Met a Vol fan from France today...

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Low and behold, I am not a doctor, as many of you like to think and comment on. My initials are D and R and that's why my user name is the way it is. However, the "doc" nickname can stick because that's cool.

Anyways, I'm in the French club at ETSU and I was talking to a graduate student from France today about various things including sports. He said that last year he went to two different Tennessee games, a small game and the Alabama game. He commented on the size of the stadium and said that it was awesome to be in one of the world's biggest stadiums. He said it was just as good as anything else sports related he had ever seen whether it be soccer or rugby or some other fancy European sport. Best of all he said something upon the lines of "We (as in Tennessee), are not that good right now but the game was still great."

Made me proud to be a Tennessee Vol. The point of this story is that the Tennessee name is not just something that's statewide or nationwide, it's something that's worldwide. That's definitely something to be proud of Volnation.

Go Vols.
 
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Great post.

Not to detract from the point of this thread, but I've always wanted to go and experience soccer in a big stadium in Europe.

Glad to see the Vols receiving some love from France. At least they got that right haha.
 
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No way he was from Paris. Based on the quotes from him he sounds like he from Normandy, tn.:lolabove:
 
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Actually he said he was from Toulon, France. Don't know if there is a Toulon, Tennessee. Toulon was where Napoleon won his first battle for you history buffs out there.
 
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I used to hang out with a couple frenchies at ETSU. They lived in upperclass. Go Bucs
 
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LittleCat said:
Great post.

Not to detract from the point of this thread, but I've always wanted to go and experience soccer in a big stadium in Europe.

Glad to see the Vols receiving some love from France. At least they got that right haha.
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But then you would have to sit through a soccer game.:blink:
 
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It always amuses me the wrongheaded stereotypes people have of the French these days. Not only would US WWII soldiers kick our rear despite the Vichy Government the French Maquis fought the NAZIs every step of the way and were one of the major reasons our invasion worked. We would've also LOST the War of Independence without them. The French have always been and are to this day very much like Americans -- nationalists to the core who have every bit the balls and bravado we have.

That said, some Parisians are notorious contrarians that take pride in pissing off or being rude to foreigners though it's more like any major city enjoying it's rep for rudeness than anything else. They drop the act if you get to know them. The rest of the country is very, very, different.
 
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The French are okay have had good friends from there, some of the hottest women I have known in real life were from there too, they could dress conservative and still be just smoking hawt even in a turtleneck. I just don't like Parisians....visited and they lived up to their jerk stereotypes pretty well.....then again 80% of the French population is Parisian I think...:p But everyone outside of Paris was kewl!
 
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drgreear said:
Actually he said he was from Toulon, France. Don't know if there is a Toulon, Tennessee. Toulon was where Napoleon won his first battle for you history buffs out there.
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There is in fact a Toulon Tn. It's near Ripley in West Tn.
 
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drgreear said:
The point of this story is that the Tennessee name is not just something that's statewide or nationwide, it's something that's worldwide.
Go Vols.
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With the increasing exposure football receives via the web and satellite, it's only natural that we'll attract more international fans in the future.

On the flip side, we have lost some misguided American souls to SOCCER. I know people who live and breathe that sport, can name all the players' names, etc.
 
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