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TEN SIGNS YOUR PROGRAM HAS ARRIVED AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

10. Your running back will only conduct interviews in Pterodactyl.


Tennessee: damn these pesky pterodactyls.

9. Your longtime coach is giving the Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Salute to the fanbase at every turn.

8. The coach backstabbed out of the job prior to tubby, middle-finger flashing coach currently holding job emerges from comfortable deprivation tank filled with bourbon to stab back over fifteen years too late.

7. With new starter at qb, offense produced 9 first downs against Northern Illinois and 225 total yards, and this was considered "improvement."

6. Booing from sorrow-filled, intoxicated fanbase at home games is repelling recruits despite the school having the largest recruiting budget in the SEC.

5. Is being overshadowed by undefeated Vanderbilt team who would likely be favored at this point in the season were the two teams to meet this weekend. Read that again, repeat, wait for eyeballs to fall out of head and roll across table.

4. Tennessee blogs are pretending to actually be Vanderbilt blogs.

3. Your offense (97th) is lagging behind Texas A&M's nationally (95th). No, use the sharp edge, and cross at the wrists. You want an 'X' shape, remember.

2. Jon Gruden has become a viable replacement candidate in the liquid smoke-flavored fantasies of Vol fans. Because you want Bill Callahan, but blonde and addled from two decades of consistent sleep deprivation--that sounds fantastic.

1. This, shockingly, gives us no pleasure anymore.

Star-divide

This should provide all of the confirmation needed to establish that on today, October 7th, 2008, the Unversity of Tennessee football program has sailed past the dragons on the map and to the very edge of our flat world. Behind them, oceans and the island of one national championship under Fulmer; ahead of them, blank space and cascading water.

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Johnny Majors has been screwing people out of “Dead Pool” winnings for a quarter-century.
Do not… I repeat DO NOT walk near that man with a lit match.

by GamecockTony on Oct 7, 2008 11:31 AM EDT reply actions  

There be dragons and Rennie Curran here.
Arrrr!

by crane on Oct 7, 2008 11:36 AM EDT reply actions  

As a long-time Pitt fan, the 1993 through 1996 seasons NEVER HAPPENED! You hear that? That wasn’t Johnny Majors on the sideline, that was really Paul Hacket in disguise!
But still, we gotta love Johnny for his first stint in Steeltown.

by Mark D on Oct 7, 2008 11:42 AM EDT reply actions  

Reason # 1 – This, shockingly, gives us no pleasure anymore.

Au contraire – can’t get enough of it.

Maybe they could get Bruce Pearl to give the halftime locker room speech.

by hobeg8r on Oct 7, 2008 11:45 AM EDT reply actions  

Did Georgia get their annual “Martinezation” defensive melt down out of the way two weeks ago? I ask only because they have saved that performance for UT the past two years. Will they go with the strategy to drop 7 or 8 into non-coverage in lieu of any type of pass rush on a previously very easily rattled QB, allowing a fun game of pitch and catch down the field. Skeleton drills provided more pressure on the QB.

by skinnyphatman on Oct 7, 2008 11:47 AM EDT reply actions  

are they 2008’s version of ‘07 Notre Dame, or even worse? While Notre Dame’s problems lied in its reliance on promising but inexperienced youth, Tennessee’s program just seems to be imploding as a whole. I just don’t think UT can bounce back from this.

I was at the NIU game and saw at least 54,000 “fire fat fulmer shirts.” The other 46,000 people were just wearing “fire fulmer” shirts because they were fat themselves.

by 'p'a'u'p'e'e'p' on Oct 7, 2008 11:48 AM EDT reply actions  

You really have to feel for a program that is down. I know I sound like someone’s mother (I’m not) or older relative (I am), but these players work hard and it is devastating to go out and get the crap beat out of you every week.

I’ve done my “nice words for the week” detail.

by blon on Oct 7, 2008 11:48 AM EDT reply actions  

You think that’s bad? Wait til Saturday when the Vols find their ass and give Georgia as much or more than it wants or can handle.

I feel like I’m at the soothsayers and they’re all, like, beware the Ides of March!

