1982 Tennessee 35 Alabama 28

#26
#26
I was a very young teenager and worked at a boarding kennel with several buildings. Fortunately we had an intercom system so you you could find people. I had John Ward cranked up all over the property and was listening as I mopped floors, etc. I'll never forget that day. Made cleaning dog **** fun.
 
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Pride85 said:
I was in the band at the time and it was my first real taste of how insane Neyland stadium could be. All I could think about was getting everyone off the field so we could quit playing in the stands and get to some serious celebrating.
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Etched in my memory! CJM shaking the hand of the Bear &
fans storming the field, goalposts carried down Cumberland
& the POTS providing great entertainment. Our son was in the band during the '98 championship season, too. Let's repeat the moment on Saturday! :hi:
 
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Thanks Freak!! I was a Vol before this one but this made me a diehard Vol Fan! Unbelievable game! GBO!
 
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Missed this game, the whole season really. Reported to Germany as a brand new 2nd Lt that fall, the Fall of '82. Armed Forces Network showed maybe 2 games a week, usually B10 or Notre Dame. German TV showed none, naturally. So chance of seeing a Vols game was next to zero. And couldn't catch John Ward on radio, either, of course.

Missed three years of Tennessee football to that tour, and others would follow over a career of deployments. God Bless family and friends for keeping a guy up to date on how the boys in orange were doing each week.

Go Vols!
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Missed this game, the whole season really. Reported to Germany as a brand new 2nd Lt that fall, the Fall of '82. Armed Forces Network showed maybe 2 games a week, usually B10 or Notre Dame. German TV showed none, naturally. So chance of seeing a Vols game was next to zero. And couldn't catch John Ward on radio, either, of course.

Missed three years of Tennessee football to that tour, and others would follow over a career of deployments. God Bless family and friends for keeping a guy up to date on how the boys in orange were doing each week.

Go Vols!
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not to be mean, but if you missed this game as well as the next two (?) years and those are all games we won over bama, do you mind going back to Germany for awhile?
 
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GreveHaller said:
not to be mean, but if you missed this game as well as the next two (?) years and those are all games we won over bama, do you mind going back to Germany for awhile?
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Haha, yeah, I get what you're saying.

No. :)





p.s. In my defense, I was home in the States when we won the '98 NC ... watched it up in Springfield, VA, while assigned to State Dept. So I'm not the bad luck charm.... :good!:
 
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While I am glad to be who I am and I appreciate the time I was raised in, I can't help but wish that I was born in a simpler time. A time where I would be old enough to have been at this game, and to have these memories of greatness be my own. The memories which are now carved in the stone wall of history for all future vol fans to read about.

I get a sense of nostalgia from reading you fine folk's memories of this fine day in '82. While I am only 23 I feel like I have been a die hard VOL fan for much longer.

Thank you for your stories and for sharing the emotions y'all went through on that day. I look forward to coming home this evening and enjoying this game in its entirety.

"Corn don't grow at all on rocky top, dirts too rocky by far, that's why all the folks on rocky top get their corn from a jar!

ROCKY TOP you will always be HOME, SWEET HOME to me, good ol ROCKY TOP, ROCKY TOP TENNESSEE!"
 
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Listened outside the world famous Jefferson Tavern in Oak Ridge on speakers on a car roof. As soon as it was over the parking lot emptied with folks heading for Cumberland Ave for the party. What a great day for the Vol faithful.
 
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We ran to the Stroh Haus after the game and almost splintered the tables dancing on top of them! 35-28 Won the next 3 in the series as well. 3-1 vs Bama during my time on the Hill.....
 
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That game was thrilling. I was living in Huntsville at the time so it made that win even more special. And it came down to the last play with Bama throwing into the end
zone. And when it was over I felt silly when I realized I had tears streaming down my face, and I turned to my wife and she was crying too. Then we looked around, and
everybody in MM was crying tears of joy. What a moment.
 
#39
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Man, I miss John Ward and Bill Anderson on the radio.

I know that's random, but thinking about the 1982 game gets me thinking about all those great radio calls those two made. Great memories.
 
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'82 win over Bama ranks up there as one of my favorite VOLS games.

