Knoxville Loves ESPN

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I said this before but I will repeat it. I don't believe everyone who works at ESPN hates Vol football and UT in general. But I do think the Vols had some enemies in very high places at ESPN back when they were riding high in the late 1990s. The Manning incident, the "trailer trash" comment and does anyone else remember the ESPN promo with the chubby lady in a moo-moo and curlers chasing her pet pig "Rocky Top"?
We had enemies there. People who worked to hurt the Tennessee program - and if you don't believe it, you should have been there and you would change your mind.
 
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Not just Knoxville proper either:

---Tennessee is the only state to have three markets in the Top 10 for the second year in a row. In fact, no other state had more than one market in the top 10 in each of the last two years. ​

This is part of the reason why college football says "We need Tennessee to be good again because it makes college football good again." There's a lot to lose for everyone when we're down -- we're not just watching our beloved Vols play but every CFB game in the SEC and even those outside the SEC. Our fans and mere presence at a game contribute a lot to game, especially the ratings (even when we're down).
 
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VOLgirl93 said:
What did Fowler do or say to make everyone hate him?
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When PM didn't win the heisman he said some thing about trailer parks getting burnt down or just saying we were acting like trailer trash because of him not winning. Iirc we banned them from campus for a few yrs.
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Oskie Volum said:
When PM didn't win the heisman he said some thing about trailer parks getting burnt down or just saying we were acting like trailer trash because of him not winning. Iirc we banned them from campus for a few yrs.
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Then we threw crap at him on the Game day set when he came back.
 
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3rd_and_Jancek said:
Then we threw crap at him on the Game day set when he came back.
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Yeah it was pretty crazy. Man Presidential Court was a mess when he didn't win it. People throwing stuff out of windows. It would have put Toomers Corner to shame and all the Mich St stuff to shame. In a sense it's great today's camera technology was around then. So he was right just they way he said it was the issue. Ha!!

Yeah that's why they started to have them up on the stadium walkway so that people couldn't be behind them.

Man those were the days...
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Oskie Volum said:
Yeah it was pretty crazy. Man Presidential Court was a mess when he didn't win it. People throwing stuff out of windows. It would have put Toomers Corner to shame and all the Mich St stuff to shame. In a sense it's great today's camera technology was around then. So he was right just they way he said it was the issue. Ha!!

Yeah that's why they started to have them up on the stadium walkway so that people couldn't be behind them.

Man those were the days...
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I miss those days
 
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VOLgirl93 said:
Lmao oh ok. I bet he hates when game day is in Knoxville now lol
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Actually, he was pretty praising of Tennessee when they came back in 2012.

He usually give a little speech to the crowd before the show starts, and he said something to the effect of, "it's been too damn long since we've been here and it's great to be back."
 
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GreyhoundMan said:
I said this before but I will repeat it. I don't believe everyone who works at ESPN hates Vol football and UT in general. But I do think the Vols had some enemies in very high places at ESPN back when they were riding high in the late 1990s. The Manning incident, the "trailer trash" comment and does anyone else remember the ESPN promo with the chubby lady in a moo-moo and curlers chasing her pet pig "Rocky Top"?
We had enemies there. People who worked to hurt the Tennessee program - and if you don't believe it, you should have been there and you would change your mind.
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Definitely remember the woman in the moo moo chasing her pig saying "Here Rocky Top". Was Fowler's comment trailer trash or that Tennessee fans were in a trailer park frenzy? I've always remembered it as trailer park frenzy.
 
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From SI.com:

Fowler knows all too well the intensity of passions that GameDay stirs. In 1997, after Michigan's Charles Woodson won the Heisman Trophy, Tennessee fans, who believed the GameDay crew had stumped against the Vols' Peyton Manning, bombarded ESPN with hate mail. On a national radio show Fowler referred to the harangues as a "trailer-park frenzy," which stirred more vengeful correspondence. It was a rare -- perhaps the sole -- display of brashness by the even-keeled Fowler, who quickly and publicly apologized.

I don't remember any apology.
 
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