There’s always one moment before a Florida Gators football game, when in a crowd of near 90,000 people, you can hear a pin drop. Almost total silence as every eye in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium focuses on one seersucker-clad individual standing at midfield.
Fans hold their breath and stance, waiting on their cue from the one picked to lead them before that particular game. For the special person dubbed “Mr. Two Bits” for the day, that moment could be nerve wracking, mesmerizing or elating.
Michael Cizek thinks of it as magical.
“You know going into the Swamp on a game day is really kind of a magical experience and you get to be apart of that magic,” explains Cizek, “but when you get to become Mr.