Recruiting Forum: UNofficial South Carolina Pre-Game Thread

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JCLawyerVol said:
Just calling it like I see it, pal. Mine was one example. I'm sure there are many.

I'm not better than anyone, by the way. Maybe just a more level-headed fan than some.

You know, like I wouldn't complain about play-calling if I'd never played football...
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Lawyers are known for one thing: Lying their asses off. I am eating crow, because I thought it was over after the 70 yd TD run (like damn near everybody in the world). But I'm comfortable doing so and don't have to get on a message board the next day and claim I didn't.

You'll never convince me you thought we were gonna pull through because there were two types of fans last night. There were those that gave up on the game and there were those that kept watching though they didn't think we had a snowball's chance in a hot place populated mostly with lawyers.
 
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jman9865 said:
Lawyers are known for one thing: Lying their asses off. I am eating crow, because I thought it was over after the 70 yd TD run (like damn near everybody in the world). But I'm comfortable doing so and don't have to get on a message board the next day and claim I didn't.

You'll never convince me you thought we were gonna pull through because there were two types of fans last night. There were those that gave up on the game and there were those that kept watching though they didn't think we had a snowball's chance in a hot place populated mostly with lawyers.
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I help a lot of people in my job and I've never once lied or (knowingly) allowed a lie to be told by a client in my career.

If that sends me to hell, I've read the wrong book.

But, I can tell you this, I didn't know we would win, and I never said that. I tried to point out the irony of quitting on a team one minute and then celebrating like you had been on the field with them the next.

But, here I go writing paragraphs again, so I'll shut up. Besides, I've got a big day of lying and ruining peoples' lives tomorrow. Got to rest up.
 
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Met Todd Kelly after the game celebrating by the team...he had the biggest grin on his face!

Best ending to a game I've witnessed in person in years.

Great to be a SC Vol right now.

Two in a row baby! Send Spurrier to the nursing home!
 
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Ericvol2096 said:
Met Todd Kelly after the game celebrating by the team...he had the biggest grin on his face!

Best ending to a game I've witnessed in person in years.

Great to be a SC Vol right now.

Two in a row baby! Send Spurrier to the nursing home!
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Glad you got to watch it in person. I had a USC fan friend who was texting me talking crap in the 4th quarter. I didn't respond then, but after the game, when I called to "discuss," his battery must have died cause his phone was off. Haha.
 
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JCLawyerVol said:
Wow. Read through this thread from before the game. Nice to see a bunch of y'all bashing the team/coaches and giving up (not just on the game, but the season, the program, the coaching staff) as early as the beginning of the 4th quarter. Then the same people acting like they were there all along.

People all around me last night were saying it was done, coaches suck, turn it off, blah blah. I kept saying, "we still have time. This game ain't over."

Our team fought til the end. Too bad the people who critique them all week and during the game couldn't.

Eating crow is fine. To each their own. I'll eat whatever the hell I want this week, with a side of hot sauce.
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That's a fine looking high horse.
 
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jman9865 said:
Lawyers are known for one thing: Lying their asses off. I am eating crow, because I thought it was over after the 70 yd TD run (like damn near everybody in the world). But I'm comfortable doing so and don't have to get on a message board the next day and claim I didn't.

You'll never convince me you thought we were gonna pull through because there were two types of fans last night. There were those that gave up on the game and there were those that kept watching though they didn't think we had a snowball's chance in a hot place populated mostly with lawyers.
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People confuse having to defend someone or making an adversarial argument for lying. There is much more to it than most people realize. But that's ok- everyone can have an opinion.
 
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JCLawyerVol said:
I help a lot of people in my job and I've never once lied or (knowingly) allowed a lie to be told by a client in my career.

If that sends me to hell, I've read the wrong book.

But, I can tell you this, I didn't know we would win, and I never said that. I tried to point out the irony of quitting on a team one minute and then celebrating like you had been on the field with them the next.

But, here I go writing paragraphs again, so I'll shut up. Besides, I've got a big day of lying and ruining peoples' lives tomorrow. Got to rest up.
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First off, you can't tell a lie unknowingly. By definition, a lie is a statement made that one knows to be not true at the time of making the statement. Just an OCD/English technical writing thing that I can't help but note.

