A Little Hate Speech Before the Tennessee Volunteer-Memphis Tiger Game
Attention Volunteer fans. Memphis Tiger fans hate us.
Memphis fan Ed Smith:
I hate Tennessee. Why? I don’t know. Tennessee fans are arrogant, and they can’t accept defeat. They always blame it on someone else. They blame it on the officials, they blame it on the coaches. Sometimes you lose because you just get beat.
Kingsbury High School football coach Duron Sutton:
The guys who played with me hate Tennessee because they think they’re a superior team and that they don’t need to come onto the field to beat you.
Tiger fan Phil Owen:
I hope Tennessee never wins another game.
Former Memphis kicker Don Glosson:
We always get looked down upon by people over on the Hill. It was always a bigger game for us than it was for Tennessee. For Tennessee, it was just another win or a homecoming game.
Former Highland Hundred treasurer Michael Hawkins on why some Memphis fans may hate Tennessee only a little less than they hate Ole Miss:
We just tend to play Ole Miss more. Ole Miss doesn’t cancel contracts with us like Tennessee when they think there’s a chance we might beat them.
Harsh words.
But true?
November 13th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:40 am
[...] By the time the Memphis game rolled around, the 2005 Volunteer football team, which had just lost four games in a row, was drawing comparisons to the 1988 team that started the season 0-6. Even the Tigers from the other end of the state, who hated the Volunteers with a passion normally reserved for rival Ole Miss, were smelling blood. [...]