where are all the Gators??

I’m sitting here looking at my Bentley (the 2007 Arnage, if you must know) sitting in the parking lot. It’s soooo beautiful I just can’t take my eyes off it. With every sip of coffee I have to ask myself if it’s real.

And of course with each sip of coffee the answer is, no, it’s not. The Bentley I’m looking at is shown in a photograph in the latest edition of Desert Living magazine.

Yet there is something else I am finding even harder to believe than a newspaper reporter owning a Bentley: that arriving Ohio State fans far outnumber their Gator counterparts.

Jacksonville resident Reecy Thornton and her family arrived here Saturday. On the plane, she told me, there were way more OSU people than Gators.

Ryan and I heard the same thing on the evening TV news. The reporter was covering a BCS rally and said something to the effect of “. . . we saw a whole lot of Buckeye fans with some Gators sprinkled in here and there. . . .”

Sprinkles? I thought there’d be a gazillion UF people here this weekend with those little Gator tattoos on their cheeks and doing that arm-chomp thing.

What’s up with that? Is it too early in the weekend? Will the difference be made up today and Monday? Or do Gators just not travel as well as Ohio Staters?

Jeff