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Oct 7, 2008 11:50 AM EDT reply actions  

@ blon: I reckon that gave you John Mackovic flashbacks, eh?

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Oct 7, 2008 11:50 AM EDT reply actions  

Actually, Arian wants to be a Guest Star on SGCTC. Both Zorak and SG are fluent in Pterodactyl. Like Bill Clinton, they feel his pain.

Reminds me of the old Rice Institute cheer, where they’d yell, "GIve me a …P-T-E-R-O-D-A-C-T-Y-L, and then taunt the oppsing fans with “We can spell it, how about you?”

by yoyofutbawl on Oct 7, 2008 11:58 AM EDT reply actions  

  1. Who made the post about Majors years didn’t happen? (#3) So go the Makovich years (1992-1997) for UT grads. They just didn’t happen. Post over. The end.

by blon on Oct 7, 2008 12:03 PM EDT reply actions  

Assmann.

Sorry, I can’t let it go.

by Sgt. Barwis's Beatdown Brigade on Oct 7, 2008 12:05 PM EDT reply actions  

I’m sure there’s a sense of humor in there somewhere, but pterodactyl? Quirky is Knowshon’s claiming to love legos. “Vreek” is just unsettling. Seriously.

by Sparrow on Oct 7, 2008 12:13 PM EDT reply actions  

And yet, I have the feeling Tennessee will look like the ’78 Steelers on Saturday afternoon against the Dawgs.

by Silver Britches on Oct 7, 2008 12:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Is CBS televising UGA-Tennessee out of morbid curiosity?

by Raider Red on Oct 7, 2008 12:14 PM EDT reply actions  

Brilliant move by Arian Foster in selecting a language that has no word for controversy.

by sonofsamford on Oct 7, 2008 12:15 PM EDT reply actions  

#12

And did you notice I changed his name? It should actually be John Mackovic, but who really cares?

But I can spell the other John, John Blake. We really like him in Texas. He’s a neat guy.

by blon on Oct 7, 2008 12:19 PM EDT reply actions  

@17

nor a word for “fumble”

by CrimsonBarrister on Oct 7, 2008 12:19 PM EDT reply actions  

i cant wait until the 25th when we go to knoxville and slaughter his fat fucking ass

by matt on Oct 7, 2008 12:24 PM EDT reply actions  

O

I don’t get it? I have been watching that on loop for the past half hour and it is still doing it for me!

by King Harvest on Oct 7, 2008 12:31 PM EDT reply actions  

" It was a national story about an offense looking for leadership.

It could determine the fate of Tennessee’s season and Fulmer’s legacy.

“Veeeeek! Veeeeek! Veeeeek!” Foster shrieked. "

probably the best end to a news article this year

by Synaesthesia on Oct 7, 2008 12:37 PM EDT reply actions  

…and all that is on the map is a hasty scrawl, HERE BE REDD NECKES.

I’m glad my mother’s relatives in Oak Ridge aren’t alive to see this, or they’d be hunting me in the woods with guns for spite.

by Vandy J on Oct 7, 2008 12:48 PM EDT reply actions  

You’re about a week late, lawya.

by Holly on Oct 7, 2008 12:54 PM EDT reply actions  

Vol Pain = always enjoyable

by BamaCPA on Oct 7, 2008 1:25 PM EDT reply actions  

Hey, don’t knock sleep deprivation until you’ve trudlkjhf,////….

by DC Trojan on Oct 7, 2008 1:29 PM EDT reply actions  

I’m still a Fulmer supporter, but I just can’t understand why Arian Foster is a starter or gets so many carries. He’s never been the best back on the team, and since 2006 I don’t think he’s better than 3rd at any point. He might have moved up after Coker was kicked off but then Creer stepped up.

