Found November 28, 2008 on The Sports Point: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Kevin Davis
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As the college football regular season winds down, no team has been adored by the media like the Florida Gators. While they have looked as talented as anyone in the country, we still think they are very beatable. With Florida State and then Alabama in the SEC Championship, the Gators will have its work cut out.

Just in case this two game stretch isn't enough to bring Florida fans down to Earth, maybe a history of their association with jean shorts, or jorts, will do the trick. The Orlando Sentinel revisited the origin of the insult that has become the favorite amongst Florida's rival fans. A 32-year-old Georgia alum Kevin Davis, who is now a lawyer, claims to have began the phrase "Gators wear jean shorts" at the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville in 1997.

"Unfortunately, I thought I was doing the world a service by trying to get rid of jean shorts," says Davis, the inventor of the jorts insult. "But now Florida fans wear them with pride."

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