GET INVOLVED....WEEK 2

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Alright guys and gals, here is the deal....

Until we can figure out how to get you guys inVOLved (ha, get it?) LIVE on the show, we are going to have a thread each week. The topic will vary and we will incorporate the thread into the show.

Please only respond once to this thread....thanks in advance.
Please only give one game... that means you need to think hard before you post it, that's the point of the topic.
Please respond, I want the posters to want to listen to the show, this is a good start.

The topic for Week 2.

Give us your all time favorite football game and reasons why. Note I said reasons, plural. Here is an example...

My favorite all time game is the 1991 Notre Dame game because:

1. I hate Notre Dame to my core and it was at Notre Dame
2. While celebrating the game I received a $45 Disturbing the Peace ticket from a policeman because the b%$#ch that lived below me was a ND fan and was tired of me yelling and screaming in the apartment above her so she called the Police.....No lie.
3. King Johnny outcoached Lou Holtz.



Hizzy and I will pick the best 3 posts, read them on the air, do a little research on them and give our opinions. I know you posters will come up with some great stuff.
 
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. . . August 30, 1997 against Texas Tech. :huh:

I screwed up and allowed my wedding day to be planned one week too late, so I had a bunch of mad guests because it happened to be a year when the collge football season started in August. Luckily we didn't kickoff until 7:30 that night.

I am so pathetic that I got to the hotel and watched 4 quarters of a 52-17 blowout as my wife of about 8 hours passed out tired on the bed.

Now that I think of it . . . things haven't changed that much for me. :blink:
 
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In my illustrious near-2-year tenure as a Vols fan, my favorite win has to be last years win over #3 Georgia in their house. Many had them picked preseason to nearly steamroll the SEC East, then we ruined their hopes and went to the title game ourselves. B) As talented as Auburn was, I'm alright by the fact that we lost to them. And the game against Florida was exciting to watch but the win was kind of diminished because Florida went on to suck eggs that season.

So the win at Georgia in '04.
 
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10-6 over Miami....Because we werent supposed to stand a change in the "Orange Bowl" and we went down there with a great gameplan and shut down a cocky Miami team. The D played great and the O held the ball for a bunch of time to preserve the win.Great interception by Wilson late in the game when Berlin was drilled by Mark Jones on the blitz.Great call on the end around.No one saw it coming.And what about Dustin Colquitt kicking a beautiful punt angled right at the sideline and then they cannot hang on to it and we had enough downfield hustle to recover it.GREAT GAME!
P.S.This is hard because there is a lot of great games in my mind.
 
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I have many, but one of my favorites was 1991 over Auburn. For a number of years, that was the largest crowd ever to see a game at Neyland. That was also the game that Kelly threw an 87 yard td to Pickens, a record which still stands today.

Dale Carter had a great game that day as well, making circus catch for an int.

This was also the end of the yearly series, before SC and Arky came into the league. This was back when the Auburn game was as big or bigger than the UF game is today.

UT won 30-21.
 
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Tennessee 34
Florida 32
December 1, 2001.

The game that was rescheduled because of 9/11. Just a great back and forth game. Huge runs by Travis Stephens. So much was on the line in that game... whoever won would go on to the SECCG to face LSU and easily defeat them to face Miami in the National Championship game.

To beat Spurrier in his last home game in the Swamp was sweet, and UT was on their way to the national title game after taking care of LSU in the SEC title game... :blink:
 
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UT-UF
2001

I skipped my friday classes that day to be able to make the drive down to gainesville with dad. We got there late friday night and was up early saturday morning to catch gameday and see corso and herbstreit in person. Mostly all of the UF greek people were talking smack to me and dad as we were walking around in our orange from head to toe. So me and dad sat in the small section of UT fans in the endzone and saw Travis Stephens run all over the gator D and then after the game Casey Clausen led us in a rendition of Rocky Top. Also that day corso picked the gators to win by 18 i think, so after the game the gameday set was swarmed by nothing but UT fans screaming "i said it's great to be a Tennessee Vol" as all the UF fans were trying to leave the stadium as fast as they possibly could. However some UF fans were trying to sell back their Rose Bowl packages they had already bought before the game since they just knew they were going to roll over us. It's pretty hard to beat a day of UT football in UF's stadium when the vols come out on top and you get to share that with your dad.
 
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Alabama, ‘95

Like all good little Tennessee boys, I was raised to hate only three things: The Devil, Lying, and Alabama football.

