Greatest Memory or Story!

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FireFulmer

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With the tough times at hand now in the Big Orange Country, I thought it was time to start remembering some of the good times. I would like to hear your best stories or memories of tennessee football.

1 of my best memories is just listening to the radio hearing John Ward say , "Give him six!" Let me know what yours is!
 
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Mine has been and will always be the very first game of the season when you hear "Its football time in Tennessee"
 
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Just 1 more I promise. After winning the National Championship in the Fiesta Bowl, Peerless Price was doing the seminole chop and cutting is throat at the same time to FSU fans. It was a great night and the perfect ending to agreat year.
 
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FireFulmer said:
With the tough times at hand now in the Big Orange Country, I thought it was time to start remembering some of the good times. I would like to hear your best stories or memories of tennessee football.

1 of my best memories is just listening to the radio hearing John Ward say , "Give him six!" Let me know what yours is!
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One of my favorites was when Washington State put up 55 points in Neyland, I was ecstatic.
 
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Beating UF in 98 when they choked the field goal in OT, then picking up $100 from a Gator fan back at my tailgate party, who gave me UT and 3.
 
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My favorite game was in 98 against Arkansas and when you saw what seemed was a miracle Stoerner sets the ball on the ground and we recover to keep the dream season alive. What a miracle
 
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Knowing the UCLA game was the first game i did not attend in person for 5 years, home or away has made me really miss my Vols. Not being a native Tennessean, although i got there as fast as i could, I know I can never fully understand the history some families grew up with. Ive been a UT fan my whole life but in southeastern Virginia I'm not in much fellow company. The lessons i learned at UT were much more than biology or political science, they were life lessons learned from the community of Knoxville and from all UT fans across the South. Every away game weekend three of my friends who were all born and raised in the Knoxville area and I would pack up my small car with as much orange and Jack Daniels that could fit into a '98 stratus and with a huge orange T sticker on the back and shakers hanging out the trunk, windows, and hood we would drive the trips to Florida, Alabama, and yes even out to California last year, yelling "GO VOLS!!!" and hanging out the windows like crazed fools. We did this out of love for the program, a program that has given the East Tennessee a feeling of hope every Saturday, because although Knoxville may not be the richest or most affluent area of the country, we at least had our Vols, and thats all we needed. If there is a more devoted area to a team that lives or dies on it's success I'd sure like to see it. I've seem the highs ('04 Florida last second winning field goal by Wilhoit) to the lows (getting taken to the woodshed by Florida last year in the Swamp and being spat on by their fans with mullets and cut-off jean shorts). I came to UT as a eighteen year old wide-eyed boy, but after those road trips to see the Vols play and witnessing the community put their heart and soul into that team willing them to victory after victory as well as writhing in defeat. A school could not ask for better, more devoted, and loyal fans than those that wear the orange and white every Saturday. Some say we're headed downhill the past few years and while I cannot say we've exactly been on top, we are The University of Tennessee Volunteers and we will not be down for long. Living in East Tennessee for 5 years taught me that there much more to life than money, work, and deadlines....theres Vol Football and as long as the Pride of the Southland plays Rocky Top, the Vol Navy still floats, Neyland Stadium roars every Saturday as our Vols take on the world, my blood will always run orange.
 
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Mine was almost hitting Spurrier in the hotel parking lot in 97. We were trying to find where to park at the hotel when a visored man stepped out in front of our car in the parking lot. The driver hit the brakes on instinct and a scared man looked up at us from just a few feet away. We realized who it was and one of the passengers (not going to say who :whistling:) yelled "Gun it!" The man quickly scurried off to his room.

Turns out the entire UF team was staying there before the game so we had a pretty good time. They were coming back from their late night meal when we were rolling back from the bars. Words were said (from the safety of our balcony of course), cops came, etc. Ah, college memories...
 
