Feels weird to not be able to hate Tennerssee as much this season

I still hate the orange bastards, but honestly between:

#1. Tenn standing up to Nico Iamaleava

#2. The constant Tenn alters being banned from the SEC rant

#3. Our current 9-0 run

I'm not hating them quite as much as I used to

And those dumbass sister-kissers hold up needing a Hail Mary from that space alien QB in 2016 as some kind of legendary win, even though it was against a first-time HC.

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When I was a kid, there'd be just as much Tennessee shite as Georgia gear at stores and gas stations in north Georgia.

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For sure. I grew up in Dalton & Chatsworth (DHS '94), and Knoxville was less than 2H up the way on Highway 411.

My grandmother lived 30 minutes from the UT campus in Madisonville, so any time we went up there, it was unbearable.

There's nothing in this world that orange can't make uglier.

Last year and the Hobnail Boot games were two of the most fun. And the fact that both games were on Fat Fulmer Field at Erector Set Stadium makes it even sweeter.

03 was my first trip to Knoxville and I haven't missed one since. I was in high school at the time and we had lost to our crosstown rival many years in a row but that year we finally beat them by one point. I got about 3 hours of sleep that Friday then got in the car with my cousin at 3:00 a.m. on Saturday and drove to Knoxville, hung out all day and watched the arse kicking at night then drove back to Gwinnett after the game. Was an extremely long weekend but man it was a fun one.

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I'm good with NIL and transfers because I'm a freedom-loving capitalist,

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Ah yes, college football and "NIL" as a symbol of free market capitalism! The bastardized chimera stepchild of local, state and federal govt funded non-profit, tax-exempt universities with massive arenas and facilities built on public land using public money, providing free scholarships and watered-down curricula for "student" athletes who don't even want an education, further assisted by dark money boosters "donating" tens of millions to whatever private citizen or public official they see fit in an effort to influence outcomes, and governed by a patchwork of local, regional, and national committees whose regulations are adjuticated and re-adjudicated on the fly by corrupted state, local and federal judges who are enticed or coerced to hand down weight-of-law rulings that give their favored team a leg up on the competition.

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Ah yes, college football and "NIL" as a symbol of free market capitalism! The bastardized chimera stepchild of local, state and federal govt funded non-profit, tax-exempt universities with massive arenas and facilities built on public land using public money, providing free scholarships and watered-down curricula for "student" athletes who don't even want an education, further assisted by dark money boosters "donating" tens of millions to whatever private citizen or public official they see fit in an effort to influence outcomes, and governed by a patchwork of local, regional, and national committees whose regulations are adjuticated and re-adjudicated on the fly by corrupted state, local and federal judges who are enticed or coerced to hand down weight-of-law rulings that give their favored team a leg up on the competition.

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It's my opinion that every dollar generated by the AD that does not get paid toward defraying the operating cost of the university should be taxed as income.