What is your best memory as a Vols fan?

#126
#126
Not my best memory but one of my best:

2001 I had already graduated and been living in NC. I brought my girlfriend at the time home to Knoxville for Thanksgiving and she had never been to a college football game. We were playing Vandy so I bought tickets and we went. Vols were ranked pretty high but this was after 9/11 and Florida had been re-scheduled for the week after Thanksgiving. During halftime they played "One the First Day of Christmas" on the jumbotron and it talked about wishing for a victory against the Gators with scenes of Spurrier throwing his visor when they played "partridge in a pear tree". It was hilarious. Well, the very next week my gf and I were in NC at a sports bar watching UT beat Florida and she got to see Spurrier actually throw his visor lol.

We all know we lost to LSU in the SEC CG but oh well it was still a great year and we did thump Michigan in the bowl game.

I wish I could watch a replay of that short jumbotron show at halftime! I would die to see that again!
 
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#131
The 85 Auburn game. Sold cokes to get in that season, supplied full trays to upper deck fans to dump on Auburn fans (hey, I was 10yo and it was funny), made over $40 and got to watch the goal posts come down for the first time in my life. That game may have made the biggest impression on me as a kid. It was amazing
 
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#132
I was 8 or 9 years old and my first game ever at Neyland Stadium. I got a free ticket with the youth football team that I played for. Most of us rode to the game in the back of a pickup truck. We had a blast. The game was 1974 vs. UCLA. Its no wonder my favorite player of all time is Condredge Holloway.
 
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#133
#133
Me and my dad were at UF in 2016.

What made it sweet was I got us tickets in 14, it was so cold and we had seats that the sun never found lol. It also broke a long losing streak for me. I go to one game a year and it was in a streak of SC in 12, Vandy in 13, UF in 14, Ark in 15. So I was going to see us play an FCS school if it didn't work out.

Since then I was at SC in 17 and UF in 18 so I'm back at it.

2nd was the Hail Mary at UGA my wife is a budding Vols fan and she was so excited and so was I. We cheered so loud and we were at home by ourselves lol.

Love those damn Vols. Those fleeting moments are worth it all.
 
#136
#136
'86 Sugar Bowl, New Years in New Orleans. Press pass so I was on the sidelines...incredible.
Stayed in nice hotel. In the back of the elevator after more 'Caine fans got on and an older couple was complaining about playing a "no name" team. They obviously didn't see my power "T" hat till we got off the elevator, I said something like "we'll see tonight won't we".
Walked into the hotel the next morning after parting all night on Bourbon etc. and saw the same couple sitting in lobby with others.
Couldn't resist looking at the lady and saying, How do you like that "no name" team this morning.....there was silence as I stumbled away. Priceless!
 
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#137
67volbabygirl said:
1986 Sugar Bowl ( I was a freshman at UT that year and went to the game. New Year's in Jackson Square was nuts!)
1991 TN vs. Notre Dame (Did the Tennessee waltz on the Notre Dame field as the Pride of the Southland Band played)
1998 TN vs. Florida (was 8 months pregnant at that game)
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We were in Jackson Square together!!!! LOL....
To many people....after midnight we went back to Bourbon!!
 
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VFLEatinFresh said:
My Christmas present my senior year in high school was a trip to the Cotton Bowl vs. A&M. I remember getting out of the car when we got to the game and a drunk Aggie yelling “long way from home boys!” at us. Then we saw a 38-7 Big Orange beatdown that really should have been a shutout. Great trip.

Another one was this season actually. I’m the associate youth pastor at our church, and our head youth pastor is a STH. We took two of our boys from the youth group to the ETSU game. Neither one of them had ever been to a major sporting event before, and we made a day of it. Watching their faces at the Salute to the Hill was worth the whole trip.
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I was at that A&M game too; loved watching the Corps standing there while we all sang Rocky Top after the game! Got to shake Coach Fulmer's hand and even got a wrist band from Jason Allen. Needless to say; one of my favorite games I've attended.
 
#140
#140
2016 Florida and 2016 Georgia have to be a dead tie... Also 2007 Kentucky 4OT game. As ugly as it was, it was the only time I have ever seen the Vols advance to the SEC Championship (I was 3 in 1998).
 
#143
#143
Already mentioned numerous times but 86' sugar bowl for me too. That was the first time I truly remember jumping up and down for joy for a football game.
 
#144
#144
1965 vs UCLA in Memphis. I listened to George mooney on the radio when it would work and we came beck to beat them maybe 36 to 34 I think. I didn't look it up. Dewey Warren was the qb and coach was Doug Dickey.
I had a crystal rocket radio that hooked to the window frame.
I got my first transistor radio after saving my grass cutting money. It didn't work much better. The night games would fade in and out. You could really miss some action.... I lived way out in the country then.
Wouldn't trade it for anything.....
 
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#145
#145
Another favorite of mine was played in late September 2001, first game in Neyland after 9/11 vs LSU. Emotions were raw, but I’d never experienced a UT game as a college student. It was my first SEC game. We got into Cool Beans, Hamburger Henry’s, did whatever we wanted. We got into Hannah’s on the Strip underage (like everyone) partied with girls, everybody started chanting USA USA USA!!! Standing on the bar and tables and chairs after Lee Greenwood come on the jukebox. It’s one of those surreal moments you don’t forget. Oh yeah then we stayed out all night, my friend got arrested for stealing a police barricade on Cumberland and forest Ave and got jacked up against the Schlotzsky’s deli drive thru menu sign around 4 am for resisting arrest, underage drinking, and all sorts of dumb stuff. His parents were big timers too, with big yacht on the river. He cried like a little girl for about 3 drunken hours as swore off drinking. That lasted about 4 hours. We made his life hell all day the next day. And this is before the GAME!! Night game!!

We beat the mighty Saban that night with Clausen and The Future going off for about 256 yards. What a weekend.
 
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#146
Back in the early 70's, I was living in Mississippi. Dad had a friend who was connected to the Mississippi governor somehow and invited us to go to the 1973 Ole Miss/Vols game in Jackson that year and sit in the governor's box. I was 14 and it was my first opportunity to watch Tennessee live at a game. Well, we got beat 28-18 but when we were leaving before the game was over, being VIP's 😀, we got to leave by way of the sidelines next to the Vol Cheerleaders. For a 14 year old, and being close to those pretty ladies clad in Orange was pretty thrilling as they smiled at us passing by in close proximity. Dang, that was so long ago, they'd be drawing Social Security now!😐
 
#148
#148
1998 on tv. 2006 Cal and 2009 South Carolina as a student at the game. This decade has been short on excitement besides coaching searches.
 
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#149
HollowaytoSeivers said:
Why did I give this one a like?
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Because it was a comback win and Holloway was being chased all over the South end zone before he threw the pass about 35 yards to Seriers to win the game as time was running out. I remember Clemson had a 250 TE, who at that time, was as big as most tackles.
 
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