Tennessee #7

#26
#26
9. LSU - Tiger stadium is dangerous for visiting fans. There seems to be a cross section similar to Alabama’s situation, but all LSU fans seem to get along, whether they live in a lean-to in a swamp or on a 17th century mansion on 75,000 acres.

Show me a 17th century mansion in Louisiana, and I've got some ocean front property in Missouri for ya.
 
#29
#29
My experience...

The only fan I have ever hit was a Florida fan. He tried to grab the majorette I was assigned to guard on the way out of the stadium at the '95 game. We were having piss-filled beer bottles hurled on us (the tuba section). Their band was constantly apologetic as they brought us cases of free Gatorade to help us deal with the heat.

The most consistently rude fans I've seen are Georgia fans, both in Knoxville and Athens. Gator fans will just flash a gator chomp at the buses in Gainesville but are fairly docile outside the stadium here; Georgia fans, from cub scouts to geriatrics, are adept at giving you the finger no matter where you're at.

Tennessee fans... sigh.... I hate to lump my own people in with the worst of the conference, but I remember one of my hallmates coming in after the '96 game pissed off. He had just filed a police report where he had his rear car window bashed out by a UT fan, all for the crime of having a license plate from Florida. At the 98 game, UT fans were trying to yank hats, citation cords, and flip folders off of band members' uniforms in the post game celebration; I was cursed out for "helping that scum" for trying to get some lost Florida band members out of the stadium safely.

My favorite fans are Auburn fans. The time I was at Jordan-Hare, they were docile and didn't seem to care much. The pre-game keggers and cookouts were far more interesting than another team milling around campus.
 
#30
#30
Umm, how is Knoxville, "in the middle of nowhere"? Knoxville is the 3rd largest city in the state and one of the top 100 largest cities in the United States.
 
#35
#35
The middle of nowhere part is like of wtfmate, but the author probably thinks Knoxville is a podunk city, as opposed to the 3rd-4th largest in TN.

I mean it isn't a HUGE metropolis or anything, but it isn't the middle of nowhere. World's Fair 1985, son!
 
#37
#37
sMi.Spite said:
The middle of nowhere part is like of wtfmate, but the author probably thinks Knoxville is a podunk city, as opposed to the 3rd-4th largest in TN.

I mean it isn't a HUGE metropolis or anything, but it isn't the middle of nowhere. World's Fair 1985, son!
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1982 would be the World's Fair year. Same year we broke the Bama curse.
 
#38
#38
I haven't looked over all of the candidates yet, but I'm pretty sure that gem will make the "10 Worst Blogs in College Football" list.
 
#39
#39
He's got a good point about Texas. Earlier this season I was watching them play Ok. St. and I was like WTF, since I've heard more noise at a funeral home.
 
#40
#40
Red Stick, Gainesville, and Athens all have some real pieces of work. Last time I went to Sanford there was frat boy that got in the face of a 4 year old girl wearing UT dress. If I was her dad I would have killed him, but he seemed nervous, as it was I still almost ended up in a fight over it when I stepped in. I don't like any of them but I really hate Georgia fans.
 
#41
#41
This article is very wrong. Auburn fans have always been mean to me and my friends. Alabama fans have always been nice when I have been in Tuscalosa. Florida fans are obviously very rude, they are way off base on that one. I spent one semester at Virginia Tech and heard horror stories about West Virginia fans. How could they be on that list. I heard a story about a couple going to Morgantown to a VT and WVU game and a group of WVU fans told that guy's GF... you know where this is going. That list is absolutely awful.
 
#42
#42
Honestly...I think we shouldn't be on the list at all. Maybe even on the worst list.
I love my Vols and I will stick up for them through thick and thin, but when you have a closed-in stadium that seats over 100k, and you can hear a pin drop after we gain 6-7 yards on a run on 1st down, that just doesn't cut it as a top 10 fan base. Our main set of fans remember watching the Neyland-coached teams, practically. It's stand until 1 good play happens, then everyone claps, then everyone sits. The reason our basketball home-court advantage is so great is because the students stand all the time. Just being forced to stand (due to no chairs) almost intrigues the students to be loud. If the fans in Neyland stood for half the game, Neyland would be a force. As it is now, though, it's just a really big crowd that's great at being quiet.
I can say that we travel VERY well. You won't find many teams that travel fans better than UT. That being said, we travel the quiet fans. How else do you explain getting overpowered by the LSU fans last year at the SEC CG? That stadium was easily 2/3 orange, yet the sound was about 3/4 in favor of LSU. That should never happen. When you are in a closed dome with that stark of a difference in the percentage of fans, it should have been roaring on each UT possession. Sadly, however, all you could hear was the yelling of the Cajuns from the other side of the field.
 
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