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longlinergirl wrote:GOOOOOOO CANES!!!!!!

Wayne man = Cane fan

cabinfever wrote:two words: ROLL TIDE!!!!!!

I live in michigan and have been a bama fan since I was 3. Two seasons from now I will be taking the trip to Mecca(for me anyway). I have a cousin that goes to the cow college on the other side of the state...

Roll Tide back at you, Crimson Brother! I live four miles from Bryant Denny Stadium and haven't missed a home game in seven years. Times have been rough recently, and everytime I think things are headed in the right direction, we're hit with another scandal. Last year, anything that could go wrong did. I think Shula has got what it takes to get us headed in the right direction. But, with the NCAA sanctions, it may take a little while, and patience isn't something we Bama fans are known for.

If you're looking for a good Alabama discussion board, check out Tidefans.com. It's kinda dead right now, but this fall, the discussion there will really heat up! And, once the season starts, if you check the "Bama News" forum daily, you'll never miss any Alabama related news. A link to just about every article written about Alabama football is posted there during the season.

By the way, Coach Shula is a parrtohead. An article in a local magazine here mentioned that he met Jimmy on the sideline during a Dolphins game when he was in high school (when he was a ball boy when his dad was coaching the Dolphins). He said he had followed him ever sense. He has a Margaritaville mousepad in his football office and has been to eight concerts.

Hey, folks -

Found myself watching arena football today just to see who I might remember from their college days and also because NASCAR and Golf were my other two choices - Such a miserable sports time of year!

Hamilton from Georgia Tech was QBing for the Orlando Predators. That was about all I could make out!

Who else is playing arena that you really thought would be in the NFL instead?

CU Parrot, my father in law played OL and Dl for FSU back in the late 50s, his name is Leo Baggett. He played with Lee Corso and Burt (buddy) Reynolds as well as a bunch of other names that only old Nole fans would know. I am actually 3rd generation seminole as my grandmother went there when it was still FSCW. Both of my parents also graduated from there, my father was an all american swimmer.

Longliner girl, maybe with y'all losing so many 1st rounders we have a shot this year, i'm honestly suprised the games have been as close as they have since the Noles have not had the same talent level as evidenced by the NFL draft.

Hey Tailgate --

Yep the "neon" is back. It isn't the green-ish yellow it is "HEY DID YOU FORGET YOUR SUNGLASSES YELLOW." Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, has the right to change the uniforms every few years to sell more merchandise. Guess you could call my school "Univeristy of Nike at Eugene."

I am trying to get Fenway tickets for either show and I'd love to go to the Penn State/BC game. I used to live in Boston and went to many BC games. However, I hate to admit it, but the Big East Football Conf. wan't much fun -- at least not up in Beantown. It was great seeing Major Harris from WVU or when the Vols came to town (the stadium was all orange) but the BC crowd wasn't my favorite... not bad, just not great. I was used to huge stadiums with HUGE tailgates.

Windnot --

I love Lee Corso! As I said earlier I can't miss College Game Day -- and I laugh each time he puts on the silly hat. I have a tape of the only time he went to Eugene and he looks great with the Donald Duck head.

Only three and a half month until Fall practice!!!

Football, couldn't wait for this topic to be brought up. My wife is a die hard Hokie somebody's gotta like them and I am a diehard Vol if my pic didn't give it away already. I wear all my Tennessee stuff to Tech games and vice versa for her when we go to Knoxville. As much as I hate the Hokies I do respect them and behave myself at the 4 plus games we go to each year. Everyone in the section we set in knows us well and knows how big of a Vol fan I am so I get some friendly trash talk. Besides Neyland Stadium which got so loud during the Arkansas game two years ago I thought my ears were going to pop, Lane Stadium is pretty dang loud since they added the new end zone a couple of years ago. We sit in section 20 right next to it and my ears pay for it the next morning. Hey tailgate lady if there are any tech games your not going to this year pm me and we could work something out on your tickets.

