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Inside Bay Area - Ex-Cal QB recalls tough trip to Tennessee
TROY TAYLOR remembers the nonstop, mega-decibel noise. He remembers the swaying ocean of orange. He remembers the constant playing of "Rocky Top" and the equally incessant T-E-Double N-E-Double S-Double E-TENNESSEE cheer.
"I still know all the words to 'Rocky Top,'" Taylor recalled Monday, nearly 20 years after the University of California's last daunting football venture into Tennessee. "That's how often they play it."
Taylor has some other vivid memories of Knoxville's intimidating Neyland Stadium, fabled home of the Tennessee Volunteers, from way back in 1987.
"We had some of those little empty whiskey bottles thrown at us, emphasis on the empty," he said. "People were screaming things like 'Surf's up, dude' and getting on us real good. It was a pretty hostile environment."
TROY TAYLOR remembers the nonstop, mega-decibel noise. He remembers the swaying ocean of orange. He remembers the constant playing of "Rocky Top" and the equally incessant T-E-Double N-E-Double S-Double E-TENNESSEE cheer.
"I still know all the words to 'Rocky Top,'" Taylor recalled Monday, nearly 20 years after the University of California's last daunting football venture into Tennessee. "That's how often they play it."
Taylor has some other vivid memories of Knoxville's intimidating Neyland Stadium, fabled home of the Tennessee Volunteers, from way back in 1987.
"We had some of those little empty whiskey bottles thrown at us, emphasis on the empty," he said. "People were screaming things like 'Surf's up, dude' and getting on us real good. It was a pretty hostile environment."
