Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[ryan990]

What was your first ever Vols game... good or bad??

Mine was 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl... a 27-22 loss to Purdue

I was 8

96 game against the Memphis Tigers. We all know how that went.

 

[Dudley Smith]

Watching the 98 Florida game on secn… I was only 5 when it was played.

Hate that I missed this last night. I had it on VHS for years. This was the greatest game I ever attended. Spurrier and Florida had beat our butts 5 years straight and shut out Peyton. Al Wilson was not going to allow himself to suffer that same fate.

When we played UF during that stretch in the mid-90’s it was like you were just waiting for the bomb to go off and they would pull away. When Shawn Bryson broke that long TD run in the second quarter it just felt like things were going to be different that night. It was the loudest I had ever heard in Neyland, the sound when Florida had the ball was like a physical thing that you could reach out and touch as it surrounded you. There was so much pent up frustration that night that all got released with the win.

I didn’t attend the Bama win last year but I imagine it was a similar experience. I’m happy a new generation got to experience what Tennessee Football can be.

 

[volbeast33]

I absolutely loved that show and of course, Animaniacs.

I graduated High school with Joe Cool

 

[SoilVol]

1st Vols game: 2006 in Knoxville vs Kentucky. Vols won 17-12 in a relative snooze-nooner. I remember Justin Harrell was a senior with a torn bicep. Played in the game. They retired his number during the game for Albert Haynesworth (92).
2nd Vols game: Wyoming....
3rd Vols game: 2012 College Gameday against Florida....
4th Vols game: Pig Howards OT fumble vs Georgia
5th Vols game: Palardy game winner against ranked South Carolina.

Then 4 years of being a student going to every game, couple away games and bowl games.

 

[drvenner]

What was your first ever Vols game... good or bad??

Mine was 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl... a 27-22 loss to Purdue

I was 8

1974 against Tulsa. Tennessee won 17-10, with Stanley Morgan housing a punt return for the winning score. I was 9 years old.

 

[WesTnVol]

They we’re a different breed back then for sure.
I read the other day that the last pitch Bob Gibson threw was hit for grand slam. Fast forward ten years old timers game the guy who hit the grand slam comes up Gibson hit him with the first pitch

 

[drvenner]

In Hawaii, it's illegal to laugh out loud.
You have to keep it to a low ha.

 

[Rishvol]

My 1st game attending was in 1978 or '79. Can't remember. I believe it was either against Georgia Tech or Vandy. Believe I was 18. But was a diehard fan waaaay before that from just listening to Ward and Anderson on the radio while outside doing chores. Eventually was able to attend 56 games in person before I ever saw them lose. Will never forget that game. It was a Sat. night game against Duke coached by Spurrier.

So what I'm reading is you're the reason Tennessee never did well against Spurrier

 

[utvolmaniac]

There was an episode of Columbo where Dick Van Dyke played a high end photographer who murdered his wife to be with his beautiful assistant…played by this actress. Hard to fault him.

Who is JoAnna Cameron?

 

[tricky13]

Do we have a list of players visiting next weekend?

 

[logginlarry]

What was your first ever Vols game... good or bad??

Mine was 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl... a 27-22 loss to Purdue

I was 8

1988 against Duke. We lost our first six games that season. I was a first-year MBA student. I was 25.

 

[Orangeburst]

1982 Bama game
picked a good one

Edit
correction
it was 1984..still good game
long time ago

 

[knoxvol52]

1981 Garden State Bowl Tennessee 28-21 victory over Wisconsin father took me and my sister to visit his family and that was my reward lol for going.

 

[VFLBerg]

What was your first ever Vols game... good or bad??

Mine was 1979 Bluebonnet Bowl... a 27-22 loss to Purdue

I was 8

September 16, 1972 Tennessee vs Penn State. Vols won 28-21.

 

[Aesius]

I went to a few Vols games in the 90s but don’t remember specific ones.

First one I remember specifically was Arkansas 2002. 6 OTs. My parents and I left late in the 4th and got home an hour and a half later…and were still able to watch the ending on TV.

 

[gainesvol82]

Loved this show as a kid
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Holy crap I had forgot about this show. It was awesome!

 

[drvenner]

There was an episode of Columbo where Dick Van Dyke played a high end photographer who murdered his wife to be with his beautiful assistant…played by this actress. Hard to fault him.

How in tarnation did you remember that?

 

[Pridedad]

1982 peach bowl. Fulton County stadium. Iowa State Hawkeyes. I would have been 8 years old. It was cold and rainy.

 

[Glitch]

My husband is Papa Bear so why not a Papa chicken?

 

[Fairacres Vol]

1981 Tennessee 38 Vanderbilt 34

 

[DarthVol1]

Oct 8, 1983 was my first game in person. Beat LSU 20 to 6. Alan Cockrell ran for a like a 50+ yard touchdown. It took what seemed like 2 minutes, he was so slow. I was 19. Bought 2 tickets on the strip and got in to find out the tickets had been stolen. Guy had the UT police come when we showed up for the seats. Convinced them we bought them from a scalper. Went back outside and bought 2 more after game had started for 5 bucks. Good times.

 

[butchna]

How in tarnation did you remember that?

When I first arrived in DFW, a local channel would run Columbo episodes…that episode was one they ran frequently. Everyman favorite Dick Van Dyke playing a murderer against type is the modern equivalent of Tom Hanks playing a serial killer. This is 95, so way before smart phones. Remembered watching Isis as a kid yet didn’t make the connection to the goddess on Columbo. Went in a rabbit hole looking up Columbo fun facts at 3 in the morning (my wife knows what’s happening if she wakes up and I’m missing), and finally solved the case.

 

[Devo182]

So if you’re 16 in 30 years you would be 46, and in 40 you would be 56. I hope you’re not planning on having grandkids at 76!

Look I’ve had the flu for 3 days now, so don’t you go using your logic and math and gypsy tears against my vulnerable childlike brain rn

 

[SmokinBob]

Yeah, def. not 'granny.' A grandmother but not granny or mammaw yet. Give her 30 more years at least.

I’m a minute older than her and still not old enough to be a grandma or mamaw or granny - that’s why I’m G-Mom!

 

[BigOrange15]

My first game in person was the 1998 Arkansas game with the Stoerner fumble...

...which we didn't get to see because we had left after my younger brother got sick and was miserable in the rain lol