Alan11 wrote: Everyone in the section we set in...

Up there layin' eggs, are ya?

Must be true love as your lovely bride seems to have married beneath her Hokie roots!! Just focus on your shared affection for Orange.

I'll be sure to let folks here know if I have extra tickets. They are rare with Hokies!!

I agree with your assessment of Lane Stadium/Worsham Field. It's louder than its size would seem to allow!

Glad to have found others with a college football "sickness!"

hikingontuesday wrote:Hey Tailgate --


I am trying to get Fenway tickets for either show and I'd love to go to the Penn State/BC game. I used to live in Boston and went to many BC games. However, I hate to admit it, but the Big East Football Conf. wan't much fun -- at least not up in Beantown. It was great seeing Major Harris from WVU or when the Vols came to town (the stadium was all orange) but the BC crowd wasn't my favorite... not bad, just not great. I was used to huge stadiums with HUGE tailgates.

Windnot --

Only three and a half month until Fall practice!!!

I was so pumped to go to BC the first time I went to see Tech play there. I had visions of grandeur from the Flutie days. Chestnut Hill is beautiful but that stadium, field and overall football setting were awful. Get some real grass!! Then that mascot - fork over some bucks for something without a paper mache head! And as for the band..... At first I thought the hippos from Fantasia were making a guest appearance. Then I realized it was just their dance squad.

The fans were not my favorite either and I didn't find them to be particularly knowledgeable or good "twelfth men." Add to that, it's the first time I've ever been "nearly arrested" by a campus "wannabe" cop for trying to sell a ticket for face value!! That's a story for another time.

PLEASE do not judge the Big East by your BC experience. I found it atypical.

Needless to say, I'll be cheering for the Nittany Lions come Sept just because.....

(To all BC fans - no need to bust my chops - I know you don't agree with my assessment, but a girl's entitled to her opinion, no matter how flawed! )

Tailgate-Lady wrote:

Alan11 wrote: Everyone in the section we set in...

Up there layin' eggs, are ya?

Must be true love as your lovely bride seems to have married beneath her Hokie roots!! Just focus on your shared affection for Orange.

I'll be sure to let folks here know if I have extra tickets. They are rare with Hokies!!

I agree with your assessment of Lane Stadium/Worsham Field. It's louder than its size would seem to allow!

Glad to have found others with a college football "sickness!"

Thanks you remind me of the other hokie fans we set with at the games. Little friendly trash talk but in the end we are all friends until they play each other lol. If Tech plays Tennessee which could happen since the Peach Bowl is SEC/ACC then all that is thrown out the window for just one day Your right about the tickets I hear stories all the time about people not being able to find Tech tickets, knock on wood the only game I have been shut out on was the Miami game last year. The most fun I ever had at a Tech game was last year in the Isabel bowl against A & M. If you have never been may I suggest to you Tailgate and all the other college football parrotheads out there a trip to Neyland Stadium in Knoxville. I have had the pleasure of going there twice and might I say doing in the Hokie Pokie at the start of the 4th quarter is fun, but nothing beats 108,000 people singing Rocky Top in unison. Good night til tomorrow.

Alan11 wrote:

Tailgate-Lady wrote:

Alan11 wrote: Everyone in the section we set in...

Up there layin' eggs, are ya?

Must be true love as your lovely bride seems to have married beneath her Hokie roots!! Just focus on your shared affection for Orange.

I'll be sure to let folks here know if I have extra tickets. They are rare with Hokies!!

I agree with your assessment of Lane Stadium/Worsham Field. It's louder than its size would seem to allow!

Glad to have found others with a college football "sickness!"

but nothing beats 108,000 people singing Rocky Top in unison. Good night til tomorrow.

You need to go back to page 1 and look at posts 2 - 5 or so. Mr. Roberts was the first Vol on board!! That way, I won't repeat myself.

While the A&M Game was fun, the Miami game was incredible. Of course, the season took a dive after that but it was still a great night.

