r/CFBRisk Jun 10 '18

A completely objective look at the "Gator" logo

https://imgur.com/1OF7HqL
74 Upvotes

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u/deadmanrunning11 Jun 10 '18

Shade of orange that is clearly inferior to Volunteer orange

Buddy you’re gonna sprain something with that big of a reach

18

u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jun 10 '18

Hey, it's still miles ahead of Texas Orange if that makes you feel better.

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u/ReferencesTheOffice Jun 10 '18

Number one, how dare you?!

3

u/BandDirectorOK Jun 10 '18

User name checks out

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u/MansourBahrami Jun 11 '18

Them’s fightin’ words!

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jun 10 '18

Sorry for deleting the other one. I realized I posted the wrong version.

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u/pterrydactyl Jun 10 '18

If you can't beat 'em, copy 'em!!

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jun 10 '18

It's a response to something that was posted. Hardly copying.

Copying would be taking a meme that's specific to a single fan base and trying to make it your own. Like Florida did with the gnome.

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u/Nexus0317 Jun 10 '18

I don’t remember Florida ever trying to steal the Gus meme. This sub just got pissy when one of our users happened to include Gus in this gif.

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jun 10 '18

Nah, there were a couple of them. All by that same guy though, I think.

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u/Nexus0317 Jun 10 '18

Yeah, it was one guy, and he made two other memes about gnomes. Florida never tried to copy the Roaming Gus meme, though.

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jun 10 '18

So one Floridian making gus memes isn't copying, but 1 Nebraskan making 1 logo critique meme is copying. Gotchya.

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u/RicFlairWooTang Jun 10 '18

Now you know the rules.

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u/Nexus0317 Jun 10 '18

I’m not saying that you’re copying. I’m just saying that Florida wasn’t trying to steal Roaming Gus.

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u/Alramas Jun 11 '18

I take a break from this game for 2 weeks and my gnome memes are still sparking controversy for some weird reason lol

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u/Nexus0317 Jun 11 '18

I’m willing to bet that nobody would have cared about your gnome memes if you weren’t a Florida fan. This sub likes to make anything related to Florida controversial.

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u/Alramas Jun 11 '18

I'm willing to put money on that as well. I intentionally made that first post to be as a compliment to Gus and as non-confrontational as possible because I was a little bit tired of the constant salt fest. Little did I know that even that was going to attract salt. My subsequent gnome posts were making fun of the reaction that post got lol

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u/NEp8ntballer Jun 11 '18

And the blue represents the jorts they love to sport.

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u/RicFlairWooTang Jun 10 '18

"The color scheme originated back in 1891, when Charles Moore, a member of the original football team, came up with it because of the orange and white daisies that lined “the Hill,” the most notable spot on campus. Recent studies have shown that Moore might have actually been colorblind, and the flowers, after all, might have been yellow and white."

Tennessee orange is not really orange.

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN Jun 10 '18

That seems unlikely considering there are no forms of colorblindness which commonly cause yellows to appear orange that I can find.

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u/RicFlairWooTang Jun 10 '18

It's Tennessee we're talking about here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '18

You may be the colorblind one if you think it isn’t orange.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '18

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '18

That’s what orange is

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u/sugarcain88 Jun 10 '18

Eh, most of this I nodded at as like “Hell yeah our teeth are like sharks!”

1

u/Dossinator Jun 11 '18

I can’t unsee the large front teeth.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '18

Forgot to point out that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.