14 years? Seems like forever.

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OrangeByBirth

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Fourteen years ago tonight, UT won the BCS National Championship in Tempe AZ.

Tee Martin was the toast of the town. Now he's toasted over hot coals.

Phil Fulmer was considered along side Robert Neyland. Now folks want him buried along side Neyland.

Nobody knew Lane Kiffin's name. Today everyone wants to forget it.

Times were good. Now it seems like time is standing still. I can't wait on a new season. I'm tired of watching other teams in the spotlight. I want to see ORANGE on the field in January!
 
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Do you have a Delorean with a flux capacitor? If you do, swing by and pick me up and lets go back and live it up again.
 
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OrangeByBirth said:
Fourteen years ago tonight, UT won the BCS National Championship in Tempe AZ.

Tee Martin was the toast of the town. Now he's toasted over hot coals.

Phil Fulmer was considered along side Robert Neyland. Now folks want him buried along side Neyland.

Nobody knew Lane Kiffin's name. Today everyone wants to forget it.

Times were good. Now it seems like time is standing still. I can't wait on a new season. I'm tired of watching other teams in the spotlight. I want to see ORANGE on the field in January!
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If we going to bury Phil next to Neyland, we gonna need a bigger stadium.
 
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There's a lot to be said for having a past you can be proud of.
 
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Not to beat a dead horse about UT's suck-i-tude for the better part of these 14 years, but this year's recruits would have been 4 or 5 back then. Man, I'm getting old!!!! :(
 
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It feels like forever because it has been. He won the big one and then nothing. A decade of nothing.
 
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hohenfelsvol said:
It feels like forever because it has been. He won the big one and then nothing. A decade of nothing.
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Yeah it was like his goal had been met nothing more to accomplish.
It's a shame to go from the very top of the NCAA to the bottom if the SEC in a few years, pitiful.
 
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OrangeByBirth said:
Fourteen years ago tonight, UT won the BCS National Championship in Tempe AZ.

Tee Martin was the toast of the town. Now he's toasted over hot coals.

Phil Fulmer was considered along side Robert Neyland. Now folks want him buried along side Neyland.

Nobody knew Lane Kiffin's name. Today everyone wants to forget it.

Times were good. Now it seems like time is standing still. I can't wait on a new season. I'm tired of watching other teams in the spotlight. I want to see ORANGE on the field in January!
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You think it's bad for you? How about all those people who had to wait 47 years for that one?


(...and '67's "one minor poll" season doesn't really count, plus it didn't really start being accepted by the school until fairly recently)
 
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OrangeByBirth said:
Fourteen years ago tonight, UT won the BCS National Championship in Tempe AZ.

Tee Martin was the toast of the town. Now he's toasted over hot coals.

Phil Fulmer was considered along side Robert Neyland. Now folks want him buried along side Neyland.

Nobody knew Lane Kiffin's name. Today everyone wants to forget it.

Times were good. Now it seems like time is standing still. I can't wait on a new season. I'm tired of watching other teams in the spotlight. I want to see ORANGE on the field in January!
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I call BS.
Most of the sheep calling for Championship Caliber Teams stayed at home that game. Most were expecting Fla St to win big. I was amazed how few went, but jumped on the Wagon for the celebration afterwards. I sit in the Airport with some of local yocal media types flying back and they discussed how little Knox Stations/ Media gave in to it until after the W. It then became the story of the year!!
The sheep cry for wanting to play in Jan but they show it with a car flag and watching the game on TV at the local watering hole. :crazy:
 
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Advol said:
I call BS.
Most of the sheep calling for Championship Caliber Teams stayed at home that game. Most were expecting Fla St to win big. I was amazed how few went, but jumped on the Wagon for the celebration afterwards. I sit in the Airport with some of local yocal media types flying back and they discussed how little Knox Stations/ Media gave in to it until after the W. It then became the story of the year!!
The sheep cry for wanting to play in Jan but they show it with a car flag and watching the game on TV at the local watering hole. :crazy:
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i have a feeling people were a bit enthused and the media coverage was wall to wall.

that's just a guess
 
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Watched every minute on TV. Cant imagine we have sucked bad 7 of the 14.
 
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I flew from Yokosuka Japan to see UT play in that game. There was no way I was gonna miss that one. Never crossed my mind not to go. GBO VFL
 
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Never thought 14 years later it would be like this. I remember it snowed that night.

I blame my wife. After I met her, UT has went downhill. We just started dating around the Championship game.
 
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Maybe some of our recruits have a very good memory when they were 3-4 years old
 
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