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Orange And Garnet

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I'm not very old but over my lifetime I have not really seen a new tradition start and sometimes feel like a tradition can't just start but I guess all traditions just started at some point. So my question is this. Has Butch and team 117 started a tradition of calling Bama "the red team"? Is this something that will stick and we will all be calling them for years on. I hope so because I want to be 75 and watch on tv or whatever we will be watching then to say I remember when they started that. I just thought it was cool since I've never really seen a tradition actually started. Another one is the smokey greys
 
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it won't be a tradition if we step up and start being competitive with bama. Our players have been beat down and this is just a way to get them to concentrate on the game and not the name on the jersey. The opponent is simply a red team and not big, bad bama
 
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once we can honestly say we are of the same caliber they will not be the red team, they will be Alabama, the team we beat 6-7 times a decade.
 
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They should still be Alabama imo , as there is no time like the present to start beating Alabama .
 
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Orange And Garnet said:
I'm not very old but over my lifetime I have not really seen a new tradition start and sometimes feel like a tradition can't just start but I guess all traditions just started at some point. So my question is this. Has Butch and team 117 started a tradition of calling Bama "the red team"? Is this something that will stick and we will all be calling them for years on. I hope so because I want to be 75 and watch on tv or whatever we will be watching then to say I remember when they started that. I just thought it was cool since I've never really seen a tradition actually started. Another one is the smokey greys
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Gerry DiNardo did something similar back in the '90's at Vandy. He wouldn't acknowledge UT. He referred to UT as "That team to the East".

Nothing new.
 
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and he was just copying Woody Hayes as he always referred to Michigan as that team up north . All pretty silly imo
 
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Boca Vol said:
Gerry DiNardo did something similar back in the '90's at Vandy. He wouldn't acknowledge UT. He referred to UT as "That team to the East".

Nothing new.
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This is different. This isn't about disrespect. This is about the psychology of Tennessee's team. Jones is getting the mystique out of the other team. He isn't trying to be disrespectful.
 
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I hope Jones brings back Orange vs. Red. I would love to see us go to our home jerseys every year for this year. Even though I love the storm trooper look.
 
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Orange And Garnet said:
I'm not very old but over my lifetime I have not really seen a new tradition start and sometimes feel like a tradition can't just start but I guess all traditions just started at some point. So my question is this. Has Butch and team 117 started a tradition of calling Bama "the red team"? Is this something that will stick and we will all be calling them for years on. I hope so because I want to be 75 and watch on tv or whatever we will be watching then to say I remember when they started that. I just thought it was cool since I've never really seen a tradition actually started. Another one is the smokey greys
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Part of game prep....Bama's quarterback said he was told that there is no rivalry....it is just another game.
 
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WriterVol said:
This is different. This isn't about disrespect. This is about the psychology of Tennessee's team. Jones is getting the mystique out of the other team. He isn't trying to be disrespectful.
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It's really that different. Some will say that not calling Alabama...Alabama is being disrespectful. It's not that big of a deal.
 
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Orange And Garnet said:
I'm not very old but over my lifetime I have not really seen a new tradition start and sometimes feel like a tradition can't just start but I guess all traditions just started at some point. So my question is this. Has Butch and team 117 started a tradition of calling Bama "the red team"? Is this something that will stick and we will all be calling them for years on. I hope so because I want to be 75 and watch on tv or whatever we will be watching then to say I remember when they started that. I just thought it was cool since I've never really seen a tradition actually started. Another one is the smokey greys
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Lets not get like one of Vandy's coaches who would not say the word Tennessee.
 
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CTVolsfan14 said:
once we can honestly say we are of the same caliber they will not be the red team, they will be Alabama, the team we beat 6-7 times a decade.
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I dont give a damn if we ever beat them SOBs they are the washing powder team i hate them fffffffffffffffffffffer, they dont deserve to be called by there states name they are a bunch of turds playing football.:banghead2:
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
I hope Jones brings back Orange vs. Red. I would love to see us go to our home jerseys every year for this year. Even though I love the storm trooper look.
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It's not up to him alone.

I believe the team would have to petition the SEC in advance to wear non-white on the road and the opposing team would also have to agree.

It used to be a more strict rule, but it was changed after the USC-UCLA timeout exchange incident a few years ago.
 
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Orange And Garnet said:
I'm not very old but over my lifetime I have not really seen a new tradition start and sometimes feel like a tradition can't just start but I guess all traditions just started at some point. So my question is this. Has Butch and team 117 started a tradition of calling Bama "the red team"? Is this something that will stick and we will all be calling them for years on. I hope so because I want to be 75 and watch on tv or whatever we will be watching then to say I remember when they started that. I just thought it was cool since I've never really seen a tradition actually started. Another one is the smokey greys
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You can't start a tradition. You can only start doing something. If it lasts long enough, it then BECOMES a tradition.
 
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I don't think referring to Alabama as the Red Team is much of a tradition even if it continues. I have seen several traditions start, most notably, running through the T, the checkerboard end zones and the Black (now smoky grey) uniforms. Traditions have to start. They all didn't just appear the first time a team took the field.
 
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supersmo18 said:
A lot of good that did him...
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No kidding. That's why I don't think it's that big of a deal. Whether you're not acknowledging a team because you hate them or you don't want their mystique out-psyching your team, it's going out of the way to make that point.
 
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Right now, I think that this is a minor advantage for Butch. Coaches Majors and Fulmer were knee-deep in history and tradition with respect to the Tennessee-Alabama rivalry, both as players and coaches. If, as many have alleged, teams take on the personas of their coaches, we often played tight against the tidy bowl boys during much of Majors' tenure and the same could be said of Fulmer-coached teams vs. Florida.

As an outsider, Butch has no personal investment in this rivalry. I fully expect our boys to lose but they will play loose and with great intensity. I expect this game to be a throwback to olden times when the eternal constant was defensive ferocity; every square inch of Crimson/Orange territory will be fiercely contested. Our boys will earn Alabama's respect the old-fashioned way.
 
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