Don't Burn your shirt!
by Joseph Stanley on Jan 13, 2010 11:25 AM EST
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Give it to Charity!
From the Knoxville News Sentinel:
KNOXVILE - Don't burn that shirt, Vol fans - send it to someone who needs it.
In the wake of University of Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin's unexpected resignation, some fans have apparently taken to burning Kiffin-related T-shirts. But Dan Burks, co-owner of the West Knoxville apparel store Hound Dogs, has a better idea.
Burks said Wednesday that any customer who brings in an "It's Time" T-shirt can get 20 percent off the purchase of a new shirt. Burks said he'll ship the old shirts to Haiti, which was devastated by an earthquake on Tuesday.
The merchant - whose accountant just returned from a mission trip to Haiti - said he had seen comments on a chat board from angry fans who were interested in burning shirts. Burks said he felt pretty bad when he went to bed last night, but news of the natural disaster "puts it in perspective for me."
More details as they develop online and in Thursday's News Sentinel.
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I still want them to burn though
Can we make a deal with Hound Dogs that for every shirt we burn, we’ll buy one and send it to Haiti?
by Incipient_Senescence on Jan 13, 2010 11:37 AM EST reply actions
This is a great thing
There are people that need the shirts and as long as I don’t ever have to see it I’ll be fine.
Thought
We’d all benefit from this one
Need to spread the word.
Already got mine in a Flat Rate box :)
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." John Heisman
by Joseph Stanley on Jan 13, 2010 12:13 PM EST reply actions
What
person is so hard up for a t-shirt that they’d NEED a Lane Kiffin UT shirt? Hell sell them to Bama fans, you’ll be sure to make some cash.
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." - Mark Twain
by Stu from Tuscaloosa on Jan 13, 2010 12:35 PM EST reply actions
Report:
Haitians are sending Lane Kiffin t-shirts back to Knoxville with the message, “Thanks, but no thanks. We may be poor and suffering through a devastating earthquake, but we have standards.”
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Jan 13, 2010 12:44 PM EST reply actions
To be doubly clear
Please, please, please help out this cause, I’m just bitter and the above post was merely an attempt at humor in an otherwise humorless time.
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Jan 13, 2010 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
posted it on facebook hopefully people listen
Here's another way to help:
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
don't waste good fire on the t-shirts
SAVE IT FOR KIFFIN!
The Dual Threat, Official Enforcer/Stat Geek of MCM.
Thought this was funny
one lady from Hound Dogs said, “Don’t throw your Kiffin T-shirts away. Bring em on down to Hound Dogs and we’ll give you 20% off the purchase of a new shirt. We’ll send the old shirts to the kids down in HADES.”
if the shirts are going to hell, sign me up for a donation
LOL
That is hilarious.
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by Joel Hollingsworth on Jan 15, 2010 6:35 PM EST up reply actions
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