Fondest trips to Neyland

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85 Auburn. I got a sideline press pass from my hometown newspaper. I was in high school. We kicked Bo's ass!
 
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Any game that I went to while I was in school at UT. When I lived in Knoxville Place (2006-2007) I loved looking out of my window and seeing Neyland every single day. On game days it was orange as far as the eye could see.
 
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Perkins_Hall said:
Vols-Bama 1982. Last row of QQ (standing and leaning against the rail) with the world's fair sight in the distance.
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I was working a kegger at the world's fair in the shadow of Neyland that game. I could have recited the score just from the crowd noise, without seeing a scoreboard. I think I drank half that keg whilst the game was in progress. I did not get employee of the month that October..
 
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i have a couple strange ones that really stand out..

Believe it or not though, the jabar gaffney no-catch floriduh game is probably my favorite. First game i ever saw with my dad, and the loudest I've ever heard Neyland until that call. I saw many grown men with tears in their eyes. My dad and i were speechless leaving the stadium. Many of us left wondering if that robbery REALLY just happened. It was surreal. It was unbelievable. Those too young to remember please search youtube for "Gaffney no catch". It will blow your mind. So many peole walked out of the stadium dumbfounded and heartbroken...It was such an intense back-and-forth game between 2 evenly matched teams in primetime. Amazing game, horrific officiating and ending.
 
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MphsBlues said:
I was working a kegger at the world's fair in the shadow of Neyland that game. I could have recited the score just from the crowd noise, without seeing a scoreboard. I think I drank half that keg whilst the game was in progress. I did not get employee of the month that October..
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Stroh Haus?
 
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BennisDrewer said:
Care to elaborate? I've never heard that one!
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For whatever reason we had two home games in a row against Penn State in '71 and '72. They were ranked #4 in '71 and nobody gave us a chance. They Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris in the back field. We beat the snot out of them. We won by about a touchdown in '72.

At the Auburn game in '73 it was raining so hard and for so long it was difficult for the players to maintain their footing. Once we had the lead Coach Battle had us punting on first down to avoid turnovers. We won 21-0.
 
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Ernest T. Vol said:
Stroh Haus?
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Stroh Haus was way over around the Forest ave. parrallel. No, I was literally in the shadow of Neyland in the part where all the rides were - by the river. I'm not sure how I remember much from that day, but since we had lost to Alabammer the previous 11 years I guess it stuck. That, and the electricity that carried beyond the stadium..
 
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MphsBlues said:
Stroh Haus was way over around the Forest ave. parrallel. No, I was literally in the shadow of Neyland in the part where all the rides were - by the river. I'm not sure how I remember much from that day, but since we had lost to Alabammer the previous 11 years I guess it stuck. That, and the electricity that carried beyond the stadium..
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Yea, now I know where u talkin bout. That 82 game was the wildest game I ever attended. I remember seeing a guy throw his seatback from the upper deck when we sealed it with the pic. Could have killed someone. Also remember a Bama fan in an El Dorado Cadillac that TN fans started taunting and rockin back in forth. He pulled pistol and started firing it in the air. Some of my buds went in Sophies Cafeteria got some orange jello and tossed it at Bammers as they went by under the TN bridge. And that was just right after the game...the night was young. Classy, I know...but it was a long time coming.
 
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Oct 4, 1997 against Ole Miss was my first game ever at UT. I rememebr seeing Peyton warming up from the student section. He was about 20 yards in front of me. It was great!
 
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Ernest T. Vol said:
Yea, now I know where u talkin bout. That 82 game was the wildest game I ever attended. I remember seeing a guy throw his seatback from the upper deck when we sealed it with the pic. Could have killed someone. Also remember a Bama fan in an El Dorado Cadillac that TN fans started taunting and rockin back in forth. He pulled pistol and started firing it in the air. Some of my buds went in Sophies Cafeteria got some orange jello and tossed it at Bammers as they went by under the TN bridge. And that was just right after the game...the night was young. Classy, I know...but it was a long time coming.
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UT fans can show their spirit, at times :) In 79 or 80 it was I think USC that kicked a game-ending field goal against us. It was made. I was standing outside of Stefano's drinking a beer (I was about 16 at the time). Police van pulled up outside the Lap. Cops got out and gathered around the rear of the van. I sat there wide-eyed as beer bottles began crashing against the rear of the van. Police dogs came out, people got arrested, and I remained in blissful safety across the street, glad to say :)
 