And - I like your UT hound! I'm a sucker for a bright faced, hound dog. Come to think of it, that kinda explains my first husband!

Speaking of tickets from an earlier post you had, I got an email yesterday from a guy on the tech board saying Wake Forest tickets were available for 40.00 through the Deacons ticket office. I think we will add that to our road trip this year along with going to UNC to get a different perspective of watching tech play. Also found out today that I get to pick between Florida, Alabama or Notre Dame this year for my one UT game, decisions, decisions, I am leaning towards ND but I really freaking hate the Gators so I have pleanty of time to decide which game to go to. I sure as heck wish that all my football ticket connections were parrotheads because if that was the case I could never miss a buffett show on the east coast One thing I want to do this year is go back to a bowl game, we went to Vick's last game in the Gator Bowl when Tech killed Clemson in 2001 and that was a blast. If was so funny to hear the locals complain about it being 40 and cold. I was walking around with my sleeves rolled up saying anything beats the 2 above it was in blacksburg before we left lol

Alan11 wrote:One thing I want to do this year is go back to a bowl game, we went to Vick's last game in the Gator Bowl when Tech killed Clemson in 2001 and that was a blast. If was so funny to hear the locals complain about it being 40 and cold. I was walking around with my sleeves rolled up saying anything beats the 2 above it was in blacksburg before we left lol

Did you happen to make it to this year's Peach Bowl, by any chance?

40 *is* cold, BTW....brrrrrr.

GO TIGERS!!

Did you happen to make it to this year's Peach Bowl, by any chance?

40 *is* cold, BTW....brrrrrr.

GO TIGERS!!
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No i didn't I had the unfortunate pleasure of watching that crappy excuse of a game on TV. Tennessee as usual didn't show up because it was a bowl game they didn't want to be in. The way ya'll played it wouldn't have mattered anyway, Tennessee didn't have a chance in you know where to begin with. The Tigers completely dominated them in all aspects just like Maryland did the year before.

You must have been the one I ran into in Jacksonville with the case of hot chocolate in their hands before the game started then The Clemson fans we met down there were some of the nicest people you ever want to talk football with. Ya'll would be in the same class as the A&M and LSU fans were, very classy, extremely polite and gracious in defeat.

Heck my wife and myself were happy when we got to Florida that the temperature was out of single digits. When we left Blacksburg that morning to leave it was 2 above with a windchill of at least 5 below because it took stinking forever for our rental car to warm up. We hit Florida and it is 45 and we are in heaven at the time, you would have thought the two of us were in Hawaii on the beach that day.

Alan11 wrote:You must have been the one I ran into in Jacksonville with the case of hot chocolate in their hands before the game started then The Clemson fans we met down there were some of the nicest people you ever want to talk football with. Ya'll would be in the same class as the A&M and LSU fans were, very classy, extremely polite and gracious in defeat.

Heck my wife and myself were happy when we got to Florida that the temperature was out of single digits. When we left Blacksburg that morning to leave it was 2 above with a windchill of at least 5 below because it took stinking forever for our rental car to warm up. We hit Florida and it is 45 and we are in heaven at the time, you would have thought the two of us were in Hawaii on the beach that day.

Nope, actually, I missed that one, but I was at the Gator in 1996 when we had our a$$es handed to us by Syracuse. It was cold that day, too--and rainy. Talk about a crapy excuse for a game.

You Vols fans aren't too bad, either.

My father-in-law is from Pulaski (and is about to retire to the area)--we went up that way for Thanksgiving two years ago and it was FREEEEZING and snowing.....a lot different than it was down here in S.C. at the time....

