Neyland Stadium Throwback

#126
#126
I have a CD of John Ward calling the NC. I listened to it on Friday night when watching it on TV.

I like Bob Kesling but he is not in the same league as Ward. I miss hearing his voice call the games.
 
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HudsonHawk said:
Well...both I suppose. But mainly for the fact that they sold cigs at the stadium. That's hilarious!
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I remember sitting in the upper deck for a night game back when people smoked. You could see what looked like a fog bank above the field when the lights hit it. Not thick, but clearly a lot of smoke rising from 90,000 plus (probably around 1978 or so - upper deck was complete in the south end)
 
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Apparently this if from 1959. Pre game warmups? Check out that pressbox! I find it interesting that you can walk down the aisle, and the steps take you right to field level. They bricked these up long ago. Also there looks to be a fence about a yard behind the end zone. Safety hazard? :search: You tell me!!

 
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ptcarter said:
Apparently this if from 1959. Pre game warmups? Check out that pressbox! I find it interesting that you can walk down the aisle, and the steps take you right to field level. They bricked these up long ago. Also there looks to be a fence about a yard behind the end zone. Safety hazard? :search: You tell me!!

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Great pic! Back in 1959 there were no such things as safety hazards!
 
#134
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ptcarter said:
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This is awesome. I took a stadium tour a couple years ago and we couldn't even touch the grass. We got to go out of the tunnel and stand right on the edge of if. Our tour guide was telling us that there is some kind of alarm system that alerts security if he grass is touched at all. He said that during one of his tours someone took a couple steps into the north end zone and security was there within seconds.
 
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ptcarter said:
This looks like Bama kicking a field goal in the south endzone. Guessing the '50s. Notice the farm like fence in the south endzone.

Old farts, like me, love to see the orange jerseys in these old pictures. That's why I (and I can only speak for myself) am not adapting too well to the "Smoky Gray".


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Great picture.
 
#136
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Coug said:
1934

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http://www.thunderjags.com/wp-content/uploads/NeylandStadium-1934-660x375.jpg

1962/63

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http://www.thunderjags.com/wp-content/uploads/Old_Neyland.jpg
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If only our field looked like that now so we could build a new and improved version since our current one is in dire need of an update.
 
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peaygolf said:
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As a student during from '75-'79. This shot reminds me of the old clock on the top of the bank downtown. I waited tables and washed dishes at Gibbs Hall. Some damn cold winters in those years - walked from 14th and Forest to Gibbs early early early to work breakfast. Would look downtown and see the time/temp on that clock. A true beacon. It's that black horizontal square you see on the tall skinny building downtown.

"PARK" (hold two seconds)
"BANK" (hold two seconds)
"5:32" (hold two seconds)
"14 degrees" (hold two seconds) repeat
 
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gordonr24 said:
I'm a young gun, but I would have to think that 08-14 is the worst era in UT football history.
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Unfortunately, we don't know the end point yet. It's 2008 - ?. 2015 and 2016 were just rallies in a bear market - we hit new lows in 2017 and just stabilized last year.

Break up the decline into academic years (the 4 years a kid would spent at college) and it is just depressing)

I feel really bad in particular for those students who spent 2008-11 there. If you were an incoming freshman in 2008, you arrived on campus with some kind of expectations - Phil appeared to have stabilized the program after his 2005 losing season and we had just played for the SEC the year before. Over the next 4 years, you went 23-27 (11-21) and saw 3 different coaches.

Freshmen in 2009 went 23-27 (9-23) with 2 different coaches. Freshmen in 2010 went 21-28 (7-25) with two different coaches. Freshmen in 2011 went 22-27 (7-25) with 2 different coaches. Freshmen in 2012 went 26-24 (11-21) with two different coaches, but at least made it to and won bowl games in their junior and senior years and went 9-4 as a senior.
 
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Coug said:
If time travel was actually possible and you sent someone from the present a handful of decades into the past with no possibility of return there would have to be some real mental issues developing from that.
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That would be fantastic. Can you imagine? no damn cell phones and internet. I'll be first to volunteer.
 
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05_never_again said:
Unfortunately, we don't know the end point yet. It's 2008 - ?. 2015 and 2016 were just rallies in a bear market - we hit new lows in 2017 and just stabilized last year.

Break up the decline into academic years (the 4 years a kid would spent at college) and it is just depressing)

I feel really bad in particular for those students who spent 2008-11 there. If you were an incoming freshman in 2008, you arrived on campus with some kind of expectations - Phil appeared to have stabilized the program after his 2005 losing season and we had just played for the SEC the year before. Over the next 4 years, you went 23-27 (11-21) and saw 3 different coaches.

Freshmen in 2009 went 23-27 (9-23) with 2 different coaches. Freshmen in 2010 went 21-28 (7-25) with two different coaches. Freshmen in 2011 went 22-27 (7-25) with 2 different coaches. Freshmen in 2012 went 26-24 (11-21) with two different coaches, but at least made it to and won bowl games in their junior and senior years and went 9-4 as a senior.
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To be fair, my response was in 2015. I, along with many Vol fans, believed we were on the rise at that point. But CBJ had other plans. We were all duped.
 
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I saw my first game in 1945, the opening game against Wake Forest. We lost that game 7-6. The campus and the Farm were loaded wth trailers occupied with Vets funded by the GI Bill. I had two brothers among that group. I didn't attend until 1956. I sold Programs at the 45 Wake Forest game.
 
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