[dramatic music playing]
[man 1] College football in the South is way bigger than professional sports. When you come to Florida, football is the world here. Everything is win or lose here.
[man 2] Anything less than winning the national title…
[music ends]
…you're a failure.
One, two, three!
[all] Showtime!
[dramatic music plays]
[man 3] Florida wasn't winning. The feeling was getting Urban Meyer in Florida could restore what they had lost.
[man 4] I needed to build this team.
[man 5] Urban said, "I'm gonna treat my superstars like superstars, and I'm gonna treat my [bleep]
like [bleep]."
[screaming] They was training like we was going to Iraq. It was unmerciful. Our front seven, they didn't try to hit you, they tried to hurt you. And we were the number one team in the country.
[man 6] They walk around like the kings of campus, and that took over. We called it "Gaines-Vegas." In Gaines-Vegas, we partied. It was just too much temptation.
[newscaster] Another Florida Gator has been arrested. We never got police reports. It ended up just getting fixed. You had never seen a team that was undefeated be so miserable. People do not know what it's like to give so much to something…
Thirty minutes for the rest of our lives!
[dramatic music rises] …that it's everything.
[music fades]
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