Why are you a Vol fan?

#4
#4
Born and raised in east tennessee hard not to be a vol fan.But im dang sure proud to be a vol!!!!!!!!!!!! GO VOLS!!!!!!!
 
#5
#5
I guess Clay Travis said it best for me: I'm a Vol fan because I simply cannot imagine not being one.
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#6
#6
1968 listening to John Ward call his first football game as the voice of the Vols.
 
#7
#7
Didn't we just do one of these a few months ago. Oh well, Ill play again. VOLUNTEER BORN, VOLUNTEER BRED, WHEN I DIE I'LL BE VOLUNTEER DEAD.
 
#8
#8
Actually it is a funny/sad story of why I am a UT fan.

When I was a kid my best friend starting in kindergarten was a big UK fan, I loved to argue and fight with him. I started watching UT games and taliking smack to him about how my team was better than his because we all know how UK fans feel about us. He had his UK shirts and I had my UT shirts. We were best friends but fought and argued like bitter enemies when it came to UT vs UK. Unfortunately he passed away when we were in the eighth grade but I will always remember our heated battles.

I actually picked to like UT to piss him off and to have something to argue with him about, It really stuck with me all these years and always will!
 
#9
#9
Because my Dad raised me that way. Went to undergrad and law school two other places. So I guess I'm one of the "sidewalk alums." Now my son is up there. So proud.
 
#10
#10
Railroad Vol said:
Actually it is a funny/sad story of why I am a UT fan.

When I was a kid my best friend starting in kindergarten was a big UK fan, I loved to argue and fight with him. I started watching UT games and taliking smack to him about how my team was better than his because we all know how UK fans feel about us. He had his UK shirts and I had my UT shirts. We were best friends but fought and argued like bitter enemies when it came to UT vs UK. Unfortunately he passed away when we were in the eighth grade but I will always remember our heated battles.

I actually picked to like UT to piss him off and to have something to argue with him about, It really stuck with me all these years and always will!
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Diehard kindergarten fans talking smack.:eek:lol:
 
#11
#11
I first went to UT in '98 fall when I was 18 yrs old. first football game I attended was Florida game in Neyland. ever since that overtime victory, I was hooked.
anyone else went to UT as a freshmen in 98?
 
#13
#13
I seen more Tennessee games up in Mo. on TV than MU games around the Shuler era. I liked their style of play then and wished MU could be that kind of team. In 1999 I met a girl from Knoxville who was a football fanatic as any man ever was. She hated living up there as much as I did, and I was a native. We moved here in 2004 and catch as many games as we can at Neyland.
 
#14
#14
Because my dad watched games when I was a little kid, I remember seeing the checkerboard endzones, and the T's on the side of the helments, and Rocky Top. I may be strange but I love going down the interstate and seeing all the car flags and "T's" on the sides of cars, and stopping to eat and everybody in the restaraunt has on orange. Its great to be a Tennessee Vol!
 
#17
#17
westtnvol said:
Because my dad watched games when I was a little kid, I remember seeing the checkerboard endzones, and the T's on the side of the helments, and Rocky Top. I may be strange but I love going down the interstate and seeing all the car flags and "T's" on the sides of cars, and stopping to eat and everybody in the restaraunt has on orange. Its great to be a Tennessee Vol!
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You are soooo not strange! That's a feeling like no other!

I went to Istanbul, Turkey in 2004 for work. Had on a UT sweatshirt one day and this man said "Go Rocky Top!" LOL
 
#18
#18
dad loves ut, my grandpaw loves ut, his dad loved ut, family tradition!!! plus i live about half a mile from the alabama state line!!!!! if anybody else on here lives close to the bama border please help me explain how efen horrible those people are!!!!! I hear bear bryant's name(sorry for bringing that name up) about 10000 times a day on the radio and it makes me sick...not only was i born to love UT....i was born to hate the crap out of the crimson turd!!!!! roll tide roll...around the bowl and down the hole!!!!!!!!
 
#20
#20
I grew up in Florida (and grew up a Gator fan) but decided after high school to make a change, buck the Florida student status quo and go to UT for college. Best decision I ever made and now I love to hate the Gators like every other true Vol. Great academics, great athletics...how could an 18-year old student or student-athlete not want to go here?

There is just something about walking into those freshman classes on The Hill, or stepping into Glocker for the first time (pre-renovation). And there is nothing like that first experience inside Neyland Stadium on a beautiful fall Saturday. It's been 12 years since I graduated and every time I am on campus again, almost every visual and vantage point I have all game day gives me some kind of deja vu back to when I was a student at UT. There truly is something special about Big Orange Country. I'm so glad to have been and still be a part of it. I cannot wait to share it with my children someday. GO VOLS!!!!
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#21
#21
Didn't watch much college football as a kid until I moved to the south. Being an impressionable lad and misguided I followed in suit and became a Bama fan like all the neighborhood kids. I moved to TN sporting my NC shirt and was promptly punched in the face, for the apparent disrespect. The friends I made showed me the light and I haven't looked back since. Can't attend all the games, but i can't think of many that I have missed on TV, radio, or the internet.GBO
 
#23
#23
tenn_opie said:
dad loves ut, my grandpaw loves ut, his dad loved ut, family tradition!!! plus i live about half a mile from the alabama state line!!!!! if anybody else on here lives close to the bama border please help me explain how efen horrible those people are!!!!! I hear bear bryant's name(sorry for bringing that name up) about 10000 times a day on the radio and it makes me sick...not only was i born to love UT....i was born to hate the crap out of the crimson turd!!!!! roll tide roll...around the bowl and down the hole!!!!!!!!
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I live on the Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi border so I have to hear it from all sides. Thank goodness Ole Miss fans are not talking very much anymore, but the Bama fans make up for it. Everybody is a Bama and UF fan right now, thats the biggest bandwaggon fans in the country. I think if I hear Mt. Cody one more time from a Bama fan I am going to punch them in the face.
 
#24
#24
My parents bought property on the Cumberland Plateau back in the early 80's. I couldn't figure out why anyone would want to go to Tennessee and buy land. That is until i got there. Once i got there i did not want to leave. We were there around Thanksgiving eating at Crackerbarrel and they had the UT/UK game on. I thought it was pretty cool to see that happen at a Crackerbarrel. Since i never really liked any of the Florida teams i started following the VOLS and became somewhat ADDICTED. I travel to Tennessee at least 3 times per year and try to catch at least 1 or 2 games a year. Not enough i know. I would trade this god forsaken state of Florida for Tennessee any day but unfortunately this is where my business is and it allows me to have a home up there. That's my story and i'm sticking to it.
 
#25
#25
CaVOLfn said:
Didn't watch much college football as a kid until I moved to the south. Being an impressionable lad and misguided I followed in suit and became a Bama fan like all the neighborhood kids. I moved to TN sporting my NC shirt and was promptly punched in the face, for the apparent disrespect. The friends I made showed me the light and I haven't looked back since. Can't attend all the games, but i can't think of many that I have missed on TV, radio, or the internet.GBO
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Uh, nice friends. LOL I guess you'd call it tough love?
 
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