Fondest Vol Memory

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1972 My dad took me to see the Vols play Georgia in Sanford stadium. Tickets were a whopping $10.00 each face value.
I watched Holloway work his magic that day and Haskel Stanback & Bill Rudder combined for 174 yards rushing.
Tennessee 14, Georgia 0
The Bulldogs first shutout since 1963.
 
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my fondest memories strictly of tennessee football are mose phillips 60-yd td in the florida game in 93, greg amsler saving the day in the sugar bowl, and the 98 arkansas game.

my fondest memory of all is of being eight years old and watching the buildup to the sugar bowl...all the crap they talked about how good miami was and how nervous my parents were that it was going to be an embarrassing night. i was nodding off when tennessee first scored, i remember my mom half shaking-half hugging me, and i remember jeff smith i guess taking a bow in the end zone after scoring. i have a perfect mental image of that moment, i still think about that night a lot and how great it was to see everything fall into place. hope that wasn't too longwinded...

this is my first post btw...i can't believe i had missed out on this place prior to this dismal season.
 
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You know that they say "You never forget your first time."

!966 I was enrolled at George Peabody College and was taking some classes at Vanderbilt. I decided to go to the UT Vandy game.
I sat right in the middle of a bunch of Big Orange fans decked out in Orange and one guy had a cowbell. UT won 28 - 0. I was hooked! I enrolled at UT and have been a Vol ever sincel. :yahoo:

GO BIG ORANGE!
 
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1990 Cotton Bowl...what a game...got the tickets as a Christmas Present from my grandfather...best present i ever got....

Also beating Auburn in 85 or 86?, Beating Bama in 95, and Beating OSU in 96--this was the game that i remember first thinking...."this is now an elite program". That OSU team we beat had Eddie George, Orlando Pace and a slew of other mega talented players....

And obviously, the two Sugar Bowls....Tony Thompson over the top to beat UVA and the rout over Miami....

But it has to be the Fiesta Bowl 99....we all went to the strip after the game, man it was awesome....
 
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Several.
John Ward saying "Color it Orange", after the N/C win over FSU.

Peyton Manning QB run, end around against Bama.
Leading the band in Rocky Top

The fumble Arkansas had and we won the game, I stayed in
my sit, thousands dashed back to the stadium.

The missed Gator field goal (I was there) and we went to win the N/C that year.

Casey Clausen leading the band in Rocky Top at the swamp

Our complete domination of Michigan in bowl game (Clausen).In laws from Michigan.

:biggrin2:
 
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What about the '82 win over Bama after their 11-year run?

And I don't remember the year (either '72 or '73) when Condredge Holloway returned to the field after being hurt early in the game. The players entered from the East stands at the time. Holloway had been taken to the hospital and everyone thought he was out, possibly for the season. The second half was underway: suddenly Holloway emerges onto the field from the tunnel, all alone but suited up and ready to play, ran around the north end zone to get to the Tennessee bench on the other side of the field. A small cheer begins as a few people notice him. As the entire stadium begins to notice, the cheer builds into a giant roar. The Artful Dodger was back.
 
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Originally posted by Fayettevol@Nov 30, 2005 11:57 AM
What about the '82 win over Bama after their 11-year run?
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i was 9. that was also the last year Vandy beat us...take the good with the bad, huh?
 
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Originally posted by Fayettevol@Nov 30, 2005 10:57 AM
What about the '82 win over Bama after their 11-year run?
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I was there. I loved walking down the bar district on 20th street in Birmingham singing "The old Gray Bear ain't what he used to be, ain't what he used to be...." Of course my singing was accompanied by my uncle, George Dickel.
 
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Originally posted by Fayettevol@Nov 30, 2005 10:57 AM
What about the '82 win over Bama after their 11-year run?
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That is my fondest memory - I sat in section DD. Great game, great night of "festivities" on the Strip including a memorable (fuzzy though) performance by Smokin' Dave and Premo Dopes at Hobo's.
 
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After receiving my diploma from UT the next would have to be hearing JW say those words that live in infamy. "AND THE NATIONAL CHAMPION IS CLAD IN BIG ORANGE".
The culmination of so much for so long plus knowing that was going to be JW last game. How sweet the memory.
 
