This song was played at my mother's memorial. She was a tough woman - a police officer and a martial arts expert. Get on the wrong side of her and she would kill you with her bare hands. But she was also the kindest soul you could ever meet. Ask her for help and she would cook you dinner and give you her last 50c. She knew what's right, she stood her ground and she didn't back down.
@johnsmith42688 She was a wonderful mother. She held the strongest sense of justice that I have ever known, and she was the person whom I have most respected in my life. I am truly privileged to have had her in my life for 43 years. She made me the man that I am. I hope I can do her justice.
I am English, living in Spain and a Tom Petty fan....the atmosphere and respect given to a genius performer, musician and song writer is something you Gator fans should be proud of ..... 🎉
As a Gator fan, I want to say thanks it was awesome! Hang in there. If Tennessee can get its head right, they will bounce back. Don't give up on your team a lot of football is still left.
I won't back down!!! If you never experience this please visit. I've visited several times. It gives me chills each time. From Tennessee but Gators fan!!! Welp. ..Go Gators!!!
Gator nation we have more bumps in the road coming, but we have the right head coach, and the right staff to get it done. We have a great quarterback, let’s have their backs and give them time to get us rolling all the way through the decade. Go gators 🐊
I still can't believe Tom passed away. His music brought me through some tough times in the last 40 years. I'm not a Gator fan I'm a Oregon Duck fan but my compliments and respects. The Swamp is great
@sheafan1971 i had two utah fans behind me and they sang too, it sounded like their whole section did across the field to. It's spirit and team, but not just ours.
This is what it’s all about! Gotta love college football traditions, it don’t matter if ur black, white, Hispanic or other EVERYONE comes together to sing a great song whether you know the artist or not. As a Penn State fan, Florida has got it!
Still my favorite part of being a student at UF back in the days of Emmitt Smith and 'Kilber' Marshall. The Swamp is always an electric place and no better way to watch football, college or pro. As a Gainesville native this is also where we went on Friday nites to watch our Buchholz Bobcats high school team play as well. Leonardos by the slice afterwards.
Won't be long before every stadium has the LED's. Alabama and Georgia got there's 2 or 3 years ago, doesn't seem that long. UT got there's last year. The cell phones in the 4th quarter is always awesome. The visitors and home team do that, really cool.
Music truly unites people. I don't know what's more amazing, the fact that the crowd knew the song and sung it unified or that there was that much support for a sports team
As a die hard Ole Miss Rebel, I have tremendous respect for the Gators as they have had great teams and great fans. I have always believed that BH Griffin Stadium was a nightmare to play in even when the Gators were down. Also this is a great tribute to the Legend Tom Petty. Just tremendous. Hotty Toddy!
@@moosejawn123 No they don't show the lyrics, it's a tradition at every Gators home game now (and a really popular song in general) so everyone knows the lyrics! 🐊🐊
I'm a South Carolina Gamecock fan, but I want to come to a Florida game just to sing this. It's so cool! Question to you Gator fans - at what point during the game do y'all sing this and do you sing it just once per home game?
Class Of 1996 here *GO GATORS 🐊* and what would be awesome for our *Gator Nation* is to honor Minnie Riperton because she recorded several albums in Gainesville and her husband was a local musician/radio DJ in the 1970’s. I’m thinking of drawing a petition for honoring Minnie
@@summerallthetime2616 She’s a awesome artist, she’s one of only three singers who can sing in a *Coloratura Soprano* style which only a few people can achieve. Minnie recorded one of her biggest albums of her career in Gainesville right on campus and Stevie Wonder helped produce her album. Her daughter Maya Rudolph is a huge booster and fan of University Of Florida. Another actor who’s been a huge supporter of Florida is Keanu Reeves, as you may recall Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino and Charlize Theron filmed *Devils Advocate* in Ocala and Gainesville. In fact several students including myself were extras in the film. I would love to see our School Of Arts named in honor of Minnie Riperton, I’ve got great ideas how to promote it as well
Regarding the ooh aah, is this a Floridian thing ? WWE superstar Roman Reigns shouts it out just before he goes for his signature spear maneuver. He's from Pensacola.
No mention of Lara Trump singing that song, commercially, she is a singer you know. A damn good one too. Woulda been nice to have made an honorable mention, maybe it’s just me. I am O.G.
