bobby dodds ghost
Damn Good Rat
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What a beautiful weekend to travel to Nashville. While it rained in Chattanooga and points south, Nashville had great weather the entire weekend. Friday night was spent on Broadway and 2nd Ave. Live music in every nook and cranny. Very clean and very safe city. No bums or punks. Locals and visitors pack the streets for good nightlife atmosphere. Saturday morning was good for sightseeing, and then back downtown for more music/bar hopping. Stayed in the Vanderbilt Embassy Suites, so we took the shuttle over to the stadium at about ten after 5. Shuttle drops us off at the main stadium gate, and if I didnt know the time of the game, I would have sworn that Vandy was playing an away game this weekend. It was the deadest place I have ever seen in all my days of going to college football games.
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There were a few folks here and there. A few tailgaters in a nearby parking lot, but only a few. It seemed that more tech fans were around the stadium than Vandy fans, but with everyone wearing yellow, you had to read hats upclose to tell who was for who.
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Our group decides to go on in and watch the warmups and soak in the beautiful evening sunset. The skies were incredibly colorful and the temp was in the upper 60's. When we get to our seats around 5:30(kickoff was at 6, Nashville time), there were maybe 2 or 3 thousand people in their seats. The small stadium and smaller crowd reminder me of a high school game. It was very quiet and even peaceful in the stadium. Just before kickoff, the stands were still very, very empty...maybe 10,000 folks, with Tech fans numbering 3 or 4 thousand. Tech was well represented for a smallish school with a 1-3 record. Vandy's small band was on the field for the pregame show, and the announcer and cheerleaders are trying to get the small crowd "pumped up". Nothing happened. It was sad. Painful to watch. It was worst than a high school game, because there is excitment at a high school game. This was more like a national chess club jamboree.
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Vandy apparently has the same kind of "Club Seating" scam that Tech is trying to shove down our throats. Their alumni chairback seats were very thin between the 30's. Made me curse Braine all the way up in Nashville.
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Game gets started and looks like Tech is going to take care of business, but as time wore on, we make more and more bad or stupid plays. The few Vandy fans actually start to watch the game. Some actually begin to cheer a little bit. It was like watching someone come out of a coma.
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By the 4th quarter, the Vandy folks are starting to believe that they just might beat Ga. Tech. The few students in attendance are on their feet. Their tiny band is tooting their horns. And their die-hard, tortured fans are shaking their black (yes black) shakers. By the end of the 4th quarter, I had heard just about everything screamed about Gailey, and Gailey's mother, from the surrounding Tech fans. Some must have been really drunk, because they were hollering to put Suggs in. It was a pathetic game to behold. It was back to looking like a high school game again. Penalties, poor execution, poor blocking...poor play and coaching all around. It was going to come down to whoever had the ball last, and who could kick a field goal to end the misery. And that is how regulation ended. But poor old Vandy stepped on its weiner one last time, allowing a low kick to be blocked by the entire Tech line.
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Freshman Ball, who looked horrible most of the night, got the job done in overtime, probably ignoring the called play and taking matters into his own hands. Tech wins, Tech wins, Tech wins....poor Vandy
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You should have seen the looks on the Vandy pain-seekers as they left the stadium. There is not a more wretched group of people in the South. It hurt to see these people leave the stadium. It reminded me of Tech fans in a small way, but greatly magnified. Why do they do it? Their love of school damns them.
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Tech should have lost this game, and poor Vandy deserved to win it.
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Tech will lose most of their games from here. Maybe win 1 or 2 more. They are thin, and have lost focus. Gailey's mom needs to stay as far away from the stadium as possible.
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BOO
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There were a few folks here and there. A few tailgaters in a nearby parking lot, but only a few. It seemed that more tech fans were around the stadium than Vandy fans, but with everyone wearing yellow, you had to read hats upclose to tell who was for who.
.
Our group decides to go on in and watch the warmups and soak in the beautiful evening sunset. The skies were incredibly colorful and the temp was in the upper 60's. When we get to our seats around 5:30(kickoff was at 6, Nashville time), there were maybe 2 or 3 thousand people in their seats. The small stadium and smaller crowd reminder me of a high school game. It was very quiet and even peaceful in the stadium. Just before kickoff, the stands were still very, very empty...maybe 10,000 folks, with Tech fans numbering 3 or 4 thousand. Tech was well represented for a smallish school with a 1-3 record. Vandy's small band was on the field for the pregame show, and the announcer and cheerleaders are trying to get the small crowd "pumped up". Nothing happened. It was sad. Painful to watch. It was worst than a high school game, because there is excitment at a high school game. This was more like a national chess club jamboree.
.
Vandy apparently has the same kind of "Club Seating" scam that Tech is trying to shove down our throats. Their alumni chairback seats were very thin between the 30's. Made me curse Braine all the way up in Nashville.
.
Game gets started and looks like Tech is going to take care of business, but as time wore on, we make more and more bad or stupid plays. The few Vandy fans actually start to watch the game. Some actually begin to cheer a little bit. It was like watching someone come out of a coma.
.
By the 4th quarter, the Vandy folks are starting to believe that they just might beat Ga. Tech. The few students in attendance are on their feet. Their tiny band is tooting their horns. And their die-hard, tortured fans are shaking their black (yes black) shakers. By the end of the 4th quarter, I had heard just about everything screamed about Gailey, and Gailey's mother, from the surrounding Tech fans. Some must have been really drunk, because they were hollering to put Suggs in. It was a pathetic game to behold. It was back to looking like a high school game again. Penalties, poor execution, poor blocking...poor play and coaching all around. It was going to come down to whoever had the ball last, and who could kick a field goal to end the misery. And that is how regulation ended. But poor old Vandy stepped on its weiner one last time, allowing a low kick to be blocked by the entire Tech line.
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Freshman Ball, who looked horrible most of the night, got the job done in overtime, probably ignoring the called play and taking matters into his own hands. Tech wins, Tech wins, Tech wins....poor Vandy
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You should have seen the looks on the Vandy pain-seekers as they left the stadium. There is not a more wretched group of people in the South. It hurt to see these people leave the stadium. It reminded me of Tech fans in a small way, but greatly magnified. Why do they do it? Their love of school damns them.
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Tech should have lost this game, and poor Vandy deserved to win it.
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Tech will lose most of their games from here. Maybe win 1 or 2 more. They are thin, and have lost focus. Gailey's mom needs to stay as far away from the stadium as possible.
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BOO