Only those of us old enough to have endured "The Cold Years" can understand just exactly how it felt to suffer loss after loss to the Crimson Tide from the mid-80's to the mid-90's. Those that aren't will tell you silly things like "Florida is our biggest rival." Please. Ask Granddad if you're not sure.

On the third Saturday in October, 1995, a lanky kid from Louisiana clad in the hallowed Orange and White trotted onto the field in Birmingham. Breaking the mold of Tennessee “Power Football,” the young Manning came out throwing and caught the Alabama defense, the fans, and even the Vol faithful off guard. 80 yards later, the decade-long streak crumbled as Joey Kent waltzed into the endzone. The rout was on, the celebration began, and the whiskey flowed like water across the great state of Tennessee. It was truly a sign of things to come, for both the prolific passer now heralded by some as the Greatest of All Time, and for the Volunteers, who were poised to start up a little streak of their own.
 
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Originally posted by orangetd88@Nov 18, 2005 9:46 AM
I have many, but one of my favorites was 1991 over Auburn.  For a number of years, that was the largest crowd ever to see a game at Neyland.  That was also the game that Kelly threw an 87 yard td to Pickens, a record which still stands today.

Dale Carter had a great game that day as well, making circus catch for an int. 

This was also the end of the yearly series, before SC and Arky came into the league.  This was back when the Auburn game was as big or bigger than the UF game is today.

UT won 30-21.
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Actually, the record was broken in 2003 when Clausen hit Mark Jones on a 90 yard td catch. Jones ripped it away from the UGA defender.
 
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The best game I ever saw wasn't one I went to. It was one I watched on TV. But it didn't matter. It felt good anyway. I'm talking about the 98' Florida game. This is for obvious reasons:

1. The atmosphere was electric. Almost everyobdy in the stadium had an orange shaker and made the crowd awesome to look at.
2. Steve Spurrier was finally handed a loss by ole' phil. I loved his face on the sideline when we looked like he was gonna throw up when Chandler missed that field goal.
3. Goalposts came down for the first time since the 80s. It was good to see the vol faithful carry the goalposts down cumberland avenue again.
 
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Cotton Bowl 1990 Arkansas

1/2/1990
By KEVIN SHERRINGTON / The Dallas Morning News



Doug Mathews needed a vote of confidence, and he got it.

By midway through the fourth quarter of the 54th Mobil Cotton Bowl on Monday, he had watched Arkansas run through his Tennessee defense 67 times for 338 yards. They had offered, at best, some grudging resistance to the Razorbacks' running game. Consequently, when the Razorbacks needed a little more than a yard on fourth down at the Tennessee nine, Mathews was pretty sure how they might try to get it.

Fullback up the middle, he figured. So Mathews, the Volunteers' defensive coordinator, called for a goal-line defense, a great defense against the run ...

But a bad defense against the pass. He turned to his boss, Johnny Majors, and decided to cover himself.

"If they throw the ball," Mathews told Majors on the sideline, "we're in trouble."

Majors' gaze didn't leave the field.

"Don't worry about the pass," he said.

Mathews made the right call.

Arkansas didn't.

Tennessee linebacker Kacy Rodgers stepped into the gap and stopped fullback Barry Foster a foot short of the first down – the first time in four tries the Razorbacks didn't convert a fourth-down attempt – and the Volunteers' 31-21 lead was secure.

The play became particularly poignant when the Razorbacks closed Tennessee's lead to 31-27 with 1:25 left on a 67-yard touchdown pass from Quinn Grovey to tight end Billy Winston.

But it was too late by then. The game, by most considerations, was over when Arkansas failed at the Tennessee nine with 8:29 left, the third time the Razorbacks had failed to score from inside the 10.

The fourth-down miss may have been the most costly. And Jack Crowe, the Razorbacks' offensive coordinator, saw the play unraveling even before the snap.

Crowe had put in a new blocking scheme for the Cotton Bowl, and it had worked well. But when Mathews sent in 5-11, 270-pound Martin Williams as an extra lineman on the last fourth-down play, Crowe knew the inside veer fullback handoff was doomed.

Crowe knew that even if his linemen executed each block properly, there still would be one man free. That man, he knew, would be the linebacker, Rodgers. The best Crowe could have hoped, he said, was that Grovey would recognize the change in Tennessee's defense and call a timeout.

Grovey didn't.

"It was my fault," he said.

