#Seminole Subs

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Seminole Subs & Gyros: Your Local Sandwich Haven | 33714

Craving a mouthwatering sandwich or gyro in the 33714 area? Look no further than Seminole Subs & Gyros. Our family-owned restaurant has been serving up delicious, fresh, and affordable sandwiches and gyros for 20+ years.

Why Choose Seminole Subs & Gyros?

Fresh, Quality Ingredients: We source the finest ingredients to ensure that every bite is packed with flavor.

Homemade Recipes: Our sandwiches and gyros are made from scratch using our secret family recipes.

Generous Portions: Satisfy your hunger with our large and satisfying portions.

Friendly Service: Our friendly staff is committed to providing exceptional customer service.

Convenient Location: We’re conveniently located in [Address] for easy access.

Our Menu Highlights:

Classic Subs: Choose from a variety of classic subs, including Italian, ham and cheese, turkey, and BLT.

Build Your Own: Customize your sandwich with your favorite meats, cheeses, veggies, and sauces.

Gyros: Our gyros are made with tender, juicy meat and served on warm pita bread with tzatziki sauce.

Sides: Enjoy our delicious sides, such as fries, onion rings, and coleslaw.

Customer Reviews:

“The best subs in town! The bread is fresh, the meat is juicy, and the veggies are crisp. Highly recommended!”

“I’ve been coming here for years and I’ve never been disappointed. The gyros are amazing!”

Visit Us Today:

Stop by Seminole Subs & Gyros for a satisfying meal. We’re open [MON- SAT : 10:00 AM TO 09:00 PM]. You can also order online for pickup or delivery.

Visit: https://seminolesubs.com

Address: 11599 66Th Street | Call: (727) 546–5558

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Can It Beat 메이저안전놀이터: The Truth Behind the Speed Count

We realize that many of you already know this, but for those that are new to the game, here are all the possible combinations of hands ranked from highest to lowest.Okay, now you have a sense of what hands you are hoping for when you are playing. Let’s look at the gameplay itself. https://terms.naver.com/search.naver?query=메이저안전놀이터 She argues that “these international idioms have a metaphorical sub-cultural repertoire crossing with the literary norm in any language” (p. 257). In addition to Roger Tilly (1973) who argues that the French suits signify the aristocracy, the military, the clergy, and the servant class, another playing card historian, Samuel Singer, reports this about the French suits: If a player plays a card to a trick which can legally been played, and at least one other player sees it, then that card has been played, and may not be taken back. But if a player plays a card that for some reason may not legally be played, then she must replace it in her hand, and play legally instead. There is no penalty, except that that player's partner(s) may derive no benefit from having seen that card.

The dealer then turns over their other four cards to reveal their complete hand of five cards. The dealer must have an ace and a king or higher to qualify. (In other words, the lowest qualifying hand for the dealer would be ace, king, 4, 3, 2 and the highest non-qualifying hand would be ace, queen, jack, 10, 9.) This meant that on a $1 bet you would get $27 and the house would keep your initial dollar. Today most casino odds are set by law, and they have to be either 34 to 1 or 35 to 1. This means that the house pays you $34 or $35 and you get to keep your original $1 bet. Hence, it is conventional to consider the impacts of tourism under the headings of socio-cultural, economic and environmental impacts. How all these variations on the basic idea came about is not fully understood. One plausible theory is that some of them arose from midunderstandings due to language differences, which resulted in something like visual puns.

Because a large proportion of high cards still in the deck increases a player’s odds against the house, card counting essentially depends on making small bets until a favourable proportion obtains and then placing a large bet. The Seminoles fought the system and won, setting a precedent for other tribes to open high-stakes gambling businesses on their land (reservation land is sovereign). The gaming licensee shall use an automated shuffling device to shuffle the cards.Once the procedures required by Section 4 have been completed, the dealer shall place the stacked deck of cards in either hand. In terms of playing cards specifically, Vladimirovna looks at how cards are part of a sociolect of gamers, such that particular idioms form around play.

Hang on to some of your money with these helpful Poker Betting Tips. Examples of Spanish card suits (DeCastro, 1810). (Guest, Vol. 1)German suits were different - cards were represented by hearts, bells, leaves, and acorns.If the dealer has an ace, and counting it as 11 would bring the total to 17 or more (but not over 21), the dealer must count the ace as 11 and stand. If the licensee selects Pay table D, Envy Bonus payouts shall be made according to the following payouts for Envy Bonus Qualifying Hands based upon the amount of the Progressive Payout Wager placed by the player receiving the Envy Bonus: A player shall receive the payout for only the highest ranking five-card Poker hand formed.

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Much of the stigma attached to gambling has resulted from the dishonesty of some of its promoters and players, and a large proportion of modern gambling legislation is written to control cheating. Of course, not all brick-and-mortar casinos have adopted this machine, but all online casinos have.For a century after its invention, craps was abused by casinos using unfair dice. For example, the winning 40-chip / $40,000 bet on "17 to the maximum" pays 392 chips / $392,000.

The vast majority of states awarded these licenses for free, or for nominal amounts, despite evidence showing that a license in a highly populated area sells in the secondary market for hundreds of millions of dollars. However, if you are winning and the dealer is courteous and helpful, it's customary to tip.There are two other statues in the lateral naves: Saint Remy and a Virgin and Child (Our Lady of the Offering) by François Brochet. The side aisles have sculptures of reconstituted stone and Baccarat crystal representing the 14 Stations of the Cross. Blackjack has one of the best odds from all the casino games with the house edge being anywhere from 0.5% up to 1% in a single deck of cards.

Or put it the other way: A player must know which cards are still in the shoe. The betting progression is very simple: After each loss, you add one unit to the next bet, and after each win, one unit is deducted from the next bet.Cable networks such as ESPN and the Travel Channel broadcast games from the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour—once obscure competitions reserved primarily for hard-core poker players. The combination of an ace with a card other than a ten-card is known as a "soft hand," because the player can count the ace as a 1 or 11, and either draw cards or not.

[afoolandathief]

Word find tag catch-up

Catching up on my tag games, so here we go -

I got a few tags and some of these excerpts are pretty long, so I'm putting these below the cut:

TWs for swearing, food and drink, alcohol, blood, needles, vomit, death and violence, mentions of sex, and a slight reference to body image:

Tagged by @thegreatobsesso to find shine, shade, trust, and life:

Shine

“You should try exercising, Caz,” she said, switching to her other arm. “You’re not going to stay young and thin forever.”

“Believe me, Amelia,” he replied from underneath the blanket. “My body is not going to change much for a very long time.”

“Well, it may help that you don’t eat anything.”

He poked his head out from the blanket.

“I eat,” he said.

“I never see you eating, Caz.”

He grinned.

“Well, I guess that’s because, when I’m with you, I’m only hungry for -”

“If you say you’re only hungry for me — or a certain part of my body — I’m going to kick you,” she cut in. “Anyway, I should be back in at most 30 minutes. Hopefully it’ll be sub-20.”

“Enjoy the sunshine,” he said, ducking back under the blanket and falling asleep.

Shade

“Juni,” Caz said weakly. “Didn’t think I’d see you again tonight. Back for more?”

“I’ve had my fill,” the prince said.

“You sure about that?”

“Where is it, you bloodsucker?” Juniper demanded while turning a shade of emerald.

“Um, where is what?”

“Don’t play dumb, it’s not that cute.” The prince gritted his teeth and continued, “Where is the armband?”

Trust

“You’re a vegetarian?” Jade asked.

“Yeah, always a little weird growing up on a farm and not eating meat, I suppose.”

“I don’t know why people would care, but then, I’m used to people with weird diets,” Jade swallowed. “Not that I think your diet is weird!”

Violet laughed her tinkling laugh again. “You’re fine.”

“Is it bad if I still order the chicken panini?”

“Not at all. Though I’m sure all those chickens that died might mind,” Violet stared at Jade.

Jade didn’t say anything for a moment. “Oh shit," she finally said. “You’re messing with me again.”

“Yup," Violet grinned. She handed Jade a sandwich wrapped in wax paper. “You want to try our mango juice with that? Grew the mangoes myself.”

“You’re messing with me again, you can’t grow mangoes here,” Jade said.

“I have a greenhouse.”

“Still, you couldn’t easily grow a mango tree.”

“Trust me, I can grow anything,” Violet said, her eyes flashing the same way they had the other night. She poured a pitcher of the bright orange liquid into a plastic cup and handed it to Jade.

