Big Orange Roundtable Week 10

2008 September 12
by Jai Eugene

1) So we’re all still pissed off from losing to a UCLA team we would without a doubt beat at worst eight times out of 10, and now a pretty bad UAB team comes to Knoxville before the epic showdown with Florida and the rest of the SEC gauntlet – the deep breath before the plunge, if you will. What I simply want to know is what do YOU want to see from the Vols this Saturday?
First of all, Florida, LSU and UGA or any other of the top flight SEC teams would have lucky to escape the Rose Bowl with the Win.  UCLA will challenge USC for Conference supremacy.   tOSU is lucky that they are playing the weak sister USC this weekend.

What do I want to see this weekend?  I want to see some receivers hold onto the damn ball.  Arian Foster looks like he has vise grips for hands compared to our WRs.  These bunch of butterfingered receivers are holding back Crompton from winning his Davy O’Brien award.  Which he should have won last year, but Cucliffe hated him and loved Ainge more

(2) Flashback to Saturday night in Gainesville: up 23-3, Florida gets a good punt return by Brandon James inside the Miami 20. With 1:56 left, Urban Meyer sends Tim Tebow back in, and, after a screen pass, a throw into the endzone, and a lost-yardage run, Florida kicks a sand-in-the-face field goal with :25 left, prompting a death stare from Cane coach Randy Shannon and eventually a “handshake” at midfield after the game. Thoughts?

Tim Tebow (CFB’s version of Tom Brady) joins Herban Meyer on Bill Bellichick’s [link] Christmas card mailing list after defending Herban’s decision to run up the score.  He covered the spread, stop bitching and have some sympathy for the man.  Maybe Herb has a gambling problem, it’s a disease you know….

(3) And finally, a question that I’m not sure has been so directly asked in the course of the Roundtable, but one that needs answering: the “woo” in Rocky Top…do you “woo” and why do/don’t you “woo”?

Nope, covered this in 2006.

The “woo” in Rocky Top.  We do 10 *knuckle pushups* for each pass completed by the powerful young Crompton.

A personal subject, to be sure, and a contentious one at that. Rocky Top is a fantastic unofficial fight song. It encapsulates both the culture and landscape of the Smoky Mountains. More importantly, it is annoys opposing fans worse than a case of King Pubic Crabs.

For those who don’t know, let me fill you in on the background of the “woo”. Decades ago, Rocky Top was a serious ode sung by men as tribute to the heroes on the field and the land in which they lived. It was sung in proud and severe tones as whiskey was guzzled, much like the Vikings of Northern Europe. Then came Mary Francis Henderson of Shelbyville, TN, who attended the 1976 Vandy game with her Phi Mu sisters. She did not know the words to Rocky Top, but after 7 vodka and Tab’s, she decided she needed to participate. She interrupted her girlfriends’ babbling and uttered these now famous words, “Oh my God, Rocky Top needs to be more sassy!

And so the “woo” was born. Rocky Top always starts well, but the “woo” crashes over me like Oprah on skis. I hear an especially enthusiastic “woo” from behind, and turn around to find four 14 year old girls cheering proudly. After the song, they sit down and begin text messaging each other, even though they are sitting side by side. They patiently wait for the next “woo” opportunity.

The “woo” represents everything wrong with modern college sports. After I hear it, I expect the “Fun Police” to begin shooting T-shirts into the crowd via air cannons. I anticipate mini-parachutes to come falling from above carrying certificates for free Rally’s burgers. The “woo” is horrific, atrocious, degrading, nauseating and unjustifiable. Even Lulu and Junior disapprove.

http://loserswithsocks.com/2006/10/23/the-5-most-retarded-sec-traditions

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