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Posted on June 29 at 12:15 p.m.
That lick on Fanuzzi is still vivid in my mind. I could remember it wrong but I think Fanuzzi was a southpaw and the right offensive side was his blind side. He setup in the pocket and didn't move. McCartney came free and the reason it was such a devastating hit is that everybody in the stadium could see it coming for two or three seconds , that is everyone except for Fanuzzi. A good clean hit and Fanuzzi went down so fast he couldn't fumble. I think the ball rolled out harmlessly after he was down. It is still to this day, the hardest hit I have seen at Neyland.
Posted on May 26 at 10:35 a.m.
Good food for thought John. You are doing your job and the hacks on this blog that criticize you for doing it, are entitled to their opinion. They're just not very smart.
Posted on May 16 at 9:03 a.m.
There was a game against Georgia Tech when Holloway made two touchdown runs within just a few minutes of each other that were two of the most spectacular runs I have seen in football at any level. Condredge was something else
Posted on May 1 at 3:29 p.m.
My wife won't go to Gainesville anymore, so I'm looking for someone else to share my tickets if, like he did last year, my son doesn't come down from Tennessee to join me. I'll be damned if I'll be intimidated by those p$%%*#s even tho I'm getting a little long in the tooth to battle with them. And I have found the way to make them humble is whip 'em like we did twice when Casey (what a great road dog he was) beat 'em in 01 and 03 and they just slither back into the swamp. It's by far the most satisfying road win because of all their false bravado.
On Mattingly: Thrown into battle with Battle, young Vols whipped odds in 1970
Posted on April 30 at 10:19 a.m.
The mules and horses comment from Kiner, when told that "some people think Ole Miss has some horses this year," and Kiner said, "some people can't tell horses from mules."
You might be scared at Gainesville, Vol Fan, but put off would be more like it. They are without a doubt, the worst hosts of college football that I have ever encountered. I live down here and have made every UT/UF game since '97 and they are the lousiest sports fans I've ever run into anywhere.
On Mattingly: Thrown into battle with Battle, young Vols whipped odds in 1970
Posted on April 28 at 2:10 p.m.
One more thing. I went down to that first game in Auburn in '74. Worst licking I ever saw a Tennessee team take. Crossed midfield once all day when Auburn was in a prevent defense just before halftime. I'll bet we didn't have five first downs in the game. After the half, all Vol personnel, including coaches and trainers wore helmets to protect themselves from objects, bottles mostly, being thrown from the stands. I have a special loathing in my heart for Auburn from that day and that loathing has not been soothed for a number of years now. I think it's time we kicked their ass.
On Mattingly: Thrown into battle with Battle, young Vols whipped odds in 1970
Posted on April 28 at 2:03 p.m.
Great memories and good posts. Sullivan got his name on the map when he repeatedly hit Dick Schmaltz (I think the game was in Knoxville) to win in 1972. Later that year, in, I think, the next to the last game of the regular season, undefeated Georgia ran out on undefeated Auburn, 14-0 at halftime but before a national TV audience, Sullivan led them back to win 28-14 (This is all from memory so I could be off on some details) with Georgia rushers hanging all over him as he completed pass after pass. That same day, Ed Marinaro, the country's leading rusher at Cornell and Sullivan's chief competitor for the Heisman, (later was an actor on Hill Street Blues) failed to get 100 yards for possibly the fist time of the season. The Heisman voting came after that weekend. Timing, then, as now, is everything.
After a fashion, I was glad to get Auburn off our schedule. Alabama was the big game, but Auburn cost us dearly in 70 and 72 and won five close games in that era, kinda like Florida has now, beating us early in the season. Old Vols in that era will tell you that Auburn was the hardest hitting game of the year during that era.
On Mattingly: Thrown into battle with Battle, young Vols whipped odds in 1970
Posted on April 24 at 9:28 a.m.
Spurrier hasn't had that fertile recruing ground that easily stocked three championship caliber college teams year in and year out, and sent other players all over the country. But more importantly he hasn't had Bob Stoops, who was his DC during most of the years of his dominance in Gainesville. Since Stoops left, not so much dominance and we all know Steve doesn't have much to do at all with the D. I give him two more years of being bloodied by us Florida and Georgia and then he'll play golf full time.
Posted on April 21 at 10:22 a.m.
Thanks Need 2 Very nice award for Crompton and did not mean to slight the young man in any way. You're right. KNS could have added "for academic excellence" or some other qualifying statement for those of us 600 miles away.
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Posted on July 6 at 8:50 p.m.
My favorite Dewey Warren story was when he was told by Dickey to keep it on the ground late in a game. But in the huddle after a little goading by his teammates to "hum that tater" Dewey pronounced, "Button up your chinstraps boys, we're going topside." It was also my recollection that Petrella was blindsided by a forearm thrown by a UCLA player who stepped off the sideline and hit Petrella very hard breaking his jaw on his run as the gun sounded. A melee ensued with both benches emptying. For years, when Tennessee had an open date, on Sunday in the place of the Doug Dickey or the Bill Battle or the Johnny Majors show, they would air the replay of the 65 Tennessee UCLA classic. And George Mooney was the play by play man.
And Ronnie Milsap put on the best live rock and roll nightclub show I've ever seen. At the Thunderbird in Memphis and for three weeks in 1970 at the King of the Road in Nashville.
On Mattingly: Vols, Bruins produced a classic in '65