as I had no idea where to begin. I’m finishing up grad school at FSU (moving in 2 weeks from Tally) and have only been here in the "dark years’ 2006 – 2010 of football. I was never a football fan (except the round ball) and due to the demands of grad school couldn’t attend many games (went to maybe 2-3 games total in the 4 years here).

My undergrad/graduate degrees were at a college where sports sucked (FSU beat them up as a cupcake game few years back) and I was always curious what the big deal about the raging college fan(atics) I saw on tv. Somewhere along the way (ok lots of times when I was supposed to be doing a lit review) I found a variety of seminole sites and tomahawknation served to reel me in.

Ever since then, I’ve been a Seminole fan (of any sport I can find). I look forward to going back out into the world as a proud Nole!

I was born in Tallahassee. Grew up rooting for the ‘Noles and hating the yokels who rooted for UF and the thug trash who rooted for Miami. No real moment of "Hey, I’m gonna root for FSU" to be found. It’s in the blood. Got my degrees from FSU, as did my wife, and we’ve been trying to get back and live in Tallahassee ever since.

(I think we may have finally succeeded on that. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be taking a new job with the state government at the end of this month.)

Everyone in my family that likes college football are Alabama and Auburn fans (my dad’s entire family is from Alabama) except: me and my cousin are FSU fans and my little brother was an FSU fan but is now attending UF and is a gator (his a bit of a bandwagoner though).

When I was little, I was always rooted for FSU, no real reason that I can remember. I do remember sneaking out of bed to watch the end of the ’93 championship game (I was 7). I snuck out to the kitchen and hid under the table while my dad was watching in the den. When Bentley made the field goal to take the lead, I cheered and was busted. But my dad was surprisingly ok with me being up and let me finish watching the game with him on the couch. My dad starting rooting for FSU that day because I did.

I guess one of the reasons I started rooting for FSU was because my grandmother told me, when I was young, that I was part Native American, and the family’s best guess was Seminole or Creek. (My great, great-grandfather married a woman in the tribe and they lived somewhere in the Panhandle, that’s the reason for the guesses.) I prefer to claim Seminole, but have to real basis for one or the other because there are no family records. Another reason, the legend that is Thad Busby from my hometown of Pace went to FSU and about 3/4 of the guys in my class grew up rooting for FSU because of him.

My dad went to FSU during the early 70s, he was there for the defeated season under QB Billy Sexton. I remember a little of the eighties, Deion is my favorite player and always will be. Although I remember games from the eighties early nineties, my first real season was 93…. I remember that before the Miami game Derrick Brooks had outscored all 5 teams FSU had faced 30-7 or something like that… Clinfton Abraham comment about the North Carolinian’s calling their game with FSU “The Game of The Century” and his reply was “this is the fourth game of the century I’ve been in” The heartbreaking loss to ND… The shutouts… Dominating the ACC, I cried when we lost to Virginia in 95 and pretty much every loss b4 that… I was at the game in 93 against Wake when Charlie was injured… Most silent stadium ever… This team will always hold a special place for me… I was there in 96 for 24-21 win over the gators.. Miami tradtionally falls on my birthday in October, My mom would occasionally asked me what i wanted but she stopped around my 12 birthday because my reply was always, “A win”… I bleed garnet and gold and have turned the TV off for a lot of the lost decade for sheer sake of a heart attack…. Go ’Noles!!!! In Jimbo we trust!!!!

