What are your favorite memories of the Tennessee-Alabama rivalry?

#26
#26
The 1995 UT vs. Alabama game in its entirety. I was living in Birmingham. Went to school the next Monday in my Peyton jersey. Had countless Alabama fans tell me, "I like Tennessee too!"

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#27
#27
My most recent one was the 4th and long in OT that kept the game going and eventually winning on Jason Allen deflecting the 4th down pass away..that was a helluva game!
 
#31
#31
Manning in 95 on the naked boot leg. John Ward says nobody knows who's got the ball expect Peyton Manning and where is he in the end zone. GO VOLS!
 
#32
#32
when CPF broke the streak and went off on a streak of his own whipping the tide regularly
 
#33
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I wish that I could take credit for correctly predicting the outcome of our streak-breaking victory in 1995. I believe, however, that the following narrative pertains to the Friday preceding the 1994 game. In any event, I was a graduate assistant to my major professor during the fall semesters of 1994 and 1995. He had a tradition which he followed on the day before home games with Alabama. He began his lecture for a large introductory class on Cultural Anthropology in McClung Museum. A few minutes later, he said that he was feeling a little warm and pulled off his sweater. He had an Alabama t-shirt on underneath it, which, of course, was greeted with boos. He then removed that garment, which revealed a Tennessee orange shirt. He concluded by saying, “Class dismissed.”

I knew what he planned to do, so I preceded him by a few minutes to the auditorium. I paraphrased the message which Sitting Bull had received in a Sun Dance vision during the summer of 1876, which foretold victory over what ultimately proved to be Custer’s troops at the Little Bighorn. I wrote the following message on the chalkboard: “Sitting Bull received a vision during which he saw many RED ELEPHANTS falling into camp upside down and he heard a voice which said, “These I give you because they have no ears” (i.e. would not listen to the promises made by Lakota and Cheyenne leaders).

We noticed that attendance was unusually light for that lecture and surmised that many of the students had already begun preparing for the weekend’s festivities. Subsequently, we decided to include reference to my historical revisionism on the class’s following test. An amazing number of students, obviously ones who were not present that day, attributed the aforementioned vision to the professor himself.

I apologize for this brief journey into academia but, occasionally, truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. After all of these years, this is one of the strongest memories I have associated with Alabama week.
 
#34
#34
Driving home from an Oklahoma State game in 1982, desperately trying to get the Tenn-Bama score on the radio. Then the announcer says, "Well, Johnny Majors was hired at Tennessee to beat Alabama, and today the Vols finally won ..." I started yelling and didn't stop even after the burgers were on the grill and I had a beer in hand. My young daughers kept saying, "Mom, why is Dad acting that way?"

The sun shone bright that afternoon; the food tasted terrific!
 
#35
#35
During the 1982 game there was an old man about 5 or 6 rows below us and there was about 2 minutes left in the game and Alabama had just got the ball back with a chance to tie or win the game...The crowd was insanely loud and I noticed the man was clutching his chest and out of nowhere EMT's came rushing down to that area to help the man and he screamed at them if he was going to die that he wanted to go while Tennessee was winning LOL...Luckly Terry intercepted the ball in the end zone and we snapped the 11 game winning streak....I still get nervous twitches from that game lol
 
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#36
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triad280 said:
Dale Jones interception and that damn 2 pt conversion By David Palmer
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Those would be my high and low points...although that fumble through the end zone to give that blind man Shula a win was pretty bad...
 
#38
#38
Terry Fair's interception in 1996 for a pick 6...going to the World's Fair in 1982 without tix and my dad finding a man selling cheap tix that got us into the game.
 
#39
#39
1968 Vols beat Bama in Birmingham ending a long winning streak for the Tide. It's the first game I can remember us beating them; I remember it like yesterday.
 
#40
#40
41-14...I was there and stayed till the stadium emptied. Such a wonderful memory. I still use 4114 as passwords and pin codes to this day. Whoops! Did I just say that? I mean I used to, not any more. ;)
 
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#41
#41
1995, the first play, Peyton Manning to Joey Kent and the Naked bootleg where Peyton Manning walked into the End zone. In fact that whole game!
 
#42
#42
Being at the '85 game at Legion Field with my wife who was 7 mos. pregnant. We sat in the Bama student section (her HS best friend got the tickets). Watching their PK miss a field goal as time almost expired and walking out winners. She also let me go to the Sugar Bowl that season even though we had a 1 mo. old and watched us kill Miami.

Damn, I'm old
 
#45
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
That 2 pt conversion is one of your favorite memories?
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sorry,I misread the post... I was thinking most memorable,not favorite memory... that damn play is burned into my memory because everyone knew it was coming and we still couldn't stop it
 
#46
#46
I was at the 85 game- I was 14 years old.
We did not win again until 95. I was there as well. Both games in Birmingham.
I got lucky and was able to hang with some players outside the locker room. Also stayed at the same hotel with the team.
A Bama fan came to me and gave me his hat. It was ironic. Fun times! GBO!!!
 
#47
#47
Also listening to the Velcro Pygmes sing "F U Alabama" at the Library Friday before the game....a great night before party!!
 
#50
#50
1) '96 Jay Graham 80 yarder (is there a better run in Vols history)

2) '84 Tony Robinson 2 pt conversion to win, diving by all-everything Cornelius Bennett.

3) '83 Johnny Jones 66 yarder.

4) '01 being in the stands to watch Bammers crushed to see an all time streak reach 7 in a row.
 
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