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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 16, 2009 17:29:42 GMT -6
I worked for the state of Tennessee as a social worker/supervisor for 26 years before filing for disability retirement last month.
My blood runs orange as I love UT football. I'm like Randy, I had rheumatic fever twice as a kid and the doctors never would let me play sports in school but I played 'em around the house. Football is definitely my favorite sport. I love watching the Braves when it's not football season. Like college basketball but just can't watch the pro's play anymore. Just not a team sport in my mind.
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Post by jug on Sept 16, 2009 19:03:39 GMT -6
Welcome outdoor Bob. Just jump into the fray!!
I have to admit Pro football has gotten specialized but what's not to love about the TITANS???
Pull up a stump and maybe we knock a tater in the head some time fer ya. ;D
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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 16, 2009 21:39:58 GMT -6
I love pro football too and I do love the Titans it's just I'm an even bigger fan of Peyton and thus 2 weeks during the year I generally pull for the Colts over the Titansbut on a couple of occasions I have been known to pull for the Titans over the Colts. My bloodline in really strained there, but the majority of the time I pull for the Colts over the Titans. I just think Peyton is about the best thing to hit football in decades. He's hard working, a team player, and most of all clean cut. I just really like that quality about him.
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Post by caretaker on Sept 16, 2009 21:51:01 GMT -6
Me too Bob. As far as football I like to watch highschool and college teams. I`ll watch the pro`s some. Granny likes the Rockies becouse of Tod Helton she followed his career from the time he was in high school or before. So I gotta pull for the Rockies too.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 16, 2009 21:54:38 GMT -6
I admire Peyton and Eli Manning, They have had some great up bringing, and have made great names for themselves, and like you said they are as cleancut all american as they come. I'm not as much of a sport fan as my Dad was, and my little brother is, but I still like the Titans, and would love to watch a game at the stadium one of these days. Both my daughters either have and will graduate for the University of Tenn, at Martin Tn. which is a degree from UT Knoxville. I need to get on that orange wagon myself, but my dad would come back from the grave. Thats on basketball only now, so I can root for the Big Orange in football.
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Post by jug on Sept 17, 2009 11:51:22 GMT -6
Yep I'm a Peyton fan too. And I like Eli. Both the Manning boys have a lot of good things going for them.
We are in hopes of finally getting to LP Field for a game. It would be great to see the Colts and the Titans on the field. ;D
I've been in Neyland Stadium many times for UT games.
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Post by mason0366 on Sept 18, 2009 5:48:05 GMT -6
I watch my kids football baseball and basketball games about all I watch on tv is football.
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Post by jug on Sept 18, 2009 8:32:33 GMT -6
I did too Mason. These are the best years of your life watching your kids play sports.
They grow up too fast then you suddenly find you have time for a lot of things you never thought about not having the "time".
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Post by mason0366 on Sept 18, 2009 13:13:54 GMT -6
After I broke my back as soon as the doctor told me I could ride in car when I wanted. I was watching the boys play baseball. The coach got permission for us to drive up on the hill were I could sit in the car and watch.
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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 18, 2009 23:37:17 GMT -6
Yep, watching the kids is definitely great. I know I pushed my son too hard a few times as I wanted to see him succeed. He is 6' 6" tall and I just knew he would get a basketball scholarship to help pay for college but he quit after his junior year. Just got burnt out.
I'd love to go to a Titans game just once. I've too have been to UT many times and there's just nothing like being amongst 110,000 screaming Vol fans. It can be deafening. I forgot about Eli. Yep, he's a class act too. Those two had some good upbringing. Too many professional athletes are just thugs.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 19, 2009 10:30:59 GMT -6
Ain't that the truth Bob. My son Got burnout early in sports playing baseball for 2 bad an childish coach's. He was in the 6th grade going to the seventh, and both of the coaches had been standouts in their highschool and college years, and both of them worked with me at Goodyear, one a supervisor, and another an electrician in maint. They thought since it was their team, every kid on the team including the shortstop, who was the elec. son, was going to wipe the other teams out on every game. The team was descent, and the coaching was way to hard on them and they won their 1st 3 games, and then lost the next 3, They was making them practice everyday their wasn't a game, and on saturdays for 4 hrs. They lost their 4th game in a row, and both Coaches desided it was time for their mutual vacations, the Elec son lived with his mom so for 3 weeks straight a friend who worked at Goodyear, and myself, started practicing and encouraging them, and they won 5 straight games, and the other coaches showed up and ran us off the field on a game night, took back over, cause they only had 2 more games and the playoffs left. They lost the next 2 games, and didn't get in the playoffs. My son hated those coaches, as did most of the others, and the elec, son was a fabulous ball player, but he quit after the next season. My son told me and my wife he was through with sports. I wished I had changed his mind but the next year he was going to be 13, and just cringed everytime I mentioned Football. He started smoking Marijuana the next year, and my wife and I was so naive and ignorant about Dope, that I didn't find out he was a pothead till he was 19, and he has just supposed to have quit again for the umpteenth time. He's been clean for about 3 months, and I believe he is right now, he no longer allows the pothead friend around, and when he's clean He ain't cool, he's cranky, and moody, like his mom lately. lol and his eyes are clearand not dopey looking. Randy
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Post by mason0366 on Sept 19, 2009 16:33:11 GMT -6
I told mine if they want to play thats fine but if they dont that all right to.
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 19, 2009 16:35:27 GMT -6
I totally agree with that Mason!!
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Post by outdoorbob on Sept 21, 2009 21:50:41 GMT -6
There's a lot out there to tempt kids these days. I credit my dad for getting me interested in hunting and fishing keeping me out of a lot of trouble. I didn't want to lay out on Friday nights, heck I had to get up early Saturday to go deer hunting. You know what I mean. A lot less kids would be in trouble if we could get them interested in the outdoors. I'll get off my soapbox now. LOL Bob
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Post by sksfordman on Sept 21, 2009 22:22:49 GMT -6
Go ahead and get back up on there Bob, That's the truth, I quit hunting when I was around 30 after several knee knee surgeries, and one of them was a botched one. I had bee a Coon, rabbit, and dove hunter, and had only tried deer hunting 2x when I was about 25, had a bad teacher!! "ex bro in law", My dad was a workaholic when I was a kid, and my dad liked rabbit hunting, just like his dad did. That's all you could hunt in the bootheel of Missouri as it was totally flat farmland, and all the had for habitat there was, drainage ditches all over Pemiscot county. I didn't take my son hunting, I had already quit when he was around 6 yr old, and that is something I wish I could change, but you can't go back, but he started hunting the same time I did and has proven himself to be a deer hunter, and a great shot with a pistol, compound bow, rifle, or shotgun. He always loved guns anyway!! i take my 8 yr old since he was 4, and his little brother is almost 4, and will also go with me a few times this year. My son is taking my 3 yr old Grd. Daughter for her first time this year. So stay on that soapbox, and maybe it will stir someone to get there kids out in the wild, instead of being wild. Randy
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