Volosaurus rex
Doctorate in Volology
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Despite the protestations of the Negavol contingent of the Big Orange Nation, I will be cheering our boys on tomorrow with every fiber of my being. Due to family circumstances, I have a deep, abiding contempt for Vandy that would have made Coach Cafego proud. As an oldtimer, I consider Alabama our preeminent rival but Vandy is for blood. My uncle was head baseball coach and a football recruiter at Vandy during the '70s.
For the last 40 years, I have had to listen to the snide, condescending verbal excrement of his family, regardless of the respective fortunes of our two programs. (Yes, Cafego accurately characterized the Commodore psyche on this point.) The irony of it all is that I had the academic pedigree to have attended Vandy on either the undergraduate or graduate level; they didn't. Personally, I need this victory to make Thanksgiving more tolerable.
General Neyland gave us the birthright to transform Neyland Stadium and Neyland West into "killing" fields, ones in which the Commodes slither off the field humiliated in defeat. We all know that our defense has been as porous as a sieve this season, but Bray, Hunter, Patterson and company are thoroughly capable of lighting them up. Let's cheer our gridiron gladiators on to victory tomorrow and spare ourselves the ignominious fate of defeat at their hands. Go Big Orange!!!
For the last 40 years, I have had to listen to the snide, condescending verbal excrement of his family, regardless of the respective fortunes of our two programs. (Yes, Cafego accurately characterized the Commodore psyche on this point.) The irony of it all is that I had the academic pedigree to have attended Vandy on either the undergraduate or graduate level; they didn't. Personally, I need this victory to make Thanksgiving more tolerable.
General Neyland gave us the birthright to transform Neyland Stadium and Neyland West into "killing" fields, ones in which the Commodes slither off the field humiliated in defeat. We all know that our defense has been as porous as a sieve this season, but Bray, Hunter, Patterson and company are thoroughly capable of lighting them up. Let's cheer our gridiron gladiators on to victory tomorrow and spare ourselves the ignominious fate of defeat at their hands. Go Big Orange!!!