Jade took a sip. “Good as always. Which reminds me, I still owe you for the lemonade.”

“Consider that paid for by keeping me company, if only for a short while. In fact, consider it the same today.”

Life

She turned her keys in the ignition. The engine sputtered, but refused to start.

“With double the pay, you could save up for a truck that’s not a piece of shit,” Caz retorted.

Jade turned the keys again, this time revving the gas until the engine roared to life.

“This is a good truck,” she said. “I just need new spark plugs.”

Tagged by @pertinax--loculos to find travel, needle, depth, weather and save:

Travel

Marie and Caz were huddled around a phonogram.

“I can’t believe you have a recording of Buddy Bolden,” Caz said. “I thought there were none left.”

“I managed to hold onto a few records after I left New Orleans,” Marie said.

“So you were in New Orleans right when jazz was taking off?” Caz asked. “Wow, I should’ve come to America a lot sooner than when I did. I didn’t get to New York until about 20 years after Bolden was around.”

“You were in New York during the heyday of jazz,” Marie said. “Not to mention where a lot of great minds were meeting then. I wish I had been there.”

“I figured you would have traveled there yourself.”

“Well, I stayed in Haiti for a bit after the revolution,” Marie said. “But I went to Florida to help the Seminoles in their fight a little while after, and then New Orleans. I just kept traveling around the south and west after that.”

“I’ve never been to Haiti, actually,” Caz remarked. “The closest was when I went to Cuba a few times for, uh, work reasons.”

“It’s a beautiful island,” Marie said. “I miss it a lot.”

“You grew up there?”

“I did.”

“How old are you exactly, if you mind me asking?”

“Just about 250 years old.”

“Ha! I’ve got you beat by about 350 years,” Caz said. He rubbed his neck, narrowly missing a hanging plant with his elbow. “Um, guess that’s not really something to brag about.”

“Well, you are blessed with being forever young,” Marie smiled softly. “Witches eventually do age, albeit slowly, myself included.”

“True,” Caz sighed.

Needle

“You’ll sleep upstairs with the other girls, but let’s get you outfitted first. I’m interested in trying a sample of you myself.”

Renner tied off her left elbow and began searching her arm for a vein.

Jade felt the sting of the needle and looked down to see it attached to a vial not too different than the one that had been sticking out of Arravich’s arm in the hospital. Renner attached a long winding tube to it, placing the end of it in a wine glass. He pushed down on the vial, sending a dark red stream through the tube into the glass.

“Just a small amount, Renner,” Valfierno said. “I don’t want to overindulge.”

He began to take a sip just as a knock was heard at the door.

“Go ahead, Renner, I’m curious to see who would be at our door at this hour.”

Renner opened the door to reveal a shocked-looking Caz.

Depth

“What was up with you and that one kid, anyway?”

Jade realized Caz was talking to her.

“Who, Matt?” she asked.

“I mean, he was alright to look at, but,” Caz paused to hiccup. “He had the depth of a — what do you call it in English? — ah, right, the depth of a tide pool.”

Jade tried to track Caz in the mirror, but he had leaned down to slurp loudly from Derek’s neck.

“I just figured,” he continued, getting up to lean against Jade’s seat like he was maneuvering on a ship at sea. “That you preferred someone with a little more class and maturity.”

He proceeded to belch almost directly in Jade’s ear.

“‘Scuse me,” he said in a swinging tone. Then, as if realizing the irony, he burst into high-pitched laughter as he fell back into his seat.

“What is wrong with you?” Jade snapped. She wrinkled her nose at the acetone scent on Caz’s breath. “Are you — are you drunk?”

“No, I’m just,” Caz paused long enough to answer Jade’s question. “I’m just a little bit buzzed.”

Weather

In his six-hundred-and-seventeenth year of being on this earth, Casimir Jozef Mraz had come to a realization.

He was absolutely, hopelessly in love.

Of course, Caz fell in love at least once every decade. But this time was different, he thought, as he lay in bed, not used to trying to sleep at night. It had to be; he couldn’t find a damned thing wrong with this girl, even her name.

Amelia.

It was old-fashioned, and he liked that. Speaking it felt warm and familiar on his lips.

Lying next to him, Amelia’s eyelids fluttered for a moment, before going still as her breathing evened out and she fell even deeper into sleep. Caz heard her heartbeat slow to steady rhythm.

He leaned closer, cradling his arm around her, taking care not to catch the gold strands of hair that seemed to change texture with the weather, curling up in wiry spirals.

Caz watched a shadow falling across her ski-jump nose twist and morph as she shifted slightly. She looked almost like porcelain now, blue veins painted on her neck and chest like delft tile. She sighed again in her sleep.

So many people he had been with had wound up dead or forgotten over the years. Caz was determined this time would be different.

Save

Jade had gotten herself lost in a thought, again.

Usually this occurred when she was at her kitchen table, trying to piece together a spell; or when she took apart her laptop so it no longer sounded like a jet engine. It wasn’t supposed to involve Jade charging forward into the next room of a crowded party, ignoring all instincts to run outside and take a deep breath of cool night air.

Maybe it was hearing that someone else could get hurt. But that didn’t make any sense. Don’t try to save the world. Just focus on the next step in surviving. That was what she lived by.

No, she realized. For the first time in a long while, Jade was actually afraid.

Tagged by @diphthongsfordays to find space, scream, soft and scare:

Space

He jumped to his feet and ran towards the space between Jade and the alleyway.

Then he was falling to his knees and dry heaving.

“What the hell?” he gasped. He looked around at a circle of white surrounding him, a series of sigils carved into it by Jade’s knife. “What is this?”

“Table salt,” she said. “Combined with a few wards. Vampires are pretty susceptible to threshold magic, aren’t they?”

Caz choked back some bile and rose unsteadily to his feet.

Scream

“Lila, you seem to have calmed down a bit,” Caz said, stroking an ear larger than his hand.

He held the wolf back by the nape of her neck and leaned towards the other vampire.

“Sai cosa, Giuseppe? Non avevi torto riguardo alla tua supposizione,” he said, a small, wicked smile playing on his lips.

He released his grip on Lila.

“Ma devi capire quanto fosse stupido ferirla se mi sentivo in quel modo.”

Caz walked away from the alley, a strange and familiar feeling of satisfaction growing in the pit of his stomach as he heard Valfierno’s screams behind him increase in pitch and desperation. It was a sensation he hadn’t come across in years, and it felt good. He looked up at the full yellow moon and grinned, his teeth flashing in the light.

Soft

She looked up at Violet.

“Do you think we could each carry one of them?”

“If you can maintain a levitation spell for the whole length of the walk back,” she replied. “But your arm looks pretty bad, Jade.”

“Hmm,” Jade furrowed her brow. “I vote we leave Amelia.”

“No,” Caz whined softly into the stone. “Don’t leave my girlfriend behind.”

“Caz you’re currently bleeding out from where she carved into you. I don’t think she’s your girlfriend anymore.”

Scare

She was getting closer to him. Caz could smell that scrape still bleeding from her wrist. He was already faint from hunger. He needed to get her out of here.

The best method, he decided, was to scare her.

“So what if I am?” he asked, before smiling his widest and sharpest smile. “And if I am, may I remind you you’re currently backed into a corner by someone much stronger and faster than you, Jade?”

Mistake. You made a mistake, you fool.

He knew it as soon as the words left his lips. Don’t ever piss off a witch. His left ankle left the ground first, carried upward by a root looping around it, followed by his right.

Tagging, if you'd like: @drippingmoon, @authortango, @author-a-holmes, @avian-writes & @faelanvance to find calm, lake, ivory & estimate.

[adrwi]

{Please Reblog} Pet-Friendly Shelters in Eastern Central, North and South Florida 🐶🐱♥️

Update: I am so glad this got the notes it needs but we here in Florida were so fortunate. Our friends in the Bahamas however were not, please if you can donate to the Mercy Corps!

Please reblog this list of Pet Friendly Shelters from Jacksonville to Orlando to West Palm Beach.

My County is in this list, kinda got sad composing it. Please stay safe and Never Leave Your Pets Behind

Orange County-

East River High School 654 Columbia School Road Orlando, FL 32833 Pet Friendly

Freedom High School 2500 Taft Vineland Road Orlando, FL 32837 Special Needs, Pet Friendly

Lake Nona High School 12500 Narcoosee Road Orlando, FL 32832 Pet Friendly

Oak Ridge High School 700 W. Oak Ridge Road Orlando, FL 32809 Pet Friendly

University High School 2450 Cougar Way Orlando, FL 32817 Special Needs, Pet Friendly

Seminole County-

Lyman High School

865 S Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750

Bentley Elementary School

2190 S Oregon Ave, Sanford, FL 32771

Volusia County-

Hinson Middle,1860 N. Clyde Morris Blvd, Daytona Beach (Pets Separate)

Pine Ridge High, 925 Howland Blvd, Deltona (Pets Seperate)

River Springs Middle, 900 West Ohio Ave, Orange City (Pets Seperate)

Volusia County Fairgrounds, 3150 W. State Rd 44, DeLand (Pets and People Together)

Brevard County-

Port St. John Community Center, 6650 Corto Road, Port St. John

Viera Regional Community Center, 2300 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera

Wickham Park Community Center, 2815 Leisure Way, Melbourne

Ted Whitlock Community Center, 1951 Malabar Road NW, Palm Bay

Polk County-

The only pet friendly shelter that will be open will be at Lake Region High School, 1995 Thunder Road, Eagle Lake. Pet owners must bring shot records for their pets, an airline-approved carrying case or crate and pet food.

Flager County-

Rymfire Elementary, 1425 Rymfire Drive, Palm Coast, FL 32164 (special needs)

Bunnell Elementary, 305 N. Palmetto St, Bunnell, FL 32110 (pet-friendly, general)

St. John’s County-

Pacetti Bay Middle School, 245 Meadowlark Ln. (Special needs)

Timberlin Creek Elementary School, 555 Pine Tree Ln. (Pet-friendly)

Southwoods Elementary, 4750 State Road 206. (Pet-friendly)

Duval County-

Atlantic Coast High School (Special Needs/Pet Friendly)

Chimney Lakes Elementary School (General Population/Pet Friendly)

Enterprise Elementary (Special Needs)

Landmark Middle School (General Population/Pet Friendly)

Mandarin Middle School (General Population/Pet Friendly)

Oceanway Elementary School (Special Needs)

Nassau County-

Hilliard Middle Senior High (Special medical needs only, Pet-friendly))

Callahan Middle (General population, Pet-friendly)

Osceola County-

Harmony High School (pet-friendly shelter) 3601 Arthur J Gallagher Blvd, St Cloud, FL 34771

First responders and their pets will be housed at Osceola Heritage Park at 1875 Silver Spur Ln, Kissimmee, FL 34744.

Indian River County-

Liberty Magnet School, located at 6580 81 St. in Vero Beach

St Luice County-

Fort Pierce Westwood Academy, located at 1801 Panther Lane in Fort Pierce

Martin County-

Willoughby Learning Center, located at 5150 SE Willoughby Boulevard in Stuart. The facility will accommodate up to 300 residents and their pets.

Palm Beach County-

West Boynton Recreational Center at 6000 Northtree Blvd., Lake Worth. Only available to Palm Beach County residents who reside in a mandatory evacuation zone, mobile home, or in sub-standard housing.

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[mostlycatsmostly]

Pet-Friendly Shelters for Central, Northern, Southern Eastern Florida Counties 🐱🐶♥️

Orange County-

Cypress Creek High School 1101 Bear Crossing Drive Orlando, FL 32824

Discovery Middle School 601 Woodbury Road Orlando, FL 32828

East River High School 654 Columbia School Road Orlando, FL 32833 Pet Friendly

Edgewater High School 3100 Edgewater Drive Orlando, FL 32804

Evans High School 4949 Silver Star Road Orlando, FL 32808

Freedom High School 2500 Taft Vineland Road Orlando, FL 32837 Special Needs, Pet Friendly

Freedom Middle School 2850 W. Taft Vineland Road Orlando, FL 32837

Lake Nona High School 12500 Narcoosee Road Orlando, FL 32832 Pet Friendly

Oak Ridge High School 700 W. Oak Ridge Road Orlando, FL 32809 Pet Friendly

Ocoee High School 1925 Ocoee Crown Point Pkwy Ocoee, FL 34761

University High School 2450 Cougar Way Orlando, FL 32817 Special Needs, Pet Friendly

Volusia County-

Atlantic High School (special needs, pet friendly) — 1250 Reed Canal Road, Port Orange

Creekside Middle School (special needs, pet friendly) — 6801 Airport Road, Port Orange

Freedom Elementary School (special needs, pet friendly) — 1395 S. Blue Lake Ave., DeLand

Galaxy Middle School (special needs, pet friendly), 2400 Eustace Ave., Deltona

Palm Terrace Elementary School (special needs, pet friendly) — 1825 Dunn Ave., Daytona Beach

Pride Elementary School (special needs, pet friendly) — 1100 Learning Lane, Deltona

Hinson Middle School (pet friendly, but housed separately from people) — 1860 N. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach

Pine Ridge High School (pet friendly, but housed separately from people) — 925 Howland Blvd., Deltona

River Springs Middle School (pet friendly, but housed separately from people) — 900 W. Ohio Ave., Orange City

Volusia County Fairgrounds (pet friendly, housed with people together) — 3150 W. State Road 44, DeLand

Flagler County-

Rymfire Elementary, 1425 Rymfire Drive, Palm Coast, FL 32164 (special needs)

Bunnell Elementary, 305 N. Palmetto St, Bunnell, FL 32110 (pet-friendly, general)

St. John’s County-

Pacetti Bay Middle School, 245 Meadowlark Ln. (Special needs)

Timberlin Creek Elementary School, 555 Pine Tree Ln. (Pet-friendly)

Southwoods Elementary, 4750 State Road 206. (Pet-friendly)

Duval County-

Atlantic Coast High School (Special Needs/Pet Friendly)

Chimney Lakes Elementary School (General Population/Pet Friendly)

Enterprise Elementary (Special Needs)

Landmark Middle School (General Population/Pet Friendly)

Mandarin Middle School (General Population/Pet Friendly)

Oceanway Elementary School (Special Needs)

Nassau County-

Hilliard Middle Senior High (Special medical needs only, Pet-friendly))

Callahan Middle (General population, Pet-friendly)

Seminole County-

Lyman High School

865 S Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750

Bentley Elementary School

2190 S Oregon Ave, Sanford, FL 32771

Brevard County-

Port St John Community Center

6650 Corto Road, Port St John

Viera Regional Community Center

2300 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera

Wickham Park Community Center

2815 Leisure Way, Melbourne

Ted Witlock Community Center

1951 Malabar Road, Palm Bay

Indian River County-

Ocseola County-

Harmony High School (pet friendly) — 3601 Arthur J. Gallagher Blvd., St. Cloud

Osceola Heritage Park (first responders and their pets) — 1875 Silver Spur Lane, Kissimmee

St. Lucie County-

Fort Pierce Westwood Academy, located at 1801 Panther Lane in Fort Pierce

Martin County-

Willoughby Learning Center

located at 5150 SE Willoughby Boulevard in Stuart. The facility will accommodate up to 300

Palm Beach County-

West Boynton Recreational Center

6000 Northtree Blvd., Lake Worth

Only available to Palm Beach County residents who reside in a mandatory evacuation zone, mobile home, or in sub-standard housing.

Please Stay Safe Y’all! My County is listed here! Lots of familiar places! ♥️♥️♥️

(submitted by @sharkfinsoups)

[thecollegefootballguy]

The Real Florida Cup

Hey folks, I’ve been thinking about doing another fun hypothetical series during this offseason. I’ll be looking at some of the three-way rivalry games in college football and wondering what the real score is.

The Florida Cup is a rivalry trophy shared by the three P5 rivals in the Sunshine State: Florida, Florida State, and Miami. All three consider each other bitter rivals and despite the on and off nature of the UF-Miami rivalry, it’s a huge deal in the state for recruiting and bragging rights.

The Cup was established in 2002 and unfortunately has been more of an imaginary trophy than a real life event. It is only awarded in the years that all three teams play each other, meaning only when the Gators and Hurricanes clash. So since it’s inception nearly two decades ago, it has only been awarded six times.

But what if that wasn’t the case? What if the Florida Cup was awarded to the best team in the state no matter what, going all the way back to the beginning? Where would the score stand?

I’ll be using the rules of the trophy as much as possible, which are as follows:

1. If a team beats the other two, it is automatically awarded the trophy. This should go without saying.

2. If there is a three-way tie the trophy goes to the team that has allowed the fewest points.

3. If teams play twice in the same season (bowl or ACC Championship Game) and split the series, the combined score is used.