Alan11 wrote:Speaking of tickets from an earlier post you had, I got an email yesterday from a guy on the tech board saying Wake Forest tickets were available for 40.00 through the Deacons ticket office. I think we will add that to our road trip this year along with going to UNC to get a different perspective of watching tech play. Also found out today that I get to pick between Florida, Alabama or Notre Dame this year for my one UT game, decisions, decisions, I am leaning towards ND but I really freaking hate the Gators so I have pleanty of time to decide which game to go to. I sure as heck wish that all my football ticket connections were parrotheads because if that was the case I could never miss a buffett show on the east coast One thing I want to do this year is go back to a bowl game, we went to Vick's last game in the Gator Bowl when Tech killed Clemson in 2001 and that was a blast. If was so funny to hear the locals complain about it being 40 and cold. I was walking around with my sleeves rolled up saying anything beats the 2 above it was in blacksburg before we left lol

WFU Game - I raised my niece well. She married a fellow whose father is the dean of student affairs at Wake. There's my ticket source and we will see you there!!

No question - FLORIDA - I would take any opportunity to cheer against them.

My favorite cold game was a night game vs. Syracuse when McNabb was there. It was 2 degrees with a 16 below windchill. Wild fun!

CU - You should know that the same nephew-in-law's good friend works at Clemson, runs the dorms or some such - so I'm in on that ticket connection as well

And I was at that same Gator Bowl - cold? Please!

Thanks for backing me up Tailgate on the Gator Bowl

I think we are leaning towards the FLA game too. I have been told by my UT ticket source that as cordial and polite Vol fans when FLA comes to town that is all thrown out the window and it can get nasty.

If I don't see you at the Wake game I will let you know where our parking is going to be this year. My father in law has the tickets and whatever games he passes on we get them. He has super seats section 20 about 6 rows from the field. I will talk with you and the other Hokie and Vol parrotheads on here before the season starts, but I will be one of the first fans in the parking lot with the Virginia Parrothead license plates Is it August yet ?

Allen, I can share lots of stories about "cordial and polite" gator fans

My best example of gator fans is when when my best buddy was dating Miss UF, I sat with her family at the Miss Florida pagent and when Miss FSU was introduced the whole family booed her! I turned to the girl next to me and said something along the lines of "get a little class it's a beauty pagent, not a football game"

many gator fans cannot seperate themselves from the game and behave this way out of habit.

Hikingontuesday, Corso is pretty cool, i've met him a couple times at my father in laws reunion weekends. Burt is actually very nice but looks terrible in person, to many facelifts. There is another famous guy from their bunch that played, he was the principal in the movie Breakfast Club. I think it is Paul something??? He shows up at the get togethers also.

Well, please tell Lee and "The Bandit" a Duck Fan says hello!


As for the Bowl Games. I saw a Cotton Bowl game one year with freezing rain and snow. On top of that Colorado kicked our butts.

I've been to the past four Fiesta Bowl games here in Tempe, and they are great! Oregon State beating Notre Dame, my Oregon Ducks beating Colorado *** (revenge is sweet), and the BEST GAME EVER -- Ohio State beating Miami in double overtime. I had the fortune of seeing the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, but I think that the Buckeye win over Miami was my best sports moment. I just loved it.

*** Personally I think Oregon should have been playing Miami at the Rose Bowl for the National Championship instead of Nebraska. They had two conference losses, we only had one. Darn West Coast Bias.

Tailgate -- I agree 100% with your views on the BC experience. It was a tough nine years living in New England and being a college football fan. I talked to my BC/Penn State friends and they will have tickets to the game. Now all I need is to score Jimmy tix for Fenway.

hikingontuesday wrote:Personally I think Oregon should have been playing Miami at the Rose Bowl for the National Championship instead of Nebraska. They had two conference losses, we only had one. Darn West Coast Bias.

Just a quick correction--Nebraska only had one loss.

But even as a Nebraska fan, I'll agree that Oregon should have been in that game. NU's loss was absolutely embarrassing and exposed a lot of holes. They had one great player, but very rarely is that enough to make a championship team. Oregon definitely would've had a better shot in that Rose Bowl, although I still think the Canes would've won. That team was just scary good.