Cheap Shots? That's Just The Way Georgia and Florida Play Football

There's been a lot of debate about Brandon Spikes' cat scratch fever on Washaun Ealey, but there's one point on which everyone seems to agree. Both Georgia and Florida play extremely dirty football and that's they way they like it. Ealey himself came out yesterday and said that Spikes did not deserve to be suspended (an entire half!) for reaching under Ealey's helmet to gouge him in the face. After all, Ealey had his eyes closed! What could possibly have gone wrong? Besides, according to both Florida coach Urban Meyer and Georgia coach Mark Richt, Spikes himself had been the victim of a cheap shot earlier in the game. So he was just taking an eye for an eye, so to speak. Meyer said he believed Spikes retaliated after getting his helmet ripped off and eye poked earlier in the game. Georgia coach Mark Richt said Spikes' "helmet went flying off ... and there was one time he got hit with his helmet off." "It was totally unintentional," Richt ...