Why we're Vols...

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MarkVols said:
I wish the season would go ahead and start. This rhetoric puts me to sleep. I want to make my own UT history and watch the team play in SEC championship!
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ruger1234 said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuNmeo22oY

Jake was a genius!!
I think this video sums it up. We are mostly of Scotts/Irish decent and this is war. Whatever them boys from Georgia are doing they are doing it to Tennesseans and we won't be having any of that.
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In my opinion this is the best video compilation I have ever seen for the Vols. Yeah it's getting older, but it speaks the truth even to this day. The University of Tennessee is the best place to play or watch college football. Go Big Orange!
 
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I remember the TN walking horses - but don't recall the canons. Anybody recall what year that stopped? Maybe it was before my time.

Nothing beat listening to John Ward calling the games. I spent many Saturday's sitting next to the radio. Seeing it on TV was awesome and getting to see a game in person was something truly special.

Man I miss John Ward.
 
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jps2194 said:
I remember the TN walking horses - but don't recall the canons. Anybody recall what year that stopped? Maybe it was before my time.

Nothing beat listening to John Ward calling the games. I spent many Saturday's sitting next to the radio. Seeing it on TV was awesome and getting to see a game in person was something truly special.

Man I miss John Ward.
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Oh man, I remember the walking horses, too, now that you guys mention them! What a nice memory to flood back.

I vaguely remember the cannon, but that may just be a lotta years of watching college football, since many schools (particularly military academies and schools identified strongly with their ROTC programs, like A&M and Va Tech) have the cannon-firing tradition after a score. So maybe I'm mis-remembering that for the Vols.

But the walking horses...what a great memory to recover. Thank you both! :good!:
 
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My student advisor at a small college in Georgia (who's last name was Tarkenton) tried to tell me that the only real football was played in Athens and I suggested that they didn't know how to spell football in Athens.

I don't think the joys of Southern football evade those that migrate from other parts of the country but it seems the more you are steeped in the environment, the greater the joy.

The SEC is the best and IMHO we are the best of the best! GO VOLS!!!
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Oh man, I remember the walking horses, too, now that you guys mention them! What a nice memory to flood back.

I vaguely remember the cannon, but that may just be a lotta years of watching college football, since many schools (particularly military academies and schools identified strongly with their ROTC programs, like A&M and Va Tech) have the cannon-firing tradition after a score. So maybe I'm mis-remembering that for the Vols.

But the walking horses...what a great memory to recover. Thank you both! :good!:
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Does anyone remember why the walking horses stopped - that was always awesome. It seems like there was some controversy about the way the horses were trained - but can't recall if that was the reason or not.
 
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jps2194 said:
Does anyone remember why the walking horses stopped - that was always awesome. It seems like there was some controversy about the way the horses were trained - but can't recall if that was the reason or not.
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That's probably a big part of the reason, was the "soring" scandal. Cutting incisions into the horse's foot just above the hoof or injecting mustard into the space, causing intense pain when the horse steps down and "training" them to take those prancing steps. Remember when it first became a cause celebre to shame the trainers who used those methods. Seems that was about the same time you stopped seeing the walking horses at games...
 
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I don't know about everyone else but I'm a Vol because it's home, it's family. I can trace my lineage to our side the mountains to the 1760's. I'm a Vol because of the way Neyland can bring people together. I can't explain the bond I feel with my father when we are together at Neyland. I'm a Vol because it's something my family can rally behind. I'm a Vol because that's what I was born and raised to be, thank God
 
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triad280 said:
Id give just about anything up to hear John Ward again... I'm 40 and remember when I was 5-8 years old when you may not see but 1 or 2 games a year on TV... It was long after that I realized that the TV was muted and John Ward was the only voice we ever listened to... TV or not...Up until 1999.
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I often wonder if anybody listened to the TV announcers back then? Seems we all muted the TV to listen to JW. Bless old Bob K. I'm sure he bleeds orange but he's painful to listen to...but he's basically in the same spot Conzo was following Bruce. Like going from the strip club to the convent....
 
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Bob is following the best announcer of any school, no one can compete with that or take his place. That's like being the guy to follow Knute Rocke, Gen Neyland,Coach K, Dean Smith.
 
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triad280 said:
Id give just about anything up to hear John Ward again... I'm 40 and remember when I was 5-8 years old when you may not see but 1 or 2 games a year on TV... It was long after that I realized that the TV was muted and John Ward was the only voice we ever listened to... TV or not...Up until 1999.
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John Ward and Tennessee Football, lord, I can feel the electricity in the air.....It's almost time
 
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