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Central Florida Fans Violate a Small Rule of Etiquette, Threaten to Kill QB's Father

by Spencer Hall • Sep 8, 2008 10:30 AM EDT

The War for I-4 isn't one of college football's marquee matchups, consisting of a recently invented rivalry between USF and UCF, two commuter schools with burgeoning football programs just learning the ins and outs of proper rivalry behavior. Cut them some slack for their lack of understanding in the matter; they're new at this thing.

They don't know that if you get the opposing QB's number, you do what LSU fans did to Tim Tebow last year before the game: you threaten him first for weeks leading up to the game, and leave it at that. UCF fans who acquired USF qb Matt Grothe's number before this weekend's USF/UCF game committed a gross violation of fan ethics by threatening Grothe's father, since it's clearly part of the fan charter (section 3, subclauses 15-18) that family members are explicitly off-limits.

We do not kid about the death threats: Grothe's family was under precautionary police protection prior to the game Saturday after a UCF fan threatened to kill Matt Grothe, Sr.

UCF fans got hold of Matt Grothe’s cell phone number and bombarded him with hundreds of calls and text messages.
Matt Grothe’s father, Matt Sr., even received a death threat from a UCF fan on Saturday. Grothe’s family was protected by state troopers during the contest and there were no incidents.

To review: leave the family out of it, keep your mad, 3 a.m. bomb threats to the quarterback and the quarterback alone, and be sure to floss every single day. This has been a joint production of The Sporting Blog and The American Council For Weeping Openly Over the Doomed Fate of Our Ignorant Species.

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UCF is a commuter school huh? Spence, what school (if any) did you attend? I’d put money on UCF having more beds on campus than your school. Someone sounds jealous of the premier college atmospherethat UCF is building.

by feartheknight on Sep 8, 2008 12:53 PM EDT reply actions

Mr. Hall attended UF. That means he is smarter than any UCF fan/grad and attended a school with more precious beds on campus. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/14/news_pf/State/UCF_finds_its_ameniti.shtml
"With the 2,000 new dorm beds, UCF now has 6,080 beds on campus. That’s
not far behind the University of Florida, which has 7,000 dorm beds on
its Gainesville campus."
I would have thought UCF would have taught their students how to use Google in between building football stadiums made of erector sets and shopping malls/student unions.

by alligatorarmy on Sep 8, 2008 3:47 PM EDT reply actions

touche!

by maomatt on Sep 8, 2008 4:44 PM EDT reply actions

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haThank you Alligatorarmy. I needed a good laugh.Hey Spencer, I love the art on this piece.

by Sexy Pete on Sep 8, 2008 5:43 PM EDT reply actions

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haThank you Alligatorarmy. I needed a good laugh.Hey Spencer, I love the art on this piece.

by Sexy Pete on Sep 8, 2008 5:44 PM EDT reply actions

Ah I understand now mr. alligator army, those 920 beds make the difference between commuter school and a real college.

Someone sounds awfully threatened by little old UCF to be making such asinine comments, especially about intelligence. But then again you are probably right, I’m sure that Spencer Hall is smarter than say… the director of Kennedy Space Center (after all, Michael Griffin is only a rocket scientist, and spence here rights for a BLOG).

You sir are an imbecile.

by feartheknight on Sep 8, 2008 7:22 PM EDT reply actions