Famous mural wall for Florida painted over by a Miami fan ahead of Saturday's game
![People with the UF Health Psychiatric Hospital paint a mural to raise awareness for Mental Health Month, at the 34th Street Wall in Gainesville FL. May 19, 2022. May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and the UF Health Psychiatric Hospital is raising awareness with this mural. [Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun]
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One of the iconic landmarks in Gainesville is the 34th Street wall. The wall is a place for graffiti artists to display their work and is also a memorial for five students who were murdered in 1990.
At least one Miami fan in town opted to troll Florida fans with a mural of his own ahead of Saturday's game.
Florida Football: Troll Job
Brad Tejeda of Canes In Sight posted a photo on X of the 34th Street mural featuring a new coat of white paint that stated "Drain The Swamp" with the Miami logo on either side.
DRAIN THE SWAMP🟧🟩😉 pic.twitter.com/rnv1bQiEhk
— Brad Tejeda (@TejedaBrad) August 30, 2024
It's typical of what we have seen these past two weeks online from a fanbase that constantly projects more relevancy than they actually have. For example, Miami fans were whining online earlier this week that Florida had only allotted them 4,000 visitor tickets for the game.
Since 2019, the Hurricanes have topped 60,000 fans for a home game once (against FSU in 2022, so...).
The 34th Street Wall was constructed in 1979 and slowly but surely became a popular spot for artwork. The wall is most noted as a memorial for Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Tracy Paules, and Manuel Taboada. The five were victims of a serial killer in 1990. Thankfully, it does not appear this Miami fan painted over that section of the wall.
Florida takes on Miami at 3:30 in The Swamp. Somehow we don't think there are going to be as many Miami fans in the building as they think there will be.
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