"Peyton Manning, University of Tennessee"

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#151
I get so tired of all the Peyton haters. Maybe if he started fights in strip clubs, got arrested for DUI, beat up his wife, sold drugs and had a criminal record everyone outside the Big Orange Nation would find him more acceptable.

Legend, icon, leader, role model...all rolled up into the league's only 4-time MVP.
 
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woodrox said:
I get so tired of all the Peyton haters. Maybe if he started fights in strip clubs, got arrested for DUI, beat up his wife, sold drugs and had a criminal record everyone outside the Big Orange Nation would find him more acceptable.

Legend, icon, leader, role model...all rolled up into the league's only 4-time MVP.
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What? Who hates Peyton?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Because making fun of the glory hunters is so much fun. They get so defensive and spittle-frothing angry.

You'll never find a guy who just owns up to it. They've all got a story about sticking through the hard times, even if they root for the Yankees and Cowboys and Lakers. High comedy.
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I like you VG, you're good people. But in all fairness, after everything you've said, you probably owe an explanation as to how you became a Caps fan??
 
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sonofUT62 said:
I like you VG, you're good people. But in all fairness, after everything you've said, you probably owe an explanation as to how you became a Caps fan??
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I graduated from UTK in 1993 and immediately moved to DC, where I lived for three years. That's where I started watching hockey for the first time. It was the fabulous Peter Bonda/Olie Kolzig era of barely getting into the playoffs and then losing to the Penguins, rather than the subsequent heady Alex Ovechkin era of having one of the best records in the league and then losing to the Penguins in the playoffs. Agony all the way around either way.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I graduated from UTK in 1993 and immediately moved to DC, where I lived for three years. That's where I started watching hockey for the first time. It was the fabulous Peter Bonda/Olie Kolzig era of barely getting into the playoffs and then losing to the Penguins, rather than the subsequent heady Alex Ovechkin era of having one of the best records in the league and then losing to the Penguins in the playoffs. Agony all the way around either way.
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That's perfectly reasonable. And his reasons for liking his teams seem reasonable too. The only thing I'm suspicious about is the fact that he became a Dodgers's fan in 1988. I think they won the Series that year.
 
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sonofUT62 said:
That's perfectly reasonable. And his reasons for liking his teams seem reasonable too. The only thing I'm suspicious about is the fact that he became a Dodgers's fan in 1988. I think they won the Series that year.
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Everyone who grew up in Tennessee in the 70s/80s was a frontrunner. Every kid in the class was a Steelers fan or a Cowboys fan -- except for the three or four guys who thought they were badasses, so they decided they were Raiders fans. I was a Steelers fan. It lasted until about the same time that I figured out what girls were.

Other than baseball. All the kids I knew in East TN who thought about baseball rooted for either the Braves or the Reds, unless they had a dad or an uncle who rooted for somebody else. For some reason those teams were close enough that there was a clear regional loyalty that there wasn't for, say, the Falcons and Bengals.

Maybe this guy just liked Steve Garvey's rippling forearms.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Everyone who grew up in Tennessee in the 70s/80s was a frontrunner. Every kid in the class was a Steelers fan or a Cowboys fan -- except for the three or four guys who thought they were badasses, so they decided they were Raiders fans. I was a Steelers fan. It lasted until about the same time that I figured out what girls were.

Other than baseball. All the kids I knew in East TN who thought about baseball rooted for either the Braves or the Reds, unless they had a dad or an uncle who rooted for somebody else. For some reason those teams were close enough that there was a clear regional loyalty that there wasn't for, say, the Falcons and Bengals.

Maybe this guy just liked Steve Garvey's rippling forearms.
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I got tickets to ten Braves games in 1990 for birthday and good grades. They lost 9 of them and the one they won was called in the 6th due to rain.
 
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sonofUT62 said:
That's perfectly reasonable. And his reasons for liking his teams seem reasonable too. The only thing I'm suspicious about is the fact that he became a Dodgers's fan in 1988. I think they won the Series that year.
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It didnt start in 1988, I started liking all my teams from the late 70's early 80's. I was just saying they hadnt been decent since 1988.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Because making fun of the glory hunters is so much fun. They get so defensive and spittle-frothing angry.

You'll never find a guy who just owns up to it. They've all got a story about sticking through the hard times, even if they root for the Yankees and Cowboys and Lakers. High comedy.
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Glory Hunters? I have had one of my three major sports teams win a championship in 25 yrs....You make absolutely no sense for a guy with 2 degrees.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
Some Vol fan. Smh :no:
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I hate this logic. He was a rival of the Titans his entire career, of course I'm not going to cheer for him in the NFL. After spurning the Titans, I'm still not going to cheer for him. When it comes to college sports, I only care about the Vols. After that, good luck to them but I'm not gonna cheer for every single professional team a Vol plays for. The team they're playing for is not the Vols. Not everyone has a problem separating pro sports from college sports. Since when did not cheering for Peyton Manning in the NFL mean you're less of a Tennessee fan? No offense but that's absurd.
 
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