Were you born into this or did you just decide to pick Tennessee

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#277
Was a college accident baby while my dad was a senior at UT, every early pic I’m always in UT Orange.

Grad school at UT
 
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#278
I was born into it. My dad grew up a Condredge Holloway fan. My fiancé grew up a Notre Dame fan, I converted him to a Vols fan, and he hasn't looked back. We live in PA, and proudly show off our orange and white. I can't tell you how many funny looks I get being a Vols fan in Pa.

GO BIG ORANGE!
 
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I know, I know, this is not related to this thread but, just have to say thanks to all you out there in Vol Nation Land for helping me bat .500 for the first time since joining VN 10 years ago last week!! Other than graduating UT with a strong 2.37 GPA in Marketing way back in 1979, this, this just might be one of my greatest accomplishments in life!! :rolleyes:

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NO SIR EEE said:
I am sure somewhere along the way there has been a thread like this one. I'm just curious and figured it would make for some good stories while we wait on Saturday. Were you born into being a Tennessee fan or just decided one day that you liked Tennessee.

My story: My dad grew up in Cleveland, TN. He is obviously a lifelong Tennessee fan. I was born into it and never thought for a second to like any other team.
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Raised not borne.
 
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Stockeaux said:
Picked the Vols,
Born and raised just north of Baton Rouge, I still love the Tigers and Im a season ticket holder but Ive always liked something about Tennessee and my fandom has grown, Im making the trip up this year for the Missou game
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That's funny. LSU is my 2nd favorite team behind The Big Orange. As a youngster, I liked Bert Jones, Tommy Casanova, and the Chinese Bandits. Also, my oldest daughter lived in Baton Rouge for 5 years and got her Master's Degree from LSU. They lived in a condo walking distance from the city park 9 hole golf course. Wife and I spent a lot of time down there over a 5 year period. There's a pizza place underneath the interstate we really liked.......Schitz and Giggles?
 
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My dad sold popcorn to get in games as kid at old alumni gym which predated Stokely if that tells you anything. Plus later as young adult he was climbing over fences to get in the football games before the stadium looks like it does now. During that period he found out through marriage like his second cousin was married to Head Coach Bowden Wyatt. I was raised practically in Stokely and Thompson Boling Arena and most Saturdays in Neyland. There was no escaping my attachment to UT.

Another fun fact. My dad married my mom who was from Detroit in 1956 well he moved up there for a couple years after they married 9 to 10 years later because my moms parents health so circa 1965 ,1966 but then became homesick for Vols home games and Knoxville in general. Well he attended Pistons games in Detroit and they had some injury issues and needed a forward. The security wasn't what it is today. So my dad being a Vols fan had a friend he knew that played at Tennessee walked into the main office for the Detroit Pistons and introduced himself and told him he knew a physical forward that played at the University of Tennessee named Bobby Hogsett. Long story shortened the man said well we definitely looking for a player to help out as we are shorthanded. He wanted Mr Hogsetts contact information. He at this time was a teacher at school and couldn't believe he got a call from Detroit to try basketball professionally and accepted the tryout. He told my dad "Charlie thus has to be a joke, I can't believe this Thank you so much!" He made the team in 1966, didn’t play much but he is in history books for pro basketball. Sadly later he took a job as a bank manager and some man came in to argue a bad debt and shot him dead i want to say he was in his 40s when he died. Screenshot_20220914-113044_Chrome.jpg
 
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Born into it in Maryland. Both of my parents were UT grads, and Dad completed grad school at UT after WWII. We moved to Knoxville before I entered third grade, and saw my first football game while visiting grandparents (season ticket holders) in mid-5os. Was immediately immersed in all-things UT during the 10 years I lived in Knoxville., either going to games with my Dad (he had two season tickets) or sitting in endzone bleachers before never missed a game by selling cokes and programs up until the fall I went away to college. Never missed a game in Stokely begining with the Ray Mears years and even attended Carnicus and All Sings. Mom kept me up to date on all things UT and Knoxville w/ clippings from the News-Sentinel and Journal for my college years and many thereafter.

Spent 40 years working in Alabama, and my passion for the Vols only grew stronger.
 
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When I was 4-5 years old I remember coming into Knoxville over the Henley Street bridge and looking off to the left at the stadium with the VOLS letters on top of the south stands, that was the beginning if my love for the Big Orange! I would sit out in our old Ford station wagon and listen to the the Vols on the radio, ran the battery down a few times. That was in the early 60’s! Still do not miss a game!
 
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Born into it. Raised in N. Knoxville/Norwood, Fulton HS, UT grad. Dad and I used to listen to the games on the radio before hardly any of them were televised.
 
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I was definitely not born into it. My dad was a Kentucky fan. I remember the day I became a Vols fan. 1971 I was 11 years old. We were in the car going through Chattanooga listening to John Ward. Bobby Majors ran all over Penn St. I was hooked. I attended my first game in 1978, I have been going ever since. I can tell you that I have 3 sons who are huge Vol fans. They have all been going to games since they were about 3. Boys ranging from 11 to 34.
 
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Volador said:
I know, I know, this is not related to this thread but, just have to say thanks to all you out there in Vol Nation Land for helping me bat .500 for the first time since joining VN 10 years ago last week!! Other than graduating UT with a strong 2.37 GPA in Marketing way back in 1979, this, this just might be one of my greatest accomplishments in life!! :rolleyes:

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3,341 at bats and 3,341 hits would = a 1.000 batting average.
I suspect you were better at marketing than math 😀😎
 
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#294
Born and raised in the Tri Cities. My dad was/is a Vol fan and started me playing sports when I was 4 to help "channel my competitiveness"....whatever that means. :cool: Had the orange transfusion early on by listening to John Ward on the radio in the mid 70s with my dad and getting fired up listening to his unmatched storytelling style. So as someone said above earlier: Born this way and I'll die this way....and wouldn't have it any other way, as nothing else compares.

I wasn't able to attend UT (Tusculum grad), but my niece is proudly in her first semester and the first in our family to attend Tennessee. She's a smart girl and had her choice of in state schools with a lot of scholly help, and when Tennessee gave her the best offer of them all.....she had no trouble at all selecting her school. :D

And for everyone else....

They hate us, because they ain't us.

GO VOLS!!!
 
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OffTackleVol said:
That's funny. LSU is my 2nd favorite team behind The Big Orange. As a youngster, I liked Bert Jones, Tommy Casanova, and the Chinese Bandits. Also, my oldest daughter lived in Baton Rouge for 5 years and got her Master's Degree from LSU. They lived in a condo walking distance from the city park 9 hole golf course. Wife and I spent a lot of time down there over a 5 year period. There's a pizza place underneath the interstate we really liked.......Schitz and Giggles?
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I work for BRFD and that area is in our district, we ran a shooting at the dog park across from the golf course about two weeks ago and yeah Schlitz and Giggles has some really good pizza
 
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Born into it, at UT Medical Center there in Knoxville and spent my (really) early years in the south part of Blount County. Go Vols!
 
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Born in Michigan, moved to AL and was a huge Alabama fan until 1967 when my father took me to Legion Field to see UT play #3 Alabama. Somewhere in the middle of that game with Al Dorsey and Jimmy Weatherford playing like madmen on defense, I began to see the TRUTH. Went to UT in 1969 for 4 great years and a degree and never looked back. I would rather lose in Orange than win in any other color.
 
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