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Some interesting reading from Hades (south of Tennessee). The rivalry is intact
Bammer (2014):
So, most of y'all know I hate Tennessee (just like any good Alabama fan should). Also. most of you know that this hate supersedes my hate for Auburn. And I'm sure most of you know that anything that represents Tennessee, is found in Tennessee, or comes from Tennessee, would be certainly something I hate. I feel no remorse for my feelings and have no plans in the future to reverse my position.
I don't like Fall or Halloween cause people wear a lot of orange this time of year.
Don't even get me started on pumpkins.
I hate Tennessee because they gave us Peyton Manning and millions of boys and girls named after Peyton.
I don't even like how Peyton is spelled. PAY-ton would be how I'd spell it but I wouldn't name my kid a stupid name like that so...
Josh (2012):
Share away, folks, and tell us in the comments why you hate those worthless, moonshine drinking, checkerboard overall wearing, trash can wielding, second rate citizen hill critters who don’t even have the decency to be mediocre enough to keep from dragging down our strength of schedule.
OTS (2010):
I hate a lot of things. I hate onions. I hate pop music. I hate sizzling fajita platters. I hate Gatorade commercials. I hate cable news. I hate going to the bank. I hate horror movies. I hate reality TV. I hate Toby Keith. I hate the term "fashion-forward." I hate John & Kate Plus 8. I hate Time Warner Cable. I hate Verne Lundquist. I hate people who wear North Face jackets when it's 68 degrees outside. I hate Leno.I hate the Red Sox. I hate celebrity "news." I hate Auburn. But I loathe Tennessee.
Now that 2022 rolls around, and the Vols — like a cicada-brood — field their once-a-decade good team, it’s time for you to rediscover that hate (if you’ve forgotten); and, like all good cultural patrimonies, for us to pass along that hate to the next generation.
Since Tennessee last defeated the sanctions-ravaged Tide — sanctions that Alabama incurred, I add, because of Phil Fulmer — the world has seen a lot:
The invention of the smartphone, which did not even exist in 2006.
Space X would be born, rise to become the largest payload delivery agency to Earth’s orbit, and now turns its sights to extrasolar colonization: Luna and Mars.
The worst global pandemic — now in its third year — since the Spanish Influenza outbreak in the waning days of the Great War over a century ago.
The rise of supercomputing and the coming artificial intelligence singularity that will profoundly change our world in ways we cannot even envision
The second-largest war between nation-states since WWII would begin, and one that has already become the third-deadliest in the last century, behind the Iran-Iraq War and that global calamity.
Four United States presidents, that saw the work of the civil rights movement pay off, as an allegedly-racist nation put a black guy in office twice: once in a landslide that was every bit the electoral curb-stomping of Eisenhower, Reagan, and FDR triumphs. As I write this, the United States has a black vice president, which doesn’t even raise a brow of interest, and only passingly was it a thing that this Veep is a woman. That was simply not a world that existed when the Vawls were a fleeting national power a quarter-century ago.
The world’s fifth-largest economy, and the second-most populous nation in the European Union, would exit the Paris Accord, triggering (or as part of) a growing Euroskeptic movement that has left a stagnating continent with an uncertain future...even as the UK’s larger fortunes have grown equally uncertain and dim.
The end of “strategic competition” and deepening ties with the CCP, as the “global economy” has begun rapidly deglobalizing.
The Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis, though we are still living with the world that was created from some of the worst macroeconomic confluences of the last two hundred years.
But it wasn’t just the big stuff that changed, as the Vols wandered the woods. During that time, we’ve also seen:
SEC expansion...twice.
Georgia finally, tentatively, getting over the hump, even as Auburn, LSU and Florida all claimed trophies.
The hiring of Nick Saban
Four Alabama Heisman trophies, including a once-perverse notion of the University of Alabama as the go-to spot for elite quarterbacks and wide receivers.
184 more Alabama football victories, 44 consensus Alabama All-Americans, nine more division crowns, eight SEC Championships, and six more national titles for the Crimson Tide
Three Tennessee Athletic Directors
Five Tennessee football coaches, two more interim coaches, and one giant NCAA shitstorm on the horizon.
