I've never made any bones about it on this board, I'm a Vols football fan, only. I follow UNC in basketball because Roy Williams coached at my high school before going to Carolina as Dean's assistant, Brad Dougherty played basketball at my high school, and although you don't like Buzz Peterson in K'town, he did play high school basketball for one of my high school's rivals. By the way, I hate Dook and I'm a METHODIST. That's like a Catholic hating Notre Dame.
What is a true Vols football fan. I am. I have a power T in my cars' rear window, a real game worn Vols helmet complete with war wounds ($250) in the back window shelf of my car along with a never worn Vols cap. I have a CD in my car player of the Pride of the Southland playing "Down the Field" and "Rocky Top". My wife's cell phone rings "Rocky Top" and she has a shrine with used Vols game tickets, orange and white pom-poms and a UT cheerleader Barbie doll on her shelf above her desk. Both our PC's at work have Vol's wallpaper. I have a beer opener that plays Rocky Top. I eat cheetos, orange Moon Pies, and drink RC cola during televised games. Before I plan anything on Saturday during football season, I find out when the Vols are on TV so I can be home to see it. I hate Alabama and Bear Bryant in particular. I stopped pulling for the Redskins when Spurrier went up there. I'm always buying Tennessee shirts, caps, jackets, and any other souveniers I can find. We go to Karaoke bars and our intro music is Rocky Top by the Tennessee band. We attend Vols home games whenever we can get tickets. I have trouble sleeping when the Vols lose a big game. We don't just talk the talk, we walk the walk. I critcize them when things go like they have this year but I continue support them in the hope things will turn around. I get on this board and read every post and sometimes post myself. What burns my ass more than anything else is the people on here who belittle people like me because I don't live and die with every atheletic team the school puts on the field and because I'm not a native Tennessean or a UT grad. By the way, I tape all the Vol games, keep the good ones, and watch them over and over after the season ends. How can I support Vols basketball when we only get a couple of games a year televised here, I can't get Vols radio, and the newspaper here doesnt post any scores except ACC and top 25 game scores. Like it or not, the football Vols have a lot of supporters like me who don't follow any other Vols teams except the womens BB team. So tell me, would you rather not have us in your corner?
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