What would a TRUE VOL fan do?

#26
#26
The Original Fade said:
Regardless of outcome, I’ll watch knowing none of this really matters compared to the gifts of a loving wife, kids on the right track, a stable job, and reasonable good health for a 49 year old, that God has blessed my life with.
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Especially when considering many thought the season would never happen. Carpe Diem.
 
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#27
#27
Cheer on the VOLS as if they can actually hear you miles away and expect the upset. This has trap game written all over it.
 
#30
#30
HoopCreekVol said:
Here's a question to ponder. Say you really like the VOLS because you actually got a degree there and met your wife of nearly 35 years there back in the day, so how should you approach this upcoming game with Bama?

Watch and hope for the best?
Turn to another game?
Watch something else on Lifetime?
Clean up the house?
Cheer on the VOLS as if they can actually hear you miles away?
Go to Neyland to try and suit up to help them?
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Suit up
Pal
 
#31
#31
Go to the game if you can and get loud for the Vols.

Watch on TV if you can’t make it to the game.

Listen on the radio if you can’t watch on TV.

Have your brother send you text updates if you can’t listen on the radio.

You just never know when your last game will be.

Who else was at the 2003 5 OT win in Tuscaloosa?

In the final OT there was a guy that stood up and got the TN fans to get loud during a time out. Once the Vol fans got loud the players responded and made the plays need to end the game with a Vol victory. That’s my only Victory Cigar while being at the game. I’m glad I stood up and gave my all that day. Thanks to all the other Vol fans that “gave all” that day too.

That’s how I remember that game.
 
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#32
#32
Watch the game. Hope for the best. And stop pretending like it matters more than it does.
 
#33
#33
I’ll watch with excitement, then I’ll blame it on the coach and have hope he’ll be fired one day.

Trutf
 
#35
#35
Hacksaw said:
I get busy on Saturdays, so a few years ago I began DVR'ing all games, even if I think I'll be home and free of distractions. Over time, I've found it very convenient to be able to pause the game if I have to step away for a few minutes. And if I begin watching the recording from the DVR about 20-30 minutes after kickoff, I can fast forward through the commercials and catch up to the live broadcast sometime in the second-half, which lets me skip through halftime.

I've also learned that it's a good way to selectively skim through the painful parts, which makes it a little less irritating to endure. I may wait until sometime after halftime this week, since I expect to have to do a lot of skimming.
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I take it a step further and wait till the game is over before cueing it up. I also make sure to check the score.

If the final is Bama 42 - UT 7, I will blast through it to avoid wasting 3hrs of my life. If, however, the gods favor us that day and UT wins with a last second field goal, I can calmly watch JG toss 2 pick 6's in the 1st half knowing even he can't lose this one!

It has made watching bad UT football a bit less painful and free's up my saturday's for more pleasurable things like weed-eating my 1/2 mile long driveway.....
 
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#36
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robby487 said:
I am 69 and never remember when i wasn't a Vol fan. My dad would tune them in on the radio every Saturday and we would listen to the game. Win, lose or tie i will always be a Vol fan.
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"Look at that Philco, what a picture. Look at that Philco, what a price" - you know you are getting older when you can remember the Voice of the Vols.
 
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#37
#37
Buy some Grey Goose, put some porn on and you and your wife enjoy the afternoon.
 
#38
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Hacksaw said:
I get busy on Saturdays, so a few years ago I began DVR'ing all games, even if I think I'll be home and free of distractions. Over time, I've found it very convenient to be able to pause the game if I have to step away for a few minutes. And if I begin watching the recording from the DVR about 20-30 minutes after kickoff, I can fast forward through the commercials and catch up to the live broadcast sometime in the second-half, which lets me skip through halftime.

I've also learned that it's a good way to selectively skim through the painful parts, which makes it a little less irritating to endure. I may wait until sometime after halftime this week, since I expect to have to do a lot of skimming.
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LOL! You just described me!
 
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#39
#39
My HS Coach played under Neyland and was one of the flaming Sophomores. All his stories about the 29 team that scored over 300 pts and only allowed 30 is what sold me on the Vols. Tenn. quit running the single wing the year I was born so I been a fan for a long time. I have never wavered and never will.
 
#41
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HoopCreekVol said:
Here's a question to ponder. Say you really like the VOLS because you actually got a degree there and met your wife of nearly 35 years there back in the day, so how should you approach this upcoming game with Bama?

Watch and hope for the best?
Turn to another game?
Watch something else on Lifetime?
Clean up the house?
Cheer on the VOLS as if they can actually hear you miles away?
Go to Neyland to try and suit up to help them?
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A.
 
#44
#44
Iam4utalways said:
Go to the game if you can and get loud for the Vols.

Watch on TV if you can’t make it to the game.

Listen on the radio if you can’t watch on TV.

Have your brother send you text updates if you can’t listen on the radio.

You just never know when your last game will be.

Who else was at the 2003 5 OT win in Tuscaloosa?

In the final OT there was a guy that stood up and got the TN fans to get loud during a time out. Once the Vol fans got loud the players responded and made the plays need to end the game with a Vol victory. That’s my only Victory Cigar while being at the game. I’m glad I stood up and gave my all that day. Thanks to all the other Vol fans that “gave all” that day too.

That’s how I remember that game.
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I was there. Told a friend of mine if he said “this play is the game” one more time I was going to kick his a&&. Think we had about 20 of those.
 
#46
#46
I watch, but tell all my Dawg friends I don’t even bother anymore. Then i go home and watch the game, I pound on whatever I can find, scream at the top of my lungs and somewhere in the back of my mind picture myself walking into work Monday after we pulled up the biggest upset in SEC history. I’m truly delusional!
 
#47
#47
First game was in '65. Family had season tix from the pie in the sky until I gave them up during the dooley era. I used to spend my time and money traveling to Knoxville to see this program play on Saturdays. It was just life for us to be in Knoxville on Saturdays in the fall.

Then it got to the point that I began to question why I had chosen to put myself through something so frustrating and expensive that I was no longer enjoying. Now I spend my time and money traveling to various courses to play golf. I check the scores after my round to see if I need to bother with watching a replay.

A part of me still hopes we get this turned around and I'll renew those season tickets and make this a ritual again. Sadly though, I suspect I've attended my last game in Neyland. There's just nothing I've seen over these last several years that makes me think UT will be the program it once was.
 
#48
#48
Bigorangeyankee,I did go to UT and am with you that I'll watch the whole.game,bitch at the refs,and have the belief that we can always win.Tennessee doesn't lose,we just run out of time.Freshman in 1966. and will always bleed orange No Matter What!
 
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