This position paper was originally written in 2012, before FSU's most recent national championship and the rise of #FSUTwitter and #TalkinBoutTheNoles. I've updated where appropriate.
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I don't remember exactly when it was for me, but growing up in Tampa in the 1980s, at some point in elementary school, they made you choose. Are you a Gator or a Seminole? What's it going to be?
Those were the only two choices back then. (If you picked Miami, everyone assumed there was something deeply wrong with you.) Most of my classmates picked the Gators, and a lot of them ended up in school there, probably like their parents before them.