OK. As suggested by a blOg reader, this is a follow up for the April 8^th post about “Dancing zombies documented at University of Florida!” First, let me say that we did things differently when I was a student at UF and–though I hesitate to state the obvious–this was a few years back. In particular, we wasted what precious free time we had doing things like watching horror movies at the midnight movies or drinking beer. Frankly, it never occurred to me that I ought to be training for what many people see as the inevitable collapse of human civilization at the filthy hands of a murderous zombie hoard. The scenes shown in this video are from an actual training exercise. No real zombies are shown. No zombies were killed or injured in the making of this video.

University of Florida students are now vigorously training in actual combat techniques to defend humankind when zombies get loose “in the wild.” Congratulations UF on a job well done! More about the full training exercise was reported by the Independent Florida Alligator in its in depth news coverage; or on the actual UF zombies vs. humans web site.

For those of you unable to make the pilgrimage to Gainesville, Florida, I’m posting a photo of the famous pledge by Tim Tebow, made in the University of Florida’s National Championship season. This plaque hangs outside Florida Field at the UF football stadium:

THE PROMISE
To the fans and everybody in Gator Nation, I’m sorry.
I’m extremely sorry. We were hoping for an undefeated season.
That was my goal. Something Florida has never done here.

I promise you one thing. A lot of good will come out of this.
You will never see any player in the entire counrtry play as hard as I will play the rest of the season.
You will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season

You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season.

God Bless.

— Tim Tebow
September 27, 2008