Home and Home Jerseys for Tennessee / South Carolina: the Biggest Halloween Party in the Country
by Hooper on Oct 26, 2009 9:15 AM EDT
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UPDATE: Ok, this was intended to be a plea to have this happen. This is NOT a breaking report that this has actually happened. But hey, I'm glad that Gamecock fans are on board with the idea! --Hooper
So we tried to get home and home jersey going for the Third Saturday in October, and somebody down south didn't like the idea. Moving on. This week, we have a rare night game. At home. On Halloween. With the home team sporting orange and the away team carrying an alternate all-black home uniform.
Please make this happen.
We haven't seen a home-and-home game yet in the SEC, and there obviously aren't many schools willing to do it. Tennessee has already shown interest in the idea, and now they can take it one step further by granting it on their home turf. This would make for one awesome party in Neyland Stadium as both teams take the field in Orange and Black.
This is the ESPN Game of the Night.
Not to be confused with GameDay, but it's kind of a big deal. Televisions will have it on nationally. And take a look at the games that will be on at the same time:
- Eastern Michigan Eagles (0-7) at Arkansas Razorbacks (3-4) ESPNU
- Mississippi St. Bulldogs (3-5) at Kentucky Wildcats (4-3) ESPN GamePlan
- Kansas St. Wildcats (5-3) at Oklahoma Sooners (4-3) Regional
- Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks (4-3) at Troy Trojans (5-2) Regional
- New Mexico Lobos (0-7) at San Diego St. Aztecs (3-4) Regional
- Washington St. Cougars (1-6) at Notre Dame Fighting Irish (5-2) NBC, natch.
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (7-1) at Vanderbilt Commodores (2-6) ESPN GamePlan
- South Carolina Gamecocks (6-2) at Tennessee Volunteers (3-4) ESPN
- Tulane Green Wave (2-5) at LSU Tigers (6-1) ESPN GamePlan
- Michigan St. Spartans (4-4) at Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-4) Big Ten Network
- Texas Longhorns (7-0) at Oklahoma St. Cowboys (6-1) Regional
- Wyoming Cowboys (4-3) at Utah Utes (6-1) Regional
- USC Trojans (6-1) at Oregon Ducks (6-1) Regional
Thanks to the ESPN/SEC contract, the only two games of national interest (Texas/OSU and USC/Oregon) are regional coverages (as of the typing of this post). Even if one or both of those get picked up on national broadcasts, the Tennessee / South Carolina game is one of the better ones available.
It's great for recruiting.
This will be fun. Tennessee should have a lot of recruits on official visits. Show them that the team and the stadium are all about having a great time (along with competing to win, of course).
It will sell.
Advertise Neyland Stadium as the biggest Halloween party in the country - maybe even the world. You'll be accurate.
Just please: do it.
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Not to mention.....
….Jesse Scroggins is supposed to be visiting this game….
I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS
by VolBrian on Oct 26, 2009 9:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I would love to see this
But something tells me that Spurrier would say no just to pee in our cheerios if for no other reason.
by Muhler on Oct 26, 2009 10:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
OK, I was all for the wearing-orange-at-Bama...
… but wearing alternate uniforms for a holiday just seems kind of gimmicky to me.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 26, 2009 10:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
It wouldn't be us wearing the alternate uniforms
And it doesn’t seem gimmicky to be unless the alternate uniforms themselves are gimmicky. Since this would just involve each team wearing their home colors, no problem. Also awesome if they can pull it off.
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 26, 2009 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clarification
I am all for teams wearing whatever uniforms they want (preferably home colors) in all games, now that nobody outside the state of Alabama is watching on black & white TV sets anymore.
I just think it’s a little silly to say, “Hey, let’s wear orange and black because it’s Halloween!” for an SEC football game.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 26, 2009 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, sure, it's silly.
And I love silly. ;-)
by Hooper on Oct 26, 2009 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
A far better use of our time and energy, in my opinion...
