THE VOL NAVY: THE NICEST PIRATES ON THE PLANET
The Tailgate Review of the Vol Navy is hyah. A few additional notes:
1. Tennessee women are beautiful, and our favorite outside of Florida (natch) because they seem to be there to actually eat, drink, and look casually and effortlessly hot while actually paying attention to the football game. We don’t mean this in the “Yo, brah! LOOK AT THE COCK-KNOCKERS ON THAT ONE!”
No, we mean this in the most respectful, loving way imaginable: you’re all beautiful, even the one with the fake tits who was clearly on her way to committing some form of life-altering mistake in the boat a row over. We wanted to give each of you a Lush bath product of some sort, a single flower, and just tell you how much we appreciated you all being gorgeous, football-loving women that you are.
2. We also mean this: the nicest fucking people you could ever hope for at a tailgate. Expletive included for emphasis, not to suggest they were actually copulating while handing us free beers: just absurdly nice, and nicer than we deserved, of course. Normally I’m jittery and ready to start a Viking axe party before Florida/Tennessee, but it’s hard to get your war on in such a gorgeous setting.
3. We want this shirt. We don’t even know what it means, but we love it:

4. Yes, they duped the picture, but chicks is page views. We didn’t use this one, because it didn’t really fit but still deserves mention for astonishingly misused quotations:
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“Nicest Pirates on the Planet”
I think there are probably some “Butt” Pirates that would fabulously disagree with that statement.
Comment by haybeav — September 22, 2025 @ 12:56 pm
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@7, i don’t see how that is relevant to the tailgating experience.
Comment by Adam — September 22, 2025 @ 12:51 pm
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#6
I’m with you. I want an invitation to a UT game (the other UT). The person needs a boat with a great before game tailgate.
Man, UT/Austin should have planned better. Royal Memorial stadium should be built by Town Lake. That way we could boat, drink and dock for the game. We might even care if our team was lousy.
Comment by blon — September 22, 2025 @ 12:48 pm
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it isn’t even like Florida played all that well. Tennessee is freaking HORRIBLE.
Comment by austiger — September 22, 2025 @ 12:42 pm
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I have had the pleasure of growing up with this types of environment in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, so I am a little spoiled and used to these type of events. However, I have yet to combine the boat and booze experience with football and have yet to try it at other locations.
It is in this spirit of cultural sharing that I would like to volunteer for the Vol Navy when USC comes back up to Knoxville next year. Unfortunately, I do not know how to go about enlisting. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, I went to Kville for last year’s game. Even with that game completely sucking, the overall experience was quite pleasant and I came away with a marked appreciation for that town.
Comment by Charlestowne — September 22, 2025 @ 12:40 pm
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Although it could be a spelling error… Maybe the entrance is named “Clarence” and he is “7 foot 8 inches”
Comment by Carolina_girl — September 22, 2025 @ 12:36 pm
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7 foot 8 inches. Who teaches English there - Jerrell Powe?
Almost as bad as a new street sign we had on campus in Starksville in August 1970 - “Don’t Never Ever Enter”.
At least it was taken down within a week.
Comment by yoyfutbawl — September 22, 2025 @ 12:30 pm
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I’m really glad you got to do this. Always proud when my brethren and sistren (whatever) show visitors a good time.
Comment by Holly — September 22, 2025 @ 12:24 pm
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Other things that belong in quotes there at UT
“Relevant”
“Competent”
“Championship”
“Bowl Game”
“Win over Vandy”
Comment by austiger — September 22, 2025 @ 12:18 pm
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Shouldn’t it be “7 feet”?
Comment by Carolina_girl — September 22, 2025 @ 12:16 pm