Unofficial anthem of the British people as we go near the brink of all out civil strife thanks Tom Petty ,your other song with the travelling wilburys resonates too ,its alright, we need a trump win as much as the US sorry to non trump supporters its just the way it is .
As a Michigan fan growing up die hard runs in family but my list would definitely be Michigan obviously 1 but Florida would be tied with PEN state for 2 for top schools to go to I love the pride and toughness Florida shows never afraid to add teams to schedule regardless of being already in SEC unlike Ohio they will mark it up on calendar and play love the gator pride from lowkey fan but plz firer your head coach he reminds me of home the joke in Michigan 😂 bring in Deion sanders and get the FLORIDA BOYS TO STAYYYYYY HOME !!!! stop playing for Georgia n Bama fuck em
This song was played at my mother's memorial. She was a tough woman - a police officer and a martial arts expert. Get on the wrong side of her and she would kill you with her bare hands. But she was also the kindest soul you could ever meet. Ask her for help and she would cook you dinner and give you her last 50c. She knew what's right, she stood her ground and she didn't back down.
Truly sorry for your loss. She sounds like a good soul.
@@policerthought5649 Thank you. She was. I am privileged to have had her in my life.
Sounds like a hell of a mom...sorry for your loss
@johnsmith42688 She was a wonderful mother. She held the strongest sense of justice that I have ever known, and she was the person whom I have most respected in my life. I am truly privileged to have had her in my life for 43 years. She made me the man that I am. I hope I can do her justice.
Bro rip I’m so sorry for your loss
this is just 1 reason why college football rocks . you can feel the passion through the screen
Yes there's nothing better than 8 out of 11 games of every teams season being blowouts
@@SillyGoose2024 go watch your old man league pussy
As an alum with 3 degrees from UF and a ton of pride for my my gators, thank you all in attendance for keeping the Swamp alive! Go Gators! 🐊🐊🐊
lol - BS (Zoology), BS ((Chem E) and MS Medicinal Chem 😂😂
@@patentg8r Jeuss loves you and everyone have a blessed wonderful day
The Swamp is holy ground for me. Love to my fellow Gators. We're just getting started.
No one gives a shit. Stop sucking yourself off.
Love u
Tom Petty was awesome. His music still rocks. Who says 80s music wasn't the best generation of music. .lol
Jeuss loves you and everyone have a blessed wonderful day God bless you and your family
I personally like 70s more
Respect from a Bama fan! This is one of the best traditions in college football.
As a Bama fan, this is absolutely the coolest thing in college football....spine-chilling cool, & Tom Petty was the greatest!!
Get fuct
Me at Lib West at 4AM in the final hours of a all-nighter with a 8:30 exam.
as a diehard FSU fan, this has gotta be one of my favorite CFB traditions
As a UCLA alum, grew up in Santa Monica,California where unfortunately my hero Tom Petty passed away, this is fucking awesome! RIP TP!
I am English, living in Spain and a Tom Petty fan....the atmosphere and respect given to a genius performer, musician and song writer is something you Gator fans should be proud of ..... 🎉
You can catch me singing this any time! This song shows team spirit!Go Gators!🐊🐊🐊
Jesus loves you and everyone have a blessed wonderful day God bless you and your family
Not a Gators fan, but love the tradition and celebration of music and life 🎉
As a TN fan, this is awesome 👏
bro your guys were dropping left and right
As a LSU fan, it's really not that awesome. Don't see why you think its great
As a Gator fan, I want to say thanks it was awesome! Hang in there. If Tennessee can get its head right, they will bounce back. Don't give up on your team a lot of football is still left.
@@Mr.Potato420because they’re soft as shit
@@biggatorcaesar give up on yours
I won't back down!!! If you never experience this please visit. I've visited several times. It gives me chills each time. From Tennessee but Gators fan!!! Welp. ..Go Gators!!!
Gator fan since 1964!❤
Gator nation we have more bumps in the road coming, but we have the right head coach, and the right staff to get it done. We have a great quarterback, let’s have their backs and give them time to get us rolling all the way through the decade. Go gators 🐊
Jesus loves you and everyone have a blessed wonderful day God bless you and your family
I still can't believe Tom passed away. His music brought me through some tough times in the last 40 years. I'm not a Gator fan I'm a Oregon Duck fan but my compliments and respects. The Swamp is great
All Respect to EVERY Gator fan that sang #tompetty #gogators #UF
@sheafan1971 i had two utah fans behind me and they sang too, it sounded like their whole section did across the field to. It's spirit and team, but not just ours.