I can still remember I was in 8th grade watching the FSU baseball game vs. Maryland. I was so impressed with McDougall’s performance that day I wanted to play baseball for FSU. Sadly I was not good enough of a bunter for the program. Instead I went to a small school in Maryland. Every time I would wear my FSU hats and shirts people up there would bring up that 6 homerun game. One of my coaches actually played on that Maryland team. Ever since I have been a big FSU fan and I get to go to my first home football game this fall vs. UF. Have been to the campus numerous times and have been to away football games but never a home game.

born in Tally, Grandfather taught at FSU, Father, Mother, and Stepfather all graduated from FSU. Was a NOLE by birth and was concerned that my college experience wouldn’t and couldn’t live up to expectations built over a lifetime of rooting for the NOLES. Used to listen to all the games on the Radio..unbearable at times when the NOLES would just barely outscore East Carolina, or lose to Auburn in a shootout. Anyway, going to FSU was better than I could have ever expected and cemented my love for the NOLES. Im a little tipsy on the koolaid and believe that CJF is the right man for the job. During his tourstop speech in Pensacola, it just felt like CJF was family and the right man for the job. Cant wait to see where the NOLES go from here. Faithfully yours FSU….now lets go kick some aRse!!

cuz it sure doesn’t go to game development. How many years in a row are you gonna sell us the same game? Why even advertise? In 2010 how hard is to expand the rosters to 85 players?
Was a Crimson Tide fan before I went to FSU. My first ever experience was the Brian Monroe game and I’ve slowly switched my allegiance since. I went to most basketball games and as many baseball games as I could when I lived in Tally. Now, I look forward to spending the rest of my life reppin’ that Garnet and Gold, especially down here in Miami at every possible FSU-UM game.

 My parents met at FSU in the 50s, and my two sisters and I went in the 80/90s…along with about 8 cousins, and 4-5 aunts and uncles…..in fact most of us who went to college ended up there. Only a couple of gaytor cousins, and 2 USF alums. I personally became a fan when I first discovered that college football exsisted (I was a huge dolphin fan, growing up in Miami) We were still two years away from Bobby Bowden coming to town, so I was witness to a HUGE uprising. I first arrived in Tallahassee for school during the Octoberfest year…so suffered a bit during my stay there, but still loved the experience. Cannot wait for this year to kick off with a new defensive scheme, and what I think should be a very productive offense. I hold high hope for a return to the glory days within the next 2-3 seasons!!

Before then I never really liked college football. I was more of a pro football fan and loved the 49’ers. Flipping through the channels one Saturday I saw Charlie Ward playing and I know this might sound racist but since he was one of the only black QBs I saw I instantly started liking the Noles and have been along for the ride ever since. I also liked Nebraska around that time because of Tommy Frazier but my love for them soon faded. Also being a Braves fan around that time and hearing the tomahawk chop. When the Falcons drafted Deon made me love them even more.

Didn’t really have a major dog in the fight … Grew up a HUGE Bama fan as I was born in Montgomery back in the late 60s and as a kid adopted THE TIDE …. they won and none of my friends were on the same bandwagon growing up in the TB area so it was cool to be diffrent than most at that time who really didn’t care
took trips to both UF and FSU during HS and had great times at both … but just felt A LOT more at home when I went to Tally
transferred from St Pete JC and the rest is history … NOLE for LIFE

Friends with Chris Doering and Travis McGriff and my uncles best friend growing up was Wayne Peace who used to let me come down on the sidelines as a young boy. So I had a lot invested. I started at FSU in 1994 and had the time of my life, but the moment I became a Gator was the Choke in Doak! I couldn’t believe I found myself rooting for the noles to pull it out and everyone that was still in that stadium knew we actually won that game even thought the scoreboard said it was a tie. I’ve been hardcore ever since, although the lost decade led me away from going to games out of frustration, kids and couch comfort but if some of the predictions about jimbo are as accurate as this site makes them seem I am looking forward to having taking my family to become as big a fan as I was a gator growing up.

me being from South GA, I grew up with a lot of annoying UGA fans. FSU was the closest school besides UGA so I became a fan. I went to my first game when I was 10 and I knew I would be a Nole for life. Unfortunately, I couldn’t go to FSU because of money reasons but my grandfather and I go to as many FSU games as we can every year.

