Everyone has their own interpretation of what the Big Game is, well here at Registered Evil, we have our own Big Game….
And in great anticipation of this, I have launched a poll on who our readers think will win. You will find the poll in the right hand column of this page, so get your battle faces on, and Vote for your choice!
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…Of the University of Tennessee’s Pride of the Southland Band.
I’ve admitted before I was a marching band nerd.
Maybe its just me, but nothing spells college football to me quite like a Marching Band.
keep your hot dogs. Keep your tail gate. When I hear the drum cadence start,and the brass blare for me it is football time in Tennessee.
Ya’ll know I love my Vols.
You also know I love the fella’s over at Rocky Top Talk.
Well they recently sent out a quest for volunteers to give them a hand and you know I had to throw my name in that hat figuring “Hell, why not.”
And as Eric would say, rubberneckers let me tell you I was selected. I guess they figured they could not get a more Vol obsessed lunatic, even if he lives in another state. But whatever the reason I am honored.
Now I ain’t doing anything huge. I’m doing a very small thing over there. Just watching for leads for the main writers, but its still awesome just the same. These fella’s are the know-all’s of Knoxville insofar as I am concerned. The most calm, rational and straight forward reporting you get out of the area.
So a chance to work with them, even as tiny as what I’ll be doing, is very cool.
So keep yer eyes peeled over at RTT folks. I’ll be cross posting stuff here as I always do, but I’m happy to say they are letting me be part of the show.
Priceless….
Vengeance is mine, so sayeth Google.
If your trapped at work, you can catch the game with a group of us at Rocky Top Talk.
Also there are links to the Games Internet Broadcast, Audio and Internet Live Stats (A quiet, low key way to keep track of the game without disturbing your co-workers. ……….who the hell cares what they think ITS THE VOLS!!!!! 
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Hopefully I’ll see you there!
Thursday should be interesting.
Those readers who have known me for an extensive amount of time know I used to play basketball. County Rec, but basketball nonetheless.
Those readers who are newer or whom have met me in the past few years are probably laughing hysterically by now.
I have found that many people who participated in a sport have a hard time watching it on TV. Ergo I can watch football because I did not play it. I can not watch basketball because I did.
I will be watching Thursday however.
There are few schools I hate more than LSU. We have a great rivalry with ‘Bama and with Florida, but it is LSU who holds a special place in my heart as a institution I wish to see smoked so severely on a scoreboard that they give their Tiger to the SPCA, and hitchike back home in the dead of night.
How many times have we played LSU in football for the SEC Championship only to have our dreams crushed by a bunch of boozing purple wearing heathens who can’t even speak proper Southern English?
Shall I name the years?
How about 2001? Final score LSU 31 Tennessee 20.
2007? LSU 21 Tennessee 14
Both of those years I was on assignment far from home. Both of those years I took the ribbing of those passer by’s as I stood decked in my Orange and White ready to see our boys rally to the end zone and silence the blasphemy that was being spoken in my ears by so-called friends who were of course rooting for LSU. Both times I was the sole Volunteer amidst the purple masses. It’s like being a orange dropped in to a bowl of grape jello.
Did I mention that my current boss is a LSU graduate? Those whom have seen my office space know that it is rarely without Orange and White in some definition.
LSU versus Tennessee. We have to win, dammit. Not just because it’s LSU but because Bruce and the boys have worked their kiesters off.
It ain’t football. But its all I have.
Every good tailgater knows that there are two things that must happen to have an awesome tail gate: Planning and Preparation.
Every fan knows that, the special room you have set aside to show your loyalty, must also have two things: Planning and Preparation.
For those of us whom live many miles from our beloved favorite/home teams location sometimes both of these items present quite a challenge.
Decorations are hard to come by. Knick knacks your opponents have are not so easily obtained.
One need only refer to myself and OfficerT’s frequent tailgates to see the difference.
He brings two tents with Arkansas Razorback markings, a grill painted red, a propane tank cover, numerous chairs, plates, cups, glasses, silverware and even a helmet to stick chips in.
I bring a beer glass, a bottle opener that plays Rocky Top and the Barbecue Utensils with UT stamped on them.
Its not that I don’t own UT stuff.
Ask anyone whom has worked with me and they’ll tell you I’m…well…obsessed
However it’s just not as easy, nor as logical to purchase some items I would use….such as a tent. It might get used once every 4 years when we play Arkansas. The rest of the time would merely earn me odd looks.
However I have found someplace, my fellow displaced fans, that will let you buy pretty much anything you could ask for….and then some.
Allow me to show you Fan The Fire.
It is Tennessee fan nirvana.
From ties, to cufflinks, from tents, to plates, towels to vehicle floor mats, it literally has everything.
I am told they have stuff for other schools as well.
But seriously…….who’d want something with Vandy on it when you could own this??
I am going to be sooooo ready for October……
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