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Mike Hamilton, UT's athletics director, said on Tuesday an agreement in principle has been reached for Neyland Stadium to serve as a host site for the new All American Football League, which will play its games in the spring at campus sites around the country.
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So I guess this is probably no big deal. But there is a part of me that thinks another league, a team that is not the Vols, just ought not be playing on that field. Shields Watkins is fairly hallowed ground after all.
This bug anyone else?
 
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I need something other that cfl and arena for the off season. BRING IT ON!
Plus these will be players that we know. Maybe past UT players playing back at home.
 
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A league which restricts itself to players who have earned a degree. I don't get it.
 
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I'm not quite sure why anyone should be bothered by this. It's money to the university during the off-season. And, I KNOW that supporters of Women's sports and any men's sport other than hoops or football, or those hoping for a payoff and replacement of Fulmer, can't argue with that!

Just like the article says, the stadium has been rented out for concert use, so what's the difference?

As for the success of a spring, college-degrees only league. . . .ummmm. . . .I'm pretty sure if wrestlers and scantily-clad trashy chicks can't keep an "alternative" football league going for more than a couple of years, this will fly about as far as a lead-encased load of bricks.
 
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(kiddiedoc @ Jul 26 said:
As for the success of a spring, college-degrees only league. . . .ummmm. . . .I'm pretty sure if wrestlers and scantily-clad trashy chicks can't keep an "alternative" football league going for more than a couple of years, this will fly about as far as a lead-encased load of bricks.
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...and once a kid gets his degree and doesn't make it in the NFL, isn't it incumbent on us to help crush his pipe dream of playing professional sports so he'll go get a real job? A substandard football league only puts off the inevitable. :p
 
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(GAVol @ Jul 26 said:
A league which restricts itself to players who have earned a degree. I don't get it.
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Maybe I'll be able to understand the post-game interviews :p
 
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What's the difference between these guys playing thee and some high schools or NFL exhibition games being played there?
 
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(eternal @ Jul 26 said:
I need something other that cfl and arena for the off season. BRING IT ON!
Plus these will be players that we know. Maybe past UT players playing back at home.
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word. I wish they were playing at an area high school or something though
 
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(kiddiedoc @ Jul 26 said:
As for the success of a spring, college-degrees only league. . . .ummmm. . . .I'm pretty sure if wrestlers and scantily-clad trashy chicks can't keep an "alternative" football league going for more than a couple of years, this will fly about as far as a lead-encased load of bricks.
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Instead of "He Hate Me" we'll have "That Chap is Jealous of My Superior Acumen on the Gridiron"
 
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(volinbham @ Jul 26 said:
Instead of "He Hate Me" we'll have "That Chap is Jealous of My Superior Acumen on the Gridiron"
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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(GAVol @ Jul 26 said:
A league which restricts itself to players who have earned a degree. I don't get it.
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The only thing I can think of is that this league needed college schools to be on board with this. They obviously need them to approve use of stadiums around the country to make this thing work. It makes sense that schools would not approve of this type of thing if they felt it was competition in any way. Otherwise, the James Banks of the world could drop out of school and play in a league like this to get noticed by the NFL. The easiest way to make sure it does not compete with NCAA schools? Require players to have their degree. :dunno:
 
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(VOLracerx @ Jul 26 said:
wouldn't this "league" be like watching Vandy vs Yale????
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They'll be plenty of Sociology Majors from Auburn that will be eligible
 
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(orange+white=heaven @ Jul 26 said:
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So I guess this is probably no big deal. But there is a part of me that thinks another league, a team that is not the Vols, just ought not be playing on that field. Shields Watkins is fairly hallowed ground after all.
This bug anyone else?
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I have to agree with you Orange+White.
There is something about anyone playing Football on Shields Watkins as a “Home team” and it not being the Vols. I know we have used it for High School games but as “so called pro” it just doesn’t seem right. I wouldn’t even want the Titans playing there. Even when they needed a stadium you saw them go out west to “Tiger High” to play their home games before they went to Vandy. Now a “Bush” league pro football, I just don’t like it.



 
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(rockytopinalabam @ Jul 26 said:
What do you call a pretty girl at Neyland Stadium? A visitor.
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You obviously have had too much to drink before you come into the stadium. There are so many in my area you could produce a calendar for the next 60 years. Oh and they are all in Tennessee Orange, and I believe that would be the “Home” team.
 
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