Florida announces SEC Legend as honorary Mr. Two Bits for LSU game
Florida will celebrate a Gator Great on Saturday before he is honored as an SEC Legend in December. Rex Grossman has been named the honorary Mr. Two Bits for Florida’s rivalry meeting with LSU.
Grossman, 44, was at UF from 1999 to 2002. After redshirting, he played in Steve Spurrier’s final 2 seasons (2000, ’01) and the first year (2002) of Ron Zook’s tenure. Grossman is among the top UF quarterbacks all-time in completions (677, 4th), attempts (1,110, 5th), yards (9,164, 5th) and touchdowns (77, 4th).
“The experience of playing for the Gators means everything in the world to me,” Grossman told Chris Harry of FloridaGators.com. “I had the best time of my life in that era. Being able to get on the field and make things happen was the most exciting thing ever, especially coming from high school in Indiana where I played in front of 2,000 to playing in front of 90,000 on national TV. Dream come true. And now I get to come back and take it all in again.”
It’s fitting that the Gators would call on Grossman against the Tigers. One of Grossman’s top performances of his Florida career came on the road at LSU in 2001. In a 44-15 thumping of Nick Saban’s Tigers, Grossman was 22-of-32 for 464 yards and 5 touchdowns with just 1 interception.
Florida-LSU is set for a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff in Gainesville. Grossman will represent the Gators again in December at the SEC Championship Game when he is recognized as part of the SEC Legends Class.
If it ain’t leeland or doc leading the chant, I ain’t going
Well I’ll be, numero uno. Palley must be at happy hour
Hey I don’t rub it in when Im first, learn some humility bro
Big fan of Rex, so I’ll let him take the lead. Besides, last time I was in the Swamp 18 months ago with Nash and StL I wound up in the hospital for 2 days when I got back – so I’d probably jinx it anyway!
Exposure to those two at the same time would send anyone to the hospital.
I was going to say the same thing, but specially StL
Marsh, if I had have had previous surgery, I would have probably busted every stich in me and even some I didn’t have. We were actually looking for you the whole night, but it’s no doubt better that you were otherwise occupied – I would have no doute wound up in the UF morgue from laughing myself to death!
Could we make him look like Aidan Warner? ;)
lol good one gfa
Grossman back for the LSU game forget about trying to win 2 out of the last 3 now we will run the table
Probably the best throw I have ever seen live was by Grossman vs LSU in the Swamp. I think it was a snap over his head and he grabbed the ball up with a defender right on him and threw it without looking into the back left corner of the end zone where he knew his WR would be and it was money, TD!