Sadly I had to let mine go. I nearly got offed by Delta last fall, 3 months in Hospital, and on oxygen for many months after....and the Ramp to me now looks like the Chimney Tops times 3 and would require a Sherpa. So of course we're doing well now after decades of me being there when we weren't.... lol... I'm gonna have to settle for from home for awhile. I still remember when I had an old codger sic a state trooper on me for standing on 3rd downs! Even the officer was like, I really don't know what to do here. If you go to the stadium you have to not only expect people standing up you need to support them doing so even if you can't. I want to see Neyland rowdy again!Participant fans may not be able to afford a ticket for much longer.
I was wondering why it stopped too. It was scaryLet me take exception with one thing here: People in the upper deck should NOT stand up during the game.
Fans up there used to sit the whole time and stomp both feet the entire game and it was absolutely deafening.
For some reason this stopped somewhere around the early 90s.
I'm telling you, the level of noise at other games I've been to does not compare to back when people did this. It echoes throughout the stadium and is unlike anything you've heard in Neyland.
Somebody that tweets should work on a campaign to bring this back.
I remember sitting on the lower deck while this was happening and I couldn't even hear the person sitting beside me.
This is probably preaching to the choir here.
But I really hope that the non participant type fans will sell or give their tickets to Vol fans that will:
stand the whole game
scream the whole game
jingle their keys and pound the bleachers the whole game.
We all know that There are some casual Vol fans that go to the games primarily for the social element. To see and be seen.
And for a lot of games, that’s ok.
But not this upcoming game. Not this TSIO.
For this game we need the loudest, most obnoxious, BASTIDGES around to be there and give their All for Tennessee.
Make the CBS folks and other national media say it’s the most raucous crowd they’ve ever witnessed.
GO LARGE ORANGE!!! Beat Bama! Storm the field! Take down the goalposts and put them in the River! Show the world that WE ARE BACK.
Exactly. Given what some of these fans have been through but yet showed up through years of frustration. Some of our fans are older can raise a little less hell than others, doesn’t make them less fans. Do what you can to support your team whether times are good or bad and it makes you more a fan than some loud bandwagon fan.Loud or quiet, stomping or sitting, red-faced or composed, here's what I prefer: that the bleachers be filled with fans who were true to the Vols through the Dark Ages, who supported every lad in orange and every coach who tried, even those who weren't up to the task. Fans who never wavered in their support for the Tennessee Volunteers, not even in the worst of years. Not even in 2012. Not even in 2017. Not even in 2020.
That's who I'd like to see sitting in Neyland Cathedral on Saturday. That's who deserves to be there. Thanks for all of you who kept the faith through our decade of trial and tribulation.
Go Vols!