This game was hard to watch...literally.

[VOLdo Raine]

So, as my board name implies, I live in Germany. So for me the game was scheduled to begin at 9:30 pm. I spent the day working on the "honey do" list and keeping the game off my mind. I was able to catch the last 15 minutes of Gameday, then flipped it over to the Mich-PSU game to kill the time til the important game.

Then my internet signal went out.

For the next two hours, I tried rebooting my router, streaming from my phone, and piggy-backing off my phone as a hotspot. Nothing was really working, and my phone has a limited amount data/month and no way to boost it on the spur of the moment. (Thanks Telekom) I was threatening to go to a hotel and watch it there, but hotel wifi can be spotty and my wife was thinking I was crazy. She called Telekom and got a message that they knew there was a problem and it would be fixed no later than 6:23 AM. (Yes, they literally said that specific a time. Germans.) I was able to log into my USTVNOW acct and set it up to record the game. Then I would at least be able to watch the game in the morning when my internet was back up. I held out hope that the issue would be resolved before kickoff. Nope. And piggybacking off my phone did not work AT ALL now.

So off to bed I went.

Woke up at 5:30. Was the internet back up? Yes!!! It was! Hallelujah!

So I pulled up the game and starting watching it! What a game! What looked early like a possible Tennessee blowout evolved into an epic slug fest! Then as we reached the 4th Qtr...my recording of the game ended. Games typically run past the time slot provided! But I had foreseen this possibility and recorded the "show" after the game, giving me an additional hour. Whew!

Well we all know how the 4th QTR went, back and forth, Tennessee tying the game but Bama with a chance to win. They marched down the field, and I noticed the amount of recording I had left was rapidly diminishing. Tennessee got the stop! Bama attempts a FG! No Good!

At that EXACT moment- my recording ran out again.

This time I didn't have another one.

I went to youtube to see if I could catch what happened in overtime.

I came across a video Titled "Tennessee vs Alabama 2022 live ending!" This was not exactly what I was looking for but at this point, I'm dying to find out what happened.

I began to sense that we won as the video showed a Tennessee fan watching the end. Tennessee is lining up for a kick (How did that happen?) The video is at a 90 degree angle so I turn my laptop sideways. It's good!!! I watch McGrath redeem himself and the biggest win for UT in quite some time- right up there with Florida and Ark 1998 IMHO.

So I'm trying to catch up with all the celebrations now.

Cigars are just as good at 930 am!

 

[VolNate]

An instant classic. Hope you get to see Freak’s upload here in a bit with a good hand-rolled stogie.
We back, baby. GO VOLS!

 

[USMC-TNVOL]

The internet in Germany leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[imavolfan]

Good news is if you look at the top of the page Freak has already posted the full game.

 

[imavolfan]

*****Tennessee vs Alabama full game video

 

[VOLdo Raine]

The internet in Germany leaves a lot to be desired.

My biggest gripe- There is no, NO, customer service here by US standards.

 

[Wrangler95]

I recorded it,I will cherish it forever!

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

My biggest gripe- There is no, NO, customer service here by US standards.

Don’t feel bad. I was at a small school game during roughly same time as Vols’ game. For whatever reason, the Verizon 5g was being throttled. Most of the time, I could not refresh to get a score update and even when the score updated the down and distance was off. My phone was reading 49-49 with Vols having ball on 50 and 2 seconds left so I thought OT was a given. One youg guy in my seating area had ATT service and I knew Vols had won when his neighbors (Bama fans) started groaning.

 

[Mustng959]

A nail-biter in every sense of the word. We get our guys healthy through UT Martin and then declaw the kitty cats the next week, the UGA puppies need to be worried. An opposing teams home field advantage doesn't seem to bother our guys at all. The puppy pound may be harsh to play in for most but our staff at Tennessee have our guys ready to do business regardless.

Where you at in Germany? I was at Bitburg for 2 years. Never was a problem with WiFi .... Of course, it hadn't even been invented yet back in 1981. I guess then Tennessee congressman, Al Gore, was working on the details before he invented the internet We did get games on Armed Forces Network but it was usually teams like ND, Ohio State, and Michigan .... Some things never change.

 

[VOLdo Raine]

A nail-biter in every sense of the word. We get our guys healthy through UT Martin and then declaw the kitty cats the next week, the UGA puppies need to be worried. An opposing teams home field advantage doesn't seem to bother our guys at all. The puppy pound may be harsh to play in for most but our staff at Tennessee have our guys ready to do business regardless.

