The New York Times is calling Saturday's UT-UCLA game the "Blabber Bowl" and one California writer say UCLA's players shouldn't be in awe of Neyland Stadium, they've yet to get annoyed by "200 renditions" of "Rocky Top."
And the L.A. Times has a story about UCLA's quarterback texting a member of the Tennessee coaching staff.
That's a bit of what's being said about this week's 3:30 p.m. game in Neyland Stadium. We have a roundup of more below.
Given the bowl game feeling of the contest, it's doubtful the Ohio State vs Southern Cal marque game of the weekend will cast even a brief shadow over Neyland Stadium.
And the weather? The forecast currently is for mostly sunny skies on Saturday with highs in the lower 80s. Sounds like great September football weather.
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- Vol Stuff (9/10/09) | The List | GoVolsXtra.com
- Insider clues to Vols FB identity | Ask Griff | GoVolsXtra.com
- UCLA football: Bruins to go in early for Tennessee game | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times
- Bruins' Thigpen thankful for landing at UCLA | thigpen, brehaut, tennessee, great, play - Sports - OCRegister.com
- UCLA fortunate to have former Vols recruit Thigpen - The Daily Breeze
- Tennessee has inside information about UCLA quarterback -- latimes.com
- What Tennessee Volunteer fans should watch, record this week - Rocky Top Talk
- Part 2: How Fast Will Tennessee close the Recruiting Gap? - VolNation Blog
- UCLA vs. Tennessee Football 2009: Bruins Meet Vols in Key Non-Conference Game | Suite101.com
- Preparing for the Blabber Bowl: U.C.L.A. vs. Tennessee - The Quad Blog - NYTimes.com
- 3 reasons why UCLA will beat Tennessee - NCAA Fan Zone Forums
- Spaulding Roundup: Curious Signals Out Of Tennessee & Other Game Notes - Bruins Nation
- Neuheisel On: Tennessee - Inside UCLA
- PAINTER: UCLA will do talking on field - The Daily Breeze
- Pac-10 Week 1 Notes and Observations: UCLA Bruins | All Pac 10
- Week 2 Game Matchup: UCLA Bruins VS. Tennessee Volunteers | All Pac 10
- UCLA football: Chow and Kiffin meet up | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times
- Orgeron: Nobody wants to beat UCLA more than he and Kiffin - SEC - ESPN
- Emotions running high in Tennessee -- latimes.com
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Hounddog writes:
All must FOCUS. BEAT UCLA.
Let's play football Hounddog.
DrWitch writes:
DrWitch say let UCLA talk talk talk. Vols prepare prepare prepare. Many bruins be sad Saturday night. Long ride home after big loss. Bone never lie.
gnm53108 writes:
Just PUNISH them.
pdhuff#552644 writes:
Hank Jr said it best in "If Heaven Ain't A Lot Like Dixie".
The Hell of New York City......
Always wondered why NYU didn't have a football team, with 100,000 crazed liberals to choose from?
gnm53108 writes:
Love that song.
It also makes me think of that salsa or some such comercial.
New York City....Get a rope.
AdrianG writes:
Yea yea, that annoying song was played over and over and over.... last year at the rose bowl. Sorry it didn't work out too well for you guys, we'll be ready for it again though. Go Blue!!
bhjohnso#207063 writes:
just shows that the national media still isn't paying attention to what is going on here. they just labeled kiffin a buffoon back in december and that was that. lots of people i know who aren't tennessee fans feel the same way, and it's just because they're not paying attention to practices and what is going on around here.
DingoVol writes:
I'll give you credit for one thing. No matter how bad everyone on this site trashes you, you are going to go forward with your stupidity. Rather than getting angry, I now have moved to empathy. I am starting to feel sorry for you. No original thoughts, No friends, No supporters, No clue. Hey, I'll let you be RingoVol if you like!
jackdup4vols writes:
LMAO! Very well played, sir.... hahahaha
JacksonvilleVol writes:
You know it's always a riot reading these articles about how the opposing football team listens to Rocky Top on their loudspeakers before their games with us. I think it's great -- when your scariest opponent is not the player in the Orange jersey but instead the band in the stadium leading the fans in the chants!
