What Kind of Vols Fan Are You?

#76
#76
My dad brought me to games back when Peyton, Martin, and Lewis still played. I just started bringing my fiancée and some of her family with me this past year for the home opener (her mom is a huge UGA fan so it's hilarious to have converted my fiancée and her brother) and plan to carry on the tradition with my children like my dad did for me.
 
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#77
#77
Maybe infatuate or even FANatic. Back in the days of NCAA video games I went to the online rosters so I could edit every single players name. Even the (RS) seniors at the bottom of the list....

That kind of fan.
 
#78
#78
My best friend took me to my first game when I was 15 (2000 Florida), and I was hooked the moment I walked up the ramp and saw the field for the first time in person. I had the privilege of attending UT and living in Knoxville for seven years. There is only one team and university that I'll love no matter what, THE University of Tennessee. One of my best memories from college was taking my parents to their first game. Neyland had the same effect on them. I still get goosebumps when I walk in Neyland. Ready for September!
 
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#81
#81
For the last 8-9 years I've been a very humble fan as the Vol's have been discovering new ways to lose.
This losing is about to stop, however.
Go Vol's
 
#82
#82
What Kind of Vols Fan Are You?


One that wears orange.


Next question.
 
#83
#83
SuggsOrMatthews said:
I'm a "make love to Rocky Top, named both my kids Peyton, make them recite the maxims every morning, named my dog Lane in 2009, took it out back after Kiffin left and Ol Yeller'ed that thing because ain't no traitors allowed in my house, got the General tattooed on my right arm, Johnny Majors tattooed on my left arm, Peyton tattooed on my back" Vol fan
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So I'm guessing you might now be a single fan. :question:
 
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#84
#84
Count me team-centered. I'd rather go 9-3 with quality individuals and a clean program than 12-0 with thugs and sanctions.

Dad took me to my first game: Boston College in the old horseshoe stadium. Wore my "Archie Who?" button to the game against Ole Miss. Saw Condredge Holloway as a freshman (JV team then) against Notre Dame--never seen a performance like it since.

Living in New Orleans, working on the Tulane campus when I heard that Archie's boy looked like he might start as a sophomore across campus at the Isidore Newman H.S. Watched Peyton's entire H.S. career there, then watched the live local broadcast when he announced he was going to Tennessee. When I stopped yelling, I heard scattered echoes drifting across campus from other expatriated Vols cheering in front of their TVs.

Deja vu three years later when Peyton announced he was staying for his senior year. Same echoes, too.

After Katrina we came back to Tennessee to start over. Part-time jobs for awhile, but saved money to take my wife to see Candace play. Later bought my Dad an HDTV to watch the Vols. This year took my wife to Murfreesboro to cheer for Tyler Summitt's Lady Techsters team--'cause he's R.B. & Pat's boy so he's family.

That's being a Vol fan for me--family, through good and bad. VFL with hundreds of thousands of others--and I'm proud that I can be proud again.
 
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#87
#87
Been happy, sad, upset, angry, grumpy and anything in between since the early 1960s. Only time I have ever been ashamed was that Kentucky thing but I got over it fast when I considered who was coaching the team. Has already been set, I will be buried in my favorite Vols hoody, Rocky Top will be played at the end when people are leaving.

Father Daughter dance started out with some slow song but then my daughter started dancing really fast and Rocky Top started playing. Made my day better.

Through thick and thin always have and always will be a Vols fan PERIOD.
 
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#89
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BruisedOrange said:
Count me team-centered. I'd rather go 9-3 with quality individuals and a clean program than 12-0 with thugs and sanctions.

Dad took me to my first game: Boston College in the old horseshoe stadium. Wore my "Archie Who?" button to the game against Ole Miss. Saw Condredge Holloway as a freshman (JV team then) against Notre Dame--never seen a performance like it since.

Living in New Orleans, working on the Tulane campus when I heard that Archie's boy looked like he might start as a sophomore across campus at the Isidore Newman H.S. Watched Peyton's entire H.S. career there, then watched the live local broadcast when he announced he was going to Tennessee. When I stopped yelling, I heard scattered echoes drifting across campus from other expatriated Vols cheering in front of their TVs.

Deja vu three years later when Peyton announced he was staying for his senior year. Same echoes, too.

After Katrina we came back to Tennessee to start over. Part-time jobs for awhile, but saved money to take my wife to see Candace play. Later bought my Dad an HDTV to watch the Vols. This year took my wife to Murfreesboro to cheer for Tyler Summitt's Lady Techsters team--'cause he's R.B. & Pat's boy so he's family.

That's being a Vol fan for me--family, through good and bad. VFL with hundreds of thousands of others--and I'm proud that I can be proud again.
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Quite possibly the best response to date in this thread. Thanks, Bruised!
 
#91
#91
SIAP, but I don't think "fair weather" and "bandwagon" fans are the same.

Bandwagon is the lowest of the low, someone who has no affiliation (geographically / familial ties) to the program yet roots for it because we have a storied history.

Fair weather fans have ties to the university/team, yet they are only loyal and watch or attend games during the good times.
 
#92
#92
VFL-82-JP said:
Same smile in this photo and your avatar. Definitely a legit "where were they then" photo. :)
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Haha yea I guess I haven't changed much. I've lived all over, proudly flying my flag in Boston, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina. My blood is orange, win or lose. That's the kind of fan I am.
 

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