UT going 0-39 against Top 10 teams
And 16 straight losses to the Crimson Tide, only two decided by single-digits, and the others by an average of 31 points.
It has now been 16 years since those consanguineous diddlers and cousin-touchers have beaten the Crimson Tide, and yet that last loss still stings as much as the day that it happened. Should I live another four decades, and my fetid cadaver go to feed the mouldy earth without ever seeing it happen again, it will still be too soon.
With the Volunteers’ hopes now up, and (allegedly) their best team in these lost two decades seemingly poised to topple a vulnerable Crimson Tide, the stage appears set for the cigars to finally come out of checkerboard overalls this season in Neyland.
Which is only going to make their loss all the more delicious.
We may begrudgingly respect LSU. We may live with, hate, and even occasionally love, Auburn fans like a little brother. But there is absolutely no hate that burns in the heart like the white phosphorus loathing between Tennessee-Alabama
Alabama and Tennessee share a 146-mile contiguous land border.
One of the most ambitious public works projects in human history, Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority, took advantage and made use of the expansive Tennessee-Tombigbee river waterway: The end product literally saved the Deep South -- providing electricity to an entire region, creating a post-agricultural South, pulling several states out of decades of post-Reconstruction military occupation and economic stagnation.
Our two states share a long history of military excellence, of yeoman farmers cultivating the original Western frontier, of rolling hills, precipitous mountain drops, unexpected inclement weather -- and, in the right places, an Appalachian temperament unrefined by modern mores or expectations.
This is Tennessee - Alabama.
Sure, the two states now have about 11 million residents between them and are part of the sun belt boom, but Tennessee, like Alabama, is still a rural state. Agriculture is the largest industry of both. Both are noted for tourism. Both have major cities given up for dead which have since revitalized their historical contributions, renovated their downtowns, and now strive for nothing more than to take their place in a vibrant New South.
But, exit those cities, remove yourself from the census data and the feel-good epistles of carpetbaggers, and then our vicious, trouser-dropping, generational-feuding hatred remains: old rules prevail, old enmities emerge, and we are instantly transported back to a more primitive, tribal view of one another.
Bammer (2014):
So, most of y'all know I hate Tennessee (just like any good Alabama fan should). Also. most of you know that this hate supersedes my hate for Auburn. And I'm sure most of you know that anything that represents Tennessee, is found in Tennessee, or comes from Tennessee, would be certainly something I hate. I feel no remorse for my feelings and have no plans in the future to reverse my position.
I don't like Fall or Halloween cause people wear a lot of orange this time of year.
Don't even get me started on pumpkins.
I hate Tennessee because they gave us Peyton Manning and millions of boys and girls named after Peyton.
I don't even like how Peyton is spelled. PAY-ton would be how I'd spell it but I wouldn't name my kid a stupid name like that so...
Josh (2012):
Share away, folks, and tell us in the comments why you hate those worthless, moonshine drinking, checkerboard overall wearing, trash can wielding, second rate citizen hill critters who don’t even have the decency to be mediocre enough to keep from dragging down our strength of schedule.
OTS (2010):
I hate a lot of things. I hate onions. I hate pop music. I hate sizzling fajita platters. I hate Gatorade commercials. I hate cable news. I hate going to the bank. I hate horror movies. I hate reality TV. I hate Toby Keith. I hate the term "fashion-forward." I hate John & Kate Plus 8. I hate Time Warner Cable. I hate Verne Lundquist. I hate people who wear North Face jackets when it's 68 degrees outside. I hate Leno.I hate the Red Sox. I hate celebrity "news." I hate Auburn. But I loathe Tennessee.
Now that 2022 rolls around, and the Vols — like a cicada-brood — field their once-a-decade good team, it’s time for you to rediscover that hate (if you’ve forgotten); and, like all good cultural patrimonies, for us to pass along that hate to the next generation.
Since Tennessee last defeated the sanctions-ravaged Tide — sanctions that Alabama incurred, I add, because of Phil Fulmer — the world has seen a lot:
The invention of the smartphone, which did not even exist in 2006.
Space X would be born, rise to become the largest payload delivery agency to Earth’s orbit, and now turns its sights to extrasolar colonization: Luna and Mars.
