Jon Sumrall has Georgia fans arguing over a phrase Florida used years ago

We interrupt our week against Missouri to take note of an SEC foe that Florida fans actually care about:

Georgia.

But Florida fans didn’t head into Tuesday with the intention of thinking about the Bulldogs, but apparently our friends from Athens are starting to feel a bit nervous about the Jon Sumrall era because they tried their best to claim Sumrall was stealing a catchphrase from Georgia.

But it turns out fans should study their history a bit better before making declarative statements.

Jon Sumrall’s “Bloody Tuesday” didn’t originate from Georgia

Appearing on The Triple Option show, Sumrall talked about how he approaches the week and detailed how Tuesday’s are the most important day of the week and help determine whether or not his team will be ready for the game on Saturday.

Sumrall dubs Tuesdays “Bloody Tuesday,” and the worse the practice conditions the better for Sumrall:

“We got a great indoor (practice facility) here. On Tuesdays, we don’t use the damn indoor. I don’t want anybody going in the indoor on Tuesday. We’re going to be outside. I hope it’s hot. Tuesdays have to be physical and violent, and you gotta strain, or you don’t know how to play way on Saturday.”

This led to the Georgia site Dawg Nation putting out a piece that tried to make it seem like Sumrall had copied the idea from Georgia and Kirby Smart. Georiga’s own official X account also conviently tweeted out “Nothin’ better than a Bloody Tuesday,” which just conveniently was their first reference to “Bloody Tuesday” since April.

There are plenty of other cases of Georgia fans trying to claim that Sumrall copied the practice.

There is just one small problem with that narrative:

Urban Meyer used “Bloody Tuesday” while he was at Florida. In fact, it’s a thing he started doing when he was at Bowling Green in 2001. 

And if we really want to go back in history, the term was first coined in the 1920s under Penn State head coach Hugo Bezdek.

Does it really matter who did or didn’t coin the term? No, no it does not. Compared to the borderline poetry sessions Florida got under the last regime, most Florida fans are just happy to see a team with increased intensity.

It’s telling, though, that while Florida and Georgia are still a month away from meeting in Atlanta, it’s Georgia that has Florida on their mind.

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