What Phil Fulmer Did For My Dad

[ridethelightening]

Ok, apparently my post pissed a lot of people off. Let me clarify:

I fail at reading comprehension. I assumed this was one of the million other posts that was claiming since Phil fulmer is such a great guy, family guy, etc we should retain him as our head coach. But we are paying him to win ballgames (or were, now we are paying his buyout), not to be a great guy. I barely even took the time to read the post before posting the records, as I usually do in response to what I perceived to be a fulmerite post. Turns out the dude was just sharing a heartwarming story (or sad story, whichever way you look at it. the cancer part is sad, but some could consider the phil part heartwarming).

Yes, it sucks that dude's father has cancer.
Yes, Phil is a great guy.
Yes, I fail at reading.

@OP: I am sorry if I offended you, as that was not my intent. I hope your father wins his battle with cancer. And because I am that awesome, I'll send an autographed football/game jersey/photo of myself if you want ;D (this part was a joke, but if you seriously want me to, I will). If I was Chuck Norris, I'd even send a phial of tears, but alas I am not.

Still an a-hole in my book. What exactly did you expect when you clicked on a link that says, "What Phil Fulmer did for my dad"?

 

[sMi.Spite]

Still an a-hole in my book. What exactly did you expect when you clicked on a link that says, "What Phil Fulmer did for my dad"?

I was apologizing to the OP, not to you.
And I expected one of the millions of other threads talking about how we should keep Phil around because he was such a great guy. Did you not read my post? Now who fails at reading comprehension?

Furthermore, how is making vindictive posts calling people names (especially after they apologized) any less classless than what I did, which was at least an honest mistake?

 

[dsbyrd]

I was apologizing to the OP, not to you.
And I expected one of the millions of other threads talking about how we should keep Phil around because he was such a great guy. Did you not read my post? Now who fails at reading comprehension?

Furthermore, how is making vindictive posts calling people names (especially after they apologized) any less classless than what I did, which was at least an honest mistake?

OK, I'm going to give an official ruling here and I don't want to hear anymore about all of this.

sMI.Spite- your post regarding records was ill-advised. I do not think it can be properly categorized as an "honest mistake." You have a duty to read through the posts and understand the context before you fire off a reply. Failing to do so, you must suffer the consequences.

ridethelightening: sMI.Spite made a fairly respectable apology and the rest of us have moved on. It is poor form to reignite the controversy.

Move on . . . nothing to see here.

 

[Admiral Scot]

my father has been a devoted vol fan for 40 years. He talks of the greats...atkins, streeter, holloway, morgan, cockrell...etc. In februrary he was diagnosed with stage iv cancer. After the diagnosis i called coach fulmer's secretary and asked if coach would please send my father an autographed football. Fed ex arrived at our door about a week later....and although there wasnt a football, there was a game jersey and a photo both signed to my dad from coach fulmer. I cant tell you how proud my dad was and still is of the items that phil sent.

I would like to take a moment to simply add some "humanity" to coach fulmer. We as fans have gotten so involved with wins and losses....recruiting...bowl games and ultimately winning championships. We sometimes forget that college football is a game. I have been one of phil's biggest critics and i agree there needed to be a change in knoxville. However, what phil did for my dad earned him a great amount of respect in my mind and heart as a human being. Although he will probably never know it, he touched one persons life and if for only one day, made another person happy in the game of life.

amen!

 

[Meachem]

no one ever said CPF wasn't a good man that being said change still needed to be made. I wish him the best and thank him for all he did for tennessee football. Good luck to CPF and his family