My personal favorite opposing team’s fan, Joe Vol, (a cousin of the famous “Joe Dirt”) was invited to tailgate with GatorTailgating.com for Saturday’s game. He made it by a couple tailgates to give Gator fans a hard time, but mostly stayed right around the Gale Lemerand and Museum Drive area. With his Red Man chewing tobacco, Tennessee spit cup, and Natty Light in tow, he walked around to tailgate parties spouting trash talk such as “Jonathan Crompton for Heisman!” and “Tebow wears Lane Kiffin pajamas!”

Although he isn’t happy about Florida beating Tennessee, he agrees wholeheartedly with Kiffin talking trash after the game. “Our football team is great! We may be unranked, have a losing record, and have disgraced the SEC by losing to one of them there hippie, queer California teams, but Kiffin has every right to talk trash after that game,” says Joe Vol. “Why would you not talk smack after losing by 10 points to a hated rival?!? It just doesn’t make sense to let that chance pass you by!”

Joe Vol’s take on the whole thing is pretty simple and most Vol fans probably agree, “We won even though we actually lost. We may have lost by points on the score board, number of first downs, offensive yardage, third down conversions, etc.; but we actually were the winners of Saturday's game!”

With a fan base and coaching staff elated by a ten-point loss to their hated rival, it makes you wonder what kind of kool-aid Kiffin and his staff are serving in Tennessee. Whatever it is, it’s gotta be some good stuff!

It probably wasn't kool-aid that Joe Vol was drinking on game day, though. If it was, it was spiked and it made him very popular! Lots of Gator and Tennessee fans wanted pictures with him. "It made me feel like Jed Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies! Everywhere I went, there I was getting my photo taken!" Joe commented. 

In two years, he'll be invited back to Gainesville again for another great time. Also, he has a brother that's a Georgia fan too, so we may invite him to Jacksonville for the Cocktail Party. There's just no way around having fun when opposing teams have fans like Joe Vol.

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Rusty Thompson is one of the founders of GatorTailgating.com