Silly Coach Majors

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So as I have posted before I work at the bank where Coach Fulmer banks and I see him frequently. Even posted a picture of the hat he signed for me on here. But I didn't realize Coach Majors comes here too...

The other day he came in right at closing time and I honestly barely recognized him. As many of you know he had a stroke a couple months back and his health is really declining. Anyways, I saw he was wearing his championship ring from Pitt and I asked if I could see it. He smiled and held it up for me and said "this is from a while back. I actually used to coach the University of Pittsburgh. We did a lot of hard work that year." I smiled and said "you did a lot of hard work for us around here too Coach Majors." He smiled and I said "yeah I know who ya are. It's a pleasure meeting you!"

He didn't seem to be all there but it was still fun to meet him. Pray for him VN. I expect he doesn't exactly have a ton of time left.
 
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He snapped and yelled curse words at me on the side of the street prior to the O&W game when I met him and the wife walking towards us and said to him how much of a fan of his I was and appreciate all he had done for UT and asked if I could have my picture taken with him. His wife scolded him a little bit and he then yelled and cursed at her, so yea, theres my Coach Majors story. Your story is much better.
 
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I love Coach Majors. I was at the game where the University proclaimed the Majors family the first family of Tennessee football. The Player, The Coach, THE LEGEND!
 
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Saw him coming out of a restaurant with his wife and another couple on Bourbon Street the night before the 1990 Sugar Bowl vs Virginia....he was drunker than 3 mops and at least 1 bicycle.
 
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If he has that kind of recall and interaction ability then it's probably the meds making him look so bad. Ironically it's also the very thing that making him so functional.
 
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skasper06 said:
So as I have posted before I work at the bank where Coach Fulmer banks and I see him frequently. Even posted a picture of the hat he signed for me on here. But I didn't realize Coach Majors comes here too...

The other day he came in right at closing time and I honestly barely recognized him. As many of you know he had a stroke a couple months back and his health is really declining. Anyways, I saw he was wearing his championship ring from Pitt and I asked if I could see it. He smiled and held it up for me and said "this is from a while back. I actually used to coach the University of Pittsburgh. We did a lot of hard work that year." I smiled and said "you did a lot of hard work for us around here too Coach Majors." He smiled and I said "yeah I know who ya are. It's a pleasure meeting you!"

He didn't seem to be all there but it was still fun to meet him. Pray for him VN. I expect he doesn't exactly have a ton of time left.
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I was there the first time he ran on the field as coach and there the last time he ran on the field as coach, he still should have won the Heisman in 56 the golden boy from Norte Dame with a 2 and 8 record won it, think about it this day and time if they gave it to a guy from a school with a 2 and 8 record.:salute::Coach liked a shot every now and then.:toast:
 
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Anybody else see him on the Major's show after we beat Notre Dame and he was banging his leprechaun stick on the desk???
 
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1allvol said:
He snapped and yelled curse words at me on the side of the street prior to the O&W game when I met him and the wife walking towards us and said to him how much of a fan of his I was and appreciate all he had done for UT and asked if I could have my picture taken with him. His wife scolded him a little bit and he then yelled and cursed at her, so yea, theres my Coach Majors story. Your story is much better.
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sounds like some dementia. You just have to work around it with people who are losing their memories.
 
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terrypedigo said:
I was there the first time he ran on the field as coach and there the last time he ran on the field as coach, he still should have won the Heisman in 56 the golden boy from Norte Dame with a 2 and 8 record won it, think about it this day and time if they gave it to a guy from a school with a 2 and 8 record.:salute::Coach liked a shot every now and then.:toast:
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Majors has a much bigger gripe about not winning the Heisman
 
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I got a shot glass where the bear took a shot from in 1973, every time we beat them I p@ss in it and laugh my azz off been a while now its drawing dust.
 
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1allvol said:
He snapped and yelled curse words at me on the side of the street prior to the O&W game when I met him and the wife walking towards us and said to him how much of a fan of his I was and appreciate all he had done for UT and asked if I could have my picture taken with him. His wife scolded him a little bit and he then yelled and cursed at her, so yea, theres my Coach Majors story. Your story is much better.
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Sad. There is always one.
 
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I thought I had heard something like that, but I wasn't real sure.....:huh:

I just can't recall.
 
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I thought I had heard something like that, but I wasn't real sure.....:huh:

Anybody else hear that?
 
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I thought I had heard something like that, but I wasn't real sure.....:huh:

I'll have to google it.
 
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I was a student when he was coaching UT and I thought he was a great coach - although CPF is now my all time favorite. What was sad is that even back in those days we had some dumb disrespectful fans who called him Minors any time we lost a game.
 
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