I watched the 1989 Tennessee-Auburn full game on YouTube

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GreveHaller said:
I had some time today so I watched a majority of the game

- it was interesting to see what OP was speaking of with the chain link fence all around. At the time we didnt think anything of it. Now, it looks so HS

- so funny to hear them talk about the size of the stadium (93k) and the attendance (93k-95k). Now we consider those numbers "going thru a bad season"

- loved hearing the band play trumpet charge. Wish they'd bring it back

- the endzone looks so great being all orange with checkerboard of white

- I'd forgot how fun it was to watch the Cobb-Webb combo. Probably a bigger dose of them due to the weather but by gosh, they were beasts

- Hinton reminding me alot of Joe. Didnt read his progressions and quick to tuck and run. Probably alot to do with weather also
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Henton wasnt remotely close to being in Milton’s league. Joe Milton would’ve been the best QB in America in 1989. Henton had an amazing group of WRs who got open and he couldn’t see them. Milton had an underperforming group of WRs who couldn’t get open.
 
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livefaith said:
I was at the previous AU game in Neyland. Went w my future wife and got free tix from an injured player, who was her HS friend. 20-20 tie iirc. Johnny settled for the tie and it paid off w SEC title due to UF probation I think.
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That game was in 1987 and we tied them 20-20. We had missed a couple of FG's in the first half. Coach majors sent us out to practice at half-time and the band was playing the alma mater. It didn't go well with Dr. Julian and Coach Majors had a copy of the alma-mater on his desk on Monday morning. We ended up 10-2-1 and played Indiana in the peach bowl in fulton county staduim.
 
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Snapper58 said:
That game was in 1987 and we tied them 20-20. We had missed a couple of FG's in the first half. Coach majors sent us out to practice at half-time and the band was playing the alma mater. It didn't go well with Dr. Julian and Coach Majors had a copy of the alma-mater on his desk on Monday morning. We ended up 10-2-1 and played Indiana in the peach bowl in fulton county staduim.
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I still don’t know how we lost to Boston College that year
 
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DarkVolder said:
I still don’t know how we lost to Boston College that year
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Jeff Francis hurt his ankle in the Georgia tech game the previous game and we started Randy Sanders. He threw 3 interceptions in the first half and our defense held them to either 2 or 3 field goals. Sterling started the 2nd half and we were driving for a chance to kick another game winning field goal for the year. Sterling got sacked and we tried to throw it deep and time ran out.
 
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I watched the 1997 SEC title game against Auburn on YouTube. I had forgotten about their QB Craig. He was pretty good. That was a great game.
 
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I have several memories from this game...
First, my former teammate Shazzon Bradley had a huge pick, this was his LB days before moving to DL

Secondly, knowing the weather was going to be bad, I grabbed a tarp, thinking that would keep my crew dry. When we got to Neyland, opened the tarp up, my dad had used it to cover the floor of a room he was painting. It wasnt long before paint chips were swirling and many of the sorority girls in front of us thought it had started snowing...🤣😂🤣
 
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Snapper58 said:
Jeff Francis hurt his ankle in the Georgia tech game the previous game and we started Randy Sanders. He threw 3 interceptions in the first half and our defense held them to either 2 or 3 field goals. Sterling started the 2nd half and we were driving for a chance to kick another game winning field goal for the year. Sterling got sacked and we tried to throw it deep and time ran out.
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Bill Romanowski was on that BC team, correct? Had a great game if I remember correctly.
 
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I was at that game with my dad. We bought tickets that morning on the street for less than face value. Seats were around the 20 yard line in the middle of the Auburn fan section. Bought a poncho before the game but it poured all day and I was soaking wet before the 1st quarter was over.
Best part was there were two other UT fans two rows in front of us and we were high fiving each other the entire game over top of Auburn fans. One of my most memorable games.
 
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Snapper58 said:
That game was in 1987 and we tied them 20-20. We had missed a couple of FG's in the first half. Coach majors sent us out to practice at half-time and the band was playing the alma mater. It didn't go well with Dr. Julian and Coach Majors had a copy of the alma-mater on his desk on Monday morning. We ended up 10-2-1 and played Indiana in the peach bowl in fulton county staduim.
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I yield to your superior memory. 🙂 I don't remember the ½ time ordeal. But I remember the late TD and decision for 1.
 
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Snapper58 said:
That game was in 1987 and we tied them 20-20. We had missed a couple of FG's in the first half. Coach majors sent us out to practice at half-time and the band was playing the alma mater. It didn't go well with Dr. Julian and Coach Majors had a copy of the alma-mater on his desk on Monday morning. We ended up 10-2-1 and played Indiana in the peach bowl in fulton county staduim.
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If you were snapping in 87 maybe you remember one of my best buddies John Armstrong, 3rd string QB and all around tackling dummy? I think he also did some ball holding on special teams. He was there in 87 but dont remember if he was playing that year or till 88.
 
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GAVol said:
I don’t know man…. That roster probably had 20 guys that ended up in the NFL. The talent on that offense was so good that we went 11-1 without getting much from the QBs at all. Andy Kelly turned into a decent QB, but ole Sterl was hard to watch.
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Still is.
 