This is what it’s all about! Gotta love college football traditions, it don’t matter if ur black, white, Hispanic or other EVERYONE comes together to sing a great song whether you know the artist or not. As a Penn State fan, Florida has got it!
Gator Nation , keep your Heads Up, and don’t back down😊👍✌️🇺🇸🐊
Still my favorite part of being a student at UF back in the days of Emmitt Smith and 'Kilber' Marshall. The Swamp is always an electric place and no better way to watch football, college or pro. As a Gainesville native this is also where we went on Friday nites to watch our Buchholz Bobcats high school team play as well. Leonardos by the slice afterwards.
@@patrickvanrinsvelt4466 🗣GO BOBCATS & GATORS!!!💯
Won't be long before every stadium has the LED's. Alabama and Georgia got there's 2 or 3 years ago, doesn't seem that long. UT got there's last year. The cell phones in the 4th quarter is always awesome. The visitors and home team do that, really cool.
Don't get no better than this. Our Republic should have this attitude & spirit.
Gonna hopefully get to experience this on Saturday
Music truly unites people. I don't know what's more amazing, the fact that the crowd knew the song and sung it unified or that there was that much support for a sports team
This is of epic proportions. Die hard atm fan here, but this is absolutely amazing.
Gators easily have the best stadium atmosphere
Need to check out VT first.
Would love to get to a game here someday. I’ve been to the stadium but not for a game.
@@jimparcels8759ND is great too, as is Penn State
@@blazingbeez7732 nah
@@jimparcels8759 I know you didn’t just bring up some random ACC program in a best atmosphere conversation.
This is amazing Gator Nation!! Great Game Florida Gators 👏 🐊🐊🐊
Just a simple song can turn into this
I would love to be there for this, I'd fly from the UK just for the experience & tribute to my music hero.
when i can hear you sing above the audio then i will know you pay respect too tom
Greats from Germany....I play it in my Car and I sing it loud........Heyyyyyy,,,, Baby,,,,wont back down...
That is awesome. RIP Tom
As a die hard Ole Miss Rebel, I have tremendous respect for the Gators as they have had great teams and great fans. I have always believed that BH Griffin Stadium was a nightmare to play in even when the Gators were down. Also this is a great tribute to the Legend Tom Petty. Just tremendous.
Hotty Toddy!
I was in with him the day he wrote that song i miss my freind tom rip 🙏
So i was just wondering if the lyrics were being shown anywhere in the stadium? Also this was Amazing..
@@moosejawn123 No they don't show the lyrics, it's a tradition at every Gators home game now (and a really popular song in general) so everyone knows the lyrics! 🐊🐊
@@moosejawn123 Yes they do show the lyrics. I’m headed to the last home game this year on Saturday. Go Gators! 🐊
That song should be the State's new anthem . I miss him too up here .
Gotta love them Gators!! The Swamp was rockin!!!! Keep packing those seats!! CHOMP!!! 🐊
I'm a South Carolina Gamecock fan, but I want to come to a Florida game just to sing this. It's so cool! Question to you Gator fans - at what point during the game do y'all sing this and do you sing it just once per home game?
In between the 3rd and 4th quarter.
@@MLMLW when they loosing
At the end of the 3rd quarter before the start of the 4th quarter. 🐊💙 Go Gators!
Every home game
Shoutout Camera dude!!! Great job
CHOMP 🐊 CHOMP
Finished my final shift at Applebees, got in my truck, radio station starts playing “don’t come around here no more” as soon as I turn my ignition on.
Canes fan here… awesome!!!!! 🙌
Wow!! Got to get down there for a game sometime. Respect from Big 12 country.👏👏
Best tradition.
As a ducks fan Florida needs to get gators back towards top this ducks shout and Wisconsin jump around are my favorite
So freaking awesome!! Go Gators!!
Greatest Fan Base on Earth! Go Gators!!! And Go Gator Nation!!!
I really want to move to Florida!
