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We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Gainesville's most beloved game-day bar sat across from the stadium for years, then got bulldozed for high-rise apartments and spent time closed before resurfacing in the 'Innovation District.' Nothing says college town like selling your soul to a national developer and calling it progress. The gator tail tacos survived, which is more than we can say for the white picket fence.
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium holds upwards of 88,000 fans, and when the Gators play, the city nearly shuts down with tailgates in every corner. Gainesville has a population of about 141,000, so on Saturdays the town is basically one giant orange-and-blue hostage situation. The other six days are just everyone nursing a hangover and pretending to study.
Gainesville's proudest natural wonder is the Devil's Millhopper, a giant sinkhole with animal bones at the bottom that legend says belong to creatures who went in to meet the devil. Honestly, that's also the origin story of most people's sophomore year on University Avenue. Meanwhile, Paynes Prairie has wild horses and bison, because even the wildlife here refuses to leave.
Gainesville brags about its top-ranked university, its Tom Petty roots, and being the birthplace of Gatorade, a drink invented so people could keep going after too much Florida. Then there's the 50-member church that somehow made global headlines for threatening a Koran burning. To be fair, locals were not delighted, which is the most Gainesville way to describe a worldwide embarrassment.
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