Danny White Brought Back The V O L S Sign, How about Bring Back…..

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Yeah I think it’s long since needed to return to the rivalry game. Honestly I don’t think it would've been insensitive to have kept it going, even after the DUI incident. Why would it have been? The players & students still drink. Often heavily. They very likely & unfortunately drive while intoxicated sometimes, always have, always will. The barrel never signified driving while intoxicated. At the UF game, I saw some young stupid pudge so drunk that his “slightly drunk” buddies were laying him out on the concrete in broad daylight. Middle of the day. Removing the barrel accomplished nothing and like has already been stated, it’s hypocrisy to sell beer to people who DRIVE TO THE FREAKING GAME and then drive home LOL. And I doubt anybody ever said “Oh they ditched the barrel? Well I feel better now about those players dying!” Bring the dadgum barrel back for crying out loud.
 
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It was done away with out of respect for a ky. Player getting killed in a wreck or hit by a drunk driver just before the game if i remember correctly. thought it was a classy move
 
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EasternVol said:
Aren't most walking horses now trained without soring, and isn't it possible to spot those which are? If so it should be no issue to have only humanely trained horses perform before each home game.
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They have once in the last 10 years. Cannot remember the game, but believe it was under Butch.
 
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indian rick said:
It was done away with out of respect for a ky. Player getting killed in a wreck or hit by a drunk driver just before the game if i remember correctly. thought it was a classy move
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you are correct . Two Kentucky players killed do to a alcohol related crash. UK AD said it wouldn't be appropriate to continue the trophy that week. Never came back. Shouldn't considering why it was pulled
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Honestly, I always thought a whiskey barrel made more sense than a beer barrel, given the expertise both states have for distilling alcohol.

But that would fail the political correctness test just as badly as beer.

So I don't know what could replace it. Something about horses (walking horses vs quarter horses)? Or music (bluegrass vs country)? IDK. If it were easy, it would probably already be a done deal.

Go Vols!
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Oh I literally just posted about this haha I agree
 
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volfanhill said:
you are correct . Two Kentucky players killed do to a alcohol related crash. UK AD said it wouldn't be appropriate to continue the trophy that week. Never came back. Shouldn't considering why it was pulled
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BS. They didn't quit selling alcohol. So why stop the inanimate barrel from being fought over? Literally makes no sense; a hollow jesture that does or proves nothing to anyone. People are still dying in drunk driver incidents daily. Seems like we need a better solution from the pencil pushers...
 
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ScornedPapaVol said:
BS. They didn't quit selling alcohol. So why stop the inanimate barrel from being fought over? Literally makes no sense; a hollow jesture that does or proves nothing to anyone. People are still dying in drunk driver incidents daily. Seems like we need a better solution from the pencil pushers...
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They weren't selling alcohol in stadiums then. I
 
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They could always use a construction barrel. Don't know much about Kentucky but they sure do love them in Tennessee it seems.

In all seriousness though the accident that caused the barrel to be retired happened the Sunday before the 1998 Kentucky vs Tennessee game and I can understand the desire to not use the barrel that year and maybe for a couple of years afterwards. With that being said I think it would be better to keep the beer barrel retired and instead have it be a whiskey barrel. Both Kentucky and Tennessee are known a lot more for their whiskies than they are their beers and in both states their whiskey is a big part of their identity.
 
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College kids drinking beer are breaking the law.

They can only drink $3 bottled water
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Last seen in Brian Niedermeyer's office, wasn't it?

Probably in some pawn shop in Arkansas now.

And btw, the University of Kentucky will never (ever) allow this barrel to come back to the rivalry. The reason they'll give is those college kids who died in a DUI tragedy the year we got rid of it. The underlying, perhaps more calculated reason, is that no one is ever in favor of bringing back a trophy where the other team's score is almost always bigger than yours. Better to start new, if you're the losing side.
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Yet they are selling alcohol in the stadium now.
 
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