I don't understand. . .

#51
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L O S T in Orange said:
I dont think its a problem if you are a fan of more than just the vols in col basketball/football.

Part of college sports is enjoying the entire season. Whether the vols are doing good are not, im gonna watch and cheer for teams other than them in order to get the entire college football season experience.

Example, I jumped on the Ducks bandwagon when they had Dixon and Stewart just cause they were a surprise team and made the season fun. Im sure alot of pl became ECU fans earlier this year because they made the season fun.
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i see what you're saying, but a college football season should be enjoyable without jumping on any bandwagon. i only pull for another team if them winning positively affects ut in some way. jumping in with another team's fanbase shouldn't be necessary to get the "full college football experience." one of the best parts of a college football season is just sitting back and watching how things unfold.

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#52
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Sabanocchio said:
There are no reasons for split allegiances IMO. Only excuses.
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I don't trust people like this. I never have...never will. There's something mysterious about them. And a bad mysterious...not a Chris Angel mysterious that interests you
 
#53
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duckman398686 said:
i see what you're saying, but a college football season should be enjoyable without jumping on any bandwagon. i only pull for another team if them winning positively affects ut in some way. jumping in with another team's fanbase shouldn't be necessary to get the "full college football experience." one of the best parts of a college football season is just sitting back and watching how things unfold.

just my 2 cents...
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This is sort of an interesting way to put it. Because one of the things that I didn't mention upthread when I talked about being a Georgia Tech "fan" is that I never wear their gear around town or to their football games. I've been given a couple of Tech shirts over the years, and I'll wear them at home or in one of my Tech-alum friends' houses while watching a game, but for some reason I've always drawn the line at putting on Tech regalia and going down to a football game. I always wear a UT shirt. (A couple of my Tech fans have groused about it a little bit, but I always tell them I'm just showing support for Bobby Dodd.) I haven't really thought about it too much, but I guess it does have something to do with not wanting to "jump in with another team's fanbase."
 
#55
#55
I live in Nashville, and all I hear is how much people love Vandy/Bama/Kentucky. Choose one and go with it! When you wake up on Saturday morning, and you don't know which colors to wear, there is something wrong with you! Let your testicles drop, and pick a team! Another thing...Bear/Wallace Wade/Adolph Rupp are all dead. Stop it! You are not a member of SEC fans when you can't decide who to like every Saturday. Leave, go join a Big 11 team, and leave us real fans alone. No one respects you. You are a cancer to fans all over the country. Don't ever call yourself an SEC fan. I hate to admit it, but Florida fans don't do this crap. They like Florida, and that's it. I can respect that. Bama/Vandy/Kentucky fans, just leave. You are a disgrace! Yeah, you know it. Just go watch soccer and leave the REAL men alone.
 
#56
#56
im 100 percent comitted to UT football.
Im 100 percent commited to kansas basketball.


thats how i roll
 
#57
#57
I acually know a guy who claims to be a Yankees and a Red Sox fan, honestly didn't know it was possible..... to be that stupid.
 
#59
#59
I graduated from West Georgia College (now University of West Georgia) and after 3 years on a job related to my major I wound up in sporting goods. I liked a lot of different teams in those days and would buy whay ever hat, shirt , etc. looked good when we put it on the rack. I talked my best friend into going to UT because she wanted to "get away from home" and I played baseball at WGC with a couple of Tennessee guys who talked about how great it was up there. I went to my first game at UT in 1978 and fell in love with the atmosphere surrounding UT football. I would go to a game every year just for the game day experience. When UT played Notre Dame in a close game in about 89 or 90, I found myself standing and yelling the whole game and deflated by the lose like the other UT fans around me. I have been a UT Vol ever since and will pull for another SEC opponent only if it helps UT in the standings. I don't care for bama or fl. but living in Georgia, I know no other fans more obnoxious than bulldog fans. I will not wear anthing red. Looking forward to the Orange and White game. GO VOLS!
 
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#60
#60
I have two alma maters, neither of which is UT. One, I pull for in everything all the time and likely would against UT in football, buy I played two sports there and we would be massive underdogs. That doesn't diminish my Vol fandom. My other alma mater I view as a mercenary transaction. I root for them, but couldn't consider them if they ever played UT.

