Tennessee is playing for the SEC championship next week! I already have four tickets that I bought before I knew whether the East representative would be Tennessee or Georgia. I figured it’d be fun to watch the Tigers whip up on the Puppies if nothing else.
Who’d have thought a month or two about that being a possibility? Not me, certainly. In fact, I have been one of UT coach Phil Fulmer’s harshest critics this season. Among other things:
- I said the program had jumped the shark and lost the confidence of the fan base
- I made a list of ten possible replacements for him.
- I made what would have been an offensive Photoshop image of him if it had actually been remotely creative or funny.
Now that Tennessee’s football team has shown all the toughness and determination in the world to win five straight and cinch a berth in the title game, it’s possible I’ll be eating those words soon. Literally.
If Tennessee beats LSU next week and wins an SEC title, I will print out the following three blog posts and eat them on video, and post that video to YouTube:
- Fire Phil Fulmer groups on Facebook and Myspace (contains the aforementioned Photoshop work)
- 10 candidates to replace Phil Fulmer
- Some points I’d like to make after the Armani Bear['s education of Fulmer]*
You’ll need to give me two or three days after Tennessee wins (if Tennessee wins) to make the video, as I won’t likely have time or energy to do it the day of. I’ll be too busy celebrating!
Regardless of what happens next week, I’m just glad Georgia doesn’t get to play for the title.
Cross-posted to my Rocky Top Talk diary
Ha! That would be awesome.
Just please don’t bring back that crazy skin with the grass and all the other hoohah.
Dammit Rusty, you’re going to make me root for Tennessee just because I want to see you do it.
Hell yeah, I’m rooting for Tennessee. Partly to see Rusty’s video, and partly because Rocky Top contains the following verse which I will never, ever tire of posting:
Once there was a girl on rocky top,
Half bear the other half cat.
Wild as a mink, sweet as soda pop,
I still dream about that.
Go CatBear Girls!!1!
I like this part:
Once two strangers climbed ol’ Rocky Top
Lookin’ for a moonshine still;
Strangers ain’t come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will.
Not only do we have rowdy sex with centaur-like half-bear, half-cat creatures, we kill people when they come lookin’ for our ’shine.
Regardless of what happens next week, I’m just glad Georgia doesn’t get to play for the title.
That’s OK. You can enjoy the Capital One Bowl. I’m looking forward to going to either the Orange Bowl or Rose Bowl.
I knew UT would win that game when my brother (a Knoxville resident working in Oak Ridge) called me BEFORE UK’s field goal attempt. My words were “you’ve just jinxed them” as I heard him recount the block and the return.
Good luck in the SECCG. I think this is the championship no one wants, given both team’s play of late. It may well be the MNC no one wants either, as it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if both Mizzou & WVU found a way to lose. Come to think of it, tOSU might take a loss as well during their bye.
Best way to ensure there’s a playoff soon: get UGA in the title game. That’ll piss folks off enough to fix the damn system.
Don’t know what UT/UK game you were watching, but from my eyes (and half the UT fans in the bar I was at in Kingsport), it looked less like toughness and determination and more like “here, let us hand you our game on a silver platter.” UK just didn’t have the balls to capitalize on it.
That game really was a true case of a team beating themselves and losing a game — not beaten by the other team.
Muse,
35-14, get over it.
Again, on behalf of Bulldogs fans everywhere … thanks again for beating our sleepwalking team that day. It has enabled us to go to either the Rose Bowl or Orange Bowl, of which I’m most grateful.
You can enjoy the bragging rights for now. I look forward to reclaiming them next season.
Oh hell, you can keep the bragging rights. Pasadena or Miami rocks.
I thought that line meant that they found it and either drank themselves to death or decided to set up a thriving community around it.