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#101
#101
My first game was in '74 (I think), UT at Vandy. Don't remember much about it except that it poured the whole game and at some point our whole section moved down a row after some fool rolled down the bleachers. I think it ended in a tie and the whole place was miserable.
 
#102
#102
wags33 said:
My first game attended was 1990 Alabama 9 Tennessee 6. Heath Shuler was Qb and we had a chance to win at the end but the pass was incomplete.. I forget who that pass was intended for anyone remember?
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I was at that game. At the time I swore I would never go to another game...worst game ever. Of course I was back for the next home game. I don't remember a pass at the end. I do remember lining up for the game winning kick and getting it blocked and returned far enough for them to kick the winning FG. I thought that was the end of the game but I was a student then and at the peak of my heavy drinking days so I probably just don't remember the pass. I think we were ranked in the top 5 too iirc.
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#104
#104
First game in person:
1977 Cal
I was 7
I don't think we were ranked. I believe Johnny and the orange pants returned that year. I can barely remember that far back.
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volger said:
If true or my sarcasm meter needs batteries, this is the post of the year.
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Absolutely true. I had just come into the stadium from the concourse and was soaking in Neyland stadium for the first time. It was about 45 minutes before kickoff and not a lot of people were in there. There was a couple of cops about ten rows down talking to each other and they started up the stairs to go onto the concourse, I thought. I moved over a step to be out of their way but as they walked by one of them grabbed my arm and said "let's go". I said go where and he said you're going to jail. I said why and he said you're drunk which was a big pile of #$^%@. I spent the next eight hours in the Knoxville jail.
 
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#107
hmanvolfan said:
My first time in Neyland was around '71. The opponent was Ole Miss and it was homecoming. I didn't get to see the game because I got arrested by Knoxville's finest for having hair too long. Their excuse was that I was drunk but I was completely sober.
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#108
#108
First Game:
Sep 16, 1978 . UT Versus UCLA,
FINAL: UCLA 13- UT 0
Coach: Johnny Majors
My friend dad was an assistant coach and got me into the locker room after the game. Pretty cool first experience...

Bowl Game: Peach Bowl (old fulton county stadium)
W 01-02-1988 27 Indiana 22
 
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#112
BigOrangeTailgate said:
I was at that game. At the time I swore I would never go to another game...worst game ever. Of course I was back for the next home game. I don't remember a pass at the end. I do remember lining up for the game winning kick and getting it blocked and returned far enough for them to kick the winning FG. I thought that was the end of the game but I was a student then and at the peak of my heavy drinking days so I probably just don't remember the pass. I think we were ranked in the top 5 too iirc.
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You are right i was at the 1992 game my first we lost 17 to 10 the pass was intercepted in the end zone Shuler was Qb.. I remember leaving and people screaming Majors had to be fired...:lolabove:
 
#113
#113
Not even sure of the year. Remember my dad putting me on his shoulders walking up so I could see the field.
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#114
#114
1992 vs. Cincinnati
UT 40 - Cincy - 0
Heath Shuler was brilliant, Johnny Majors strode the sideline.
Later that year it would all be turned on its head.
Losses to Bama (again), Carolina, and Arkansas, plus Johnny's ticker ushered in the Pumpkin era.
UT beats Boston College in the Hall of Fame Bowl (now Outback)
Final ranking: 13
 
#115
#115
No idea what my first game was, I do remember Condredge Holloway was the QB; 1972'ish? Remember going to the UCLA game with my grandfather when it was right at 100 degrees, that was pretty early on too.

First Bowl game was the Sugar Bowl vs. VA, 1991 maybe. Since then I've seen 3 losses in the GA Dome. :banghead2:
 
#116
#116
wags33 said:
You are right i was at the 1992 game my first we lost 17 to 10 the pass was intercepted in the end zone Shuler was Qb.. I remember leaving and people screaming Majors had to be fired...:lolabove:
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Was at that game too. Sitting in the end zone across the aisle from the band. They were going strong with Rocky Top when the interception was thrown and then the band stopped mid song but not all at the same time either, sort of like if you ran the needle across a record. The way it sounded kind of summed up the feeling of the whole TN section.
 
#118
#118
UT Wins over Ole Miss in 1989

I don't remember the final score.

I do remember Chuck Webb rushing for 296 yards.

Should have been over 300, but Majors screwed up and pulled him thinking he had already crossed 300.

It was a good one to start on.
 
#120
#120
Sept. 19, 1981, Colorado State N Knoxville 42-0 W (We played Ga in Athens, then USC in LA and poor freshmen couldn't afford to travel)
8-4 in 1981
Garden State Bowl
Dec. 13 Wisconsin East Rutherford MIZ 28-21 W
SEC 3-3 (Tie 4th) We were not ranked that year. . .
 
#121
#121
GAVol said:
Unfortunately I was at that game . . .

The QB was actually Andy Kelly. We had about 150 yards of offense that night. The game ended with us getting a go ahead FG attempt blocked, the ball squirting backwards about 20 yards and then Van Tiffin kicking about a 47 yard FG to win for Bama. :banghead2:
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My freshman year and the first Bama game I saw in person :banghead2:
 
#123
#123
hmanvolfan said:
Absolutely true. I had just come into the stadium from the concourse and was soaking in Neyland stadium for the first time. It was about 45 minutes before kickoff and not a lot of people were in there. There was a couple of cops about ten rows down talking to each other and they started up the stairs to go onto the concourse, I thought. I moved over a step to be out of their way but as they walked by one of them grabbed my arm and said "let's go". I said go where and he said you're going to jail. I said why and he said you're drunk which was a big pile of #$^%@. I spent the next eight hours in the Knoxville jail.
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#124
#124
went to lots as a kid but the first one I truly remember from start to finish in AU in 85. I would assume most know how that season ended
 
#125
#125
My first game was the game after the Auburn game in '85. It was Wake Forest and everybody was still excited about beating Auburn the game before. It was a really close game and we only beat the Demon Deacons by two points that day.

I was 14 and my older brother was a student at UT. I got in on one of his roommates IDs and he spiked my drink for me. Good times. (Of course, as a parent now my perspective on that has changed a bit.)

The bowl game that year was the beat down of Miami in the Sugar bowl.
 
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