ten dismembered digits Wrote:
I went to my first FLA-GA game in 1968, and didn't miss a year until 1982. After that, it got sporadic, as I was seldom in town for the game. I've NEVER been to a FLA-GA game that didn't have classless fans on BOTH sides of the field, and regardless of the game's outcome. I've been assaulted, arrested, and had "Fuck You" painted on my car in red with spray-bombs, to name just a few things that happened over the years.
The only way there were no classless Bulldog fans at this year's party along with some classless Gator fans was if there were no Bulldog fans at all.
One thing is for sure: Some Florida fans obviously don't know when to keep they damn mouths shut.
U. of Fla. student fatally beaten after Dogs-Gator game
Associated Press
Published on: 10/31/05
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Five men were charged with murder in the fatal beating of a University of Florida student, authorities said.
Numerous onlookers saw the beating Saturday night of Thomas Oliver Brown, 23, who was held down by three men and beaten by two others, the Jacksonville sheriff's office said.
Brown was not breathing and had no pulse when rescue personnel arrived. They tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at Shands Jacksonville, police said.
Jeremy Lane, 21, Alex Canzano, 21, Casey Schuurman, 19, and Mark Foss, 18, all of Jacksonville, and Jeffery Groncziak, 19, of Ponte Vedra Beach, were arrested and jailed on murder charges Sunday, police said.
The suspects fled after the beating but were stopped in a taxi van. A surveillance camera placed the suspects at the scene of the slaying, but the reason for the beating wasn't clear, police said.
Brown's father, Thomas J. Brown, said he was told by a detective that words were exchanged between his son and the attackers.
"He might have said something he shouldn't have, but it doesn't add up to murder," he told The Florida Times Union. "This isn't a fight, this is a massacre."
The younger Brown had attended Saturday's game between rivals Georgia and Florida in Jacksonville. The annual game known as the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.
"We're not certain if it had anything to do with the game," sheriff's office spokesman Ken Jefferson said.
Samuel Canzano, father of Alex Canzano, broke into tears when asked about his son. He had tried, unsuccessfully, to contact him at the Duval County jail.
"He was not a kid who would do this kind of stuff," Samuel Canzano said. "With Alex, it was being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
It was not immediately known if any of the five men had a lawyer.