There are more sub-rules here that hammer out all possible occurrences, but I’ll keep it short and only bring them up if necessary. The point is that there will *almost* never be a scenario in which the schools tie and split the trophy.

For our purposes, I’ll be using the inception date of 1958, the first year that Florida, FSU, and Miami all played each other.

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The Early Years: 1958-1975

Florida and Miami were already established football programs by the time that Florida State came on to the scene. The Gators were charter members of the SEC, though they had middling success at best in the conference, having never won the league in its first 26 years of existence, where we pick up the story.

The Hurricanes were one of the two or three dozen independent programs dotting the eastern half of the country. Miami had a bit of success in the early and mid-50′s, but for the most part they were stuck in the middle ground, a rather anonymous program on the far southeastern corner of the country. UF and Miami were each-other's end of season opponents, and their game was really the only consequential rivalry within the state. The rivalry dated back to 1938, and was more or less even 20 years on, with Miami holding an 11-8 advantage.

Florida State began their modern football program in 1947 when an influx of WWII veterans began attending thanks to the GI Bill. The Seminoles began to schedule University Division opponents in the early 50′s, including Miami, who first began playing FSU in 1951. It wasn’t until 1958 that Florida first began to schedule the Noles, and we introduce our hypothetical Florida Cup.

Florida Cup Record Florida: 12 Miami: 5 Florida State: 1

Florida dominated the early years of the three-way rivalry. In the late 50′s and early 60′s the Gators routinely fielded Top 25 caliber teams, though they were never good enough to win the SEC. Under first Bob Woodruff and then Ray Graves, UF attended four Gator Bowls, one Sugar, and an Orange Bowl in this span.

Both Miami and Florida State had small peaks but could never sustain any success. The Hurricanes managed a top 10 finish in 1966 but spent most of the decade toiling in obscurity, regularly losing to both the Gators and the Seminoles, who they still didn’t play every year. College football in the Sunshine State was solid, but never consequential on the national stage. That was about to change.

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The Golden Age (Part I): 1976-1987

After miserable coaching tenures under Larry Jones and Darryl Mudra, Florida State managed to poach West Virginia’s Bobby Bowden away from Morgantown in 1976. Bowden took very little time transforming the Seminoles into a powerful program among the robust eastern independents. FSU made the Tangerine Bowl in 1977 and then two consecutive Orange Bowls following the ‘79-’80 seasons which were paired with two top ten finishes. It’s just a taste of what’s to come as football in the state of Florida suddenly takes off.

Florida had some solid seasons under Doug Dickey in the mid-70′s, but Charley Pell raised the bar a little higher upon coming to Gainesville in 1979. Pell’s Gators still couldn’t compete for SEC titles, but they sure harassed their in-state rivals, who were both on the rise.

Miami had a horrific decade in the 1970′s. Fran Curci, Pete Elliot, Carl Selmer, and Lou Saban all came and went without coaching more than two seasons. By the end of the decade the administration was looking to cancel the football program. Instead, they gave it one last shot and hired Howard Schnellenberger in 1979 (the same year as Pell). Schnellenberger quickly took advantage of the shifting recruiting sands that were making Florida one of the hearts of high school football, and turned underachieving Miami in The U.

The Hurricanes exploded onto the scene as the 70′s gave way to the 80′s. Miami transformed into one of the best programs in the country almost overnight. The Canes won the ‘81 Peach Bowl, finished in the top ten the next season, and beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl to crown themselves national champions for the 1983 season. They were the first team from the state to earn a championship.

Schnellenberger was lured away to coach Florida’s USFL franchise following the victory, but he was replaced by Jimmy Johnson, who guided the Canes to even greater heights. During Johnson’s 5 seasons in Coral Gables, Miami made two Fiesta Bowls, a Sugar Bowl, and two Orange Bowls, and won the national championship again in 1987 with a perfect 12-0 record.

Charley Pell was forced out three games into the 1984 season after incurring massive NCAA violations. He was replaced by Galen Hall, who promptly won Florida’s first ever SEC Championship, though the Gators were ineligible for the postseason due to sanctions. UF then tied for first in the SEC the very next year. Florida wouldn’t reach those same heights again under Hall, but they managed to sneak some more wins away from Miami and FSU.

Florida State may have been the first team in the state to become perennially competent, but Miami was the first to truly “activate” and become a brand new blue blood program. The Noles weren’t far behind. Bowden took FSU to the Gator Bowl in the 1982 season, beginning a bowl streak that would last a record 36 seasons. Florida wasn’t quite there yet in the early 80′s, but they were quickly catching up to their rivals.

Florida Cup Record Florida: 16 Miami: 9 Florida State: 5

National Championships Miami: 2

In the 12 year span between 1976 and 1987, each school won 4 Florida Cups. An astonishing level of parity that you almost never see in college football. Florida was able to win one in ‘76 while FSU and Miami were still down, but managed to upset their superior rivals in the mid-80′s to pull even. The Seminoles’ initial burst of energy from ‘77-’79 under Bowden fell off as the Hurricanes and Gators raised their level of competency. Miami should have won more Cups here, they were certainly the best team overall in this era, but only managed the same four.

The series was so competitive that even the best teams of the age rarely won the Cup. Miami’s 1983 national champions lost the Cup to Florida by head-to-head loss, their only defeat all season. Florida won their first ever SEC title in 1984, but lost the Cup to FSU by a three-way tiebreaker as the Noles only allowed 3 points against Miami.

Unfortunately, football would never be the same in the state of Florida after the 1987 season, when Florida ended their yearly football rivalry with Miami. By the 1980′s the Gators had already begun to prioritize their rivalry with Florida State, moving that game to the end of the season instead of the traditional UF-Miami matchup. Florida would instead play the Canes near the beginning of the season, and after ‘87, not at all. The SEC moved from 6 to 7 conference games, and UF decided they couldn’t play both in-state rivals and chose to keep the Seminoles instead of the Hurricanes on the schedule. Miami fans will always contend that it was sour grapes because the Canes were showing up the state’s flagship university. Either way, the nature of the three-way rivalry changed from here on out.

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The Golden Age (Part II): 1988-1999

With the Florida-Miami rivalry on ice, the hypothetical Florida Cup now runs through Tallahassee, and is determined how each team performs against Florida State.

Miami, of course, began this period on top, having just won the national title in the 1987 season. The Hurricanes would finish 2nd in the country in both 1986 and 1988. After Jimmy Johnson left for the Dallas Cowboys following the ‘88 season, Dennis Erickson took over and promptly won another national championship in 1989. Miami joined the new football sponsoring Big East in 1991 and won their fourth national championship that same year with another perfect record. The Hurricanes finished in the top three every season from 1986 to 1993, an insane streak that has proven near impossible to replicate.

Florida State did it, they were in cruise control under Bowden. After meandering a bit in the middle 1980′s (relative to the other schools), the Seminoles truly “activated” in 1987. FSU became a perennial national title contender for 15 years, an insane streak that has few equals outside of perhaps Tom Osborne’s Nebraska in the 70′s and 80′s. The Noles finished in the top 5 every season from 1987 to 2000, an astonishing feat that has never been approached by any other program.

FSU joined the ACC in 1992 and immediately began to terrorize that basketball conference. They didn’t lose a league game for their first three and a half years and wouldn’t lose two in one season for their first ten years in the league. The Seminoles won their first national championship in 1993 and a second after the 2000 Sugar Bowl and an undefeated 12-0 campaign. Florida State earned berths in major New Year’s Bowls every year from 1991 to 2000. The 90′s Noles were by far the most consistent winners of any of the Florida teams at any point.

Galen Hall was forced to resign 5 games through the 1989 season. His permanent replacement would end up being Steve Spurrier, who had just won the ACC as Duke’s head coach, which is the equivalent to a national championship as far as I’m concerned. Spurrier’s innovative Fun ‘n Gun offense revolutionized football in the SEC and immediately brought Florida to the forefront of the conference. The Gators won the league in 1991, the last year before divisions, and then won the SEC East in ‘92 once the divisions were established. After losing the SEC title game to national champion Alabama in 1992, UF would go on to win the next four SEC championships.

Florida was the last of the three major programs in the state to truly “activate” and become a true blue blood, but they definitely made up for lost time. The Gators lost to Nebraska in the 1996 title game, but won the next year to earn their first national championship in program history with a perfect 12-0 record. After temporarily ceding the East to Tennessee in 1997 and 1998, Florida roared back to win the division in 1999 and 2000. UF finished in the top ten every year from 1991 to 1998.