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utvolpj said:
Mine was almost hitting Spurrier in the hotel parking lot in 97. We were trying to find where to park at the hotel when a visored man stepped out in front of our car in the parking lot. The driver hit the brakes on instinct and a scared man looked up at us from just a few feet away. We realized who it was and one of the passengers (not going to say who :whistling:) yelled "Gun it!" The man quickly scurried off to his room.

Turns out the entire UF team was staying there before the game so we had a pretty good time. They were coming back from their late night meal when we were rolling back from the bars. Words were said (from the safety of our balcony of course), cops came, etc. Ah, college memories...
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Now that is an awesome story! Your driver probably should have gunned it...
 
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Some of my greatest memories is just having hope for the week to come. Since I can remember we have started 1-1. Of course losing to UF. But, always at home and through the weeks to come having hope that UT would beat their opponent and hope that Florida would lose. Didn't happen alot.

This season, I don't like our coach, our QB is playing horrible, our OC is not up to par yet, but I still have hope. Let's go vols beat Auburn this week, gain momentum playing N. ILL. Then run the table.

Go Vols
 
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FireFulmer said:
Just 1 more I promise. After winning the National Championship in the Fiesta Bowl, Peerless Price was doing the seminole chop and cutting is throat at the same time to FSU fans. It was a great night and the perfect ending to agreat year.
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:rock: Ohhhh do i remember that!!
 
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i have never felt any better in my life...
going up 35-0 on Cal in '06, the crowd was live, we dominated, Cal didnt know what hit them and were in shock. after '05, we were back ! man, it felt soooo good to release the frustration of the last year. now it looks like it might have to be the same thing with Ucla next year...
 
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joeydupree said:
i have never felt any better in my life...
going up 35-0 on Cal in '06, the crowd was live, we dominated, Cal didnt know what hit them and were in shock. after '05, we were back ! man, it felt soooo good to release the frustration of the last year. now it looks like it might have to be the same thing with Ucla next year...
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that was a beautiful game. It was a huge group of people saying "We're here to support you even after last year so show us something good" and they delivered. One of the best feelings I've had in that stadium.
 
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Being that I graduated in 98, that whole season was a perfect end to my college experience. But a memory that sticks out was watching the Syracuse game in 98. Al Wilson ran in and knocked down D.McNabb with his chest and then later we won with a last second field goal. I remember after seeing that game getting a feeling that we were gonna do something special that year.

Oh and the auburn game that year too! Our defense was so nasty that game.
 
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Hammering Testaverde & Co was the UT night I can recall.
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Volgrad98 said:
Oh and the auburn game that year too! Our defense was so nasty that game.
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Yes it was. A huge touchdown run from Shaun Ellis (I think) and an incredible goal line stand. That defense was loaded with some mean, grown-ass men.

Jamal had a good day as well...up until the injury.
 
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Being at the Miracle at South Bend is one of my fonder UT memories.
 
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Watching us whoop Miami in the Sugar Bowl in '85 when we were suppose to get drilled....I was only 11 at the time...I was so excited watching my Dad go ape-chit.
 
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Beating FLA 45-3 in 1990. There was an avalanche of manhood-robbing points in the 2nd half. It was Spurrier's first year at FLA.
 
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2004 game in Neyland against the Gators. The personal foul penalty that kept us alive, but we still had a long way to go.

I was high above the end zone where the winning kick went through.

The place erupted. Best game I ever experienced. No one expected much out of our two freshman QB's. Schaffer was Ok, Ainge was a stud, evading tackles to get a pass down field, during the drive.

Great game!

Got home and Mark May and the white guy that used to commentate with him before granny Holz, white guy resigned asking for more money, were complaining about how the refs stole the game from FL.

I thought they were crazy, because I was there and saw the penalty, and didn't think it made a big enough difference to make or break the game.

They still had around a minute left after the FG and our defense stopped them, unless I remembered incorrectly.
 
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1995 Legion Field Birmingham, Alabama
1st play of the game. Bama's dominance of the VOLS was over. Cause a Sophmore QB named Peyton Manning was leading the VOLS offense.
 
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