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oldschoolvol writes:

in response to WhiteHotBleedOrange:

I saw the Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" show there in fall of '74. Still to this day about the best show I have ever seen.
As a freshman in '75, I was at almost every game at Stokely that the "Ernie and Bernie Show" played. What great basketball!! I remember we felt so big time when we made the cover of Sports Illustrated.
During the World's Fair of 1980, my father and I made a day of it one Saturday. We had lunch in the Sunsphere (crown jewel of any vacation...ha) and then I scalped front row tickets for an NBA exhibition game that night at Stokely. It wasn't just any game...Celtics vs Sixers. Last preseason game before the regular season started so ALL the stars played. Bird, Dr. J, McHale, Parrish, Malone, etc. What a game!! 102-100 Celtics. My dad was in awe.
I moved to ATL for a teaching/coaching position, but I always came back for home football games. Many times I would take a buddy with me to see the game then I would tour them through Stokely (it was always open).
Memories of SAC are priceless to me.

I too, saw the Yellow Brick Road concert, however, I believe it was the fall of 73, my freshman year at UT. As you said it is still the best concert I have ever seen. Elton was crazy wild back then and when he ended the concert with "Saturday Nights Alright for Fighin'", Stokley exploded. I saw every home game during my 4 years at UT. With all due respect to Coach Battle and the FootVols the atmosphere in Neyland did not come close to matching the excitement in Stokley during the Ernie and Bernie years. My buddies and me would routinely camp out in line for student tickets to SEC games just to get an opportunity to see The Show. Of all my many great memories of UT sports and there are at lot of them, not many match those that Coach Mears gave us during those magical yeaars. Time to move on though, and create new memories in TBA. Go Vols!

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