What was your first game at Neyland?

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My first game at the General's house was the 2003 opener vs. Fresno St. It was Casey Clausen's senior year, and we were coming off a dissapointing 2002 year. I sat right above the student section and I remember it was HOT HOT HOT on that side of the stadium. In the end we beat them pretty handly by a score of 24-6. There only touchdown was off a Casey Clausen interception. What a GREAT day for me!!!
 
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2001 UGA game It looked like it was going to end well until the last 45 seconds. Somebody forgot to cover the fullback coming out of the backfield into the back of the endzone :cray:
 
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1997 Opener vs. Texas Tech. Only nine at the time, and I experienced it all from the Vol Walk touching Peyton, to touchdown franks, to hearing Bobby Denton, and seeing the Vols run through the T. We won in a blowout, just an awesome win, 52-17. Probably one of the greatest days of my life. Thanks dad!
 
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Bennett4UT said:
2001 UGA game It looked like it was going to end well until the last 45 seconds. Somebody forgot to cover the fullback coming out of the backfield into the back of the endzone :cray:
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That was probally the game that made me the sickest when we lost in my Vol fan career.:cray: :cray: :banghead2: :dunno:
 
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I can't remember my first game becasue it was when I was only 3 or 4 years old (late 80's, early 90's) and I have been to too many since to keep up with them all. I do know that ever since my dad took me to a UT game that I have been hooked ever since.
 
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Homecoming 1976. My dad took me and a friend to see the Vols vs. Ole Miss.
 
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Bobby Dodd said:
1997 Opener vs. Texas Tech. Only nine at the time, and I experienced it all from the Vol Walk touching Peyton, to touchdown franks, to hearing Bobby Denton, and seeing the Vols run through the T. We won in a blowout, just an awesome win, 52-17. Probably one of the greatest days of my life. Thanks dad!
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Ah yes . . . That was the day I got married and then infamously watched the entire game that night.
 
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my dad took me to watch UT vs Pittsburgh in the 80's. Willie Gault starred for UT and Dan Marino for Pittsburgh I believe.
 
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oklavol said:
my dad took me to watch UT vs Pittsburgh in the 80's. Willie Gault starred for UT and Dan Marino for Pittsburgh I believe.
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That was my first game too. I think the score was something like 30-6, but I can't remember much else about the game.
 
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GAVol said:
Ah yes . . . That was the day I got married and then infamously watched the entire game that night.
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I was a best man in a wedding the next year for the season opener against Syracuse. I infamously had an ear bud in one ear during the ceremony since it was a day game and a day wedding.
 
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my first game was 2006 Florida vs UT great first experience, i was only 16 at the time, and my mom finally let me drive up there with some friend to see the game, i also ended up going to LSU, and the UK games this past season
 
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GAVol said:
That was my first game too. I think the score was something like 30-6, but I can't remember much else about the game.
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I think Bill Bates ran a kick-off back for a TD from like the 3 yd line. Talk about how things have changed, my dad tried to sell an extra ticket for 2 dollars (face value was 11 I think). No takers. Thats what 6-4 gets you.
 
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Kentucky 1982, we won 35-7. Not a particularly memorable game... but not inconsequential to my love of the VOLS either.
 
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Amazingly, it was five years after I moved away from Knoxville - 2000 season, vs. Kentucky

I grew up on campus at UT - I could see Neyland stadium from my apartment window - but as my family came to Knoxville from India in '86 (I was 2), football wasn't that big (except for me). I think I would've felt a bit uncomfortable going to the game by myself as a youngun!
 
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Nov. 7, 1998. the Homecoming game vs. UAB. Got free tickets through my ex-wife's company. Left after the 3rd quarter because my kid was ultra bored and the game wasn't exactly exciting either. Great seats though, YY16, row 13, seat 9.
 
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Mid-to-late eighties game against Army. I think we actually lost. I also remember going to a game vs. the Akron Zips early in my life.
 
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Unfortunately I just started going to games...Cal 2006, but what an amazing way to kick off, what I am sure, will be a life-long addiction.
 
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Although I have been told I was in attendance at a younger age, the first game I remember seeing at Neyland was a 42-0 win in a night game over Colorado State in 1981.
 
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My first game was the 1985 game against then-#1 Auburn and Bo Jackson. Tony Robinson was on the cover of Sports Illustrated the next week. I sat three rows off the top of the stadium with my mom.

To this day, a tiny little irrational sliver of me still thinks that before he got hurt, Tony Robinson in 1985 was the best QB I've ever seen.
 
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