Dennis Erickson left Miami after the 1994 season, perhaps seeing that the program was about to get hit hard by the NCAA. The U had flown a bit too close to the sun and were getting the hammer laid on them. The program were stuck in the doldrums for the rest of the decade as Butch Davis slowly tried to cobble together another competent team.

Florida Cup Record Florida: 20 Miami: 13 Florida State: 9

National Championships Miami: 4 Florida State: 2 Florida: 1

Football in the Sunshine State was never better. Florida, Florida State, and Miami all won national titles in a six year span, and the latter two both won multiple championships from ‘88 to ‘99. The center of the college football universe lay squarely within the great State of Florida.

Once again, Florida’s three major programs all managed to win four Florida Cups in the 12 year span. Miami did their damage early, as their success fell off with the departure of Erickson following the 1994 season. The Hurricanes, the first of the three schools to “activate,” was also the first of the three to fall off. Florida’s success in this decade centered around the mid-90′s, the height of Spurrier’s tenure. It’s a shame that Florida State didn’t win more than four Cups, given their insane top five consistency.

Much like the 80′s, the 90′s Florida rivalries featured legendary events that will go down as some of the most iconic games and plays in college football history.

The U won their third national championship in the 1989 season with an 11-1 record, but their one loss was to FSU, who won the Cup as a result. Miami then won their 1991 Championship thanks to a 17-16 win over Florida State, a game that would go down in history by the name Wide Right. Despite this, Florida managed to win the Cup that year by only allowing the Noles 9 points. Yes, in three of Miami’s first four national championships, they didn’t win the Florida Cup. Florida State won their first ACC Championship in 1992, but couldn’t win the Florida Cup thanks to the soul crushing Wide Right II. 

In 1994, Florida and Florida State played two games in a row. The Gators blew a 31-3 lead in Tallahassee, forever after known as the Choke at Doak, and ended up tying 31-31. The Gators and Seminoles were then pitted against each other in the Sugar Bowl, where FSU prevailed 23-17, outscoring their rivals 51-17 in the final five quarters of those combined games in a bitter reversal for UF dubbed the Firth Quarter in the French Quarter. Oh well, Miami won the Florida Cup with an easy 34-20 victory over the Noles back in October.

By the second half of the 90′s, the Florida-FSU game took center stage as Miami began to slide off the national stage.

In 1996, the Gators and Seminoles played another series of back to back games, this time to decide the national championship. #1 undefeated Florida came to Tallahassee and lost 21-24 to the #2 Noles. However, the Gators only fell to 2nd in the polls, and the two were once again matched up in the Sugar Bowl by the Bowl Alliance. This time, UF crushed FSU 52-20 to claim their first national championship.

In 1997, Florida came back against Florida State to win 32-29 in the Greatest Game Played in the Swamp, costing the Noles another shot at the national title. The next year, after another pre-game brawl, FSU pulled away 23-12 to secure the win in a top 5 matchup.

It’s such a bummer that Miami and Florida didn’t play during this time. I mean, could you even imagine what craziness could have happened if all three schools were facing off at this point? It’s such a goddamn shame.

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Twin Peaks (2000-2009)

The 2000′s were dominated by two teams in two different shifts. The first two years of the decade continued much the same as the 90′s, but Florida State and Florida both entered periods of decline in the early 2000′s. The Seminoles began to fall off after the 2000 season and the Gators immediately dropped like a rock after Spurrier left for the NFL after 2001. Miami, however, would get their second wind.

After bottoming out in the 1997 season, the first losing record any of the three Florida schools had suffered since the 1979 season, the Hurricanes built themselves back under the steady hand of Butch Davis. In 2000, after losing on the road to Washington in the second week of September, the Canes roared to life an annihilated every other team they played. They were kept from the BCS title game but ended up finishing 3rd after FSU lost to Oklahoma in the Championship Game. Many think Miami, who obviously beat Florida State (Wide Right III), should have gotten the chance to play for the title instead.

Davis ended up leaving for the pros, continuing a depressing trend going back to Schnellenberger. Larry Coker inherited Davis’ war machine, and set it into cruise control. 2001 Miami needs no introduction, and is considered by many to be the best college football team of all time, certainly if you consider the NFL talent on the roster. The U Part II demolished all comers en route to an undefeated campaign with an easy win over Nebraska in the Rose Bowl to earn their fifth national championship.

Coker’s Canes lost next year’s national title game in heartbreaking and controversial fashion to Ohio State, meaning that Miami very easily could have easily won the 2000 and 2002 titles if things had broken slightly differently. The Hurricanes won the Big East again in 2003 but lost two consecutive games in the regular season and couldn’t play for another title. After moving to the ACC in 2004, Miami started to slowly (and then quickly) fall off. Coker was fired after going 7-6 in 2006 and for the most part they’ve never been the same.

Steve Spurrier left for the NFL in 2001 the same time as Butch Davis, but his replacement crashed the war machine very quickly. Ron Zook’s three years in Gainesville were a disappointment to say the least. The Gators never finished better than 8-5, and this was on the heels of their best years in program history. Zook was fired after the 2004 season and replaced by Urban Meyer, who had just come off an undefeated season at Utah.

Meyer took almost no time turning Florida back into a national power. The Gators went 9-3 in 2005 and stormed back to a national championship in 2006. Meyer reinvigorated UF’s offense on the back of Tim Tebow, and Florida became a fixture in the second half of the 2000′s the same way Miami was a fixture of the first half of the decade.

Florida took a year off in 2007 but roared back to another national championship in 2008 with another 13-1 record. The Gators went 13-1 in 2009 as well, but lost the SEC Championship Game to Alabama and blew their chance to repeat. Meyer’s tenure ended after a frustrating 2010 season, but his success in the 2000′s brought Florida, without question, up to the level of Miami and Florida State.

Miami and Florida were both snake-bitten by coaches leaving for the NFL in the early 2000′s. Butch Davis built the Canes back to the tip top of the football universe, and Larry Coker was good enough to sustain for a while, but not forever. Zook was a bust replacing Spurrier, but Meyer was able to reinvigorate the program and even outdo the Head Ball Coach in some respects. Bobby Bowden had plenty of chances to leave Tallahassee after his wild successes in the 80′s and 90′s. Perhaps he should have.

Florida State spent the 2000′s in limbo. They weren’t really ever bad. Just not relevant. The Seminoles won the ACC three times from 2002 to 2005, but never finished higher than 10-3 or 10th in the polls. The second half of the decade was even worse. FSU, the most consistent winning program in all of college football in the 80′s and 90′s, was now just mediocre. Bowden retired after the 2009 season as one of the most successful coaches in football history, and he also went 7-6 in three of his final four campaigns with many considering the dynasty over.

Florida Cup Record Florida: 26 Miami: 17 Florida State: 9

National Championships Miami: 5 Florida: 3 Florida State: 2

Miami and Florida traded off domination of the 2000′s. The Hurricanes owned the first half and the Gators easily held the second.

The first half of the decade was notable not just for the return of the Canes to the national stage, but the return of the Miami-Florida rivalry. After the 2000 season, Big East Champion #3 Miami was pitted against SEC Champion #7 Florida in the Sugar Bowl. It was their first meeting since the series cancellation in 1987 and was preceded by a verbal and then physical altercation on the streets of New Orleans. The Canes, well on their way to their 2001 peak, handily won the game on the field 37-20.

Florida and Miami didn’t play in 2001, and it cost the Canes the Florida Cup. The U’s undefeated season included a 49-27 demolition of Florida State, but they allowed more points to the Noles than Florida, who won 37-13. By the rules of the Florida Cup, the Gators, who were in their own right an amazing team that finished #3 by the way, once again deny Miami a Cup. The Canes only won the Florida Cup once time during their 5 national championship seasons. There’s some kind of cosmic wackiness in play there.

The Florida-Miami series resumed in the regular season at the wrong time. Coker’s well-oiled machine took apart Zook’s Gators in 2002 and 2003. The next year two old rivals were would once again face off in a Peach Bowl appearance, with the Canes winning handily. UF and the U, if you can call it that in 2008, played the first half of a home and home in Gainsville. Florida won easily en route to their title.

The Gator’s five consecutive wins from 2005 to 2009 are the most by any team since before Bowden. If the Florida-Miami rivalry continued in the late 2000′s, it would have gone the same way as the Florida-Florida State rivalry. The Gators would have dominated.

