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The Price of Gator Fandom PDF Print E-mail
Written by JB   
Tuesday, 17 August 2010

What happens when you wear a Gator hat, but your job involves covering a different team?

You get fired.

Over the weekend, an Arkansas friend passed along a story of a reporter at Arkansas wearing a Gator hat and being called out by Bobby Petrino.

The story got weirder, as Arkansas fans did their usual crazy thing... and then the reporter was fired.

 Some reading you should do on this topic, as it's only gotten more attention as we get further into this week:

The news is included in this Arkansas sports notebook.  What's not mentioned are the death threats, social media-stalking, and other ways the Arkansas fanbase went after this Gator fan in their midst.

EDSBS reminds us that Arkansas fans are the craziest SEC fans of all, and gives a breakdown of the relative craziness of each fanbase.

Clay Travis gives us his usual great take on the story.

Eventually the story was picked up by Deadspin, when the reporter got to talk about the incident (other than on twitter- Renne Gork Twitter has also become a very popular search term on google).  Also, here the reporter got to tell her side of the story.

We at Gators First stand behind all Gator fans.  Renee Gork, we suport your choice of attire.

Seriously, Hogs, it's a hat.  Death threats?  It's not like she pointed out Bobby Petrino's leaving for the NFL next season.  Hopefully after the season ends.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 August 2010 )
 
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The Price of Gator Fandom
Aug 18 2010 15:22:37
Shhhhiiiiittttt brotha, shoulda seen how quick they turned on me. Them Arkansas fools invented cyber stalkin. One day im inventing the wild hog, next I'm featured in some backwoods, hills hve eyes version of days of our lives! My emails were in the news and I was packin my bags gettin the hell out.
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Re:The Price of Gator Fandom
Aug 19 2010 21:52:22
Since this (sort of) all started with Petrino calling out Gork...

check out his quote on the firing here.

QUOTE:
I don’t know much about the intention from the national media. When the incident happened here, there was never an intention to see it escalate the way that it did. But that kind of got out of our control.


Good job, Bobby. Blame the national media for fans (local fans?) making death threats. I can't blame a coach most of the time for playing up the media angle, but how is that at all relevant here?
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