Butch says no grey uniforms for Florida, undecided if we'll wear them at all in 2014

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emzeeee said:
It's not about what I want. The team wants it... the ones who actually go out and play the game
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Wrong. It's about what we want as fans ... the ones who actually go out and buy the tickets that pay scholarships of those who play the game. If players don't like our choice of colors that's dumb - they knew exactly what they were signing up for when they chose UT.
By the way, do you propose we also start chanting 'go big gray' or 'gray - white'?
 
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TGVol said:
Wrong. It's about what we want as fans ... the ones who actually go out and buy the tickets that pay scholarships of those who play the game. If players don't like our choice of colors that's dumb - they knew exactly what they were signing up for when they chose UT.
By the way, do you propose we also start chanting 'go big gray' or 'gray - white'?
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Except the Orange is still on the uniform.

This is a stupid argument.
 
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onevol74 said:
Khaki pants with an orange helmet with a white cross across the top. Talk about throw back, that would be throw back. I believe that was our uniform in 1938, 1939, and 1940. Go look up the record for those 3 years. And one of those teams was never scored on during the regular season.
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ESPN hated those uniforms too. TFWIW SIAP
 
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emzeeee said:
Except the Orange is still on the uniform.

This is a stupid argument.
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You can be dumb enough to believe just because there are few orange stripes or some trace of orange somewhere that that makes the uniforms predominately orange - because that's what we are talking about here.
 
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TGVol said:
Wrong. It's about what we want as fans ... the ones who actually go out and buy the tickets that pay scholarships of those who play the game. If players don't like our choice of colors that's dumb - they knew exactly what they were signing up for when they chose UT.
By the way, do you propose we also start chanting 'go big gray' or 'gray - white'?
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You know that "us ticket buyers" don't bring in the most funds, right?

It's sales and tv dollars, slick.

People like new uniforms. Hell I'm almost 40 and I love the idea of multiple uniforms.

There's nothing better than Orange. But it's fun to see Orange on different jersey styles.

Lighten up....
 
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I'd like to see pants below the knee. The kickers and qb's look like they're wearing compression shorts. Just sissy looking
 
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TGVol said:
Wrong. It's about what we want as fans ... the ones who actually go out and buy the tickets that pay scholarships of those who play the game. If players don't like our choice of colors that's dumb - they knew exactly what they were signing up for when they chose UT.
By the way, do you propose we also start chanting 'go big gray' or 'gray - white'?
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You pay to support a football program, not decide what they can wear.
 
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Wylo said:
This.

We are the big Orange. That doesn't change when in away uniforms.

Why would it change in an alternate jersey?
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It should not change because we do not need any alternate jerseys for home games - it's our choice at home so we get to be the Big Orange and wear that color proudly. Away games - there is nothing we can do about it if home team wants to wear their own orange or something close to it - then we have to put up with wearing ugly inferior colors. It's actually not all that complicated.
 
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Wylo said:
You know that "us ticket buyers" don't bring in the most funds, right?

It's sales and tv dollars, slick.

People like new uniforms. Hell I'm almost 40 and I love the idea of multiple uniforms.

There's nothing better than Orange. But it's fun to see Orange on different jersey styles.

Lighten up....
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This. Why not have a change of pace. Not Hating on tradition just like something different once a season. Its not a permanent thing still wear orange and white every single other game but remember the Orange and black unis they were awesome but that was before message boards full of fashion police and PR specialist
 
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Halloween is on a Saturday next season - wonder if Nike will have something special for us.
 
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TGVol said:
Players get a scholarship to play and go to university for free, not decide what they can wear.
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Yes you are correct and these players also risk their safety every minute they play and generate millions upon millions of dollars for the university and local businesses. I think it isn't a lot to ask for them to at least have a small voice in the shirts and pants they wear on the field. Not accusing you of this, but fans tend to talk of them like cattle. Stick a helmet on em', brand em', and shove em' on the field, and hand them a degree when we are done with em'. These are kids that bust their butts to wear those uniforms. They are the tradition. Not the black outlines around the numbers, or the Ts on the hips.
 
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orange parmejohn said:
Yes you are correct and these players also risk their safety every minute they play and generate millions upon millions of dollars for the university and local businesses. I think it isn't a lot to ask for them to at least have a small voice in the shirts and pants they wear on the field. Not accusing you of this, but fans tend to talk of them like cattle. Stick a helmet on em', brand em', and shove em' on the field, and hand them a degree when we are done with em'. These are kids that bust their butts to wear those uniforms. They are the tradition. Not the black outlines around the numbers, or the Ts on the hips.
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I'm all for respecting student/athletes - I was one as well many years ago (at UT, but not football). However, I think that athletes should show greater respect to the traditions of programs they join, especially when they join big time storied programs like Tennessee. Every new generation should not have the right to just step in and change whatever they want, even if it seems trivial to some - and that's what they would do if we let them. So adults need to step in and teach these kids the importance of keeping and caring for our traditions (does not only apply to football but life in general).
 
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Last night I dreamed we started the UF game in orange, but came out in the second half in the smokey gray uni's. I can't remember if we won or lost though! Oh well.
 
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TGVol said:
I'm all for respecting student/athletes - I was one as well many years ago (at UT, but not football). However, I think that athletes should show greater respect to the traditions of programs they join, especially when they join big time storied programs like Tennessee. Every new generation should not have the right to just step in and change whatever they want, even if it seems trivial to some - and that's what they would do if we let them. So adults need to step in and teach these kids the importance of keeping and caring for our traditions (does not only apply to football but life in general).
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Fully agreed. Good points.
 
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TGVol said:
I'm all for respecting student/athletes - I was one as well many years ago (at UT, but not football). However, I think that athletes should show greater respect to the traditions of programs they join, especially when they join big time storied programs like Tennessee. Every new generation should not have the right to just step in and change whatever they want, even if it seems trivial to some - and that's what they would do if we let them. So adults need to step in and teach these kids the importance of keeping and caring for our traditions (does not only apply to football but life in general).
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It's not like the players unilaterally decided to have gray uniforms. So you better teach the disrespectful adults of your generation that made the decision to go ahead with the jerseys your lesson about tradition.

Seeing as how it's Go Big Orange, I don't see the big deal with essentially replacing the white on a uniform with gray.

But whaaaatever.
 
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TGVol said:
I'm all for respecting student/athletes - I was one as well many years ago (at UT, but not football). However, I think that athletes should show greater respect to the traditions of programs they join, especially when they join big time storied programs like Tennessee. Every new generation should not have the right to just step in and change whatever they want, even if it seems trivial to some - and that's what they would do if we let them. So adults need to step in and teach these kids the importance of keeping and caring for our traditions (does not only apply to football but life in general).
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You are the grumpiest of grumpy. Not everything revolves around your personal feelings.

Thankfully the University isn't run by you.
 
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