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The Revenge of Florida State (2010-2019)

Following the Miami period of dominance in the early 2000′s and Florida’s dominance in the late 2000′s, the wheel turned over and Florida State roared back to life in the 2010′s.

Following Bobby Bowden’s retirement in 2009, Jimbo Fisher replaced the legend and completely revitalized the team. In Fisher’s first season in 2010, the Seminoles won the ACC Atlantic, and from 2012 to 2014 they reeled off three straight conference titles. FSU won the Orange Bowl in 2012 and then won the national championship for the 2013 season with a perfect 14-0 record. The Noles coasted through an easy schedule in 2014 before losing in the inaugural College Football Playoff semifinals. Florida State did nearly as well in 2015 and 2016, but were blocked from winning the ACC and making the Playoff by a rising Clemson.

Coinciding with FSU’s revival, was a dry spell for the other two powers. After Coker’s firing in 2006, Randy Shannon guided the Hurricanes through four unsuccessful seasons before getting replaced by Al Golden in 2011, who then led the Canes through four and a half unsuccessful seasons.

Urban Meyer was replaced in 2011 by Will Muschamp, who reoriented Florida to a defense-first team as opposed to the offense-based Spurrier/Meyer squads. Outside of a rather successful 2012 season where the formula actually worked, Florida began to severely fall off in the 2010′s before Muschamp was dumped towards the end of 2014.

The late 2010′s have been rather disappointing for all three programs. Will Muschamp was replaced by Jim McElwain in 2015, who won two consecutive SEC East divisions, but were never national contenders. McElwain was canned in 2017 after a crap year. Dan Mullen seems to be doing well, but Florida remains behind Georgia in the East.

Al Golden’s embarrassing ouster in 2015 led to Mark Richt returning home to Coral Gables. Richt was good for a little magic in 2017, which saw the Canes snap their longest ever losing streak to Florida State, but otherwise his three year tenure did little other than confirm that Miami wasn’t dead.

Jimbo Fisher’s incredible implosion at Florida State took everybody by surprise. The Seminoles collapsed seemingly for no reason other than willful negligence by Fisher, who bailed before 2017 was over. Willie Taggart came in, talked a big game, and was fired perhaps a bit too early for not fixing things immediately.

Florida Cup Record Florida: 29 Miami: 18 Florida State: 15

National Championships Miami: 5 Florida: 3 Florida State: 3

Florida State evened the score with Florida in the 2010′s, pulling even with their rivals with 3 national titles. The Noles dominated the first half of the decade while both other schools were down. The second half has been a mixed bag as really none of the three schools have been nationally competitive.

UCF claimed a national championship in 2017, demanding their own share of the spotlight and the right to be taken as seriously as the other three top flight programs in the state. The Knights’ success in the last 10 years is a reflection on the state of the P5 programs in the 2010′s. Central Florida would never have been close to undefeated if Florida, Florida State, and Miami were all taking care of business in recruiting and development, but that’s not they world we’re living in currently.

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I’ll be interested to see where things go from here. Florida seems to be in the best position to succeed in absolute terms. Dan Mullen is a fine coach and is already doing great work in Gainesville, albeit behind a more advanced Georgia program. Florida State is breaking in a new coach in Mike Norvell and Manny Diaz’s first season at Miami wasn’t particularly inspiring. It remains to be seen if FSU and the U can rebound to reclaim their past glory. Both have institutional issues which may prevent them from seriously sustaining success at the highest level which Florida doesn’t have.

And then there’s UCF, who can continue to build and win in a much easier AAC East division. If Central Florida can throw their hat in the ring and jump to a P5 conference we might see our first real shift in the balance of power in the state of Florida since FSU became a major football player when this whole story started.

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Postscript: 1938-1958 and extras

If any of you are curious what the entire series looks like going back to the inception of all 3 rivalries, here you go:

Florida Cup Record Florida: 37 Miami: 29 Florida State: 15

Miami actually outperformed Florida in the early part of the rivalry 11-8, but it’s not enough to make up the ground between the schools. Obviously this isn’t really fair to Florida State, who weren’t around for the first ten years of this era and weren’t that good in the second.

Since Bowden (1976) Florida: 17 Florida State: 15 Miami: 13

Since Bobby Bowden was hired by Florida State, more or less kicking off the first of the builds that would see all three programs become national powers, Florida has still won the most Florida Cups. Te score is relatively even and only separated by 4 wins between all three.

Since Schnellenberger (1979) Florida: 16 Miami: 13 Florida State: 12

Since the hiring of Howard Schnellenberger, Florida still leads the pack with 16 wins, but Miami is now a bit closer and Florida State is right behind. The schools are still only separated by 4 wins. And remember, Miami somehow lost 4 Florida Cups in 4 of their 5 national championship seasons, which certainly would sway the standings in their favor at this point.

Since Spurrier (1990) Florida: 13 Florida State: 9 Miami: 8

Florida still leads since Spurrier’s hiring, and the gap slightly increases to 5 games between the first place Gators and the last place Canes.

Restoring Championships Florida: 26 Miami: 22 Florida State: 14

From 1958 onward, if you were to override the Cup rules and give the title to the winner of the National Title by default, thereby giving Miami 4 more titles at the expense of 3 from Florida and 1 from FSU, well, Florida still wins. Sorry Miami, it’s rigged against you I guess.

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It was truly a golden age of football in the state of Florida in the 1980′s and 1990′s. No state has dominated the sport quite like Florida in that span unless you go back to like the 1800′s when Yale won every year. College football may as well have been the three teams in the state, and one other challenger every year, maybe Nebraska more often than not.

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Thank you so much for reading. I’ll be putting out a few more of these series on three-way rivalries so if you’re interested keep an eye out.

-cfbguy

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❊ ◜ORLANDO.// demographics

population //. 2.57 million median age //. 37.3 years median household income //. 59k languages spoken //. english, spanish, haitian creole, portugese popular occupations //. administrative/office, sales, management, business/finance, education, healthcare most popular industries //. tourism , hospitality , food service , health care , retail , arts and entertainment commute time //. 30 minutes

the greater orlando area spans a total of 4,012 square miles which makes it the third largest metropolitan area in florida and the seventh largest metropolitan area in the southeastern united states. with a population of 2.57 million people , orlando offers a diverse community where residents speak a number of languages and come from a number of different places around the world. 21% of the population was born someplace outside the united states, while only 45% of the population was born in florida (and less were born specifically in orlando). while many think of florida and think of the beautiful beaches, orlando is nestled into beautifully flat central florida and there is not a beach nearby. that is, unless you count typhoon lagoon or volcano bay. to get to the nearest beach, you must travel either an hour eastward to cocoa beach utilizing the 528 east, or an hour and forty-five minutes westward to clearwater beach utilizing I-4 west, fifty five minutes eastward to daytona beach utilizing I-4 east, or an hour eastward to new smyrna beach utilizing I-4 east. don't let the lack of a nearby beach disappoint you, however, because approximately forty percent of florida homes have a swimming pool ... and pool cultural is essentially a florida way of life (even though floridians bitch about cleaning the pool like it's their job). it is no secret that tourism is orlando's most powerful industry, with orlando being home to the walt disney world resort, and the universal orlando resort. there is also seaworld parks and entertainment, not to be forgotten ... and the fun spot with honorable mention. walt disney world resort employs approximately 70,000 cast members with universal orlando resort employing significantly less people at around 23,000 team members. as of 2019 it was reported that orlando had approximately 144,125 hotel rooms spread between 450 hotels and resorts. orlando boasts the second highest number of hotel rooms in the world. orlando has both the orlando international airport (MCO) and the sanford international airport (SFB) to shuttle people in and out of florida to destinations all across the united states, and the world. there are parts of orlando that give off that distinctly college town vibe, which makes sense considering there are five major institutions of higher education within the greater orlando area. they include: the university of central florida, valencia college, rollins college, seminole state college of florida, and full sail university. the cost of living in central florida is astronomically high, so a large percentage of orlando residents (40%, actually) report living in an apartment with one or more roommates. it is a constant competition in orlando to build the biggest, most luxurious apartment complex so that you can tack the words "luxury" or "resort style living" onto your community to lure people in. for those that don't live in an apartment, the greater orlando area does feature sprawling suburban areas with luxury gated neighborhoods, neatly pruned lawns, and continued attempts to truly be the most decadent and ostentatious. don't believe me? real estate search winderemere. there are a great many ways to entertain oneself in orlando. if the theme parks and the questionableness of international drive and 192 don't do it for you, you have two malls to entertain your time. the florida mall is located in the southern part of orlando, featuring your commonly recognized brand names such as hot topic, spencers, and one of the only remaining build a bears. for the more wealthy, there is the mall of millenia where the poorer residents can window shop at stores like kate spade, gucci, and burberry. you'll find a great many walmarts throughout orlando, but they are usually crammed full of tourists and orlando residents tend to avoid these places like the plague. essentially every walmart in orlando has a shrine to our lord and savior mickey mouse at the front of the store, where tourists can purchase discounted disney merchandise on the off chance they forgot to spend $25 on mickey ears for their great aunt susan. the millenials and college age students are most likely to spend all of their money at target, and there are dozens of them throughout orlando for you to squander your entire paycheck in the bullseye's discounts section. you'll find your whole foods and your trader joes for those who are health nuts, but there is no denying that the shining gem of orlando shopping ... is publix. it's a grocery store with locations dotting every few blocks, with familiar employees donning mint green vests every day to fuel orlando residents with the gloriousness that is chicken tender pub subs. can an employee at walmart tell you where you can find chilis in adobo sauce? probably not. but a team member at publix can. it's aisle three, mid aisle, second shelf. orlando has a large arts community, and an equally as big and active lgbtq+ community making orlando a truly diverse place to live. if you want to get out of orlando? never fear, it's only an hour and a halfs drive from orlando to tampa, and three and a half hours drive from orlando to miami. but perhaps the best part about living in orlando? the legend, the myth, the millers ale house zinger mountain melt. fuel for cast members and broke college students at the low, low cost of $13.99. so what are you waiting for? move to orlando, adopt a pet alligator, get a disney annual pass, and watch out for florida man ... he bites.

