Orangedogsrule
PULEEZE LET SMOKEY WIN!!!
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My mother's family lived in Alabama, so I would get razzed at family camp outs & get togethers all through the 60's & 70's by that set of cousins ... 'orange haired adopted step child' etc. One cousin drove for Covenant Trucking and in 1985 he stopped in Knoxville and we went out to eat. He had on a brand new white Bama hat with the big embroidered A and I was wearing a new Big Orange cap with the Power T.
My turn to razz him as we had just run off 4 wins after Bama's string of 11 from 1971 to 1981. So he grabbed my hat off my head put his on mine and told me I we would swap hats again when Tennessee won another game. He would wear my hat and I had to wear his. (To myself I said I'd only wear it around the house, ... maybe) ... So, fine!
Well, NOT! Bama ran off 9 wins in a row. For the first 5 or 6 years that hat saw virtually NO wear, sat on the shelf in my closet. Then, sometimes I'd throw it on to go to the lake, etc, where no one would see me. Finally in the summer of 1995, after I'd grown to absolutely HATE that hat I started wearing it to mow, change oil, engine work, what ever. I made it my dirty work hat.
That fall we beat BAMA! Cuz stopped by an handed me my perfectly clean but well worn hat, and told me he kept it in his truck and where ever he went around the country and wore it he'd invariably get a "Go Vols!", but not a "Roll Tide" when he wore his Bama cap. So he thought that was cool that the Vols had such a national following. But I had this ratty ol thing covered in sweat, grease, and grass stains to give back to him ... heh heh!
So, I wear all my Vol caps till the wife looks at my head like I'm weird so I wash it or they fall apart. Grease, grass, sweat stains and all, even my 98 National Champs cap. They ain't pretty, but it's what I do.
My turn to razz him as we had just run off 4 wins after Bama's string of 11 from 1971 to 1981. So he grabbed my hat off my head put his on mine and told me I we would swap hats again when Tennessee won another game. He would wear my hat and I had to wear his. (To myself I said I'd only wear it around the house, ... maybe) ... So, fine!
Well, NOT! Bama ran off 9 wins in a row. For the first 5 or 6 years that hat saw virtually NO wear, sat on the shelf in my closet. Then, sometimes I'd throw it on to go to the lake, etc, where no one would see me. Finally in the summer of 1995, after I'd grown to absolutely HATE that hat I started wearing it to mow, change oil, engine work, what ever. I made it my dirty work hat.
That fall we beat BAMA! Cuz stopped by an handed me my perfectly clean but well worn hat, and told me he kept it in his truck and where ever he went around the country and wore it he'd invariably get a "Go Vols!", but not a "Roll Tide" when he wore his Bama cap. So he thought that was cool that the Vols had such a national following. But I had this ratty ol thing covered in sweat, grease, and grass stains to give back to him ... heh heh!
So, I wear all my Vol caps till the wife looks at my head like I'm weird so I wash it or they fall apart. Grease, grass, sweat stains and all, even my 98 National Champs cap. They ain't pretty, but it's what I do.
