The Big Orange Roundtable #7

1)  Knock on wood before answering this question, but let’s assume that Jonathan Crompton goes out with a season ending injury in the 1st half of the first game of the season. Should we just pack it up and wait until next season, or is there a glimmer of hope in any of the young backups?

Tennessee does not require backups. The Mountain Warrior Prince is: A man-child with a huge fucking heart, a warriors heart. Is Crompton part wolf or as Cherokee Indian mythology foretold: the spawn of a woman and the beast? He is a warrior, powerful and brave, a man who fearlessly fights for what he wants. What he wants for Tennessee fans to know that he also has the soul of a poet. He will play through the pain.

Herban Meyer? Memo: You better get that secondary fixed pronto, reinstate the suspended Gas Attendant. Nick Saban? He will treat your linebackers like bowling pins. Tebow? He wants to play linebacker.. against the Gates, ouch Timmy.

Jon Crompton saddle up the linebacker trapped in a QB’s body, channel the spirit of Dan Kendra and will us to victory!!!

2)  Does Erik Ainge have a future in the NFL?

Universally viewed in Big Orange Country as ”the” cock-block to the Ruff n Tuff QB, Ainge temporarily silenced the critics with a stellar 67% completion rate and a trip to the SEC CG.  Sadly, Ainge will fade into Tennessee obscurity as the west coast kid holding back the chosen one. Ainge wasn’t a Smokey Mountain Boy that bled orange. To his credit, he survived some Tonya Harding-like beatdowns when he had his pinky, knee and shoulders “injured”. I am not accusing the Cromptonites, just saying that the timing was pretty weird.

I hope that he makes it in the NFL. I would love to see him serve a nice piping hot cup of STFU to the raucous Cromptonite Nation.  I have figured out that most Cromptonites are not very good judges of football talent.

Take that Cromptonites!!

3) Why in the hell did you decide to blog about Tennessee football?  Aren’t there already enough Tennessee blogs?

I started blogging  to cope after I lost my job as a driver of a “follow me” truck for oversize loads from Dothan to Troy.  I eventually withered away to a sickly 350 lbs. It got so bad that I  could barely finish a jalapeno chili burger and twinkies  because of the overwhelming and irrational fear of Tim Tebow Surgery.  Please help me Coach Fulmer, I am afraid that i will next lose my taste for Keystone Beer and there will be nothing left to live for.

MGO and Brian Cook? A shirt for you

4)  If you could be one player in one game in Tennessee history, which player and which game would you pick?  Why?

Bradley County’s own native son: Linebacker Dale Jones, He broke the Bammeroids spine with the acrobatic interception in the backfield 1985 at the shithole also known as Legion Field.  (sorry this was a similar question from Roundtable 5)

Or  check this video at the 1:38 mark.  I LOL every time that I watch it.

5)  Which is your favorite rivalry and why? (Not necessarily limited to Tennessee teams)?

Tennessee and Auburn is my favorite rivalry. Orly? You say that you didn’t know that there was a rivalry? Why yes, it is a rivalry over who really is Bama’s daddy. Wingnut or the ‘Dean’? The biggest point of contention is if the best part of Bama is still in the Battle Captain’s reservoir tip or as the Barners believe that it is a piece of toilet paper stuck on the bottom of Tubby’s Click-Clack Shoes.

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