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Originally posted by Fayettevol@Nov 30, 2005 10:57 AM
What about the '82 win over Bama after their 11-year run?
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When Bama fumbled the opening kickoff. I started to feel that this might be the day. The fourth Qtr of that game was torture though.

The greatest play I ever saw was the next year against Bama when Johnny Jones made that TD run towards the endzone where most of the Vols fans were sitting. We all went crazy and the Bama fans all started leaving. The ride back to TN was like being in a parade of delirious Vol Fans.

What a great day that was.
 
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Originally posted by BWeller18@Nov 30, 2005 1:09 AM
1998 National Championship game, I was lucky enough to get to go to the game.
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I was there too. That is the best memory by far. Five friends driving an RV across country, New Years in Vegas, camping outside SunDevil stadium drinking moonshine with Sterling Marlin, tickets to the game for $10.00 and a beer, and sitting next to Gene Stallings.
 
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I may be a year or 2 off here and there. If so, just overlook it.

1979 - Vanderbilt ran though our “T” (back when our team came out on the field from the east sideline. That was my first game at Neyland. I was 5 years old. We went on to win that one.

1980-1982 Willie Gault returning kickoffs. There has never been a receiving duo as good as Anthony Hancock and Willie Gault, and I doubt there ever will be.

1980 (not so fond of a memory) – Watching Hershal Walker run over Bill Bates en route to the endzone and a 44-0 romp. Talk about a hob nail boot!

1984 - Dale Jones tipping and intercepting a screen pass against Alabama.

1985 - Watching Tennessee knock off Bo Jackson and the number 1 ranked Auburn Tigers in Neyland Stadium. We were the only team to hold Bo to under 100 yards that season.

1985 - Reggie and Sarah White and Jeff Smith showing up at my house a few weeks before the Sugar Bowl (long story, but it was really cool). Reggie ate about a dozen lemon squares and a half gallon of Tang. Then Jeff Smith caught that pass in the game. That was really cool.

1989 - Carl Pickens returning kickoff to end the first half at LSU.

1991 - Being 10 yards away from Floyd Miley catching a pass in the corner of the endzone at Notre Dame. And freezing my arse off in 2 degree weather.

1991 New Years Eve at the Sugar Bowl. Oh yeah, and it was a good game too.

1992 - Heath Shuler knocking off Florida 31-14 in a downpour on artificial turf. Sitting in the student’s section FF with water an inch high running down the bleachers around my feet.

1998 - Watching Clint Stoerner’s fumble from section P, and seeing the big cheese Travis Henry stick it down their throats to win that game and keep hope alive for an undefeated season.

1999 - Phil Fulmer signing my Fiesta Bowl hat in the airport the day after we beat Florida State to win the national championship.



But the one that beats them all for me is doing work in the front yard with mom and dad, listening to John Ward call the UCLA game in 1978. I don’t remember a thing about the game (I was only 4 years old at the time), but I just remember loving it!
 
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1990 - 2nd half kickoff return against Florida. The cameras were shaking like an earthquake had hit.

1995 - 1st play from scrimmage against Alabama.

1985 - Tony Robinson lighting up Auburn and our "D" shutting down Bo Jackson.

1996 - Citrus Bowl against Ohio State (got tix for Christmas)

1998 - running on the field after Florida game.

1992 - partying with Jack Daniel's in the rain at Florida game.

1990 (?) watching Tony Thompson scoot for over 200 yards vs. Mississippi State.

Fumbleroosky vs. Mississippi State.
 
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Hearing Keith Jackson shout "... and Powell is GONE!"

Actually, I didn't hear Keith say that until I got back home and watched the ole' VCR. In the 3rd quarter, my wife was saying how we had won. Just before that play, I turned to her and said it wasn't over yet. About 12 seconds later, I changed my mind as Jeff ran into the corner of the end zone where we were sitting. WOW!

 
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Originally posted by DAWGNATION@Nov 30, 2005 3:50 PM
The day they fired Phillip Fulmer!!
Opps sorry that has not happened yet.
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You dawgs should start getting worried. Bobby B will be retiring in the next year or two and Richt will be gone from Athens like he was shot out of a cannon.
 
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