Payback

#51
#51
Drewbydoo said:
I'm 19 and don't yell, but I'm not at the game, I'm watching on TV. If I were there I'd yell.
Maybe you should buy a whistle and sometimes blow that instead of yelling?

No reason the kids should NOT be yelling at a home game. You may have to give them a beer from the stash you brought into the stadium to loosen them up?
Click to expand...
I always yell, sometimes even louder at home!! The neighbors always know when Tennessee is playing!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Drewbydoo
#54
#54
Rocky Top T said:
The reason I mentioned my age is because I see a lot of young people around me just standing but no hollering. I beg them to holler but many won't. If, at my age I can give my All, they can too. Go Vols!
Click to expand...

Take it from an older geezer…give the young man what he wants. Our guys on the field feed off of our maniacal screaming…and it sometimes puts The Fear into the opposing team. We need that Fear this Saturday.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SpaceCoastVol, Proud Army Wife, AlwaysOrangeNeverBlue and 2 others
#55
#55
Volizona said:
Respectfully, I think he’s right. The younger generation needs to step up their game and maybe quit texting for a few minutes so they can yell for our team. When I was a student, the entire student section was always loud and they hardly ever sat down. It was always the other side - the country clubbers and older folks that were quiet. Sounds like a reversal of roles.
Click to expand...
The expression the kids used to use is that you can’t trust anyone over 40. Now, you can’t trust people under 40… they’re just very different.
 
  • Like
Reactions: SpaceCoastVol, SaipanVol and Rocky Top T
#57
#57
Rocky Top T said:
I wasn't talking about the student section. There are young people that come that are not students. My seats are in the East side of North end zone
Click to expand...
I had season tickets in my early 30s. I wish UT had a young alumni section so I could have been a part of it with like minded fans. But the reality was when I got to my seat all the older people around me would be sitting down. Anytime I would stand up to cheer I felt bad for the older people sitting directly behind me that stayed seated and now couldn’t see.

Blaming younger people for being the reason fans outside the student section aren’t standing and cheering is one of the strangest takes ever on this forum.
 
  • Like
Reactions: MemphisVol77
#58
#58
BigOrangeutan said:
Have y'all seen the student section? It is consistently the loudest section at every game. While everyone else in the stadium is sitting down, the students are standing 80% of the time (100% if it's a close game) and ALWAYS have something to say. The bleachers in their sections are literally concave because they aren't meant to be stood on every game and yet they are. Credit the beer or shooters or whatever else, but the students are the most into it, and they're all 18-24 years old.

The only thing I fault the students for is leaving halfway through the game if it's not close. I have never understood why---you pay to go see your Vols play another team, a spectacle that only happens a few times a year in Neyland. And yet, they leave once the half hits and the bars start calling. Granted, it is mostly Greek life folks who leave just because most of the time they are essentially required to attend the first half if they can, but even so, I don't think anyone should be leaving early. Students especially.
Click to expand...
I mean it makes sense for students to leave at halftime during a blow out.

For most of us, going to the game is the main event of our weekend. It’s why we drive multiple hours, put up with crazy traffic getting there and leaving, $20 parking, long waits for food, and walking multiple miles up hill both ways. Anyone we go with or meet up with are huge Vols fans that are did the same thing as us to get there.

For students, the game is just a part of their weekend activities. They didn’t load up the car and drive there and put up with bad traffic and parking, they walked there from their nearby dorms and apartments. Some of the people they will meet up with after they leave the game might not even be UT fans or football fans. They have plans on Saturday outside of the game b/c living within walking distance means the game isn’t the focus of your entire weekend.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Hank Bukowski
#64
#64
Rocky Top T said:
I'm about 6 weeks from being 61 years old. I will be there Saturday and like I always do, I will give my All for Tennessee. The last 2 years I couldn't talk good for about 3-4 days. I'm asking all my Vol friends to join me and give their All, whose with me?
Click to expand...
My wife and I will be there, and we will be loud right there with you.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AlwaysOrangeNeverBlue
#69
#69
Rocky Top T said:
I'm about 6 weeks from being 61 years old. I will be there Saturday and like I always do, I will give my All for Tennessee. The last 2 years I couldn't talk good for about 3-4 days. I'm asking all my Vol friends to join me and give their All, whose with me?
Click to expand...
I'm 2 months past 63. You'll hear me from XX.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Rocky Top T
#72
#72
DenmarkVol said:
Take it from an older geezer…give the young man what he wants. Our guys on the field feed off of our maniacal screaming…and it sometimes puts The Fear into the opposing team. We need that Fear this every Saturday.
Click to expand...
Fyp
 
#75
#75
SpaceCoastVol said:
I never did when I was in school
Click to expand...
Only games I left early when I was a student were early season blowouts where I started to get sunburned. I had friends that would leave early tho so I understood why they did it.

I will still take a stadium crowd like the student section that stands and screams for the whole game with some leaving early over what most of the rest of the stadium is with older fans sitting most of the game and only cheering after big plays.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AlwaysOrangeNeverBlue
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top