If that disqualifies me as a good fan, so be it.
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#61
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vol11 said:
I graduated from West Georgia College (now University of West Georgia) and after 3 years on a job related to my major I wound up in sporting goods. I liked a lot of different teams in those days and would buy whay ever hat, shirt , etc. looked good when we put it on the rack. I talked my best friend into going to UT because she wanted to "get away from home" and I played baseball at WGC with a couple of Tennessee guys who talked about how great it was up there. I went to my first game at UT in 1978 and fell in love with the atmosphere surrounding UT football. I would go to a game every year just for the game day experience. When UT played Notre Dame in a close game in about 89 or 90, I found myself standing and yelling the wholr game and deflated by the lose like the other UT fans around me. I have been a UT Vol ever since and will pull for another SEC opponent only if it helps UT in the standings. I don't care for bama or fl. but living in Georgia, I know no other fans more obnoxious than bulldog fans. I will not wear anthing red. Looking forward to the Orange and White game. GO VOLS!
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Just because I love college sports, I'll usually visit a college campus when I have to go to a college town for business and I'll buy a shirt or a hat UNLESS the team is in the SEC, is Ohio St. or USC. For example, I went to Tempe to see the ASU campus, saw the football stadium and the NICE baseball stadium, and I bought a shirt and hat there.

I went to LSU's campus last year and we talked our way into a tour of the athletic facilities. . .why the trainer let us walk through the weight room and onto the field I have no idea. The campus was cool, but I DID NOT buy any clothing. . .that's just me, but I won't own gear of a rival, no matter how small the rivalry is.

My buddy who is a BAMA fan (Lord forgive him) has a shirt from every college team in the country EXCEPT UT. :)
 
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#62
#62
I am a native bred and born Tennessean, Woodbury, Cannon County. My family is a fifth generation UT family, father, class of '47, daughter class of '94, nephews classes of '84, '95 and '00, and currently great nephews and nieces (if there is such a thing) enrolled at Knoxville. Since I graduated from UT (class of 1970) I have been fortunate to travel and live all over the world with my wife and children. I have and will always pull for and support the Vols what ever they are competing in. BUT, my two sons went to OK State (we lived in Edmond, OK and I could not afford the out of state tuition for UT) so I pull for them unless they play the Vols (after all,:boxing2: they have about $50K of my money!) I also pull for San Francisco as I was stationed there in the 60s and saw my first Pro game there and I pull for Dallas as I saw many games there when living in OK. I also pull for the "Nashville" Titans (which is where I grew up). They are the Nashville Titans because there is only one Tennessee football team and they are in Knoxville. So-- don't give me this exclusive support bull s---, "or you can't be a true Tennessee fan."
 
#63
#63
GoVols said:
This is the exact reason why Vandy fans don't get any of my respect. They like Vandy, Kentucky basketball, and Alabama football. You all are not REAL fans. You wonder why no one respects your opinions, well this is why. Has anyone noticed that all Vandy fans like Bama, and vise versa? This is why you should quit watching sports. Actually, just go to hell. You are a disgrace to sports fans, and you should be treated as such. Pick a damn team, and go with it. You bunch of losers who can't decide which team to root for every Saturday. Just go to hell, all of you. Maybe your husbands can tell you which team to choose every Saturday. Vandy fans, stay in your Nashville homes, and root for the black and gold/crimson tide/wildcat basketball. No one cares about your opinion, and honestly, no one cares what you think. Find a cave and die, sorry for the harshness, but its how I feel and you can live with it.
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Good Lord.... get a grip. You shouldn't stay up so late. And lay off the Jack.
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#64
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GoVols said:
This is the exact reason why Vandy fans don't get any of my respect. They like Vandy, Kentucky basketball, and Alabama football. You all are not REAL fans. You wonder why no one respects your opinions, well this is why. Has anyone noticed that all Vandy fans like Bama, and vise versa? This is why you should quit watching sports. Actually, just go to hell. You are a disgrace to sports fans, and you should be treated as such. Pick a damn team, and go with it. You bunch of losers who can't decide which team to root for every Saturday. Just go to hell, all of you. Maybe your husbands can tell you which team to choose every Saturday. Vandy fans, stay in your Nashville homes, and root for the black and gold/crimson tide/wildcat basketball. No one cares about your opinion, and honestly, no one cares what you think. Find a cave and die, sorry for the harshness, but its how I feel and you can live with it.
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I am posting this again just to be sure you see it. What are you - 16?

