25 years ago today

#27
#27
Boston Vol said:
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Know we sold our collective football souls at that moment, but we've been paying for a quarter century. I think enough is enough. Someone kill the damned chicken already.
 
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#28
#28
This is why I can't stop watching the game, even when the Vols are certain to lose. It's not a good problem to have
 
#30
#30
MAD said:
Where were you watching at that moment when it happened?
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I was fortunate enough to witness this game in Neyland. Miserable in the rain when it looked like Arkansas would win. I jumped and yelled when I saw the fumble. Billy Ratliff will always be one of my favorite Vols! Travis Henry took over; wouldn't be stopped.
 
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Made Delta reservations for Phoenix on the way out of the stadium that night, back when you had to physically take their city ticket office a coupon to pick up the tickets, nearly had to cancel them a couple of times in the run up to the invitation to the Tostito's Fiesta Bowl, but the breaks all went Tennessee's way on down the line. Billy Ratliff and Al Wilson played incredibly hard that night and the ball bounced their way.
 
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#34
#34
I was there.
It was the last time my wife and I saw a game live with my brother from New York. He will be with us in Neyland on Saturday. Hope he brings luck with him.
 
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#36
Friend xame down from IL and we went to the game. He suggested we leave mid-Q4 with a drive back to GA but I said nope, I stay to the end and so glad we did. He is a big Vikings fan and he just that Dobbs is all the talk and many are lining up behind him as THE QB.
 
#37
#37
We went back to the strip after the game and just sat a table in silence (with a grin) and drank several beer. We started to notice a strea running out from under our table. We was soaked and really did give it two thought.

UNBELIEVABLE night! It still to this day serves as the very reason I will NEVER give up on the Vols! It has been a very rough 2 decades and I’m still here loving them. The future is looking bright again, but we will never see dominance/fortuitousness like we did that year.
 
#38
#38
My seat was in VV, about row 18, and a loooong way to the field however, the earth stood still when the ball ended up on the turf before UT recovered it. Despite the horrible weather, it was the most beautiful sight I ever saw on Shields Watkins field.

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#39
#39
I was there with dad. Section Y9. Cool and rainy. Ppl were leaving right before that fumble.
 
#41
#41
I was there and one of the stupid people that left as they recovered the fumble. Didn’t know what took place until the smart fans that stayed started screaming. Had to listed to John Ward for the outcome.
 
#47
#47
CAVPUT said:
I hated the guy for bolting to UF. Even as our AD, my blood boiled.
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Dickey's dad was a professor at Florida, so he matriculated there. He walked on to the football team, went from DB to being seventh on their QB depth chart and wound up starting in 1952. Woodruff was his coach. Fast forward to the early '60s, and Woodruff was Tennessee AD when he hired Dickey, then an assistant under Broyles at Arkansas. Dickey did a lot of good things for Tennessee football during his tenure as coach (46-15-3, five bowl invitations, power T on the helmets, running through the T, checkerboard end zones...). He "went home" to Florida, where he did not do so well (and will be forever remembered for the Gator Flop). He returned to Tennessee as Director of Men's Athletics, and under his tenure, facilities and athletic program performance improved. His son, Daryl did enroll at Tennessee and went from clipboard holder to starter during the '85 season (Bama, TR, grrrr...), DD's first year as AD. It's easy to have mixed feelings about Dickey, but keep in mind that another Florida connection (Woodruff) brought him to Tennessee. Giving Dickey his due doesn't keep me from wishing ill fortune upon the Florida Gators. The Ol' Visor Tosser cemented those feelings, and they haven't softened since.
 
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