First Tennessee football game you attended

[wwilso29]

Southern Miss in 2007. I was a freshman and Rico McCoy power bombed a WR and the place went nuts.

 

[PA Vol]

2013 South Carolina.

2015 Oklahoma was the only other game I’ve ever been to.

 

[mercuryvol]

I was there in press box, working game for Huntsville Times

My home newspaper and a great one. Went to B’ham that day an Alabama fan but left Orange to the core, much to my father’s surprise and delight. Huntsville was a wonderful city to grow up in but from then on my heart has been in East Tennessee.

 

[Ten_Titans]

Georgia motha****in State.

Go **** yourself Jeremy.

 

[jpope9]

1998 Arkansas game was my first ever UT game.

The atmosphere on the strip after that game was epic.

 

[VolNavy01]

1983 Tennessee vs Georgia Tech. We beat their a$$ that rainy day, 37-3.

 

[LSU-SIU]

I think I went to the 1989 game against LSU but I don't remember it. I was at the 2011 game against LSU at Neyland.

 

[ArdentVol]

My home newspaper and a great one. Went to B’ham that day an Alabama fan but left Orange to the core, much to my father’s surprise and delight. Huntsville was a wonderful city to grow up in but from then on my heart has been in East Tennessee.

it was a great newspaper..... i was a basketball junkie and leftit for durham to cover acc basketball

 

[BigOrangeAl 1979]

Georgia motha****in State.

Go **** yourself Jeremy.

Im so sorry

 

[24/7vol]

I'm 65 and been a fan since Dewey Warren and never been to Neyland to watch a game. It's on my bucket list. I guess I had better hurry up or my first might be my last lol.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

1983 UT-Vandy. Reggie White had like 7 sacks and Tennessee destroyed Vandy! Have been to at least 1 game every year since 1985 with the exception of 3 seasons with 1 being last year because of covid. GBO!

 

[CDB]

I'm 65 and been a fan since Dewey Warren and never been to Neyland to watch a game. It's on my bucket list. I guess I had better hurry up or my first might be my last lol.

You need to. One of the best things I’ve ever done was take my mom, a long time Tennessee fan, to a game in her early 70s when she could still get around well. I think it was the ‘99 South Carolina game. It was a beautiful day. We took in all the festivities, watched the POTS salute the Hill (I think she liked the POTS better than the football team lol), and watched the Vols kick some chicken. Now that she’s no longer with us it’s one of many memories that I cherish (I had a great mom).

 

[SayNoToJorts]

1997 SEC championship. I was 11 and had played pee wee football in Atlanta since I was 6 so it was my first opportunity close to home when I wasn’t playing on Saturday. What a way to start

 

[Milehigh_Vol]

1996 Alabama game. I couldn't see over all the people standing, but my grandfather didn't want to miss the game and his wife made him take me... Thanks step grandma

 

[Hoghater]

1971 liberty bowl, UT 14 Arkansas 13. Been hating the hogs about 50 years

 

[bicenTENNial]

1984 Tennessee vs Alabama... I was 7 years old...My dad took me...Still have the ticket stubs... I'll never forget it... While I wore allot of Tennessee gear because my dad was a fan I wasn't yet a Tennessee football fan...I fell in love with the big orange that day

 

[SaintLouieVol]

UCLA. 1968. UT won 42-18. Yes I am old.

 

[TNnative]

My first was a JV game against Georgia Tech after the yearly 4-H club gathering at the Animal Sciences bldg on the Ag campus. The first varsity game was against Hawaii two years later after the same event. David Allen was one of my favorite players, and he had a pick 6. Dammit, I had to go "see a man about a dog" and when I got back, my school friends said, "Your hero scored a TD"

 

[Pcvols80]

1981 Colorado State

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

2006 @ Memphis. So many Tiger High fans thought they were gonna upset us.

First game at Neyland was 2014 vs. Utah State. I thought I was in for some great football seasons as a student…

 

[BlackCreekVol]

Overtime win vs. Florida in 98. Set the bar pretty high

 

[West-Tn-Vol]

1977 vs Memphis St....Coach Majors 1st year as coach and a Big Orange Win 27-14!!!

 

[BigOrangeLoyalist]

Mine was the 1986 season opener against New Mexico. Tennessee won 35-21

Southern Miss @ Tennessee in ‘97 I believe.

 

[JohnWardForever]

. A memorable win for sure

Watch the entire game on espn, at the start of the fourth; you'll hear a little song I wrote for PM.

 

[iluvcooter]

Vandy 1979. I was only 5, so I don't remember anything about the game. But I do remember Vandy running through our T at the beginning of the game (back when our locker room was under the east stands, visitor was in the south like it is today). Not long after that they moved our locker room to the north end. My brother and I alternated going to games for years with my grandmother, sitting in section V row 17 right behind Bowden Wyatt's wife.