UF icon George Edmondson dies at 97

George Edmondson honored before a win over Kentucky in 2008 / Gator Country photo by Tim CaseyIconic University of Florida fan George Edmondson has passed away. Edmondson, better known as Mr. Two Bits, was 97.

Edmondson attended The Citadel and served as a Navy fighter pilot during World War II. It was shortly after that he moved to Tampa to begin his career in the insurance business. Edmondson traveled to Gainesville with friends in 1949 but didn’t like the cacophony of booing he heard from the stands when the team took the field.

“I was appalled,” Edmondson told the Orlando Sentinel in 2008. “It was terrible. I didn’t understand it. How could you boo your own team? They were just college…