Class Of 1996 here *GO GATORS 🐊* and what would be awesome for our *Gator Nation* is to honor Minnie Riperton because she recorded several albums in Gainesville and her husband was a local musician/radio DJ in the 1970’s. I’m thinking of drawing a petition for honoring Minnie
Did not know that but have been getting into Minnie Riperton a lot lately. So good
@@summerallthetime2616 She’s a awesome artist, she’s one of only three singers who can sing in a *Coloratura Soprano* style which only a few people can achieve. Minnie recorded one of her biggest albums of her career in Gainesville right on campus and Stevie Wonder helped produce her album. Her daughter Maya Rudolph is a huge booster and fan of University Of Florida. Another actor who’s been a huge supporter of Florida is Keanu Reeves, as you may recall Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino and Charlize Theron filmed *Devils Advocate* in Ocala and Gainesville. In fact several students including myself were extras in the film. I would love to see our School Of Arts named in honor of Minnie Riperton, I’ve got great ideas how to promote it as well
At Night is soooo good!!!
That was AWESOME !!
I need too be apart of this once before I die . Chills
Win, Lose, Tie. Gators forever!
TOM PETTY IS THE GOAT 🐐 HE'S MY GO TO ROADTRIP PLAYLIST
Best tradition in all of sports.
Music - the universal co-op.
Fun night!
All people joined together
Gotta get to one night game here and one in Wisconsin b4 it's too late.
1:35 best part
Go Gators 🐊🐊 the new LED lights are 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏
Awesome
Gives me chills
Tom forever people.
GO GATORS!!!
Do we still sing “We Are the Boys of Old Florida”?
Beautiful
❤ go gater go .. . Sings 2 the world .... NO FEAR ..📯📯📯
At the end of the 3rd quarter? Did this replace "We Are the Boys" or is it in addition to it?
They sing We Are The Boys first then Tom Petty after
Addition to it.🐊
Are they holding their phones ? I’d love to get down to the swamp to see a game.
I experienced this atmosphere last year against Utah, and we didn't do it for that game, I'm really not feeling the "ooh ahh"
I don't know where that came from but it will stop, hopefully.
I actually like it
Regarding the ooh aah, is this a Floridian thing ? WWE superstar Roman Reigns shouts it out just before he goes for his signature spear maneuver. He's from Pensacola.
wish Tom Petty was alive to see this, he would of been so Happy. RIP TOM❤
2 words. GO GATORS
If ur going to be petty be tom petty
2:31 the way they all got the lyric wrong hahaha
❤️🔥
MAKE AMERICA GODLY AGAIN
The European mind can’t comprehend 🐊🐊🐊
Tom Petty wrote a masterpiece and I hope he could see us from heaven enjoying what he brought to the world.
USA USA USA!
This is cool and a lot better than A&M
college football fandom kinda sorta nails european soccer fandom better than MLS
so true
I miss The Swamp
too kewl for school
US Military style 🇺🇸❤️🙏
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏
No mention of Lara Trump singing that song, commercially, she is a singer you know. A damn good one too. Woulda been nice to have made an honorable mention, maybe it’s just me. I am O.G.
Unofficial anthem of the British people as we go near the brink of all out civil strife thanks Tom Petty ,your other song with the travelling wilburys resonates too ,its alright, we need a trump win as much as the US sorry to non trump supporters its just the way it is .
The world is shifting everywhere, stand on principles stand on God. Good luck across the pond
@chadjconklin Cheers mate were all doing the trump boogie right now its a sweeping the world lol.
UCF will probably try to copy this. LOL
Rent free 😂 also Tom Petty is overrated
@@jonnysmith1805 I agree the little brother always looking for the free buffet 😂
@@jonnysmith1805 L
As a Michigan fan growing up die hard runs in family but my list would definitely be Michigan obviously 1 but Florida would be tied with PEN state for 2 for top schools to go to I love the pride and toughness Florida shows never afraid to add teams to schedule regardless of being already in SEC unlike Ohio they will mark it up on calendar and play love the gator pride from lowkey fan but plz firer your head coach he reminds me of home the joke in Michigan 😂 bring in Deion sanders and get the FLORIDA BOYS TO STAYYYYYY HOME !!!! stop playing for Georgia n Bama fuck em
Trump 2024
Gator fan enjoy the highlight to your season.
We do every home game, thank you. No matter the weather, we all stick together for FLORIDA.