Rocky Top Talk, a Tennessee Volunteers community

In the first half, the team managed to rack up a total of -2 rushing yards. Written out, that’s negative two. Let’s put that into a little perspective, shall we?

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If I were to sit down to eat spaghetti, but instead of eating any, I accidentally coughed up 2 strands of spaghetti back onto the plate. That’d be negative two.

If you read through the comments (which I’ve warned before not to do), you’ll get a nice cross section of Tennessee fans and their opinions on the subject. The idea of using black on the uniforms was posted at some point, and that is where we discover that unfortunately, the old adage of opinions being like assholes holds true to this day.

First off, you’ve got your traditionalists who don’t like any messing with the traditional uniforms that were traditionally worn by traditional players in "traditional" times traditionally… tradition. Nevermind the fact that the "Power T" that we know and love today has only been traditional since the 70’s, and also nevermind the fact that Tennessee has in fact, worn black as part of the color scheme for quite some time: