Orlando is starving for pro football, as is shown by the absolute disrepair of the Citrus Bowl and the thronging crowds of 10,000 that showed up to the UFL Tuskers games this past fall. This is beside the point, of course, because you and the CBS affiliate manager have both already professed your hatred for Jacksonville and the Jaguars above.
And although the principles of business are surely beyond you, do you not understand that even if Mr. Weaver had a heavy object dropped on his head, the Bucs and Dolphins would still stand in the way of any such plan because it infringes on their markets as well?
We are Orlando — one of the first-class destination cities in the world. The NFL needs to stop treating us like second-rate citizens.
Jump from the highest building you can find. We’ll bury you in the graveyard of bad ideas that the Citrus Bowl has become. Either that or ride It’s A Small World a few times and see if you feel better about yourself.
Oh, and, um. Go Magic. Yeah.
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Orlando Embarrassed as Citrus Bowl Turns to Mud
The Citrus Bowl is a shameful abomination that must be torn down and replaced immediately. That the $175 million squirreled away to do so has been taken back by the city is just horrifying. Orlando should lose the Capital One Bowl until it can prove itself worthy of hosting any type of high-profile football in the future.
The Capital One Bowl became the Mud Bowl on Friday afternoon, casting a harsh glare on the city and its efforts to repair an already damaged field. Rain essentially destroyed a patchwork Citrus Bowl field that had been beaten up in the Champs Sports Bowl on Tuesday night. Though grounds crews worked around the clock to get the field into playing shape, the rain turned the grass to muck, and water puddled in the end zone and along the hash marks and sideline.
“That was by far the worst football field I’ve ever seen in my life” saidLSU wide receiver Brandon LaFell, a sentiment echoed by every player interviewed post-game. “In warm-ups, we were running straight ahead and making small cuts, the whole sheet of field — it would slide up and lift the mud underneath it.
“They tell you this is the next best bowl outside of the [Bowl Championship Series]. I feel like this should be the next best field outside the BCS, and I feel like this field we played on today was not up to par to be on the BCS bowl level.”
A track of mud and dirt ran up and down the field, and the midfield logo was torn away. The field was a laughingstock on the television broadcast and the Web.
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Locomotives beat Tuskers for UFL title
The United Football League championship game went into overtime today, with the Las Vegas Locomotives defeating the Florida Tuskers 20-17 to win the first UFL title.
I wonder if the Sentinel will show the Jags any respect now. Bah. Who am I kidding?
Source: profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
