Recruiting Football Talk VII

[drvenner]

It wasn't...it blew and still blows my mind that he was acting like such a big baby over it....I don't know why he just didn't ignore me or something.

I genuinely like the guy and I wish he would show back up, but I say meaner stuff to my brothers when we get in heated arguments...and I love them.

Hell, you've said meaner stuff to me and I have only put you on ignore twice now.

 

[knoxvol52]

And people cry about Nico getting his flight paid for.

 

[drvenner]

80 years ago today my grandfather was a new father, me Dad having been born the day before in Chattanooga Tennessee..June 5th 1944...he didn't know that he was a new Dad because he was in England with the Corps of Engineers waiting to go ashore as soon as a beachhead was established. He went ashore sometime on the 7th and he didn't find out about my Dads birth for several weeks thanks to all the obvious chaos of war going on.

This is truly a cool story, brah.

 

[TrippieRedd]

My theory is he's still here and posts often

 

[drvenner]

Have you tried Reyka? From Iceland. Same price range as Belvedere

I have been to Iceland. Well, to the airport at least. When my unit was flying back from Bosnia, we stopped in Iceland. Landed like at 3:00 in the morning. The plane had to refuel so we got to get off the plane and run around the airport. We saw one cleaning person and lo and behold the lounge was open. Not sure if they opened it up for us, but that was one of the best beers I have ever had. The bartender was blonde, young and made a lot of money on tips that day.

 

[Devo182]

No idea. He just hasn't been around in years. I think the last time he was on was in 2021. @volatil apparently isn't active anymore. Hope he's alright. In tribute to him:

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He had put to everything he had into making the team and leading the linebacker corps.

 

[mrMet]

You broke your ankle?.. your timing is impeccable..glad you hopped on over to the bar instead of IHOP

Oh yeah running thru the house then ran outside and ate sh*t on the porch

 

[drvenner]

Leb may have been the biggest contrarian I have ever seen. Seemed to take the opposite position on everything just to argue.

Have you not ever met @BruinVol ?

 

[DD4ME]

Good

 

[drvenner]

Absolutely and totally wish this dude all the very best. He joined us after suffering in Bama for a couple of years and some absolutely freaking huge hits for us.

 

[mrMet]

I have been to Iceland. Well, to the airport at least. When my unit was flying back from Bosnia, we stopped in Iceland. Landed like at 3:00 in the morning. The plane had to refuel so we got to get off the plane and run around the airport. We saw one cleaning person and lo and behold the lounge was open. Not sure if they opened it up for us, but that was one of the best beers I have ever had. The bartender was blonde, young and made a lot of money on tips that day.

Einstok is Icelandic! And very good

 

[drvenner]

Kellie Harper almost beat South Carolina. People forget that.

Easy enough to forget when you totally gag it away.

 

[UTSuave’]

Oh yeah running thru the house then ran outside and ate sh*t on the porch

legend

 

[DD4ME]

They will never make men like this again.

 

[mrMet]

legend

I’ll never forget it lol it was the last year my buddies and I lived together after 4 years and we were smoking the stogies inside and all

 

[drvenner]

That sounds exactly like Butch Jones tenure as well.

Yes, and, where is Butch now?

 

[DD4ME]

Sometimes when I try to recall things from my past, like names of posters, I feel like I need one of these.

 

[UTSuave’]

I’ll never forget it lol it was the last year my buddies and I lived together after 4 years and we were smoking the stogies inside and all

at that moment in time F*** those sprinklers the fire department would understand.

 

[drvenner]

Kingston is another out of left field one.

He left after he lost his bet to Bass about how many wins Heup would have his first year, I think.

 

[drvenner]

Oh... HankHill..... Didn't he leave because some tried to or did Ddox him.

Yep, one of those posters is still on here. Not sure whey they thought that was cool.

 

[Devo182]

I’m not sure when my grandfather arrived over there but he was shot in the helmet which saved his life. He was captured by German forces and became a POW.

Dang. A helmet away from no Beast

My grandpa had just graduated NYU a few years earlier. Him and my grandmother (who left her job at the Empire State Building as a receptionist) left The Bronx to move off to some unheard of place he had been recruited to...Oak Ridge. They moved in right as the town was popping up practically overnight. What exactly he did...nobody will ever really know. We just knew he was an engineer who later in life also worked in finance for the OR plants.

He took me to his hometown when I was 16. Boston...but more precisely Charlestown...just one block from freakin Bunker Hill.

That guy was living in and around history. So cool to me. The Greatest Generation moved differently.

 

[DD4ME]

This story is better than half the stuff on Netflix. I need a 30 for 30 at this point.

 

[drvenner]

"Its never really good on Rocky Top unless its Lowwww Tide and believe me they want that smoke"!!Reese Davis absolutely nailed the intro that day!!

I am rewatching this again tonight. Chills upon chills upon chills.

 

[COOKEVOL]

I thought skeet was the Adidas rep when Fulmer was here if that’s a different one and he’s not been mentioned yet then that’s another one we can add to the list of gone but not forgotten

Someone has probably already replied, but I think that was Deerpark.

 

[DD4ME]