I am a native bred and born Tennessean, Woodbury, Cannon County. My family is a fifth generation UT family, father, class of '47, daughter class of '94, nephews classes of '84, '95 and '00, and currently great nephews and nieces (if there is such a thing) enrolled at Knoxville. Since I graduated from UT (class of 1970) I have been fortunate to travel and live all over the world with my wife and children. I have and will always pull for and support the Vols what ever they are competing in. BUT, my two sons went to OK State (we lived in Edmond, OK and I could not afford the out of state tuition for UT) so I pull for them unless they play the Vols (after all, they have about $50K of my money!) I also pull for San Francisco as I was stationed there in the 60s and saw my first Pro game there and I pull for Dallas as I saw many games there when living in OK. I also pull for the "Nashville" Titans (which is where I grew up). They are the Nashville Titans because there is only one Tennessee football team and they are in Knoxville. So-- don't give me this exclusive support bull s---, "or you can't be a true Tennessee fan."
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#65
#65
Vercingetorix said:
Memphis is just complicated. There's the cultural thing, which has been going on forever (East TN did not want to secede from the Union, for example). There's the distance thing, of course -- is there any other state with its flagship state campus farther from its biggest city? There's the fact that the ingrained college football loyalties in the south were forged at a time when there was basically no football on TV, and that 400-mile distance between Memphis and Knoxville seemed a lot farther than it does now.

It's not just football. I grew up in Knoxville, and the first time I visited Memphis, I was 21 years old. I remember driving into town thinking, "I've been to over 40 of the 50 United States. I've been to a handful of foreign countries. I've been to Washington DC six or seven times; I've been to Nashville more times than I can count. But this is the first time I've been to the biggest city in my home state. Weird."
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Nashville is bigger than Memphis...just saying
 
#68
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Mattlock said:
. . .how someone could be a "fan" of more than one college team, even if its two different sports. I'm not knocking anyone who is, I just don't get it myself. I work with a guy who went to UT, he cheers for UT in football, but if the basketball Vols were playing UNC, he would cheer for Carolina. I like some teams better than others, but I don't see myself ever being able to be a "fan" of any team but the Vols in any sport. Anyone else find this hard to understand?
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I agree totally. I am a Vol fan through the highs and lows.
 
#69
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VKAman said:
yeah it is...Nashville has over 1.5 million people and Memphis doesn't...
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wrong on Nashville. Technically the above statement about Memphis is true though

Memphis has over 670,000 residents

Nashville has almost 591,000 residents.

Memphis is 279 sq miles.

Nashville 502 sq miles

sources: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
Largest U.S. City - Largest Cities in the United States

note, on the last one, Memphis makes the list, Nashville doesn't.
 
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#70
#70
I was told by a co-worker that "you cannot cheer for a losing program". He is a UT/Notre Dame football fan and a UNC basketball fan.

I give this guy absolute hell. He was not sure what to do this past season in football. My argument is that I am a UT fan whether they are undefeated or winless. He won't see it like this.
 
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volfanbill said:
wrong on Nashville. Technically the above statement about Memphis is true though

memphis has over 670,000 residents

nashville has almost 591,000 residents.

Memphis is 279 sq miles.

Nashville 502 sq miles
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Stupid measurement...if we got by population JUST in the city then Jacksonville is the biggest city in the south...it and Memphis (along with Nashville and umm El Paso) are all bigger than Atlanta because it has about 519,000 people. Usually when people say population, they mean population in the metropolitan area (Atlanta has 5.28 million and is 9th in America instead of 33rd) because it is the only measurement that actually makes sense.
 
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VKAman said:
Stupid measurement...if we got by population JUST in the city then Jacksonville is the biggest city in the south...it and Memphis (along with Nashville and umm El Paso) are all bigger than Atlanta because it has about 519,000 people. Usually when people say population, they mean population in the metropolitan area (Atlanta has 5.28 million and is 9th in America instead of 33rd) because it is the only measurement that actually makes sense.
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Nashville is already getting to count Davidson and is almost twice the land size Memphis is in these measurements. Nashville is not bigger than Memphis, unless you want to start counting the entire middle part of the state "Nashville".
 
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volfanbill said:
Nashville is already getting to count Davidson and is almost twice the land size Memphis is in these measurements. Nashville is not bigger than Memphis, unless you want to start counting the entire middle part of the state "Nashville".
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It's not the entire middle part of the state...it just adds places like Franklin that have popuations only because they work in downtown Nashville. As I said, if people think Atlanta is bigger than Jacksonville and that Miami is bigger than Omaha, then they should agree that Nashville is bigger than Memphis because it is the same measurement. Memphis is bigger if Omaha/Jacksonville are bigger (aka if you completely ignore common sense to go with a strict city population).
 
#75
#75
Let's see here. I openly root for 4 teams in all college sports. I love the Vols. I bleed orange, and that will never change. However, I also root for North Carolina, USC(the real SC), and Boise State.

Reasons why............

North Carolina = Have been a Carolina fan since I was a little kid

USC = Reggie Bush = Awesomeness embodied

Boise State = The guts they showed in Tempe that night made me a fan of them for life.
 
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