[apris1992]

So someone said Meg Thee Stallion ain’t black b/c she said she was Creole in a song and it sparked an argument of whether or not Creole folk are black (last night on twitter).......

This is ridiculous. Creole is a heritage, culture, and a sub-ethnic group under the Black American/African American/Afro-American ethnicity. My gosh.

Creoles are black they just have a very specific culture/history. Gullah-Geechee are black but they have a very specific culture/history. Black Seminoles are black but they have a very specific culture/history. Chereokee Freedman are black but they have a very specific culture/history. Etc.

Folks did the same thing when Bey mentioned she was Creole in Formation.

Yes Creole history, which I'm not gonna go in depth with b/c it’s not my culture, is rocky. Yes colorism is a problem. Yes people think all Creole people are light skinned, with thin facial features, and loose curly hair. Yes some Creole people may use the term to exotify themselves, and yes some older Creoles deny their blackness (are the younger people even denying their blackness now in days? From social media it seems light skinned Creoles claim their blackness). 

With all of that being said they are negroes! This is what happens when you don’t know the diversity of Afro-Americans.

[watercolorjen]

 Sorrisi-Italian Restaurant

I believe this Italian restaurant, found within the Coconut Creek Seminole Casino, is fairly new. I went to order a couple of Italian subs about a month ago and discovered that it isn’t open very often. Hours  Thursday & SundayNoon – 8PM Friday & SaturdayNoon – 10PM I find the limited hours of operation puzzling. I usually go to the casino on Mondays to play. Even on a weekday in off-season,…

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My point is native american lineage is way more complicated than "all members of ______ did this"

Because the reality is that they were divided into more factions and side groups than the white naming of the tribes suggests.

Far less of these factions owned slaves, it's 5 factions out of 500 (federally recognized tribes). I have muskogee on my mom's side and seminole on my dad's side; the specific factions (sub groups) my ancestors belonged to had night and day stances on slavery.

My mom has two lines of creek; both from her paternal grandfather: his mother (her great grandma whose father was owned by a creek) and his biological father. Those two factions had different ideas about slavery as well; the guy who owned her great grandmother's father made him fight for the confederacy but the owner of the man her great grandma married fought for the union; from contemporary accounts they did not live like slaves and he even drove a steam boat.

It's complicated.

There were so many black Seminole, they created a township where everyone had the same surname but most people were not related.

Much was done after statehood to make sure we were never joined with native americans again. We were played against each other. One politician remarked that black natives were getting monies from cashing in allotted land (this is how black wall street was built) and it needed to be stopped. There was sizeable population of mixed race members and it bothered white people that they could pass for white while being neither.

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New York Mets Star Francisco Lindor Scores a Super Florida Mansion

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The New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor has picked up an offseason retreat in the Sunshine State for $2.9 million. The waterfront mansion in Montverde, FL, was on the market for $3.2 million before Lindor swooped in with an offer in early February. And given the size of his latest contract, it won’t be his final purchase in Florida.

Built in 2017, the construction features details like stonework, beams, rustic shutters, and antique pavers.

The 1-acre lot features a casita and open-air courtyard with a fountain, leading to the front door. Inside the 6,500-square-foot layout, guests enter into a large great room with a fireplace.

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The adjacent kitchen serves up 12-foot ceilings, granite counters, plus Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances. A casual eating area adjoins the kitchen. The indoor living and dining spaces have east access to the outdoor living area and pool. Designed for entertaining, the home also features formal living and dining rooms.

Along with five bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms, the master suite features a separate exercise room, sitting area, and a master bathroom with an oversized shower, soaker tub, and double vanities.

Outdoors, the living area comes with a summer kitchen and a large covered lanai, as well as a pool and spa with water views.

The residence in Central Florida also includes an office, bar with wine storage, a laundry room with pet wash, and a four-car garage. Located right on Lake Apopka, it sits in a guard-gated golf community. A putting green can be found for practice in the home’s backyard.

Born in Puerto Rico, the four-time All-Star started his baseball journey at a young age and moved to Central Florida at the age of 12. He has ties to this area just outside Orlando, having attended Montverde Academy during his high school years, and the school’s baseball facility is named after him.

He then turned down a full-ride scholarship with the Florida State Seminoles to sign with Cleveland at the age of 18. After starring with Cleveland for six seasons, he was traded to the Mets in January.

Now 27, the two-time Gold Glove winner signed a $341-million, 10-year contract extension with the Mets earlier this month. His new Florida home is about two hours north of the Mets’ spring training facility in Port St. Lucie, FL—which means the shortstop is likely to pick up another home closer to the team’s offseason HQ.

Bella Collina Real Estate represented the seller. Angela Jaspon with Home Wise Realty Group repped the buyer.

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Bracketology 2020: Kansas is the new No. 1 overall team

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The bracket’s top line isn’t as different as expected after yet another wild weekend. The bubble, on the other hand, is a completely different story.

Remember how just last week I wrote that the 2020 NCAA tournament’s seed line had become stable and, dare I say, boring?

That changed on Saturday when all four No. 1 seeds took the floor, with the Kansas Jayhawks handling the Baylor Bears in Waco in an early tip, then the San Diego State Aztecs losing at home to the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels — a team ranked outside of the NET top 100 — with the BYU Cougars dominant home victory over the Gonzaga Bulldogs closing out a wild 12 hours of basketball.

Yet despite those losses, the quartet on the top line of this projection remains the same. Sure, Kansas and Baylor swapped places, with the Jayhawks now No. 1 overall. But Gonzaga continues to sit third and San Diego State fourth. Sunday offered an opportunity for the Maryland Terrapins to rise up and knock the Aztecs down to seed line No. 2, but the Big Ten leader saw its nine-game win streak end at Ohio State.

What about elevating the Dayton Flyers, the current top No. 2 seed, to the top line? Their dramatic overtime losses to Kansas and Colorado in non-conference play mean their profile doesn’t include a marquee victory. In fact, the Flyers’ two best wins, over Saint Mary’s and Rhode Island, are over teams seeded ninth and 11th in this projection. Conversely, San Diego State has three top-30 victories, all away from home. And with body of work being more important to the Selection Committee than a single, ill-timed loss, the Mountain West leaders remain a No. 1.

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Florida State pulled away from Louisville in Monday night’s second half in Tallahassee.

Two current ACC squads, the Duke Blue Devils and Florida State Seminoles, and a former one, Maryland, sit behind Dayton on seed line No. 2. On Monday night, the Seminoles took control of the race for the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament by completing a handy season sweep of the Louisville Cardinals, and Leonard Hamilton’s team must be considered a real threat to jump to the top line when all is said and done. But that might not happen until Greensboro. Sure, Florida State still has two Quad 1 road opportunities left on its schedule, at Clemson and Notre Dame, but neither of those teams is what you’d call a marquee opponent.

