 | | 
08-03-2012, 03:18 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | @StormTheGate
Join Date: Mar 2007  Location: Nashville
Posts: 4,085
Likes: 390
| Yesterday was a big day for us...
and you didn't even know it.
You see, I got caught up in the hype going into the 2008 season, so right around mid-August I purchased a 65 inch Toshiba DLP HDTV to watch every football weekend in stunning HD clarity.
I gathered all of my friends at my house for what I assumed would be a slaughtering of UCLA. We drank, we marveled at the TV, we drank. Alas, our Vols came up short, and so began the downfall of Fulmer and the slump that would last through last year.
I never saw a good Vols game on that TV. I watched T Cody block a kick with his armpit. I watched UT pick up a "moral victory" at Florida. I watched 13 players stop LSU at the goal line. I watched Justin Hunter come down on his knee carrying the weight of 7 years of Florida lashings. I saw it all in stunning HD clarity on my 65 inch monstrosity.
I also beat the hell out of the wall around the TV with shoes, plastic cups, beer cans, pillows, cushions, footballs, more shoes, a cast, pens, books, batteries, controllers, and paper plates.
Fast forward to yesterday. I sold the television to a friend who likes Michigan football, and I picked up a new Samsung 51 inch plasma. I have mounted it above my fireplace on a swivel mount. I have readied the room for much football viewing and beer consumption.
This TV is going to change everything. Maybe it's my egocentrism allowing me to believe that MY television was the portal through which all negative things happened to the Vols, but I truly believe that this new television will change it all for us.
I will update everyone on the status of the television following the NCSU game at the end of the month. Until then, I'm going to treat the new TV with much respect and make sure that it knows the Vols are the team that must triumph.
GBO  | 
| VN Likes: 27   | |
08-03-2012, 03:21 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | ಠ_ಠ
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Virginia Military District
Posts: 29,287
Likes: 5,104
| | 
| VN Likes: 2 | |
08-03-2012, 03:21 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 8,869
Likes: 4,164
| Quote:
Originally Posted by BigSteve09  and you didn't even know it.
You see, I got caught up in the hype going into the 2008 season, so right around mid-August I purchased a 65 inch Toshiba DLP HDTV to watch every football weekend in stunning HD clarity.
I gathered all of my friends at my house for what I assumed would be a slaughtering of UCLA. We drank, we marveled at the TV, we drank. Alas, our Vols came up short, and so began the downfall of Fulmer and the slump that would last through last year.
I never saw a good Vols game on that TV. I watched T Cody block a kick with his armpit. I watched UT pick up a "moral victory" at Florida. I watched 13 players stop LSU at the goal line. I watched Justin Hunter come down on his knee carrying the weight of 7 years of Florida lashings. I saw it all in stunning HD clarity on my 65 inch monstrosity.
I also beat the hell out of the wall around the TV with shoes, plastic cups, beer cans, pillows, cushions, footballs, more shoes, a cast, pens, books, batteries, controllers, and paper plates.
Fast forward to yesterday. I sold the television to a friend who likes Michigan football, and I picked up a new Samsung 51 inch plasma. I have mounted it above my fireplace on a swivel mount. I have readied the room for much football viewing and beer consumption.
This TV is going to change everything. Maybe it's my egocentrism allowing me to believe that MY television was the portal through which all negative things happened to the Vols, but I truly believe that this new television will change it all for us.
I will update everyone on the status of the television following the NCSU game at the end of the month. Until then, I'm going to treat the new TV with much respect and make sure that it knows the Vols are the team that must triumph.
GBO | Idolatry, IMO. | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:22 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Battling the Tide
Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Birmingham, AL
Posts: 200
Likes: 77
| Every little bit helps. Love my 51 Samsung btw as it will blow the Toshiba away. | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:25 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Jacksboro, TN
Posts: 6,237
Likes: 814
| I can't believe I read all this.....
__________________
There is Basketball and then there is everything else. | |
| VN Likes: 1 | |
08-03-2012, 03:26 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | LOG JAMMIN'
Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Off the grid
Posts: 1,672
Likes: 1,039
| so this is what's REALLY been going on. where were you two years ago man?
__________________
Now finish up them taters; I'm gonna go fondle my sweaters.. | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:33 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Evil wizard
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 928
Likes: 485
| you should have known something was wrong with that TV after it the UCLA game, IMO | |
| VN Likes: 1 | |
08-03-2012, 03:34 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 10,293
Likes: 1,143
| eff it, I'll go with anything at this point. | |
| VN Likes: 1 | |
08-03-2012, 03:36 PM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Happy Holidays!
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Knoxville, Tn.
Posts: 11,117
Likes: 640
| You know, I think that's about the time I bought my plasma, holy crap! I have wasted a lot of time changing game day traditions and all I needed to do was get a new TV? Darn | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:36 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Smyrna TN
Posts: 575
Likes: 65
| ..and all along I thought it my gameday shirts. I have spent a fortune on shirts the last couple of years. I won't wear a shirt with a loss on it. | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:36 PM
|
#11 (permalink)
| | Capt. Legion of Miserable
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Rocky Top
Posts: 771
Likes: 348
| We'll know for sure if Michigan has a 5-7 campaign..  | |
| VN Likes: 1 | |
08-03-2012, 03:39 PM
|
#12 (permalink)
| | 5 star member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Hermitage, tn.
Posts: 18,321
Likes: 2,104
| This is going to change everything. I'm thinking National Title now. | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:41 PM
|
#13 (permalink)
| | Attaboy, Butch!
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 6,554
Likes: 9,486
| Good post, I enjoyed reading it  | |
| VN Likes: 1 | |
08-03-2012, 03:44 PM
|
#14 (permalink)
| | Give my all for the VOLS
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 5,563
Likes: 1,659
| Quote:
Originally Posted by Brianchevy We'll know for sure if Michigan has a 5-7 campaign.. | Do they play Wyoming this year?
And thanks for the post Big Steve, it made me chuckle. | |
| | |
08-03-2012, 03:46 PM
|
#15 (permalink)
| | My boy Smokey...
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Olive Branch, MS
Posts: 5,043
Likes: 237
| No way I could have gone from a 65" TV to a 51" TV.
__________________  | |
| VN Likes: 1 | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | | |
 | |
Forums |