I wonder what would've happened if Felice and Beaudleaux Bryant instead wrote "Jackson" by Johnny Cash. Or, if WJ Julian received instead of Rocky Top the tune Dixieland Delight and thought "Hey, not a bad tune. Let's practice this one tomorrow Pride." Would the mixture of drunk college fans that fateful Saturday, combined with the orange atmosphere and the preparation of the band have made a similar spark?
Anyways, I digress. Rocky Top scares the heck out of other teams and schools. They hate the song and always will -- because it's Tennessee's and it's not theirs. They know they just heard it because Eric Berry beat the snot out of their midfield receiver, or that Hardesty just torched them 30 yards. They hear it right after the extra points and after every highlight the Vols land on them. It's a simple equation really --
Vols + Good Play = Band Plays Rocky Top OR
Vols + Need a Big Play = Band Plays Rocky Top OR
Vols + Extra Point Good = Band Plays Rocky Top
That's why they hate Rocky Top.
TommyJack writes:
I think Hounddog is a TN patriot.
Let's play hounddog. Football
topgun writes:
"Rocky Top" is to UT opponents as "Indian love Call" (by the late, great Slim Whitman) was to the Martians!!!
chad_t31 writes:
if it helps to get rid of you, I'm all for it.
johnlg00 writes:
Great post, Jax! I love it!
johnlg00 writes:
Good one! I wonder how many people on here caught your reference! Or we could call "Rocky Top" sonic orange kryptonite--SOK, for short!
topgun writes:
Thanks, something like that. But, for those who are "Arts & entertainment" challenged, please see the movie "Mars Attacks."
Bloodrunzorange writes:
Hey Blue fan! I was there. There were more USC fans than UCLA fans. There was also only 80 thousand people there! (15 thousand Vol fans!) Welcome to a REAL football stadium against a NEW Tennessee team. Have a safe trip and see you Saturday! Go Vols!
UrbanCryer writes:
I would tell you not to quit your day job but i know you dont have one. how old are you 6?
usnavyvolfaninva_still_getting_paid writes:
So all I have to do is see "Mars attacks." Not exactly a blockbuster.
UrbanCryer writes:
i also think Hounddog is Orange thru and thru but copy and paste is sad.
usnavyvolfaninva_still_getting_paid writes:
Who the heck is DrWitch???
volzcrushm writes:
UT 42 ucla 16
usnavyvolfaninva_still_getting_paid writes:
Great point... btw, I've been to JAX... great city to visit!
usnavyvolfaninva_still_getting_paid writes:
I think there will be a little hangover from week 1. however, UCLA won't even get 16.
Vols 27-9.
usnavyvolfaninva_still_getting_paid writes:
This just in... Witch Doctor is getting stalked...
givehim6 writes:
Yea got to remember most of you UCLA greeks do not know about UT, most of what you remember is last year. New team, new leadership, { oh Kiffin, you should know him when he was at USC he kicked your butts regularly.} Come on down we will show you some ROCY TOP! GO VOLS!
volsman33 writes:
This is Bery's game to get his touchdown interceptions and set that record. GO VOLS!!!
CrimsonTidalWave writes:
UCLA will crush UT and bring you people back to reality. I predict 4 TOs by Crumpton and UCLA to pull away in the second half.
UCLA 34
UT 17
SpaceCoastVol writes:
I went to the Rose Bowl last year. (not impressed with the stadium itself... setting was awesome). We had a couple of shakers in our back pockets. Most of the UCLA fans were really great. Welcoming and all, even drank a little Jack Daniels with us.. and I hope we treat them similarly. We did get one comment though. They made fun of the shakers as being "pom poms". My retort was something about tradition, and reminding them that UT was a University before California was even a STATE.
vol_in_bigten_land writes:
"If your enemy refuses to be humble, then humble them."
vol_in_bigten_land writes:
Bama fans will slowly start to disappear on this site.
cloudodust writes:
UT-UCLA. Historically, there have been some close games. Prince may find some holes in our secondary but that will be good for the rest of the season. We'll seal those gaps in the weeks ahead and pull off a few surprises. Tennessee wins 27-13.
mbible1utk#324980 writes:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/st...
The unraveling is beginning in Georgia... this was what I expected to happen for the year. They've already given up on Joe Cox, and have started the "whose the starter" shuffle, which we went through last year.
dynasty101 writes:
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DadwasaVol writes:
The national media is interested in ranked teams. We'll get there, but not yet.
gnm53108 writes:
Shouldnt you be busy writing an article?
