I think Gus may have wet himself.

Shut that thing down nanoseconds after a Georgia loss, so time your photos of the scoreboard accordingly. And post them everywhere.

Good. On TV they sound pretty rough to my admittedly untrained ear. Thanks.

nm

 

 

 

How about Ant/Boot?

Don't care for Saban, but at least he showed the proper respect for a legend. Rip Ken Stabler.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/ken-stabler-dies-alabama-crimson-tide-nick-saban-070915?=_mid=283836&_rid=283836.17500.3279&cmpid=emc:fscom:cfb_sec

Opinions?

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/the-case-for-and-against-tennessee-winning-the-sec-east-070815?=_mid=283631&_rid=283631.16707.87&cmpid=emc:fscom:cfb_volunteers

Check out the video at the end of the article. He obviously needs to work on his finesse. 

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/trent-dilfer-on-tennessee-qb-commit-he-s-almost-too-talented-070915?=_mid=283631&_rid=283631.16707.87&cmpid=emc:fscom:cfb_volunteers

A great way to celebrate the birth of the greatest country on earth! 

You're on a roll. 

 

[Goldfinger]

Bond film?

Goldfinger

Beatles Album?

SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Fast food place?

Chick-fil-A

Current TV character?

Barney Fife (the show's on some channel every day of the week, besides "he had him a gun and a knife")

Classic car?

1965 Mustang

Vols win ever?

January 1, 1986 Sugar Bowl win over Miami

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/jon-gruden-visits-tennessee-calls-it-one-of-the-great-franchises-in-football-060715?=_mid=270561&_rid=270561.16707.87&cmpid=emc:fscom:cfb_volunteers

So YOU'RE to blame. I was just in Ooltewah last week around rush hour, and I went to get on I-75 South (which I don't do that often anymore from Lee hwy, usually I'll just drive down to Apison Pike and get on there) and noticed that I was in the wrong lane.  You used to turn left to get on the on ramp there, and now you go right.  By the time I noticed, it was too late and the traffic was too heavy.  I had to go down to Mtn View and turn around.

Do you think the proposed bypass they were talking about a few months ago will ever get any traction?  I think the full proposal would start up around Nickajack, go across northern Hamilton County (including a new bridge across the river connecting SD to East Hamilton), go through Cleveland, circle down through Ringgold, and finally end where 24 and 59 meet in N. Ga.  I know it would be hugely expensive, and the "not in my backyard" crowd would probably block it at every turn, but it would sure ease traffic around here.

Yup. I'm sure I made a lot of people happy, lol. But I never got to stamp it. Got laid off between completion and submittal. Figure THAT one out. 

I don't think there currently is the political will to pull that bypass off. Today, besides the NIMBY crowd are the environmental fascists. There would have to be an environment study where they crossed the river and every where there was a cattail or pickle-butted sapsucker (2 years for each study). Georgia would insist on a complete redesign of the I-24/I-59 interchange, so the Georgia Legislature would have to come up with money for that. Plus both state's Departments of Transportation would have to cooperate. And believe me, the Tennessee River/Georgia Border would come up during negotiations. Shoot, this crowd can't even pull off a redesign of the I-24/I-75 interchange in East Ridge. I guess it's going to take an 18-wheeler flipping a load of nuclear waste to get that done. And don't get me started on Bass Pro Shops. But I guess moving a front-loader full of dirt every week could be called progress. Nope, afraid I can't see that one happening anytime soon.

1. That's worth posting.

2. The last time this was a totally Vol or sports board was October 1998, or somewhere reasonably close thereto. 

Thanks.

I worked for the firm that did the inspection for the installation of the first round of cameras on I-24. One of our inspectors was standing on I-24 at King's Lodge, actually at eye level with one of the "suites." She looked over at one of the rooms. The blinds were open and the occupant was doing lines of coke with a full, open, bottle of cheap bourbon on the table. Not good.

On the other hand, not to brag (please believe that), I designed the US-27 widening from the Olgiati Bridge to Signal Mountain Road and the new Ooltewah Interchange at I-75. We discussed the I-24 corridor from the state line to I-75 quite a bit. There was much talk about the I-75/I-24 Interchange at East Ridge but that's about it. Now TDOT is going to widen US-27 (the old I-124) from the I-24 "scramble" through downtown to the Olgiati Bridge and they are going to widen the bridge, one more line in each direction. )Maps can be found on the TDOT website.) There just doesn't seem to be much political will, or any other will, for that matter, to take care of the I-24 eyesore. I don't get it, either.

 

Y'all are probably tired of me posting non-Vol topics, but I thought this one was important. 

I found this video interesting.  It's from a Knoxville station comparing the two towns.  I did notice when I was there last football season that Knox seems to finally be making some progress.  Market Square was hopping like it never did when I lived there.  Now if they can just get on with that Cumberland Avenue revitalization that they've been talking about for years.  

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/BoNoSap4YR4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/BoNoSap4YR4</a>

Thanks for posting. Learned some things I didn't know. Market Square looks like a lot of fun. Of course, they had to play the Neyland Stadium card. In fairness, though, it's a good card to play.

Is the structure shown in the opening of the clip the Knox County Courthouse? It sure looks like a government structure.

I am trying to get my county's tourism committee (of which I am a member) to develop a case-study based on what Chattanooga has done. Obviously we would never replicate what they've done on that level; there are only ~23,000 people in our entire county. But I think there's much to be learned from the way Chattanooga rebranded and rebuilt itself. I think I posted this here once before, but I remember in my childhood, Chattanooga was just a dirty industrial hub that you wouldn't really want to visit…and I'm only 35. It's pretty remarkable, what the leadership of that city has done.

In 1969 Walter Cronkite declared Chattanooga as "the dirtiest city in America." Dad told me that at times you had to drive with your headlights on during the day.
The funny thing about the Cronkite proclamation is that on the graphic behind him Chattanooga was located on the Tennessee/Alabama line due north of Huntsville. I've seen a clip of it, perhaps on YouTube.

I love my town and really wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I consider it Tennessee's "Best Kept Secret." At least it used to be.

But "Best City Ever?" Maybe.

Again, printed for fun on Friday. Take it FWIW. YMMV. Roger. Over. Out. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

For anyone that doesn't know, there is a Facebook VTTW page. Of course, all we post there are complaints about the board being down. 

Thanks. I didn't know. Just found it and pressed "join." Currently pending. I am housebroken. Mostly.