Gameday Experience vs Win / Loss

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UncleSam

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Whats more important to you? In a perfect world, the weather is always good, you find a parking space within a mile of Neyland and the Vols win by three touchdowns, but weather,traffic and the Vols dont always come through. We all want the Vols to win them all but does a loss ruin the whole experience for you?
 
#3
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VolBeef88 said:
Makes it a bad day/week for me. Wish I was a bigger person but I'm not.
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That's interesting. The fact that you seem perfectly content with the current state of mediocrity of the program would have lead me to believe otherwise.
 
#5
#5
Yes. The loss makes the experience worse. For the first time ever I left a game early last year (UGA). I felt queasy, although I think part of that had to do with Jason Allen's injury.
 
#6
#6
I was at the 2003 Georgia game in Neyland when we won then lost it in the last two minutes. It was one of the hardest losses I have ever endured in Neyland and one of the worst ever (Florida loss by a field goal a few years ago was another one). My week following was horrible and no one wanted to be around me. My friends were afraid to talk to me when I got home. So, yes, I prefer to win and win big. It is better for everyone.

GO VOLS! BEAT CAL!
 
#7
#7
A loss does make the experience worse but a loss and the team playing like s#@t makes it even worse. If they lose a close but well played game to Cal, I will feel better about the loss and fully expect them to whip Fla's a$$!
 
#8
#8
I take UT football like I take fishing, some days the fish win but I still enjoy fishing.
 
#9
#9
I would have liked to strangle someone after the south carolina game last year. It was the first game I had been to in a while and I was stationed in South Carolina at the time so when I went back on monday I had to hear about it all week. To make it worse I lost my voice from screaming my :shaking2: off everytime we had them pinned down by the goal line.
 
#10
#10
It definitely makes it worse. It doesn't make it worthless to go. But it's hard to take that walk of shame back to car. Especially with, and Im just pulling this out of the air, a couple SC jerks jump infront of you and start doin the "Crotch Chop" as made ever so famous by professional wrestling. jerks...
 
#11
#11
After we lose I'm always pissed off the rest of the day/night. I get sick and stuff and just don't want to talk to anybody. Should I be worried?:ermm:
 
#14
#14
My worst day ever was the 2002 game I think it was against Flordia when it was raining like crazy and we got creamed:realmad:
 
#15
#15
I think it depends on how many games you get to see in person. I've spent the last 7 years making 1, maybe 2, games a year and I still love the experience win or lose. It does makes for a long ride home and a long Monday in the office after bragging all week and wearing my orange shirts.

A loss may dampen but never kill what is always a great weekend spent with friends tailgating and partying and cheering hard. I'd still go if we were terrible.
 
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obxvol said:
I was at the 2003 Georgia game in Neyland when we won then lost it in the last two minutes. It was one of the hardest losses I have ever endured in Neyland and one of the worst ever (Florida loss by a field goal a few years ago was another one). My week following was horrible and no one wanted to be around me. My friends were afraid to talk to me when I got home. So, yes, I prefer to win and win big. It is better for everyone.

GO VOLS! BEAT CAL!
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Is your example the year Travis Stephens took a screen pass to the house, then we squibbed it to UGA, and they drove?

That was 2001, IIRC.

And I was there. It was the worst feeling I've ever had at a live game.

#2 was when Mr. Orange and I went to Atlanta for the 2001 SECCG. LSU fans are rabid.
 
#20
#20
There has only been 1 game ever that made me break things, Memphis. I do get depressed after a loss but I cure it with alcohol.
 
#22
#22
I've never been to a game (yet), but it ruins the rest of the day, weekend, and part of the next week if the Vols lose. Instead of sulking all the way back to the car on all the way home, I get to do it around the house. Not sure that makes it any better.
 
#25
#25
We're all in good company here.

A loss ruins my weekend and depresses me for the following week. Last year I was depressed all fall, at least after the white hot anger from each loss subsided.
 
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