Anyone remember the last time we played Virginia?

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Sounds like a lot of us were at the game. I had some friends on the team and we would talk a lot about this game.

The 86 Sugar Bowl was so special; Miami was so arrogant, Tennessee had been on such a long drought, no one gave us a chance, but we dominated the streets of New Orleans, the stadium, and the game.

When the 90 team rolled in, the team and the fans were looking forward to re-creating that magic, and it just wasn't there. Tennessee fans dominated the city, dominated the stadium, but this time we were playing a pretty mediocre Virginia team (after having lost there quarterback). The team came out flat, and so were the fans. The first half was just plain bad football for Tennessee, while Virginia was playing well.

Then came the halftime performance by the Virgina band. They literally had a performance built around making fun of the state of Tennessee. It was bad, it was offensive, and it pissed everyone in the stadium off, including the band. Then the Pride of the Southland band came out and performed as well as they ever have (a close friend of mine was in the band for that game and grew up in Virginia and still says he was ready to put on a helmet after the Virginia band's performance). The stadium was rocking!

When the team came out for the second half, the crowd was going crazy and though the team had no idea what happened at halftime, they reacted to it. To this day, no one could convince me otherwise that if not for the Virginia band's halftime performance, we would have lost that game.
 
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ENGRVOL said:
That 90 team had so much talent. May have been Majors best chance to win a national championship given it was an overall down year. Just needed a better throw in the endzone at the end of the notre dame game and the blocked fg not to roll back 30 yards against bama and we are undefeated. The two ties as well were also disappointing
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If Kelly throws to an open Pickens in the end zone against ND, we win.

If Bama doesn’t block that Burke FG, we win.

If Burke hits that FG at the end against Auburn OR McCleskey makes the tackle on Auburn’s 2 or conversion instead of going for the pick, we win instead of tie.

That makes a 9-2-2 team 12-0-1, with a tie vs. Colorado. That’s easily a NC team that year.
 
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VOL Outlaw said:
I do.



I couldn't find a box score but here's the game summary from wikipedia.
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I do. I was staying in San Francisco with a relative who is a Tennessee Alum and I had just seen the Grateful Dead play their New Years show in Oakland Coliseum the night before.
I remember celebrating as though the party from the night before never ended. AKA " The Music Never Stopped"...
Great game!
 
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All I remember was watching It on TV, dad turned on John Ward for the final drive.

"Touchdown! Big Orange in the Superdome!"
 
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NeverWe'llSever said:
Watched the highlights. Ugly, ugly, ugly performance. Vols played a D- game and still found a way to win which is kind of incredible. Andy Kelly led an absolutely masterful drive at the end. It kind of reminded me of that team I hate more than any other playing LSU in 2012, where AJ McCarron played absolutely terrible the whole game. But when the money was on the table on the final drive, he found a way to get those darn red elephants into the end zone. That 1990 UT team was so talented. Andy Kelly, Carl Pickens, Alvin Harper, Tony Thompson and studs all over the defense.

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Watching these highlights.... We lose that game without Amsler. He was a beast with his blocking and running. And that one handed grab he made on the final drive was a thing of beauty.
 
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This was such a great memory in my life. My high school had an annual trip for the senior football players. I was there with my best friends, 17 years old and had no business being on Bourbon St....lol. A couple days before the game, we got to hang on Bourbon Street with our former teammate Shazzon Bradley. He was awesome to us and introduced us to Carl Pickens and Antone Davis. Most of my friends bought "F&*K Virgina" shirts to wear to the game. I opted for the milder version - "piss on Virginia". Needless to say when we came out of the hotel wearing these shirts, Coach Mullinax was not amused and we had to go back to our rooms and change. Celebrating on Bourbon St after with thousand of Vol fans is something I will never forget. Great times!!!
 
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I remember that game. I was 10 and my parents bought me a "storm trooper" sweatshirt and pants that had the sugar bowl emblem with UT v VA helmets and Tennessee down the pant leg that I wore during the game.
 
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I was there, too. My first memory of a “road trip” to a TN game.

Also, Virginia’s uni’s back then we’re way better than their look today.
 
