I am sorry that you had an experience that you didn’t enjoy, truly. I was at the volunteer club tailgate, and was downtown the night before where there was a sizable aggie presence. There was a large A&M tailgate next to the vol club and I made sure to engage with many of the Aggies fans and compliment them on how well they traveled, and wished them a good Knoxville experience, and I saw many UT fans behaving similarly. Generally if you aren’t gator chomping, rolling tide or barking in peoples’ faces you will be ok at UT.
Look….you walked up to some artsy fartsy tailgate and were denied. That’s not an indication of UT fans in general. It was most likely a private function if they mentioned a guest list.
That fartsy tailgate was just one encounter. There were others not worth mentioning. I am definitely not upset over the game and expected UT to win. We all knew it would be a good game and it was. The only thing that was surprising was the attitude of not only one tailgate person but encounters with other fans that were not very welcoming. Am I overly sensitive? Probably but only because I had expected a much different experience prior to the game. The atmosphere inside Neyland lived up to the hype. The only thing I did not care for was when the UT fans booed when the A&M players would get hurt. I have spoken to many other Aggies who had an experience like myself and others that said the UT fans they encountered were very nice. It would have been great if I had found those fans but I did not and it is what it is. I am just very disappointed in the overall experience because I expected something much different, regardless of the outcome of the game.
You are right. Lots of Aggie fans did have a great experience but others had an experience like mine and did not feel welcomed overall by the UT fans.Interesting how only one ATM fan is complaining (a lot!!!). Facebook postings from Aggies I have seen are all positive.
Perhaps it would be best going forward, for ones of this personality/disposition to: Stay Home. Everyone will be much happier, including all the regular ATM fans.
There’s nothing respectable about being a male cheerleader and your program took that non-hetero tradition and cranked it up to 11. Your program is a nobody that hasn’t been relevant since the ‘30’s and shouldn’t be in this conference, especially now that the only 2 schools that matter in the southwest are joining. How’s that for classless?
1. Your existence doesn’t entitle you to the food and beverages paid for and earned by the hard work of others, especially those who are strangers to you.
I love the old feel. Some of us recognize places like Wrigley and Fenway to be the cathedrals that they are. Some of us want to be entertained by something other than football at Neyland. I’m hoping we can have a putt putt course installed in the concourse so people don’t have to sit there and watch the game. We can then complete the transition to a minor league ballpark environment and name the stadium Netflix Neyland Stadium or something equally embarrassing.
Because Tennessee almost always tries to run a hurry-up offense, many opposing coaches have taught their players to fake an injury so that the referes will stop play, which allows the defense to rest. Ole Miss under Lane Kiffin does this routinely and a few other schools do it as well. The boos are a reflex response to what the fans assume is a fake injury.
I know what he is talking about since they have a newly reconstructed stadium that is well laid out and easy to get around. But I would take Neyland any day compared to not being able to see the numbers on the jersey from the upper decks in College Station. You felt you were still in Houston trying to see the field.
This is a recent phenomenon. Over the past few years, a lot of coaches have their players fake an injury to stop the clock or slow down the offensive teams momentum. That is what Vol fans were doing with their booing. Unfortunately once when that happened, the Aggie was actually quite injured and had to leave the game.
Boohoo. Figures there would be one Aggie fan that would get sideways about some perceived slight. If the way you come across here is any indication of how you interact in real life, no surprise you didn’t get a lot of positive interactions.
