Who Was Your First Favorite CFB Player?

[BACKDOC]

Fuad Reveiz

 

[Volle]

Richmond Flowers... got his autograph at the Vandy game in '68 after he ran for the game winning TD...!

Favorite non-Vols as a CFB fan were Jake Scott, Georgia and Johnny Musso, Bama.

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[GoVols1961]

Bobby Majors and Curt Watson because I got to meet them in 70 or 71. I was 9 or 10. My favorite pro in that time period was Larry Csonka.

 

[OrangeInKy]

This is tough. Tim McGee I guess, but I wasn't as into it then as I was 4 years later when Pickens came on the scene. I adored that guy. I met him in 1990, and it was disappointing, but I loved that guy as a player until the day he retired. I was just getting old enough to pay attention during that 84 season and just knew McGee and T-Rob were studs, but the first guy I was all in for and have always loved was Pickens. He was Charles Woodson if Charles Woodson was Heisman worthy.

 

[OrangeInKy]

Andy Kelly….really the whole ‘90 team

yes sir. The 89 team was loaded but the 1990 was different. I was 12 and that was the year I really fell in love with and understood football more. That's the year I really got into it. It was the 100 years of Volunteers season, and I soaked up all of that history. I still have the VHS tapes of that. I have all of the cards. My Mom would take me to Walgreens and I'd slowly accumulate them all and read every detail. I checked out UT/college football stuff at the library. I really went all in. I fell in love with the histroy of the program, not just the experience and the players.

 

[Unconditional Surrender]

Harper. Not sure why.

 

[WillisWG]

I honestly don’t know this one, it looks more like Auburns uniforms of what I can see. It’s a mystery.

Agree it does look like the Barn

 

[volman85]

Travis Stephens

 

[ERvolsfan]

Mine was Eric Berry

 

[LordVOLdemort]

Heath Shuler. They did a raffle at my school for his signed jersey. You got your name in the bag for every box of chocolate you sold. I sold one and won it. I was 8 and felt on top of the world.

 

[Kylo]

It's a tie....

 

[livefaith]

Conrad Graham

 

[Capt Whiskey]

Carl Pickens

 

[smokeymon]

There are so many. Larry Seivers, Craig Puki, Eddie Brown, Bobby Majors, Dale Jones, Richmond Flowers, to name a few of the older ones...like myself

 

[igotworms]

Iceman.
Undefeated at Florida and bama

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

 

[Toucan Sam]

Otto Graham

 

[Volwonder1]

Al Wilson on D and Jay Graham on O

 

[Volprofch05]

Flutie! Hero of the little guys

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Andy Kelly

 

[ric1958]

Haskel Stanback

 

[vol_smoothie]

I loved a lot of those back 7 defenders from the late 60's / early 70's.
B. Majors, Priest, Reynolds, Kiner, Walker, Townes, Brown, McCartney, on and on.
I was just becoming old enough to pay attention to individual players and not just the team.
Went to my first Vols game in 1967 as a 9-year old kid. Pure magic. I fell in love that day.
All that color, the checkerboard end zone, the team running out thru the T, the cannon on the hill.

 

[mickey1969]

Quarterback "The Swamp Rat" Dewey Warren & Ron Widby a kicker/punter who also played basketball for the Vols in the late 60's !

 

[Memvol44]

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Bobby Majors....yes I am that old.

Majors made me a Tennessee fan. That Penn St. game did it for me!!

 

[Tnwoodsman]

Jimmy Wade, Tennessee tailback, 1953. He was followed by Johnny Majors. Anyway, I can't remember anyone between Wade and Majors.