met a vol today

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i know i could catch alot of heat for this from some of my fellow vols on here but today i ran into palardy practicing fieldgoals at the park i work. hes home for break in south florida, his local town of coral springs at one of the parks i work at. i cruised up on the field in my work truck getting ready to tell whoever it was they had to head to there vehicles because of lighting in the area and when i got close i saw the power T shorts and orange cleats..he noticed my camo tennessee hat and we got to talking turned out he and i had known alot of people in common from local area and he was literally so cool and down to earth, its funny hearing that east tenn accent on a south florida boy but you all have def worn off on him. asked him some questions on how the team was feeling about the new coaching staff and he said in his time with the team since kiffin recruited him this coaching staff seams all in it together and really care about the players. im sure most of you are gunna ask me this so il say it....i asked him to kick a few more for me so i could watch and he hit 5 of 6 for 50 yds plus he stopped kicking after he missed the last one but man he was booming them its really amazing when u stand close to them how loud the thump is when they connect. i know he catches alot of heat from vol fans and im sure he knows this too but it was great getting to see a current vol in my park....what a great day!:)
 
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i know i could catch alot of heat for this from some of my fellow vols on here but today i ran into palardy practicing fieldgoals at the park i work. hes home for break in south florida, his local town of coral springs at one of the parks i work at. i cruised up on the field in my work truck getting ready to tell whoever it was they had to head to there vehicles because of lighting in the area and when i got close i saw the power T shorts and orange cleats..he noticed my camo tennessee hat and we got to talking turned out he and i had known alot of people in common from local area and he was literally so cool and down to earth, its funny hearing that east tenn accent on a south florida boy but you all have def worn off on him. asked him some questions on how the team was feeling about the new coaching staff and he said in his time with the team since kiffin recruited him this coaching staff seams all in it together and really care about the players. im sure most of you are gunna ask me this so il say it....i asked him to kick a few more for me so i could watch and he hit 5 of 6 for 50 yds plus he stopped kicking after he missed the last one but man he was booming them its really amazing when u stand close to them how loud the thump is when they connect. i know he catches alot of heat from vol fans and im sure he knows this too but it was great getting to see a current vol in my park....what a great day!:)

What exactly would you catch heat for again?
 
#6
#6
I'm hoping he has a breakout year. We'll need him! You can tell he has the leg, but it just hasn't worked out for him.

yea i gave him a hey man i hate to kick you out but theres lightning close by and i cant have u die out here you gotta kick some game winners for me this year, he smiled said o with out a doubt i will. made me happy and relized its crazy the amount of pressure is on these young men, i pull up start talking relize he is who he is and of course in my head im thinking man he catches alot of crap and he does have some terrible misses but when your talking to him hes such a down to earth just young kid
 
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OP, which park was this? I used to live in Coral Springs until August of last year.
 
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cool post OP. thanks for sharing. i always go watch warm ups at games and Palardy seems well liked among his team mates. hope he has a good year, this year.
 
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Everyone tends to forget about the human side of the players. In the end, they are just like us. I really hope he can relax and really have a great season this year.
 
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#18
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I've always liked Palardy. He seems like a good guy...has just had some bad kicks. Hopefully this year he will make up for it. He's a Vol, so he's more than okay!!
 
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Can't be easy being the kicker. What kind of park was it? City?

It's a city park that actually shares land with a local highschool, so we are public park but the school has first dibs I.E we are the home of the "jaguars" lol but I don't work for the school.
 

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