hire Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI think you\u2019ll hear a lot of that around here,\u201d she said. \u201cI just think he would bring a lot of passion to the job. I thought we should have gone after him last year, but I was also a fan of keeping Billy \u2014 I hate that we\u2019ve hopped from coach to coach so much. I was a fan of giving Billy a chance, which I think we did. I\u2019m glad we kept him for another year. It was clearly not working out so now I\u2019m Team Kiffin all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mardi Gras feel<\/p>\n
Next up were two Georgia fans whose motor coach was away from the main drag of RV City \u2026 completely by design.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were on the (main) aisle last year and I said, \u2018Let\u2019s get away from that a little bit,\u2019 because it was a lot,\u201d Dawgs fan\/Atlanta resident Robert Allen said.<\/p>\n
Like a lot of people? A lot of noise?<\/p>\n
\u201cFriday night in here is mayhem \u2013 it\u2019s like Mardi Gras,\u201d Allen said. \u201cThere are people shoulder to shoulder. Everybody is nice and cool, but it can get a little hairy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen, who was sitting alongside friend Matt Storey, said he has been coming to RV City \u201coff and on for 20 years. I came down here and you could tell this was the place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is Storey\u2019s seventh consecutive trip to town, and he has stayed with Allen for the last four years.<\/p>\n
Allen will have 4-6 people staying in the motor coach and another six friends in town at another location. On Saturday, he expects about 24 people to tailgate before walking across the street to the game.<\/p>\n
Storey admitted this year\u2019s game is \u201cbittersweet\u201d because of the move out of Jacksonville and Allen said the atmosphere will be \u201ccompletely different.\u201d But they\u2019ll get the home game in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat works out for us and we might try to make it to Tampa,\u201d Allen said. \u201cBut I think it will be completely different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Girls Week in RV City<\/p>\n
Reynolds was preparing her grill for bacon-wrapped chicken from Buc-ee\u2019s when I introduced myself. She then took over the introductions of her crew this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it\u2019s like this: She\u2019s my sister. She\u2019s my sister. She\u2019s my cousin. She\u2019s our friend. This is my camper,\u201d she said. \u201cOur husbands dropped us off and it\u2019s a girls\/sisters week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Reynolds group is from Jacksonville and many attended Paxon High School, or as they like to say, they\u2019re Florida girls, but not Florida Gator girls. They started staying in RV City 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a great thing,\u201d said Sharon Reynolds, one of Debra\u2019s sisters. \u201cYou make friends, you see people and you might not even know their names, but you know their faces.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Reynolds sisters said they\u2019re \u201cnot real partiers. Yeah, we may take a shot, but we\u2019re people watchers.\u201d<\/p>\n
A golf cart of Gator fans drives by the Reynolds camp and start doing the chomp-chomp-chomp.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we come \u2013 to talk trash,\u201d Debra said.<\/p>\n
Celebrity visitors<\/p>\n
My final stop close to the overpass that leads off the Hart Bridge is the motor coach organized by Clark of Jacksonville and Corey Patterson of Orange Park. The libations are lined up on a table and there are several coolers full of Jell-O shots to get through the weekend.<\/p>\n
These guys, these Gator guys, they\u2019ve got stories.<\/p>\n
Tim Tebow and Vanilla Ice stopped by two years ago. Same for Gov. Ron DeSantis and his hulking security guards. They bought a folding chair for a friend to sleep in this year after he slept on the ground under a table last year.<\/p>\n
Clark has been doing this for 30 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started at The Landing in a boat but then 2018 came and we bought the RV and got rid of the boat,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n
Their motorhome can sleep eight, but they expect 30-50 people in their area tailgating Friday and before the game. Hanging on the exterior are the Gators\u2019 three championship flags (1996, 2006 and 2008) and a framed certificate honoring the Clark\/Patterson group for a spirit award in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we should have won it the last couple of years, too,\u201d said Patterson, pointing to the two tall inflated Gators that flank the motorhome. \u201cThey seemed to give it out to people who have Halloween decorations.\u2019<\/p>\n
I asked the guys what\u2019s next for Florida football after Napier.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I could pick anybody, I would say Nick Saban but that\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s probably Kiffin.\u201d<\/p>\n
And with that, I declared victory for my first visit to RV City. It is a slice of Georgia football, Florida football, city of Jacksonville, family, friends, partying and trash-talking rolled into one week.<\/p>\n
Contact O\u2019Halloran at rohalloran@gannett.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famous RV City getting cranked up for Florida-Georgia game, the last in Jacksonville before moving away for 2…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[691,5229,8015,8019,5356,22758,23605,51014,2871,1369,2074,117852,2488,70719,70721,3188,723,26595,1318,17505,18125,4353,44840,169187,2487,11652,7310,8017,8013,169185,21426,12945,9544,169188,41324,169186,73730,143191,942,50,1232,12623,450,950,117851,14516,2973,113886,24118,62,1458,11124,645,2490,67,586,132,5230,8157,41330,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-343657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-atlanta","13":"tag-billy","14":"tag-billy-napier","15":"tag-bulldogs","16":"tag-college","17":"tag-college-sports","18":"tag-conference","19":"tag-desantis","20":"tag-enabled","21":"tag-everbank","22":"tag-everbank-stadium","23":"tag-fl","24":"tag-florida","25":"tag-florida-gators-football","26":"tag-football","27":"tag-ga","28":"tag-gators","29":"tag-georgia","30":"tag-georgia-bulldogs-football","31":"tag-gras","32":"tag-highlights","33":"tag-hub","34":"tag-jacksonville","35":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","36":"tag-jaguars","37":"tag-kiffin","38":"tag-lane","39":"tag-lane-kiffin","40":"tag-mardi","41":"tag-mardi-gras","42":"tag-meyer","43":"tag-monte","44":"tag-monte-kiffin","45":"tag-napier","46":"tag-neutral","47":"tag-news","48":"tag-nfl","49":"tag-nfl-hub","50":"tag-overall","51":"tag-overall-neutral","52":"tag-ron","53":"tag-ron-desantis","54":"tag-sec","55":"tag-sec-conference-football","56":"tag-sec-hub","57":"tag-sports","58":"tag-sports-news","59":"tag-stadium","60":"tag-story","61":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","62":"tag-united-states","63":"tag-united-states-of-america","64":"tag-unitedstates","65":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","66":"tag-urban","67":"tag-urban-meyer","68":"tag-us","69":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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