1. '98 National Championship
2. '82 VOLS 35 Bama 28
3. '85 Sugar Bowl: VOLS 35 Miami 7
4. '83 VOLS 41 Bama 34
5. '84 VOLS 28 Bama 27

Honorable mention:
'85 VOLS 38 Auburn 20 (Bo Jackson)
'91 VOLS 35 Notre Dame 34 (Miracle at South Bend)
 
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#42
#42
This was before my time, but I've watched this game a few times over the years. What a great moment for our Vols. Really cool stories as well. I think it is time my generation has an epic win over Bama so I'll have something to reminisce about in thirty years. Beat Bama!
 
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My best friend at the time, Duan Henry #39, was starting linebacker that day. He is laying on top of Terry after the int in the endzone. I was there in U row 4, seat 1. Will never forget it!! Never.
 
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We drove 8 hours in this old silver ’76 Monte Carlo down to the game. My first time seeing UT v. Bama. Dad, his brother, and me. First game I was going with the adults because this was the year, according to Father Ferguson.

Sat in Section M, Row 43. Right under the visitors tunnel. We parked along Neyland Drive not far from the Ag campus in this lot for $5 and walked maybe a mile along the railroad tracks. Dad was three sheets in and Uncle Pat was well on his way. Thompson Boling wasn’t even a dream and you climbed a bank to get to the promenade. I think that lighted post with the four-sided T and football helmet still stood near gate 8 where we went in.

What a game. Cockrell, Gault, Jones, Peoples, Bates, Cofer, White. Mike Terry’s pick in the waning seconds. You felt momentum building in the third quarter, an unmistakable pull that you were about to see something incredible. Even a kid could sense it.

Game ended and pandemonium all around us. Screaming, tears, hugging of total strangers. Bear Bryant left the field and tipped his hat to acknowledge the crowd. I remember looking down spotting the plaid hat and feeling like I was seeing a president or a king leave his kingdom. Watched him disappear into the tunnel, and into history. Dad grabbed the back of my neck and said, “We’ll never forget this ****ing day, son!” He was right.

Remember seeing students carrying the goal posts down the middle of Cumberland Ave. After the revelry I had to drive us home. An 11-year-old sitting on two pillows driving back to Ohio while two drunk adults snored and dreamed. There isn’t a Bama game I don’t think about those crazed Irishmen and smile. Thanks, dad.
 
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#47
What a great game. What a wild night afterwards. I remember walking down to the strip where the road was buried under paper and beer cans. Kids today think they know how to party. Ha! Buck Fama!
 
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I was in the lower part of the Student section around the ten yard line, and when Mike Terry made the interception a mass of humanity made its way to the chain link fence that was on the other side of the concrete track. A KPD officer put his night stick right in my throat to keep me from going over, but the surge behind us was collapsing the fence. All the officers suddenly waived us on, and we ran around like a bunch of idiots. i will never forget that one goal post coming down with a horrific thud and hoping nobody's melon was underneath it.
 
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As a kid, I always wondered what it would be like to be at one of those wild endings where the crowd rushes the field, and I got to live it that day. Just an amazing, incredible memory, and absolute bedlam after the interception. I don't even remember the last kneel down - I always thought that they didn't play the last 17 seconds because of the crowd on the field!

We were in the lower section, and made a beeline for the south goal post, and I was one of those who tore it down and carried it down Cumberland Ave. - well, a big piece of it anyway. It was incredible how fast that thing came down.

The two things that stand out when I think back - the Vols warmed up in the standard home orange jersey / white pants, but when they ran out of the Power T they had on orange on orange, and it was absolutely electric in the stadium. The other was the fumble by Bama on the first play - I remember that it seemed like the ball was loose for ten minutes before the Vols jumped on it. The place was wild.

Like others have said, that was one insane night on the strip. I remember the police waiving the 'no open alcohol on the street' rules that night, and it was like a giant, wild block party. I finally got to my apt. in Fort Sanders at about 5 am, and woke up at about 11 and still heard partying going on down on the strip.

Sorry for the long post, but that is just one of the great memories of my time at UT. If anyone hasn't seen it, here is a link for the You Tube video of the game. I swear I can see myself at the end on the south goal post!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5zvuWZlQIU
 
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