When your buddy ask you...

[A2K]

Are you keeping up with practice? You say NO....the kids can play and the coach can coach ....They don't need me.... lol Waiting on game day @relief ...lol

 

[VolBalla2014]

Are you keeping up with practice? You say NO....the kids can play and the coach can coach ....They don't need me.... lol Waiting on game day @relief ...lol

I think your buddy just wanted to discuss how the team is looking.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

Are you keeping up with practice? You say NO....the kids can play and the coach can coach ....They don't need me.... lol Waiting on game day @relief ...lol

You are a rare hybrid, friend.

Most Vols fans throughout the world--I mean, the VAST majority, probably 90% or better--pay zero attention to the football program 8 months of the year. They live their lives. Go to work each day. Play golf or go fishing on Saturday. Take up another hobby, or watch another sport. They "wake up" to the Vols in September, just before the first game of the season. And then, in January, they mentally put college football away for another 8 months.

A very few Vols fans spend all year thinking and talking about the program. We gravitate places like, well like here, volnation.com, because we want to keep up with them, and share words with others who want to keep up with them, too.

You, friend, you are straddling that fence. You're here, but you feel no need to keep up with the team's off-season progress. It's an unusual place to be.

My guess is, you're in a bit of a transition. You showed up here early this year, almost a full month before the first game starts. That's probably a month earlier than you used to start thinking about Vols football, say two years ago when you joined us in this place for the first time (Sep 8th, 2021).

Heck, give you another 10 years of evolution, and you'll probably be talking about how spring practices went in April. Heh.

Welcome.

Go Vols!

 

[vols1221]

You are a rare hybrid, friend.

Most Vols fans throughout the world--I mean, the VAST majority, probably 90% or better--pay zero attention to the football program 8 months of the year. They live their lives. Go to work each day. Play golf or go fishing on Saturday. Take up another hobby, or watch another sport. They "wake up" to the Vols in September, just before the first game of the season. And then, in January, they mentally put college football away for another 8 months.

A very few Vols fans spend all year thinking and talking about the program. We gravitate places like, well like here, volnation.com, because we want to keep up with them, and share words with others who want to keep up with them, too.

You, friend, you are straddling that fence. You're here, but you feel no need to keep up with the team's off-season progress. It's an unusual place to be.

My guess is, you're in a bit of a transition. You showed up here early this year, almost a full month before the first game starts. That's probably a month earlier than you used to start thinking about Vols football, say two years ago when you joined us in this place for the first time (Sep 8th, 2021).

Heck, give you another 10 years of evolution, and you'll probably be talking about how spring practices went in April. Heh.

Welcome.

Go Vols!

You and I are from different places. Everywhere I go(except Kentucky (they wanna talk basketball)) everyone is talking about college football. To the point that I'm sick of hearing about South Carolina, and Georgia!

 

[VFL-82-JP]

You and I are from different places. Everywhere I go(except Kentucky (they wanna talk basketball)) everyone is talking about college football. To the point that I'm sick of hearing about South Carolina, and Georgia!

You ever have that experience where you learn a new word, or hear about a new thing (new to you, anyway), and then after hearing it the first time, you hear it over and over again the next few weeks?

It's a form of bias; I don't know what name the psychologists gave it. But the fact is, you were hearing that word, or seeing that thing before you "heard it for the first time." You just weren't noticing it. Suddenly, after becoming part of your consciousness, it "was everywhere."

Being surrounded by folks talking about college football is kinda like that. To you, because you talk college football, you notice all the people around you talking college football. In reality, it may only be 10% of everyone at work, but it seems like a lot to you because that's what you're noticing.

You and I are probably not from different places, physically or metaphorically. We're probably both Americans. We probably both live in the South, but either way we live in a place where college football is a big deal. We both clearly love talking about football, including in the off-season. And so we'll both tend to be surrounded by other people who do, too.

Go Vols!

 

[A2K]

I think your buddy just wanted to discuss how the team is looking.

We were actually watching practice highlights at the time. That post didn't come across as accurately as it could or should had...lol..inebriation evidently doesn't relay appropriately....I meant its nice to enjoy it without the anxiety...Im jacked up for this year!

 

[A2K]

You are a rare hybrid, friend.

Most Vols fans throughout the world--I mean, the VAST majority, probably 90% or better--pay zero attention to the football program 8 months of the year. They live their lives. Go to work each day. Play golf or go fishing on Saturday. Take up another hobby, or watch another sport. They "wake up" to the Vols in September, just before the first game of the season. And then, in January, they mentally put college football away for another 8 months.

A very few Vols fans spend all year thinking and talking about the program. We gravitate places like, well like here, volnation.com, because we want to keep up with them, and share words with others who want to keep up with them, too.

You, friend, you are straddling that fence. You're here, but you feel no need to keep up with the team's off-season progress. It's an unusual place to be.

My guess is, you're in a bit of a transition. You showed up here early this year, almost a full month before the first game starts. That's probably a month earlier than you used to start thinking about Vols football, say two years ago when you joined us in this place for the first time (Sep 8th, 2021).

Heck, give you another 10 years of evolution, and you'll probably be talking about how spring practices went in April. Heh.

Welcome.

Go Vols!

possible, or maybe the post wasn't as articulate at the time as it should have been and didn't end up making sense. Maybe I was born and raised here...grew up in Neyland...had an uncle that played over there ...went to their camps..saw Herschel, was there when we shut down Bo...seen the goal post fall a few times ... season tickets .......or your right and Im waiting to evolve in 10 more years wondering what 63 will be like

 

[vols1221]

You ever have that experience where you learn a new word, or hear about a new thing (new to you, anyway), and then after hearing it the first time, you hear it over and over again the next few weeks?

It's a form of bias; I don't know what name the psychologists gave it. But the fact is, you were hearing that word, or seeing that thing before you "heard it for the first time." You just weren't noticing it. Suddenly, after becoming part of your consciousness, it "was everywhere."

Being surrounded by folks talking about college football is kinda like that. To you, because you talk college football, you notice all the people around you talking college football. In reality, it may only be 10% of everyone at work, but it seems like a lot to you because that's what you're noticing.

You and I are probably not from different places, physically or metaphorically. We're probably both Americans. We probably both live in the South, but either way we live in a place where college football is a big deal. We both clearly love talking about football, including in the off-season. And so we'll both tend to be surrounded by other people who do, too.

Go Vols!

That's a lot of words to try to be right. It's possible that I am simply around more college football fans.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

That's a lot of words to try to be right. It's possible that I am simply around more college football fans.

I always wonder about folks on this site who complain about other people putting "a lot of words" in text.

I mean, that is the only thing we do here: put words into posts, and read the words other people put in posts. That's it.

As to your other point: you might be. But I doubt it.

Go Vols!

 

[BACKDOC]

Are you keeping up with practice? You say NO....the kids can play and the coach can coach ....They don't need me.... lol Waiting on game day @relief ...lol

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