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I was 24 at the time, the only time I ever stormed the field after a game. Was sitting in the end zone on the river end of stadium and left on the other end of the stadium. Great game with a light rain much of the game. Cobb went off that day. We outplayed them much worse than the score that day. GBO
 
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Snapper58 said:
That game was in 1987 and we tied them 20-20. We had missed a couple of FG's in the first half. Coach majors sent us out to practice at half-time and the band was playing the alma mater. It didn't go well with Dr. Julian and Coach Majors had a copy of the alma-mater on his desk on Monday morning. We ended up 10-2-1 and played Indiana in the peach bowl in fulton county staduim.
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I was at that game, it was a wild game. GBO
 
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NighthawkVol said:
I haven't seen that game since it happened, other than the highlights (mostly Cobb's 79-yard run). I was 12 and remember how it made me feel like Tennessee was back nationally. We were. We had beaten #6 UCLA in the Rose Bowl week 2, then came home and beat a Duke team coached by Steve Spurrier, 28-6. We didn't know it at the time, but Duke would be ACC co-champs. Auburn was ranked #4 at the time.

A few thoughts I had:

1) Neyland looked really dumpy. Just concrete and chain link fence. That's the Neyland I grew up attending, but man, it looks so much better now.
2) The game of college football has gotten so much better since then. Reggie Slack was a star QB at the time for Auburn, but he wouldn't start in today's SEC. Players were smaller and slower then. The passing game was meh.
3) The score ticker showed Duke upsetting #7 Clemson. That was the first sign that Duke was about to go on a run. And Spurrier would leave after the season to become a legend. And a pain in our butts.
4) Sterling Henton (aka, Sterl The Pearl) was absolutely terrible. I remember that he wasn't an effective passer and was eventually replaced by Andy Kelly, but he was much worse than I remembered. He just dropped back every play and ran around before getting sacked. There was no chance he was actually going to throw the ball to an open receiver. On one play, he had Von Reeves WIDE OPEN in the end zone on a busted coverage directly in his vision and still didn't see him. Ray Charles could have seen him. Instead, he ran around and got sacked. That team might have had more WR talent than anyone in America (Harper, Woods, Pickens, Morgan, Moore, Cleveland), but it was wasted by a guy who wouldn't be on a DII team today. I was blown away by how bad he was.
5) Man, that Oline was good. They could tell the defense they were running the ball and it didn't matter. You weren't going to stop it. Against a great Auburn defense, no less. And Cobb and Webb....just special.
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Henton also is the most annoying DJ to ever exist. He makes the gameday experience worse and he’s a look at me guy to a T
 
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NighthawkVol said:
I haven't seen that game since it happened, other than the highlights (mostly Cobb's 79-yard run). I was 12 and remember how it made me feel like Tennessee was back nationally. We were. We had beaten #6 UCLA in the Rose Bowl week 2, then came home and beat a Duke team coached by Steve Spurrier, 28-6. We didn't know it at the time, but Duke would be ACC co-champs. Auburn was ranked #4 at the time.

A few thoughts I had:

1) Neyland looked really dumpy. Just concrete and chain link fence. That's the Neyland I grew up attending, but man, it looks so much better now.
2) The game of college football has gotten so much better since then. Reggie Slack was a star QB at the time for Auburn, but he wouldn't start in today's SEC. Players were smaller and slower then. The passing game was meh.
3) The score ticker showed Duke upsetting #7 Clemson. That was the first sign that Duke was about to go on a run. And Spurrier would leave after the season to become a legend. And a pain in our butts.
4) Sterling Henton (aka, Sterl The Pearl) was absolutely terrible. I remember that he wasn't an effective passer and was eventually replaced by Andy Kelly, but he was much worse than I remembered. He just dropped back every play and ran around before getting sacked. There was no chance he was actually going to throw the ball to an open receiver. On one play, he had Von Reeves WIDE OPEN in the end zone on a busted coverage directly in his vision and still didn't see him. Ray Charles could have seen him. Instead, he ran around and got sacked. That team might have had more WR talent than anyone in America (Harper, Woods, Pickens, Morgan, Moore, Cleveland), but it was wasted by a guy who wouldn't be on a DII team today. I was blown away by how bad he was.
5) Man, that Oline was good. They could tell the defense they were running the ball and it didn't matter. You weren't going to stop it. Against a great Auburn defense, no less. And Cobb and Webb....just special.
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Man, I love watching those old games.
 
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Daniel_Lincolns_Foot said:
To be fair, there might not be anyone from the 80s that could compete in today's game. Maybe a legend-like generational talent such a Bo Jackson. Players of today are just so much bigger, stronger and faster. It's almost not fair to even make the comparison. For reference, our starting guards in this game weighed barely weighed 290 pounds--today that's the smallest OLineman on the roster.

Wanted to point out, too: I didn't realize the SEC on CBS music has been around that long.
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That music score was written for Super Bowl XXI (1987)
 
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First year for Fulmer calling plays. I remember playing #6 UCLA, a UCLA player had called it a warm up game for them which was bulletin board stuff then after beating them 24-6 Eric Still? was interviewed, saying I guess they're warmed now.
 
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