DYNAMITE!
Vanderbilt University Commodores: 28.
University of Tennessee Volunteers: 24.
(Pardon the pride, pardon the profanity, pardon the cheer:)
V-A-N-D-Y!
VANDY!
VANDY!
Oh! Hell! Yeah!
I screamed in public.
I danced in the street.
I cried.
I trembled.
I witnessed history with my infant daughter in her Vanderbilt t-shirt and my wife in her UT sweatshirt.
Making history is beautiful. Beating UT is remarkable. Beating UT in Knoxville is miraculous. Beating UT in Knoxville to spoil UT's bowl prospects for the first time in three decades is simply, perfectly, beautifully sweet.
Go 'Dores!
posted by JRB at 5:01 PM
14 Comments:
Don't fear the pride or the cheer: clearly (at least today), God decided to be a Vandyfan.
I can't wait to tell my kids about today -- a day I'll remember for the rest of my life.
~DB (Vanderbilt BA '05)
YA'LL SUCK!!! May the streak start next year in Nashville and last for 23 YEARS!!
Anonymous, I like how you misspelled "y'all." Clever.
JRB-
That's the middle Tennessee spelling of ya'll/y'all (and not the purer redneck Mississippi spelling you are probably accustomed to) - I guess when your a 'Dore fan and you can't talk football, you turn things into a spelling bee!! Whoopee! Go Vanderbilt Spelling Bee Team!!!
Just a game-
BRW
This was my favorite VU cheer:
That's alright,
That's okay,
You're going to work for us someday...
And under normal circumstances, I really hate that kind of elitist nonsense. This week, I celebrate wildly.
What's the number for "Vol Calls"?
ME (VU, PhD '94)
Elitist nonsense is correct - come to Nashville sometime where VU washouts abound!! I don't see much correlation between real life success and where you graduate.
LU '94 (2004.W-2.$630K)
Spelling Bee? Anyone? Anyone?
I'm sorry. I just can't let it go. This is one of my missions in life, and you are thwarting it and continuing to perpetuate the image of stupid Southerners.
"Ya'll" is not correct anywhere, including our beloved Middle Tennessee.
The word is a contraction of YOU and ALL, not YA and WILL. Thus, the correct form is Y'ALL.
Please take it to heart, even if you did go to UT-Martin or Rhone County Community College or Chatt State or Tennessee Tech, or wherever you think it's correct to write "ya'll."
ME, celebrate your heart out. We can be elite without being elitist.
. . . or Lee University or Ootlewah High or Buck Snort or anywhere. . .
(Although, I'm sure the good folks of Buck Snort don't take well to anonymous taunts or flaunts.)
If you define elite as beating the worst UT team in 20-30 years and finishing below .500, then CELEBRATE, GET RIP ROARIN' DRUNK, and GO MAKE OUT WITH Miss Mississippi (OR YOUR FAVORITE COW)! At UT this type of season is considered a DISGRACE.
Have you draped a Confederate flag across your desk and cried over it lately?
BRW
You see that boys?
Now THAT'S the way you shut down a blog discussion.
I really want to post something longer here, but I'm laughing too hard.
Confederate flags? Cows? W-2s? Is that the best you've got?
Let it go man. VU has been doormats in the SEC for so long that it goes in one ear and out the other. It's like when you beat up that little kid you didn't like on the back of the school bus.
Mooooo...
This is really ridiculous. I can't believe that you people are so upset that Vandy won a game that you have to resort to trying to compare your own W-2's and impotent southerner jokes to try to appease your own grief. Give the Vandy folks the joy of a win, and deal with your own feelings of inadequacy that you lost.
As one reading from the north, this only reaffirms the asinine stereotypes I constantly am trying to overcome.
And believe me, you can have your salary that is well over 10x mine. I couldn't care less about money and you obviously must use it as your source of comfort and confidence. So, go cry yourself in your pile of Bens and Georges. I will revel in the joy of my friends who are celebrating an SEC victory (even though I am a Big 12 fan living in Big 10 country.)
To the anonymous commenter above who thought it was a persuasive and good idea to post your income, please go read Eric's blog for today, to which his name will link you.
This was a fun, celebratory conversation based in school pride and football rivalry, then you posted your income, as if it indicates anything useful.
I hurt for you this holiday and hope that our Lord may touch your heart in the holidays with a security and peace that transcends your temporary wealth. I hope He reaches and teaches all of us.
Some of us were richly blessed with the rare opportunity to attend an elite school that we love, to be sure, a mark of affluence and privilege, but we all share in the elite love of our Lord who calls us to celebrate His triumphs forever. He rejects our resumes and W-2 and operates in another economy of love, grace and mercy.
Shalom.
What is fact? What is fiction? Looks like JRB and EMag took the bait big time. Shalom.
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