Something is different this year

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PensacolaDave

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Maybe it's me. I was excited about the game early in the week, but I calmed down as it got closer. Watched ESPN on Saturday, but did not even have a beer before the game for the first time in probably 15 years. My wife just sat with me as I watched the game. Don't get me wrong, I felt my pulse quicken when we got the ball at the 5 after the fumble. Maybe I am just getting older, but it did not upset me that much when we did not cash it in. Drank a dr pepper, and just sat and watched. When things started to go bad, I did not get mad. When I was younger, every fiber of my being was involved in every play. My wife actually enjoyed sitting with me. As I watched the inevitable happen, I was not that upset. After the game, called my mom and went to sleep. Not saying anything bad against Fulmer, the team, just saying. I still feel strange about it. Just curious if anyone else felt the same. Again, this is not about the future of the program, the coaches, or Alabama, it might just be a coincidental change in me timed with a UT letdown.

As an embarrassing admission, I have realized I now enjoy the losses of our rivals more than our victories. Instead of enjoying our win last week and celebrating, I found myself looking at other message boards talk trash about their own teams (Mich, Auburn, etc). I get more excited watching other teams lose now than I do watching my own team win. I may be alone, but just typing this was theraputic (sp?) for me.

After reading what I have typed, I realize I sound pathetic. I am posting it anyway. Fire away.
 
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it's all good man. i'm not that siked about the season either. i got loud when we got the fumbled punt, and when eric berry made what i thought was the touchdown. other than that i just sat.
 
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I understand.. There is really no excuse for us not punching it in from the 5.
with knowing each win could keep fulmer on for years to come its hard to get excited about games.
UT fans are now going to become like cubs fans. We start expecting to lose. Then say wait till next year.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
it's all good man. i'm not that siked about the season either. i got loud when we got the fumbled punt, and when eric berry made what i thought was the touchdown. other than that i just sat.
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this was the only time that I got excited as well... in seasons past I would run the whole family out of the house when we got our butts handed to us like that... would take me the entire week to get over it... but now it only takes moments
 
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Same here Dave,I don't get pissed off like I use to and I don't get too excited about a win either.In my house,you use to couldn't stand to be around me during game time if the team was doing bad,now it's like,typical Tennessee.I use to get fired up and scream and holler after a good drive for a score,now it's like,we were lucky to get that.I don't know if it's age that's doing it or our hearts are just use to the let downs.What ever it is,I sure hope it gets fixed,I miss watching this team play smashmouth football.
 
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I don't mean to imply that I felt no emotion during the game, it just no longer moved me to yell or jump up off the couch and pace. I did get up and go to my spot where I take a knee in front of the TV during critical plays several times. And I was disappointed. But in the past I would have screamed, told my wife to get off the phone during the game, etc. I watch every game every year. I still will watch every game. And I kind of miss the irrational lunatic who seemed to possess me during games. Maybe it was a one time thing. It comes back, doesn't it? Sorry, didn't mean to sound like an ED commmercial.
 
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PensacolaDave said:
I don't mean to imply that I felt no emotion during the game, it just no longer moved me to yell or jump up off the couch and pace. I did get up and go to my spot where I take a knee in front of the TV during critical plays several times. And I was disappointed. But in the past I would have screamed, told my wife to get off the phone during the game, etc. I watch every game every year. I still will watch every game. And I kind of miss the irrational lunatic who seemed to possess me during games. Maybe it was a one time thing. It comes back, doesn't it? Sorry, didn't mean to sound like an ED commmercial.
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Don't sweat it, it'll come back when the team generates excitment again. If it makes you feel any better I went to the game and just sat there the whole game with my arms crossed (next to a 20 year old girl chewing on a big wad of tobacco - not kidding) like I was watching a movie. Didn't really cheer or get excited. Then I left early and went home due to boredom (of course home was 450 miles away) near the end of the 3rd quarter.
 
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ZZ13 said:
Don't sweat it, it'll come back when the team generates excitment again. If it makes you feel any better I went to the game and just sat there the whole game with my arms crossed (next to a 20 year old girl chewing on a big wad of tobacco - not kidding) like I was watching a movie. Didn't really cheer or get excited. Then I left early and went home due to boredom (of course home was 450 miles away) near the end of the 3rd quarter.
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WTF was a UK fan doing there???
 