The worst global pandemic — now in its third year — since the Spanish Influenza outbreak in the waning days of the Great War over a century ago.
The rise of supercomputing and the coming artificial intelligence singularity that will profoundly change our world in ways we cannot even envision
The second-largest war between nation-states since WWII would begin, and one that has already become the third-deadliest in the last century, behind the Iran-Iraq War and that global calamity.
Four United States presidents, that saw the work of the civil rights movement pay off, as an allegedly-racist nation put a black guy in office twice: once in a landslide that was every bit the electoral curb-stomping of Eisenhower, Reagan, and FDR triumphs. As I write this, the United States has a black vice president, which doesn’t even raise a brow of interest, and only passingly was it a thing that this Veep is a woman. That was simply not a world that existed when the Vawls were a fleeting national power a quarter-century ago.
The world’s fifth-largest economy, and the second-most populous nation in the European Union, would exit the Paris Accord, triggering (or as part of) a growing Euroskeptic movement that has left a stagnating continent with an uncertain future...even as the UK’s larger fortunes have grown equally uncertain and dim.
The end of “strategic competition” and deepening ties with the CCP, as the “global economy” has begun rapidly deglobalizing.
The Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis, though we are still living with the world that was created from some of the worst macroeconomic confluences of the last two hundred years.
But it wasn’t just the big stuff that changed, as the Vols wandered the woods. During that time, we’ve also seen:
SEC expansion...twice.
Georgia finally, tentatively, getting over the hump, even as Auburn, LSU and Florida all claimed trophies.
The hiring of Nick Saban
Four Alabama Heisman trophies, including a once-perverse notion of the University of Alabama as the go-to spot for elite quarterbacks and wide receivers.
184 more Alabama football victories, 44 consensus Alabama All-Americans, nine more division crowns, eight SEC Championships, and six more national titles for the Crimson Tide
Three Tennessee Athletic Directors
Five Tennessee football coaches, two more interim coaches, and one giant NCAA shitstorm on the horizon.
UT going 0-39 against Top 10 teams
And 16 straight losses to the Crimson Tide, only two decided by single-digits, and the others by an average of 31 points.
It has now been 16 years since those consanguineous diddlers and cousin-touchers have beaten the Crimson Tide, and yet that last loss still stings as much as the day that it happened. Should I live another four decades, and my fetid cadaver go to feed the mouldy earth without ever seeing it happen again, it will still be too soon.
With the Volunteers’ hopes now up, and (allegedly) their best team in these lost two decades seemingly poised to topple a vulnerable Crimson Tide, the stage appears set for the cigars to finally come out of checkerboard overalls this season in Neyland.
Which is only going to make their loss all the more delicious.
We may begrudgingly respect LSU. We may live with, hate, and even occasionally love, Auburn fans like a little brother. But there is absolutely no hate that burns in the heart like the white phosphorus loathing between Tennessee-Alabama
Alabama and Tennessee share a 146-mile contiguous land border.
One of the most ambitious public works projects in human history, Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority, took advantage and made use of the expansive Tennessee-Tombigbee river waterway: The end product literally saved the Deep South -- providing electricity to an entire region, creating a post-agricultural South, pulling several states out of decades of post-Reconstruction military occupation and economic stagnation.
Our two states share a long history of military excellence, of yeoman farmers cultivating the original Western frontier, of rolling hills, precipitous mountain drops, unexpected inclement weather -- and, in the right places, an Appalachian temperament unrefined by modern mores or expectations.
This is Tennessee - Alabama.
Sure, the two states now have about 11 million residents between them and are part of the sun belt boom, but Tennessee, like Alabama, is still a rural state. Agriculture is the largest industry of both. Both are noted for tourism. Both have major cities given up for dead which have since revitalized their historical contributions, renovated their downtowns, and now strive for nothing more than to take their place in a vibrant New South.
But, exit those cities, remove yourself from the census data and the feel-good epistles of carpetbaggers, and then our vicious, trouser-dropping, generational-feuding hatred remains: old rules prevail, old enmities emerge, and we are instantly transported back to a more primitive, tribal view of one another.