Oh..lunch break and nobody would buy.
johnlg00 writes:
No blockbuster, but it WAS a hoot!
johnlg00 writes:
I lived in Neptune Beach for a couple of years in the early '70s. There was a houseful of Navy guys living next to me, and those guys REALLY knew how to party! My days in the Jax area left me with some really good memories.
johnlg00 writes:
HA! Stop it, man, you're killing me! I almost blew coffee out my nose reading that; thanks for the laugh!
gnm53108 writes:
Bet you had alot of good times you dont remember either.
ASHVILLVOL writes:
Anyone at the game last week here or notice anything about the open container law like when tailgating that was posted on here in i think jan about how the knox police were going to heavy inforce that this year???Was it just a bluff??Going to the game this week would like some info thanks
bugman (Inactive) writes:
dont motivate drwitchturd it just makes it worse
volzcrushm writes:
HA HA HA, LAUGH MY AZZ OFF!, HEE HEE, SLAP MY KNEE... MAN, U ARE TOOOOO FUNNY. NEXT YOU'LL PROBABLY SAY SOMETHING LIKE....'ALABAMA WILL WIN THE TOILET BOWL!' HA HA HA, HEE HEE, SLAP MY KNEE SOME MORE.... YOU'RE KILLING ME!! :))))
sothernohiovol writes:
CrimsonTidalWave:
UCLA will crush UT and bring you people back to reality. I predict 4 TOs by Crumpton and UCLA to pull away in the second half.
UCLA 34
UT 17
My mom said it best when she was talking about the tide! "the only thing tide is good for is doing laundry!" Gooooooo VOLS!!
calvol writes:
Don't be insulted SCV, "pom pom" is just the word we use for those things out here. Before I left Cali to go to UT, I (like all californians) referred to cooking outside on a grill as "barbeque." It wasn't until I got to Tennessee that I got educated about real BBQ.
Laydbakvol writes:
Enough already. Do you realize there hasn't been a fresh article on this site for the last 7 hours! Please give us something new to read! Anything! (Except another article on Tebow or Bama)
mbible1utk#324980 writes:
Prediction for Bama this week.
Swine Flu strikes Alabama, and in misunderstanding what the swine flu is, Alabama requests that women not attend this weekend's game.
VolinAtlanta writes:
If Tennessee lays 50 on the Bruins this Saturday then the offense is for real and the mighty Gators may need some rolaids for next weeks preparations. Keep in mind that Kiffin has certainly kept most of the cats in their perspective bags and they will stay there for the UCLA game. All will be revealed as they withhold no reservations when they travel to Gainesville. At any rate, UCLA is walking into a snake pit this weekend as Kiffin will have these guys ready to eat rocks. My prediction last week was TN 70 WK 17, my prediction this week TN 38 UCLA 13. Go Vols!!!!
Hounddog writes:
Listen, Mawmaw. Hounddog has never cut and paste a comment on this site. All The Hounddog is trying to do is make sure the Delta Charlies's and other interlopers DO NOT distract the VOLS from doing one thing...concentrate on OUR NEXT OPPOENT!. Sunday morning we had folks on here talking about how bad we were going to beat FL,GA,MS, etc.
Hounddog only wants for everyone to only focus on UCLA or whomever our next oppoent. I have noticed in my 51 years as a VOL that the team tends to listen to the chatter among the fans and if we are talking about something they tend to react accordingly.
I don't know MAWMAW are you still holding your tickets to Pasadena? If you remember we lost to LSU in the SEC chapionship game and never made it to the National Championship game, but all the chatter had us in the NC game.
So, I am sorry if some of you wnat to be critical of someone that is all VOL and you have nothing postive to say. I am sorry you can't see that the overall good is served if we keep or eye on the ball..the next game!
Thanks for sticking up for me Witch Doctor.
*Let's play football. Hounddog.
*NOTE: NO CUT AND PASTE USED IN THIS COMMENT
mbible1utk#324980 writes:
For the slower Bama fans... I will explain in different terms.
Sitting next to an Alabama woman when the swine flu is going around would be like being on the first flight after 9/11 and sitting next to a middle eastern man with a towel wrapped up on their head.
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