I have a ton of respect for you for taking care of a hound. We have neighbors who got a hound without understanding the breed. They got in waaay over their heads and the poor lass is so bored she can hardly stand it.

…man, he’s a beauty!

Arrrrooooooohhhhhh! Arrrrooooooooohhhhhh!

Someone else who has VHS’s from years back. I actually have all the games taped from 89-03. Thats right all of them, and i have a few assorted before that including 85 sugar bowl which contains some of the best headshot photos i have ever seen when showing starting line-ups.

I have to say i have a weakness for watching 1991 Notre dame. It’s so lovely to see Lou all upset when he was in his prime.

over the top, yeah that’s me. my truck has at least twenty Vol’s related emblems( more on game day) outside and in. game day attire includes Big Orange socks, boxers, t-shirt, bandana, hat, jersey (orange or white, depending on where we are playing) , but NEVER orange pants! i have 36 versions of Rocky Top on my mp3 (in honor of my grandfather- #36, 1940-1941 &‘45-48). i place my hands on my pappa’s original jersey (complete with Shields-Watkins dirt stains) before each game. i yell at old games replayed as if they are live. embarrassed? not a chance. my wife, on the other hand…

On Fridays before a game, I have UT scrubs that I wear to work. Right now, I’m working at a hospital about 25 miles from Columbia, SC so that doesn’t go over too well. But I don’t care.

On gameday I wear a jersey (every season, I buy a new one to represent a new start. This year’s is #14. Go figure.) and a black UT hat that I bought in 1997 (one week before the start of the best season ever). Other clothes vary but those two remain the same. I don’t wash the jersey unless we lose. The hat has never been washed. Every Saturday I have a brand new bottle of JD which gets a pull before the kickoff and after every score. If I’m at Neyland I carry a plastic flask for said occasions and if I’m at a public establishment I still take the shots, just not from my bottle. Obviously, these methods aren’t foolproof but atleast I feel like I’m contributing.

and by the way. That’s some purty hound dog you got there. Can’t wait to have mine.

I live in London and work near the heart of the City. I can’t really be sporting my Volunteer gear even on Fridays – if we had dress down Fridays. But I can accessorise with orange. Right now I’m wearing a lovely linen pashmina type scarf in, you guessed it, Tennessee orange. I have orange blouses,orange silk scarves and an orange designer wrist watch.

It doesn’t hurt that my company uses orange in a lot of its corporate branding – some people think I’m being a loyal employee. Nah…part of the reason I chose to work where I do is because of all the orange.

Guilty – not a bit. But it is sometimes a secret pleasure.

My guilty pleasure is making all my colleagues hear about Tennessee football on Monday mornings.

Well, first there’s the frightening orange plaid pajamas. It’s the Official Blogging Uniform. An orange, white, and black UT tie gets worn on Fridays before game days for The Other Day Job Uniform.

And I have every game going back to whenever, too. The last couple of years are just on a MyBook hard drive; before those, I went to the trouble of burning DVDs. Then there’s a stack of dusty VHSs. They don’t go back much more than 2000 or so, though.

I have subscriptions to all of the Vol sites, media guides on file, and my computer, well, let’s just say full.

One I’ve really missed for several years — until my wife and kids found it at Food City this week — is Mayfield Dairy’s Rocky Top flavor of ice cream. It’s essentially Rocky Road, but instead of chocolate covered nutty things, they have orange white chocolate-ish covered somethings. Mayfield does everything well, and the flavor is fantastic. The glorious bright orange carton with Growling Smokey on it is just the icing on the . . . ice cream.

I don’t think Hooper or Joel would approve. ;-)

so…

• Blogging at work
• Oreos, Sangria, eating an entire pizza in one sitting
• Making fun of people who can’t spell (Cruel maybe. Honest? You betcha!)
• Putting together the work schedule

Very cool. I tried to convince my wife of getting a bluetick, but they are pretty hard to come by here in the Rockies, so we adopted a hound mix from a rescue clinic, and promptly named him Peyton.

Go Vols!