Looking forward to going to Athens this week though.

by etsuVol on Oct 7, 2008 1:45 PM EDT reply actions  

In SW Ohio we have a museum where they have statues of cavemen saddling up on dinosaurs. And theyr’e serious about it. No. Really. We do.

by OhioDawg on Oct 7, 2008 1:59 PM EDT reply actions  

Ohiodawg,
Of course they do. Haven’t you seen the Flintstones? Dinosaurs had all kinds of uses, you could ride one, they provide quality muscle for working in the quarry, whistles, garbage disposal. It’s really a shame they are not around anymore.

by skinnyphatman on Oct 7, 2008 2:09 PM EDT reply actions  

Another sign your program is on the edge. Or actually over the edge and plummeting pell mell into the abyss.

http://bleacherreport.com/images_root/image_pictures/0100/2121/96508092717_stanford_v_washingt_feature.jpg

by JOhio on Oct 7, 2008 2:31 PM EDT reply actions  

@29…I know they do. I made the pilgrimage (zing) from Rapid City to cough Cincinnati to see it last year. I will say this…the museum employees are…well-rehearsed.

by der schatten on Oct 7, 2008 2:47 PM EDT reply actions  

Weren’t the dinosaurs destroyed by fire breathing dragons that started an ice age?

I’ll take “Bad Matthew McConaughey Movies” for $800, Alex.

by DHC on Oct 7, 2008 3:01 PM EDT reply actions  

JOhio@ 31
You forgot to add the Greg Robinson photo. Other than that, pretty much on target.

by hobeg8r on Oct 7, 2008 3:30 PM EDT reply actions  

29 & 30

Do people in Ohio notice that Fred and Barney wear what are essentially long sweatervests with ties?

by yoyofutbawl on Oct 7, 2008 3:42 PM EDT reply actions  

@35: Notice it? Buckeye fans are actively encouraging a return to that “fashion.”

http://www.jupmode.com/

by JOhio on Oct 7, 2008 3:50 PM EDT reply actions  

J. Holy See! A Senator Sweatervest ONESIE?!?!

I thought the “I’m a little bulldog” crap was too much (and I’m a Georgia guy all the way), but a sweatervest onesie?

Over the top, OSU.

Unless, of course, there’s an oversized, white, trucker-style LSU hat for infants? Eh?

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Oct 7, 2008 4:52 PM EDT reply actions  

  1. There is a museum like that near San Diego as well. And those people are everywhere.

I was in a (real) museum in Utah a few years ago when I heard a woman say “They say there were no people around when these dinosaurs lived, but if that was true then how do we know what they were called?”

She was very pleased with her insight and seriously seemed to think she had the key to bringing down the house of cards that is science.

by oc phil on Oct 7, 2008 5:04 PM EDT reply actions  

OC Phil.

True story. I dated a girl at Mississippi State bless her heart, and one night over many a malted beverage and many herbs o’ the earth, we got into a discussion of Jesus. I explained to her that AT A MINIMUM since Jesus was Hebrew (e.g., a Semite), he more than likely was VERY swarthy complected, and not at all an Aryan/Teutonic Jesus.

In deathly earnest, she turned to me and said, “But, but, I’ve seen pictures!”

Somehow, I think she’s related to your Utah museum-goer.

by Der Schatten on Oct 7, 2008 6:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Wayback to 16: I think they’re trying to kill CBS’ color commentator. He nearly had an aneurysm during the UT/Auburn game.

by Graysnail on Oct 7, 2008 7:10 PM EDT reply actions  

If Georgia loses to Tennessee on Saturday, I shall slit my wrists.

by Miss HornDawg on Oct 7, 2008 8:58 PM EDT reply actions  

if fulmer isn’t “retired” by the end of the year, i’ll let you slit mine.

by MediocriTennssee on Oct 8, 2008 1:44 AM EDT reply actions  

Annihilate UGA or Bama’s National title hopes, & still get a new coach and this season will be a great success

by Barrett_VOL on Oct 8, 2008 5:05 AM EDT reply actions  

@ 33.

Because "Good Matthew McConaughey Movies” is a category with only two correct answers.

Dazed and Confused, which aptly describes the UT fanbase.

And Tropic Thunder. I have no joke for this one, but anyone feel free to jump in with one.

by Knowshon's Practice Hurdle on Oct 8, 2008 9:57 AM EDT reply actions  

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