Crowe said he didn't expect Grovey to attempt an audible because of the offense's relative inexperience with the new blocking scheme. But the timeout would have given the Razorbacks time to set up something else.

But Grovey didn't, and Foster had nowhere to go when he hit the line. He was lucky to make it as far as he did, although he disputed the spot of the ball by the official. Grovey said an official told him that had Foster turned the ball upfield instead of lying it sideways, he might have made the first down.

But Rodgers didn't make it look that close on his one-man tackle.

"He's a real strong runner," Rodgers said of Foster, who had 103 yards on 22 attempts. "He's hard to bring down. But I thought I had him."

Foster never noticed the change in Tennessee's defense and acted as if he didn't care that they did.

"They weren't stopping our option at all," he said.

The Volunteers were aware of their run-stopping deficiencies. They were not used to the size and power of Arkansas' running backs and had not played an option team this year.

Mark Moore, a Tennessee defensive tackle, said the call for a goal-line defense likely saved them.

"That was really smart," he said. "If we had been in our basic defense, the fullback probably would have slid through and gotten the first down."

And with a first down, the entire game might have changed, Mathews said.

He wasn't sure the Volunteers could stop Arkansas from scoring again. He hinted that the Razorbacks likely would have scored eventually had they gotten the first down.

"I'd say the odds were in their favor," he said, smiling.
 
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:biggrin2:
Now THATS what I'm talking about, tell me you copied and pasted that bad ass review. If not..... :rock:
 
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It's no big deal. It was a cool read. What a day . . . I had forgotten how both teams ran all over each other that day.
 
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By far, the 1986 Sugar Bowl.
-We had ZERO chance of even staying in this game, let alone actually winning it.
-All anyone talked about leading up to the game was how Miami deserved to win the MNC. That they would win the Sugar Bowl was a foregone conclusion.
-I've heard that Keith Jackson laughed at Bill Anderson when Bill said that he thought we actually had a chance.
-An unsung hero named Darrel Dickey earned his place of greatness that day in Vol lore.
-Vinny Heisman spent the whole day running for his life from the likes of Dale Jones and Co.
-Tennessee 35, Miami 7
 
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My favorite

UT - Georiga Last year.

As we all know we won 19-14. That was the game that let me know after getting crushed by Auburn, we still controlled our own fate in the SECE. We jumped out to a early lead and never looked back, Wilhoit proved the florida kick wasn't a fluke, and it gave me a lot of smack to talk to my flight chief

Mostly though, it was where i was and what my situation was. I was deployed to Iraq, and after being outside in 100 degree heat I head back to my tent and someone tells me they are replaying the Tennessee Georgia game in the morale tent. I was shocked, that had shown a few games before, but mostly USC and Miami Games. I ran over there and it was true. So i got to watch the whole thing, granted it was the next day, but it was my first football i had seen ALL SEASON. I didn't know the score at this point, so it was like watching it live. I was my most memorable time watching a football game.
 
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UT Miami game in 2003. I was deployed at the start of the war. That was the only game I saw.

There was a Miami fan talking crap the whole game. He disappeared when Berlin threw that interception. Kinda funny because the last thing I remember him saying was they are about to score.

And finally, the punt fumble recovery.

That's when I lost it. :dance2: :dance2:
 
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The 2003-2004 season with the Win Over Miami

I had hated Miami forever, and beating them in a close defensive game was amazing.
We ruined their NC hopes.

Also the 2004 UGA game, beating them between the hedges, also ruining their NC hopes.
 
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13 Individual entries, I'm giving this thread until tonight and that is it. I hope we can get more responses to these threads in the future.
 
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I'm staying with an oldie but a goodie...the '85 sugar bowl. We had talent that year, but it was more a team of chemistry than stars. The Vols beat not only the Hurricanes but the referees...and the announcers. It was the night the Tennessee Vols became national contenders. Keith Jackson up until the late 4th quarter was talkin smack about the Vols and then reversed himself....and proclaimed the Vols just might pull this one out at 35-7. I'm aware of the date of this game and its old news but it was the day the Tennessee Vols became relevant on the NT dialouge.
 
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Originally posted by QBvol7@Nov 18, 2005 2:38 PM
Actually, the record was broken in 2003 when Clausen hit Mark Jones on a 90 yard td catch. Jones ripped it away from the UGA defender.
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Yes, you are absolutely correct.

I forget about that since I couldn't get a ticket to get in and see that game/play. It happened while I was standing outside the stadium. LOL

Thanks for pointing that out.
 
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