Von Reeves will always be remembered in Tennessee football history for one play. It was Oct. 13, 1990, and the Florida Gators were in Knoxville for the first of what has become an annual SEC matchup.

Johnny Majors was the head coach. Phillip Fulmer was the offensive coordinator for the Vols. Reeves was a big tight end from Austin-East High School. The fact that Reeves was playing tight end was a story in and of itself.

Reeves had been a quarterback for the Roadrunners until his junior year. He had a big arm, but turned into an even bigger young man. So, A-E coach Sam Anderson told Von he was moving to tight end and outside linebacker. Von was fine with the defensive move, but wasn't so sure he liked the tight end part of the deal.

"I always wanted to play defense," Reeves said. "I would have been a defensive player at UT if I didn't have to deal with Coach (Ken) Donahue. As freshmen, we spent the first part of fall drills on defense, then the second half of the day on offense. Coach Donahue made us run too much. It was too hard, so I told the coaches I'd rather play tight end.

"I came to UT to catch the rock, not run so much." Reeves developed into a pretty salty tight end for the Vols. He caught a touchdown in the Miracle at South Bend game and was in on the game winning touchdown by Aaron Hayden.

"It was a great play, but it wasn't one of my best because I kind of missed a block. But, it all worked out."

Von says his greatest memory of the Notre Dame game was the relationship he formed with the Irish fans behind the Tennessee bench.

"They were great fans. They were classy. So, just before halftime when we were getting killed, I gave some fans my gloves. As we started coming back in the second half, I took somebody else's gloves on the sidelines. That was the greatest game I ever played in, I"ll never forget it."

As for the fans he had given his gloves to, Reeves said he never went back to talk any smack after the comeback. "I didn't have a chance to. I was on the field too much in the second half," Von said with a chuckle.

Reeves sells migraine medicine and medication to combat Alzheimer's disease for Ortho McNeil, a division of Johnson and Johnson.

Of his playing days, he says if he could do it all over again, this time he would listen to the coaches more and do what they said to do.

"I remember lying to Coach (Jack) Sells when I was a freshman. He was the tight end coach and I didn't want to go through the summer workouts. So, I told him that my dad had moved to Washington, D.C., and that I wouldn't be in town to work out.

"Well, one morning he called my house, in Knoxville, at 'bout 6 a.m. I answered the phone, which was stupid on my part. He told me, in a matter of words, that I'd better get my butt out to the workouts.

"If I had it to do over, I would have tried harder and would have been more dedicated to making it to the NFL. I had a great social life in college. Looking back I should have spent a little less time socializing and more time working to get myself into the NFL because I know I was good enough. If I had half the brain power then that I do now, I would be the CEO of a company because every day is competition in the real world."

As for that game against Florida, Von's days as a quarterback helped him when the call came into the huddle. It was a reverse pass that caught the Gators off guard. It was one of the prettiest passes in Tennessee football history, and it was off the hand of a larger-than-life tight end.

"That was about as good a pass as I could throw. I guess if you're going to be remembered for something, be remembered for a play like that," Reeves said.

Not all of the Tennessee/Florida matchups have ended as positively as the 90 game. And, for Von Reeves, it's a memory that is etched in the minds of Vol fans everywhere."