… would be to protest the decision to have the Halloween game at night. I know TV money makes the (football) world go ’round, and it is only those of us with kids of a trick-or-treating age who even notice, but I was very disappointed to find out last week that we were going to be the ESPN night game.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 26, 2009 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There is a point to that.
There are going to be a lot of empty houses and dark porch lights that night in Knoxville.
by Hooper on Oct 26, 2009 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And we are but one Vol-fan family...
… but I have a friend from college in town this week with his family. We were hoping to all go to the game (if it had been an afternoon kickoff) and then take the kids trick-or-treating, so I was looking into the price for 7 tickets together (in the neighborhood of $450 from the box office, by the way. Ouch!)
But the 7:45 kickoff means we will be watching on TV instead.
Again, I realize that most fans don’t have this problem and ESPN doesn’t care about it anyway, but I just wanted to register my displeasure.
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 26, 2009 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it's somewhat standard
For towns to change the trick-or-treat date if it falls on a Friday or Saturday so that the kids don’t have to compete with drunks on the road. Don’t know if your town does this.
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 26, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
huh.
I’d never heard that one before.
by Hooper on Oct 26, 2009 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Me neither.
My town being Knoxville, I tend to doubt it although I do know that some churches have Halloween in their parking lots so kids don’t have to wander around on potentially dangerous streets. Seems weird to me, to encourage our kids to take candy from the trunks of strangers’s cars, but I guess everything is OK at God’s house…
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 26, 2009 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Unless it becomes a yearly tradition
I wouldn’t mind us doing this every year at our place and theirs if it could be on or as close to Halloween as possible and a night game. Call it the Pumpkin Bowl or something
I told you we would beat Georgia!! Now, as for those 9 wins in '09......
I got bored and made a blog!! SCS
by VolBrian on Oct 26, 2009 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I must admit: I was surprised to see that getting so many votes.
Are we being swamped by Gamecock fans on this one?
by Hooper on Oct 26, 2009 12:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We're being swamped by
past performance: we’re 0 for our last 5 in orange pants, and haven’t won in them since 1999, an awe-inspiring 17-16 last minute win over Tiger High in Knoxville.
…they still look awesome.
by Will on Oct 26, 2009 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
NO ORANGE PANTS ! Please
WE lose are swagger !!!
I don't like South Carolina...except Myrtle Beach , Hilton Head , Harbor Island and Charleston and maybe Fort Sumter and of course Darlinton but I think thats it and the golf....but thats all......
by bulldurham on Oct 26, 2009 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well it’s not like we’ve been world-beaters in white pants of late either…
by CornFromAJar on Oct 26, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
oh boo hoo
Tell your kids that Santa is watching and won’t be very nice to them if they don’t show up and cheer for Tennessee. They don’t need candy anyway. Neyland stadium hotdogs are much more nutritious!
by golfballs03 on Oct 26, 2009 1:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
UT in all Orange USC in all Black
I mean what are the odds that teams with these colors would have a night game that lands on Halloween? I know Tennessee is full of tradition, but come on. Its a game, lighten up, lets have some fun with it. The following week is homecoming, a game all about tradition and the past. Lets break from the norm this Saturday and have some fun. We will make it up to the blue-hairs the next week with a game devoted to “the way it used to be.”
Neyland Stadium-It goes to eleven.
by jimvols on Oct 26, 2009 7:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
pretty good i guess
Clemson vs. Coastal Carolina feature the same colors.
But I agree!
by golfballs03 on Oct 26, 2009 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Orange Pants Are Awesome
I’m not going to lie, I was thrilled when we brought them back last year vs UCLA. The all orange is a bit much, but it’s a guilty pleasure as a Vol fan.
Let’s rock the Pumpkin Bowl en route to winning out! Go Vols!
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Oct 27, 2009 12:03 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't care
if they wear pink and green, as long as UT wins the football game.
by dmiles on Oct 27, 2009 1:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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