When did you realize you were VFL?

#26
#26
I'm an indian.... came to UT as a grad student in '04. The first game i saw was ut florida '04 And tha was it. Before that i ddn't know what football was...... i hd seen it a few times but just cudn't spot the ball....
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#28
#28
I'm not sure I ever came to a realization that I was a VFL. All I know is that there is a home movie of me as a 3 year old in 1988 screaming to one of my relatives, "I HATE ALABAMA I HATE ALABAMA I HATE ALABAMA!"
 
#29
#29
March 21, 1984. Heath Shuler era is about as far back as I can remember actually following the Vols.
 
#32
#32
Been a Vol fan as far back as I can remember being a fan of anything.I knew I was truly a VFL when I was in the Navy.Being trained all over then deployed to GOD knows where you realise that there aint nowhere better than Tennessee....I was proud to be a Vol.
 
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#34
#34
I was born in 1996. So all great moments are gone by then. I would say When we finally beat David Greene his senior year.
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#35
#35
When i opened my eyes after some Navy doctor had just slapped my arse on saint paddy's day, 1955...in Shelby County. Wanted to kicked some butt from the very beginning....I was going to fit in just fine, thank you very much!!! Vols forever !!!!
 
#36
#36
1979 Notre Dame vs. Tennessee. At 8 yrs old I got to attend my first UT football game with my father. I'll never forget the gold helmets of ND, the atmosphere, and of course 40-18.
 
#37
#37
i dont know the year, but it was inthe late 80's early 90's i think. when the vols played penn state in a bowl game. i know they played two bowl games almost back to back... but fell in love with the vols the first bowl game... that was the first time i had ever seen the vols.
 
#38
#38
I was born with orange blood! Born in 1980, I barely remember watching us beat the canes in the Sugar bowl, that was my first real proud Vol moment. Next would have to be the comeback against ND in Neyland. That game was unreal!!!!!
 
#39
#39
I was a fresh faced high school kid new to my school. My school had a field day in which we went to a Vols game free but had to sit in the upper decks. I could barely see the teams and don't even remember who we were playing. A classmate decided to sit with me and tell me all about UT football and explain what I could barely see happening down below. I think we lost (honest, I can't remember very much, probably because i wasn't really interested) but his enthusiasm about what was happening on the field was, uh, well, amusing to me. After the game, we got on the bus and he kept talking to me about the Vols, past games, player positions and whatnot. I really wanted him to just shut up. Then during my college years, I watched a televised Cotton Bowl game where Texas (wishbone years) beat the heck out of the Vols. For some reason I decided right there the Vols were my team. I started following their games via newspapers, TV, and continuing mail and face to face chats with the classmate who had sat with me at the game we attended as high school classmates. The last game we watched together was a game where Tennessee came from behind to beat Georgia. If I recall right, we scored 8 points in 8 seconds (game clock-wise). I recall Georgia went on to a bowl in which people were saying injuries had resulted in them losing games since their bowl invite. They were asked to let a more competitive team play that game but refused. Why talk about Georgia? Well, my friend turned to me after the comeback win and told me the following: "Do you know that many years ago, Tenn. played GA. and a Vols fan stood in the endzone as Ga. was pushing for yet another score. He told the Ga. team that the next player crossing the goal would go home in a coffin then showed them his pistol?" I found this too incredible to believe and laughed my head off. But then he later showed me an album with old, and I do mean old, clippings from newspapers and books (I think) that recounted the same story. For some dumb reason, that made me Vols fan, fan. A fan of Vols fans (not negaVols) who love their team come hell or high water. So I guess I'm a Vols fan twice over.
 
#40
#40
When the dr smacked my tushy at ut medical center.. I could see neyland in the distance.. It was then I knew destiny.. I was to be a vol
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#42
#42
I remember high stepping like Carl Pickens on the kindergarden playground. Haven't looked back since, he will always be my favorite vol, (other than Rod Wilks)
 
#47
#47
If there were any doubts, it was probably decided on October 1, 1987. I was supposed to go to my first UT game 2 days later and got strep. I probably threw one of the biggest tamtrums of my life when the doctor told me I couldn't go. My dad talked to another doctor friend of his who assured him as long as I didn't overdo it I would be fine.

2 days later I watched UT beat the Cal Golden Bears 38-12.
 
#48
#48
Born in 86 but was raised a memphis basketball fan. Then when i was old enough to play peewee football i was introduced to tennessee football and Peyton Manning. Been a fan ever since. I knew i would never love another football team when i went to my first game as a UT student in 04. Watched the T open up live and started bleeding orange.
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#50
#50
BlueTick Vol said:
September 19th 1998.

Grew up a gator. But committed (academically) to UT.
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"The kick is in the air, and the kick this time is.... NO-SIR-REE. NO-SIR-REE. FINAL SCORE--TENNESSEE 20, FLORIDA 17. PANDEMONIUM REIGNS."

What a game. What a great memory. :)
 
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