With the loss, Louisville drops to the three line, trailing a trio of teams from its former conference, the Big East. The Creighton Bluejays, one of the hottest teams in the country, ranks just above the Seton Hall Pirates — currently leading the Jays by one game — and the Villanova Wildcats, who are a game and a half out of first.

The concept of “body of work” again becomes relevant as we reach the four line, as three of the four teams present lost in the past week. The exception: the top No. 4, the Kentucky Wildcats, who sit two games up in the SEC race after six consecutive wins. However, the Oregon Ducks lost at Arizona State, the new Pac-12 leader, before winning a second consecutive overtime decision over the Arizona Wildcats; the Penn State Nittany Lions fell twice; and Colorado followed up a Thursday victory over USC by being swept by a UCLA squad that’s inexplicably back in the at-large race.

Penn State is probably the most controversial choice here, but the Nittany Lions’ 7-5 record in Quad 1 games and five top-30 victories give them the edge when compared to the teams on seed line No. 5. By the way, that group includes a former three seed, the West Virginia Mountaineers, whose Big Monday loss at Texas was their fifth in their last six outings. Note that Shaka Smart’s team is also back in the bubble picture, even though the Longhorns don’t yet appear among today’s “first eight out” group.

But Texas could find itself in that group on Friday, as the margins near the cut line are still remarkably narrow, as I’ll discuss after today’s full bracket and rundown.

Today’s full seed list

1. Midwest Region (Indianapolis)

Omaha, Nebraska (Fri./Sun.)

1. Kansas (Big 12) vs. *16. Saint Peter’s (MAAC)/North Carolina A&T (MEAC) 8. Houston vs. 9. Saint Mary’s

Sacramento, California (Fri./Sun.)

↑5. Iowa vs. *12. Liberty (ASUN) ↑4. Colorado vs. 13. Stephen F. Austin (Southland)

St. Louis, Missouri (Thu./Sat.)

↑6. BYU vs. **11. NC State/Arkansas ↑3. Creighton vs. ↓14. UC Irvine (Big West)

Greensboro, North Carolina (Fri./Sun.)

↑7. Texas Tech vs. *10. Indiana 2. Duke vs. 15. Little Rock (Sun Belt)

4. East Region (New York)

Sacramento (Fri./Sun.)

1. San Diego State (MW) vs. ↓16. Austin Peay (OVC) ↓8. LSU vs. ↓9. Xavier

Omaha (Fri./Sun.)

↑5. Arizona vs. ↓12. Cincinnati (American) 4. Penn State vs. ↓13. Vermont (Amer. East)

Albany, New York (Thu./Sat.)

6. Ohio State vs. ↓11. Rhode Island 3. Seton Hall (Big East) vs. 14. Hofstra (CAA)

Cleveland, Ohio (Fri./Sun.)

↓7. Marquette vs. ↑10. Virginia 2. Dayton (A 10) vs. ↓15. Wright State (Horizon)

2. South Region (Houston)

St. Louis (Thu./Sat.)

1. Baylor vs. *16. St. Francis (Pa.) (NEC)/Prairie View A&M (SWAC) ↑8. Arizona State (Pac-12) vs. ↓9. Rutgers

Tampa, Florida (Thu./Sat.)

5. Michigan State vs. 12. Northern Iowa (MVC) ↑4. Kentucky (SEC) vs. *13. Akron (MAC)

Cleveland (Fri./Sun.)

↑6. Michigan vs. ↓*11. Wichita State/Stanford 3. Louisville vs. ↓14. New Mexico State (WAC)

Greensboro (Fri./Sun.)

↓7. Butler vs. *10. Utah State 2. Maryland (Big Ten) vs. ↑15. Montana (Big Sky)

3. West Region (Los Angeles)

Spokane, Washington (Thu./Sat.)

1. Gonzaga (WCC) vs. *16. Radford (Big South) 8. Illinois vs. 9. Florida

Spokane (Thu./Sat.)

↓5.West Virginia vs. 12. Yale (Ivy) 4. Oregon vs. 13. North Texas (C-USA)

Albany (Thu./Sat.)

↓6. Auburn vs. ↑11. ETSU (SoCon) 3. Villanova vs. ↑14. South Dakota State (Summit)

Tampa (Thu./Sat.)

7. Wisconsin vs. *10. Providence 2. Florida State (ACC) vs. ↓15. Colgate (Patriot)

Rundown

Bids by conference: 10 Big Ten, 7 Big East, 5 Pac-12, 5 ACC, 5 Big 12, 5 SEC, 3 AAC, 3 WCC, 2 A 10, 2 MW, 22 one-bid conferences

Last four byes: Virginia, Utah State, Providence, Rhode Island Last four in: Wichita State, Stanford, NC State, Arkansas First four out: Alabama, Oklahoma, UCLA, Richmond Next four out: Mississippi State, USC, Memphis, Georgetown

Lowest-ranked NET at-large: NC State (53) Highest-ranked NET exclusion: Purdue (36)

New today (11/68): Akron, Arkansas, Indiana, Liberty, NC State, North Carolina A&T, Providence, Radford, St. Francis (Pa.), Stanford, Utah State Leaving today: Bowling Green, Furman, Georgetown, Norfolk State, North Florida, Oklahoma, Purdue, Richmond, Robert Morris, USC, Winthrop

Bubble, bubble toil and trouble

This Tuesday’s projection features a whopping six new at-large teams, which is a remarkable amount of churn this late in the season.

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Providence has been dunking on Big East teams recently, as the Friars have won five of their last seven.

The Providence Friars completed a season sweep of the Georgetown Hoyas Wednesday, then took care of the Marquette Golden Eagles Saturday. Despite four sub-100 losses, Ed Cooley’s team is still safely into the field as a 10 seed, thanks in no small part to seven Quad 1 victories. As for the Hoyas, they followed the Providence loss by becoming the DePaul Blue Demons‘ first victim in over a month. So, they’re now the eighth team out.

The Indiana Hoosiers, victorious over Minnesota and Penn State in the last week, and Utah State Aggies, winners of five in a row, also sit on seed line No. 10. The Hoosiers replace their in-state rivals, the Purdue Boilermakers, who now sit at .500 and are therefore not eligible for consideration, while the Aggies take over for the sliding Oklahoma Sooners, losers of three straight.

The three remaining newcomers are all in First Four range. The Stanford Cardinal’s road sweep of the Washington teams puts them in, with the USC squad that was swept out of the Rockies sliding out. Meanwhile, the NC State Wolfpack enter thanks to their midweek home win over Duke, with Saturday’s loss to Florida State only costing them some seed positioning. They replace a Richmond club that lost to the St. Bonaventure Bonnies on Saturday. Finally, the Arkansas Razorbacks got Isaiah Joe back Saturday and they promptly knocked off Missouri after going 0-5 without him. That pushes the Hogs in at the expense of the first team out, an Alabama Crimson Tide squad Arkansas defeated in Tuscaloosa.

The Razorbacks were able to enter the field because the Furman Paladins fell to the East Tennessee State Buccaneers on Wednesday. That result gave the Bucs the Southern Conference’s auto bid, opening up an at-large spot.

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Don’t look now, but UCLA currently sits in a three-way tie for second in the Pac-12.

While seven of the eight names in the “first four out” and “next four out” groups have been around for most of the season, UCLA is making its first appearance of the season, another testament to how close the margins are in the bubble picture and how quickly things can change. While the Bruins’ NET ranking of 76 is a little low for selection and their other advanced metrics also lag — ranging from 60th in Sagarin to 100th in ESPN’s BPI — they’re racking up an impressive collection of quality wins in an improved Pac-12. Mick Cronin’s squad is currently 5-5 in Quad 1 games, with a season sweep of Colorado and road win at Arizona. Three sub-100 losses hurt, as does a defeat to 96th-ranked North Carolina, but the Bruins close with three games in Los Angeles against at-large candidates. Those contests mean UCLA will have a lot to say when it comes to determining the Pac-12 tournament’s top seed.

I’ll be back on Friday with a big bubble update for the penultimate weekend of the regular season. In the meantime, you can check out my nightly TV previews on Blogging the Bracket and listen to my bracketology interviews on the College Basketball Coast to Coast podcast and SB Nation Radio’s Pushing the Odds with Matt Perrault.