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VolzMan53 said:
While I have many to choose from, my fondest will always be those from early 60's. The family would load up in dads truck camper and travel from west Tn, staying most of the time at montgomery state park before arriving early sat morning at Stockley Athletic Center. Tailgating for us was a camper breakfast made by the moms. Us guys(young teens) would play football in the grass of Stockley while the dads walked the streets getting us all tickets, which wasn't a hard thing to do back in the day. This was how We spent almost all of our Thanksgivings(either Vandy or Kentucky). The stadium then was no end zone bleachers, if I remember correctly and the metal bleechers caused ear aches as We stomped our feet for the Big Orange.

Those were the days....how about yours ?
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If you remember, they fired a cannon after every U.T. score right out of the gap between those bleachers and the fixed concrete part of the stadium. My first game at Neyland , I sat in those bleachers. We played Ole Miss, and it was some time before 1967 when I enrolled at U.T.

My first game was Tenn-Texas A&M (Bear Bryant) in the Gator Bowl at the end of 1957. It was a 3-3 tie.
 
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I went to a game in 1972, I think it was against Miss. St, when some drunk idiot puked over the rail at the top of the lower deck, all over me. I looked up , and he was just watching his vomit fall a couple hundred feet on the people walking below. He turned around and screamed and laughed. I guess he was just happy to be alive.

He probably spent the night in jail after he was carried out of the stadium. I don't know what happened to the guy, but it ruined my day for sure.
 
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My fondest memory has got to be October 24, 2014 Alabama. Neyland was rocking all night long and ole Kiffy was wishing he had never been to Knoxville. That was the game the whole world knew BIG ORANGE WAS BACK!
























Lord please bless this dream.
 
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Every game I have ever been to (starting in 1991) I have gone to with my Dad. Love every game for that reason alone. I'm hoping this year against Florida will be pretty memorable for all the right reasons.
 
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jonnon111 said:
Every game I have ever been to (starting in 1991) I have gone to with my Dad. Love every game for that reason alone. I'm hoping this year against Florida will be pretty memorable for all the right reasons.
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That's awesome. Sounds like you and your dad have a very strong relationship.
 
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Been going to games since 1972, never 'felt' the atmosphere as I did in 98 UF win. Literally took your breath and caused grown men to tear up. Outside Neyland - UM vs UT Sugar Bowl atmosphere was electric...French QTR post game was epic.
 
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Nationdom said:
That's awesome. Sounds like you and your dad have a very strong relationship.
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My dad is gone now, but the last game that we went to, he was probably near 80 years old. We were walking toward the stadium , near the old Alumni Gym, and he got his feet tangled up in a circular plastic strap that some idiot discarded on the sidewalk. We didn't see it, because of all the people walking in front of us. He fell on his face on the concrete walk.

It looked like somebody lassoed his feet, and jerked them out from under him. We went in the stadium, straight to a first aid station. They stopped the bleeding, bandaged him up, and we made the kickoff, and stayed to the final whistle.

He was a Vol fan to the core, a tough old bird, and a trooper. I miss him daily. He took the family to the 1957 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville to see my first Tennessee game. I have been hooked ever since.

He also took the train to Dallas to see U.T. play in the Cotton Bowl in about 1950 or so, because he didn't like to fly ( my mother flew to join him). I still have the program for that game.
 
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1972 Grad said:
My dad is gone now, but the last game that we went to, he was probably near 80 years old. We were walking toward the stadium , near the old Alumni Gym, and he got his feet tangled up in a circular plastic strap that some idiot discarded on the sidewalk. We didn't see it, because of all the people walking in front of us. He fell on his face on the concrete walk.

It looked like somebody lassoed his feet, and jerked them out from under him. We went in the stadium, straight to a first aid station. They stopped the bleeding, bandaged him up, and we made the kickoff, and stayed to the final whistle.

He was a Vol fan to the core, a tough old bird, and a trooper. I miss him daily. He took the family to the 1957 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville to see my first Tennessee game. I have been hooked ever since.

He also took the train to Dallas to see U.T. play in the Cotton Bowl in about 1950 or so, because he didn't like to fly ( my mother flew to join him). I still have the program for that game.
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Wow. I wish I could go with my dad...he is an Ole miss Rebel.
 
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