14 years? Seems like forever.

#26
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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 was there. Remember it well. Extremely hard to find an FSU fan 10 minutes after the game ended.
 
#29
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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 was there. In the the first pick singing Rocky Top on the way to AZ. In the 2nd pic me and another fan leading the chant "I said it's great to be a Tennessee Vol" right before going into Sun Devil Stadium. I was lucky enough to make it there to witness that spacial night.

That does not make me a bigger or a more loyal fan because I was there. I was very fortunate and a little lucky to get those tickets.
 

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#30
#30
I was 16 and didn't go to a game all year for the fist time since I was 8. I will die a sad man if we don't see another one in my lifetime. They've got about 50 years. GBO
 
#33
#33
to those who missed it, only another 30 + years till the next one. We who were there knew it could easily be a once in a lifetime experience..kinda like Haleys Comet...
 
#34
#34
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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Thats what you get when you run the best coach we had in 60 years, and hall of fame at that of after a couple of bad seasons, i guess that what you get, a kiff and a dool, well deserved.
 
#35
#35
It was 14 years ago tonight??? There was a time when I would come home after work and be disappointed if I only had a six pack in the fridge. 14 years ago tonight, after falling asleep from drinking too much Samuel Adams, I missed a good portion of the game. The next day I said enough is enough and haven't had anything to drink since.
 
#36
#36
Kinda depressing watching good teams this time of year play great football like TN used to do. :cray:
 
#40
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TrueOrange said:
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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I was one of those who remembered the one 47 years ago and was there in Tempe. The next a.m. a chartered plane with all UT fans got airborne and came within a hair of crashing because someone left a door open on the cargo hold...We made an emergency landing with news helicopters hovering over us and when we finally got back on the ground there were dozens of reporters yelling for us to talk to them. One station in Nashville reported that we had crashed and my daughter heard it; talk about only getting to enjoy that national championship one night!!! A friend who works for the FAA said that if we had climbed another 1,000 feet the plane would have exploded.....Picture on the front of the Phoenix paper the next day showed our plane dumping fuel to land and it looked as if it were smoke coming from all engines...People on the ground were staring at the plane with looks of horror....
 
#42
#42
CountryBoyBob454 said:
It was 14 years ago tonight??? There was a time when I would come home after work and be disappointed if I only had a six pack in the fridge. 14 years ago tonight, after falling asleep from drinking too much Samuel Adams, I missed a good portion of the game. The next day I said enough is enough and haven't had anything to drink since.
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Sounds like you made the right decision
 
#44
#44
volaholic1969 said:
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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You in the Navy?

I stopped in Yokosuka for 2 days in '94 on a Westpac (USS Carl Vinson).

Impressive making the trek to Tempe all the way from Japan. I was there too - good time. We were all surprised after the game when the bars shut down at 1 AM.
 
#45
#45
I was at that game in Tempe--fantastic night to be a Vol. The year after that national title, 1991, UT had at least six future NFL players--maybe more--and we lost four games. In 2001 we had a great team--clobbered florida late in the year after a hurricane canceled the early-season game, as I recall--would have played in the national title game had we beaten lsu in the SEC championship game, as we should have. We got beat by a backup QB and by our stupid turnovers. After 201, we have been consistently bad.
 
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#47
Maximum Jack said:
I remember it being pretty anti-climatic-- I mean, it felt pretty cool, but Beating Florida that year? That was awesome.
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this is true.

I was in Tempe and at the '98 Florida game.

The BCS NC game itself was not a great game - I'll never forget it, but it was not in the "one of the greatest games I ever saw" category like '98 Florida & '98 Arkansas.
 
#48
#48
Jacksonvol said:
I was one of those who remembered the one 47 years ago and was there in Tempe. The next a.m. a chartered plane with all UT fans got airborne and came within a hair of crashing because someone left a door open on the cargo hold...We made an emergency landing with news helicopters hovering over us and when we finally got back on the ground there were dozens of reporters yelling for us to talk to them. One station in Nashville reported that we had crashed and my daughter heard it; talk about only getting to enjoy that national championship one night!!! A friend who works for the FAA said that if we had climbed another 1,000 feet the plane would have exploded.....Picture on the front of the Phoenix paper the next day showed our plane dumping fuel to land and it looked as if it were smoke coming from all engines...People on the ground were staring at the plane with looks of horror....
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I know at least one, maybe 2 people that were on that plane with you.

Scary stuff...very very lucky everyone stayed safe.
 
#49
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armchair said:
I was at that game in Tempe--fantastic night to be a Vol. The year after that national title, 1991, UT had at least six future NFL players--maybe more--and we lost four games. In 2001 we had a great team--clobbered florida late in the year after a hurricane canceled the early-season game, as I recall--would have played in the national title game had we beaten lsu in the SEC championship game, as we should have. We got beat by a backup QB and by our stupid turnovers. After 201, we have been consistently bad.
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I have to question your recollection skills. The game was moved because of the 9/11 attacks earlier that week. Plus, UT didn't "clobber" UF that game. It was 34-32 with UT stopping them on 2pt conversion then recovering the on-side kick. As well as UT played, they made enough mistakes to let UF stay in the game.
 
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