My love for FSU is a little different than most. I was born and raised in NYC and still currently live in NY. As a young kid playing football, my pee wee team was called the seminoles. My cousin who was playin in high school at the time told me to watch a Florida State Seminole game.
So I watched, Ward, Dunn, etc and since then its been a huge part of my life. I’ve been down to Doak twice and went to the BC game this past year with my gf who is a FSU fan as well because she knows to love me, you gotta roll with my noles. I am going to be moving to Sacramento,CA in the next few months and will still carry my love for FSU no matter where I go!!

My love for FSU is a little different than most. I was born and raised in NYC and still currently live in NY. As a young kid playing football, my pee wee team was called the seminoles. My cousin who was playin in high school at the time told me to watch a Florida State Seminole game.
So I watched, Ward, Dunn, etc and since then its been a huge part of my life. I’ve been down to Doak twice and went to the BC game this past year with my gf who is a FSU fan as well because she knows to love me, you gotta roll with my noles. I am going to be moving to Sacramento,CA in the next few months and will still carry my love for FSU no matter where I go!!

Hard for me to pinpoint the exact day but it was somewhere around the late 80’s during the Miami glory days. None of my family went to FSU and I didn’t go to FSU, but my grandfathers’ best friend who was a lawyer (who actually completed his jurisprudence at UF) was a huge fan and I idolized the guy so I had be a Nole because he was! So from there I was fortunate enough to attend the 97 Sugar Bowl where, I can’t even speak his name, and Danny boy beat the tar out of us in Nawlens. Even though we lost that day, it was one of the most amazing experiences I had ever been a part of in my entire life. The atmosphere was electric and there was Garnet and Gold EVERYWHERE!! I actually took part in throwing the cry babies candy at, u know who, because he had been crying about how we ruffed up Danny boy that year in the first game. From there I was hooked, I started memorizing players, trying to remember their numbers and all the big plays they would make. Shoot I even had the number picked out that I was going to wear when I played at FSU! I’m allowed to dream aren’t I, don’t hate! Through my grade school years my gramps would surprise me with tickets to games and drive me from Winter Haven to Tally and I would bask in the moment for as long as I could. Although I didn’t really get to hang with the students, I was 13 year old nerd, I would soak up every minute of the atmosphere I could. My grandfather would always take me to Bills and let me get a new Nike shirt and new Nike hat, whatever were the ones Bobby wore on the sideline, I had to have it! This continued through the 90’s and into 2000. Then for my graduation present in 2001, which was way early, I got tickets to the OU vs. FSU game!!! We were in the nose bleeds at Pro player. But this time I was old enough to partake in the "pregame festivities!" I don’t think I can even describe in words how much fun it was. My uncle and I walked from tailgate to tailgate and mingled with a lot of people and drank way more than we should have. The game started and again the atmosphere was electric! My uncle, who is a Miami fan, actually was like I think u guys got this game in the bag. Well let’s just say I think bags could have played a better game than we did that night. Stoops put an old country butt kickin on us that night. That night I was actually disappointed to be a Nole fan. I had never witnessed a more poorly coached offensive game in my life. Gosh that was a long 300 mile drive back to home…. Well after that I have to admit that I wasn’t to impressed with FSU football and I became a casual fan for two years. All the grumblings of Bobby getting old and Jeff’s inability to produce points kind of got to me. Well to make a longer story short I joined the Air Force in 03. I was shipped out with 12 Florida guys to good ol San Antonio. One person and myself were Nole fans, but the other 10 were UF fans. Needless to say the little idle time we had shinning out boots and ironing uniforms college football was always a hot button issue on our flight. Jimmy, the only other Nole fan, and I would just murder these kids on stats, players in the NFL, how much better of a coach Bobby was than satins spawn…Amazing! So from then on the fire was lit again and its been an awesome ride every since. Although I encounter more and more gator fans every day, hmmmmmm I wonder why, I can be proud to say that I’m not a band wagon rider, I’m not a stuck up prick who thinks that its cool to be a fan of a team who has had an awesome run the last 6 years, I’m simply a Polk county boy who at one time or another will attend the school of my dreams and be able to call myself an alum to go along with my unwavering love of FSU. Seriously, who cannot be scared of FEAR THE SPEAR!!!!

