Neyland Stadium capacity dropping to 100,011 in 2009

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jwells said:
60,000 jingling keyrings is not a beacon of intimidation.
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Just preparing to get the car warmed up. got to beat that knoxville traffic at the end of the 3rd quarter... Just kidding, ive never left a game early, it's against my family's religion
 
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ericberry4heisman said:
well we better do that then, cause i think we need to expand and get to the biggest, our huge stadium is one of our trademarks at tennessee and we are just gonna sit here and let one of our biggest rivals make theirs bigger than ours? i mean i know 100,000 is a lot but ive been to games with 108 so why not atleast keep it there
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Penn State is 107k+ and now Michigan is just shy of 110k.

Neyland could never be expanded to surpass those numbers.
 
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Neyland has never been over a 100k in seating anyway. When you have to sit on your neighbor's red rocket and call it your own.... well, that's just bs.
 
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VolDad said:
For you maybe; I am hoping that we will be able to point to championships as a source of pride.
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That's just it. You are hoping. I'm pretty sure that most fans are hoping to be able to point towards championships as a source of pride. At the present time, that's not happening. So yeah, the whole largest stadium in the south bragging rights thing was a big deal for me.
 
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I think Neyland's comforts are apparently too great, judging from all the permanently seated fans.

The seats really aren't too small. We just have too many fat fans.
 
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IPorange said:
I think Neyland's comforts are apparently too great, judging from all the permanently seated fans.

The seats really aren't too small. We just have too many fat fans.
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Seats under the jumbotron or anywhere on the upper deck are extremely tight. You cant sit without knees in your back or shoulder to shoulder. I would enjoy standing the whole game but others dont agree with me.

Cant argue with the fat fans. Every fan base has got em....ours just need to paint there bellies a little more often to make the camera shots around the stadium a little more enjoyable.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
There was a story awhile back in which Hamilton claimed that, according to some sort of unspecified "research," he believed that it was important from a recruiting standpoint to be over 100,000, but that it didn't matter how much over 100,000 we were. No idea whether that was actually based on anything, or whether Hamilton was just pulling it out of his hindquarters to justify the construction projects he'd already decided to do.
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I'm pretty sure the recruit probably never remembers the number in the thousands place. I'll give the benefit of a doubt to Mr. Hamilton.
 
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Volsfan2456 said:
Seats under the jumbotron or anywhere on the upper deck are extremely tight. You cant sit without knees in your back or shoulder to shoulder. I would enjoy standing the whole game but others dont agree with me.

Cant argue with the fat fans. Every fan base has got em....ours just need to paint there bellies a little more often to make the camera shots around the stadium a little more enjoyable.
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I dont really have a problem with shoulder to shoulder - it has never been that tight where I sit - but yeah - the knees in the back is annoying to have to deal with.
 
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#193
When you get to the 100K I don't think it really matters if someone else has 5,000 more fans or not. It's kind of moot at that point.

Just be proud to be in the 100K club since it's exclusive enough as is.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
When you get to the 100K I don't think it really matters if someone else has 5,000 more fans or not. It's kind of moot at that point.

Just be proud to be in the 100K club since it's exclusive enough as is.
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Yeah, it's like having a chance to join the mile high club. When the female offers, it's not as if you are going to turn her down and tell her that you guys are not quite high enough yet.
 
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IPorange said:
The seats really aren't too small. We just have too many fat fans.
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One fat guy can definitely screw up an entire row . . . but I don't think there's any doubt that the seats are an inch or two more narrow than they need to be.
 
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thagodfather said:
Yeah, it's like having a chance to join the mile high club. When the female offers, it's not as if you are going to turn her down and tell her that you guys are not quite high enough yet.
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You don't turn it down, you just have to last until you get to the appropriate altitude
 
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CheckerboardEndZone said:
Ridiculous......downgrading the stadium for the upper 1% of society. It'll come back to bite 'em.
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How is it a downgrade other than losing a few seats? Up until recent years, it was little more than an erector set built around an antiquated stadium and had zero architectural appeal.
 
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GAVol said:
One fat guy can definitely screw up an entire row . . . but I don't think there's any doubt that the seats are an inch or two more narrow than they need to be.
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GAVol said:
How is it a downgrade other than losing a few seats? Up until recent years, it was little more than an erector set built around an antiquated stadium and had zero architectural appeal.
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Agreed with both.

And people like this really screw the whole row up:

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