Things that make you feel old...

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vol-un-tear said:
Remember ordering "killer pizza" to Hess? Remember the crank down windows in Hess?
Remember Pygmies night at the library?
Remember microfiche at the real library?
Good stuff!
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Roach Coach selling chili dogs from a van in front of "the Zoo".

My computer class taught us how to use Punch cards!

The first "jumbotron" I saw was held up over Neyland on the Hill side with a crane.

UT Swim team coming to Fiji Island and swallowing the Goldfish someone had put in our homemade pond.
 
#154
#154
GreyhoundMan said:
I am old enough to remember the "open end of the horseshoe". We sat in the bleacher stands there for the second Penn State game - ABC had a camera on a platform dangling from a crane over those bleachers. My buddies and I went up and stretched out and enjoyed the Vols crushing a good Penn State team. That was... 1972? 1973?
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The '71 game was televised by ABC but I don't think the '72 game being televised. It was a night game I recall. I do recall checking the score on the radio occasionally during a date with my high school girlfriend at the drive in movie theatre on Lee Hwy in Chattanooga. I have no clue what the movie was.
 
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Coming across a long-forgotten pair of spats in the deep, dark recesses of my bedroom closet:

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#163
I remember when my dad did not want a phone in our house until he could afford a 'private line' No 'party line' for us he said. most young folks now know nothing of a party line
 
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#165
During Peyton's retirement speech, I remember thinking that it seemed surreal that I've lived long enough to follow his career from college through NFL retirement. I definitely felt old that day.
 
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ptcarter said:
I was there the day the VOLS first ran through the T sitting in section K with my dad (1965)

Less than a dozen people were closer to the launch pad than me the day Challenger exploded. I was sitting on the hood of my car next to the firetrucks at the fall back line. Had just taken a job with a NASA contractor the month before, and because I had a badge, I had freedom to get as close as I could. Dang. I'm old.
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You got to experience some pretty neat stuff. Some great and some sad but all great.
 
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Backwards K said:
1971 was the first time Penn State came to Neyland and the Vols defense and special teams accounted for 21 or 28 points in a 31-11 rout. Vols had to put up lights in 72 for Penn State to come back and Vols won by a TD something like 28-21.

71 PSU team had Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell in their backfield. Both went on to have long and successful NFL Careers. But Conrad Graham outran Franco 80 yds to the end zone with an intercepted pitch on PSU's first offensive series.......and the rout was on.
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You are correct, sir. The 1972 Penn State game was the first night game under the lights in Neyland. My party was staying at the Holiday Inn at Alcoa just past the airport as were the Vols team and staff in those days. We were lounging by the pool, "getting up for the game", when the players came out of their rooms headed for the bus. Middle linebacker, Jamie Rotella, strolled by and I called him by name and begged him to please cover the spread since I had a bundle bet on the Vols. He stopped and asked me what was the line. I told him Tennesse -6 1/2, which means the Vols were favored by that much. He gave me a great big grin and said " 6 and 1/2? Your good. Don't worry. That'll be no problem." Final score: Vols 28; Penn State 21. Whew... I won my wager by a whopping 1/2 point. Yay!!!
 
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Volador said:
The UT Lambda Chi Alpha "All Sing" group sang at halftime of several of Pat's games in her first few years as HC. Sometimes there were only 200-300 in attendance in Stokely.
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I remember watching them play in the gym!
 
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