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PandamoniumReigns said:
Watching these highlights.... We lose that game without Amsler. He was a beast with his blocking and running. And that one handed grab he made on the final drive was a thing of beauty.
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Amsler was indeed the catalyst for an uninspired team to help them rebound in the second half. I remember Virginia fans as aloof,condescending,and nasty to anything Tennessee. Their band’s performance at halftime was atrocious and demeaning toward Tennessee. Almost the entire stadium was up in arms and it was great to see Virginia’s fans go home with a big dose of crow And hanging heads. Other posters have mentioned Bourbon Street being colored Orange and they are right. Good times!.
 
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Pump Guy said:
Sounds like a lot of us were at the game. I had some friends on the team and we would talk a lot about this game.

The 86 Sugar Bowl was so special; Miami was so arrogant, Tennessee had been on such a long drought, no one gave us a chance, but we dominated the streets of New Orleans, the stadium, and the game.

When the 90 team rolled in, the team and the fans were looking forward to re-creating that magic, and it just wasn't there. Tennessee fans dominated the city, dominated the stadium, but this time we were playing a pretty mediocre Virginia team (after having lost there quarterback). The team came out flat, and so were the fans. The first half was just plain bad football for Tennessee, while Virginia was playing well.

Then came the halftime performance by the Virgina band. They literally had a performance built around making fun of the state of Tennessee. It was bad, it was offensive, and it pissed everyone in the stadium off, including the band. Then the Pride of the Southland band came out and performed as well as they ever have (a close friend of mine was in the band for that game and grew up in Virginia and still says he was ready to put on a helmet after the Virginia band's performance). The stadium was rocking!

When the team came out for the second half, the crowd was going crazy and though the team had no idea what happened at halftime, they reacted to it. To this day, no one could convince me otherwise that if not for the Virginia band's halftime performance, we would have lost that game.
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The most bizarre halftime performance of any collegiate band I’ve ever witnessed or heard of. As has already been stated, they attempted to make fun of “hillbillies” and went barefoot with costume clothing, trying to depict us Tennesseans, in a bad light. It was bad, really really bad.
 
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My Mom took me to Gibbs Hall the day after this when the team came back. I have the football most of the team signed in my office. It still amazes me when I watch the old games just how loaded we were at receiver so many seasons. Embarrassment of riches.
 
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Pump Guy said:
Sounds like a lot of us were at the game. I had some friends on the team and we would talk a lot about this game.

The 86 Sugar Bowl was so special; Miami was so arrogant, Tennessee had been on such a long drought, no one gave us a chance, but we dominated the streets of New Orleans, the stadium, and the game.

When the 90 team rolled in, the team and the fans were looking forward to re-creating that magic, and it just wasn't there. Tennessee fans dominated the city, dominated the stadium, but this time we were playing a pretty mediocre Virginia team (after having lost there quarterback). The team came out flat, and so were the fans. The first half was just plain bad football for Tennessee, while Virginia was playing well.

Then came the halftime performance by the Virgina band. They literally had a performance built around making fun of the state of Tennessee. It was bad, it was offensive, and it pissed everyone in the stadium off, including the band. Then the Pride of the Southland band came out and performed as well as they ever have (a close friend of mine was in the band for that game and grew up in Virginia and still says he was ready to put on a helmet after the Virginia band's performance). The stadium was rocking!

When the team came out for the second half, the crowd was going crazy and though the team had no idea what happened at halftime, they reacted to it. To this day, no one could convince me otherwise that if not for the Virginia band's halftime performance, we would have lost that game.
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I was there and agree with you 100%. Still look down on those Virginia band members. They embarrassed their school, state, and community. Made whole state look totally classless.
 
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Tnphil said:
I was there....The only thing worse than our first half play was the Virginia so called band.
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We’re spoiled. Edit: I didn’t know that their band made fun of us, I just thought you were saying they sucked in general and I believed it 😂
 
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Smallvol#1 said:
I was there and agree with you 100%. Still look down on those Virginia band members. They embarrassed their school, state, and community. Made whole state look totally classless.
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The irony being that most native Tennesseans came from Virginia and the Carolinas 😂 hard to look down on what you made 😂
 
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