1982 Vols Stop Alabama 11 game winning streak.

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1982: Bear Bryant makes his final trip to Neyland Stadium. #2 Alabama's 11-game win streak over the Vols comes to an end 35-28 as UT coach Johnny Majors is carried to mid-field in celebration to shake Bryant's hand one last time.


Yes, I was there!
 
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I was in The Pride and remember vividly being in the spiral before the game and looked over at the endzone to see Bear leaning against the goal post with the houndstooth hat tilted down as he looked over his players. I watched him for a while as I thought I might never be that close to a legend again. I was right.

That night after the game was beyond unbelievable. At 3:00am my gf called me in my dorm and I could still hear people yelling up and down Cumberland. In my math class on Monday my teacher couldnt speak from yelling so much.

Good times
 
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Oh Lord! My freshman year at UT! What a party afterwords, police blocked off strip cause of the 20k people on it!

Oh to be young again! :cray::cray:



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John Ward calling Mike Terry's interception in the end zone is one of the sweetest things these ears have ever heard.
 
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I was in Boston and it was in the Sunday morning announcements at Church. I kid you not. There were more than a few Tennesseans in attendance. And yes there were cheers.
 
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GAVol said:
My first game too. I was 9. I distinctly remember after the game realizing what it meant when people were drunk.
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same here. i wasn't there, but i distinctly remember my mom, dad and my grandparents celebrating wildly...well, wildly for them and as much as i can recollect being 9:)
 
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Oh my, Vols just switched formations into an I formation right before they passed it down field. What the hell.
 
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Still in high school working at the worlds fair at the south end near the Chinese pavilion. People were huddled around radios wherever they could be found. Will never forget hearing Neyland roar when the clock hit zero. Couldn't resist taking Cumberland home later that night. The fans were still partying long after the goal post were down. I swear the sidewalks along Cumberland were at least ankle deep with with beer cans.

As a youngster growing up in the seventies, loving the VOLS, reading the Sentinel and Journal for any information regarding the Vols. That was a day I'll never forget.
 
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I was born in 73 and was old enough but my folks had moved me up to yankee land the year before and I wasn't able to get into vol football at that time, I rediscovered vol football around 93' when football was really taking off on tv and you could see all the games. This is fantastic. I feel like I'm living it for the first.
 
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