That said, fair enough. After reading your first comment again and with this, I can see how you're saying that. However, when I read it I took it a very different way (and I wasn't the only one to do so). It sounded like, "I'm the greatest vol fan alive because I predicted the win. Bow down all other vol fans to my level-headed genius for I shall lead us to knowledge you mere plebes could never understand." (Maybe I'm adding on a bit to make my point here). At any rate, I got a little rubbed wrong by it and retaliated by making some lawyer jokes. For that, I'll apologize. Just forgive those that quit on the team. Realize that the team quit on the team for three years. Remember when we ended the longest active winning streak in the nation by losing to a QB-less KY team because Bray and Da'rick were acting like children? Those that quit are just reading from the old lesson plan and need to get the latest edition.
 
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VolGee4 said:
People confuse having to defend someone or making an adversarial argument for lying. There is much more to it than most people realize. But that's ok- everyone can have an opinion.
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It was a lawyer joke. I know plenty about the profession. I won't get into details or drop names, but I could, for about six years of my life I worked in the highest of circles in the profession (with lawyers not as one).
 
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jman9865 said:
Lawyers are known for one thing: Lying their asses off. I am eating crow, because I thought it was over after the 70 yd TD run (like damn near everybody in the world). But I'm comfortable doing so and don't have to get on a message board the next day and claim I didn't.

You'll never convince me you thought we were gonna pull through because there were two types of fans last night. There were those that gave up on the game and there were those that kept watching though they didn't think we had a snowball's chance in a hot place populated mostly with lawyers.
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I certainly didn't feel good about winning the game with about four minutes left when my grandson (almost 10) did a little dance and said that it would help us win. I said "good boy" and after we scored to make it 35-42 I told him it must be working, then when we scored to tie we gave each other a double "high-five". After USC missed their FG I told him he pulled us through for the win. He's convinced his "dance" pulled out the win.
 
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OldVol49vfl said:
I certainly didn't feel good about winning the game with about four minutes left when my grandson (almost 10) did a little dance and said that it would help us win. I said "good boy" and after we scored to make it 35-42 I told him it must be working, then when we scored to tie we gave each other a double "high-five". After USC missed their FG I told him he pulled us through for the win. He's convinced his "dance" pulled out the win.
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I pulled a hat out of retirement last night (the wife doesn't approve of my college headwear). I'm wearing that sweat-stained smelly thing to the next game. Not going to stop wearing it on gameday until the magic wears off and we lose. Tell your grandson to keep dancing and maybe we'll get right wins this year!
 
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I felt pretty good about the fact that we were probably going to lose early in the fourth quarter. I also started thinking the world was against me in general. At some point in this thread I said that we were the Chicago Cubs of college football or something along those lines.

That being said I never turn off a game unless we get mathematically eliminated. Even though things were terrible I could still see a path to victory available to us. I've seen other teams come back in similar situations. Did I think it would play out like that? Nope. But it just happened to. And that was awesome.

This is the kind of win that makes you love sports. This is the kind of win that will keep us all believing until the 4th quarter is over for years to come. Butch bought a lot of love with this one. It felt good and we should all be really happy with it.

Go big orange forever
 
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jman9865 said:
It was a lawyer joke. I know plenty about the profession. I won't get into details or drop names, but I could, for about six years of my life I worked in the highest of circles in the profession (with lawyers not as one).
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So......you're contaminated?

J/k- another lawyer joke
 
#1,847
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Can you really blame anyone for "giving up" when they went down two tds? Tennessee does not get wins like that only heartbreaking losses. I think the change is happening though. These next few games are going to be fun if you are a vols fan.
 
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PowerOrange said:
Can you really blame anyone for "giving up" when they went down two tds? Tennessee does not get wins like that only heartbreaking losses. I think the change is happening though. These next few games are going to be fun if you are a vols fan.
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Yes. Yes i can. Because theres a double standard with that. If the team had that mentality, this fanbase would rip these kids. Give them the same attitude that you expect from them.
 
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jman9865 said:
It was a lawyer joke. I know plenty about the profession. I won't get into details or drop names, but I could, for about six years of my life I worked in the highest of circles in the profession (with lawyers not as one).
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That's fine. I guess my sarcasm/joking meter is broken. I don't care about jokes because I hear them all of the time, but is so funny that people crack on attorneys until they need one. I don't run in the highest of circles. I just do it myself.
 
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utvols88 said:
Yes. Yes i can. Because theres a double standard with that. If the team had that mentality, this fanbase would rip these kids. Give them the same attitude that you expect from them.
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Agree with this. This team has shown that it will play until the last whistle regardless of how the game is going. They deserve the same determination from us.
 
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