The Team Ran Every Step In Neyland

#101
#101
Talk about making a team a family. Now they can all say they did the stadium run when things look tough, they can look back to the run and say we made it through that we can make it through this
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#102
#102
As significant as the physical effort required to run those steps may be, more important, IMO, is that the players understand how many people it takes to fill that stadium, people who pay for the privilege of climbing those steep-ass steps, people who have other things they need and/or could spend that money on, but choose to spend those dollars to see the Vols play football.
I loved the quote, "when we go to Florida, we're not 105 strong, we're 106,000 + 105 strong. This is good perspective and a valuable life lesson.
When I served in the US Army, we were always taught, its not just these 100 guys in this platoon, its the 250 million back home who got your back. A powerful motivator...
 
#103
#103
AJeray4TN said:
Seriously, I've ran every stair in that stadium looking for the nearest Petros, AFTER a fifth of Evan Williams. Don't judge my booze, for broke college kids, that wasn't exactly swill.
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I've seen two hilarious JD/Evan Williams taste tests done by guys I worked with. One was 5 guys-blind taste test-3 picked Evan Williams, one guy wouldn't pick out of frustration, the other guy just said he couldn't tell the difference and would buy EW from then on. All were sworn to JD to the point of actually being kind of nasty about it. One still was after not picking.

The funniest one was a guy I used to play cards with. We used to leave bottles at a friend's where we played and bring a new bottle when we needed one. His bottle was about 3/4 full and one of the players who had been nagged about his choice of EW got the host to substitute EW for the guy's 3/4 full bottle of Jack (saving the Jack in a carafe in case he actually went off about it). He showed up and had his bottle (of EW, not JD) w/rocks almost gone while ribbing the guy about "cheap whiskey" the whole time. Even offered the EW drinker a drink so he would know the difference! The EW drinker said, "Good stuff." After being told what he was drinking all evening he tried denial at first, but knowing us all so well...he finally gave up and laughed about it. Another guy there at the time made him up a JD Black sticker later on so he could attach it to his EW bottles to keep his status drink.
 
#105
#105
bUTrosbUTrosVOLie said:
I've seen two hilarious JD/Evan Williams taste tests done by guys I worked with. One was 5 guys-blind taste test-3 picked Evan Williams, one guy wouldn't pick out of frustration, the other guy just said he couldn't tell the difference and would buy EW from then on. All were sworn to JD to the point of actually being kind of nasty about it. One still was after not picking.

The funniest one was a guy I used to play cards with. We used to leave bottles at a friend's where we played and bring a new bottle when we needed one. His bottle was about 3/4 full and one of the players who had been nagged about his choice of EW got the host to substitute EW for the guy's 3/4 full bottle of Jack (saving the Jack in a carafe in case he actually went off about it). He showed up and had his bottle (of EW, not JD) w/rocks almost gone while ribbing the guy about "cheap whiskey" the whole time. Even offered the EW drinker a drink so he would know the difference! The EW drinker said, "Good stuff." After being told what he was drinking all evening he tried denial at first, but knowing us all so well...he finally gave up and laughed about it. Another guy there at the time made him up a JD Black sticker later on so he could attach it to his EW bottles to keep his status drink.
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Yeah, can't say I still drink it a lot, but I've certainly had much worse. More of a Kentucky bourbon man myself, but the sour mash is good.
 
#106
#106
AJeray4TN said:
Yeah, can't say I still drink it a lot, but I've certainly had much worse. More of a Kentucky bourbon man myself, but the sour mash is good.
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I like the maryland taste of travlers club. It is a very tastey, yet cheap, treat for all those in this economy.
 
#107
#107
With the young team, how many of these kids have never been on a plane or played in a road game? Bray hasn't started a game outside the state of Tennessee yet. Wonder how many others haven't even been in a game outside of the state?
 
#108
#108
I don't drink Jack enough to know the difference, but if you give me Evan and Maker's, I'll tell you which is which.
 
#115
#115
AJeray4TN said:
Not a huge fan of Trace, but the Eagle Rare is some fine stuff.
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Eagle Rare is still the smoothest bourbon I've ever had. Seriously delicious. I drank most of it straight, but mixed some with Coke. It was the first time I had a bourbon & Coke with no bite whatsoever (and I mix 'em strong)
 
#117
#117
This seems really dangerous. One of our players could fall or twist an ankle or worse. We should save the running for on the field we cant risk injuries like this.
 
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