alohatiger73

thank you Commodores for making my longshot prediction come true this year


Posted by alohatiger73 8/15/24 at 3:46 pm to JetDawg

I grew up in Nashville and as a native Nashvillian , having Vandy in the SEC is a sentimental pick for me. Especially since I lived 10 minutes away from campus .
I remember a restaurant near campus in the late nineties had old football pictures of Vanderbilt during the SIAA days and that’s the first time I realized that they used to be really good since I grew up thinking they always sucked.
They’re my darkhorse pick this year to do better than the talking heads think.
I predict they’ll take down one of the top teams this year.

I grew up in Nashville and as a native Nashvillian , having Vandy in the SEC is a sentimental pick for me. Especially since I lived 10 minutes away from campus .
I remember a restaurant near campus in the late nineties had old football pictures of Vanderbilt during the SIAA days and that’s the first time I realized that they used to be really good since I grew up thinking they always sucked.
They’re my darkhorse pick this year to do better than the talking heads think.
I predict they’ll take down one of the top teams this year.

My favorite Vandy memory is from their 80’s B-Ball team that had Big Will Perdue & a guy named Barry Goheen that made a couple half court shots that won the game for them. I spent many hours shooting ridiculously long shots as a kid thinking I was Barry Goheen.

Unfortunately I would be willing to guess there are many under 20 something’s who don’t know who The Bear is or Babe Ruth. With the internet now , you can live in your own information bubble and never have to read/watch about anything outside of it. As you know, In the olden days , you were forced to come across things you may never had any interest in just bc other people were talking about it or it was on tv and you didn’t have many choices for information. Like only 3-4 tv stations and only newspapers / magazines & books from the library or if you were lucky and had books / encyclopedias at home.

I’m not sure I would put Bear Bryant on the level of fame as Elvis.
For college football fans , possibly , but not for the general public.
Only the Super Bowl would come close to me .

It’s amazing how many non sports fans couldn’t tell you one thing about any sports except maybe the Super Bowl (the game and day , as in its on a Sunday in late January/ early Feb. but not anything else about it. A lot of non sports fans just watch it for the half time show and the commercials )

That reminds me of the time I worked with a girl the same age as me,( I’m Gen-X )—who didn’t know who the Doors were. Blew my mind. She knew the Pina Colada song but not Jim Morrison!?

Cracker Barrel Steak N Biscuits was my Kyprotonite. Full order order w/ green beans was my Jam

If you grew up in Nashville (like I did —1973-2013) and you like Southern food , then you might have heard of the legendary Arnold’s , which was always known as a meat and three . There are original local restaurants in Sylvan park (the old / original Sylvan Park Market) and Charlotte Avenue (Wendell Smith’s) where I grew up that used to advertise on their outside signs that they are a meat and three.
Now Nashville Hot Chicken IS a recent term . Probably started in the 90’s as I recall as I don’t remember it being called that in the 80’s. The locals , especially my black (African American) friends , just called it hot chicken. “Nashville Hot Chicken” caught on as a marketing term .
I’m gonna have to pull your Southern card , you, you, —Yankee!! ;)
BTW , it was always meat loaf, macaroni & cheese & green beans or “greens” (collard greens) for me

However my pa’s gf is a Clemson/ Buckeye lover, so there’s that

There’s no contest between the Cheerleading vs Dance Squads at any University. The Dance squad is hands down the winner to me in terms of looks

As Sir Charles Barkley would say—-Tuurriibblle!!