I grew up an FSU fan by default, simply because my family were fans. But the first time I remember actually becoming a true fan, was around 1990 when I was 10 years old and actually understood the game of Football for the first time. I would watch the games with my family and ask what happened and what that meant, etc. I grew up in a town where most were gator fans. My passion for FSU football came from watching Warrick Dunn, EG Green, Derrick Brooks, Peter Boulware, Corey Fuller, and many more. I applied to many schools, but knew that i ONLY wanted to go to FSU. I was lucky enough to attend in 1998. I went to the 1999 National Championship game and it was a dream come true. I was at Bobby Bowden’s last game in Jacksonville. He really was an idol to me growing up because he was such a classy guy.

growing up i switched from UGA (g-parents were from there) to a UF fan. hey, i was a kid and i didnt know any better. my uncle was the only college educated family member @ the time and he went to UF, so i figured that’s all the affiliation i needed in order to be a fan, so i rooted for them.

i graduated high school in 2000 and went to UCF. figured i wanted to stay close to the family. well, a year later, i decided to transfer to florida southern because i hate orlando and UCF so much. a wk before classes @ fl. southern started my buddy begged me to come visit him in Tally and go to an FSU game. reluctantly, i went. it was 2001 and i believe we played GA tech.

naturally i got home and told my family i was no longer going to fl. southern. nevermind tuition had been paid for and i was starting classes TOMORROW. haha. i applied as a transfer student to FSU and was accepted. got my family’s $$$$ back, took a semester off, and moved to tally january 2002.

it all started w/ a seemingly innocent trip to visit a friend and go to a football game. as cliche as it sounds, that one weekend surrounded by tradition, passion, and the beauty of tallahassee was enough to overwhelm me and bring me over from the dark side.

ive done contract work several places throughout the country and it’s truly surprising how far nole nation goes. im in durham, nc finishing up a master’s degree and i’m stoked that i get to see my noles play all the time.

just remember, there’s always hope to convert. don’t give up. keep working on your UF/UM friends. we’ll make room.

Moved out of Tally when I was in second grade. Memories of Tally include my mom working in the State Capitol building and Shadeville Elementary school. I never realy followed FSU football up until about 11-12 years old. Even then, I wasn’t an avid follower. I remember Chip Ferguson and Sammie Smith and the Spirit Spear(which I wish they’d bring back) I also remember during those years, FSU always seemed to lose the first game or two of the year, then they’d go undefeated for the remainder. It wasn’t until about 90 or 91 until I really started watching and paying attention. Casey Weldon was the Joe Montana look a like (imo), and the Noles were getting really fun to watch. If I had to say when my interest in the Noles was really ramped up however, it would have to be Wide Right I. My parents had left town for the weekend and I had my buddies over to the house for the game. At that time, everybody was a Hurricane fan, which, on a side note, most of those guys are now Gators. The game was awesome and we were all over the place watching it. The kick was up and wide right, I kicked my buddies out of the house that day. That loss, was the beginning of the roller coaster ride known as FSU fandom. As an FSU fan, we’ve experienced what many teams have never or will never experience, but, with that, comes some really gut wrenching losses to deal with too. Too many times I felt like FSU just gave away what would have been another championship year beacuse of one reason or another. The loss to Tenn in the Fiesta, the loss to OU in the orange, and a bunch of non championship games during the year.

I don’t want to write a book here, but I want to commend all of Seminole Nation that is still rooting for the Noles. There’s a bunch of people that had given up and moved on. If you are still here and have been for the past 10 years, you deserve to be around for what is going to be happening in the next few years. Say it loud and say it proud, GO NOLES!!!