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UA recruit breaks Gators’ BCS trophy
WholeHogSports.com ^
| April 16, 2008
| Staff
Posted on 04/18/2008 1:48:32 PM PDT by bamahead
Talk about getting off on the wrong foot. A Plant High School (Tampa, Fla.) tight end broke the Florida Gators 2006 BCS National Championship trophy over the weekend at a NIKE football camp.
I kid you not.
Orson Charles, who is being recruited by Arkansas and at least 10 other schools including Florida, bumped into the handcrafted Waterford crystal trophy outside of UF coach Urban Meyers office this weekend. The poor guy declined to talk about breaking the Gators crown jewel to a local TV crew, as did his head coach, according to a report.
The trophy has a reported value of $35,000.
Dont worry, the trophy was insured and the Gators actually own two of the beauties. Florida officials have a replacement crystal ball on the way.
Maybe the 6-foot-3 blue-chipper was just preparing for his days of damaging the Gators program as a Razorback. Gotta start somewhere. Orson just went for the throat right from the start, didnt he?
TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: bcs; florida; gators; ncaa
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posted on
04/18/2008 1:48:33 PM PDT
by
bamahead
To: GOP_Raider
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posted on
04/18/2008 1:49:08 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: dfwgator
PING!!!!!GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
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posted on
04/18/2008 1:50:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
To: Red Badger; dfwgator
Sounds like somebody needs to make bacon outta this hog...
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posted on
04/18/2008 1:52:33 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
To: bamahead
But it came with the Sears warranty, so they get to keep all the pieces.
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posted on
04/18/2008 1:55:38 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(doomed I tell you....)
To: bamahead
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posted on
04/18/2008 2:03:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: bamahead
Well I guess we’re just going to have to go out and win another one.
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posted on
04/18/2008 2:05:09 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: bamahead
you break it.....you buy it.....
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posted on
04/18/2008 2:17:12 PM PDT
by
del4hope
(Hoping for a conservative comeback in the GOP)
To: del4hope
I could see Urban saying, like in Trading Places:
“I see we have to trophy insured for $50,000, why Mr. Charles has already made us a $15,000 profit.”
“You want me to break something else?”
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posted on
04/18/2008 2:19:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: bamahead
Sounds like they were recruiting Mr. Bean.
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posted on
04/18/2008 3:25:24 PM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
(Let's Get Cup Crazy! Let's Go Sharks!)
To: bamahead
Orson Charles, who is being recruited by Arkansas and at least 10 other schools including Florida
Well, make that nine other schools.
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posted on
04/18/2008 3:33:53 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: GOP_Raider
I’m still POed over that game. But what an F- idiot.
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posted on
04/18/2008 3:34:03 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. (Say no to RINOs))
To: bamahead
From a Buckeye fan:
Schaudenfruede!BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
OK. I'm done now. :)
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posted on
04/18/2008 3:37:57 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(Part of the "Vast Typical White Guy Conspiracy")
To: bamahead
Orson Charles press conference: After breaking trophies at all the colleges I visited, I've decided to play college football overseas.
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posted on
04/18/2008 3:38:10 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: bamahead
Just a mild chuckle. Sorry, but ever since that guy bought the multi-million-dollar painting at auction and then put a hole in it, nothing like this can really get more than a yawn.
To: bamahead
I’d say the blame should fall on the UF AD for permitting the fragile object to be left in an unsafe location.
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posted on
04/18/2008 5:07:12 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: bamahead
Now if he’d only smash that ESPN-awarded Heisman of Tebow’s.
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posted on
04/18/2008 7:27:32 PM PDT
by
Uncle Ivan
(I'm still with Fred)
To: bamahead
I would say get a metal trophy like NHL, but after a Stars player put a big dent in it after getting drunk drinking from it and falling over into a pool, I would say nothing is safe.
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posted on
04/18/2008 11:37:58 PM PDT
by
neb52
(Why have a career, when you can have a mohawk? - Zachary Galaviz, RIP 03/31/08)
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