re: First visit to Knoxville - What a town

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So we have become another team that beats Tiger arse in Death Valley? Sick burn dude

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Exactly. It is the peak of your existence.

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Is that why we beat…..

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Doesn’t change the fact you’ve been irrelevant since LSU beat you in the SEC championship game.

But look, if that win helps you sleep at night and you can handle that over no Natty hardware, knock yourself out.

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you can handle that over no Natty hardware

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Tennessee has won a natty though?

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helps you sleep at night

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What helps me sleep at night is knowing I dont live in Baton Rouge lol

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Don't you live in New Orleans?

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I didn't say I sleep well lol

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UT has won a natty though.

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Again, totally irrelevant since 2000. What’s that’s, a quarter of a century now? Certainly not Big 6 status.

Went to Knox zoo.

The people were more exotic than the animals.

Three pages and nobody has corrected?
It's on the Tennessee River not the Cumberland

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To this specific point, I don't think Texans have ever considered themselves as part of the South or wanted that status except maybe in the eastern most regions

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I grew up in Texas, but have lived in Western North Carolina over 30 years now. Although there is a lot of cultural overlap, one difference I notice is that you still periodically see the rebel flag flying from rural homesteads here in the Southeast.

I never saw the Confederate flag flying growing up in Texas. Except once or twice in backwoods East Texas, as you got closer to the Louisiana border. In Texas, it was the Lone Star Texas flag that was and is flown pretty much everywhere, including by those who wanted to display their independent streak.

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I grew up in Texas, but have lived in Western North Carolina over 30 years now. Although there is a lot of cultural overlap, one difference I notice is that you still periodically see the rebel flag flying from rural homesteads here in the Southeast.

I never saw the Confederate flag flying growing up in Texas. Except once or twice in backwoods East Texas, as you got closer to the Louisiana border. In Texas, it was the Lone Star Texas flag that was and is flown pretty much everywhere, including by those who wanted to display their independent streak.

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You see this some in East Tennessee, which is interesting, because it was considered a Unionist area during the war. You'll see them in the mountain areas in Arkansas, Southern Mississippi. Usually where there are poor, undereducated rural people. But yes, Texas has always really just been Texas. The Texas flag trumps every other flag.