Where you at in Germany? I was at Bitburg for 2 years. Never was a problem with WiFi .... Of course, it hadn't even been invented yet back in 1981. I guess then Tennessee congressman, Al Gore, was working on the details before he invented the internet We did get games on Armed Forces Network but it was usually teams like ND, Ohio State, and Michigan .... Some things never change.

I'm right outside of Ramstein, near Kaiserslautern. My wife is from Nurnberg.

Normally our internet and WiFi are fine, but when it goes down, you'd think you were asking Telekom for a child sacrifice to get some help with it.

 

[Jeff Clark]

So, as my board name implies, I live in Germany. So for me the game was scheduled to begin at 9:30 pm. I spent the day working on the "honey do" list and keeping the game off my mind. I was able to catch the last 15 minutes of Gameday, then flipped it over to the Mich-PSU game to kill the time til the important game.

Then my internet signal went out.

For the next two hours, I tried rebooting my router, streaming from my phone, and piggy-backing off my phone as a hotspot. Nothing was really working, and my phone has a limited amount data/month and no way to boost it on the spur of the moment. (Thanks Telekom) I was threatening to go to a hotel and watch it there, but hotel wifi can be spotty and my wife was thinking I was crazy. She called Telekom and got a message that they knew there was a problem and it would be fixed no later than 6:23 AM. (Yes, they literally said that specific a time. Germans.) I was able to log into my USTVNOW acct and set it up to record the game. Then I would at least be able to watch the game in the morning when my internet was back up. I held out hope that the issue would be resolved before kickoff. Nope. And piggybacking off my phone did not work AT ALL now.

So off to bed I went.

Woke up at 5:30. Was the internet back up? Yes!!! It was! Hallelujah!

So I pulled up the game and starting watching it! What a game! What looked early like a possible Tennessee blowout evolved into an epic slug fest! Then as we reached the 4th Qtr...my recording of the game ended. Games typically run past the time slot provided! But I had foreseen this possibility and recorded the "show" after the game, giving me an additional hour. Whew!

Well we all know how the 4th QTR went, back and forth, Tennessee tying the game but Bama with a chance to win. They marched down the field, and I noticed the amount of recording I had left was rapidly diminishing. Tennessee got the stop! Bama attempts a FG! No Good!

At that EXACT moment- my recording ran out again.

This time I didn't have another one.

I went to youtube to see if I could catch what happened in overtime.

I came across a video Titled "Tennessee vs Alabama 2022 live ending!" This was not exactly what I was looking for but at this point, I'm dying to find out what happened.

I began to sense that we won as the video showed a Tennessee fan watching the end. Tennessee is lining up for a kick (How did that happen?) The video is at a 90 degree angle so I turn my laptop sideways. It's good!!! I watch McGrath redeem himself and the biggest win for UT in quite some time- right up there with Florida and Ark 1998 IMHO.

So I'm trying to catch up with all the celebrations now.

Cigars are just as good at 930 am!

I loved it because it was like a Battle between two Gladiators.

 

[VOLdo Raine]

Don’t feel bad. I was at a small school game during roughly same time as Vols’ game. For whatever reason, the Verizon 5g was being throttled. Most of the time, I could not refresh to get a score update and even when the score updated the down and distance was off. My phone was reading 49-49 with Vols having ball on 50 and 2 seconds left so I thought OT was a given. One youg guy in my seating area had ATT service and I knew Vols had won when his neighbors (Bama fans) started groaning.

Ha! Can never feel bad after a great victory, though it was a little bit of a let down to kinda miss the final 15 seconds without knowing the outcome. Isn't that weird? Kind of like scary movies, you like the adrenaline rush you get when you watch it play out. When someone just walks up and says "Vols won," it just lets the air out of the bag.

 

[0nelilreb]

So, as my board name implies, I live in Germany. So for me the game was scheduled to begin at 9:30 pm. I spent the day working on the "honey do" list and keeping the game off my mind. I was able to catch the last 15 minutes of Gameday, then flipped it over to the Mich-PSU game to kill the time til the important game.

Then my internet signal went out.

For the next two hours, I tried rebooting my router, streaming from my phone, and piggy-backing off my phone as a hotspot. Nothing was really working, and my phone has a limited amount data/month and no way to boost it on the spur of the moment. (Thanks Telekom) I was threatening to go to a hotel and watch it there, but hotel wifi can be spotty and my wife was thinking I was crazy. She called Telekom and got a message that they knew there was a problem and it would be fixed no later than 6:23 AM. (Yes, they literally said that specific a time. Germans.) I was able to log into my USTVNOW acct and set it up to record the game. Then I would at least be able to watch the game in the morning when my internet was back up. I held out hope that the issue would be resolved before kickoff. Nope. And piggybacking off my phone did not work AT ALL now.

So off to bed I went.

Woke up at 5:30. Was the internet back up? Yes!!! It was! Hallelujah!

So I pulled up the game and starting watching it! What a game! What looked early like a possible Tennessee blowout evolved into an epic slug fest! Then as we reached the 4th Qtr...my recording of the game ended. Games typically run past the time slot provided! But I had foreseen this possibility and recorded the "show" after the game, giving me an additional hour. Whew!

Well we all know how the 4th QTR went, back and forth, Tennessee tying the game but Bama with a chance to win. They marched down the field, and I noticed the amount of recording I had left was rapidly diminishing. Tennessee got the stop! Bama attempts a FG! No Good!

At that EXACT moment- my recording ran out again.

This time I didn't have another one.

I went to youtube to see if I could catch what happened in overtime.

I came across a video Titled "Tennessee vs Alabama 2022 live ending!" This was not exactly what I was looking for but at this point, I'm dying to find out what happened.

I began to sense that we won as the video showed a Tennessee fan watching the end. Tennessee is lining up for a kick (How did that happen?) The video is at a 90 degree angle so I turn my laptop sideways. It's good!!! I watch McGrath redeem himself and the biggest win for UT in quite some time- right up there with Florida and Ark 1998 IMHO.

So I'm trying to catch up with all the celebrations now.

Cigars are just as good at 930 am!

I don’t know what to say other to tell you that you handled all of that like a champ . Me sitting here reading what you went through and thinking to myself how many times I would have lost my ever lovin mind , gotten pi$$ed off , pouted, rant , raved , and made everyone around here think I needed professional help . Kudos brother lol

 

[VOLdo Raine]

Don’t feel bad. I was at a small school game during roughly same time as Vols’ game. For whatever reason, the Verizon 5g was being throttled. Most of the time, I could not refresh to get a score update and even when the score updated the down and distance was off. My phone was reading 49-49 with Vols having ball on 50 and 2 seconds left so I thought OT was a given. One youg guy in my seating area had ATT service and I knew Vols had won when his neighbors (Bama fans) started groaning.

Ha! Can never feel bad after a great victory, though it was a little bit of a let down to kinda miss the final 15 seconds without knowing the outcome. Isn't that weird? Kind of like scary movies, you like the adrenaline rush you get when you watch it play out. When someone just walks up and says "Vols won," it just lets the air out of the bag.

I don’t know what to say other to tell you that you handled all of that like a champ . Me sitting here reading what you went through and thinking to myself how many times I would have lost mind ever lovin mind , gotten pi$$ed off , pouted, rant , raved , and made everyone around here think I needed professional help . Kudos brother lol

Oh, I did. Ask my wife.

She thought I was crazy when I started talking about going to a hotel. She wanted me to go over to our 60 year old widowed neighbor's house next door to watch it. I told her I'm not going over to a German woman's house to watch a football game til 1:30 in the morning.

But I was mad and when she downplayed it I pretty much whined like a baby and said that I don't blame her for the internet being out, but she could at least show some sympathy. She suggested I go to Ramstein to the Air Terminal, but 1) that would be weird and 2) they close at 11 pm.

We don't have any sports bars on base that would carry the games, that I'm aware of, or ones that would be open til 1 am plus.

I actually considered going to the gym and watching on one of the tvs mounted on the wall. Course then I'd have to pedal a stationary bike for 4 + hours. LOL!

 

[kcvols1]

You take for granted the comms network in the US, but it’s really second to none.

I watched the vast majority of the game on my phone and the big screen at Sanford Stadium. I could not even text at large events in Latin America

Turns out I didn’t even have to watch the 4Q, as I could tell the status from the groans and cheers coming out of the bars in downtown Athens.

They LOVED us last night.

I suspect they’ll be less pleased in three weeks!