Recent content by Sgt.Rock

Ever consider that Nico's dad may be running interference because Nico, he of the inability to read a defense or find open receivers, might not be capable of the savvy it takes to exist in the real world. Or maybe they are both that way--considering the way this has gone down. I think the team...

I was a VOL fan long before college entered the picture. My Mom was from Bristol and Tennessee is all there was. We lived in NC but the only TV stations we could pick up were 6 and 10 out of Knoxville. On Saturdays when helping my Dad doing side plumbing jobs (he was a Union pipefitter out of a...

60 years plus, since I first saw my Mom and Dad in animated conversation about an exciting trip they were taking the next day, a three hour trip to Neyland and a Tennessee home game (and a stop at Cas Walker's on the way home). A lifetime of ups, downs, pride, disappointment, and wearing orange...

Victory is driving your enemies before you and hearing the lamentations of their women... Hopefully Ohio will be whining after tonight. I saw some signs on College Game Day "Ohio against the World"--in this instance I think it is Tennessee against the world, and time to show those Buckeyes what...

In our prayers.

And then just like that.... It's tied!

Vandy gets better. Kentucky gets better. We get worse. Go figure.

I think Hemingway said there were only three real sports: bullfighting, mountain climbing, and auto racing, because you can easily lose you life in those. Everything else is just a game. Just a game. I keep telling myself this tonight.

I may have to quit watching this game--my wife says my screaming at the TV is scaring the dog.

Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda doesn't count after time expires. The harsh reality is we lost a game in which we more or less had our ass handed to us. A look at yardage stats, time of possession, etc. tells it all. For me and my psyche I once again must dial back my expectations that it is 2024 not...

The Swamp Rat. Later I would interview him for a feature when he was the coach at Copper Basin High School in Copperhill. Walked into the interview blind and got the shakes when I saw his name on the desk. GBO.

Prior to the game in talking with friends we determined that going to Tuscaloosa after beating Bama in Knoxville last year that we would have to win by at least three touchdowns, because there would be enough "Alabama calls" to give them 14 points at least. I was not shocked that it happened...

My daughter and son-in-law attended Ole Miss during the Eli era, and I found an "Archie Who?" pin back in an antique store and gave it to him for Christmas. Didn't want it around the house.

I shudder to think what any SEC team would have already done to us playing like this. Mercy.

Bama is always gonna get the Bama Bump, usually it is in calls in their favor on the field, where it makes a difference. Our solution to solve all this next year is pretty basic. Whip all their asses, badly, so that they have no choice but to vote Vols No. 1 with a Natty. As Conan said, "Drive...