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PensacolaDave said:
I don't mean to imply that I felt no emotion during the game, it just no longer moved me to yell or jump up off the couch and pace. I did get up and go to my spot where I take a knee in front of the TV during critical plays several times. And I was disappointed. But in the past I would have screamed, told my wife to get off the phone during the game, etc. I watch every game every year. I still will watch every game. And I kind of miss the irrational lunatic who seemed to possess me during games. Maybe it was a one time thing. It comes back, doesn't it? Sorry, didn't mean to sound like an ED commmercial.
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I know what you mean. The same thing happened to me 3 years ago when we only won 5 games and lost to Vandy. (I think it was 3 years ago anyway.) I had recently been married into an already made family, and I contibuted it to either getting older or becoming more family orientated. The bad news for you that I have, is that I still have not re-gained that maniac feeling I use to have when I watched the games. I use to be unable to sleep on nights we lost and then I pouted the whole day on Sundays. Now, I can go to sleep with no trouble even when we lose the late night game such as last night.

If you figure out how to get the uncontrolable emotions back, let me know. I as you wish it would come back and come back soon.
 
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PensacolaDave said:
Maybe it's me. I was excited about the game early in the week, but I calmed down as it got closer. Watched ESPN on Saturday, but did not even have a beer before the game for the first time in probably 15 years. My wife just sat with me as I watched the game. Don't get me wrong, I felt my pulse quicken when we got the ball at the 5 after the fumble. Maybe I am just getting older, but it did not upset me that much when we did not cash it in. Drank a dr pepper, and just sat and watched. When things started to go bad, I did not get mad. When I was younger, every fiber of my being was involved in every play. My wife actually enjoyed sitting with me. As I watched the inevitable happen, I was not that upset. After the game, called my mom and went to sleep. Not saying anything bad against Fulmer, the team, just saying. I still feel strange about it. Just curious if anyone else felt the same. Again, this is not about the future of the program, the coaches, or Alabama, it might just be a coincidental change in me timed with a UT letdown.

As an embarrassing admission, I have realized I now enjoy the losses of our rivals more than our victories. Instead of enjoying our win last week and celebrating, I found myself looking at other message boards talk trash about their own teams (Mich, Auburn, etc). I get more excited watching other teams lose now than I do watching my own team win. I may be alone, but just typing this was theraputic (sp?) for me.

After reading what I have typed, I realize I sound pathetic. I am posting it anyway. Fire away.
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Same exact thing is happening to me. I think a little of it is age but it is mostly due to the fact the team is the worst it has been since I started following Tennessee in 1989. There is very little to cheer about. No one expects to win the big games anymore. I used to not be able to sleep when Tennessee lost, now it is no problem at all. I used to think a 9-3 season was a complete failure. Now it would be a huge success.

Thanks to Fulmer for everything he has done for UT, especially 1998, but it is time for a change at the helm before it is too late. Tennessee is quickly vanishing in the rear view mirrors of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and LSU.
 
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Athe thing that p@#$%s me off the most is that I actually allowed myself to get up, yet again, for this game... since UCLA it's been harder and harder to do, and now... won't happen unless some big-time changes are made. Apathy, apathy, apathy. It's time to stop living as a delusional fool. 6-6 is the absolute best we can hope for this year and I really don't think I will be upset when UK breaks the 20-year win drought.
 
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I agree, didnt get excited much at all during the game. Sadly, ive come to expect the miss steps of our play as of late. I dont like that, but its the way it is.:good!:
 
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Yep. Didn't even expect to get a touchdown from the 5... Would've went crazy if we did, but already prepared myself to just sit back down and accept it "IF" we could get a field goal.
 
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Volmorning said:
Athe thing that p@#$%s me off the most is that I actually allowed myself to get up, yet again, for this game... since UCLA it's been harder and harder to do, and now... won't happen unless some big-time changes are made. Apathy, apathy, apathy. It's time to stop living as a delusional fool. 6-6 is the absolute best we can hope for this year and I really don't think I will be upset when UK breaks the 20-year win drought.
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Not me. I've been burned too many times and I finally learned from the mistake. Had to keep those sentiments on the DL around here last week cause I didn't want to be a killjoy... for me, UCLA was the lid slamming on the coffin, florida was the last nail being driven in.
 
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