Ever gone to a game with a rival fan?

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So my old roommate is an Auburn grad and just as much an AU fan as I am UT. He is coming up for the game and we'll be going/sitting together. We have had this planned for months.

For some reason, I haven't thought about the awkwardness that naturally will manifest around kickoff. I've been to games with all kinds of different people, but they were all wearing orange.

Has anybody ever done this? How is it going to work? One of us will have to be disappointed when the clock hits 0:00. Will I be a jerk for celebrating and high-5ing when North catches a TD? Should I restrain myself? Just don't know the proper manners in this situation.....
 
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I live in Georgia. Went to Athens last year with 3 friends and was totally surrounded by dawg fans. They kept getting worried they were gonna have to defend me! It's a blast though. God willing gonna take my wife and kids to Athens next year. It was a blast, we had some fun trash talk, but no trouble.
 
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I have family (daughter/son-in-law) that graduated from So Carolina. That game is annually a family feud. Before the game, we are family. After the game, we are family. This year, they got to hear Rocky Top. It isn't life or death but it is what you decide to make of it. Win or lose, there is no reason to be an a$$hole.
 
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Try going to gator games in the swamp and sitting with your close friends in the student section.....I dunno why I put myself through it everytime... But U can't beat the free ticket lol
 
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Yup. My husband went to bama and I sit next to him at most of the games. However, I make him stay home for the bama game. They are my seats as I've had them since before we were married. We sat together for one bama/ut game and it sucked.
 
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I went to the Bama game in 2008 with my best friend from HS (he is a Bammer). We hadn't seen each other in years. We thought it would be a good opportunity to hang out. We have not spoken with each other since.
 
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joevol33 said:
I live in Georgia. Went to Athens last year with 3 friends and was totally surrounded by dawg fans. They kept getting worried they were gonna have to defend me! It's a blast though. God willing gonna take my wife and kids to Athens next year. It was a blast, we had some fun trash talk, but no trouble.
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But was it a blast?
 
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all depends on how good of friends you are.. my and my close friends goto the ut/ga game every year for the past 5 years and its a great time.
 
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yeah.if my wife counts.we have been to 4 games together and tennessee 1-3 in those games.the 2011 georgia tennessee game,2008 georgia tennessee game.south carolina tennessee in 05.and ole miss tennessee in 05.i will never take her again unless tennessee plays uga.
 
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peyton4heisman said:
So my old roommate is an Auburn grad and just as much an AU fan as I am UT. He is coming up for the game and we'll be going/sitting together. We have had this planned for months.

For some reason, I haven't thought about the awkwardness that naturally will manifest around kickoff. I've been to games with all kinds of different people, but they were all wearing orange.

Has anybody ever done this? How is it going to work? One of us will have to be disappointed when the clock hits 0:00. Will I be a jerk for celebrating and high-5ing when North catches a TD? Should I restrain myself? Just don't know the proper manners in this situation.....
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Just go and have fun, dude.
 
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Went with one of my good friends who is a Bama alumni in 06. We had a blast on the Strip on Friday, he was furious at the end of the game. And then he paid at Calhoun's, which made it even sweeter.
 
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I went to the Georgia game this year with two friends that love Georgia. Nothing was said really at all. They seen my heartbreak and respected me enough not to say anything lol. We cheered for our teams and didn't say much to each other.
 
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My best friend is a Bama fan, we went to the game in Knoxville last year. Have to say the Vol fans treated him well, despite the drunk obnoxious frat boy during the first quarter of the game. I seriously wanted to know his a$$ out as well..Overall he wants to go back to another game even if its not against Bama...must've been the hotties on the strip..
 
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I went to a game several years ago with a buddy who is an Auburn fan. It got annoying as hell listening to him and other fans yell War Eagle at each other every time they passed one another. They're the freaking tigers and scream war eagle at each other. They all have brain damage.
 
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Tennessee vs Notre Dame

We agreed that during the game you could talk about the game as much as you wanted. During the walk back to the car you could continue talking about the game as much as you wanted. As soon as the loser touched the car you shut up about it.
 
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I went to Fayetteville in 1995 with a buddy of mine who is a die-hard Razorback fan...UT won 49-31 and I had a blast...My buddy, not so much...
 
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I live in Missouri and went to Columbia this past weekend and watched the worst TN game I've ever seen in person. Everyone in town knows I'm a die hard TN fan. No one has said anything to me so far. It's almost like they feel sorry for me. At work, I hear people talking about the game but when I get close they stop and change the subject. Thank goodness for Vol Nation...It's like a crisis hot line for Vol fans..
 
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When I was a kid and my father was alive I used to have to go to Ole Miss-UT games with him and his friends, all of whom were Rebel fans. My dad played LB for Ole Miss. I was at the '68 Vols-Rebels game in Jackson, MS after Steve Kiner made the infamous 'Archie Who"' comment. Our next door neighbor was also an Ole Miss alum. His son, whose middle name is Oxford, if that tells you how much of an Ole Miss fan the guy was, was with us. Dad got me an Allan tickets in the Rebel student section while he and Allan's dad were down on the sidelines. Worst day of my life as I had to first endure the 38-0 beatdown of the previously undefeated Vols, who were either ranked #2 or #3 at the time ( I can't remember), then the constant taunting of Kiner, who had an awful game. I kept wondering what all of the big cardboard boxes were scattered throughout the student section. I found out in the 4th quarter when Kiner finally turned to the section and shot the bird and the students opened the boxes and rained oranges down at Kiner. And of course I got taunted unmercifully by Allan on the trip back to Jackson, Tn, where I grew up. Only cool thing about the trip, which didn't seem cool at the time, but when we went to eat at a restaurant after the game, the Rebel's coach John Vaught brough Archie Manning over to our table to introduce him to my father.
 
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I went to the NC State game in Atlanta last year with a couple of State alums, and had a friggen blast! Of course, I can't say for certain it would have been that much fun if the roles had been reversed :)
 
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A bammer friend took me to the 98' game at Neyland w free tix. That thing was close. Shaun Alexander was a beast. When Price housed that kickoff return, he started laughing and clapping when the flag was laying on the field and the place went silent. When the ref called wedge busting on Bama it was sheer joy. Poor guy picked the wrong cycle to get freebies to the UT game. Went with him in 96, when Jay Graham took that 70+ yard game winner to the house too.
 
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OP, if UT wins, talk smack!

If UT loses, talk about the 4 straight wins UT had over Auburn from 1991-1999. That's the way real UT fans do it...livin' in the past, baby!
 
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